Quick decoration for Easter w/ Love My Tapes

Hello, I have a cute, fun & easy Easter project for you today.
 I have these fun little wooden magnets my husband cut out for me a few years ago when he made me a wire decoration for my living room, to hang my newly made layouts from. The magnets go over the screws he used to attach the decoration to the wall.

I'm constantly changing the layouts I hang from the decoration, so it's really fun to have these little magnets to change to go along with the current holiday. I put a base coat on them, but then wasn't sure what else to do, because, well..., its fun to change them each year, right?

Enter Love My Tapes!

Washi tapes were the perfect solution. Each holiday I can pull the magnets out, take the tape off from the year before and put some fun new tape on!

Here I've picked 4 different polka-dot colors from the store; yellow dots, purple dots, blue dots, & green dots. Then I layered them closely over each of my eggs.

Next you trim the edges with your scissors as close as you can then push the tape down along the edges.

Finish your eggs with a bit of ink or pen work. 

Here is what they look like hanging on my wall:

(click photo for a larger view)

Easy, fun, beautiful and different every year!

Thanks for stopping by,

:)Ange

Goodbye 2014, Hello 2015

 Happy New Year!

As we welcome in 2015 I just want to take a minute to say goodbye to 2014.

Just a little post of a few of my favorites.

I had a lot of fun with patterns, misting and washi tape in 2014.
Can't wait to see what 2015 produces!

Have a great one everybody!

:)Ange

Bows Tutorial w/ Moxxie

 Hello!

I have a fun little tutorial today.

I used the super cute Happy Pawlidays line from Moxxie.

(Enter to WIN it Here.)

to make these 2 bows:

I started with 16- 1/2inch strips of pp
4- 10 inches long
3- 9 inches
3- 8 inches
3- 7 inches
3- 6 inches
& 1 strip 3 inches long and 3/4 inches wide

Then take one of the longest strips, I want the stripes to show, so I turn it over and take one end to fold into the middle like this and glue it:

Then you take the other end and fold it into the middle for a figure 8, I glued all of mine but you could use staples:

After you have all of your strips (except the 3/4 inch one) glued you start layering them and gluing the middles together:

My bow got really full before I used all of the strips, so I just started another one. To finish you take the 3/4 inch strip, glue it into a circle and then add it to the center. For the smaller bow I just cut the center strip to a shorter length and trimmed it down a bit in width. I didn't measure it. And here is another look at what I ended up with:

Have fun!
:)Ange

Linked to Paper Issues. 

Moxxie Holiday Challenge & Hop!

Hello and welcome to the Moxxie Holiday Challenge and Hop!
(I'm the last stop on the hop, if you'd like to start at the beginning go HERE)

Our theme this month is Holiday/Winter/Christmas

and the prize, you say? 

Oh just one of these amazing lines!

 For all your furry friend's fun, holiday antics!

This line is perfect for documenting all of that holiday fun, but it's not just for your pets. Check out the awesome projects our designers created with this line, pets or no this is perfect for the holidays!

But if you're not in the market for this fun holiday line you can opt for the gorgeous Winterland!

Details on how to win are below and here is our fantastic line-up of inspiration:
(Remember to leave some love at each blog for extra prize entries)

Julie McGowan
 Wendi Robinson
 Daniella Hayes
Jennifer Taylor (aka JenT)
 Joan Liddle
Samantha Taylor

Renee Robbins

Amelia Harris 

 Amy Allred

Leslie Mitchell
 Rebecca Price

Ange Weisbeck (You are here)

And here is my project created using mostly Happy Pawlidays:

I started with this wood that my husband cut out for me from scraps:

Then paint.
(I tend to get carried away and forget I don't have to paint the areas that will be covered with paper. lol)

Then I laid each piece on my paper, traced it, cut it out and added it to the wood piece using Mod Podge.

Sand and ink the edges and you're almost done.

Add some stickles to the star. (the star pp is from the volleyball line and the tree trunk from Autumn Glory)
I finished off by fussy cutting the ornaments from the Happy Pawlidays line to decorate my tree.

 To be eligible to WIN all you have to do is comment on the Moxxie blog.
(US addresses only please) 

Extra chances to win include:
  Comment- on any (or all) of the designers blogs
  Facebook- share the blog hop post (let us know by leaving a link on the Moxxie blog)
  Pinterest- pin any (or all) of these wonderful projects (leave a link for each pin on the Moxxie blog)
  Challenge- Enter your holiday/winter project/lo in our challenge! 3 extra entries if you use MOXXIE product! Link directly to your project or project post. (link up using the inlinkz tool at the bottom of this page)

Commenting and Challenge end Dec 31st. 

Winner announced Fri. Jan 2nd.

Thanks for hopping!

:)Ange

Linked to Paper Issues.

It's all about volleyball decor!

So you may have noticed my blogging has been spotty lately. Sorry about that but life has a way of interrupting right? However, it didn't slow down my crafting!

My awesome daughter and her totally awesome high school volleyball team made it to state this year!!

We are SO proud of them and how hard they worked and played. Here's a shot of my daughter hitting during in one of the district games.

This hit took a wicked angle and landed just behind the other team's 10 foot line across the court. In Volleyball that's called a Kill.

The other mom's and I did a lot of spoiling and decorating. This is a shot of their lockers before districts:

 I made a super cute treat with a bite size chocolate bar attached but I forgot to get a photo of it before I put them up.

Here's a photo of our front door all decorated for going to state:

I made that huge volleyball with my silhouette. 

It's 12x12 in size.

Here's a closeup:

I cut the volleyball lines from white, the ball background from blue, the numbers from yellow using a font off my computer and the shadows from black. After assembling the balls I had time to add a bit of decoration. So I used my blue pen and added the dashes for faux stitching.

 

I did one for each girl on the team and one for the coach.

Thanks for stopping by today.

I hope you have a super crafty weekend.

:)Ange