Heather Eddy Art

I Hello friends! I finally finished my family's Christmas presents this afternoon and decided to share the how-to with all of you. You'll remember that I said in an earlier post that I'd tried to do this project but kept running into trouble. I used this tutorial ( with really beautiful pictures) from Design Sponge . It. requires. a. lot. of. steps. And that didn't work for me. So... here's my take on it! Easier! Not as much cutting! Tutorial for a Perpetual Calendar Supplies : plastic basket from the Dollar Store (they came in a 3-pack) 2 100-count packs of 3x5" index cards (you will need 365) 1 card of a different color (this is for your birthday. If you choose, you can use the regular card and fuss it up a bit to make it special. You *need* to make it special, cos, chances are, no one else will!) 12 larger sized index cards (for dividers) magazines to cut up for the pretty pictures ribbons and decorations to embellish (I hate...

This past week I have been trying to make two new types of Christmas crafts - one for my family's Christmas presents (no link in case they are reading) and one a new type of paper ornament . The booger about it all is that I couldn't find all the supplies for the gifts that the tutorial suggested, so I tried substituting. Normally, I am extremely resourceful and can make most things look good. Not so here. My gifts looked horrible from the first step. Ugh. Three nights I worked on different (substitutive) versions. Three nights of going to bed feeling like I had accomplished nothing of value. Then the prototype paper ornament I made at work with computer paper worked beautifully! I went home to try it with colored paper. Cardstock cracked. Okay. I bought scrapbook paper from WalMart for a good price. It still is heavier than computer paper, so it doesn't quite look right either. Ugh. More going to bed dissatisfied. Yesterday, I went to the Dollar Tree and found a perfec...

If you take: 1 barrette 1 piece of ribbon the same length as your barrette 3 paper roses And then: Hot glue the length of ribbon on top of your barrette and then hot glue the three paper roses on top of that you get a lover-ly hair barrette. And it hides many hair sins. Like messy pieces.

Shhh! I'm working on stuff. Back later.

It didn't seem like six days, but it WAS six looooooong days since I made paper roses. (Go to Crafting With Intention for directions . Sameh is verrah funneh and maketh me to laugh.) They are really beautiful. Plain, but beautiful. I made a million and they sat on my dining room table for all that time. I was trying to figure out how to seal them because my project was going to be in the bathroom and might (if I am lucky) feel the effects of long, hot showers. Disgusting, no? So, I dipped a couple in PVA. Bad move. Don't do it. They be really ugly-lookin'. See here: Ugly, huh? Moldy-looking with boogers to boot. Not really, but it doesn't look pleasant and I am a pleasant person. Most of the time. So, I decided, just make the darn wreath - you know how to use a glue gun . I glued a bunch of paper roses to a 12" rattan-type wreath. Then I took them outside (in the cold) and sprayed them with clear sealant. ( Mmmm... smells good! There go a few more brain...