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Salt Dough Ornaments

joscie — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 04:55:28 +0000

I saw a blog post on my friend Allison’s for the boys blog talking about making salt dough ornaments with her boys and I thought that looks like fun! It certainly looked easier than icing sugar or gingerbread cookies with the boys so we did it. We mixed up a batch of salt dough, rolled it out and the boys chose cookie cutters to use. Jordan chose a candy cane, an elephant (no surprise there) and mickey ears.

Jalen chose the large Mickey Mouse ears. I cut ice cream cone shapes to paint as Santa.

we baked at 250 for two hours. and I couldn’t help but think, I wonder how much energy that’s using?

once they were cooled we brought out some acrylic paint and got busy.

Jordan painted all the elephants dark blue. again no big surprise there.

Jalen painted most of his mickey ears black.

I opted for aqua and also painted my santa.

We did not put these on our tree but instead tied them to gifts. :)

It was a messy and long project but I am glad we did it.
Thanks for stopping by!
Love Love and Blog you Later,
Joscie, rhymes with bossy! :)

Family Fun: the Faux Fall edition

joscie — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 11:00:49 +0000

Since we live in Hawaii and we don’t get colorful leaves so we decided to make our own.

I used my silhouette to cut these leaves out of plain white cardstock.

I mixed up some paint and Jordan worked his art.

I added a little spritz of New Glimmer Mist too. so pretty!

later that evening, we had a little faux fall fun:

please do excuse the blurry photos, I just had to share them anyway ;) I wanted to glue these leaves to a few sticks and use them for decor but you know what? we have yard service and there are like no bare branches anywhere. but anyway, we had our fun!

Thanks for stopping by!

Love Love and Blog you Later,

Joscie, rhymes with bossy! :)

altered lunchbox as a cute purse

joscie — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 03:23:20 +0000

The girls over at Concroption.com were issued a challenge to alter an item that would be mailed to us by Tricia… I was so thrilled to see this super cute Peeps Lunchbox in my mailbox. I thought about it and decided to make it into a purse. I’m always up for making something I can use!

I started out by taking it apart and wet sanding it with 600 grit sand paper. I primed it with acrylic primer and followed up with two coats of my favorite acrylic paint. :) I traced a maya roads chipboard bird on the front with an american crafts pigment pen. I painted the bird with a darker shade of acrylic paint. I let it dry and then coated it with a glossy coat. I think it yellowed the color a bit… so I don’t love love love the color, but it is pretty close to the color I wanted. I added a adhesive rhinestone as the eye for the bird and a basic grey branch rubon.

I created a hang tag by die cutting a piece of Teresa Collins houndstooth transparency with my Top Note Die in my big shot. I cut it in half and then punched the cut edge with my Stampin’ Up! Spiral notebook punch. I also Die Cut a Quickutz J out of coaster board and glued it to the tag. I punched a hole on the top of the tag and tied a piece of grosgrain ribbon on to hang from the handle.

I lined the inside with white felt and blanket stitched the edges with aqua embroidery floss. I also added aqua eyelet trim to the inside.

I hope you like it, I know I love it! And I found some peeps to match too! :)

Love Love and Blog you later, Joscie, rhymes with Bossy!

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