Adornit Blog Hop

Christmas time is my fav. season because of all the colors, shopping, yummy food, and lots of family parties. Decorating my home is another love and I love these hanging wood ornaments! I am going to hang them in the corner of my family room. I choose fun bright and kinda busy patterns. But it would also be fun to use a more monochromatic scheme of papers and more elegant papers. The possibility's are unlimited with this project! I used mod podge to adhere the paper to the wood and cut my ribbon at diff. lengths so that the ornaments will dangle at diff heights. Glitz them up with rhinestones and glitter glue.
Happy holidays and thanks for stopping by on our blog hop.

Please start at the beginning of the hop at www.adornitscrapbook.com/bloghop and if you already have please hop on over to the talented Sarah http://papertree.blogspot.com/

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Halloween Decor-Project 1

Happy Halloween! It's coming up right around the corner. I love decorating my home for fall and I wanted to share some cute projects that I have custom graphic designed the art for. But you can easily adapt this look into your home. The pumpkin plaques look great hung on the wall as a group, or put them on easels (as shown) around your home. To make the pumpkin plaque just use a 8x8 wood board and cover with scrapbook paper, 2nd cut a pumpkin face out of chipboard and adorn it with orange glitter, 3 adhere the pumpkin face to the plaque and then decorate!
Pumpkin Plaque 1

close up view

Pumpkin Plaque 2



Pumpkin Plaque 3

TRASH to FASH

Being newly married has left me with challenges to furnish my home on a budget. But this challenge has been very fun for me, because you have to be very creative and willing to see the potential in an item. So me and my hubby search for things to update and make our own. Our first project together was re-doing our bedroom dresser and a desk for my craft room. On Labor Day I decided to get a few things done on my long list of to do items. One item was an adorable sewing cabinet (that I snatched for ten bucks at a thrift store), a book shelf to put on my scrapbook desk, and a large mirror to attach to my bedroom dresser.

Before it was a worn out piece of wood that was really dark and all dinged up.


After it is a bright and funky addition to my craft room.





I painted the cabinet with a mint green interior paint. Then roughed it up with sand paper along the edges. To top it off I put on adorable ceramic knobs I bought from my fav. store Anthropologie!

Book shelf half finished 15 dollars



And my bedroom mirror that we bought for just 30 dollars


I will post pictures once I finish my shelf and mirror with updated photos. Hope this has inspired you to maybe take a new look at an old crummy piece of furniture and re-make it into something beautiful.

Anniversary

Nathan and I just celebrated our one year anniversary! We spent the day going to antique shops finding little treasures for our home and he even took me to my fav. fabric store. My favorite thing was the beautiful bouquet he had made for me the flowers were the same that I used at my wedding. This past year has flown by so quickly we have had so much fun together and so much has changed for us, but it is fun to settle in our cute little home.

Adornit Blog Hop

Summer time is my favorite time of year. I love the smell of cut green grass, the flowers blooming, all of the time spent with family, and the opportunity to gather with friends for a BBQ. Another part of summer time that I look forward to is attending the local Rodeo. The energetic atmosphere, the patriotic spirit combined with the highly entertaining rodeo events make for a great evening! My favorite event at the rodeo is the clown act and of course the bull riding.

Last week my little sister tried out for Miss Rodeo Utah and our family traveled to Ogden to watch her ride in the presentation ride, and for the Coronation event later in the evening. It was the coolest rodeo I have ever had the chance attend. At the beginning they had 9 people parachute landing in the center of the rodeo. The last man parachuting in had a large American flag attached to him. The American pride from the people was very strong and it was so neat to stand and hear the Osmond brothers sing "God Bless America." It was such a neat experience to share with my hubby and family.

So after taking these pics last weekend, I was dieing to use them in a my summer fun layout for the blog hop! If you are new to this blog hop PLEASE start at the begining by clicking here: www.adornitscrapbook.com/bloghop



Thanks for stoppin by and show some LuV in the comment box :0)
xoxo Ali Rae

The next lucky blog hopper is the talented
Jay Rosa so click here http://hablandodescrapbooking.blogspot.com/ to hop on over

Cute Birthday Card Idea

I usually don't make custom cards, but since I finally have my "own" space to create in and it is semi organized I decided to make my new sister in law a b-day card. My favorite part of the card is the pocket to put money in. I used paper from the Nancy Jane collection and the adorable glitter daisy is from our smile foam stickers. I also love the touch that the tiny alpha stickers gave the card.











The best part of making custom cards for family and loved ones, is how much they appreciate your effort. It was really fun to see Brooke's expression when I gave it to her because she loved it so much.