Happy New Year!

Wishing everyone a Happy New Year!

Sorry I've haven't posted in a few weeks. The holidays were busy but things are pretty much back to normal. My girls weren't happy to go back to school either.

I want to share with you the rest of the altered plates I made for my co-workers Christmas gifts. I wanted to post them as I finished each one but time got away from me very quickly.

So here is a collage of all 6 plates. All paper piece files by Little Scraps of Heaven Designs. Hope you like them and find some inspiration in them as well!

Files used: North pole, Reindeer, Santa's boots, Howl-y Jolly Christmas, Christmoose Santa and Elf, Happy feet, Pictures with Santa, and Christmas Blessings.

Anything Goes

This week's DT challenge is "Anything Goes" , so I decided to alter another charger plate from Michael's. Actually I am making 6, maybe ten of these if time permit's, as gifts for Christmas.

The pattern file I used for this plate is called "Dancing Penguins". Instead of using the music notes and the title in the pattern, I used snowflakes and typed my own title. For the snow, ice blocks and snowballs, I used pre-glittered card stock and inked the edges with TH distress ink in Tumbled Glass.

Thanks for stopping by. Don't forget to stop by the DT Blog and check out everyone's project for this week's challenge.

Fall Home Decor

Hello again!

I decided to do a little something different with paper piecing this week. I bought a charger plate at Michael's a few week's ago having no idea what I would do with it. The color of the plate just called out to me  and I had to get it!

Soo I did! And this is what I came up with. I used  the paper piecing file from LSHD called "Scarecrow Friends". The title I just typed up in my MTC software and cut it out. Instead of cutting out the bale of hale from the file I used a mini hay bale I purchased at Michael's. It came two in a package and it measure's 2 1/2 x 1 1/4 x 1 inch. One thing though, it is kinda messy to work with! But I did  make use of all the loose hay in the package and used it to make a hay flooring.

All the paper piecing are sitting on foam squares, some single layers but most on 2-3 layers of foam.

Lastly are the little gem flowers I had in my stash. I took off the stem and placed them on fabric leaves.

I had a lot of fun creating this project. I plan on making some more for the seasons to come!