What can you do with a decorative laminate sample card from your local home improvement store? Make a Valentine!! I’ve seen a lot of silhouettes lately: pretty profiles of elegant ladies set onto all different types of paper projects. I set out to alter this laminate sample into a lovely silhouette Valentine. It’s […]
Author: Scarlett
Photos–The T. Family
I had the pleasure of taking some photos of the T. family last month. Since I take a lot more pictures of stuff than I do people, I was a little worried that I wouldn’t be able to pull off any good shots. Thankfully, I had been practicing a […]
Usborne’s “Drawing Faces”
I love this book! I picked it up at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, TX. This is the best book I’ve ever seen for kids on how to draw faces. It contains 27 lessons on how to create faces of all sorts using many different techniques. It starts out demonstrating the […]
Photo–The Salon Assistant
Christmas Tags with Quilling
I made these two Christmas tags and added quilled strips to accent the stamped images. They have a really sophisticated look, but didn’t take much time. Looks like I need to glue that corner down a bit better! Two days until Christmas. Wow, this month has flown by. Happy Christmas Eve Eve, everyone!
Yellow Leaves
No, I don’t think we’ll be having a white Christmas. It may be a yellow one, though. Our ornamental pear trees have just now begun to turn bright yellow. They usually turn red in October and are completely bare by this time, but for some reason they have not changed […]
Die-Cut French Fry Boxes
I needed some pretty little treats to give to my lady friends who meet at the park every week, so I got out my die cut machine and made these. I wanted to show you some pics of how cute these little things turned out. I used my BigShot die cut […]
Chrismon Ornaments
I wanted this project to be very kid friendly, so I decided on salt dough for our chrismon ornaments. We whipped up a simple batch of salt dough using this recipe: 1 cup salt 1 cup water 2 cups flour (add a little more flour if it’s sticky) Just roll it out and […]