Lace Christmas tree and fave celebrity

I'm just continuing with the Christmas spirit and I love this time of the year because with the Christmas theme the ideas are just coming and coming - just so easy!
I have a lace curtain that I have to admit I would never use, just because it doesn't match my style and it also has some unremovable spots so...I cut it into some stripes and made this Chrismas tree. In the pics below it's not visible but I sprayed the whole tree with glue and put a lot of glitter on it and in RL it's very shiny and sparkly. In addition I've put on many blinks. My mom gave me a super chic chrystal star and I have to say that it gives to the tree a special touch. The tree has also some puffy pon pons that hold the dotted veil that dresses the tree and some glossy red eye-catching alphas.

I'll make a tutorial in the next days about how to make this banner out of a ribbon and I promise you that it's super easy and I love the sophisticated effect it gives to the project.

Another thing to share. We have a new challenge over the TAAFOMFT and this time we want to know what is your favorite celebrity. I was thinking a lot what to do and I decided for her - Marilyn. I love her because for me she is really the last diva and belongs to a world that seem unreachable and forgotten...

Have a nice day my friends and have fun!

Jingle bells wreath

I love tandem projects and this is one of them. I love when two people join the ideas. It' a sort of relay.
My mom made a croched wreath and she said that I have to finish it. It is nice when you have a handmade product and you feel the authenticity and the uniqueness of it and playing with these sort of things is certantly more noble.
As I said the base is a croched wreath. I started with giving a few brushes of a light green acrylic paint and sprinkled it with glitter. The idea was to give it an iced-look. I added some green iced stamens with the glue gun to make it more dimensional. A pinch of flowers and a glitter snowflake make it more festive and a verse of a Christmas song is a final touch for some indispensable warmness...

The bell is protected and placed in a half ball covered with patterned paper...

Thank you for stopping by. I hope we'll have a cold but WARM december!!!

All I want for Christmas is....

What do you want for Christmas? I love all the christmasy gifts traffic and enjoy wrapping them in new and particular ways. Thinking about this year wrapping I had this idea to make an explosion gift and this could be a great way to say "I love you". I started with a quite simple outside part...

...to countinue with untieing the bow you reach the heart of the gift that is very special to me - my boys.

Some raw cristals at the bottom of the box and some prescious blinks....

Two felt reindeers to make the atmosphere more christmasy...

Some ultra glossy holly fruits...

Enjoy the thinking, the finding, the shopping, the wrapping, the placing, the looking at their eyes...

Have a great day!

Christmas ball

Hi friends. I'm writting from my mothers computer to write this post because I have some problems with the internet connection. I hope I'll solve it soon because I admit I hardy live without this web addiction.
Meanwhile I've made a Christmas ball, inspired by my globe No place like home. I opted for the traditionl christmas colors: white, red and green and a lot of glitter. I covered a plastic ball with gauze and acrylic color and the final effect was like having a canvas ball. I made glitter swirls on the ball using the Tim Holtz template.
A tag says: Never wory about the size of your Christmas tree....

Of course, as this ball is inspired by the No place like home globe, it has a surprise inside: a small christmas tree. I like it because the look is simple (not many colors) but prescious. And the message continues: In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feel tall. A glittery hill carries this tiny tree. Stripes of patterned paper to cover the background and a croched sowflake (that my mom made) for the bed to the glittery one.

I hope I'll soon have my connection problems solved...I miss all of you!!!!!

Thank you cards

We have a special thing going on on These are a few of my favorite things and I hope you'll join us this time.
Within in this past month, Julie have found out that Stephanie's (the owner of Bella Blvd.) Brother-in-Law was killed in an accident and Dolores's (her bloggy friend) best friend is fighting breast cancer on a very limited income being a teacher....and BOTH ladies (Dolores and Stephanie) have asked for Thank You cards to be sent to them to have on hand for the many, many, many people that are assisting them in their time of need.
We decided to help them and make it a challenge to all of you to help out too.... Our challenge is: make a THANK YOU Card using FAVE FALL COLORS and send it to one or both of them.
Here is mine....

It is really important to join us this time at TAAFOMFT. And this time there's no prize because there is something more than a challenge going on!

Altered toy drum

First of all I wanted to say a big thank you to everyone that visits my blog and a special one to everybody who spends time to leave me a comment. You are special to me and give me more and more energy to continue to search in this beatiful paper world!
This time was the time for a broken drum toy to be altered, to be given a new life. Kian was once imitating dad and playing hardly on the drum and suddenly he made a huge hole in it.
I started to undress the drum of its previous skin and re-built it completely.
The front skin is in acetate and it closes the tree and the tiny treasures at the bottom of it inside and together with the heart inside it says: It is the Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.

I've put new sort of eyelets to hold the string on the ouside.

I've made a christmas tree using some stripes of paper thet I've rolled at the end, added some glitter and of course some holly fruits, because it can't be Christmas without red. I used some translicent paper for the back so when I put the drum in front of a light is like a little lamp and a soft light passes through it.

The heart is in grungeboard, paited and distressed.

A teddy bear and the ribbon to complete the Christmas atmosphere.

A small pile of letters...

A grungeboard reindeer and a glitter snowflake complete the frosty look of the drum.

Having a drummer for husband I think a decoration like this one was inevitable :-)
Have a nice day!

Winter memories card

This time I'm posting about a card that it's a bit unusual for me, I'm not really a card maker (but I have to start to make my christmas cards and I'm already late!!!!) but maybe bacause here is raining a lot and after we decorated the house with christmas decorations the only thing that is missing is ..... snow! And so here it is, with a little bit different snowman made using the Tattered angels frames of different sizes.

And now... let's pray for snow!