Kate's Paper Creations

Marji Roy posted on Facebook today her two newest shadow boxes.  She has designed many and they are all beautiful.  These two are Sunset and Moonrise and I couldn't wait to make them.  You can purchase her files HERE.

I don't make items to sell so I decided I could "borrow" some pictures on line and use them as the backgrounds.  I wanted a more "realistic" look than using paper could produce.  Once I found a picture I like for each I printed them on photo paper so the image was high quality and I adjusted them to work like I wanted them to.

I tried to capture how wonderful they look.  

Enjoy!

Each year I am on the look out for new ideas for Birthday Favors.  I enjoy making them and giving them to others on their special day.  I make a lot for my Soroptimist Club and church friends.  

When I saw this idea on Pinterest I saved it and recently duplicated the look using my Silhouette Cameo.

I used a file labled Cake Box and I have no info on it at all.  I liked it because it was just two pieces, one for the box bottom and one for the top.  I added a strip to make it look like a layered cake and I found a 3D flower and some leaves in my Silhouette library.  

I added some color to the edges of the flowers, curled the petals with my bone folder and added a rhinestone center.

A friend then gave me a cake pedestal to set them on which makes it all look even more elegant.  I can't wait to start sharing these, I'm sure everyone will enjoy them.

Enjoy!

Kate

Some of you know that I am a member of a group called Soroptimist.  We are an internation philanthropic organization that works to improve the lives of women and girls through social and economic empowerment.  

Our local group meets twice a month and I have been making favors for each member for a few years.  Our club is growing though and we now have over 50 members so individual favors got to be a little much to do so I moved on to making centerpieces for the tables instead.

Our next meeting is the Tuesday before Thanksgiving so I jumped at the chance to make those wonderful Pilgrim hats.  They are called Pilgrim Large 3d Hat Decor, item#69320 by Snapdragon Snippets and it is in the Silhouette online store.  You can find the tutorial HERE

This file is amazingly easy to assemble and comes with most of the embellishments you see on my hat.  The only thing I added were the feathers which are item #47866 by Jennifer Wambach also in the store.

Here is a list of materials I used to make this:

• Hat is Bazzil dark brown textured card stock
• Band is just some striped paper I had don't have the brand
• Buckle is cut from Silhouette brand silver and gold foil
• Leaves and Wheat are cut from Coor'dinations glittler card stock
• Remaining embellishments are from Stampin' Up! card stock - Early espresso, Lost Lagoon, Blackberry Bliss, Mellow Moss, Very Vanilla
• Basic Jewels Pearls by Stampin' Up!
• Aleene's Quick Dry Tacky Glue

A couple of hints to help utilize your materials.  The word Thanksgiving can be placed in the middle of one of the hat brim pieces since that doesn't get used when building the project.

Also if you are making multiples you can conserve more by arranging the pieces  as I've shown here in my screen shot.  If you arrange them this way you get enough panel pieces to make a third hat and save one full sheet of 12x12 in the process.

Here are some closeups of the embellishments:  

These are really great looking and I think they'll even fit on my grandson's heads so they can play with them after I'm done using them on the table.

Hope you enjoyed the view.  Leave me a comment, I'd love to hear from you.  And if you make this wonderful project I'd love to see how you make it your own.

Off Dasher and Dancer, Prancer and Vixen, Comet and Cupid and Donner and Blitzen.

Last season Samantha Walker came out with two really fun items, the  Accordian Fold Reindeer Scene item 34696 and the 3D Accordian Fold Christmas Tree Scene item 35008 both in the Silhouette Store.

I made several and they were so well liked I ended up giving them all away.  This year I made some more with a few little extra touches.  They'll probably end up going out the door too!

The santa sleigh is in two parts one with the sleigh and three reindeer and a second part with four reindeer and they can be attached to each other.

However, we all know there are really 8 reindeer NOT 7 plus I couldn't leave out Rudolph.  So I cut another reindeer sections and cut off the last two reindeer including the harness part and overlapped them with the other sets.

Then I added some gold dazzling details on the harness, silver dazzling details on the sleigh and a bright red nose for Rudolph.  I also added some sparkle to the tips of the reindeer's antlers.  So fun!

For the trees it just isn't Christmas without sparkle so they are cut from Co'ordinations sparkle paper.  Then just to make it a little more "Christmassy" I added red dazzling details to the tips of the swirls.

The trees together with Santa will make a cute little shelf scene this year.  I'll put some "snow underneath and it will be absolutely adorable, don't you agree?

I try to make something fun to put out for the Soroptimist meetings I attend. In the past I have made individual favors and I might still do some of that but lately I've been making centerpieces for our tables.  In September I made little red wagons  to keep our Garden Show on everyone's mind.  

I have to miss a couple of meetings because I will be out of town taking my grandsons to Great Wolf Lodge and then going to their home to stay for a few days so I won't be back to a meeting until October 21st.  Still time to have a halloween theme though so this is what I came up with.

I used image #49791 "Box Spider Web Tent Top" by Samantha Walker, image 4500 "spider"  by Cali Arroyo and image 2954 "Spider Web" by Silhouette.  Yes, some pretty low numbers on some of those images.  I've had my cutter since before it was Silhouette.  They were still part of Quickutz at the time.

Anyway,  I didn't make a box from Samantha's design.  I left the bottom unattached and just used it as a base so I could put a tealight underneath and I used vellum to cover the inside of the sides so the light would show through.  The top is designed to be closed with a ribbon but I just glued my shut.

Then I made a spider web.  I didn't want the centerpiece to be all black and I had a lot of gray card stock in my stash so the webs are gray.  The spiders add just the right amount of "creepy" to the whole set up with the red glitter stickles I added for eyes.

You can click on the image for a larger view.

Some of you may know that I am the chair for my Soroptimist club's 17th annual Gala Garden Show.  My mind is always on something to do with the show and today was no exception.

Each year we hold a raffle for a garden wagon, a cedar adirondack chair each filled with wonderful items donated by the vendors who attend our show. Everyone is always so excited to try and win.

This year I stepped out of the box just a little bit and instead of obtaining a green garden wagon I bought a red one.  So, when I saw this cute little wagon that Mel Haas shared on facebook and her blog  today I immediately thought it would make a great centerpiece for our tables at the first meeting next week.  You can purchase the svg file for this through her blog.

Now I have a fleet of red wagons, well, really only 8.  I made them as large as I could on a 12 x 12 piece of real red cardstock.  The signs I created a print and cut and reversed the back side so when glued together they would look good from both sides.

Kind of cute, lots of fun.  Now, off to find something to put in them.