Altered dollar store ornaments

For Good morning all. I know it's been awhile since my last post. Problem is, my laptop has been so slow and I am always on my iPad. I have tried uploading photos from my iPad before with no luck. So here I am at 2:55 am and I can't sleep so I decided to look thru the App Store to see if there was any apps that would help me post directly from iPad. If this post does post, you know it was a success. Lol

So enough of my ranting. I hope you all had a wonderful christmas. We live over 2000 miles from our family so it was a very quiet christmas as home. Below are some altered dollar store ornaments I created this year. I was hoping for an all pink and white tree, but that didn't happen this year. Oh well. There is always next year. 

This ornament was originally a hot pink glittered ornament. I took some acetone and pour a bit into a coffee can and let it sit in there for about 10 seconds and used an old wash rag to wipe away the glitter and repeated this process a couple of times. Super easy. Then I used gesso to cover the snowflake in white and added some crystal stickles once it was dried. I then hot glued some Venice lace trim around the center that I had dyed pink and added a shabby chic rosette on top of the trim. I then glued a clay flower to the center of the rosette and added some pink gems along the outside of the snowflake. Easy breezy and I think it turned out beautifully.

For this reindeer I did the same process as above and used 2 venise trims to his neck along with a little snip of a feather, some pearl stamen, and some beautiful paper roses. Then finished it off by adding a tiny pink gem to his nose. 

Well that's all from me for now. I hope you all have an amazing new year filled with many beautiful blessings. Thank you for stopping by and for your support. It means the world to me. 

Hugs, 

Shan

Lots of Beautiful Projects

Good morning everyone.

 I hope you all are having a beautiful weekend. It is really REALLY cold here this morning. It is now 27 degrees and they are possibly calling for snow on Tuesday night into Wednesday morning. I don't know that I am going to hold my breath for that one yet. The weather forecast here seems to change hourly. 

 I know that I have been slacking on my blog lately. I really wish I could post from my Ipad as my laptop seems to always go so slow, so needless to say I am not on it much. I wanted to share with you all some wonderful projects I have been working on over the last week. A good friend and I decided to make a few ornaments for eachother for Christmas and I have also altered a little something extra.

For the first ornament, I altered a key from Michaels. 

This key was originally white with a bit of brushed gold over it and I wasnt really liking the look of it so I started by heating the key up with my heat gun and dumped a bit of white embossing powder over it, then reheated. Unfortunately it wasnt covering too well so while it was still hot, I rolled it into some UTEE. It gave kinda a beaded effect that I really like so while the UTEE was still hot, I poured a bunch of white glitter on it and I really like the texture it gave to the key. Next I took a piece of tulle and tied it into a bow and glued it to the key. Then I added a little strand of pearls and added a feather over it. I had ordered this beautiful little cherub from a etsy store and was hoarding it but knew it would be the perfect fit for this key. So I glittered up her little wings and used a really light pink copic marker to give her rosey cheeks and lips. The little rose is from I am roses and i glued that down and added a bit of glitter to that as well. I finished it off by adding a bit of seambinding to the key along with a sparkle bead to hang the key from. 

Next up is an altered matchbox I created. 

Now this is the first time I have altered a matchbox and this was a real challenge for me. I am not sure if I really liked the way that this came out.  I first started by painting the match box with some gesso then I added some vintage paper ( it was from a 1895 German paper i purchased on eBay some time ago) and I used mod podge to glue that down. I then took some crocheted lace and adhered that on top of the vintage paper. I trimed the edges of the box with some flat back pearls that I had purchased from Sa Crafters and then created a little tiny rosette out of some small doilies. I created a little angel pearl dangle for the bottom of the box and used some pearls and wire for it to hang from.

Now this 3rd ornament I really love. 

Well actually one of these are for her and the other I am keeping for myself. I first created the larger heart as a trial heart. I have had a small piece of this adorable fabric in my stash for 5 years not exactly sure what I wanted to use it for. But when I thought about trying this, I knew it was the perfect fabric for it. I do have a video up of the larger heart if you wish to see it in further detail here.

Last but not least, I altered a little battery operated light for her.

This is another project that I absolutely love. Again, if you would like to hear how this is created I have a video explaining all the details here.

Thank you for stopping by and I hope you have a wonderful weekend.

Hugs and Blessings to you all. 

Shan