Framed Crown

I had this frame in a closet, never been used. It had gold on it and I don't even know why I bought it because I only use silver frames. I'm guessing it was on sale. I tried to do a crackle finish with brown and this pretty turquoise color. The crackle didn't work very well, but I ended up putting some Ralph Lauren smoke glaze on it. I then attached a piece of burlap to the back of the frame and cut out the crown with black cardstock with my Cricut. I attached it to the burlap with some glue dots. I have to say I love the way it turned out.

Lego Storage

We have so many legos around and they seem to be taking over, so I wanted to come up with something to store them in instead of just keeping them loose and getting them mixed up. I'm sure they still will get mixed up until my son gets older, but at least I will have a storage system in place by then. I used my Cricut to cut the legos and letters out of vinyl.

Fleur De Lis Chalkboard Clipboard

Still loving the fleur de lis so I put one on a clipboard and on something else that Iwill post about later. I've done so many projects lately but haven't gotten a chance to post them all.

Anyway, here I took a plain, old .99 clipboard from Walmart and sprayed it with chalkboard paint. I cut out a cute fleur de lis out of vinyl with my trusty Cricut and slapped in on there. I love the way it turned out. I added some bright, colorful ribbon. So easy!!!

Repurposed Canvas

I had orignally painted this canvas and didn't like the way it turned out, so I got an idea from another blog and decided to repaint it with a black acrylic and cut this design out of my cricut and some scrapbook paper. I used Mod Podge to seal it. The website I got the idea from is here. She has some great ideas!

Fleur De Lis Cross

Someone gave me this cross and it was ready to be painted. I used one of my favorite colors to paint it and then used Ralph Lauren Smoke to antique it. I painted the fleur de lis cream and also antiqued it and then hot glued it onto my cross. I love the way it turned out. Thanks, John, for the cross!

Birthday Tags

I have been making tags a lot lately, along with everything else. I love to incorporate them into my scrapbook pages and also add them to gift bags. I think they add the perfect touch. I have a couple of birthdays coming up this month and I wanted to get some made to have ready instead of waiting till the last minute like I usually do. I had gotten these cute little die cuts from Target clearance years ago and had never used them. The colors didn't really go with any birthday pages that I've done, so I thought they would be perfect for gift bags. I seemed to have the perfect color ribbon and buttons in my stash to add to them.

Teacher Gift-Mini Clipboard

My precious son starts kindergarten next week and I wanted to start it off right with a little happy for his teacher. We met her last week for a summer party and she is the sweetest! I had bookmarked one like this on Two Peas a while back and new I wanted to make one at some point. The girl used a digital kit that was no longer available, so I improvised with some paper I had gotten recently at Michael's. I used a Martha punch for the apple and used Photoshop Elements to create her name and printed them on 3 x 5 index cards. The little clipboard actually came from AC Moore and it has this little peg on the back where it can actually stand up. I made a matching tag for the bag. I also want to add some hand sanitizer that I vinyl with her intials before next Wednesday. Have to get the monogramming in somewhere, right?