Creative Chaos

Tutorial on Melissa Frances Blog Today.......

Check out Melissa Frances blog today for a tutorial on how to make this glass glitter star ornament. I used one of the Melissa Frances brooches on the center to give it a little bling.  

I love making these glitter stars.  I made a bunch for Christmas gifts and to sell at Paper Tales.  

Have fun!

I love making these stars..... 

Once again.......

I've been writing this post since December 8th with full intentions to get back to the blogging business.  But alas, time gets away from me and the next thing I know it's three days before Christmas. Sigh... A big shout out to my remaining five readers who have stuck with me on this blog...you guys are the best!

In the meantime, here are some things that I've been working on......

 

I taught another "Hoarders" class at Paper Tales where we made a Christmas mini book. Here are some pages......

 

Work in progress....

 

 

I recently bought the Lawn Fawn letter dies and have been obsessed with cutting the letters in felt.....

 

 

I have been writing this post since last Sunday.......

and I kept getting side tracked by children and substitute teaching.  Oh and this.......

My camera became water drenched due to a spilled water cup...uggggg.  Luckily, the pictures I did take were still ok on the card.  However, the camera didn't fare as well. uggggg.....

So here are some of the things I've been working on.......beautiful glass glitter.....

 

All sorts of ruffled trees.......

 

Christmas decorating at Paper Tales........

 

Cute ornaments at Paper Tales.....

 

 

 

 

Randi's fun Kawaii treat containers.....

 

Melissa Frances dome and trees drenched in glitter.....

Talk to you soon! Karin

 

 

 

 

Christmas Inspiration......

 

Halloween...poof.  Here I am crafting for Christmas.  Lately, it's been a whirlwind of activities and time with the kids, substitute teaching, teaching classes/working at Paper Tales and getting our vacation rental up and running.   In the in between time, I often wonder where blogging fits in for me.  I have some thoughts about it...I'll be back to talk about it some more.  In the meantime here is some crafting inspiration.......

 

 

 

 

 

 

A little more Halloween.....

I wanted to share with you some super cute little Halloween decorations that I received as a gift the other day.  One of the ladies taking my Halloween glitter house class last week made me this cute little glow in the dark ghost cupcake.......

Brenda and her friend Sheila had taken my faux cupcake class and were inspired to create these Halloween ones.  Brenda gifted me the one with the ghosts on it.  And Sheila made this little witch one......

She also made these super cute hats.......

And this treat box......

Talk to you soon!  Karin




 

Halloween Mini House #2 .........

is complete!  Here is the second gitter house house I made using the Melissa Frances chipboard houses. The one above is the cottage.  This one is the church style.......

I made a little banner to hang from the tree.......

and a little ghost for the top of the house......

I painted one of the Melissa Frances resin keyhole embellishments to use on the house......

I taught the class this last Sunday.  Here is a whole village of spooky glitter houses from some of the students......

And some cupcakes that one of the gals in the class made.  Pumpkin with cheesecake frosting........

Here are a few of the bags of kits for the class.......

Talk to you soon!  Karin





 

Halloween: Still in progress......

I have been working on these little Hallowee treat cups for the past couple weeks.  They have been sitting on my desk patiently waiting for me since I painted them black.  I finally had a chance to sit down and finish them up the other day......

I used the Melissa Frances chipboard "Treat Cup" to make them.  They are really easy to make and the possibilities are endless for decoration......

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Halloween in progress......

These are the tags that I was working on last year.   I fear they are going back into the box in a few weeks the same way they came out of the box.   Sigh....

So many ideas.....so little time....

I'm excited about these guys though.  They are the Melissa Frances chipboard containers.......

A New House in the Neighborhood

I had so much fun working on this Halloween house that I added another one to the neighborhood......

 

Complete with a ghost.....

This house is still a work in progress.  The little bottle brush trees didn't work with this one because the base was too small.  I was too lazy to cut and glitter another one so I came up with the spooky tree solution.  

Made with leftover wire from my flower picks....it only reinforced my belief of never throwing anything away.   I'm hoping to finish it today so hopefully I will have the pictures for you tomorrow!  

Talk to you later! Karin

Boo......

I started one Halloween project so far.......

I made a little Halloween glitter house using Melissa Frances' chipboard houses.   It was so much fun to create this little house.  Of course my love of glitter dictated the decor scheme. 

I can't wait to get started on some more of them......they are kind of addictive.....but in a good way.    

Talk to you soon!  Karin