All that Glitters....{parade}

Enjoy this sparkle-tastic show!
Once a week (either Wed. or Thurs.) I will be featuring these little parades of pictures....Hope you like!!

Don't you just love glitter?? I know do!!

All images from we heart it.

Did somebody say glitter, polaroids, and garland!

I have been so inspired to create my own garland this season, especially since reading this post.

I decided to make my own polaroid garland and ornaments using my Poladroid polaroid maker using photos from Christmas last year.

I didn't really plan any of this out ahead of time, I just sort of jumped right in.

Basically, I selected my photos and popped them into the polaroid maker, one at a time. Then, I arranged each picture in a word document and printed them off onto a sheet of cardstock. After cutting out the pictures, I was ready to create.

You can enjoy this experience with me....or use it as a tutorial to create your own!!


POLAROID GARLAND!

Supplies:
Glitter (any color will work, I just like CTMH's prisma glitter because it is sort of white)
glue stick
fixative (I used hair spray)
ribbon
hot glue gun or stapler
scrap of cardstock to use as a mask
buttons, more ribbon for a hanger

I ran a strip of glue along the white edges of the polaroid. I guess you could leave them plain and they would look really cool, I just wanted them to sparkle.

Sprinkle with glitter, shaking off the excess. I glittered a bunch and then I sprayed each one with some hair spray to fix the glitter in place. I cut a square of cardstock to lay over the picture part before spraying the hair spray. It caused a bit of discoloration to the printer ink.


After all the pictures were glittered, I created a loop using ribbon to hang the photos from. First I tried a staple...it looked alright, but I eventually switched to hot glue, it held the ribbon better. I guess I could have put black cardstock on the back to cover the glue spot, but I am not too worried about that showing.

Then I created a little hanger for the garland. Seriously, this is one of those things I bought like 3 years ago. I used a tiny bit of it for something and then I have saved the rest thinking that I would eventually find a use for it, and now it finally has a use! I glued buttons along the sequined ribbon.



Then I glued the ribbon loops to the buttons. I had many more photos than space on the garland.....




...So I put the rest on my Christmas tree.....





....They match the glittered snowflakes and start on top!





Oh, and I really love stockings and santa hats....I have tons of them hanging up this year!


I am feeling really generous this year...I decided to share a sheet of printable ornament polaroids with you. You could print this out a couple of times and use it to make your own garland. Remember, if you don't have that sequined ribbon that I used as a hanger, any ribbon would work...even a strand of white lights would be pretty!!

Click here for your own free printable. Here is a peek at the ornament polaroid sheet:


Don't want to make garland? Use the free printable to make some holiday cards....



Or a gift bag and tag. I white embossed a white elephant on one of the photos for a great little tag!





I would love to see what you make with the printable. Please leave me a link. I would also love to see any other DIY Christmas projects you have been working on. Have fun!!

A cutie-pie layout!

Whew! Only 4 more days of summer school!!! We went camping over the weekend and the first thing I did (after a nap!) on Sunday afternoon was make some cards for next month's card swap! They turned out wonderful, but I will be posting them once it gets a little closer to the swap night. Today was one of those days...all I could think about was how much I wanted to come home and make a card! I made a bunch tonight!!

For now, I would like to share with you a great little layout I created for a challenge over @ The Creative Type. This week's challenge is to use a t-shirt as inspiration. I found this super cute shirt and it was a perfect way to combine some of my favorite pictures of my niece Taryn and some fun new glittery stuff that I have been itching to use somewhere.

Here is the shirt...It doesn't have any text, but the colors and butterfly were perfect for my pictures.

Here is my layout. I was excited to finally used this fun glittery butterfly lace paper from K. I. Memories.



The chipboard letters seemed to perfectly complement the key lime cardstock from CTMH.


Products Used:
My Mind's Eye Party Streamers paper
K&Co. Glitter sticker strips and die cuts from Berry Sweet Line and Chipboard Alphabet
Paper Studio Doodle Flowers
CTMH Cardstock
C.S. K.I. Memories Glitter Lace

Guest Designer AGAIN!! Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge # 34

My Twilight mini-album was chosen to receive the Audrey Award and I was asked to be a guest designer for the Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge blog again!!

This week the movie is Ocean's 11 and the challenge was to use brads...for BRAD Pitt of course! I hope you will consider playing along this week!



For my card, I decided to create a 'Vegas' sign. I found an online sign generator, changed the text and printed it onto vellum. Next time, I think I will just use regular cardstock, as the vellum seemed to roll up when I added the liquid glass + glitter. I added brads where the 'welcome' greeting is because it didn't really go with my "Thanks for a Good Time' sentiment!

The clear overlays are hambly as well as the gold shimmery card base. I wanted to capture the glamor and glitz of a Las Vegas casino with this card, in honor of the movie Oceans 11.



Here is the second card I made with the sign generator. You can see that the Welcome sign fits this time for "Welcome home, it was boring without you." He he....super fun!! (It is a little hard to read the 'welcome' part....but you get the idea!)

Also, head on over to Robin's blog, this week's other guest designer!

Guest Designer! CSCC # 33 EVER AFTER

YAY!! This is my first time to be a guest designer for anything, so I am pretty excited. The movie this week is Ever After with Drew Barrymore. I had never seen the movie, so I rented it on Monday and watched it right away. I could hardly wait to make something with this Cinderella story as my inspiration!! The very first movie I saw in a movie theatre was Disney's Cinderella. I remember hating the wicked stepmother and sisters, and I truly wanted to believe in the magic that took Cinderella away from the horrible home she knew, and turned her into a princess. I think there are many little girls who can relate to this story. Ever After is beautiful. i was so inspired after watching it to create something wonderful!!

This week, I was asked to be a guest designer for the Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge.
Tuesday evening, I was working away in my craft room, making some beautiful transparency bling flourishes (the challenge this week is to use a flourish in your design....i learned this really cool new technique from this tutorial!!) and I was thinking about the handsome prince that swept Cinderella off her feet and the beautiful glittery makeup that Drew Barrymore was wearing when she walked into the masque with her shimmery wings.

"In the world of stamping, cartoon princess are acceptable....Besides, there is a story behind it....and other stampers will appreciate it.....And I am making a card and gift bag for a niece's birthday on Saturday...and the cartoon princess is completely appropriate for this challenge."
You know, I have never considered myself a perfectionist....If something isn't good enough, then I will do better next time, but I am not going to KILL myself over something that is perfectly acceptable and appropriate for a situation. I am driven to create something using the means available, limitations on time, inspiration and flow of ideas. If something better just isn't there because of time constraints (like the American Idol Finale!!), means available (I lost my Silver Pearl embossing powder, it would've been perfect for this card!), inspiration (the movie IS about a princess), and flow of ideas (I tried to combine a new technique, a sweet memory, and the experience of watching the movie into the creative process of this card)

I hope you like this card and gift bag. I am sticking by the cartoon princess.


I used some beautiful shimmery watercolor paint for her dress and hair....The card features lots of bling with glitter, rhinestones. I also used rubons and some sticker bling from the Paper Studio. All the stamps, ink, and patterned papers are CTMH.

I did end up making an extra card, I like it.

Home Gathering Cards!!

I had a really wonderful birthday yesterday. When I got home from school, I realized that my DH had taken the entire day off so he could stay home and put together a new organizational unit for my scrap room!! WHOA!! Awesome!! He surprised me by having it all put together and told me that when Michaels gets a new shipment in later this week, we could go get a few more pieces to make the organization complete!! YIPPPEEE!! I will post some pictures as soon as it is completely finished. What does your room/space/closet/cabinet look like? Mine space has transformed over the last few months. I completely took over our spare bedroom. We got rid of the bed, to make room for my new stuff!!

As for my birthday dinner...when we got to the restaurant, we realized that it was closed....The entire town (Over 40 min. away) was experiencing a city-wide black out because of a blown transformer!! :-( No king crab legs for our party of 8...so we headed back to our hometown to a back-up place which has Snow Crab legs on special Wednesday nights. We had a wonderful time eating and chatting. It was so great to spend the evening with some of my closest friends.

I told them about my 16th birthday. For some reason, the school's water wasn't working so every high school student boarded a bus bound for a gym at one of the elementary buildings. We got to spend the entire day hanging out in the bleachers, watching the jazz band and choir perform. I was actually in choir at the time (I switched to art the next year after my dad asked me if I was tone deaf!!). The school choir serenaded me with Happy Birthday in front of the entire student body. It was sooo cool!! So, sometimes things don't always work out, but sometimes they are even better because of some natural catastrophe.

Here are a couple of cards for a home gathering Friday night. They feature some circle punches, the new Tickled Pink kit from CTMH, edge distressing, a butterfly punch (I can't seem to make anything without it), and some glitter! Enjoy!!


I think I will take a marker and show how they can make a 'stitched' line for the butterfly's trail...I put the butterfly really close to the word 'friend' because I had a little ink smudge there....Also, I will let them choose the layout hey like best. Either vertical or horizontal. The word 'friend' is from Friendship Word Puzzle. Also, I didn't have any crystal blue cardstock so I used my sponge dauber and some ink to make a little bit so I could punch the butterfly from it!! Enjoy!


Ink colors: Blush, tulip, sweet leaf and crystal blue.

First five are getting their goodies!!!

Well, I finally got my first five comments from my PAY IT FORWARD post and I am getting ready to pass out the goodies. I will work on your creations this weekend and get them in the mail next week. This is so fun! If you want to play, check out one of the blogs below. These lovely ladies have agreed to pay it forward and you could get something hand made by them!!

Karen @ Colebean Creations

Kellie @ The Norton House

Carla @ Harrah's Hangout

Sarah @ Sarah's Paper Tray (She already got hers from me, you can see it here!!)

Cathy Gill @ Petals of Cathy's Life

To see what I got from Sarah click here!!

This is super fun!!

I don't like to post things without pictures so......here is card I made last night. I got this great die cut castle and decided to combine it with a CTMH stamp set and some prisma glitter!!


The mountains and snow are just hand cut and the frog and princess are colored with watercolor pencils and a blending pen. The entire time I was working on this all I could picture was giving it to a bride and groom...he he....good luck with the whole happily ever after thing.... ;-)

I stamped this little heart with blush and Versamark on Vellum and then added prisma glitter. I heated it up with the heat tool just a bit and it gave it a really cool look!!

I don't normally like cards that have a scene on them, but the giller made this one really shine...it would even be a great little girl birthday card....Enjoy!!