Jaded Blossom Challenge - Crafter's Choice

It's time for a new monthly Jaded Blossom Challenge, and I am excited to announce that I was chosen with the honor of being a guest designer for this month!

 

This month's challenge is Crafter's Choice.  So that means you chose the theme! 

 

I love Christmas and last month I really went for broke on my Christmas in July projects.  And since this month is crafter's choice at Jaded Blossom I decided to get in yet another Christmas project.

 

For this one I decided to try one of the rectangular glass blocks and since they don't come with a stand I went in search of ideas for how to do something so that my light would not cause the block to wobble.  Some suggestions were to feed the light through the top, use felt pads like those for furniture and to use the glass stones like you use in vases.  As you can see I opted for the glass stones and I LOVE the way it turned out.

 

I also created a little notecard to give to the recipient along with the glass block.  The stamped sentiment is from the Jaded Blossom stamp set titled Christ is Born.

 

Now that you've seen my project for this month's challenge I hope that you'll create your own, link up and play along with us.  But first be sure to check out all the other wonderful projects the Jaded Blossom team has created to share with you.

Mermaid Lantern

I decided to make yet another lantern.  Although this will probably be my last one for a while since Hobby Lobby is out of this style and I can't think of another theme to play with.  I had thought about a nativity one but I'm not sure that that would work out like I envision.

 

For this one though I chose to use Ariel from the Little Mermaid.  After all mermaids seem to be a pretty popular theme for crafting - or then again maybe I'm a little late to the party.

 

 

 

I created this lantern in the same fashion as I did my other two....

I removed each of the panes, wiped them down on both sides with rubbing alcohol and allowed them to dry.  I then cut my vinyl to fit my panes and adhered.  After that I sprayed the side with vinyl with a frosted glass spray paint.  Here's the one difference - for this lantern I decided that I only needed to spray the side of the glass with the vinyl rather than both sides of glass.  I then installed the panes back into the lantern with the vinyl facing outward (no different than the glass blocks).

 

 

 

Add a flameless candle and it's complete.

 

Now I'm off to enter my lantern into the following challenge.

DL Art - August Linky Challenge - Ends August 31st

Hello There Pumpkin

I have a Halloween card that I'd like to share with you today.  This one features an adorable pumpkin right out of one of Marjorie Ann Designs files.  This one is called Halloween Hoots.

 

I personally love Marjorie's owls.  They're right up there with the Gingerbread.  And while this card doesn't have an owl the pumpkin is still one of the components and is just as cute.  I mean c'mon look at those crazy eyes and mouth.  Sure makes me smile just looking at it.

 

The stamped sentiment on my card is from the Cardz TV Stamps set titled Frankly Frightful.

 

And since I was following this sketch -

 

 

 

for this week's Die Cuttin Divas challenge, I also used some black skittles from DoubleClick Connections.

 

Now I'm off to enter my card in the following challenges:

 

Die Cuttin Divas - August Sketch - Ends August 7th

 

DL Art - August Linky Challenge - Ends August 31st

Alice & Mad Hatter Light

I have been on a glass kick right along with my ornaments lately.  Not sure what it is about glass but if I can find it and decorate it somehow I'm in.

 

So today I have a glass block to share that I made using one of the Alice in Wonderland files I found over at SVG Coop.  Now I will say that there has been a time or two where the site doesn't seem to work properly but when it does she has some fun files to play around with.

 

When I first looked at this design I thought I would end up shooting myself given all the weeding, but I found that if get what I can and worry about the rest after application I'm okay.  That said, after I placed the vinyl on the block I just sat on the porch and allowed the sunlight to guide me for weeding out the pieces that still needed to be removed.  (Just another reason I love this time of year.  LOL)

 

After everything was weeded I sprayed my block down with my Valspar frosted glass spray.  Let it cure and then added my bow.

 

I really love the way that this block turned out, and the blue bow was the perfect touch for this silhouette.  I admit I tried to find a Disney print bow to use but all I could find were the skinny ones.  Now that I'm done, I'm glad I couldn't find the size I needed.

 

And now I'm off to enter my block into the following challenge:

 

DL Art - August Linky Challenge - Ends August 31st

Traditional Style Ornaments

I know, I know.  Christmas in July ended yesterday but I got so busy with things that I didn't get a chance to post these last ornaments and I didn't want you to miss out.  :)

 

 

 

In addition to all the fun, playful ornaments I've created I wanted to create some more traditional ones as well.  For these ornaments I used the following files from the Silhouette Design Store:

 

• Nativity Circle Shepherd
• Round Deer Birch Frame
• Birch Trees with Two Deer
• Snow Maiden
• Snow Fairy on Flourish
• Winter Love
• Snowy Deer

I love how these all turned out and I think that the designs lend a touch of elegance to the ornament.   Of course I can't decide which one I like best but I think I'm leaning towards the Snowy Deer on the tear drop looking ornament.

 

 

 

But now I'm off to enter these into the following challenge:

 

Hiding in My Craft Room - Freestyle with a Twist (Christmas) - Ends August 6th

Gingerbread Cuties

As Christmas in July begins the wind down I have a couple more ornament sets to share with you.  Today I have some cute Gingerbread faces.  Once again the file for the ornament is one that was shared in a couple of FB groups that I belong to.

 

The boxes; however, are ones that you can find in the Silhouette Design Store.  Not only did I use the 3D Puffy Box Pinked file, but I also used the 3d puffy ornament box artisan circle.  As you can probably tell I love the way these boxes put together and how well they hold the ornaments.  It just completes it all so well.

 

And now I'm off to enter my ornaments into the following challenge:

 

DL Art - July Linky Challenge - Ends Sunday, July 31st

 

 

 

He's a Mean One - Grinch Ornaments

Other than Rudolph the Grinch is my all time favorite Christmas character and my all time favorite Dr. Seuss.  It's so bad that I almost wanted to cry our first year at Universal when I got to have my picture taken with the Grinch.  All the childhood memories that came flooding back was pretty awesome.  And so every year that we go I see out the Grinch.

 

So this year when I saw that someone had shared these wonderful Grinch faces I knew that I had to make an ornament or two.  Sadly when I set out to make my ornament boxes I didn't have enough Grinch paper in my stash.  But I think I chose some papers that were still fitting enough for a Grinch.

 

Once again I used the 3D Puffy Box Pinked file from the Silhouette store for my boxes.

 

And now I'm off to enter these ornaments into the following challenges:

Hiding in My Craft Room - Christmas in July - Ends July 30th

DL Art - July Linky Challenge - Ends Sunday, July 31st