Wood Christmas Trees

Hi all! I have a fun (and easy!) home decor project to share with you using unfinished wood shapes, acrylic paint and DCWV paper! DCWV has some really cute holiday stacks this year and the nice thing about this project is you can customize it to suit your taste and decor (traditional, whimsical, vintage, etc.).

To start with I got some unfinished wood Christmas tree shapes with dowels on blocks. Here in Utah we have a local store that sells these fun shapes, but I know that a lot of craft supply stores sell things like these now.  They look a little something like this when you're first starting out:

Next you're going to choose your paper. I chose some papers from the Jolly Whimsy stack. I like the whimsical look for these trees, but as I mentioned earlier, there are several stacks to suit your personal taste!

Once you have your papers chosen you're going to mark the FRONT of your tree and flip it so it is facing the BACK of the patterned paper you chose. Then you're going to trace the outline of the wood piece on your paper and cut it out. Don't worry if it isn't perfect or if you couldn't get to some of the really tight nooks and crannies. You can always trim it up after it's adhered to the block with a razor or sand paper.
Next you're going to choose your acrylic craft paint color and paint it up! I color the entire back and most of the front where the paper is going to go, but you can paint just the part that is going to show if you wanted to save time (and paint!)

Once this is dried you are going to adhere the paper onto the front of your shapes. You can use Mod Podge for this, but I was once recommended to just paint on wood glue and that has always worked great for me. I just paint on the glue the same way I would the acrylic paint and then carefully place the paper. The glue takes a few minutes to dry so if you need to reposition the paper it's not a problem. I use a squeegee type of tool to make sure there aren't any air bubbles and then lay it paper side down to let the glue set so it doesn't pucker.

While that is drying I paint my bases and dowels. I found some fun glitter paint that I used on the bases. I drop a little wood glue in the hole on the base and then place my dowel to help secure it. I do the same thing when securing the tree to the dowel.
Now all you have to do is add some embellishment. The possibilities are endless- ribbon, craft wire, glitter glue, etc. Whatever suits your fancy! I used some tinsel ribbon on mine.

I hope you enjoyed the project- thanks for checking it out today!

Super Cute Stocking Stuffers!

Hello my fabulous friends!

Ready for SUPER CUTE gift/stocking stuffer?  

How stinkin' cute are THESE???

Little decorated packs of TicTacs would make anyone's day, right?!?

The best part... If you have a Silhouette, they literally come together in minutes! If you don't, it would take a little longer, but STILL! 

What I LOVE about these particular ones is the PAPER! It is from DCWV "Holiday Glitzy Glitter" stack. In all honesty, I usually don't like glitter paper. But this "glitzy glitter" is a finer glitter, and has a more shimmery look... I am SO in love with it! It is GLAMOROUS  and ELEGANT. So pretty!

Enjoy!

~Kassi

Supplies Used:

Paper: DCWV Holiday Glitzy Glitter, Core'Dinations

Ink: MarkIt

Silhouette: "Christmas Tree TicTac Wrap" & "Snowman TicTac Wrap"

Other: flocking, jute

Christmas Cards!!

Hello and good morning...

I have to admit that making Christmas cards is one of my favorite type of cards to make. Maybe because I don't usually  make them all year long, but I really enjoy creating them. Here are a few that I made with the DCWV Jolly Whimsy Mat Stack.

Ho Ho Ho card:

Merry Christmas card: I decorated the tree with bling

Tis the Season: I used a tag and journal spot from the elements paper

Holly Jolly Christmas: with a touch of mist and bling

What a fun Mat Stack... make sure to check out DCWV and see what's new.

Thanks so much for stopping by....

Wendi

Other Supplies: Mister Huey mist, MME enamel dots, Kaiser Craft bling, machine sewing, twine.

DIY Magnets with DCWV

Hello my wonderful friends!

Are you looking for a fun little gift idea, or stocking stuffer? How about a set of custom bottle cap magnets?

These ones are made with DCWV "Christmas Made" stack. (which is a beautiful stack!) The pillow box gift box and tag are also made from that stack. A completely matching set. LOVE!

These magnets are SUPER simple to make! I bought a whole bunch of flattened bottle caps online, so I didn't have to worry smashing my own. I then used a die to cut circles the right size. This line of paper has a couple different designs with images that fit PERFECTLY in the bottle caps! 

A little Glossy Accents will glue the paper to the inside of the bottle cap. Once that is dry (which doesn't take long, fill the cap full of Glossy Accents. Set them aside to dry. This will take several hours, so you may just want to set them aside over night. Once dry, attach a magnet to the back with Glossy Accents.

Enjoy!

~Kassi

Supplies Used:

Paper: DCWV Christmas Made

Ink: Distress

Silhouette: Bracket Pillow Box

Dies: Quickuz "Nesting Circles"

Others: Glossy Accents, magnets, bottle caps, ribbon

Christmas Cards & Tags with Echo Park

Hello and good morning...

One thing that I always look forward to is making and sending out Christmas cards. I have handmade all my Christmas cards for at least the last 10 years or so, and I really do enjoy it.

Here are a couple of Christmas cards and a tag using Echo Park's Reflections Christmas collection.

First up is a 6x6 sized card:

I used a couple of the  sticker elements for my sentiment:

For my second card one of the 3x4 cards from the line for my sentiment:

and spiced it up with some bling and trims:

I also made a tag which is a perfect addition to add to any gift to give:

I just used my border punch and added the strips in layers:

There you go a couple of fun ways to add the handmade touch to any gift..... Check out Echo Park and all their wonderful products..

Thanks for stopping by today

Wendi

Other supplies: Kaiser Craft bling, border punch, misc trims, twine.

Hello Santa!

  Hello!

It's that time of year again! Are you ready for Christmas? I'm not, but I am ready to scrap some fun Christmas memories!!! There's just something special about watching the little guys meet Santa isn't there? I love the mystical/magical feel of it.

My son was so excited to meet Santa last year, but so overwhelmed at the same time. It was just super duper adorable! This 25th & Pine line from Basic Grey was perfect for these cute photos.

 I received a lot of embellishment packages, but just a few 6x6 papers. So there is only one (yes I said 1!) 6x6 paper on this layout.

 I started with a background sheet from the DCWV Holiday Glitzy Glitter stack. I love that its so glittery and shiny but it does not come off when you touch it! Wonderful!! Then I laid out my photos and picked this cute journaling card that I knew belonged on this layout. It was a little long for the space I wanted it in. So I cut it off along the striped piece, moved it up to wear it fit on the paper and looked good, then glued it back down.

From there I decided this fun 6x6 pp was perfect. I love the navy, red & pink combo. Its such a pretty and fun twist on the traditional holiday colors and I feel like even tho this is a boy layout the pink works perfectly for it. I knew I wanted the largest section of my pp along the bottom, so I've got a piece that's about 3x6 down there and I cut the rest into 1 inch strips and laid them out around the photos.

It worked perfectly leaving a space in this upper left corner for a title strip that I cut out of the snippets package & attached using foam adhesive to add some dimension. Again that red and pink combo was perfect so that's the banner I chose. I snipped it apart where it was going to hang behind the journaling card to make it a little longer. I wanted to attach it higher up on my layout but still have it hang below my photos. After that I added the fun brads, wood veneers and some liquid pearl dots for a bit of sparkle. 

Here's a quick look at the whole layout again:

It's amazing what you can do with a 6x6 pad of paper and some fun embellishments, isn't it? Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope you enjoy some magical moments this holiday season. :)Ange

Supplies:

Basic Grey - pp, journal card, banner, wood veneers, brads

DCWV - glitter bg sheet

ranger - liquid pearls

tombow - tape runner

elmers - glue dots

ek success - foam adhesive

Tis the Season

Hi friends! It's that time of year again! Time to start making Christmas crafts and projects! I love how I am always so much more motivated to do projects during this time of year- gives me a chance to catch up! So I was privileged to receive some wonderful product from Echo Park. I was sent the Tis the Season paper pack. This pack has some very nice traditional elements as well as some fun, modern trends (like chalkboard!). I have included 2 full layouts that I created with the pack, but easily could finish a couple more as well as some cards! There is a LOT to work with including 2 sticker sheets and some journaling tag/card pages. There is one page that has numbers 1-25 in different fonts which would make an adorable advent calendar project. Here is my first layout:

With this layout you can see a little bit of that fun chalkboard element that is so trendy right now. The rest of the colors and patterns really complement each other very nicely.

I created a little cluster with fun stickers in the upper right of the page, and added some border stickers in the corner.

I thought this chalkboard style card was so cute I decided to use it as my title. I love when products can do double duty- really makes my layouts come together quickly.
Here is the second layout:

I cut the music style piece on my Cricut. I love that it was done in the chalkboard style as well.

I created the title using one of the cute journaling cards, and the letter stickers from the pack.

The little banner was also fussy cut from one of the pages and popped up on foam dots for dimension.

I hope you enjoyed my projects, and be sure to pick up Tis the Season for your holiday projects- so much versatility and inspiration in this pack!