The Place Where I Belong - Wendy's FarmHouse Market Embellishments for Wreaths

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Using FarmHouse Market Embellishments

This is a fun easy little project that will add some country style charm to any wall in your home. 

The wreaths themselves are made from a thin wire ring, I used what I had in my supplies, but if you have actual round pre-made wreath rings, you can use them as well.

I had two small wire rings and one larger wire ring and wanted to make them thicker in size. So, I decided to wrap some masking tape around each wire ring to add some width and dimension on them. I went round at least three times, leaving the masking tape wrapped rather loosely on each ring. This gave my ring a thicker feel to it.

When I was happy with the thickness, on the larger ring I wrapped a layer of macrame cord I had in my supplies. 

The finished larger ring

On a smaller ring I wrapped a layer of hessian with white lace but when it came to decorating this one, the white lace over hessian wasn't working for me, so I pulled it off and wrapped a layer of the white macrame rope over it. The one below was this change.

 On the last small ring I wrapped a layer of hessian rope that I had in my supplies.

All the covered rings looked great and now it was time to decorate them.

I pulled out my Big Shot and grabbed my left over pieces of the Farmhouse Market papers from Carta Bella and also a flower die and butterfly die. Then I started die cutting as much as I could.

Below the flower die I used

Below the butterfly dies I used

I made up the flowers by rolling my bone file down over the edges, used hot glue to put the pieces together, inked the edges with vintage ink and the hot glued a flat back pearl in the center of each flower.

After cutting out the butterflies, I added a few beads in the center of each one.

While I was using my Big Shot, I decided to cut out the letters to make our theme title for this month. These were cut from the FarmHouse Market left over papers as well, using the Kaisercraft Grunge Alpha set. This is a wonderful letter set to have in your supplies, very quirky letters that I love.

I added a layer of my Dimensional Magic to each letter after I went round the edges with a black marker. They turned out great.

Now it was time to decorate each wreath. On the larger one I added a couple of large butterflies, some flowers, some leaves and also some rolled tuille I had in my supples. I only decorated the lower half of this wreath.

On one of the smaller wreaths with the hessian rope, I made it have more of a country style and I used a couple of flowers and the die set of a farmhouse girl with her little animals. The fence was from a die in my supples.

On the last small wreath, I hot glued the small butterflies completely around the ring and added a couple of flowers. I also hot glued a piece of calico to the back and this allowed me to glue my words down. This turned out so very pretty.

These were wonderful fun projects to make. I think they all look beautiful.

You can watch a quick process of how I wrapped each ring below...

I really hope you enjoyed this project.

HAVE A GREAT DAY!

Wendy xox

A Month of Christmas Crafting 2017 - Christmas Postcards with Sarah

Hello Happy Crafters... how is your Christmas countdown going?
Me - I'm still experiencing that fabulous adrenaline rush of last minute Christmas card making....lol... so it's always great to find inspiration along the way. And Sarah's Christmas postcards are just that! Enjoy!!

I always get so flustered making cards, so thing year I thought I’d do something different and make Christmas postcards! I know that it’s essentially the same thing, but something about doing a postcard instead of a greeting card sets my creativity off.

I used old book pages as the base for all of them, and inked around the edges. For the first one I stamped a wreath directly onto the book page and coloured it using water colour paints. I stamped ‘Merry Christmas’ on some red card stock and cut and layered it with the green to create a little banner, before stamping a decorative border on each of the corners - the stamp was actually the top of a Christmas tree! 

For the next one I used an animal nativity stamp and coloured it using watercolours. I then stamped the sentiment and star directly onto the book page and added some kindy glitz to make it all sparkle. Isn’t the manger pretty?

For the last two I decided to paper piece some Prima dolls. I love the holly on Rita’s dress and because Nikki is so thin I added a Christmas tree to her postcard. I coloured their hair and skin using copic markers before adding glitter to them also. Nothing like a little sparkle! 

I learned something interesting when finishing these cards off. In order to protect them in the mail I coated them with a thin layer of Ranger’s Multi Matte Medium. But, when putting it over the kindy glitz it went all gluggy and didn’t look nice at all. I put another layer of kindy glitz on after the multi matte medium had dried, and this seemed to work much better. My advice would be to use any sealers before adding glitter! 

Hope you like these cards I’ve made. Merry Christmas! 

Sarah :)

 Thank you so much Sarah, these postcards are gorgeous! I especially love Rita in her holly dress!!

Aunty Vera :) 

Christmas Chipboard Wreath

I had a bit of fun this week working on this 'off the page' project...



I love the Christmas Wreath Kit from 2Crafty - it has so many possibilities.

I started by covering the 'baubles' with some pretty Christmas paper and using a good old-fashioned emery board to file the edges clean. I then painted the rims with gold paint.

I then worked out positioning and glued the baubles onto the wreath base.

I like to use Tombow glue for projects like this as it has a super strong bond.

I found a gorgeous feather garland at my local Bed Bath and Table and carefully glued it around the back of the wreath.

Looks lovely from the front now!

Now all that was left to do was to add a few decorations for that bit of bling-ness....

The Santa and Sleigh is from the 2Crafty Mini Santa Sleighs cardpack (coated in gold glitter) and the Merry from the 2Crafty Merry Christmas card pack (painted red and the Dimensional Magicked).