December ideas | An update

A few posts back I shared 3 diy mini ornaments and the minitree that I put them in. Remember?

Yeah, and since them I have made a few more.

Isn´t that tree so cute?!

The Buddha is a keychain from the beginning, the elefant a toy that got some bling! And the gold ornament is an earring :)

I just wanted to pop in to show you that :)

Giveaway winner!

I am sorry that I am late announcing the winner of the fabulous Bigpicture class giveaway!

But now I have used one of those random number generators (but failed to insert an image of it as evidence!) and it chose number...

One!

Which means Emily you are the lucky winner! I will email you with all the info!

WCS | January gallery sneak

It is December 20th and that means the team at WCS has sneak posts for the January gallery! 

These sneak posts can be so sneaky that there is no way to guess the theme, but I love to see snippets of peoples work and I get all curious to see the rest of the page! So, yoy should come back here and to WCS on the first of January to check out the whole new gallery! 

Now, go over to WCS´s Facebook page and check out the rest of the sneak posts! 

From pin to reality | USA embroidery

In November I started a embroidery project that I can share about now. It was to become a Christmas gift for a friend.

link to pin

This pin sparked my itch to make something with a map.

So, I printed the US map on a A4 paper, which later made the whole project a bit complicated, but it turned out fine! I found this site where they have a broad selection of maps to print. 

I then used the old trick of parchment paper and pencil to first trace the map over onto the parchment paper. Then I turned it over, traced it again on the backside.

Then finally I began to trace the patterned over to my fabric. I just turned the parchment paper over to the right side and the pencil leaves a great pattern without being to harch.

I am sorry that this picture is a bit blurry. Here it is when I was finished with the embroidery part. I then cut all the loose ends of and ironed it. I knew I really did want to hae it in a hoop, but alas it was to big. So I backed it with some fabric. 

I thrifted this hanger and used it to hang the fabric from. 

I am super happy about how it turned out and besides the mounting

it is really an easy embroidery project.

Take Twelve | December page

May I present the very last Take Twelve pages!

I have made mostly double pages for this project and I thought I would go out with a bang and made 2 landscape 8.5"x11" pages.

I used my photo mosaics I shared in my other post and printed them out just as. Then I mounted them on the white cardstock.

Simple as that!

Thank you Ella Publishing for having me as a member of the Take Twelve Team for 2012! It has been so much fun!

December Daily | first update

Here is my first update about my December daily project.

I have been sharing on Instagram when I have finished a page. 

I have used some glitter, washi and some paper embellishments in this book.

Keeping it super simple.

I love how thick it is becoming already.

December ideas | Personalized ornaments

I thrifted Christmas ornaments that in this case were white. I wanted to make some personal ornaments as a gift for a friend. 

Enter letter stickers! I simply added each family members intial to the oranments. These American Crafts foam thickers worked super well for this!

I also added a snowflake to the back and some silvery thread.

This box is one from Tim Holtz.

Here is just another example of a ornament I did for another family. These make such an easy and cute gift. And it takes like minutes to make them!