We're all Mad Here how about you??

Hello Everyone,

I was looking around the internet for some idea's for a new project. I am finished with the enormousness wedding album I did for a lovely lady locally. I must admit that I do not want to scrap with purple for a long time. That being said I really did enjoy doing this for her. I scraped 120 photo's. Now that I am done with the album I am back to being able to work on my own projects.

I was thinking about steam punk stuff and I came across a website with a pattern for  mini mad hatter hats.  Well, I knew that my GS would love making these for our annual Very Merry Un-Birthday party. They are SO easy to make. Here is the link to the PATTERN.
You will need to go about 3/4 of the page down to find the link. There is a tutorial on how they created theirs, but I changed mine up a bit.
Materials Needed:
Patterned paper, cereal boxes ( I have also used tissue boxes, mashed potato boxes, ect)
 Step One:
Print off your pattern. (click on the word PATTERN above) Print onto 8.5 x 11 paper.
 
Step Two:
Cut your pattern out of cereal boxes. I use as a chipboard template  to cut out the pieces from cereal boxes. IMPORTANT side note: the top of the hat can be chip board but the brim and the body needs to be flexible in order to make the shape.

Step Three:
Next, I cut all my paper pieces.

Step Four:
Adhere the  paper pieces to your cardboard. ** Make sure that you bend the cardboard for the body by rubbing it along the edges of a table.

Step Five:
Gluing the body together. Hot glue the body of the hat together first. Then the top. Lastly the brim. * Before you glue the brim on you want to curl the edges. I do this by running the brim over the edges of a table like you did with the body.

Step Six:
Decorate in any way you wish. Flowers, trims, ephemera, charms, lace, stickpins, ect.

Here are some of the ones my scouts made:

It was kind of a silly face day. :)
I hope you enjoy making these as much as we have.

I see bing (a tribute to Cynthialoowho)

I like a splash of bling every now and again. When I am looking for a bling fix I go see The Queen of bling. Cynthialoowho also has a youtube channel that you will be able to get to if you click above on the words "The Queen of bling".    I really loved this project HERE , so I recreated it. I hope you like it.

The paper is "Gabriel" by BOBunny. The flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts and I Am Roses.
The lace trim, the lace hinge and the lace butterfly are from Cheep trims. The bling is from a wedding  supply store.  The pearl swirl is from Hobby Lobby. I made the stick pin. If you are interested in making stick pins you can find tons of tutorials on youtube and blogs.

I see the light

This year we made the switch from incandescent light bulbs to florescent, leaving me with some recycle craft materials. So, I started browsing the internet for ideas. I found a steam-punk website where they took Christmas tree bulbs and made hot air balloons.  That inspired me to make hot air balloons using the light bulbs my husband was going to (gasp) throw away.

It was so easy to make. I made several of these for presents.

I wanted to post some pics of my newest creations. I made a stack of books, two cards and a layout.
I got the inspiration for the stack of books from MsGardengroove on youtube.
The cards are birthday cards. One for a one year old and the other for my wonderful friend.
 If you have any questions I am happy to answer them. I would love to hear what you think.

I made these glasses out of jewelry wire!! I just love them.

Here is my card for Pickle

I got some wooden shapes by Studio Calico for my birthday. I love them. I colored the bird on this card.

Here is the birthday card for my friend Rose.

Here are a few layouts as well.
 I have an obsession with washi tape.
I also really loved that everything in this layout is
black and white with punches of color in the
embellishments.

I just love the Martha Stewart punches I have been collect over the past year.