Monday, January 27, 2014

All You Need is LOVE

Tassel Garland

I updated my LOVE polaroid garland with the ever popular tassel garland! Well, i layered them and I love the festive feel! 

Are you into the tassel garland trend?


I will post a tutorial on how to do this the lazy way! I seriously, love finding way to skip steps! 

Hopefully I will have it up by the end of the week! 

Jazmin

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

SHAKE IT, LIKE A POLAROID PICTURE!

Polaroid Banner

I'm back with another easy project! I normally decorate for all Holidays, and Halloween is usually my favorite Holiday to decorate for, so today, I bring you my Valentines's decor!

 This year, I'm going low key with Valentines. I usually do way more, but with my husband traveling for work interviews, and my daughters birthday happening a day after my sister's sweet sixteen birthday, it really has all just stressed me out a bit more than usual.

If you follow my Instagram, you know I'm obsessed with the filters and tend to decorate my pictures. So, while I was at this year's CHA show, I got inspired by Teresa Collins Polaroid picture banner, and decided to do something similar, but with paper and letters.


I used my eCraft to cut out the polaroid frames (you can use your own die cutter, like the sillouhette) I cut them to be 5 inches tall, and simply cut out some Teresa Collins' paper, and positioned on the back of the 'polaroid' frame. I used the Teresa Collins' 'Save the Date' collection, and the clouds are from a Maggie Holmes paper pack for crate paper. I like how the clouds add to the picture effect! And the flowers, mixed with hearts and polka-dots from the TC collection, tie it all together and add a fresh, spring feel to it!

The text for the banner was cut with black cardstock on my eCraft as well. And holding it all together, is my trusty, Xyron mega runner glue! Lastly, I simply punched out two holes at the top of the cards, and used some gold twine, to hang it. 




Just to add a little something on top of the mantle, I pulled out my pink lovebird, and used some more of TC's paper to put behind glass in one of my frames. To contrast it, I used one of Teresa Collins' wooden pieces with the word 'always' to accentuate the whole display. 

I hope you liked my banner! This is simple but one of my favorites! 

Jazmin

Friday, January 3, 2014

DIY Planner 2014

DIY Planner

Happy New Year! I'm so excited for this year as I have set many crafty goals for myself.

One of those goals, include being organized with my life and craft room space. So, the first step to my organization plan  is to schedule my life and of course, write things down in my planner!

I guess this is my cheap version of a filofax planner. I like the filofax planner and it would be fun to get one, but at the same time, i change my mind about the look of things so often that shelling out $60 dollars for a planner that I may not like forever, sounds like too much for me. 

Instead, I bought this little binder at Target for $7 dollars. I'm way into gold and orange right now, so when i saw this,  I knew i wanted it to become my new planner! This size of binder fits the Avery refills so it was easy to just put some plain sheets with all the stuff i needed, and gave me the freedom to dress it up with pretty things! 

So, here are some pictures of my 2014 planner! Here's to hoping I use it more than last years planner! ;)



I embossed the cardboard projector on my eBosser using the 'Starburst' Folder by Teresa Collins. I used printed cards from We R Memory makers, Teresa Collins 'You are my Happy' collection, and topped it off with some Dear Lizzy 'Fifth and Frolic'stuff.


I used Dear Lizzy thickers to highlight the year & the tabs are stickers from Teresa Collins Collection, 'Daily Stories'


The gold trim is from Teresa Collins 'You are My Happy' Collection.

I had some plastic Avery dividers in my closet that fit the binder, and although they didn't match my planner, I still wanted to add them as I could use them to tape down mini photos and stickers. For extra flair, I embossed them as well with the eBosser!

For this page, I used my Dear Lizzy cutouts from her 'Fifth & Frolic' collection, and some adorable nerdy glasses sticker from You are My Happy collection by TC,

I like the old library card, and the glasses and sparkle from the scalloped trim.


Finally, I embossed the last page with Teresa Collins, 'Decor Circles'folder for the eBosser, and used more thickers, and chipboard pieces to accentuate the page.


I love my planner! And I like that I customized it for me! Is it perfect? Of course not! But then again, what is?


To see a quick slide show of my planner click here!

Happy New Years everyone!

Jazmin


Thursday, January 2, 2014

You're My Type!

Guest blogger: You're my Type!


I'm a guest blogger over at the Craftwell blog! See all the details to today's project! 


Visit the Craftwell blog here:

Jazmin