DIY Halloween Mantle 2014

DIY Halloween Mantle

I'm back on the blog! So excited to show you my Halloween mantle! I seriously love Halloween!!! I mean what other Holiday lets you put skulls and scary stuff out on display and no one questions your mental state? For the past five years, I have been decorating for the holiday, but just this year, I added a few more diy projects that I wanted to show off. 

I used my Teresa Collins Cut 'n' Boss, to create some simple projects  fast & easy!

First, here is the mantle display!

I went with a witch theme this time around, last year was more of a color (orange, white, and black) and a ton of birds a la Albert Hitchcock, but then one day as I was getting in my car, a ton of black birds sort of attacked my car, so I got scared and decided that I didn't like ravens that much, so I toned it down this year. I realize there are some stuff in need of balance on the mantle, but nothing is perfect in life now is it?Kind of love the not so "perfect look".

Anyway, on to projects:

My '31' frame is a dollar buy, and I just popped off the glass and embossed one piece of cardstock on the Teresa Collins Cut 'n' Boss using her 'About Time' folder and added chipboard stickers to decorate the rest. 

Took me 5 min!

My 'Wicked' Banner was made using the Cut n Boss with a couple of old dies. I just cut out the triangles (I used my eCraft for that) and then used a doily round die and some coordinating card-stock to put it together. For dimension, I added the emboss on the doily and flag banner. There doilies behind the round die cut, are from Michaels. 

Simple project ^ just a dollar store tiny frame with purple card-stock and a 3D sticker.

Now, no witch mantle is complete without spell books! I bought paper mache blank books at Michaels and used modge podge, paint and stickers to embellish!

Super simple! Just paint the books with some acrylic paint, let dry, and decorate! I modge podged the front with scrapbook paper, and added stickers to add more oomph!

These are the paints and stickers I used for anyone wanting to know. :)

 This is the inside* I plan on adding some spiders or candy, but will wait until we are closer to Halloween!

I hope you liked these projects!

Let me know what you think!

Jazmin

You've Captured My Heart: Polaroid Valentines!

Polaroid Valentines Cards!

Happy Valentines! I seriously, stayed up WAY too late yesterday, finishing up my kids Valentines cards. Every year it seems like I have one idea or the other, which is fun, but sometimes it's just fun to not do much and enjoy the holidays. 

Well, my son is all for easy! He wanted to just buy his Valentines, and I was sooo happy he did! Last year we made his, and it took forever!!!!!!!!!!! But he's in 4th grade, and he is starting to just not care about this holiday too much. If only this will last until the end of High School!Uh, huh.. I can dream.

 Well, having dodged bullet on the DIY Valentines for Matthew, I thought I could talk Olivia into the same, but NOPE. She still wanted to make them, and by her making them, it meant me helping her.... a lot! And she's ambitious too! 

So, we sat down and thought about what we wanted to do. She loves my INSTAX camera and I had already used it as part of my inspiration for my 'polaroid Valentines banner' So, I suggested doing something that pertained to taking pictures. We brainstormed and we decided on making a cardboard camera, and cutting out her valentines cards like a 'Polaroid' picture. You see, polaroids are such old technology, but to these digi kids, it's magical! Olivia can't believe she gets to take a picture with my instax and get a picture in minutes! 

Anyway, I knew I could find something around the house to do it. and yes, I found stuff in the recycling bin!

I got a long piece of white cardboard and some round cardbord thing, that came inside a shipment of glasses from World Market. It made the PERFECT lense!

All I did was fold the cardboard into a triangle, and hot glued it to hold it together.

 I used Teresa Collins 'You are My Happy' collection to decorate the cardboard camera. I used an exacto knife to cut out a hole, to look through, and a long slit where the Polaroid cards can be pulled out.

Not perfect, but it works!

I loaded her 'camera' with cutouts of polaroids that I printed sayings of pictures related things, like 'Instant friends' and 'Oh, Snap! You're Awesome' and of course, 'You're picture perfect, Valentine!'

So, now Olivia has a Valentine's box/ Camera with instant Valentine cards! She loves it! ^^^

It turned out really cute, and was worth the effort! 

So, did you make your Valentines from scratch? or are you smart and use store bought? 

I want to know what other mama's out there are doing!

Jazmin

xoxo

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

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

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:

http://blog.craftwellusa.com/

Jazmin

Halloween Decor

I'm in the process of shifting things up here on the blog, but until then, I wanted to drop by and post pictures of my Halloween mantle. 

I absolutely LOVE Halloween! It is my favorite holiday to decorate for! 

This year, I utilized the Teresa Collins 'Masquerade Party' paper collection and my eBosser along with Teresa Collins' embossing folders, 'Stardust' and 'In Time'

Here are some pictures of my projects: 

I used the eBosser to emboss my banner flags in 'stardust' pattern. It is subtle but makes such a difference and adds texture!

Using the 'In time' embossing folder, I embossed a white piece of paper and stuck on a dollar store frame. Then I used Teresa Collins' chipboard pieces from her 'Masquerade Party' collection to add the words, numbers and frame. It's simple but very classy and playful!

Have you decorated for Halloween? Link me up!I love to get inspired by others!

Jazmin

Smile Today

Birthday Card

My friend recently turned 29 so i decided to make her a little card for her birthday. I was itching to break out Teresa Collins 'Honeycomb' embossing folder to create this card.. I have a thing for honeycomb lately! Like I literally need to emboss everything in that pattern!

In case you were wondering when to purchase this folder, I have to tell you that it will be another few weeks before it is available for purchase, but the world launch will be September 17th on HSN! So, mark your calendars!

I was lucky enough to receive one of the first sets of Teresa's folder line, so I felt quite special! And I can honestly tell you, it is an amazing line, totally worth purchasing as a whole!

Anyway, back to the card. I used Teresa Collins 'Family Stories' to create this gem, along with the  ebosser, and 'Honeycomb' embossing folder. Remember, the eBosser is fully automated and embosses LARGE embossing folders {letter size & A4} and does it amazingly it also die cuts!It's seriously, the most perfect crafting machine!

Ok, here are the pictures of my card. I decided to use only accents of colors since my friend loves understated things. {She's the kind of girl that wears lip gloss and eye liner, and looks like Jessica Rabbit... yeah, hate her!}  ;)

I used only small accents like Teresa Collins sequins and brads to add a little something special. But the base of the card and overall look is just layers of white on white. The honeycomb patter is super delicious don't you think?

My friend loved her card, but wonder if she loved it as much as I loved making it! Seriously, had so much fun!

Jazmin

xoxo