Elephant Baby Shower

These are some arrangements and decorations that I made for a baby shower.

It's a surprise. 

So, the colors were green and chocolate brown. 



 I made about 25 elephants (actually 50, they are double sided)

and stood them up on rosettes that I made with my

Martha Stewart scoring board.

They paraded down the center of one long banquet table amongst the flowers.

This was on the gift table to greet guests as they arrived.

The ellies are from the "Sugar & Spice" Cricut cartridge.

The "confetti" is a Martha Stewart elephant punch.



I am entering these in the

Decorate to Celebrate "Anything Goes" challenge and

Whimsical Designs "Anything Goes" challenge

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White rose bouquet

 I made this bouquet for the

Decorate to Celebrate Winter Wedding Challenge

I used coffee filters to make the roses and added some bling to the centers.

The template is on Martha's site. I decided not to paint them. 

I just used a little Perfect Pearls for some shine. 

I grouped them into a hand tied bouquet, added some more bling, wrapped silver angel hair around the base and added a bow with satin Midori ribbon.

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Paper poinsettias and Christmas trees

I started the season making paper poinsettias.  I used a leaf shape from the Flower Shoppe Cricut cartridge to make the petals  I used the same shape in four different sizes.

I used a bamboo skewer to "draw" on the veins and a little flocking for the centers.
I glued them to clothes pins to attach them to gifts.

This was one of my harebrained ideas.

I was asked to decorate a benefit party.

I didn't have much budget, so I thought I could buy a

stack or two for $15-$20 (on sale) and make 100 paper trees.

The first 10 were not so bad, the next 90 was another story.  I did get them all done. I used my gypsy to make a cut file for the cones and George and Basic shapes for the stars.

 I had all different sizes, colors, and patterns.

They really did add some color to a very beige function hall.

I used wrapping paper to add  a runner to the tables.

I had about seven trees grouped in the center of each table and the rest were scattered about next to some candle holders I dressed up with leftover paper.

Merry Christmas!

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Noah's Ark Invite

This is a simple invite that I made for my son's second birthday.

We decided to use a Noah's ark theme.

Two by two.

I love how they look in the vellum envelopes.
I used George and basic shapes and Animal kingdom cricut cartridges.

I used my gypsy to lay out the animals and design the ark.
After the images were cut, I placed colored paper behind the cut outs.

I printed the info on a piece of white cardstock and glued it inside.

 

I am entering this in the  Decorate to Celebrate birthday challenge.

I should have birthday decorations to post in a couple weeks.

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Halloween Wreath

This is a wreath that I made for Halloween.

My daughter wanted some "spooky" decoartions, but not too "spooky".

She's only four.

I used the Home Decor, Mother's Day Bouquet,

Gypsy Wanderings, and Sugar and Spice cartridges.

I used DCWV glitter stack

Black and gray & white print is Elegant gown from American Crafts

Orange cardstock and green gems - Recollections.

Black double faced satin ribbon -  Midori.

I am entering this in the

Whimsical Wednesday Challenge - Halloween home decor

My Craft Spot - Challenge # 30  3D Halloween

Decorate to Celebrate Challenge # 11 - Halloween Party

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Children's Wall Decor

I made this for my two year old neighbor's birthday

and it happened to fit the theme for

Fantabulous Cricut challenge #81 – Décor and More

This was my first attempt at decoupage.

I used a 12x12 canvas and painted it first with acrylic paint.

I used the Home Decor, Mother's Day bouquet, Flower Shoppe and Kate's ABCs cartridges.

I layered the background paper, name and frame and sealed them with several coats of Mod Podge.

I used a foam brush and coated the flowers as well.

When everything was dried I added a touch of bling.

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Boo Banner

 This is my entry for the My Craft Spot design team call.

My 4year old has been asking for some "spooky" decorations.

I didn't have any Halloween cartridges, so I used my Gypsy and made a couple of ghosts out of mushroom stems and welded a wavy bottom to it.

I used the Sugar and Spice Cricut cartridge, Cricut Classic Font, Cindy Loo, George and Basic shapes.

The polka dot, white glitter and orange glitter paper is DCWV. The black paper is Colorbok.

The bright orange is from the Recollections "South Beach" pack.

I used the Sizzix Diamonds embossing folder on the black centers of each tag.

The orange gingham ribbon is Basic Basic.

Black satin is Midori.

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