Southern Scraps

This post contains affiliate links to Amazon. Clicking or purchasing through these links won't cost you a thing but helps support my crafty habit.   I must confess- I started these last year and didn't get them finished in time for Halloween. But this year they are proudly displayed on my sofa table! These were a lot of fun to make.   To make your own, you will need miniature birdhouses, dowels, and small wooden plaques for bases. Mine came from Michaels.  You will also need wood glue, paint, skeletons, scrapbook paper, Mod Podge and plastic bugs if you like.       My sweet hubby drilled holes in the houses and the bases and set the dowel rods for me. Then I painted them with orange and black acrylic paint. Then the really fun part began. I decorated them with Mod Podge and scrapbook paper and various cut outs made using my Slice and the Spook Alley cartridge . I added some minature skeletons (taken from Dollar Tree garland) and mini ...

I've seen a lot of banners and handmade garland and such in blog land. I've been wanting to make my own since I started seeing them in the fall. I finally got around to this for Easter. My banner was the perfect finishing piece to my mantel decor. You see that I used most of the things I created to decorate my mantel: the broken jewelry cross , glitter eggs , butterfly specimen art , and egg topiary tree . Here's a closer look at the banner and a tutorial: Materials used: Cardstock Making Memories foam stamps- dingbats Paint Spellbinders cross die Making Memories Slice and basic cartridge for letters Martha Stewart lattice border punch flowers, punches, buttons, rhinestones, and other embellishments jute string *Cut cardstock into 4.25 x 5.5 inch pieces. I got four pennants from a piece of 8.5 x 11 inch cardstock. * Stamp dingbats on pennants. * While these dry, die cut crosses and letters. Prepare what ever other embellishments you need to. * Adhere...