CHRISTMAS IN JULY BLOG HOP!!!!!!!!!

Welcome to Scrap Our Stash Christmas in July Blog Hop!!!!

If you didn't come here from Scrap our Stash blog, you need to go there, because it's where the fun starts!!!.

Plus you'll find there all the instructions you need for this fun blog hop!

You should be coming from Christy's blog

For this blog hop, I prepared a tutorial to make this picture frame:

Let's Start...

Materials:

- Unfinished picture frame.

- Acrylic paints. I used cream and gold.

- Coffee filters.

- Needle and thread.

- Circle punch (optional)

- Liquid glue. I love Glossy Accents.

- Dew Drops

- Mists

- Bling

                                

1. Paint the picture frame. I used 2 colors; cream as base and  gold to give it a nice finish. Let it dry completely, mean while you can work on the flowers.

 

                               

2. These are the coffee filters we'll use. In the second picture; you can see the kind of cuts we need to make. It is optional if you want to make those wavy cuts, they can be straight.

3. These are the cuts we'll use to make the flowers.

4. The strips will look like this when you open them.

5. Make a running stitch on the bottom of each strip and pull it tight to gather together. It's like making a yo-yo flower but with paper.

The second picture shows you how it looks like at the end.

It's not looking pretty ...yet... just wait.

 

6. You need to make 3 yo-yos for each flower.

Cut a circle, 1" approx. and glue down the first yo-yo.

Still no pretty enough uh?

 

7. Glue down the other 2 yo-yos. After they are completely dried, crunch them a little bit, or a lot, depending on how you like them.

They are looking better...

 

8. Using your favorite mists ( I used my own, you can find a post about them HERE! ), mist the flowers, I used a pretty red color, you know? a Christmas color.

 

9. To make them more Christmas looking, I added some Dew Drops, again, I used some I made. You'll find the tutorial HERE!

Now they do look pretty.. what did I tell you?

 

10. From the coffee filters left overs, I hand cut some leaves and misted them green.

Get the dried frame, some bling from your stash and with your flowers and leaves, you are ready to decorate the frame.

 

11. Add a cute picture, like this one of my friend's daughter,  and you'll have a beautiful decoration for this coming Christmas!!!

As a thank you for participating and visiting my blog... I'll be giving away a $ 20.00 Gift Certificate from Two Peas to a lucky person.

a). Just leave me comment

b). Become a follower of my blog

 ... that's all you need to do!!!!

NOW... to continue the fun you need:

1. My secret word, which is: ITS

2. Hop to the next stop which is the blog of: Ren Yi!

The BLOG HOP ENDS on SUNDAY 7/25 at 6PM. I will choose a random winner on Monday 7/26

Thank You so much for participating... and happy hopping!!!!