ACP Design Team Challenge - July #2

I love tussie mussies!

I bought a ton of vintage yarn cones years ago to make some.

They are still in the shipping box.

I drool over all the styles!

From shabby chic Victorian to the holiday styles,

but I had yet to make one.

Well enough is enough.

The 2nd July ACP design team challenge

was to create an item that included either black or white, and 2 other colors.

Since I'm heavily preparing for the Halloween season, I went

with: orange, grey, and black.

*And of course adding an ACP charm!*

And because I forget what I've bought in the past,

rather than break into my pristine shipping box full of yarn cones,

I opened a modern chipboard cone from Darice.

It came together really easy.

I have an area in my inventory room right now piled with

Halloween ribbons, trims,papers, and more.

However, I could not for the life of me find the wood balls I know bought years

ago to fill the gap at the bottom of the cone.

Luckily I had some awesome large grey glass beads

that fit perfectly in the hole with some good ol' glue

Love it, love it, love it!

I'll be adding to my Etsy store later this week.

It's a perfect decoration for the home

or as an extra special gift container for the wickedly sweet goblin in your life.

April #2 ACP Challenge

Go Read A Book!

For this week's challenge, you must create an accessory that is related to a book.

My inspiration was "Alice in Wonderland", though my color choices are more from Tim Burton's film.

I used a book mark base, extra large DIY button, fabric, and ACP teapot charm (I cut off the loop).

Have fun!

April #1 ACP Challenge

As a design team member for A Charming Place, ACP, in the month of April I will be creating a challenge each week. Want to participate, just register on the site and dive in!

Here we go..

It's the Stash in a Flash!

You know what this weekend is? Easter!

Yes ya'll, your first challenge is to use what you have in your stash (no last minute runs to the craft store..lol) to create an Easter or spring accessory.

You can make something for your hair, jewelry, cell phone charm.. you name it! Just use what you have in your stash and make it spring-y!

Have ?? about my project.. I used 3 different flower embellishments, an awesome ACP silver tone flourish charm, and it's secured with a silver brad. The flower was then hot glued to bobby pin bases.

Feb Challenge #1

As a member of the Design Team for "A Charming Place"

we participate and create challenges each month.

I totally recommend checking out the site,

getting involved on the forums,

and using the challenges as inspiration.

I will post tutorials for each of the challenges I create or participate in.

Our first challenge of this year was:

*Create a Valentine card using hot glue as an accent, NOT as an adhesive

*and of course "charm" it up.

So here is my journey to "You Make My Hear Soar"

1. A number of the other girls had success

with squirting hot glue into molds and using

that as an accent. I'm not one of them :/

I tried hot glue.

I tried not so hot glue.

I tried freezing the glue.

I pleaded with the glue.

I put the glue in the corner to think about

the stress it was causing me and moved on.

2. Can I say how freakin' impressed I am with Making Memories paint?!?

It has been ignored and in cabinet forever!

Still works fab!!

(I even found it this morning with the cap off.. thanks hubs.. and it still works!)

I bow down to MM paint..

Anywho I painted a microscope slide card sides & insides buttercup yellow.

Luckily that went as planned..

3. I don't have pictures of everything that happened next and for good reason.

I took the glue out of the corner and decided to try a new way of reasoning with it.

This time I freehanded hearts on to a nonstick craft surface and let it dry.

I then slightly reheated the tops with an embossing gun and

poured silver embossing powder on top.

**Note, don't have the gun on while sprinkling the powder.. um yeah it makes a mess.

I absolutely adore the gunmetal appearance it created!

Here is the cover with my "gunmetal" hot glue heart accents

and the inside is "charmed" up!

I am waiting for my new shipment of charms, so I was left to use my angel wings.

But for Valentine's Day I think angels are quite appropriate!

***Side Note***

We found out last night that we are 1 month pregnant!

We were "supposed" to get preggers in a couple weeks in Vegas during our

5 year anniversary trip.. turns out the joke is on us!

It's gotta be a little boy