Enchanted Forest

St. Patrick's Day is right around the corner!

Although I love the holiday, I do not have many crafting items relating to it!

I had to get creative to create a card for St. Patrick's Day!

When I think of St. Patrick's Day,

I think of little Leprechauns running through a magical forest,

chasing fairies and finding gold.

I had some pretty forest paper in my stash, so I used that to build off of...

The background is a forest scene.

The bottom right corner is adorned with green and yellow flowers, half-back pearls, and a decorated button.

There is a green flower with a half-back pearl in the upper lefthand corner.

Three half-back pearls descend down from there.

Three playful birds are stamped and colored then decorated with glitter beside the tree.

This card and many more are available in my Etsy shop

http://www.CreationsByKT.etsy.com

Blue Felt Tree

Robert's Mom's birthday was last month and I wanted to make her something unique.

I have had these styrofoam cones that I had been wanting to try crafting with.

 Browsing through Pinterest, I saw quite a few different ideas for trees made from them.

Using those for inspiration, I came up with my own tree idea.

I took the base of a ribbon container and traced circles onto two different shades of blue felt.

I cut the circles out and then attached them to the styrofoam cone,

using sequins pins.

I alternated between putting a seed bead a sequins on the sequins pin and putting a seed bead and a button on the pin.

I found those cute, sparkly blue birds in the dollar bins at Michael's.

I thought they would be a great touch to this project!

I adhered them with glue dots!

Anything Goes January Challenge

This month over at Scraptastical Kreations, they are doing an Anything Goes challenge.

The project is your choice, you just have to include one of their patterns in your project!

I have been working on Valentine's projects today, so I browsed through

the Scraptastical Kreations patterns that I had.

I settled on a flower from there "Garden Splendor" collection.

I chose this flower because the petals looked like hearts!

I started out with an ATC card that I covered in pink heart patterned scrapbook paper.

Then I (hand) cut the flower from "Garden Splendor".

I did one layer in hot pink cardstock and the second layer in

scrapbook paper with the sentiment "I love you".

I adhered pink ribbon with pink hearts running vertically on the ATC card.

I then used 3D dots to adhere the flower with dimension.

I then attached a pink rhinestone heart to the center of the card.

I covered the card a different pink heart patterned scrapbook paper.

I adhered pink glitter table horizontally on the card.

I then glued the ATC card onto another piece of the "I love you"

sentiment paper and then glued it onto the card.

I used pink chipboard stickers to decorate the corners.

To join in the fun, visit:

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To find great paper piecing patterns, visit

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To purchase cute Valentine's cards like the ones above, visit my Etsy shop

http://www.CreationsByKT.etsy.com

Secret Sister Day 5

I am participating in a Secret Sister/Secret Santa swap over at Scraptastical Kreations, among the design team ladies. We sent a box of 25 small gifts to our Secret Sister and we open one gift each day.

Day 5 of Secret Santa

I got some gorgeous glitter ribbon in pink and gold that is adhesive!! Pretty excited about how pretty the are AND that they are adhesive.. so much easy to apply!

I also got a tube of craft glue. I have never used this particular kind so can't wait to try it out!

Thanks SS! :-)