Claire Selby Handmade Ornament card with Tinsel

Christmas cards don’t have to be fussy or take long to create just to be pretty. They also don’t need to cost a lot when you can just recycle and reuse any papers and trims you have on hand. First, I cutout the ornament shapes from printed red paper using my pinking shears and glued them with Aleene’s® Original Tacky Glue™ to 2 red cards. Next, I cut 2 small pieces of tinsel and glued them down on top of the ornament cutouts, one silver and the other gold, letting them dry for an hour under a heavy book. The Art Chix Studio Madonna faux Postage and German Dresden wings were then lightly glued to the top of the tinsel. For the sides of the cards I attached left over trim and silver star tinsel by tying them into a knot. A great way to recycle papers, trims and small pieces of tinsel!

Claire Selby Ornament card with Tinsel

Claire Selby Fairy art

I love collage, paperdolls, and scrapbooking paper, so for my newest 12″x12″ canvas I created an homage to my Great-grandmother as a young girl with lots of paper, paints, stains and ink! My concept started out by simply cutting hearts out of Vintage papers and Creative Memories Scrapbooking paper. Once I had this color scheme I decided to make a fairy to go with it. Great grandma’s head is printed on Sticky back Canvas and her elbows and feet are attached with decorative brads. Her body, arms and heart are all glued with Aleene’s® Original Tacky Glue™. Lastly, I had a blast painting, inking and staining the canvas with Heidi Swapp White paint, pink dye ink, and Moon Shadow Ink in Burnt Umber. The moon shadow ink has a beautiful rose iridescent pigment inside the walnut stain! Really sweet and fun.

Claire Selby Fairy art Closeup

Claire Selby BABY Invite

I’ve always loved and collected Amy Bulter fabrics and papers, so to celebrate the arrival of baby no. 4 I got to crafting my Baby Shower invites and Thank yous using the Lotus collection. First, I cutout the Designer 12×12 paper and brown Stampin’ Up paper to size. Then I glued the baby elephant and flower to the middle of the card using Aleene’s® Original Tacky Glue™. Lastly, I tied a Stampin’ Up ribbon bow and glued that to the paper lightly. For the Thank yous, I used ready-made cards embellished with paper scraps and a tiny elephant accented with silver glitter.  My Baby Elephant Invite is available as a FREE For Personal use invite download. Please share the love and follow Pinkdilla on Facebook, as well as www.ilovetocreate, and Amy Butler Design.

Claire Selby Thank you

Adrianna Selby ATC

Earlier this month I got to host my first ever Pindilla ATC swap! I hope you will enjoy looking over the cards as much as we enjoyed making and receiving them! I can’t wait to hang all of the lovely cards on my Christmas tree this year. For my Arwen with a Glittered Wing ATC I covered the background with vintage paper and pink sheet music. You can download the free Vintage Sheet Music HERE for Personal use ONLY. Next, I glued down Arwen, the coral wing from Graphics Fairy, and an Art Chix butterfly using Aleene’s® Original Tacky Glue™. And Lastly, I finished off the card with fine champagne colored glitter. You can find a Demo and most of the papers and fibers used in the cards in my Lord of the Rings Kits HERE.

Claire Selby - Arwen with a Glittered Wing ATC

Gerri Plummer - Mixed Media, Hand and Machine quilted ATC

Adrianna Selby ATC

Gerri Plummer - Mixed Media, Hand and Machine quilted ATC

Claire Selby and Adrianna Selby ATCs with ARTchix Studio Butterfly postage

American Girl party crafts

Handmade American Girl Kanani stand

For my Daughter’s American Girl Kanani themed birthday party, we celebrated hawaiian style with handmade flip-flops and party hats! For the party hats we used Acid free scrapbooking paper cut into about a 6″ semi circle leaving a small 1/4″ tab on one side. We formed the semi circle into a cone and glued the tab to the inside of the hat using Aleene’s® Original Tacky Glue™. We added glitter, ribbons and pom poms to finish. The adorable flip flops are made by tracing an american girl sandal onto craft foam, cutting out 2 right feet and 2 left feet. The ribbon straps are about 4″ long and glued to the bottom of the top foot and then sandwiched with the tacky glue to the bottom foot. We finished off the flip-flops with pom poms. All of these worked really well with the tacky glue!

For the Kanani Stand, recycled is best! I used half of a large cardboard box and stapled 2 child size hula skirts to the board. For the 2 columns I taped a pink plastic tablecloth to wrapping paper rolls, and secured them to the table with twine. We displayed all of our pretty handmade crafts on cake stands! How fun and inexpensive!

Party favors made by the girls!