Fun Desk Spruce up with Deflecto Crafts

As you know the princess is almost a year old now (hard to believe!). Her mama went back to work a couple of months ago and we have been working on sprucing up her new office. Deflecto Crafts has some awesome stuff to help out with this project and this month I was lucky enough to receive the Pencil Cup with Photo Frames to work with.

Here is what I did with it.

I painted random, left over, chipboard letters gold and glued them around one of the frames. To the other side I added an embellished frame. I layered flower die cut from a MD Hobby and Craft metal sheet and some Wendy Vecchi Art Parts.  I added some cute flowers to plain pencils and added them to the cup. Easy peasy and quick. This will look super cute and DD1's desk!

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Steampunk Wall Decor with Smoothfoam

Howdy to everyone in blogland! Today I have some fun wall decor to share with you.

I saw something link this at a local retail store, but it was priced at more money than I am willing to spend for something I can make myself!  So I pulled out some Smoothfoam and went to work.

I wanted something small, so I started with a 12x12 SCrapbook page Mount and cut it down to three 5.5" squares using a craft knife. To see a tutorial on this by Julie McGuffee check it out here.

I traced my cut shape onto the back of 6.5 x 6.5 cardstock, snipped the corners and adhered to each block. 

For this block I heat embossed Creative Embellishments chipboard pieces with Sparkle N Sprinkle EP. I adhered them over a small piece of MD Hobby gold metal.

For this block I used Whipped Spackle and a Tim Holtz stencil on the background, added another chipboard piece from Creative Embellishments, and some die cuts from the Kaisercraft paper pad I used to cover the blocks.

For the last block I ran a piece of MD Hobby & Craft Metal Sheet Roll (Gold) through my Cuttlebug with an embossing folder.  I inked the metal piece with StazOn and added another chipboard piece. 

Products used:

Smoothfoam 12x12x7/8 Scrapbook Page Mount

Kaisercraft papers; Be-YOU-tiful & Storyteller

Creative Embellishments chipboard pieces

Sparkle N Sprinkle Embossing Powders

Eileen Hull Embossing Folder

MD Hobby & Craft; Metal Sheet Roll & Hobby Shears

Tsukineko Inks: StazOn Black, VersaMagic Midnight Black, VersaMark

Adhesive 

heat gun 

craft knife

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope you are having a wonderful week so far :)

Valentine Decor with Smoothfoam

Hi everyone, today I have a great project to share with you using Smoothfoam. This year I am trying to stay ahead of the game with my holiday decor- so I am pretty happy that I am getting my Valentine Day stuff done in January!

I started with the 12" Smoothfoam Scrapbook Page Mount and used the new Authentique Crush papers to decorate. I layered several pieces of paper, inking and distressing the layers as I went.

The photo is one of the journal cards from the paper line- I really like the vintage feel!  To back the photo I used a piece of Perforated Aluminum from MD Hobby and Craft- the pattern is Lincane. I cut it to size with their amazing tin snips - really those things are GREAT.

I used the same pattern to create an accent piece using a Sizzix die and my die cut machine. I love the visual impact it adds to my project without adding bulk!

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