Altered Christmas Ornament

I love Dollar General's cheap Christmas Ornaments.  Every year, I try to pick up a few of the new ornaments when they come out and alter them.  This year, I picked out a chalkboard ornament.  One side has "Be Merry" on it, but the other side is blank, I embossed the Small Merry Christmas sentiment in white EP and fussy cut a glittered up Triple Holly image to decorate the top.  I think it came out wonderfully.

Super easy and super fun!

Hugz,

Nancy

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Look Mom, no paper!

Welcome!

Have you ever looked at trash and thought "Gee, I could make something out of that!" ?

Back in December after opening all those wonderful Christmas gifts, one box really stood out. The clear plastic front was twice as heavy as normal and didn't have many scratches, so I just had to save it :)

Well, I finally got to put it to good use this week - along with some left over paint that came with a "paint your own ornament/suncatcher" kit! You can't get more green that this project!

To start with, knowing I was going to emboss I coated my plastic well with some embossing magic powder, then stamped our new Spring Flower Suncatcher using Stazon Jet Black ink. I heat embossed it using clear powder and then I was all set to paint.

Using the leftover "glass" paints, I let the paint drip off my brush to fill in all the sections and let it dry for an hour or two. After cutting it out (and cutting the center section out too) I added a hole in the top, attached a jump ring and some yellow ribbon.

In no time I was hanging it in a window to take a picture!

Thanks so much for stopping by, and remember to check your trash!!!

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Finding a hairstylist...

posted by: Cathy/Crafty Thoughts...

is never easy! I know I have never found one that I would go back to again and again!!! So, what do you think about Leonard's sister (work with me here...I know there is only one Leonard but for some reason I keep wanting to make him a girl!!)...anyway...do you think she HAS found a good hairstylist or maybe not because of her hat?!

Images by DRS Designs...



All images are embossed with clear poowder. I used two of the piggies from Leonard's bathtime buddies and of course Leonard or maybe Leona? lol The hat is actually a smidge bit bigger but I had to trim it to look more in proportion. The flowers on the sentiment are from the hat...I stamped it twice and then cut just the flowers out. I pierced along the perimeter randomly and roughed it up with my scissors. If you click for a close up, you might be able to see that I stamped the pink layer with the flower/dragonfly easy background.

Aren't these piggies fun? I would love to see what you have done with them. If you'd like to share, post a link to your creation so I can stop by and be inspired!

********There are fun things happening on the DRS blog and the DT blogs this week. First off Monday starts with sneak peeks of the new images being released this coming SATURDAY, May 2!!!!!! You do not want to miss these images. Along with the usual great DRS images, we have images drawn by the one and only Dustin Pike!!! Have you checked seen his drawings? So cute!!!

On Thursday, we'll start another blog hop!!! We had so much fun with the last release that we decided to do it again!! Be sure to stop back here on Thursday to begin your hop and enter for a chance to win some blog candy!!!

Of course, our color challenge is still going on...post a direct link on the color challenge post - HERE - and be entered to win even more blog candy! Drawing will be next Sunday night!!!

Wow...so much fun, so much eye candy and so many chances to win free stamps!!! Hope you can play along!!!

See you soon...

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