Button Flowers and Cards

Can you tell that I've been practicing on my brayer technique? Well I have and I am amazed at the artwork that comes out of it. But since I've been practicing, I am following directions to a TEE! The only one that I went out on my own on is...

....this one below. Try to click on the picture for an enlarged size. I show Hari and he wants me to stop putting mattes on the pictures and just go for a straight work on the card stock look. What the heck?!! It has to be matted! But he has good taste so I'll try it some day. Here is one that I had to just pop out. This was the first time that I inked up this stamp set. I wanted to show it off also.
Now for this button bouquet, I can't remember which blog I got the idea from but I thought the idea was too cute to pass up. Who doesn't like to look at buttons and think of all the possibilities that could happen with them. Where have they traveled to or just come from or where will they be going...these are questions that just come to me. Anyways, look at the side bar to find which blogs I've been checking on and getting inspirations from. Enjoy!!

My First Tutorial!!!

So hello everyone. I just wanted to welcome you to my first tutorial. This is a step by step process. I hope it is as fun and easy for you as it was for me. ENJOY!!

A Pixie Dresser...



1. Empty out 6 boxes of matches. Take them apart and paint outside with ink. Click pic to enlarge image...I chose not to cover entire area of boxes.

2. I used a paper piercing tool from Stampin' Up! to make way for the gold brad which will be the dresser knobs.

3. Insert brads and line drawers.

4. Glue the outside of the matchboxes together. I used a simple glue stick to give myself a little "push and pull" time to get the boxes evened out.

5. Now glue sides together with glue stick. Hold together for about a minute or so just so it wont fall apart in your hands when you start putting the paper around it.

6. Insert drawers.

7. Smile and relax...it's coming together now...


8. This is the measurement for the paper that covers the back of the dresser.

9. This is the measurement for the paper that covers all the way around; bottom, sides, and top.

10. Wrap back first. Make sure that your paper is nice and tight.

11. For the sides, I make small creases on each corner.

12. Here they are. Smile, you're almost done...

13. Now push down on the creases, making them nice and tight.

14. Apply adhesive on ends of paper.

15. Wrap around.16. Ink up ends.

17. I used half pearls for the feet on the bottom of dresser.

Almost.............Just decorate to taste and voila!!


Have a wonderful weekend!!!

A Dresser Set for a Pixie

So I don't know what to call this. It is a dresser set but it's the size of a pixie. You know, like for Tinker Bell...
But anyhow, these are made from match boxes. Simply paint, add brads, glue together, wrap paper around, ink up to your liking, decorate, and add feet. In this case, I used pearls as feet. Enjoy...