Happy Thursday everyone! I hope you are having a great week wherever you are. It's finally feeling like winter here in Central Alberta - the snow started falling on Tuesday and I will admit, it *does* look pretty. :)
This week's challenge at the 4 Crafty Chicks is brought to us by Tamie and she is challenging us all to create "Anything BUT a Card!" When I first sat down to work on this challenge, I thought I would pop over to Splitcoast and check out their 3-D projects for something I hadn't tried before. But once I got there I couldn't find anything that got me excited. I went into my cupboard and found an unaltered paint can, some lunch tins, some ceramic tiles and some glass ornaments - I could use one of those, right? Well, I *could* but it seemed like too much work at the time! LOL But, lo and behold, in my cupboard I also found a bag of Stampin' Up! Decor Elements that I hadn't used yet. Hmmmm... Those are pretty quick and easy... it might just work...
I found the Thoughts and Prayers Tree and a quote that I thought would work together and set off to work. I wanted to use them on a picture frame like I did a couple of years ago but I didn't have any empty frames left. What to do?? Well, I was kind of getting tired of this picture in this frame soooooo... I recycled it! LOL
Remember when I said I wanted something that wasn't too much work? Well, this wasn't it. It *would* have been but I had a few mishaps along the way; first, I broke the glass on the first frame. Thankfully I had an identical frame in the kitchen I could snag the glass from. Then it took FOREVER to get the DE to transfer completely from the non-sticky to sticky side of the paper... those little leaves were being persnickety! In the end, I absolutely LOVE how it turned out:
A close-up of the tree - I love the shadows and dimension of having the Decor Elements on the outside of the glass:
This project also fits in with this week's challenge over at Creative Inspirations to use trees on our project as well as Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge to alter something.
I know that the rest of the Crafty Chicks did some pretty amazing 3-D projects so make sure you stop by their blogs and leave them some love! I can't wait to see what you all come up with - maybe you can get some Christmas presents done?? Have fun!
9 comments:
Oh these are beautiful hun, so classy! Thanks for joining us this week with our theme of Winter Wood Land at Creative Inspirations Wednesday's Challenge Blog! xxx
Beautifully done! LOVE that tree and you have framed it wonderfully.
Oh My Word, You've done a gorgeous job of this. What a wonderful piece. Makes me want to take my tree off my wall and start over!!! Guess I could have various trees growing around the house. LOL
Nicely done, very cool...I like this idea...might snag it...Awesome!
WOW! How fantastic - so impressed!! xx
A really effective idea! Very elegant. Thanks for joining in with our Winter Woodland theme over at Wednesday's Creative Inspirations Challenge Blog! Hugs. Katy xxx
Well your work was certainly worth it ... this is GORGEOUS!! Thanks for joining us at Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge and sharing this beautiful work-of-art! Hope to see you again real soon!
Beautiful project! Thanks for playing along with us at Penny's!!
Courtney~
LOVE IT!! I have that tree and have been wanting to do something like this with it. Thanks for the extra push I needed!
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