One Little Dreamer OKTOBER FEST Challenge

I decided to alter some small wooden spools for this challenge.  I added some pink acrylic paint to one of the spools and Gesso to the other soiik   .  I use my hot glue gun and added a Tim Holtz pearl bauble to the top of the spools.  I took the pink spool and glued on the beautiful pink pearl and rhinestone trim from Aarti's One Little Dreamer shop on Zibbet.    I took a strip of patterned paper from Paper Studio from the Kirby Teesdale paper pack and glued it to the white spool.  The pattern and designs are very shabby chic and vintage.   I then took the rhinestone-pearl trim from Aarti's One Little Dreamer shop and glued it to the very top edge of the spool.  I decided to adhere a strip of flat back pink pearls to the bottom edge of the spool.  Thanks for looking.

A treat bag holder made from an Envelope

Today is my blog post day and I decided to make a treat envelope that is the latest craze on Youtube.  They  started out making them using the envelopes from the corrugated cards that you buy at Micheal's.  It seems that sometimes when we get our cards made they are too bulky to fit into the envelopes so we have a lot of them left over.  This is a great way to use them up.  They are so fun and easy to make.  I actually used a large envelope that fits a 5 X 7 card to make this.  You take your envelope and at the bottom of it you score it up one inch on both sides.   You then fold on the score lines and then on each side you form a triangle and hot glue it to the bottom which will then form a very nice base for your treat bag.  

I used some polka dot patterned paper form My Minds Eye Christmas paper stack to cover the front of the envelope.  I then used a piece of braided trim all around the top edge of the envelope and I hot glued it on folding it over as I went so you could see it on both sides.  I also added to strip to either side of the envelope.  I add a piece of DCWV patterned paper to the back of the envelope that looked like faux leather.  I decided to use the adorable Eris "Cup of Hot Chocolate" stamp.  I thought it would be perfect because I could add some cocoa packets to my treat.  I colored the image in with my Copic markers and will list them below the photo of the colored image.  I inked around my colored image with Memento London Fog ink.   I created a flower out of some beautiful crochet lace by gathering it up with a needle and thread.  I then added a latex flower to the center of the crochet flower and was able to form the petals and leaves how I wanted them.  I hot glued the flower to the left hand side of the treat bag.  I used a Memory box die called "Victorian Frames" to cut out a piece of patterned paper and place it in the center of the envelope and then placed the colored image on top of that.  Thanks for looking and I hope you are inspired to create your own treat bag out of an envelope.  You can do this same thing with any size envelope.

 

Copic colors:

Hair: C7 and Flex promarker in black

Skin: Dusty pink and Satin promaker

Dragon: C7

Cup: B93 and B95

Jacket: G45, YG97

Crowns: Gold metallic sharpie marker

One Little Dreamer OKTOBER FEST Challenge

I decided to create a treat bag out of an envelope like a lot of the ladies on Youtube are doing.  You take your envelope and any size will work for this.  You put it on the score board and score up one inch or 3/4 of an inch from the bottom of the envelope.  You score it on both sides of the envelope and then you fold on the score line to crease it.  It is much easier I have discovered to glue the patterned paper on before you fold up the bottom of the envelope.  I chose to use Kirby Teasdale patterned paper from Paper Studio on this envelope.  I chose a beautiful design for the front that didn't need much embellishing and another gorgeous flower and butterfly design for the back of the envelope.  I glued those on.   Once the papers were glued down to the envelope then you fold up the bottom my fold both of the score lines on either side of the envelope and then at each of the sides you make a triangle shape and hot glue that to the bottom to form a nice solid base for your envelope to become a treat bag.   I chose the wonderful pearl trim from Aarti's One Little Dreamer Zibbet shop to go along the triangle edge of the envelope and the inside back.  You just stick the flap of the envelope inside and seal it shut. 

I chose the beautiful pink floral trim from One Little Dreamer shop to go along the top edge of the papers since they didn't quite go all the way to the top of the envelope.  This was the perfect addition to this cute treat bag.  I also put some pink small roses from my stash in the upper right and left hand corners of the treat bag.  On the right hand side I also used a small piece of the wonderful leaf and rhinestone trim that One Little Dreamer shop sells as well.  These treat bags are wonderful gifts for friends.  I hope you enjoyed seeing this project and will try to make one for yourself.

  back of the envelope

DT day on LIittle Blue Buttons Blog

I created a couple of cards for my Design Team day on the blog. The first one is a 5 X 7 white cardstock base.  I took a piece of DCWV burlap paper along with some patterned paper that I punched out along the edge with my scalloped Fiskar border punch.  I adhered this to the card base.  I then had some tags in my stash that I had used a stencil and some modeling paste that I had colored with Tim Holtz picked raspberry color so I distressed the tag further with the picked raspberry distress ink.  I then put some lace and organiza trim on the top of the tag and adhered it to the card front.  I made a flower out of some paper using my Sizzix die.   The other flower is a silk one that I had gotten in a Michaels grab bag and I put a button in the center and glued it to the corner of my card on top of the tag.  I then used a pretty pink sequin trim along the bottom of the card.    I used a stick pin from my stash to add behind the paper flowers.  The image that I used on my card is the "Tea Time Jessica".  I colored her with my Copic markers.  I will list the colors under the photo.  I added some glossy accents to her eyes and the coffee cup.  Thanks for looking.

Copic colors:
Chair: E13, E15
dress: RV14, RV25, Bic cloud 9 grey marker
Skin:  promarker in Satan, ivory, and blush
Hair: Y06, Y08
Eyes: B02


The next card that I created is a small paper bag card.  I used a tiny paper bag that was given to me in a RAK.  I folded it in half and then I glued the one flap on the inside down on the edges which creates a pocket.  I took a square piece of patterned paper and adhered it to the front of the card.  I added a small piece of lace to the card edge before I glued the square piece down.  I adhered another strip of lace to the other half of the card underneath the paper so that I could die the lace in a bow to close up my card.   I used the adorable Miss Lilly Kitty for this card.  I used patterned paper from My Mind's Eye.  I added the colored image to the front right hand side of the card front along with a small pink flower.  I took a label that I cut out of a piece of the patterned paper and added it to the left hand side of the card.  Thanks for looking.

One Little Dreamer Oktoberfest Challenge

I am making a friend an altered cupcake tin and so I wanted to add some cute cupcakes.  I saw where you can take those small peat pots and make them into the cutest cupcakes.  I took a 12 inch strip of designer scrapbook paper and scored it at every 1/4 inch on my Martha Stewart score board and then I folded all the score lines to make the cupcake wrapper.  I hot glued the strip together to form a circle and then glued it on the bottom of the peat pot.  I then added a strip of vintage lace from my stash along the top edge of the pot.   I made a shabby chic flower out of the beautiful rosette trim from Aarti's "One Little Dreamer" Zibbet shop.  She has amazing colors of this trim.  You cut the flowers in half and then fold in thirds to create this wonderful flower.  You adhere the petals to a piece of cardstock and this becomes the top of your cupcake but it is also a holder for goodies in your muffin tin.  Thanks for looking.

One Little Dreamer OKTOBER FEST Challenge

I decided to create 4 small cards that would fit into the tin that I altered for this wonderful challenge that Aarti is having with some amazing prizes up for grabs.  I love the stuff that Aarti sells in her Zibbets shop called "One Little Dreamer".  I have purchased her rosettes and they are just beautiful.  I chose to make these cards pretty simple using the wonderful stamp set of Aarti's called "Letter games".  One a couple of the cards I actually stamped the outline and letters right onto the card front after I adhered some My Minds Eye patterned paper.

For one of the cards I chose to use a cut file that I created on my Silhouette machine that would cut out the pieces for me from cardstock so I could stamp Aarti's leter stamps and then I would have my very own Scrabble tiles.  If you cut out multiple layers and adhered together it does actually give you the dimension of a tile.   I chose to use a few of her gorgeous rosette flowers.  I used some lace trims underneath a couple of the large rosette flowers to form another flower.   I placed some pretty beads from my stash in the center of the rosettes.  Thanks for looking.

One Little Dreamer OKTOBER FEST Challenge

I had gotten a wallet for my husband and it came this really neat black tin which I decided to save to alter.  I thought this challenge would be a perfect time to use this tin.  I had made up some turquoise color paint to alter a piece of grunge board for a box that I was making for another challenge and I had left over paint that I didn't want to throw away so I had painted the lid of this box.  I adhered some lace that I found from my local thrift shop to the edge of the lid and then I placed a piece of crochet trim on top of the lace.   I then glued on a piece of rhinestone bling trim to the top outer edge of the lid.  I made a flower spray out of a pearl spray, flowers.  I adhered a doily to the front of the lid and then put a black flower in the center of the doily.  I then adhered the flower spray that I made to the top of the doily on the left hand side.  I used a beautiful rosette from Aarti's One Little Dreamer shop and placed it over the end of the spray.  I stamped out the outlines of the tiles from the stamp set that One Little Dreamer has called "Letter Games".  I then stamped out the letters to spell cards.  I adhered these tiles to the front of the top of the lid and then placed glossy accents over the top so they would stand out.

I adhered a piece of patterned paper to the bottom of the tin along with some glass pebble feet.  I also took a piece of designer paper from the paper pad and adhered it to the inside of the tin.  Thanks for looking.

One Little Dreamer OKTOBER FEST Challenge

Aarti who is the owner of One Little Dreamer shop on Zibbet is having a very fun challenge this month and a YT hop.  I got this birdhouse in a grab bag at Michaels a few weeks ago.  It was paper mache and I painted it with some metallic brown CraftSmart paint.  I then adhered the beautiful gold trim from The One Little Dreamer shop to the roof.   I then took a strand of brown pearl beads and adhered them around the circle opening of the bird house.  I adhered a cute bird that I had found at my local thrift shop to the roof of the bird house.  Thanks for looking.