American Flag Wreath created in honor of our country's Independance Day - Happy 4th of July!

Good Morning every one! It's the beautiful month of July! I love this month don't you? Here is a fantastic project I want to share in honor of my country's Independence Day, July 4th.

Happy 4th of July, Everyone!

 

This is a special project because my daughter made this for me (we made a second one for you!)... she is nine now. Believe it or not I only helped her measure (so we bought the correct amount of supplies) & cut. She did all the rest of the work, under my supervision. I am so proud of her! 

This item is up for sale or if you would like to order one you may contact us through our Etsy store: Uniquely Grace or on the Facebook page I have created for her items, "You are Tutu Cute". She is dedicated to dancing and has decided she would like to expand her dance education. She is creating items to sell and taking orders for not only wreaths, she also creates tutus, tutu dresses and pet tutus.

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Winter Wonderland Wreath - Upcycled from plastic grocery bags

PHOTO POST! This one is about a up-cycled wreath I made this year. This wreath is made up of Plastic Grocery Bags, a dollar store wreath and some floral stems from the craft store. Enjoy this winter wonder land!

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Decorating on a Dollar - Trick or Treat Wreath.

Today I am going to show you how to take a 12" $1 store foam wreath and turn it into an 18"-20" holiday decoration. This wreath is on display and for sale at Dinah's On D St. Bookstore. Please feel free to contact her or myself if you are interested in purchasing it.

Begin with a $1 wreath from the Dollar Store. Some Acid Free Glue from Helmar and a smidgeon of water. I thinned out the Acid Free glue with a bit of water in a disposable cup. Using a brush with the glue and strips of newspaper strips to the wreath. I chose this glue because of the finish it has when it dries. It sealed the paper with tough, flexible surface.

Once the wreath is dry use Helmar Premium Craft Glue to help adhere book pages that are rolled and stapled in a cone shape.

Using Helmar Premium Craft Glue allows a little slower dry time for you to place and adjust the book pages into a circle and place the points where you like them. Continue all the way around the wreath adding width and volume. You need to have a hole about 5"-6" wide in the center.

Print a circular frame off of the computer on cardstock. Cut a circle around it and ink the edges with a complimentary color to the crape paper in the next step. Place it upside down for the next step.

Using Premium Craft Glue from Helmar, glue black (or any other desired streamers) crape paper streamers around the back of the printed frame.

Measure the center of the printed frame and cut a circle out of coordinating (with the desired glitter as seen in the first photo) cardstock to fit inside of it. Spray Helmar V2 Vellum Adhesive to cover the entire circle and let it sit (per instructions on the back of the can) for a few minutes.

Then glitter with desired color of glitter. Glue this circle into the center of the printed frame with either some Helmar V2 Vellum Adhesive or Helmar 450 Quick Dry. Using a die cut machine cut a silhouette image out of black cardstock and use Helmar 450 Quick Dry to adhere it to the center of the printed frame and glittered circle. I used the trick or treat witch image from the Cricut Cartridge "A Child's Year".

Glue the Printed, glittered image over the center of the wreath and use Helmar 450 Quick Dry to glue it down to the inside of the rolled book pages. Once dry tie a ribbon or string around the top of the wreath to hang it from the back.
Hope you enjoyed this project.

Reuse, Recycle, & Ribbon Blog Hop! - "C is for..."

Welcome to the Reuse, Recycle, & Ribbon Blog Hop! All of us bloggers were brought together by www.creamcityribbon.com and their wonderful products.

So lets get hopping!!!! I am the third stop on the list and you should have come from here... Mandie at Mandie's Scrappin'. After you check out my Reuse, Recycle, and Ribbon project you will see the next blog at the bottom.

GIVE AWAY! - I will have one winner randomly chosen from the comments on my left on this post. You must comment anytime on Friday until 11:59 pm PST to be eligible to win and you must also fallow my blog so we can keep in touch! You will receive a Holiday Scrapbooking RAK from me including some of the wonderful unique Cream City Ribbon and some beautiful DCWV Holiday Collection Papers! Doesn't that sound great?

My hubby would say that is a bad thing... but then again he has the Beastie boys song "She's Craft" as my ring ton on his phone and he always does the shifty eyes when he talks with someone about my creativeness. LOL.

Here is an item I made for the Michales Holiday Magic Contest on their FB page. I love Michaels and all the wonderful things I find in there... so here is a bit of a tutorial also.

Supplies:
1 - book (preferably paper back and one you wont read again) with aged pages
2 - small branches from a tree
3 - yards (give or take depending on the size of the next item) of yarn
1 - large 12" letter, number or symbol... either chipboard, cardboard or foam core
1 - wire or straw wreath base (if using straw you will need a piece of fabric to wrap around it till it is covered)
1 - hot glue gun and glue
1 - sheet of printable transparency
3 - clear ornaments
3-4 - public domain images from the internet
3 - glittered wire floral curls
1 - yard of Cream City Ribbon
2 - yards or so of gold thread
Brown ink pad
Bronze and Gold Ritzy Ditzy Glitz

STEP 1 - Ink all outer edges of the book pages in brown.
STEP 2 – Rip pages gently from binding and ink remaining last side of pages

STEP 3- Roll all pages need into a cone shape with one corner being the point adhere closed with glue dots.

STEP 4 – If using a straw wreath, wrap it in a light colored fabric strips, securing fabric with hot glue.

STEP 5 - Use hot glue gun to adhere cones to wreath base. Start with back row first finishing with the front row.

STEP 6 – Mist edges of cones with a metallic misting spray and let dry.

STEP 7 – Wrap desired yarn around large chipboard letter and secure it with hot glue.

STEP 8 - Tie yarn into a series of knots to create berries. Hot glue the berries onto the twigs.

STEP 9 – Print desired images onto transparency paper in the correct size to fit into the plastic ornaments. Color if needed, cut out and roll to insert into plastic ornament.

STEP 10 – Glue the Cream City Ribbon under one page cone on the front layer of the wreath. Weave above and under pages all around the wreath, repeat with gold thread if desired. Here you can see the Natural Red Cream City Ribbon doing this.

STEP 11 - Find one blank page in your book, remove it and print your journaling onto the book page. Mist it with your metallic mist and let dry. (See pic for step 7)

STEP 12 – Assembly. Arrange all items to achieve desired look and hot glue into place.

STEP 13 – Cut a piece of yarn 1 1/2 “ft long. Fold in half and knot the two cut edges together. You now should have a loop of yarn. Tie it at the top of your wreath around the straw base. This is how you will hang the wreath, make sure it is not visible when it is on the wall.

If you give it a try you need to know you might need a good movie and some snacks that wont melt in your hands... hehe!

Are you enjoying the hopping so far? What kinda of off the page projects do you like to make?

Here's a list of blogs that you'll hop to with us today. Take a peek!

Nikki at Nikki, In Stitches

Mandie at Mandie's Scrappin'

YOU ARE HERE ---> Grace at Grace's Scrap Attic

YOUR NEXT STOP IS ---> Kim at Kreative Krafts

Meighen at Scrappin_3rdeeschik

Chris at Turned Gypsy

Tracey at The Cropping Canuck

Thanks for checking my post out!