Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Pine Cone Turkey - Craft for Kids

Hey everyone!  With Thanksgiving quickly approaching I thought I would share this quick tutorial on making pine cone turkeys.  They are really quite simple, and if you use fabritac or some other strong holding glue,  you don't even have to worry about the little ones burning their hands.  (ie, they can do most of it themselves)
For this project you will need; pinecones, foam balls proportional to your pine cone (these are 2 1/2 inch soft foam, but regular Styrofoam is fine) paint to match the pinecones, google eyes, scraps of paper in fall colors (I used cardstock, but you could use crepe paper or tissue paper), yellow chenille stem and scraps of red felt.

 Begin by painting your foam balls.  While you wait for these to dry....
 Cut your paper into strips approximately 1/2 inch wide.
 Cut the chenille stem into 1 inch pieces and fold in half.

When your foam balls are dry, you can begin the assembly.

Make your turkey face using the gluing the google eyes to the front of the ball, place a small hole in the ball and insert the chenille stem for a beak, and finally glue a small piece of red felt or cardstock next to the beak for the waddle.

Here I added a piece of white cardstock to make a kerchief as well.

Glue the colored paper strips into the large end of the pumpkin trailing toward the back for the tail feathers.
For this turkey hat, I cut a three inch circle, then cut 3/4 of a concentric circle inside.  I folded the inside of my ring up and trimmed it to make a pilgrim hat shape.  A quick square out of yellow cardstock created the buckle.



These are so quick and fun to make with your kids for Thanksgiving.  

Hugs.

Nancy  


Tuesday, November 19, 2013

The Sampler December Kit

Hi everyone!  Just a quick post to let you know I am busy with my new kit from the Sampler.  In case you were curious as to what is in the Sampler kits.....

Back to work.

Hugs.

Nancy

Thursday, November 14, 2013

Tower Bridge

Totally slacking yet again, nothing much getting posted here on my blog.  I have been just crazy busy.  I know...excuses, excuses.  lol

I have been busy creating.  But I have also decided to try and step up my designer status.  I recently became a Designer Member of CHA.  I had business cards made, registered for winter CHA, and have been working hard to make sure all my other commitments are met.  That, and I am trying to diet and exercise...all the weight I lost a couple of years ago is starting to creep back on.  sigh

Anyway, as usual, I have a million excuses.  I promise I am creating and now that things are a bit more under control I am hoping to post here more.

Today I want to share with you a project I made a few weeks ago, one of the ones that is on my business card....


Some My Minds Eye papers that have been sitting in my stash for like evah!  lol  A few buttons as well.  I find I don't use many buttons and I have a ton of them, so I need to start.

Thanks for stopping by today.

Hugs.

Nancy

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Musee D'Orsay

Hi everyone! Today I wanted to share with you a project I made using the beautiful  Lyric papers from Prima and my gorgeous Prima flower grab bag from Your Memories Here.



This photo is from the Musee D"Orsay in Paris.  Unfortunately you are unable to use flash photography in the museum and being that my family is a bunch of rule followers (lol) the photo is really dark.  Not as dark as it shows up in these photos, but dark.  sigh

Thanks for stopping by today.

Hugs.

Nancy

Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Fun Times - Prima

Hi everyone!  Today I want to share with you a project I made using the gorgeous Lyric collection from Prima Marketing and the fabulous sketch from their Build A Page.  Love, love, love this collection and the sketch.
 Of course, I used lots of my gorgeous flowers from my Prima Flower Grab Bag from Your Memories Here.
 and a few wood icons.

I am trying so hard to include more photos of myself in our scrapbooks, but all my photos are starting to look the same...the selfie of Phil and I.  lol

Thanks for stopping by today.

Hugs.

Nancy

Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Love the Sampler

Hi everyone!  I know I have been a total slacker when it comes to blogging these days.  So sorry about that.  I am simply amazed at how some of you are so good at blogging regularly.

Today I wanted to share with you a few projects I made using the October kit from The Sampler.




Doing a lot more mixed media these days.  Seems I have so many inks, sprays, paints, different mediums...seems a shame not to use them.

Be sure to check out all the wonderful projects from this kit on our facebook page.  Love the Sampler

Hugs.

Nancy