Santa Christmas Card Hanger

Hello everyone hope your Christmas decorating and shopping are going well.

I know that I shared my caddy I refurbished on a prior post saying I was going to use it to hold Christmas Cards, but…

I changed my mind which is a woman’s prerogative, I believe, and decided to make a wall hanging to display my Christmas cards. Here’s a close up of the finished product.

Here are the steps I took to achieve this lovely sign/wall hanging whatever!

First I went to my stash of boards I use for signs picked one out and gave it a good sanding.  Then I applied a coat of ASCP “Emperor’s Silk”.

I then asked my husband to cut the board in half (after it dried of course) and attach the two pieces together.  I then applied a coat of left over green paint from a previous project to the boards and after that applied a coat of ASCP clear wax and one of dark wax to age it.

Meanwhile…I picked out some chipboard letters to read “merry & bright” and painted them ASCP “old white.” I had found in a previous project that when applying glitter to shiny, patterned chip board letters just gluing the glitter on does not work to well.  After painting them I used Aleene’s clear tacky glue to attach the glitter. [Unfortunately they pay me nothing for recommending their product. ]

          

Next I stapled two long pieces of burlap that I had glued silver ribbon down each side of to the bottom of the sign, and I also stapled a strip of jute to the top as a hanger.

I then added glitter to a piece of an ornate frame I had in my stash and nailed it to the top of my sign/wall hanging thingy.

Notice the miniature close pins in the top of the photo?  I will use these to attach the cards to the burlap ribbon.

After that was attached I applied some gorgeous red ribbon to a Santa image I found at The Graphic’s Fairy. The only change I made to the image was to add some red glass glitter.

I pleated the ribbon as I glued it around the image. Its best to use the low heat doing this. Ouch!

I attached the image using those round double sided glue dots I use in scrapbooking because I wanted more of a 3D effect.

After that was attached I glued on my chipboard letters. Then I took the same ribbon and pleated the first part gluing each pleat as I went leaving a tail and attaching one of these on each side.

Here again is the finished product.

I really enjoyed making this sign/wall hanging thingy (except when I couldn’t find my staple gun and looked for 30 minutes!!! and finally found it right where it was suppose to be!) lol and I hope I have inspired you to get out your paint, glue gun, glitter…


UPDATE


I kept looking at my card holder wall hanging thingy and those red ribbons were just bugging me so I took them off.  I like it a lot better what do you think? :-)

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Coffee Table Before And After

Happy Friday everyone.  I wanted to share the before and after of the large coffee table I shared with you in an earlier post. Here is the before.

It was solid but the top was a mess and I saved it from going to the garbage bin.

The top was a challenge but I think I achieved a really nice look what do you think?

I have been wanting to try the Union Jack on something and this just seemed the perfect piece to for it.  I painted it ASCP “Old White” then taped off the flag and painted it using  ASCP “Emperor’s Silk” and since I did not have the colors in Annie Sloan Chalk Paint to mix and achieve the blue I needed I picked up some Better Homes “Nautical Blue” for the blue areas.

I then antiqued it with an “Expresso” glaze.  I applied a coat of ASCP clear wax and distressed it then brushed on a coat of dark and clear wax mixed. I wanted to achieve a very worn look as if the table had been in an pub or old farm house for a long time.

My granddaughter came in after school and said “Oh Nonnie, you made it look old and it was so perfect!” lol she does not understand why I want things to look old.

I’m very tempted to keep this one as the colors go so well in my den.  Hmmm…

Anyway hope I have inspired you to get out your paint brush and try something new.  Have a great weekend.


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A Memory Ornament

Hello everyone I hope you are having a great week.  I thought I would share a quick craft project I completed today. 

I had this corsage that I received for Mother’s Day from my sweet daughter and I wanted to keep it, but I didn’t want to just lay it on a table or stick it in a drawer I wanted someway to enjoy it. So I dried it out by simply leaving it in the refrigerator until it was dry.

After that I was at a loss of how to use it until the other day when I thought why not make an ornament out of it for my girly Christmas tree!

So I picked out one of my hymnal pages and made a paper cone.  I then stuffed a little white tissue paper in it to reinforce it and fill it in a little.

Next I removed the ribbon and a leaf or two from the bottom of the corsage and glued it onto the inside back of the cone.

I then glued the ribbon from the bow I had removed from the bottom of the corsage around the top edges of the cone and tied it in a double bow in front.

Looking back (you know hindsight is 20/20) I should have done the next step before gluing the ribbon on. I took a hole punch and punched a hole in the top back of the cone and then put those little round label re-enforcers we used in school around the hole one on each side.

I then tied a silver thread through it for a hanger and this is my finished ornament.

I’m very pleased with how my ornament turned out and hope I have inspired you to save your next corsage and use it as part of one of your projects. It was so easy and it only took about ten minutes to make it!  I’ll be savoring my special memory every time I put it on my tree in the years to come.

I have another ornament I will be sharing with you soon and that coffee table is almost finished so be looking for a before and after post in the next day or two.