Craftwell - Home Decor

Happy Monday!  Today I have a fun home decor project for gift giving up on the Craftwell Blog. The holidays are full of get togethers and festivities so why not have a homemade gift ready for that special someone you love and appreciate.  It certainly takes the pressure off when it's one less item on the shopping list.

My project started with some mismatched wooden blocks.  I used my eBrush, the Siphon adapter and some gorgeous Dixie Bell Chalk paint in Rebel Yellow.  I mixed in the paint and a bit of water in the glass bottle to use with the Siphon adapter.

The end result of my painting was a beautiful, chalky, matte finish with great coverage.  There was no priming required with the Dixie Belle Chalk paint.  I sanded the edges of the blocks for a vintage appearance.

I used my electronic die cutter to cut the "Joy" phrase out twice and embossed one set of the phrase. The Teresa Collins Preppy Houndstooth A6 embossing folder provided the phrase with great texture.

I added some holiday paper around the edges and front of the blocks from the DCWV Christmas Plaid Stack which was cut with the Scalloped Stitched Nested Squares Dies from Gina Marie Designs.  I used my Christmas themed Xyron sticker maker to run the bottom layer of the letters for easy adhering.  Some foam tape was placed between the top layer and bottom layer of the letters for added dimension.

A gold doily from the Paper Lace Stack was layered under a white doily.  Next I adhered the Joy phrase and accented each letter with die cut Christmas Ivy.

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Have a wonderful day!

Just 4 You!

I have a sweet card to share which I created for my niece who is turning 4 on Saturday.  She loves to come over and scrapbook with me asking me to cut out animals for her on my Explore.  I created a farm animal card for her using the Noah's ABC Animals cartridge for the cow, the Country Life cartridge for the pig and chicken and Create a Critter for the sentiment.  The grass was punched from the Fiskars Grass punch.

I kept my card fairly simple without any embellishments for safety reasons.  I also tried to use as much pink as possible since my niece tells me it's her favorite color.

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Have a wonderful day!

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Panda-monium Layout

As I was digging through my stash of scrapbooking paper, I found these fun papers and knew I had to create a layout page.

The "panda" portion of my title was cut from the Noah's ABC Animals cartridge and the "monium" was cut from the Art Nouveau cartridge.  

The pandas and bamboo are all from the KaDoodle Bug Designs Cute Little Pandas cutting file. These little pandas are just the cutest.

I wanted to break up the animal print so I added some coordinating papers to the top and bottom of my layout pages.

A hand cut sign was created to stamp a sentiment from the Scrappy Moms Crazy for You stamp set. A small bow in Chocolate Truffle Trendy Twine embellished the sign.

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Adventures Layout

This layout was created using the Noah's ABC Animals cartridge.  This cartridge has great animal cuts on it which are super easy to layer.

For my layout, I created a little scene by tearing some thick, glitter card stock and adding it to a solid blue background.

The title was symmetrically placed between each of the pages and pop dotted for extra dimension.

I added the animals along with the clouds which essentially completed the outdoor scene.

I hand cut the signs for each page and also added some hand cut flags to my layout.  The sentiments were stamped from the Heidi Grace Designs Cherrywood Lane stamp set.

The die cuts were accented with Chocolate Truffle and Krazy for Kraft Trendy Twine.