♥ Shabby Vintage Happy Birthday ♥

Happy Sunday to you! I'm stopping in today with a shabby and vintage Birthday card that is great for either a man or woman. Good thing too since today is my gorgeous husbands birthday! ;)

I am using the Hemstitch Ovals Etched Dies from the Chantilly Paper Lace Collection by Amazing Paper Grace for Spellbinders. Love these awesome dies.

I am also using the fabulous Vintage Pierced Banners Etched Dies. This set comes with 3 different banner dies. They are so fun to work with! The papers I am using are from the Romantique 6.5 x 6.5 Paper Pad by KaiserCraft.

You can find all of Becca's AMAZING Dies HERE!

Hope you enjoy this glorious day!!

hugs...

♥ Mini Shabby Christmas Lanterns ♥

Hello there! I hope you had a lovely weekend! Stopping in today with some fun little lanterns that are so quick and easy to make! You can also put a small gift, chocolates or a little bag of nuts in the lantern as well since it is lit with a battery operated tealight. They would also make really sweet Place card settings for your holiday table or even a December Wedding! But since the actual boxes I am using are not Christmas themed, they can be used at any time of the year! How sweet would these look around your Holiday table or at a wedding reception, all lit up on the tables! :) And they literally take minutes to make!

The template to make the diamond style boxes are from the iralamija shop on Etsy. Just print out the Boxes No. 1 Collage and cut them out. There are 5 different sweet designs in the collage. This is how 1 of the boxes looks when printed.

Punch or die cut a circle in the center of the box, slightly smaller then the diameter of your tealight. This will leave an opening at the bottom of the lantern, so you can easily turn on and off the tealight without having to open the box.

Next, using any shape die or punch you like, add little "windows" on each panel of the box so that the tealight will show through. You can even add a piece of acetate or vellum over each window. Just adhere to the inside portion of the box.

Next, adhere the tealight to the inside of the box using hot glue, making sure the little switch on the bottom shows through the hole.

Lastly, decorate as desired. You can also put a little gift, chocolates, etc inside and add names to the tags to act as place card settings.

They also make cute little decorations for a mantle or table too!

I also used the Christmas Joy Collage and Christmas Expressions Collage from the iralamija shop as well to make these. 

                                             

I hope you have a sweet day!

hugs...

♥ Christmas Wish ♥

Happy Saturday to you all! Can you believe it's only 47 days until Christmas? Where did this year go?! I have officially started my Christmas shopping and I hope this year, to have it done by December 1st! No more running out at the last minute for this girl! (Well, I hope so anyway!) I've also started to make lots of Christmas cards so they can be sent out on time too! I made this sweet Christmas card with some adorable collages from the iralamija shop on Etsy! There are so many shabby chic, vintage and traditional Christmas collages in the shop for you to choose from! You can see everything Christmas HERE!

  
For the background, I used the Big Neutral Backgrounds Collage and the sweet green and red papers are from the Rudolph Backgrounds Collage. The adorable Santa Post Card Tag, Reindeer  and No. 25 Tickets are from the Christmas Carol Collage.

And lastly, the "Christmas Wish" is from the Christmas Expressions Collage. So many sweet sentiments are in this collage!

I hope you stop by the iralamija shop to see all of the amazing collages Bety has in there! You won't be disappointed!!

                                           

Enjoy your weekend!

hugs...

♥ Fancy Vintage ♥ {iralamija shop}

Hi there lovelies! Stopping in with my first official DT card for the iralamija shop on Etsy! :)
             

The iralamija shop has the most beautiful shabby chic and vintage digital images! The wonderful thing about digital papers and embellishments is that you have them forever and can be reused over and over again. And the even bigger plus is they can be re-sized to whatever size you like using any simple photo editing software or even Microsoft Word. (Ex. The Shabby Butterflies Collage print out at a great size but for this particular card, I wanted it even smaller.)

And they can even be distressed just like any other paper! ;)

For my card I used the Fancy Vintage Collage and 2 of the papers from the Spring Gardens Backgrounds Collage.

Love the images in the Fancy Vintage Collage. So sweet! I added some Glossy Accents to the jar as well as some White Opal Liquid Pearls.

There are several more items in the collage as well, including some cute sewing machine images which I plan on using soon! ;)

Hope you have a sweet day/night!

hugs...