More Little Houses

Remember the bird paper from a few years back?  Well, he's making a comeback on these sweet little wooden houses.  I cut out some flowers from the designer papers and added the little tag with charms.  

I love the birds on the little houses.  They're just so cute.  I may have to order more wooden houses.  LOL

The little charms are from Stampin Up, from a few years back.  I've been going through my charms to take inventory.  

Here's a pic of me painting the houses.  You can see the start of my "Vintage Market" in the background.  Pretty soon I'll have enough crafts to do a craft booth.  I'm also making another craft from a tin can.  More to come on that later.  

Check these out with the mosaic papers that I have left over.  I fussy cut the papers so that the bird would fit right next to the saying.  

The papers from this package have their own shine to them, just like a mosaic would.  It really adds to the houses.  

I cut out some flowers from the Pierced Blooms die cuts that I had bought last year.  It's my first time using them.  These two houses look especially nice with the lace added on them.  

Seriously, I'm having so much fun making these.  :)

 

More Little Houses

Here's the next set of little houses that I made from wooden blocks.  I am having fun picking out different designer papers to put on them.  And there sure is enough papers to go around.  LOL

I don't often make purple crafts, but I love how these came out.  For these two clocks, I added some charms and love how that makes them look!

This one has a little cut out butterfly on it, some velvet ribbon and a larger button.  It's fun to go through my "stash" and see what I can find to go with the papers.  

Here is a set with some little birds on it.  I love how they sit right in the sayings.  And now I'm hooked on adding the charms.  

I also found a small flower stamp that goes nicely with this set.  It's a fun way to make the old designer papers new again.

What do you think of them?  

 

I'm Having Fun with the Decorative Houses

A few weeks ago I ordered some little wooden houses from a seller on Etsy.  They're about 5" tall and 3 1/2" wide.  I painted them with chalk paint and then stared about them for a couple of weeks trying to think what to do with them.  LOL

Then one day I added some designer papers and kept adding embellishments to them.  There's buttons, ribbon, lace, cut out hearts, butterflies, a saying, some rhinestones and a bow.  

I sanded them down on the sides and love how they turned out!  I had some stamps with Bible verses and on them and I thought this would make a nice encouraging saying to put in someone's home.   :)

If you look closely, you can see that I stamped some images onto the designer papers to give it more of a collage look. 

They're made in sets of two, but they can be used as a stand-alone also.  I sprayed them with some sealer to make them last longer.

They're going in my Vintage Market to give the crafts some variety.  

I found this cute little tag stamp in the "archive" room when I went looking for some small stamps that I could use for this project.  I just love the look that it gives to the little house.  

It was fun going through some of my buttons to pick out the various colors for the roof tops.  

This craft has some painting on wood, stamping, buttons and lace from the sewing room.  I had fun putting it all together.  Once I made the first set, I didn't want to stop.

 

Vintage Bowl Fillers

The other day while I was looking for some charms to put on a craft, I found this fabric, all cut up in a bag.  Honestly, I didn't even remember that I had it!  LOL  If you're a crafter, can you relate?

So I gathered it up and started sewing this little bowl fillers.  Like right away.  (This may be why I have a hard time finishing things!)  You can use these to put in a bowl, on a shelf or as a pin cushion.  They're about 5" tall.

In the bag were some scraps of vintage lace, so I added some of that to my project.  I finished them off with buttons and small safety pin with a tag.  How nice they look in the chicken wire basket that I purchased recently on one of my hunts.  

The only bad thing about this project is that I want to make more!  

Here's me with the "girls" out at the Vintage Market in VT finding our antique treasures.  I'm the one on the right.  Part of the fun of putting my display together is finding the things to put in it.  :)

 

Quilted Hearts in a Bowl

If you've been keeping up with me, you'll know that I put some storage racks in the dining room to turn the room into a Vintage Market!  I've been out scouting for antique "goodies" at rummage sales and garage sales.  I've found some cute baskets and now I have to fill them with my homemade crafts. :)

This week I cut apart some quilted curtain valances that I found at a little treasure shop near my home.  I cut them into hearts and made little bowl fillers with them.  I have some antique buttons that I found years ago at a garage sale and added them for just the right vintage embellishment.  

Here's what they look like close up.  They have soft colors, just right for the vintage look.  Sweet, right?  

 

Hand Print for Mother's Day

My little g-baby is 10 months old and this year for Mother's Day, my son-in-law wanted to make my daughter a handmade gift from the baby.  (!)  So I thought about doing a handprint gift.  Remember, at Christmas time I tried to something like this, but things went awry very quickly with a 4-month old and paint.  LOL

Anyway, I set up the paints for her and hoped for something better than the last time.  Ha ha.  She wasn't really that into it, but did at least smear some paint onto the paper for the background.  

In her nursery, the baby has this pretty rainbow frame and I thought that I could make something using the same colors to coordinate with it. 

Once the paint dried, I added her handprint using a stamp pad.  I then finished it off with some embellishments and put it in a frame.  

Here's the card that I made for her to match the gift.  My daughter said that she loved all of it.  :)

 

Dear Friend

I'm calling my set of cards for this week's class, "Dear Friend."  I love the little deer from the Friends of the Forest stamp set and I even bought Eden's Garden stamp set for the "Dear Friend" saying to go along with it!

This first card uses Friends of the Forest and some papers from Friendly Hello, left over from the last Sale-a-Bration.  I have a LOT of stuff left over and need to use it up.  Ha ha!  

I love the soft colors on this card, the little whimsical images and the black accents.  What a sweet little set.  :)

I got the idea for this card from Kerri Timms on Pinterest.  

My next card is also a "Dear Friend" card.  All of the cards in today's selection are meant to be sent to a friend who may need some encouragement.  And don't we all need that at times?  This idea is from Stacey Marsh.  Crumb cake and Jade are the colors.  

For this card, I used a fusion of Friendly Hello and Friends of the Forest images.  I love the look of this especially with the little foxy fellow at the bottom of the card!  I copied this idea from Kerry Timms also.  

And lastly, I used the Friendly Hello but added a paper strip from the Friendly Hello papers.  I used jade, pool party and crumb cake for the colors.  The doily is a cut out called Encircled in Beauty.  Also from Kerry Timms.

What do you think?  Would you like to receive one of these "dear" cards from a friend?  Do you love the soft colors?

 

Honeybee Home

I'm so glad that the stamp set called Honeybee Home has made it into the new catalog for the next year!  I found some pretty samples using this set on Pinterest and this week I put together some cards with my own spin on them.  

The idea for the first card is from Krisi Gray.  I used some blue paper from the Sunshine and Rainbow pack that was available from the last Sale-a-Bration.  I added the pretty hollyhocks and smaller flower (I'm not sure what kind of flowers they are!) and colored them in with Stampin blends.  I love the Hive 3D embossing folder that coordinates with this set.  If you look closely, there are some navy blue and white cut outs from the die set. 

Add the honeybee, some Wink of Stella and a few embellishments and you have a bee-utiful card!  

For my next card I used the Hive 3D folder as a stamp to make the honeycomb look on the background paper.  I just love the subtle honeycomb look.  I stamped two hollyhocks and added some white and vellum sprigs for the background for an easy and elegant card!  I got the idea from Vicki Boucher.

The last card in this series uses some watercolor painting.  I cut out the sprigs from the thick white cardstock and then painted on the color using the ink refills and a spritz bottle.  The flowers are stamped and cut out and then I watercolored them using the same technique.  

For the background on this card, I used the blending brushes and sponged on some Mint Macaroon ink to the center of the card base.  I added some flowers in Smoky Slate and a couple of older stamps to give it a "collage" look.

I added a strip of the new Vellum Layering designs and one from the Sunshine and Rainbows designer pack.  There is a little bit of scrunge dots on the front in green and grays to tie it all together. 

The ladies in my class loved making this card.  I'm not that much into "collage" cards, but we all thought that it looked great and all of the pieces came together.  

This card idea is from Janneke Dijkstra.  

I had fun with this set and hope to make some more pretty things with it.  Which card in the series do you like the best?