Elegant Handcrafted Angel Ornament

Handcrafted and handmade angle ornaments are all beautiful in their own right. Yet I struggled with this design. I wanted mine to have the elegance and beauty we all associate with angels. I believe I was able to capture that within this final design.

(If you are here to view the HELMAR & MAY ARTS BLOG HOP scroll down it is the post below this one. Thanks!)

Gold and Silver adorns the wings and states words representing the spirit of an angelic presence and holiday season, HOPE, PEACE, BELIEVE, JOY, NOEL and FAITH.

The wings are sealed with Helmar Crackle Steps One and Two. Then finished off with coordinating inks and embellishments like feathers and crystal. Helmar 450 Quick Dry Adhesive was sued to adhere the feathers and phrases.

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Decorating Doors with Helmar

Hello everyone! I am so excited to share with you today a sign I made for my dear daughter. Last month I shared with you all a sign I made for my son's bedroom door. My son loved it so much and my daughter envied it as much so I had to make her one also! Best Creations "Ballet Princess" papers made it so easy!



Like a lot of girls her age she is into ballet and all things pink. She absolutely adores this sign. The ballerina has been fancy cut out of the Best Creations "Ballet Princess" line and I added a tutu with some Helmar 450. Look at all this wonderful glitter. That all came on the paper, perfectly sealed and no flaking!


The sign is an MDF base shape that I got a long time ago on clearance. I used Helmar Premium Craft Glue to adhere the paper to the sign. Then, I layered Helmar Crackle Step 1 and Step 2 over the paper. I ran a dark pink chalk ink over the edges to highlight the crackle. I really LOVE this stuff!



The Best Creations line "Ballet Princess" also has some wonderful sayings and signs. This frame was blank and I added some stickers to title it Trinity's "Studio". The stickers were white and I painted them with some Smooch. I love changing things up! I used Helmar's Liquid Scrap Dots to raise and adhere the stars and Helmar's 450 to adhere the flowers, the eyelash ribbon, beading and grunge board letters.


I hope you have enjoyed all the wonderful Helmar posts this week and in the weeks to come.

A Penny Saved, is a Penny earned...

Hello Everyone!
A few weeks ago I posted a project where I recovered my extreme coupon binder. Today, I am showing you a project that is an extension of this one.
This is my coupon cabinet. I bought this at a garage sale for $15 can you believe it? I love this small cabinet to contain all my coupon goodies. Inside one of the doors it had a white board that had marker on it that would not come off! So I decided to recover the white board... of course!
I was so excited to use the new Maya Road Cloth Dress Form, and of course I just love the Helmar Crackle over the template, from The Crafter's Workshop, I used to make the center design. Not to mention, I was so excited to create a paper dress after seeing them at the winter CHA. I just wish this one was bigger so I could make it more detailed.

Here is the before of the cabinet...

I took off the stickers with the Helmar Adhesive Remover (test this in a hidden area to make sure it is good for the surface you will be using it on), cleaned it up and spot stained the scratches.
Here is how I recovered this door. First I lightly sanded the white board and cleaned it with water and a towel. Once it was dried I began the adhering process, with Helmar Craft Glue because it works great on metal (that is what a white board is made up of). Be careful, this is a solvent glue and sometimes can damage surfaces like the finished wood! If you are concerned please test it in a small area you don't normally see. Or be very careful with how thick you put it on this project and where you put it.

Putting several strips of Helmar Craft Glue up and down the length of the paper then fallowing it quickly with the next step before the glue dried.

Using a Pampered Chef pan scraper (I have a few of these in my scraproom) I smoothed out the glue under the paper. Then repeated these two steps until the pages were fully adhered to the white board.
After embellishing the background and using stickers for my quote, I created a fun paper dress on the Maya Road Dress Form. I just love how it turned out. I love it so much I will probably make a larger more detailed one. I just fell in love with this idea from CHA! In this photo you can see a bit of the layers of crackle and the puff paint I used to add depth to the center design on the background.

What do you think? I just love making my home more beautiful and Helmar makes it so much easier!
Thanks for taking the time to read my post. Have a Happy Scrappy Day!

Helmar & Best Creations Inc. dance right out of this world! ((Giveaway - Read how to enter))

Good afternoon Everyone!

Here is my post for the week over at the Helmar Blog. I hope you enjoy it!

"I am so excited to share with you my projects I have been creating with the most wonderful papers around. Best Creation Inc. and Helmar partnered up this week and wow, what a ride it has been. I have had a great time with these papers. They are a very nice printed quality accented with the greatest (non-flaking) glitter coating! No mess!!! Now, love glitter in my hair maybe a bit more then the next girl but ... no mess... that is just amazing!

I had so much fun with the Robots line from Best Creation Inc. My son saw this paper and immediately wanted a sign for his door... he also wanted me to add, "Trinity NOT Allowed!" That would be for his sister... LOL... like those three words would be some magic force field protecting his room from her. Well I said no, thus shattering that force field dream. However, he does love his new sign for his door.

Best Creation Inc. and Helmar are extremely good partners. I love to fussy cut and Helmar makes all those detail images just pop out of the project. I love the dimension you can create with Helmar‘s Zap Dots and Liquid Scrap dots. On this project I only used Liquid Scrap Dots because the height and levels are all adjustable when you work with a liquid. This product is one of my favorites to use! I placed Liquid Scrap Dots at the bottom of the images around the planet. Once it dried they are very secure. Also I used them to lift up the spaceship, rocket, and planet on the front of the project and to lift up the yellow ring around the planet.

My next favorite product from Helmar is their Crackle Medium! Now I have to say that this is the very first time trying this product. It is so easy to do and just look at the results! I inked, spritzed and doodled on the planet before applying Helmar 's Crackle Medium (step 1 and 2).

Once step 2 was dry I took some blue craft in on a sponge and accented around the edge of the planet and in the craters. I then wiped off the excess blue ink with a clean dry paper towel. This left the blue ink inside the cracks in those areas and I just LOVE how it fades in and out around the planet! Don't you?

This Super Star LO is one I have wanted to do for a while but usually I have a harder time scrapbooking in primary colors and in a boyish style. My son is seen here with his first science project he did in the first grade. I love the proud look on his face. These Best Creation Inc. Robot papers made this page a breeze!

I used Helmar's Zap Dots to layer everything up all the gears. The word "Super" is raised by the wonderful Liquid Scrap Dots, because it was to thin to use the squares or circles of the Zap Dots. Helmar 's got the right tool for every job.

Now it is time for my favorite project of the week... mostly because it is pink and about dancing, two of my 10 ten favorite things. It also has my favorite daughter in it (she is my only daughter... LOL). This is a shadow box I got a while a go on clearance... it is from Martha Stewart. I thought it would be the perfect stage for my daughter's dancing photos. Look at her cute little friends that came by from the Ballet Princess line over at Best Creation Inc.

The adhesives of choice on this project were Helmar 's Zap Dots, Quick Fix Adhesive Runner and the best liquid glue... Helmar's 450! The 450 was used to adhere the ribbon and the clear sequin trims around the edge of the box. Also under all the flowers. The Zap Dots were used behind the curtain to adhere the close-up photo of my daughter and behind her body shot photo to raise her up from the back of the box. Using these Zap Dots gave this shadow box all the shadows it needed to create depth and dimension.

Pst.. .remember I mentioned my love for glitter… here it is! See it on the curtains? The coating they use to put their glitter on is great! Notice there is no glitter flakes flying all around inside of the shadow box?

I know we usually chat about the 450 and Zap Dots being the bee's knees a lot and for good reason... but today I want to chat about Helmar 's Quick Fix Adhesive Runner. I have to say it is really amazing! It glides on with ease and leaves a solid strip of adhesive. Has less "boogers" than other tape runners I have used and it has a great hold! Usually I would have used the 450 on the ribbon around the sides here but I wanted to try out this Quick Fix Adhesive Runner on the ribbon. It went on very smooth over all the grosgrain bumps and gave it a seamlessly smooth finish once adhered to the box.

I hope you have enjoyed reading up on all the fun projects and wonderful products I have had the pleasure to create with this week. I hope you all have the same opportunity with these Best Creation Inc. papers and of course the best adhesive in the world... Helmar!

This week's Helmar Giveaway can be found HERE that the Helmar Blog!

There is one spectacular day left of this beautiful partnership. Don't forget to come back tomorrow to see more creations with this winning combo."