handprints

One of my very first times pinning something, I came across this picture and decided I was pinning it and I WAS going to make it!

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Thankfully, on Black Friday, Jo-Ann's had their canvas all 60% off (heck yeah!!) and I got an additional 25% off my purchase, so I brought home a nice large canvas. Amazingly enough, I already had paint on hand (no pun intended!). All I needed was a cooperative little girl.

She LOVED it!!! And was so excited to do it.

I think I actually like how mine turned out better than the original! :) It's hanging at the bottom of the steps and every time Lexi sees it, she says that's MY painting! Proud girl!

note card gift set

I made a set of notecards for my aunt for Christmas. But, before I did that, I started with a box. I printed off a Captured Card Case template from PTI. The base is New Leaf and the lid is Hawaiian Shores. I matted it with a piece from Green Boutique. I decided to be economical and used a ribbon I had received on a gift to wrap around the box and give a little dimension and added interest to the top.

The notecards are a standard sized card, 4.25x5.5, but only single layer. So I was able to get 4 cards out of one sheet of paper.

I used a sliver of Green Boutique and then New Leaf scalloped circle. On top, I matted a piece of white which I stamped one of the Take Note circles in Aqua Mist and an E from the dollar bin at Michaels in New Leaf.

ribbon wreath

Before the holidays, there were quite a few blog posts floating around about ribbon wreaths. I thought they were pretty darn cool and seemed simple enough. So, I decided to make four of them for my siblings for our homemade Christmas gifts.

The ribbons are all from JoAnn's. I got the Christmas ones they had. There were 5 of them in this width and were on sale for $1.00 each for 9ft. Each wreath took 5 spools basically. I started with a green wreath form I got from the Dollar Store and I picked up a box of straight pins (for a dollar...holla!) while I was there. So for about $6.25 and about an hour, I made a pretty fine wreath. The siblings seemed to enjoy them :)

And my niece enjoyed it, too, as evidenced below :)

Christmas Wrap Up

I hope you all had a fabulous Christmas and Santa was good to you! I thought I would share a few of my decorations I had up for the season.

First up, I love these berries. I found them on sale at Jo-Ann's and threw in two sticks of the white berries. The pitcher I've had for years. The picture is one I found for a free download, but can't remember where now! It was a larger size and I shrunk it to a 5x7.

Here's a close up of the picture. I love it. And I wound up giving them to my girlfriends for a christmas gift this year at our annual party.

Here's a side table with my Noel Blocks and fabric tree. I think I shared the frame here last year. It's just a black frame with a piece of Christmas paper behind it. I put the Believe (done in vinyl) on the glass.

My siblings and I always make our gifts for each other (there's 5 of us). My sister made these snowmen last year. I love them...they're done with socks filled with rice. One for Lex, B and me! :)
Here's one of our trees (I have two). This one just has bulbs on it since it has frosted tips and holly berries in it. Notice the little gray kitty sleeping underneath.

Merry (belated) Christmas all!

noel blocks

I made some noel blocks using scrap wood in our garage. I just sanded it down and painted it!

I cut the letters out of brown vinyl using my cricut. I love when I actually break that thing out! :)

Being that these were scraps, I did have some imperfections on the wood, so I made sure to strategically place the paper and ribbons so you couldn't tell :)

Word Blocks

I'm pretty sure I shared some blocks on here last year that I did with black and white vinyl. This year, I decided to make a few more. I used some green and maroon paint I had on hand and painted a few scrap blocks left from a home project.

The Believe is one I did last year and still had sitting around :)

I promise that the love and joy are green! I couldn't get the true color to come out for me :(