With all the pictures I take, it's about time I framed a few. :)
I've had this collage frame sitting in my "to do" projects forever, and finally decided that a bathtime baby bathroom collage would be the perfect use for it. So, I printed several bathtime baby photos of both of our kids in black and white, added some patterned paper & Imaginisce "Splash Dance" rub-ons and stickers and viola! A cute little bathroom collage.
While I was working on this project, I flipped the Splash Dance packaging over and was surprised to see a familiar face looking back at me!
Another CHA sneak peek from Imaginisce. This was my favorite line of the bunch to work with. Rock N Roll, Robots & cool gray, blue, turquoise & orange. Loved it!
Be sure to check out the rest of the gallery & all the other designers' work!
Instead of doing all the things I *should* be doing today, I was inspired to make these photo tags for each of our Christmas stockings as I was in the middle of decorating the house for the holidays:
I made Paxton one too...but he doesn't have a stocking yet! I gotta get on that...
Time to make your Christmas wish lists, who-to-buy-for lists, what to make, what to bake, when to decorate, etc. Whew. I'm already tired.
But here's the notebook I'm keeping all that info straight in this year:
An easy project! It's just a $1 composition book covered in Polar Expressions papers from Imaginisce. Makes me excited to open it up and write in it. And it's tote-able. I just slide it into my purse or diaper bag (depending on my shopping companions).
I know I won't use the whole notebook this year, so I might just save it and use it next year too...it might be nice to have a reference to what I bought, made, etc.
This is a fun little Halloween banner I made (with Ayla's help) to hang in my office doorway. I have it hanging so that the "Boo" side peeks into the kitchen, but it didn't photograph well that way, so I just turned it around to show both sides.
I've had this Imaginisce Spooky Town collection on my shelf for months. Loved it, but wasn't feeling to "fall-ish" in the 99 degree weather. So finally today, Ayla and I pulled out the pumpkins, she wore her pumkin shirt ($1 at Walmart last year), and we made ourselves some Halloween decorations:
Inspired by the Imaginisce Twitterpated paper line, I just finished up the wall canvases to hang over Ayla's bed in her new "big girl" bedroom. I'm so thrilled with how they turned out:
I painted the sky and landscape background (using the light blue wall color of her room for the sky and the green paint color that we originally were going to use, and then painted over because it was too dark).
Then I added grass and hill details with acrylic paints. That took a couple of tries...but with Ben's suggestions, I like the final result. The good thing about paint...you can paint over it if it doesn't look good!
I decided not to paint a border or frame on this set of canvases because I wanted them to just kind of pop out of the wall. I'm liking the resulting effect.
Once the backgrounds were painted, I added the paper pieced trees, birds, butterfly & bee. I had a great time picking out patterned papers from all different paper lines to make the right color scheme and piece together all the elements.
After everything was glued together and glued down and covered in Mod Podge, I added button eyes to the birds, brad eyes to the bee, and some black string antennae for the butterfly & bee.
This afternoon I put together a little magnet board toy for Ayla. It's basically a build-a-scene magnet board. It has a 12 x 12 background scene and several 3-D chipboard magnets made from chipboard stickers and rubons on cardboard (these are made by Imaginisce). The 12 x 12 scene can be slid into the large photo corners (which are adhered directly to the magnet board). This way, the scene stays put, but can be changed out for other scenes (which I have yet to make).
This project is actually a test-run to see if she likes it and uses it (because it's all made from paper and chipboard, I doubt it will hold up well). If she does, I'll make several scenes and buy her several sets of magnets in different themes. And I'll try and make them from more durable stuff...laminated papers, mod-podged chipboard, or even plastic magnets.
So far, she was pretty excited about it. Ben hung it up in her playroom downstairs after she woke up from her nap today and she shuffled the magnets all around...
