Homemade Valentines!

Homemade Valentines are the best Valentines.  I love getting them, they show the love and care a person took to make them! Here is one I made this month for Altered Pages!

Supplies:
Altered Pages Collage Sheets:
Jar Fairies Wings
Victorian Children
Vintage Valentines
Printed manila tag
Mist
Dew Drops
Tacky Glue
Doilies - Pink and White
Flowers
Tulle

 

On Printed manila tag spray Mist and let dry.

 

Attach Doilies (Pink and White) to tag with Tacky Glue.

 

 

Fussy cut images from Altered Pages Collage Sheets: Jar Fairies Wings (wings), Victorian Children (little girl) and Vintage Valentines (the word Valentine).  Attach images with Tacky Glue.

 

 

Attach the Flowers with Tacky Glue.

 

 

Add Dew Drops with Tacky Glue and let dry.

 

 

 

 

Christmas Tart Tin Ornament!

Let me count the ways you can use Emerald Creek embossing powder!  Cards, tags, candles, ornaments and more.

Today I took a small tart tin and embossed it to create my ornament.

Supplies:
Altered Pages collage Christmas Bottle Caps
Emerald Creek Candy Red Embossing Powder
Emerald Creek Candy Green Embossing Powder
VersaMark
Tart Tin
Bottle Cap
Dew Drops
Tulle
Glue
Ribbon

Today I transformed this small Tart Tin.

 

Apply VersaMark (direct from the pad) to the outside of the Tart Tin, dust with Emerald Creek Candy Red Embossing Powder, gently heat with heat tool.  Be careful not to burn yourself when heating the metal.  

Apply VersaMark inside the tine (with a finger on the ridges), dust with Emerald Creek Candy Red Embossing Powder, gently heat with heat tool. In the bowl of the tin apply VersaMark, dust with Emerald Creek Candy Green Embossing Powder,  gently heat with heat tool.

 Punch an image from the Altered Pages collage Christmas Bottle Caps.  Edge the image with  VersaMark, apply Emerald Creek Candy Green Embossing Powder,  gently heat with heat tool.

Edge the Bottle Cap with VersaMark, apply Emerald Creek Candy Red Embossing Powder,  gently heat with heat tool.  Glue the image to the center of the Bottle Cap.

Attach the Bottle Cap to the center of the Tart Tin.  With Glue attach Dew Drops around the edge of the tin!

 

Add tulle to the back and a ribbon to hang the ornament.

 

What a great little gift!

Dia de Los Muertos

I will be sharing this card on the Altered Pages blog with the  Design Team for Dia De Los Muertos.   Thought I would let you all know Altered Pages has some wonderful collage sheets for Day of the Dead.

When you order the collage sheets you are sent the file via email and you save it to your computer.  The beauty of it is... you can print your images over and over and over again.

 

Supplies:

Altered Pages Day of the Dead Collage Sheet

Flowers

Dew Drops

Sabor Paper - Corazon

Sabor Cut-outs

Bazzill Borders Black

Double Sided Tape

Tacky Glue

Glue Stick

3D Mounting Squares

Chipboard

Black Cardstock

Card Base

Black Marker

 

 

 

Cut skull images from Altered Pages Day of the Dead Collage Sheet.  Adhere the skulls to a thin piece of chipboard with Glue Stick and fussy cut.

With a black marker line the edges of the skulls so all white edges and chipboard are covered.  Adhere Dew Drops with Tacky Glue to the images.

 

Adhere colorful Flowers to the back of the skulls with Tacky Glue.

 

 

With Double Sided Tape adhere black cardstock mat to the card base, cut mat from Sabor Paper - Corazon, adhere to card.

 

 

 

Assemble card: with Tacky Glue attach black Bazzill Borders, then the "Te AMO" doves from the Sabor Cut-outs. 

 

 

Mat the "Dia de Los Muertos" banner on black cardstock and adhere with Glue Stick.

Attach skulls with 3D Mounting Squares.  Add additional Sabor Cut-outs as desired.

 

 

Pink Cake

In June Altered Pages partnered with Foundations Décor.  I wanted to share a few of my projects here that I created for them!  This cute little cake would look great holding a birthday picture. 

 

 

This little wooden cake is one of the many Foundations Décor products available at Altered Pages!

Supplies
Foundations Décor Wood Cake Picture Holder
Dew Drops
Paint
Gesso
Glue

To start I painted all the pieces: the cake base & candle pink, the frosting trim with white gesso and the candle flame yellow. Then let dry.

 

Adhere pink dew drops to the cake frosting.   

Glue the flame to the candle, add a golden brown dew drop to the base of the flame.  

Glue pearl white dew drops to the base of he cake.

 

Once everything is dry assemble the cake.

 

 

I am loving the Foundations Décor products.

I hope to share the Sweet Heart Home soon.

Watch each day for more inspiration.

Thanksgiving Greetings

What do you think of when you hear "Winter Holidays"? 

 

When I think of winter holidays the first one that comes to mind is Thanksgiving.  The weather is starting getting colder.  The days are shorter and the countdown to Christmas has started.  Before Christmas we have one other special day, THANKSGIVING!!!  This is one of my favorite family holidays.  It is a day of giving thanks.  A day that doesn't have a lot of hoopla.  Families and friends get together for a wonderful dinner, laugh and have a good time. 

 

I have a few Thankful cards I shared at Altered Pages yesterday.  I will be sending these to family far away.

 

 

 

Supplies:

Altered Pages Collage sheet Thanksgiving

Dew Drops

Jolee's Leaves

Card Base

Pattern Papers

Cardstock - Orange & Brown

Glue stick

Double sided adhesive

 

There is a lot of cutting and layering of papers!!!

 

 

Hope you enjoyed my cards!