6 Easy Paintings For Handmade Christmas Card

I made these six easy paintings for anyone to make their own handmade Christmas card. These paintings are simple and fast painting work, does not need a high painting skill.

I used cardboard card for the handmade Christmas card. I painted it with poster colors and mixed with some acrylic colors, those were coming from my paint supplies. I decorated them with silver and gold ribbons, silver and gold snowflake sequins. I also use some drawing pen and black marker to complete the paintings.

These 6 easy paintings are all about Christmas, so it would be perfect for your handmade Christmas card.

1. Christmas tree
2. Christmas ornament
3. Christmas reindeer 
4. Christmas candy cane 
5. Christmas wreath 
6. Christmas Snowman 

Easy paintings aren’t they? You can make these handmade Christmas card without spending too much time and money, but it’s surely look fabulous and perfect for kids and adults Christmas cards.

Hope you love my 6 easy paintings and ready for your handmade Christmas cards! Follow me for more easy and wonderful white Christmas decoration ideas!

See you!

Make creative handmade!

Mel

 

 

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I entered below challenges for the 6 Easy Paintings For Handmade Christmas Card:

1. If You Give A Crafter A Cookie –
2. Try it on Tuesday – Winter Wonderland
3. Stinkin Inkers – Winter Wonderland
4. Country View Challenge – Christmas
5. Inkspirational – Anything Christmas
6. The Male Room – Celebrate
7. Use Your Stuff – Silver And Gold
8. My Time To Craft – CAS…ONE LAYER ONLY
9. Crafting By Design – Holiday Anything Goes
10. Aud Sentiments Challenge – Anything Goes + A Sentiment

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Easy DIY Christmas Tree Pillow

I made an easy Christmas Pillow with a Christmas tree shape. I don’t sew a lot, but I love playing with fabrics. And this is one is an easy diy, does not need an advance sewing skill.

You need some pillow filling and gray gada clothes and of course some snowflake sequins for the Christmas tree. I love gray gada clothes for its natural roughness and neutral ivory color.

The steps are easy to make this diy christmas tree pillow:

1. Cut the fabric into 2 squares 17.5 inches x 17.5 inches ( 45 cm x 45 cm ).
2. Sew 3 sides and left one side open for pillow filling ( I used dacron).
3. Sew it after filling it firmly. Okay, the plain pillow is ready for christmas decoration.
4. Determine a beginning point for the sequins. I started at around a quarter of the pillow lenght.
5. Sew a gold snowflake sequin as the christmas tree topper.
6. Sew one green snowflake sequin for the tree’s first row.
7. Sew two green snowflake sequins on the next row.
8. Repeat the steps and add one sequin more to each row, until you reach ninth rows.
9. Along the first until the ninth row, insert one red snowflakes randomly to act as the christmas tree ornaments.
10. Tie a christmas red bow and sew it on the bottom of the sequins christmas tree.
11. There you go, easy diy christmas, right? it’s a christmas pillow with sparking christmas tree sequins.
12. If you want to get more instant way, buy a white plain pillow and then decorate it. That would be faster.

For those who love to sew, this is a super easy fun diy to do for a christmas pillow. Well, I hope this christmas tree pillow can be a fun diy project for both who love to sew and those who’s not fond of sewing. But a christmas pillow is one of a great way to decorate your home for this coming holidays. Stay with me for more of my White Christmas DIYs to come!

Creativity can be so easy!

See you around!

Mel

Hand Painted Christmas Gift Tags

After I made Christmas Favor Bag as a party gift, now it’s time for a Christmas gift tag to decorate your special Christmas gift. As it is a special gift for a special person, so I made the gift tags in hand painted.

I painted three paintings which suitable for kids and adults. I used things I had in my drawer, which I used on my previous Christmas project.

• Kraft card
• White poster color
• Red, white, orange, blue, black acrylic paint
• Silver glitter
• Glue
• Silver ribbon
• Scissors
• Paint brush

The steps to make this Christmas gift tag is easy if you love to paint:

1. Cut the kraft card into the tag shape.
2. Punch a hole on top of the gift tag.
3. Paint the tag with white paint roughly. Let it dry.
4. Han paint the gift tag with Christmas signatures, I chose a joyful snowman with a little 🐦, a very merry Santa Claus, and a peaceful blue pine trees. Let it dry.
5. Add a stripe of silver glitter on the bottom of each tag, apply some glue in advance.
6. Tie a silver ribbon on the top of the gift tag.

It’s easy to make if you enjoy painting, but if you don’t, you can check out my Glittery Christmas Ornaments to decorate your Christmas gift without any painting job. I hope you enjoy my hand painted Christmas gift tags, happy gift tag making! Follow me for more handmade Christmas decorations!

#Creativity!

See you in December!

Mel

I play at Paint Party Friday

I entered below challenges for this Hand Painted Christmas Gift Tags:

1. If You Give A Crafter A Cookie –
2. Try it on Tuesday – Winter Wonderland
3. Make My Monday – Non-Traditional Christmas Colours
4. Get Creative Challenge – Anything But A Card
5. Tuesday Throwdown –
6. Crafting By Design – Get Ready For Christmas
7. Aud Sentiments Challenge – Christmas / Winter Sentiments
8. 4 Crafty Chicks – Anything goes
9. Colour Crazy Craft – Anything goes
10. Moo-mania – Trees

Handmade Christmas Gift As Party Favor Bag And Wreath Ornament

This is a great handmade gift for Christmas party because it works as a party favor bag and as a Christmas ornament which I made in a wreath look. This is how it works, you can tuck in some sweets inside the wreath ornament bag and give it to your guests, and after they enjoy your sweet favor, they can hang the wreath ornament in their Christmas tree. And for more personal touch, include your guest’s name on the party favor bag.

It’s a simple design and easy to make handmade gift for Christmas. All you need for this wreath ornament are:

• White felt
• Snowflake sequins silver and gold
• Silver ribbon
• Popsicle sticks
• Drawing pen
• Glue
• Scissors

The steps are also simple and fast in the making :

1. Cut the white felt in 2 round shapes (10 cm / 4 inches in diameter).
2. Glue them together around the edges and leave an opening on above to make a favor bag.
3. Glue the star sequins overlapped and not really in order to form a wreath look.
4. Cut a piece of silver ribbon and glue it to the front and back of the party favor bag so it could be hung as a Christmas ornament.
5. Cut some popsicle stick for a base to write Merry, Christmas, Joy To, and A Name (Laurie I’ve made).
6. Glue the words Merry and Christmas on the front of the wreath ornament and the words Joy To and The Name (Laurie) on the back of the ornament bag.
7. Finished! A handmade Christmas gift is ready! You can make more for as many as your guest are, it’s surely an easy party gift to make.

Easy and fast handmade Christmas gift which not only give you a chance to slip some sweets into the party favor bag but also can give your guests a Christmas wreath ornament for them to hang on their tree at home with their name on it. Hope you are inspired for a handmade gift for Christmas party idea.

See you!

Let your creativity be a gift!

Mel

I entered below challenges for this Handmade Christmas Gift As Party Favor Bag And Wreath Ornament :

1. Craft Rocket Challenge – Christmas Is Coming
2. 613 Avenue – Christmas / Winter
3. Scrap From Your Heart – Jul / Christmas
4. If You Give A Crafter A Cookie –
5. Try it on Tuesday – Winter Wonderland
6. Make My Monday – Non-Traditional Christmas Colours
7. Aud Sentiments Challenge – Christmas / Winter Sentiments
8. Get Creative Challenge – Anything But A Card
9. Crafty Friends – Gemstones / Pearls
10. Tuesday Throwdown –
11. Crafting By Design – Something Sweet

How To Make Twinkle Christmas Ornaments By Using Hot Glue

This is a very easy twinkle Christmas ornaments to make. You only need a steady hand to make it, because you’re going to use a hot glue gun. How? Next you are going to read the tutorial and things you need to make the Christmas ornaments from hot glue.

Things I used to make this hot glue twinkle Christmas ornaments :

• Hot glue gun
• Hot glue (clear)
• Wire
• Glitter glue
• Glitter
• Glue

Below are the steps on how to make the hot glue Christmas ornaments and how to make it twinkle:

1. Have your hot glue gun ready with the hot glue.
2. Apply some lotion to your work surface, just thin layer for easy peeling job.
3. Apply hot glue to the lotion surface with your desired shape. Let it dry. I made Christmas tree, snowflake, Christmas sock, snowman, star, Noel and Merry.
4. Now this is the peeling job I have mentioned before, peel off the dry hot glue shape from the surface. The lotion layer should make it easier for you to do the peeling.
5. Make some little hanger from wire and thrust it into the un-dried hot glue ornament. Apply more hot glue to the hanger and ornament to tighten it. Let it dry.
6. It’s twinkle decorating time! Apply glitter glue and then dip it into a plate full of glitter. Let it dry.
7. You just have your personal Christmas ornaments that twinkle, from hot glue!

Easy, fun and you will be addicted to it, because you can make anything out of the hot glue! And by simply adding some twinkle glitters, your Christmas ornaments would look fabulous! How great it is? So, hope you’re inspired and have fun making it! Please let me know which is your favorite Christmas ornaments I’ve made and what shape are you going to make!

Twinkle creativity!

See you later!

Mel

I entered below challenges for this Twinkle Christmas Ornaments:

1. That’s Crafty – Winter Wonderland
2. Craft Rocket Challenge – Christmas Is Coming
3. 613 Avenue – Christmas / Winter
4. Scrap From Your Heart – Jul / Christmas
5. If You Give A Crafter A Cookie –
6. Get Creative Challenge – Anything But A Card
7. Crafting By Design – Something Sweet
8. Love To Craft – November Anything Goes

DIY Glittery Christmas Tree Garland

Christmas is coming and there are a lot of decorations to be prepared for your festive glittery Christmas. And that means lots of DIYs if you want to save money. I’ve done my hand painted Christmas sign and now I got a DIY Christmas tree garland.

Upcycling is the best inexpensive way to make valuable decorations. I came out with the idea of using tissue cores and craft it into a Christmas tree garland. And to add more festive look to the garland, I presented it with glittery gold and silver colors.

These are all the items I needed to craft this Christmas tree garland :

• Tissue cores
• White paint
• Gold paint
• Silver paint
• Gold glitter glue
• Green glitter glue
• Red glitter glue
• Little star ornament
• Glittery ribbon
• Cotton rope
• Lolly sticks
• Drawing pen
• Scissors
• Cutter
• Glue

And these are the steps I had to make the glittery garland:

1. Draw a christmas tree on the tissue core. Cut the Christmas tree until three-quarters.
2. Fold one side of the tissue core until the pointy tree is on top. Made 3 or more as desired.
3. Paint the core with white and the tree with gold or silver paint.
4. Apply some glitter glue; gold, red and green; to each tree.
5. Add a shimmering little star ornament on top of the tree.
6. Put all glittery Christmas tree together with cotton rope to form a garland.
7. Tie some glittery ribbon to the rope.
8. There you go, the glittery Christmas tree garland is ready to be hung.

I made this Christmas tree Garland with consideration of not to waste much money. As I think that we probably wouldn’t use the same Garland again next year.

I hope my creation can bring some joy and more festive Christmas to your lovely home decor. Stay with me with more Christmas decor ideas!

Have your creativity glittering!

See you soon!

Mel

I entered below challenges for this DIY Glittery Christmas Tree Garland :

1. Make My Monday – Winter Foliage
2. That’s Crafty – Winter Wonderland
3. Craft Rocket Challenge – Christmas Is Coming
4. 613 Avenue – Christmas / Winter
5. CRAFT – Christmas
6. Scrap From Your Heart – Jul / Christmas
7. Allsorts Challenge – CAS Christmas
8. Unicorn Challenge – Use A Sentiment
9. If You Give A Crafter A Cookie –
10. Crafty Friends – Gemstones / Pearls
11. Love To CraftLove To Craft – November Anything Goes

DIY Hand Painted Christmas Joy Sign

 

Recently I found it amusing to do it yourself some hand painted signs, especially on this end of the year, there are so many occasion to celebrate. A simple diy sign can really do a great job on your home decor. And after I made Fall Sign, Halloween Sign, Thanksgiving Sign, now it’s time for Christmas Sign! A jolly season that will end the year in joy.

So what did I prepare for my Grateful Thanksgiving sign?

• Balsa wood plank
• White spray paint
• Black acrylic paint
• White acrylic paint
• Red acrylic paint
• Green acrylic paint
• Gold acrylic paint
• Silver acrylic paint
• Paint brush
• Drawing pen
• Scissors

I hand painted this sign, so not much crafting steps to do, but more to the painting works :

1. Cut the balsa wood plank in desired dimension, mine was 14.5 inches x 4 inches (36 cm x 10 cm). I choose balsa wood because it’s an easy wood to work with, especially the plank, it’s thin and you can even cut it with scissors.
2. Spray paint the wooden cutting block with white spray paint. Don’t spray it evenly, so it would leave a rustic look. Leave the edges to be in its wooden color character. Let it dry.
3. Draw a sketch of the sentiment and the jingle balls plus holy foliage with pencil.
4. Draw the “Joy” word with drawing pen, it’s a lot easier than painting it.
5. Paint the red and gold jingle bells with the holy foliage. Let it dry.
6. Don’t forget to add some shading to the jingle balls.
7. The Christmas Joy Sign is finished!

It is a simple diy sign, I love the word “Joy”, because it reflects Christmas and also reminds me to be joyful all year-long. And the jingle balls feels like the best Christmas touch that makes everything merrier. This hand painted Joy sign is a great decoration to express your joyful feeling to welcome Christmas in coming winter season.

I will welcome this winter with more Christmas diy! So, make sure you follow me to get more creative inspiration for your Christmas holiday decor.

 

See you!

Be joyful creative!

Mel

 

I play on Paint Party Friday

I entered below challenges for this DIY Hand Painted Christmas Joy Sign :

1. Make My Monday – Winter Foliage
2. That’s Crafty – Winter Wonderland
3. My Time To Craft – Let It Snow
4. Craft Rocket Challenge – Christmas Is Coming
5. 613 Avenue – Christmas / Winter
6. CRAFT – Christmas
7. Scrap From Your Heart – Jul / Christmas
8. Unicorn Challenge – Use A Sentiment
9. If You Give A Crafter A Cookie –
10. Let’s Craft And Create – A Sketch
11. Altered Eclectics – Anything goes

Fall & Thanksgiving Side Table Decor

Fall & Thanksgiving Side Table Decor

Side table is as much important as any table in a home, especially when your side table is on the sitting room where you entertain your guest or on the foyer where you receive the guest. Therefore, to have a remembered thanksgiving dinner party, you should hot forget your side table decor. And moreover, the side table decor for thanksgiving must be aligned with your fall home decor.

I arranged some of my fall and thanksgiving decorations in one white square side table at the foyer where I put the seating tags for thanksgiving dinner. This setting is a mixed of fall colors and a slightly winter colors, since it’s a month of almost seasonal transition. Gold and natural wood colors of fall mixed with shades of blue and white of winter colors. And amazingly it worked well together. This taught me not to scare to mix calm, natural colors with glimmering color like gold for a decor.

These are the list of all the decoration items I used for the fall & thanksgiving side table :

• Grateful Thanksgiving sign
• Geometric gold painted bottle
• Seating tag bottles for Thanksgiving dinner
• Fall cork coasters
• Off-white table cover
• Crepe wrapped pumpkin
• White with gold glitter crepe flower

The first four are the decorations I have posted before on how to make it and the last two was the ones I showed in this post. The crepe wrapped pumpkin is an emergency pumpkin I made from a vase that I wrapped with white crepe paper. And the crepe paper flower was made from white crepe paper that I have applied with gold glitter.

So, use whatever you have to decor your side table to celebrate thanksgiving and to get the fall ambience. Just add this and that to complete the look. No need expensive decorations to have a beautiful seasonal decor, so you can have a different look every year without spending much money. Happy fall and thanksgiving!

See you anytime soon!

Thanks to creativity for giving a creation!

Mel

DIY Seating Tag Bottles For Thanksgiving Dinner

DIY Seating Tag Bottles For Thanksgiving Dinner

 

After I finished my grateful thanksgiving sign, I was inspired to make seating tag out of used mini bottles I had. With blue and white colors with natural touch of wood and rope. This upcycling bottles project would be a great functional decoration to complete your lovely thanksgiving dinner party.

What did I prepare for this seating Tag mini bottles :

• Mini glass bottles (Find any used mini bottles you can get from any drinks)
• Blue spray paint
• White Acrylic paint
• Paint Brush
• Organic rope
• Ice sticks
• Black ink pen
• Small doily paper
• Glue
• Scissors

These are steps I took to make the Thanksgiving tag:

1. Clean the used bottles and dry it thoroughly.
2. Spray paint the bottles with blue paint. Let it dry.
3. Paint each bottle with pumpkin on one side and paint the word “Thanks” on the other side by using brush with white paint. Leave it dry. You can always do the easier way with stickers or decoupage to skip the hand painting job.
4. Tie each bottle with organic rope to give an earthy feeling of fall season. The ribbon is on the “Thanks” side and the name tag on the pumpkin side.
5. For the name tag, write down the name of your guest on the ice stick with a black ink pen and then cut the ice stick with beveled edges.
6. Stick the ice stick name tag on the organic rope by the pumpkin side.
7. Fold the doily paper and shape it into a flower. Slip each doily on top of each bottle.
8. My seating tag is ready for the thanksgiving party! Easy DIY!

It turned out to be one of my favorite upcycling bottles project besides two of my other diy painted bottle projects ( Fall Leaves and Geometric Gold ). I love the color blue meets the white and the natural wood tag with organic rope ribbon; and of course the hand painted “Thanks” and pumpkin. And the amazing thing is, you can use this seating tag bottle as a souvenir to thank your guest too! How? Just fill up the mini bottles with some fine chocolates or sweets or even some potpourri. In that way, you have yourself a seating tag and souvenir in one bottle! Isn’t that great?! Nothing is wasted, but everything is pretty and everyone is happy!

See you all!

Be creative and thankful!

Mel

 

I entered challenges for my diy seating tag bottles on:

1. Try It On Tuesday – Thankful
2. Brown Sugar Challenge – Gratitude, kindness or thankfulness
3. Use Your Stuff – Thank You
4. Inkspirational – 
5. Stinkin’ Inkers – Just because
6. International Art And Soul –  Autumn Colours
7. Dare 2 B Artzy – Thanks
8. Rhedds Creative Spirit – Fall and winter
9. Everybody Art Challenge – Tag
10. Altered Eclectics – Anything goes

DIY Grateful Thanksgiving Sign

It has been grateful weeks for me. Many good things I received on these last few weeks. And this month is a thanksgiving month, a thankful month. Days ago I just finished a simple Thank You card and on this post I was encouraged to make a diy thanksgiving sign.

It’s a simple painting of blue pumpkin that I painted in vintage style. I love vintage style with shade of blue colors. If you’re not a painter person, just use stamps, printing or decoupage. I used wooden cutting board as the media for the sign, I think it is more relate to the grateful pumpkin sign.

So what did I prepare for my Grateful Thanksgiving sign?

• Wooden cutting block
• White spray paint
• Black acrylic paint
• White acrylic paint
• Blue acrylic paint
• Green acrylic paint
• Organic rope
• Paint brush
• Pencil

It’s a painting work I’m afraid. So, the steps to do it are basically painting :

1. Spray paint the wooden cutting block with white spray paint. Let it dry.
2. Draw a sketch of the sentiment and the pumpkin, blueberries, leaves, hydrangea with pencil.
3. Draw the “Grateful” word with black paint, using paint brush. Let it dry.
4. Paint the blue pumpkin, blueberries, hydrangea and leaves. Let it dry.
5. Paint the background with light stroke of grey to get a rustic look. Let it dry. I found it easier this way than to sand it.
6. The Grateful Thanksgiving Sign is finished!

The DIY ”Grateful” sign complimented by the blue pumpkin with vintage style and a bit rustic look. It would make a beautiful home decoration for you to hang it on your dinning room so you can always be grateful for all that served in your dinning table. Beautiful way to be reminded. And of course, it is a great accessories to add to your thanksgiving decorations.

 

See you again!

Be grateful in creativity!

Mel

 

I play on Paint Party Friday

I entered below challenges for this DIY Grateful Thanksgiving Sign :

1. Try It On Tuesday – Thankful
2. Brown Sugar Challenge – Gratitude, kindness or thankfulness
3. Use Your Stuff – Thank You
4. Inkspirational – 
5. Dare 2 B Artzy – Thanks
6. A Bit More Time To Craft – Anything goes
7. Lil Patch Of Crafty Friends – Anything goes
8. Crafting With An Attitude – Anything goes
9. Altered Eclectics – Anything goes

Autumn Painting Of Maple Tree

Inspired by maple trees with the red and gold colors of the autumn season, I painted a maple tree with the swirl of golden-yellow background. I think this painting is more like a modern abstract, if I’m not mistaken because I have never been in an art school. I just paint whatever comes in my mind.

I love painting, but I need at least two whole days to finish a simple painting. And two whole days means I ask a lot from my daily routine 🙂 That’s why I don’t do a lot of painting even though there are many ideas and objects that have already taken lines in my mind. So, every time I have a time to paint and able to finish it, I’m very pleased!

Actually I have been postponed this autumn painting of maple tree for a month. I was very busy and unable to paint something more complicated. So, this maple tree painting is quite simple and fast in its process.

This was the first time I used acrylic paint on a canvas. I found it a lot easier to use acrylic instead of oil paint because acrylic paint dries faster than oil paint. So, the painting process is a lot faster which was good for my busy days. Just for information, I used acrylic colors of Vermilion, Yellow Ochre, lemon yellow, gold, titanium white, crimson, burnt umber.

I have now a need addition to my autumn decoration and painting collections. I hope all of you who drop by to peak and read my post enjoys this Autumn Painting Of Maple Tree. May you be inspired too by this golden-yellow and red maple tree painting  of autumn season spirit and create something in your own creations.

See you soon!

Creative Autumn Spirit!

Mel

I entered below challenges for this Autumn Painting Of Maple Tree and play at Party Paint Friday :

1. Craft Rocket – Autumn / Halloween
2. Unicorn Challenge – Autumn / Halloween
3. Brown Sugar Challenge – Celebrate Autumn
4. A Vintage Journey – Autumn Splendor
5. Dare 2 B Artzy – Fall
6. Use Your Stuff – Mood Board (Autumn – Maple Tree)
7. Dream Valley Challenges – Anything but a card
8. Country View Challenge – Plantastic

Easy DIY Halloween Wreath – Trick Or Treat

For this Halloween diy decorations, I have made Halloween souvenir boxes-spook boo eek, Halloween coasters, Halloween pumpkins sign, and on this post I made Halloween Wreath – trick or treat. It’s super easy!

I made this easy wreath less than an hour. And I only used things that I have already had, some are from my craft or party supplies; and some are from re-used things. I managed to have the colors in dominant orange and black, as I consider it really goes well together and of course because that’s the most available colors I have on my supplies 😀

Let see what are the things that I collected together to form this Halloween wreath :

• Orange crepe paper (I bought this like a week ago; I was sure that I was going to use it somehow on my Halloween projects)
• Paper plate 9 inches – polka-dots (from my party supplies)
• Paper plate 5 inches – gold (from my party supplies)
• Black paper (from my craft supplies)
• Checkerboard ribbon (from my kid’s party supplies)
• Orange-green pattern paper (re-using paper wrap from a gift I received)
• glue
• white gel pen
• Wave edge craft scissors

How to do?

1. Cut orange crepe paper around 3 inches (7 cm) and fold it while you glue it to the edge of the big paper plate in circle evenly.
2. Cut the gift wrap paper in the same length and fold it, then glue it to the big paper plate too, with around 1.5 inches apart from the crepe paper.
3. Cut orange crepe paper again around 3 inches (7 cm) and fold it while you glue it to the edge of the big paper plate in circle evenly. Give around 1.5 inches distance.
4. Cut and fold the checkerboard ribbon, then glue it one by one around the crepe paper.
5. Cut the wavy pattern of the black paper in circle and glue it to the paper plate to close the ribbon’s edges.
6. glue the gold paper plate in the middle.
7. Cut another black paper in circle with the diameter of the inner gold plate with wave edge craft scissors.
8. Write the “Trick or Treat” in the middle of the circle black paper by using white gel pen in a pretty way.
9. Then glue the written black paper to the gold paper plate.
10. Add a hanger from checkerboard ribbon on the back of the big paper plate (wreath).
11. Hang the Halloween wreath on your front door or by the mantle, finished!

Easy and pretty! Your Halloween just got more spice to it with another halloween decoration, a halloween wreath! You can also hang it on the table of treats, as the wreath says “trick or treat”. Hope you are inspired by my halloween creations.

 

See you very soon!

Creatively easy!

Mel

I entered below challenges for this Easy diy Halloween Wreath – Trick or Treat :

1. Try It On Tuesday – Trick or treat, its halloween
2. Craft Rocket – Autumn / Halloween
3. Unicorn Challenge – Autumn / Halloween
4. Brown Sugar Challenge – Autumn / Halloween
5. A Vintage Journey – Autumn Splendor
6. Dare 2 B Artzy – Fall
7. My Time To Craft – Halloween or cats
8. International Art & Soul – Black and orange
9. Sparkles Monthly Challenges – Colour Project – orange and black
10. Crafty Friends – Circles
11. Dream Valley Challenges – Anything but a card

DIY Pumpkins Halloween Sign – Trick Or Treat

Halloween decor would not be perfect without the halloween sign. Therefor, I came across the idea to use ice sticks again as the sign board like I did last time with DIY Fall (in love) Sign. I love the texture that created from the row of the popsicle sticks. I looks great with spray paint, especially white as a sign board base. For the design of the halloween sign, I drew some pumpkins in black, white and orange with the halloween signature sentiment, which is “trick or treat”.

It’s a simple project that only used a little skill of painting, but you can always trick the painting part by using stamps, printing and decoupage. The key to great picture plus sentiment sign board is the sentiment itself and how to present it, the colors, and the interesting object / picture that we want to exposed. Choose the style, the colors, the sentiment and the picture, then you are good to go.

So what did I prepare for my trick or treat pumpkins halloween sign?

• Ice sticks
• Glue
• White spray paint
• Black acrylic paint
• White acrylic paint
• Orange acrylic paint
• Paint brush
• Pencil

It’s mostly a painting job I should say. So, the steps to do it are basically painting, except for the sign board base;

1. Line up the ice sticks vertically with the length of around 3 x one ice stick length.
2. Glue some structure ice sticks to the ice sticks – row in horizontal like making a fence. Let it dry.
3. Spray paint the ice sticks blank sign with white spray paint. Let it dry.
4. Draw a sketch of the sentiment and the three pumpkins with pencil.
5. Paint the first bottom pumpkin with black, then the second with orange and the third with white and some silly pumpkin face. Add some shading to elevate the pumpkins’ look. Don’t forget the leaves.
6. Paint the sentiment “Trick or Treat” with black acrylic paint. Let it dry.
7. The Halloween Pumpkins Sign with the wording of Trick or Treat is finished!

Inspired to try out your own halloween sign? Gather all your crafting tools and start creating a halloween sign yourself. Have a fun creating and enjoy some treats while you making it!

See you soon!

Create and creativity!

Mel

I entered below challenges for this diy Halloween Pumpkins Sign – Trick or Treat :

1. Try It On Tuesday – Trick or treat, its halloween
2. Craft Rocket – Autumn / Halloween
3. Unicorn Challenge – Autumn / Halloween
4. Brown Sugar Challenge – Autumn / Halloween
5. A Vintage Journey – Autumn Splendor
6. International Art & Soul – Black and orange
7. Sparkles Monthly Challenges – Colour Project – orange and black
8. Crafty Addicts – Spook it up
9. That’s Crafty – Spookalicious
10. Crafting By Design – Boo-Scare me!
11. Sisterhood of the Crafters – Cute spooks
12. 613 Avenue Create – Something wooden
13. Country View Challenge – Plant-tastic
14. Stinkin’ Inkers – The eyes have it

DIY EGGSHELL EASTER CARD – Cheap and Easy

DIY Eggshell Easter Card – Cheap and Easy

Try to make a special easter card for your loved ones? Well, you might get inspired by my diy eggshell easter card. When you think of easter, you straight away will think of egg! Then I think to myself, hey why don’t I make a card from a real egg, but of course I couldn’t stick a whole egg to a card. So, I reconstructed the egg to a card by using the eggshell to shape an egg. Cheap and easy!

I dedicated this diy easter card to my kid and I wanted to be blue. Since I preferred the egg to be 100% natural egg and no coloring, so I use duck egg which is naturally blue (Tosca, actually). And I mixed it with chicken egg, to looked better, which was happened to be ivory. Luckily, I got all the eggs from my fridge, so after I consumed it, I kept the eggshell, then washed it and dried it carefully. All materials I used were from my crafting collection, i don’t buy it in purpose. It’s a cheap and easy diy project. So, feel free to use anything you got to re-make my diy eggshell easter card.

Here are all the things I used for this diy eggshell easter card project:

1. cutter
2. UHU adhesive
3. scissors
4. pencil
5. drawing pen
6. paper glue stick
7. blue and polka dot ribbon
8. chicken eggshell
9. duck eggshell
10. doily paper
11. blue paper
12. thin paper board

How to do my cheap and easy diy eggshell easter card?

1. Cut the blue paper with proportion to the doily paper.
2. Cut thin paper board to give thickness to the blue paper. Stick them together.
3. Stick the doily paper to the thickened blue paper. Your basic card is now ready.
4. Cut a paper board with the shape of an egg (you can draw it first with pencil). Watch the proportion, because you need to leave a space for the wording on top.
5. Set a pattern mixed of chicken eggshell with duck eggshell that you desired.
6. Take the washed and dried eggshell and break it into big pieces. Spread some glue on the area of the paper board that you wanna glue. Then put an eggshell piece on top of the glued area and press it gently. Do it all over the egg-shaped paper board and fill up the empty area that left until it looks even. It doesn’t have to look perfectly even, that what makes it look beautiful.
7. Stick the finished eggshell paper board to the basic card.
8. Write the wording on top of the eggshell by using drawing pen but leave some space for the ribbons.
9. Tie some ribbons nicely and stick it to the eggshell by using UHU. There you go, you got yourself a cheap and easy diy eggshell easter card.

For the dimensions, it’s all up to you to make, just make sure you got a good proportion.

It’s still more than a week to easter day, so you still have plenty of time (two weekends) to try yourself making the diy eggshell easter card like mine. It’s easy and cheap anyway. Happy trying!

Be creative Egg!

See you with more Easter diy!

Mel

 

5 THINGS TO PREPARE FOR HER VALENTINE’S DAY / PINK GOLD VALENTINE’S THEME

It’s almost valentine’s day! So i couldn’t help it to squeeze in this post before i post the home office vol.3 as i have promised.

Now i wanted to share 5 Things To Prepare For Her Valentine’s Day in a Pink Gold Valentine’s Theme.

When you prepare a gift, you need something to present it. The gift and the presentation! The presentation should be able to compliment the gift. So enough with the chit chat, i will show you what i meant below.

Let’s begin with the first item:

1. A Box of Chocolate

A romantic sweet treats would never gets old! Give some delicious truffles inside a fancy chocolate box would certainly blushing your loved one. This heart-shaped pink gold box surely show a simple sweet but elegance gesture.

Source : https://www.johnlewis.com/charbonnel-et-walker-mini-pink-heart-champagne-truffles-34g/p158222

2. Flowers 

Say it with flowers! Well, it always works for me. So, unlike roses, give something non-traditional like exotic orchid that last longer and even a hundred years if you give the plant. Pick a pinkish orchid plant and a pink gold pot just like in the picture below. All together with that great arrangement it’s surely mind blowing. But again, it’s still look simple but gorgeous.

Source : https://www.proflowers.com/product/Pink-Mini-Orchid-30171227

• Valentine’s Card

Beautiful words. Of course it would not be completed without a handmade valentine’s card that telling all your loving thoughts. This card below may give you inspiration to make one or just simply buy it. This pink gold handmade card looks sophisticated but still simple.

Source : https://www.etsy.com/listing/526999933/homemade-pink-gold-and-white-embellished?

• A Table Setting

A romantic dinner for 2 is a must. This setting idea below that i captured from www.onekingslane.com is very elegant because of the gold touch, but simple and sweet at the same time.

Source : https://www.onekingslane.com/live-love-home/valentines-day-table-setting-ideas/

• jewelry Gift Box

The last thing you want to pamper her with, is a piece of fine jewelry. And the vintage look jewerly gift box i found here on Etsy will compliment the special jewerly that you will give your partner.

Source : https://www.etsy.com/listing/549501938/christmas-gift-jewelry-box-handmade-box?

Five wonderful gifts, each in such a marvelous presentation would give the impression of a well planned and deeply thoughtful valentine.

To me, these 5 things are a must have “love” that you should get from your spouse. And i choose pink gold to represent sweet lasting valentine. Well, if you have other color theme that you or your partner prefers, you can try it. Just make sure all the presentations have the shade of the color theme. And again, the presentation must compliment the gifts.

Now, have you been inspired? 5 Things To Prepare For Her Valentine’s Day in a Pink Gold Valentine’s Theme. I hope so. I’m sure if your loved one receive those 5 fine things, she would trade it with her heart.

Stay creative!

Mel