Paper Puppies

For my mom's birthday, I used one of the Paper Source's adorable garland kits to make paper replicas of my chihuahuas!!! I thought they looked so cute on top of her gift.  

The kit (find here: http://www.papersource.com/item/Doggie-Kit/4071295705.html) came with instructions to make different dog breeds!!!  I adapted so that I could make multiple chihuahuas - a little tan guy, my T-Bone, a black and white baby, Riblet, and I used a good gel pen to give the coloring to my brindle girl, Pork Chop.  Love my little animals.  

Here they are:

New Years Vision Board

Here's a sample of a New Year's Vision board.  It's a way to envision goals for the year and then make them tangible through whatever medium you wish.

1. FIrst, I brainstormed for a while, making lists of goals I actually want to achieve this year.

2. Then, I narrowed the list down to what I particularly want to focus on, to make it manageable.

3. Next, I started thinking about how I could use objects, shapes and other symbols to represent my goals.

4. I used paint, stickers, my Cameo Silhouette, washi tape and whatever else I could find to depict some goals for the new year.

5. Of course the last step is actually following through... hahaha... I'll get back to you on that ;)

2015 Vision Board:

While Visions of Sugar Plums Dance Through Their Heads

This is a little ornament-shaped Christmas card I made, featuring two small dogs (modeled after my chihuahuas, Riblet and T Bone).  They are sleeping in their bed, dreaming of sugar plums on the night before Christmas...  I love the way the sugar plums came out!  I used a visine see through envelope under the glitter and sugar plums and other stickers, so that it looks a little more magical.   I also used a fine paper from Paper Source for the comforter.  The Santa hats are also stickers from Paper Source.

 These are some Christmas ornaments I also made and gave as gifts to some of my coworkers.  I used various Martha Stewart glitters and stickers from Paper Source (my favorite store). These ornaments were given to me by an amazing friend and were made out of cardboard and were completely plain before I used paint, washi tape and other accoutrement to sparkle them up.

Macaroon Birthday Bookmark!

Hello!

I made this bookmark as part of a birthday gift for my best friend.  I used the Paper Source macaroon rubber stamp (http://www.papersource.com/item/Macaron-Rubber-Stamp/871650.html), various ink pads and Martha Stewart essential glitter colors (http://shop.marthastewart.com/Martha-Stewart-Crafts-Essential-Colors-Glitter/A/B002BTWI62.htm) for the inside of the macaroons.

I used a fine paper that I bought from Paper Source (sorry, no link) for the background, and this gorgeous gold and coral Little B washi tape also from Paper Source, for the borders of the book mark (http://www.papersource.com/item/Gold-Coral-Foil-Tape/2905_018/849431004092.html).

The Happy Birthday sticker banner is from this amazing Japanese stationery store, Kinokuniya, in midtown Manhattan.  (Link here: http://www.kinokuniya.com/us/).  I've had it for a while and have been keeping it for a special occasion.

I am going to hole punch the top and add a ribbon but, for some reason, I can't find my hole puncher!  I'll add an updated pic when I do that.

Happy Stamping.

Halloween Decorations

I got carried away with my Halloween decorations this year.  Here they are!  I'm feeling like Halloween is my favorite holiday!

Paper Source Monster Paper Dolls

I got one of the Paper Source garland kits for Halloween.  They are monster paper dolls and they are soooo adorable.  We used this kit at the get together today and each person made one paper doll.  They aren't all featured here. (I'm missing the witch and the mummy) but these are so cute to make.  Most of it is done for you, but there is still enough room to do work yourself and be creative with your monsters.

Glitter Pumpkins

I love the idea of glitter pumpkins because it takes a regular pumpkin to a whole new level and it's really not that hard.  However, it helps if you can do this outside because the glitter is definitely messy!!  They are so pretty though.