DIY Christmas No. 2: Glimmer Glam Trees tutoRial

On the Dec. 1st web show, we showed you some more super easy paper cone Christmas trees to make with the Tattered Angels Glimmer Glam & Glimmer Glaze. 

Supplies:

1. House of 3 Parisian Anthology Resist paper: Lovely Lace

2. hot glue

3. scissors

4. Tattered Angels Glimmer Glam: Organic Garden, Mermaid & Pink Lipstick.

5. paper towels

6. Misting Mat.

OPTIONAL: any adornments you'd like.

Steps:

1. Roll Resist paper into a cone & affix it with hot glue. Cut off the excess at the bottom to create a cone tree.

2. Pour a bit of your Glimmer Glam onto your  Misting Mat, & with a paper towel dab some of the Glam onto your Resist Paper like we showed you in the web show. Rub it all over the paper to *paint* it on! Let dry.

 

3. Adorn your trees with anything your heart desires. Above: the pink one I did had a string of small pearls hot glued onto it and topped off with one of our House of 3 Flair sTarbursts with a pearl on the middle.

Above: the green one is topped with a Flair starburst as well, but I added a whole bunch of adhesive backed jewels, too! 

And for this blue one, I just added some vintage tinsel, one of our House of 3 Christmas Carols *joy to the world* & some of the Hof3 Christmas Cheer paper topped on a toothpick with a vintage mercury glass ball.

VOILA! super easy, simple, fun paper cone trees all glammed & glitzed up!

enjoy!

DIY Christmas No. 1: Doily Trees tutoRial

Last night on the web show, we showed you a plethora of trees you can make in a matter of minutes! So, I wanted to share the doily trees I showed you...they are so fun & sooo easy!

supplies:
1. Doilies *can be purchased in bulk HERE* (small (3") trees: 3 doilies, large (18") trees: 12 doilies)
2. Jeweled Pins *box of 100 found HERE*  (small trees: 4-5, large trees: 20ish)
3. cut Doilies in half.
4. House of 3 Parisian Anthology Ruffle Darlings *pkg. of 3 strips found HERE*. (1 strip)
5. Styrofoam tree form *all sizes can be found HERE*. 

steps:
1. Pin 1 strip of the ruffle on the bottom of the tree form to create a skirt.
2. Starting from the bottom, take doily half & pin it right above the skirted ruffle. Continue all up the tree as you can get this look, pinning the jeweled pins to look like ornaments.

3. As you reach the top of the tree, simply create a cone with an opening large enough to accommodate whatever you want to use as a topper. 

For this one below, it's larger to accommodate the huge pearl.

 

**for smaller toppers, like the ones below, make the cone part smaller & use the pins to make the top.

4. With a pin or toothpick, add topper. **the little turquoise mercury glass bobble is from Paper Valise. It looks like they don't have anymore of the turquoise, but they do have the silver. mmmmm!

The front of this little Lolly topper is made out of vintage music paper & then I added a *joyful* strip off of the House of 3 Christmas Carols printable sheet. *loving this, btw: I use it on everything!*
Then, the back is one of our Parisian Anthology corrugated cardboard elements....the music is perfect!

enjoy your DIY Christmas Doily Trees! 

holiday decorating

You know how much I *adore* making my surroundings beautiful...right? This is one thing that brings me much joy! Now that we are officially *yes, I did sneak one Christmas tree up before Thanksgiving* in full swing of the Christmas season, I'm singing *pa-rum-pum-pum-pum* as I've been creating & decorating. I've created a little forest of Christmas trees & tucked in the forest are the little snowscape scenes I created last year..all different. all festive. & all DIY homemade! I Love a DIY Christmas!

Tomorrow night, we will be having our House of 3 LIVE Web Show (you can access it here or here. We've heard that some have better luck on one entrance or the other...so figure out which connection is best for you & join us!)
Look what Heidi made!

& Janet's got some of her magic to sprinkle, too!

We'll be showing you sooo many fabulous ways to use our Parisian Anthology collection. In fact, Pink Paislee put 2 special kits together for you to play along, too! Check it out! Order NOW even if you missed it because you'll be able to watch the webshow after it's recorded & create along with us!

Here's to a DIY Christmas with a twist! see you tomorrow night! 7:00 PM PST, 8:00 PM MST,  9:00 CST, 10:00 EST.

black friday

Hope you all had a wonderfully fulfilling Thanksgiving yesterday! And....you are in the mood to SHOP! 

 

House of 3 is joining in on the biggest shopping day o' the year....Black Friday...

AND, Cyber Monday..so, for the entire weekend, we are offering 50% off everything on the site!

So....how about some Christmas art to create your Christmas cards, decorations, scrapbook pages....you name it!

 

 Or how about the new 2011 Calendar kits...printables, brushes & even a generic calendar kit that is a printable...made to print out on the inkjet decal paper...to stick on walls, magnet boards, mirrors, windows, lockers, doors....you can re-arrange them every month! LOVE It!

 

 & of course...the ever-useful-for-any-kind-of-project-ornamental-alpha kit! Seriously..I've used them for everything! 

 And...this fab offer also applies to our physical kits:

 

wall art & heart boxes.

so cheap, it's scary! How can you NOT get any of these? Perfect gifts....1 stop shopping for your friends, family members, teachers...

Ok....off to decorate the 2nd tree today! then...making some more FUN projects with our House of 3 Parisian Anthology line....in preparation for our Dec. 1st Web show..you will NOT want to miss it! A holiday with a twist....fun!

day 18 & a Parisian giveaway....

 

day 18!

*gulp*

it's true. only a few more days!!!!!

I've been having a lot of personal reflection on this round....I've so enjoyed this round...I'm not going to lie...I've had a lot going on in my personal life. At times...a little overwhelming & not sure I could 'keep it together'...but, this round of The 21 Challenge has really helped me stay grounded, stay happy & remember that:

We become what we want to be by consistently being what we want to become each day.

Richard G. Scott

As many of you have expressed, this 21 Challenge has blossomed into something more than you would have imagined. 

some of you have said it's become a lifestyle.

some have noticed that it's flowed into other parts of your life.

some have seen the value of consistency & have vowed to keep it going.

I love it!

And, want to share something with you as a little reward....

I've heard that for some of you, it's been difficult to get our House of 3 Parisian Anthology items!!!

I love them...every bit of the collection.

So, today, I'm giving away 3 stamp sets to 3 of you lucky 21ers!

Just leave a comment here & LMK how things are going!

hugs!

giveaway!

For those of you that joined us last week for the web show, you'll LOVE seeing this giveaway over on Janet's blog!

mmmmm! love the combo of House of 3 + Pink Paislee/Parisian Anthology + Tattered Angels' Glimmer Mist= ooo la la!

CHA day 1

Styling the booth...set up & 'fluff' ing it up!

Rebecca & Pink Paislee & crew are a*mazing!!!! We LOVE them! So fun...ready to roll!

craft & hobby....here I come!

(source: pzrservices. thank you!)

It's official. My bags are packed.

Hittin' the hay early tonight so I can get up suuuuuper early, pick up Heidi & head to the airport. We'll meet up with Miss Janet right there in the airport in Chicago & head on over to our hotel.

We are all super excited for this adventure at the Summer Craft & Hobby Association (CHA) Show.

**sorry about throwing around 'CHA' so freely in previous posts...apparently some of you didn't know what it was...forgive me.**

and...

along with being at the Pink Paislee booth to do our Make & Takes &  have a Parisian Party, don't forget to catch our LIVE WEBSHOW from CHA at the same time we normally have it: Wed. nights @ 8:00 PM MDT, so 9:00 PM in Chicago! We are so excited.

Ohhh, and..I almost forgot! Check out the CHA site & their announcement of the Cool2Craft show!  Be tuning into Cool2Craft's LIVE Webshow  on Wednesday where they'll be featuring LIVE demos from some amaazing artist/hobbiests...& they're including lil' ol' ME & my Pink Paislee Make & Take necklace...so tune in!

Parisian Anthology DIY Headbands & Earrings....

ok..I"m having waaaaaay to much fun with the new Parisian Anthology collection....when we designed this, we had the vision that you could create not only scrapbook & craft projects, but also DIY fashion, home décor, jewelry....key word: versatility.


So....I have been busy creating some fun booth samples: but wearable booth samples for the CHA show.
How about these earrings created with the Parisian Anthology Dangle Elements in the 'smoky' crystals?

And....I"m *loving* these headbands! I had so much fun creating them!

I just took a plain black headband & added a rhinestone strip (from a broken necklace; yes: recycle!) & then took some of the  Ruffle Darlings ribbon, created a flower & added the Flair Rhinestone Button! & there you have it: a fab sparkly headband we'll be wearing at CHA!

Ok...stop it right now... This one made me giddy! I am in love with it! It's created with the large grey Flower Darling & then a smaller white Flower Darling....but, I misted it with Tattered Angles Glimmer Mist. The yellow I used was too light...so I sprayed Carmel Apple over it to make it more of a mustard color. LOVE the fluff of these Flower Darlings....they are seriously so fab!! I added guinea feathers & tulle & *ka*bam! LOVE the grey & mustard color combo...mmmm. so sassy!

This headband is created with the turquoise Ruffle Darling strip. I attached it to a thin headband & added guinea feathers, black tulle, pearls & grey satin singed flowers....seriously, SO fun!