Autumn Hiking Digi Kit

template from the challenge in the PDW forum

(I goofed and added some components from the 

Fall Whimsy kit on this page)

I created all of the above digital projects with the new

Autumn Hiking digi kit  by JMC Designs. 

It is now available at Plain Digital Wrapper

and on sale for a limited time for just $1.00 per pack !!!!

There are lots of fun elements

and terrific papers in this kit

that can be used to scrap things other than hiking

if you aren't into that ;) 

65 Unique Elements - 3 arrows, bear, bird, 3 bows, boy, branch, bug spray, butterfly, 3 buttons, canteen, compass, 6 flowers, 3 frames, girl, heart, 7 leaves, metal heart, metal star, mosquito, mountains, owl, bottle cap, 5 ribbons, scatter, 5 signs, staple, 2 stitchings, 6 strings, tag, 3 trees

24 Patterned Papers 
12X 12 300ppi

13 Papers 7 Creased and 6 Stamped Papers 
300 ppi 
12X12

10 Wordart to go with the Autumn Hiking kit

8 Journal Cards 300ppi 
4 - 4X3 
4 - 3X4

Faux Mercury Glass Mini Jar Christmas Decor

A second mini piece of Christmas home decor

repurposing a Oui yogurt jar !

I used: 

~ a store bought floral pick 

($3.50 at our local Big Lots; 

the only silver one they had and

perfect for the faux mercury glass jar ).

~ a  fabric doily I had in my stash

~ a piece of foam glued into the bottom to hold the pick

~ Krylon Looking Glass paint 

and a vinegar/water spritz to 

create the faux mercury glass  look on the jar.

The paint is quite thin, 

you need to lightly spray it in several layers.

Be sure to paint in  a well ventilated area and wear plastic gloves.

NOTE: You must paint on the INSIDE of the glass

and the containers are NOT food/water safe.

They can only be used for decoration.

This one didn't turn out very "vintage-y".

It was too cold outside to be spray painting

and I will not spray paint indoors. 

It is pretty and shiny, mirror like,

just not old looking. 

TIP:

Change out the floral pick with the seasons

to reuse the faux mercury glass jar base year round ! 

 I planned on making one with a bird nest for Spring,

but the nest and birds I have in stock are not the right size.

I have some other paints I want to use on

additional jars and additional ideas of things to do with them.

 I need to buy and eat more  Oui yogurt first ! 

Then patiently wait for a warm enough day to go outside to spray paint.....

Thanks for looking =) 

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"Oui"cycling Yogurt Jars

I found some Oui yogurt at a local grocer this past summer

after looking for them off and on for several months.

I'd read about them on my blogging friends page  a year ago. 

I just had to buy some to repurpose the jar.

I'm finally getting around to sharing a couple of them

now that it is close (too close!) to Christmas.

I've lots of ideas to repurpose more.

Then again, I believe that I still have some 

baby food jars yet to be repurposed........

First things first, remove the labels and

clean your jars well.

I fill mine with hot water to help loosen

the adhesive. The labels came off pretty easily

leaving minimal residue behind that was

cleaned up with Goo Gone.

I washed them with Dawn dish detergent and warm water,

giving them a final wipe down with vinegar and a dry cloth 

 when I was ready to craft with them.

I painted a couple of them with Looking Glass paint by Krylon

and spritzed with a vinegar and water solution

to create a faux mercury glass look.

The paint is quite thin, 

you need to lightly spray it in several layers.

Be sure to paint in a well ventilated area and wear plastic gloves.

NOTE: You must paint on the INSIDE of the glass

and the containers are NOT food/water safe.

They can only be used for decoration.

Click below to see a framed piece of glass that I used this paint technique on

https://craftysahmiam.blogspot.com/2016/10/faux-antique-mirror-dry-erase-board.html

I dug a Christmas floral pick out of my stash

and added faux snow to it.

The same was done with some tiny twigs from my yard.

I had an old doily I picked up at an estate sale

that I poked a tiny hole in the center of .

I felt bad for doing so, but it was stained in places 

and wouldn't really be used for much 

of anything else since it was small.

I cut an old styrofoam ball in half,

gluing the flat side of each half into each

mini jar after it was painted.

The tiny twigs were hot glued into the pick.

The stem of the pick had to be shortened 

to fit in the small jar.

The pick was poked through the small hole

in the center of the doily then the entire thing

was pushed into the foam inside the jar. 

TIP:

Change out the floral pick with the seasons

to reuse the faux mercury glass jar base year round ! 

Thanks for looking 

and have fun "Oui"creating this project  =)

I'm entering my project in the current
Anything Goes challenge at
Through The Craft Room Door

Happy Thanksgiving

May your Thanksgiving be filled with

happy moments and gratitude,

even for the simplest of things. 

(created with the digital kit Gatherings by Kimeric Kreations

and a freebie add on to the kit)

Simple Fall Wreath card

Supplies from Stampin' Up! :

All Season Wreath stamp set

inks

aquapainter

embossing board and stylus

Naturals Ivory card stock

kraft card stock

dimensionals

TIP:
I lightly draw a circle on my card stock
to try to help line up all of the branch
stamp images to make a round wreath shape.

Thanks for looking =) 

Gratitude Tree - Oui Jar

My first project repurposing a Oui yogurt jar ! 

I have a couple more to share soon. 

After removing the labels and cleaning the glass well,

I painted it with chalk paint then lightly sanded it in places.

I then hand lettered it with a brush and acrylic paint.

I placed a small piece of floral foam inside,

hot gluing it into place. 

I gathered some small branches from my yard

and stuck them in the foam.

Moss from my old floral supplies stash tops it off.

Tiny paper punched tags were written on

then hot glued on the branches with tiny twine bows.

A strip of torn plaid cotton fabric, more twine and a

small wooden heart (painted) finish it off, 

It's a bit sparse, hoping that the kids would want

to add some tags to it, too. 

Thanks for looking =) 

I'm entering my project in the current

Anything Goes challenge at

Through The Craft Room Door

and

City Crafter Challenge - tags

ColorFALL Card from a friend

I received this pretty fall card from a 

blogging friend.

Fun, colorful paper, perfect stamp and burlap ribbon.

Thanks, Margaret ! 

Halloween Scrapbook

These are a few pages from a small scrapbook I made recently 

for some old photos one of my uncles gave me
of extended family members building a float.

They are pretty basic pages.

Rubber stamp images were from Stampin' Up!

Patterned papers are from Die Cuts With A View stacks

Various embellishments




The photos are terrible because I didn't think to take
pictures until after the album was assembled.
It is an old paper page type photo album that I
attached the pages directly to then decided to try to find
plastic sleeves that could be altered to fit.
The only way was to trim them down then punch holes in
the sleeves themselves for the paper pages to slide into.
The paper page and the plastic sleeve are both attached
to the album covers by posts running through each part.
It is a bit of work to disassemble it.
So the photos are of the pages in plastic sleeves
inside of the album covers, thus the glare.


Thanks for looking =)

I'm entering my scrapbook (first image)
in the current
Anything Goes challenge at
Through The Craft Room Door

Simple Sympathy Tulips Silhouette

Printworks Chalk Tulips image is heat embossed black over a 

home made alcohol ink sprays background.

Layered onto black card stock and

a green card base.

With Sympathy is heat embossed white onto a

simple black strip of card stock.

I've needed too many sympathy cards this year :(