Cocoa Vanilla: Free Sprit: So Happy

I'm still playing with my cocoa vanilla free spirit scrappy stuff. This time I decided to use some watercolours, so I painted those colours that run down the left side of the page. 

 I had fun mixing colours that were similar to those in the range, I love mixing colours, then added a few ink splatters on top of the watercolours. I love watercolours because they are so easy to play with, if you have never done any painting then watercolours are a great place to start. I picked this set up at Big W but you can pretty much pick up a decent set at any art or craft store, these ones cost me about $15. You can play with different techniques and with mixing your own colours. I simply adhered the cut file on top of the watercolour painting that I had done.

There is a tag with journalling that slips behind the photo and other than that I kept it fairly simple.

I finished it up with other bits and pieces from the free spirit range.

Christmas Challenge #34: Embroidery Wreath

Today I'm popping in to share an Embroidery Hoop Wreath that I made!

I had this embroidery hoop lying around here waiting for some craftiness to happen to it so I took out my flower dies and cut a pile of flowers and leaves and created a bunch of flowers.

 I simply hot glued them all together and used some hot glue to add some buttons of the centre of the flowers. Then I arranged them around the hoop and glued them on.

I finished up by adding some string, bells and black and white ribbon to the top. This ended up being a really simple project to make and was super fun!

Christmas Challenge #33: Fabric Wrapped

I had this fabric that I recently purchased and I just had to use it to wrap a gift.

I guess that I should have hemmed the edges but I'm really not that fancy :) so I just went with it.

I'm really loving how this turned out and also loving that this wrapping won't end up in the bin, it will be able to either be reused to wrap another gift or make something else!

Christmas Challenge #32: Gift Wrapped

So I used the paper that I made to wrap a gift!

So there you have it, one gift wrapped! The first gift of many!

Christmas Challenge #31: Gift Wrapping Paper

This post is super simple and super quick! I have made some wrapping paper with a roll of ikea paper and some paints from Kmart, and yes my fingers!

These photos are not very glamorous but I hope to put these papers to good use very soon. They were very relaxing to make and also really cheap. I may just end up making all of my wrapping paper!

Christmas Challenge #30: More Cards

I just had to pop in and share these Christmas Cards that were created with close to my heart products. I made them at a card making night and it was so nice to just be able to play with pretty stamps and paper!

If you would like to purchase anything you see in this post you can find out more about them Here!

Christmas Challenge #29: Deer Napkins

I picked up some cute deer fabric at spotlight on sale, you know because nobody wants to buy christmas fabric this early...but I do!

I decided to make these really simple napkins with it. I simply took equal parts of the fabric and hemmed each side.

Because they are such neutral colours I think they would go with many different table settings.

Who doesn't like a bit of gold and a deer head right??

Phew thats one more thing off of my list!