MHP ornaments

Hello!

My Happy Place is a crafting studio that I help

run and where I do a lot of my crafting.

This Christmas we decided to have our 

Christmas Crop in January.

The theme was 

Clearance Rack Christmas.

Everyone who wanted to participate in the gift 

exchange was to bring a gift bought from the

clearance rack. It could be whatever they wanted,

but only spend about $10.

I found these wood ornaments on clearance at 

Michael's and picked them up for all the guests.

I covered them with Mod Podge and then with 

glitter.

I rigged up a couple dowels across a box to be able 

to hang them to dry.

Once they were dry, I painted them again with 

Mod Podge so the glitter would stay put.

You know how glitter is, I didn't want everyone mad

at me for getting glitter everywhere.

Here they are all done.

There were 4 different styles.

I also made up gift certificates for everyone

to use at a future crop.

I put the gift certificates with the ornaments

and called them done.

I think the ladies all loved their ornaments.

We had a great time at our crop

and everyone seemed to love the theme and 

the gifts they received.

Thanks for stopping by

I hope you got some clearance items

for crafting after Christmas this year

and can get a start on next years 

gifts early.

Christmas Ornaments

Hello everyone!

I know Christmas is long past, but I wanted to share

a few ornaments I made with you.

These all started out clear and I glittered the insides of them.

I'm sorry this picture is so bad, I just couldn't get

a good picture and forgot to go back and shoot some

more before I gave the ornament as a gift.

I made this one for my sis-in-law, who loves

Christmas trees.

I also put the year on the backs of all of them.

My little great niece loves Shopkins

so I made this one for her.

My great nephew is very into Pokemon

so I naturally had to make a Pokeball ornament 

for him.

I love being able to create unique ornaments

for people I love.

Thanks for stopping by today,

hope to see you again soon.

Until then,

get inspired and try something 

a little different.

Wine About It!

Hi All!

I have a friend who loves her wine.

Actually, I don't think she drinks as much 

as it sound like on facebook.

Anyway, I found these huge wine glasses

at Michael's on clearance,

which worked out perfectly.

Our Christmas Crop at 

My Happy Place

was a Clearance Rack Christmas theme.

You could spend up to about $10,

but whatever you bought had to be on clearance.

This glass is huge and actually holds 

a bottle of wine.

I added the words with black vinyl that

I cut on my Silhouette Cameo

in the Jokerman font.

It turned out really cute,

that white card inside is just so you 

can see the writing on the glass.

She loved it and when she found out 

I had done the vinyling myself, she loved

it even more.

Thanks for stopping in today,

come again soon.

Until then, 

Happy Crafting!

Puppy scarf

Hello friends!

I have an adorable God daughter and she loves 

her little 'stuffies' 

For Christmas I decided to make her a cute scarf.

I started with a stuffed dog and much to my 

husbands dismay, I cut the little guy in half.

I removed a little bit of the stuffing and added

a long piece of fleece as the scarf.

I simply folded over the fleece, put the ends into the

head and back end of the dog and sewed it shut.

I think it turned out pretty cute and I think

Andrea liked it too.

It was a pretty quick and easy gift to make for her.

Thanks for stopping by today,

I hope you'll visit again to see

what I'm up to.

You never know what you'll find on 

Kristie Kreates.

Anthony and Andrea

Hello everyone!

Today, I have a couple Christmas gifts that I made to show you.  

As you can see, the one for Andrea, is much like this one for Sienna

For Andrea's I used a 9" x'12" canvas board.
I used the same process to make this one.  

Andrea loved her dancer and asked Daddy to put a nail in the wall

in her bedroom so she could hang it up right away.

Anthony is Andrea's older brother and he is very into

Pokemon.  In fact his room will soon have a Pokemon theme,

so this was perfect for him.

This was a little more complicated than Andrea's

since it was layered.
I got the file from 

Krafty Nook

and it was the first time that I created with this

many layers.

But I think it turned out pretty good.

I also made them ornaments which I will 

show y'all in another post..

Thanks for stopping by,

I hope you'll come again soon.

Until then,

keep smiling and have some fun!

Gifts for Mom and Dad

Hi!  Hope you're having a lovely day.

Today I'm showing you the gifts our kids made

for us for Christmas.

I figured I'd be getting a canvas, as Kelsie was working like

crazy on them, but I had no idea that I would love them so much.

The little one says "I get it from my Mama"

For the larger one she searched for a Celtic symbol for 

Mother and Daughter and copied that.

I love the sentiment!

My husband and I love Ireland and Celtic designs

and this was perfect.  These will both be hung in my 

craft room.

Kelsie also made one for her Dad.

They have always said

"I love you!" and the other would say
"Love you more!"

She found a Celtic symbol for him too, which

is for Father and Daughter.

I think she did a great job on our gifts and we will

cherish them forever.

Kelsie is not the only one that made Christmas gifts

for us.

Our son, Jaryd, and his girlfriend, made some sweatshirts

for us too.  I don't have a clue how they did this, but they 

learned how to do screen printing at home.

This is what is on my sweatshirt.

The average person isn't going to understand, but I

got it right away.

At My Happy Place, where we do scrapbooking and crafting,

I am affectionately known as 

Scrap Queen Kristie.

This is perfect for me!

Don't you think?

My husband is a real Trekkie so there was no question

about his. They made him a sip up hoodie.

 This is on the back of it,

and this is on the front.

I think they did a great job on these gifts.  

Perfect for us both.

So glad you stopped today, so I could show off my 

Christmas gifts from the kids.

I hope you're inspired in some way

and will come back again soon.

Until then,

Happy Crafting!

Canvases and Washclothes

Hi blog friends!

Today I'm showing you some of the gifts my kids

made for Christmas.

I've shown some of the canvases that my daughter

made before and here are a couple more.

Here is my daughter with my Mom and the canvas 

Kelsie made her for Christmas.

Here's a close up of that canvas.

Mom has it in her room at the assisted living center

and everyone loves it.

This is another one that Kelsie made for her friends.

This is my son with G-Ma, as he calls her, on Christmas.

He knitted some nice soft wash clothes for her.

I knew he could crochet, but now he knows how to knit too.

Talented kids I have there, eh?

Thanks for stopping in today,

I hope you are having a creative day!

Come again soon!