Bella's Halloween/Fall Bandana

I'm a little late on posting this, but I made Bella (my dog) a Halloween/Fall bandana.

I found a couple of different ideas on Pinterest and kind of combined a couple of them and tweaked them to my liking to suit Bella and how I wanted the bandana to work and look.

The bandana is very simple and does not tie around her neck, it actually slides unto her collar.

It is wonderful because she does not pay in any mind at all.

I did do a seam all the way around so that it would be machine-washable.

I didn't want it to just be plain polka dots, so I added a cut out a pumpkin design from felt and hand-stitched it on!

Bella has gotten lots of compliments on her bandana on our walks outside!

The main idea site off of Pinterest that I used for inspiration was: 

http://www.craftycritique.com/2011/06/tutorial-slide-on-dog-collar-bandana.html?m=1

Christmas martini anyone?

I was drawing some fun sketches of holiday drinks when I thought about giving them a try on the ornaments that I have been painting.

Here is one of them, a Christmas martini:

I drew my image on, painting a silver background around it.

I then painted in the details of the Christmas martini.

Last, I added red and white polka dots.

It turned out to be quite a festive ornament!

Springy Thank You ATCs

I made myself a set of Thank You ATCs awhile back to include with my customer orders.

I thought, why not make a set to sell on Etsy too?

So here is the fun Thank You set of ATCs that I made for Etsy!

There will definitely be more to come!

These are so fun and easy to make, yet they include enough time to let the person you are giving them to know that somebody cared enough to sit down and make them!

http://www.CreationsByKT.etsy.com

More Mustaches Please!

Mustaches seem to be quite the rage lately.

It is easy to see why though, something so simple can look so cute on different objects!

I recently shared with you a heart with a mustache card that I made.

I have made a handful more!

I kept with a red and black theme for all of them.

The red heart really made the mustaches "pop" versus a pink heart.

I really had fun making these and coming up with different types of eyes to draw!

I hope you enjoy these as much as I do!

These cards and more are available in my Etsy shop

http://www.CreationsByKT.etsy.com

Heart with a Mustache

I woke up this morning with a neat idea for a Valentine's card...

A heart with a mustache on it!

I came to realize that it probably had already been done, but I still wanted to go for it!

I knew the perfect mustache to use - the one from the "KISS This and That"

paper piecing set from Scraptastical Kreations.

http://www.scraptasticalkreations.com

I used black polka dot paper for the background. 

I then trimmed a border of red polka dot paper.

The heart I cut using my Cricut with the "Plantin SchoolBook" cartridge.

I drew the eyes with a black marker with silver accents.

I used a silver marker to add the accents to the mustache.

The mustache is actually adhered with 3D dots, so it sticks up from the card some. 

There is black ribbon with three red rhinestones.

Red glitter stickers for the letters "X" and "O".

This card and many more are available in my Etsy shop

http://www.CreationsByKT.etsy.com

Christmas Cards with a Winter Chill

These pretty Christmas cards were created with a Winter chill in mind.

I had a Christmas paper pad that I had ordered from Oriental Trading several years ago.

I flipped through that, finding paper that would fit my Wintery theme.

Pretty papers of blues and purples did the trick!

Each card has blue ribbon with snowflakes running across it.

A tag was then adhered. Each tag has a white glittery brad.

Each card has either a snowman with rhinestone buttons or a Christmas ornament with a rhinestone and a "Christmas Wishes" sentiment.

Some of the cards are embellished with chipboard snowflakes with bling or with bows.

Cards, such as the ones above, can be found in my Etsy store

http://www.CreationsByKT.etsy.com

Birthday Tags

I wanted to share this cute and colorful birthday tags that I created.

They were really simple and fun to make! I used a paper piecing pattern from http://www.scraptasticalkreations.com to create the cute cupcakes! I thought the polka dot paper for the tops of the cupcakes really stepped them up a notch!

I decorated the top of the cupcakes with different colored bling. The sentiment is stamped.

They are available for purchase at my Etsy shop

http://www.CreationsByKT.etsy.com