Giveaway

Here are the rules for the giveaway...

1) Post my snowflake tutorial as shown below (with pictures) to your blog. Be sure to include a link to either this blog or to this website, then leave a link to your blog post in the comments below.

2) for another chance to win, post a link to my blog or this website on your facebook or twitter account, then leave a comment below with your facebook or twitter account name.

I'll pick a winner on Wednesday, December 2nd.

I guess you'd probably like to know the prize? The winner will receive a Little Owl stamp & a bundle of vinyl decals.

DIY Snowflake Garland

UPDATE: You can now find this tutorial and downloadable pattern HERE on my new blog.





This snowflake Garland is very inexpensive and easy to make. You will need some "Stiff Felt" in white or your desired color, some ric rac or ribbon, sharp scissors, a hot glue gun, sequins, and a needle with thread.

Update:  1)PATTERN & TUTORIAL is now on my New blog!
2) Cut out the paper snowflakes for a pattern.
3) Trace Pattern onto some stiff felt.
4) Cut snowflakes out of stiff felt.
5) Use a hot glue gun to glue sequins or embellishments to the center of each snowflake.

6) Using white thread, hand sew each snowflake to ric rac or ribbon to make your snowflake garland.
7) Find a fun place to hang your garland and enjoy!

UPDATE: Pattern and tutorial are now located on my NEW blog. Thanks!

Swap Shop, & Blog

I signed up for the Shop Swap & Blog event. It was a lot of fun. My swap partner was Bambu Earth. I received some wonderful Lime Coconut Body Polish along with some Chocolate Chopstick. They both smell so great. They came packaged so nicely too. Unfortunatly I don't have a picture of how nicely they came packaged, as my 2 year old destroyed it before I could make it across the room to stop her.
If you are looking for a nice gift for a friend or family member, be sure to check out Amber's shop and blog.

fixed payment buttons

If you’ve tried to purchase a print or piece of jewelry from my shop the past few weeks. I was finally able to fix the payment buttons. I was stumped at why they didn't work until tonight my husband looked at it and was able to fix it. Hooray! Sorry if you've unsuccessfully tried to purchase something.

Kara's Party Ideas

I met this amazing Party planner a few months ago at a business seminar. She happened to use my chandelier decal at her Halloween party. Check out her blog for fun Party ideas & Pictures!

Winner

Congratulations to commenter number 34! Erika M. said... I love your giveaways! I'm crossing my fingers! Please click Here to contact me & send me your mailing address! If you didn't win, I'll be doing another giveaway very soon! I have a fun winter decor tutorial coming up soon too.

Random drawing for random prizes

I have a bunch of extra vinyl hanging around. Cute little decals. These decals would be perfect for scrap booking, or for putting on lunch boxes, folders, laptops, toy boxes... pretty much anything you can think of. Leave a comment on this post by midnight on Monday, Nov. 16th for your chance to win! Winner will receive an envelope full of my little decals, All in new & perfect condition! Have fun!

Song bird wall decals

We have some new “Song Bird” decals now available. Check them out.

Big sale on Big Decals

If you are interested in adding a little bit of decor to your house in time for the holidays, we've got just the sale for you! We have discounted several of our large decals. We are also offering Free & discounted shipping on U.S. orders over $50. We've added some new decal designs as well.

Newly Designed

If you haven't already, take a peek at our newly designed website. It's needed a makeover for a long time!

Fall Hat Tutorial

I had this $1.50 hat from Wal-Mart laying around. I also had some felt left over from my leaf garland (shown above), so I decided to make the hat a little more fun to wear.

1. Using the basic $1.50 snow hat from Wal-Mart, measure how it will fit onto your head, then cut off the excess area.
2: Cut some petals, little circles, & a leaf out of your felt. They don't need to be perfect (it's part of the charm.)
3: Place pieces onto the hat to get a general Idea of how you'd like your hat to look.

4: Stitch your pieces onto your hat. I used the left over gold floss from my leaf banner to stitch the flower onto my hat.
5: Finish your bottom edge. I plan to fishes the bottom of the hat off with a simple stitch using a thin yarn.

NOEL holiday necklace

I will be adding a few necklaces to my Etsy shop this week. The pendants & charms I used are my original illustrations & I only have a few of each of them, so get them while they are still around. They make great gifts, or would be fun to wear to a holiday party.

Fixed link

The link to the PDF pattern below is fixed!

Autumn Leaf Garland Tutorial

1: Click Here to download my Leaves Pattern PDF file.
2: Print the file, then cut out the leaves.

3: Trace Leaf shapes onto felt. I chose felt in 4 different fall colors. I used a white pencil to trace the leaves onto the dark felt colors.

4: Cut leaf shapes out of felt.

5: Using an embroidery floss, stitch the leaf veins onto each leaf.
I used a gold colored floss which I thought was a little thick, so I pulled 3 strands out of the floss to make it easier to stitch. You could save some time, and use a gold glitter glue or fabric paint to make the leaf veins instead.

6: Decide how you want to place your leaves.
7: stitch leaves to a rick rack or ribbon.

8: Hang your new Thanksgiving garland and enjoy!