Practical Scrappers Sparkly Joy Altered Letters

Good morning, Scrappin' Friends! I'm so excited to share this glittery holiday display today, which is getting it's own feature over at Practical Scrappers today! I got these cool Paper Mache Letters which I painted with layers of grey and silver acylic paint. The front of the letters I coated with lots of Silver Glitter, just some standard chunky kid glitter. Then I got to work with the Mod Podge, pasting on hexagons I cut with my Cricut machine. After all the hexagons were attached and trimmed around the letters I did a final coat of Mod Podge and coated the letters with Chunky Clear Plastic Glitter. 

Here you can see the final coating of what I always call kid glitter because it's uber chunky. It adds a lot of sparkle, but still let's your paper shine through! I topped off each letter with a snowflake embellishment I built out of glitter paper cricut cuts and some retired rhinestone brads that I've been hoarding for just this kind of special project. I finished off my bling with a Sparkle Flourish for each letter. I adhered the flourishes with lots of Liquid Glass, which dried clear so it didn't interfere with the sparkle of the letters. For the parts of the flourish that were not actually attached to the letters I just flipped the whole thing over and coated the sticky part of the flourish with more Liquid Glass so it wouldn't attract hair or dust. 

Here's a few close ups of how I did the bling on each letter. I can't wait to add these letters to my holiday mantel! I'm linking up to the Make It Monday party over at An Original Belle and the Paper Issues It's Beginning to Look a lot like Christmas Party! 

I hope you'll stop back later today for my special announcement. Thanks a bunch for stopping by!

CTMH New Product Blog Hop

Welcome to our CTMH New Product Blog Hop!  This month we have 30+ Close To My Heart Consultants sharing their creations using fabulous new CTMH products on their blogs. Hopping is simple to do - just click on the link at the end of the post on each blog to move to the next one! If you have come here from MELINDA'S BLOG, you are on the right path! Here we go! 

I'm sharing this sparkly jewelry holder that I crafted on a Dollar Store wooden frame. It features the new ProPlayer Paper packet (for the 3-D paper flowers) plus lots of Base and Bling jewels and the new Ruby and Black Mini Medleys. I especially love the Base and Bling word accents, which I used in the flower cluster and to help create the hair clip hanger. That strip of sequins from the Black Mini Medley is meant to hold the new hairclips!

I covered the frame with Glitter Paper, and filled the center with rolls of black felt. That was easy to do with my hot glue gun! The rings just slide right between the rolls of felt. 

Now "Hop" on over to MICHELLE'S BLOG to see her crafty goodness! Be sure to visit all the Consultants Blogs to soak in the variety of great crafting and new product ideas! 

I'm linking this project up to the Paper Issues Project Life Party, even though I haven't done any project life, because that party is making me wish I did...time to get out my Crush book and get going!

Here are some more projects I have made using the new Base and Bling products...plus I posted a new Proplayer or other new product projects almost every day in July! 

Velcro Ring Collection

Trio of Handmade Hairclips

Pins and Needles

Legomania Layout

Love My Silly Family Layout

UR Swell Card

Hope Floats Card

Love U card

I Heart U Card

New Product Blog Hop!

Welcome to our CTMH New Product Blog Hop! We will be featuring lots of fab NEW products to be released in the Sprig/Summer catalog starting February 1st.  

If you have come here from LALIA'S BLOG, you are on the right path! The blog hop is a great big circle, so you can start here and work your way all around.

This month we have almost 30 Close To My Heart Consultants sharing their creations using new CTMH product on their blogs. Hopping is simple to do - just click on the link at the end of the post on each blog to move to the next one! Here we go!

I whipped up this adorable little flying birdie card for the blog hop this month using the new Lucy papers.  I made the birdies out of our amazing Bling Collection buttons (which aren't technically new), but using the NEW Paradise Paper Flowers. Can you see that darling polka dot printed on the flower - heaven! I trimmed individual petals off the flowers to use as the wings for my birds and attached them with Liquid Glass. A Bitty pearl opaque eye and some My Legacy Writer action finish off my little birdies. Tweet!

 I used one of my favorite new stamp sets to make my card, a huge E sized alphabet called Keepsake Alphabet. It's got the entire alphabet in these huge, beautiful scripty letters, plus a plethora a alphabetized sayings to match! I used the Alpha letters for my FLY sentiment, which I fussy cut right down to the tiny space int he "Y" with my microtip scissors (inspired by the Moxie Fab Cool Tools Cutting and Trimming Challenge).  Then I popped them up with 3-D foam tape. Since ours comes on a roll it's easy to trim the tiny strips needed to pop up finer work like this. I used Teflon coated kid scissors to trim it so I don't mess up my good scissors.!

I stamped my backgrounds for each little chick with an image I assembled out of the sayings from the Keepsake Alphabet set. It's one of the things I love most about acrylic stamping - you can customize the images you stamp by shaping and combining them on blocks. In this case as I stamped the three birdie backgrounds I moved the image I created around a bit so each one reads slightly differently. Finally, I wrapped my whole card with some of our NEW yummy Baker's Twine.  I got all I wanted for Christmas and more in this new catalog!

 Read for more? You can  "Hop" on over to CASANDRA'S BLOG to see her crafty work! Be sure to visit all the Consultants at their Blogs to get lots of sneak peeks and other fun ideas! Remember, this new catalog goes live February 1st. In the meantime, don't forget to check out the retiring products list, available only through the 31st!

Here are some other projects I have made using the NEW product (more sneak peeks!)...

Pemberly Black and White Card (my fav new stamp set!)

Cruisin' Moxie Fab Card

Pemberly Grateful Card

Pemberly Butterfly Card

And I linked this to the Moxie Fab Cool Tool Cutting Challenge - don't forget to check them out too! Inspiration overload may now commence...have you met Pinterest yet?

Moxie Fab Tuesday Trigger + Card Patterns!

So I was working away at my final cards for Tina Lovell's cute card swap this week when I was blessed with a bit of kismet. The Moxie Fab Tuesday Trigger popped into my inbox, bringing this gorgeous charm bracelet photo...that made me want to bling out my entire swap card, which I based on the sketch from Card Patterns Sketch 139. My colors were already similar, I already had a cascade of swirls with a flower or two on it...and I had a whole couple of the new Rhinestone brads that had been ever so quietly calling my name.... So I grabbed my sample card from the wall and started adding the bling. Well, first I grabbed my Liquid Glass and tinted a glob in a small cup with a few drops of Sky Reinker. The brads were calling my name, but once I saw the Trigger I knew that they needed to be the touch of blue in my card. So I painted them with the tinted Liquid Glass to change the color!

Here's my completed card, with rolled 3-D Cricut flowers, fussy cut 3-D layered flowers with the centers popped up on bitty brads, Glitter Glitz, Pearl Opaques, Sparkles, and the now blue hued Rhinestone Brads. I covered the black CS swirl die cut (Cricut AP cartridge) with a couple layers of Bronze Glitter Glitz. Plus I edge distressed the focal point with black ink and Bronze glitz. The papers are from the Roxie packet - I need like a million sheets of that big damask rose on canvas pattern!

It's so sparkly in person! I couldn't capture the full glory of the bling, but I love it almost as much as I love that whole jar of bling buttons you see there. No, I'm not hoarding them, I'm getting ready for my  Stamp A Stack workshop! Still, a little big grin spreads over my face every time I  glimpse the bling button jar as I'm working.

Speaking of Bling, I've got 3 more projects to post tomorrow to wrap up the Black Friday Holiday Hoopla peeks. Glitter is drying, and I'm putting finishing touches on the final project, the cherry on top if you will. Had to take a break tonight to hang with my scrapbook club gals - to scrap or not to scrap...is it even a question? See ya back here soon, and in the meanwhile, take a peek at the fun challenges on Moxie Fab and Card Patterns.