Watercolored Birthday Cards

 Hi Everyone, here are some fun ways to accent your water colored or stamped birthday cards! 

 

Rainbow Vase

 Brighten up a old vase with all your favorite colors! 

Decorated Valentines Day Gift Bag

 Jazz up a store bought gift bag with Dew Drops fun! 

Winged Skeleton Halloween Card

Hi Everyone, Michelle here with a card to portray my favorite Holiday...Halloween!

I know it's late, but I could not resist. I hope you'll enjoy and be inspired to create your own!

 Supplies:

• Winged Skeleton and "Dead men Tell No Tales" from Halloween Bingo Stamp Set
• Dew and Diamond drops
• Vintage news print
• Scrapbook Paper
• Assorted washi tapes
• Pumpkin Smooch
• precision scissors
• Black stamping ink
• Adhesive, foam tape, and a pen.

Start by trimming your scrapbook paper to be a card size of 4"x6".

Next attached several torn pieces of the vintage news print. 

Place some decorative washi tape in the center of the card and some pleat a bit near the bottom.

A few more strips of washi tape were placed on the card before I added decorative detail with the liquid smooch.

Stamp the winged skeleton and the saying onto the back side of the vintage newsprint paper. 

Cut out and color lightly with the smooch.

 I added a criss-cross of washi tape to the center of the card before adding the skeleton with foam tape.

Decoratively add the dew drops and saying.

Happy Halloween! 

-Michelle

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7 Creative Holiday Crafts

Here are 7 last minute projects to make this Holiday season. See them here!

Tissue Paper Ornaments

Looking for a great way to make professional looking ornaments with just a few craft items?
Visit my post here to see how I made these! :)

Halloween Steampunk Blog Hop

 

Welcome to another year of Halloween and Steampunk fun! 

All hosted by Leslie Rahye! 

This is my 4th year participating in this hop.

Here is a little re-cap- 

 October 2012, I created these Steampunk Spiders.

 October 2013, I created this Steampunk Skull Pendant.

October 2014, I put together this Steampunk Book of Spells.

 

 

This year, I have created this Spectacular Steampunk Pocket Watch pendant! 

Materials:

• Open pocket watch. Real or fake. Can be found at antique flea markets or craft stores.
• Chain.
• Assorted sized watch gears. The small gears are the real deal, collected from broken watches and such, the other gears are from the craft store.
• Halloween and Steampunk findings. Always have more than you plan to use.
• Mini Dew Drops.
• Mod Podge Dimensional Magic-  Dries hard and clear.
• Inka Gold in green, orange, purple and red.
• Wink of Stella Glitter brush.
• Fine and chunky glitter.

 Fill your pocket watch half way with the Mod Podge. 

Then start laying down your embellishments. 

Create layers of your items. 

 Secure larger pieces onto the rim of the watch with the Mod Podge.

Fill in spaces, adding more Mod Podge as needed, add embellishments, findings and glitter.
Let set completely overnight.

In the morning, add more Mod Podge and small gears. One of the watch hands didn't work for me, so I used pliers to cut it off. After this has had a chance to set, you may now color it using the Inka Gold and a small paintbrush/water. Finish with the Glitter Brush. 

Thanks for coming by, I hope you liked my tutorial. 

My giveaway for this hop is a jumble of Halloween and Steampunk embellishments for you to play with.

 International welcome

. Leave a comment here (no later than Nov. 6,2015) for a chance to win!

For more idea's , feel free to follow me on Pintrest , FB/Blog,  FB/Charms and Garden Miniature swaps.

Now on to more Halloween Steampunk Inspiration!

Happy Halloween!

Christmas in July Holiday Wreath!

Today I am joining other artists, combing fun shapes from Smoothfoam and Holiday papers and embellishments from The Robins Nest.

For my project I made this Holiday wreath. It was so simple and fun to make, a easy afternoon project!

Materials: 

From The Robins Nest -

• Ace of Diamond Dew Drops
• Gold and Silver Dew Drops
• Black and White Holly cardstock
• Red Snowflake cardstock
• Black and White Pine Tree cardstock
• Christmas Words Glitter cardstock
• Glitter Snowmen
• Rusty Rose Ribbon
• Pistachio Archival Seeds

•  Smoothfoam 2" x 1 ¼ x 14" Wreath
•  
• Red acrylic paint and foam brush
• White chalk board pen
• Straight pins
• Scissors
• Glitter gel pen
• Foam and double sided tape
• Wire to hang

 Instructions:
1. Paint top and sides of wreath with red paint, set aside to dry.
2. Cut the snowflake design from the cardstock. One 12x12 sheet will give you 4 strips for the the outside of the wreath and 3 strips for the inside.
3. Attach the strips to your wreath using the straight pins.
4. Cut out the holly shapes and attach with the pins, leaving space at the bottom of the wreath open.
5. Randomly glue the metallic dew drops and seeds to the wreath. Color in some of the seeds with the gel pen.
6. Embellish the sides of the wreath with the black diamonds.

7. For the pine needles, cut the paper as shown below using the back side of black and white pine tree. You will need 6 sprigs total.
8. Dab the chalk pen at the edges of the pine needles for a 'snow' effect.
9. Pin two pine sprigs each on both sides of the bottom of the wreath, then attach the third for each side with 2-3 layers of foam tape.

 10. Cut out 2 snowmen and round their bottoms. Attach the scarf (ribbon) to one snowman with double stick tape.
11. Pin one snowman in place then attach the second with foam tape.
12. Trim the words Merry Christmas from the christmas words cardstock. Adhere to some black and white pine tree paper.
13. Attach to base of snowman with foam tape.
14. Adhere some wire to the back of the wreath for easy hanging.

Now you have one less wreath to worry about for the Holidays!

 

Now on to the Giveaway!

For your chance to win, just leave a comment on any blog(s) in the hop, the more you comment on, the more chances you have to win!.

 The prize is a amazing selection of products from The Robin's Nest and Smoothfoam, valued at $85.00 (available to ship within the US only). 

Visit the DCC blog to hop through everyone's links and good luck!

 Deadline to enter is July 28th.

Bling Your Ride! - License Plate Frame Tutorial

 Our current license plate frame is from Disneyland. Now while I love anything Disney...we have not had family passes to the theme park for 5 years. So I've been trying to find some way to make a new license plate with out a lot of cost.
This months crafting theme is "Bling".
 Perfect!  Plus I pretty much had all the materials and I'm sure you do too!

 You will need:

• A plastic license plate frame. This one was less than $2 from a car part store.
• Thin silver glitter paper. - I used glitter wrapping paper from Michaels. A whole roll goes a long way.
• Assorted colorful sequins.
• Assorted Mini Dew Drops
• Silver rhinestones

•  E6000
• A tool to pick up and easily place your embellishments. I used this tool, but even a white crayon will work, or a bit of braces wax on a tooth pick will do the trick. 
• Diamond Glaze as a sealer.
• Scissors
• Pencil
• Standard hole punch
• A non stick craft mat
• Baby wipes for clean up
• A fan to blow away the glue fumes, or sit near a open window. 
• A Silver leafing pen.

 1. Trace your frame onto the back side of your glitter paper, including the holes.
2. Cut out traced design and punch holes.
3. The glue is unforgiving, so work carefully, little by little as you glue the paper to the frame.
4. Trim off any over hanging pieces.

5. Use the silver pen to cover any areas on the frame where the silver paper has not been glued to.
6. Because the glue will dry quickly with the fan blowing, work in small sections as you apply the sequins.

 7. Next add your rhinestones. The E6000 changed my rhinestones after I had glued them, making them look like baked glass. Extra sparkle!

8. When all the rhinestones have been added and the glue is set, drizzle the diamond glaze directly onto the embellished frame and smear with your finger until everything is coated. I did 2 coats and then let cure over night before adding to my car.
I LOVE how it "sparkles" in the sun! So many happy colors! :)

Thanks for coming by, I hope you liked my tutorial!
Are you ready to make your own?
Look for this button on my sidebar for more "Bling" inspired designs!

Spring Bling

Here's a favorite post of mine from February of 2014. Easy to do with a few materials. I bet you have everything you need to make some Spring Bling. See the tutorial here. 
Enjoy!

50 Amazing Mixed Media Tutorials!

Looking for a some inspiration to start off the new year right?
 Head on over to The Robins Nest blog!

Bejeweled Holiday Ornament

It seems every year my ornaments become more and more sparkly!
I love how the light catches on the jewels, glitter and gold!

To make this ornament, you will need the following materials:

3" Smoothfoam Ball.
1" decoration ball or large bead with hole all the way through.
12"-15" of  24 gauge gold floral wire
Tacky glue
3 buttons
Gold acrylic paint
Foam brush

Jewelry pliers
Assorted Dew and Diamond Drops or flat backed gems.
Diamond glaze or clear sealer.

Directions:
1. Paint the  Smoothfoam ball with at least 2 coast of the gold paint. Let dry completely.
2. Push a paper piercer or ice pick all the way through the ball.
3. Fold your length of wire in half and insert the folded bit through the small ball.

4. With the loop sticking out, carefully pull up the loose ends of the wire and push them through the loop. Bring them down the ball and twist at the bottom with the pliers to secure.
5. Thread wire through large ball and secure the 2 balls with glue. Let set before the next step.

6. Thread your 3 buttons onto the remaining wire. Add glue between the ball and the each of the buttons. Let glue set completely.
7. With your pliers, twist the wire.

8. Make a hook and trim off the excess wire.
9. Glue end of hook into the top button.

10. Starting in small sections, add glue to the top of the ornament and place your embellishments.
Make up a pattern or apply randomly.

11. When all of the ball is covered and the glue is dry and clear, cover the ball with the clear sealer.
Let dry completely before hanging on a tree.

Thanks for coming by, I hope you liked my ornament!
Comments welcome!
See more Smoothfoam ornament ideas here!

Gift Tag Ornament!

 
Hi Everyone, Welcome to The Robins Nest Christmas Blog Hop!
We hope as you hop through all the blogs that you will be inspired to create all sorts of Holiday creations!
You might win some Robins Nest Christmas Dew Drops too!

Here, I have created a Gift Tag Ornament.
The name says it all!

Supplies used:

1. Gold Classic Glitter Swirl cardstock
2. Red and Green Mini Dew Drops.
3. 2" circle die.
4. Red and green cardstock.
5. Red and green curling ribbon
6. Adhesive and tape.

 Instructions:

• Per tag, cut 5 circles of the gold glitter cardstock and one of the red or green.
• Fold in half each of the 5 circles. 
• Write or stamp "To" and "From" on the red or green circle.
• Cut 6" of the ribbon and tape to the backs as shown.

•  Flip over and glue all 5 folded circles like a accordion.

•  Embellish with the mini dew drops.

 Now your have a elegant tag and a pretty ornament all in one!

Visit here to start the hop and good luck!