Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween!

I hope you are enjoying your Halloween.

My children are adults now, so I don't 

have the chance to dress them up anymore

and we don't get trick or treaters at our house

so I don't get a chance to enjoy the kids from our

area either, but I hope you are having some 

Halloween fun.

Here is what I did for some Halloween fun.

I got a wine glass at the Dollar Tree and

used some of my acrylic craft paints to paint this

cute tea light holder.

It took a few coats of each color or paint,

but it went on fairly easily.

I just needed to be sure the paint was really

dried between coats. If not the other layers

can pull up and create a mess.

Don't ask how I know this.

Live and learn!

The hardest part for me was deciding on 

what kind of face to paint on it.
I love how the little vines look like 

little wisps of hair.

Once it was painted and dried,

I coated it with a layer of Mod Podge to 

seal it.  If you don't the paint can scratch off

easily and who wants that when you've put 

time and effort into it.

And the Mod Podge gives it a nice finish.

This is a gift and I sure hope they like it as much

as I do.

Thanks for stopping in today.

I hope you'll try painting something a little

different.  I think there are a lot of cute things you could

do with glasses like this for Christmas, or any occasion

for that matter.

See you again soon!

Sienna' Gift

Hi everyone!

I have the most adorable :"greats"  

that's what I call my great nieces and nephews!

Today I'm showing you what I made for one

of my greats.

I used a 5x7 canvas board, that I picked up at 

Hollo's Papercrafts.

I mixed some red and white 

acrylic craft paints

to make pink paint and 

painted the entire board with the pink.

I cut a ballerina with my Silhouette from black vinyl.
I used one of the dancers from the

"Ballerina Border" which I purchased from

The Silhouette Design Store

I also cut her name using the

Segoe Print font.

I used transfer tape to apply the vinyl to the painted

canvas board.

I then made a 'dress' for the ballerina.

For the dress, I used a strip of lace

and a piece of pink ribbon,

I doubled the lace to give it a bit of fullness.

I layered the pink ribbon on top of the edge of the

doubled lace and used a running stitch with white

thread along the length of the lace and ribbon.

I then pulled the thread to gather the top edge 

and secured it with a few stitches.

I tied a small bow with the same pink ribbon and 

used Ranger Multi Medium Matte

to glue the bow to the dress.

I also used the Multi Medium to glue the dress

to the dancer on the board.

I used the same glue to adhere 3 flowers to the 

hair of the ballerina

I framed it in a black frame.

I think this turned out adorable.

I hope Sienna loves this as much as I do.

I enjoyed creating it for her.

Thanks for stopping by today.

Come again soon.

Until then, I hope you'll 

create something.

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