Fairy House

Hello Everybody!

I am super excited to share with you my most recent project!  Like seriously excited! First, I have to tell you that this is the first time I have ever made a Fairy House (or any place for a mystical creature to live.) Second there are a lot of pictures.  So I am going to take care of business first-and then please feel free to proceed on if your time allows :)

So here is my before and after photos:

I would like to submit this Fairy House to the following Challenges:

Frilly and Funkie: Home Sweet Home


Mixed Media Warriors: #40  Old to New

I have to first tell you also where my inspiration came from.  I was scrolling Instagram like I do and came across this house that Adrijana at Paper Beauty AK posted.  And I like fell in love with it.  Crazy-I know but it totally inspired me to make my house.  So Thank you Adrijana!  

I have had this house for about 2 years.  I bought it at Goodwill in August 2017.  My husband and I used to go to thrift stores a LOT and I would collect wood things with the hopes of transforming them into other things.  I buy faster than I create LOL.  And it's been awhile since I made anything this big (usually I make cards and scrapbook pages).  

                                        

It's funny because when I have shown a couple of people the before picture they say "oh that's cute."  And it makes me feel bad because all I saw was a project.  LOL  It's about an inch or so thick.  Before I decorated it-the house could stand on it's own.

I cleaned the dust off with a wet rag.  And started to gesso it.  Then I realized I didn't want the shutters-so I took those off.  The little nails were left behind so I left them there.  

I added Power Tex 3-D balls (some might call them art rocks) and painted the house white (Martha Stewart Paint).

On the right you an see the supplies and the finished paint.

Inspired by the other house-I wanted to use a nest too.  This is a Melissa Frances nest and those are Dollar Tree golden eggs.  You can find these kind of nests at Hobby Lobby also (like in the moss or fairy house section I cannot remember which).  I hot glued the eggs inside but not the nest just yet.

I painted the roof gray.

The roof makes me want to have a PayDay candy bar.  This is little gravel that came with a beta fish set.  I did not use the gravel for the fish because I refuse to clean dirty fish gravel.  So these are clean straight out of the bag and I used hot glue to apply them.  I only burned myself like 3 times.  ;)

I used my silhouette machine to make windows and a door.  The cut files came from the Silhouette Design Store.  I took clear extra laminating and applied yellow tim holtz alcohol ink.  Then I cut them to fit the window and glued them on with glossy accents.

I painted the underside of the roof a beige color.  It was gray before and didn't look right.  Then I added spring green paint mixed with white and dabbed it off with a paper towel.  This was cool because it created a lighter more organic feel.  The inspiration house is what gave me that idea.  That's one of the things I loved about it.

I wanted dimension and I figured an awning above the door would be a perfect way to accomplish that.  I took some light cardboard and cut it into pieces and curved them.  I covered them with these fake leaves I found in my stash.  I used hot glue to adhere and then I added more leaves to the front of the awnings.  

The door-I painted with tim holtz distress mustard seed.  Adhered material to the window using mod podge fabric glue.  That stuff is awesome for adhering fabric (me just sayin').  Bliss sign that came in a scrapbook kit and an orange brad for the door knob.

So here is what it looks like now.  Time for some greenery!  I added paper grass to the front and it's a Lawn Fawn die.  Then in my stash (gifted to me) are the green "bushes." I added moss (so fun!  and totally inspired) and then I found some little critters to put in places.  Also, I glue on the nest.

Ta-Da!  I painted a wood veneer butterfly pick raspberry (TH Distress Paint).  I bought moss from the Dollar Tree and Hobby Lobby.  There are many different types of moss.  :)

Outside Picture

Side View

Other Side 

Inside Picture

And these are closeups of the little critters I found-that I didn't remember having.  LOL

And here it is again.  All finished.

If you made it this far--thank you and big hugs!  Until next time my friends...stay creative! :)

Thursday of Earth Week

Hello Everybody!

Hope your week is going well!  I don't have a project tonight, my mojo wanted a break ;)  But a friend of mine had a treasure for me today!

A little while back I asked a group of friends if they had games with missing parts that they were going to get rid of.  And my pal Nicole did!  So let me show you what I got:

2 Different Operations-the Spiderman one has Hulk money!  A boggle, a Disney Princess Monopoly, Guess Who?, and a Chutes and Ladders game board.  I am so excited!

Here is a peak into the Disney Princess games.  Fun cards!  I see more upcycling in my future!! :)

Until next time my friends...what cool things will you upcycle?

Tidbit Tuesday-Garage Sales

Hello Everybody!

Happy Tuesday to you!  This weekend we went to garage sales.  There were garage sales galore!  And I had to share some of my finds with you.  This come at at great time because of Earth Week here at Cut and Paste, this is about not throwing stuff away but selling it in hopes for the seller to earn money, and the buyer to extend the life of stuff.

So here is an overview of what I bought.

Zippers for .50.  They are longer than normal pants zippers-there are 4 of them.  I think I use them with my Glubers and make flowers out of them.

This is a white butterfly applique-.25.

A medicine jar of googly eyes-LOL 50 cents (was .75 but I negotiated down)

This little suitcase magnet for .25.  I think it will look good on something altered...

A Creative Memories corner rounder.  I used to have one and lost it somewhere-it even had my name on it.  But that's ok, I have a new one now and though the sticker says $8-I paid $1 for it.  Score!

Blue Moon charms-I offered a quarter, she said she had to have .50 that they cost a lot more than .50.  Yes I know, I have bought charms too.  So 50 cents in is and I still scored!

Wooden circle letters, they seem like a generic craft item.  Twenty-five cents!  A little distress ink and these babies will be stylin' and profilin' in no time!

Plastic clovers--they're always after me plastic clovers!  LOL  For a quarter how could I not be after the plastic clovers?  I already have an idea for them!

Touille.  3 different kinds and a gold netting for .50.  They are remnants but this is awesome.  In scrapbooking and cardmaking this is enough for... I don't know--ever!

And oh yes...the buttons.  Now I may have paid too much for this little collection of buttons.  But I think they are very cool.  They were $3.  It was an older lady who said her husband was 90 years old and they were downsizing.  She had gotten rid of old cook books and it was time to get rid of some of her craft stuff.  These buttons were her grandmother's button.  I don't know about the antiquities of buttons but they are very cool.  So if I paid too much for the buttons, I made up for it with a great story :)

These plastic and not so dramatic buttons were .50.

So for a mere $7.50 I got some cool stuff I think!  They have been absorbed into my collection so hopefully you will be getting to see some of them real soon!  I've already used a pair of googly eyes on Sunday's Cricut dinosaur.

Thanks for stopping by!  Until next time my friends...stop by that garage sale-you never know what you'll find!

Tidbit Tuesday--Look in Unexpected Places

Happy Tuesday Everybody!!

Just in case you didn't realize--Thanksgiving is next Thursday.  I'm just throwing that out there because I thought since my turkey cards were made I was going to be early.  But I realized that they may not be the case if I don't get those envelopes stamped and ready to go!

Yesterday I was at Target.  Let me just say they don't pay me anything (nobody does at the moment...but that can change!)  to say Target ;)  So I always look in the scrapbooking isle, but this time the goodies for scrapbooking were to be found in the ornament isle.  Take a look at this...

They are like felt laser embellishments.  They had a few different colors but the shapes were trees and hearts.  I am going to use the heart for a Valentine's day card I think.  More to come on that later!

You can see the ornaments aren't too thick...

In case no one were to believe me...3 ornaments for $1.  That is an embellishment for .33!  (Prices may differ in some areas.)  So I am very excited about this very unexpected find!

Until next time my friends...stay on the look out!

Halloween cards on a Budget!

Hello Everybody!

I am so excited to say that I made 2 cards from 1 packet of my fabulous Target find from Tuesday.  Let's get started!

The first card I use my normal card base, scissors, and glue (dry glue--photo splits).  I'm telling you this because I thought, what if I didn't have stamps or punches or a bunch of different scrappy things.  So the first card is just paper and the basic of the basics...

Included in the pack is plain black paper.  I cut it to the size of my card.  I use dry glue because this is not a thick paper and wet glue may cause the paper to buckle.

I started cutting words out of this cool paper.  I started from the bottom, that way I can use the rest of the paper in a different project.

I cut out the squares with Halloween icons from this paper.  I cut from the left here...the icons are different in each column.  I didn't start from the bottom because some of the icons are cut off. 

I adhere the squares along the top and bottom of my card.  The squares are 2 toned from the paper, and I keep them that way. 

Now I add the words that I cut out.  I cut my photo splits in half so the adhesive is hidden.  The inside is blank.  If you have a Happy Halloween stamp put it on the inside or hand write it. 

My next card I used some of the things I already have.  I cut the spider paper to the size of my card.  This paper came from the first set of papers where the words and icons came from.

I have this "yarn" stuff.  I don't know what it's called because I've had it for a long time and don't have the label for it anymore.  But what I do with it is easy.  I just wind it around my finger a few times.

I made a little ball.

I get my red line sheet adhesive out and cut a small circle out of it.  Taking the backing off of the sheet, I place the circle in the middle of the card.

Then I take off the top part of the circle to expose the sticky adhesive.  I put the little ball of yarn on top of that and try to hide the end of the yarn on the underside where the adhesive is.

I add googly eyes to the ball using Ranger's Glossy Accents (a wet glue).  You may can use glue dots too, you just want to make sure the eyes stick to the texture of the yarn ball.  This is going to be a spider (as if you didn't already know)!  Then I cut eight "legs" out, trying to keep them about the same size.

With the Glossy Accents I make a thin glue line with the joint for the spider leg.  Then I carefully put down 1 of the short pieces of yarn on the glue.

All done!  One thing to keep in mind is the bulk of the spider body.  You may want to put it in a larger envelope so it will arrive safely to its destination.  A substitution would be to use regular black yarn, and you could add glitter to it to make it snazzy!  Until next time my friends....stay spooky!