Moving Fall Into the House!

Fall moves into the entry:

keeping color to a minimum

 

to accent, not compete with, the decor

 

fleur-de-lis finials and acorns

leafs cut from pretty scrapbook paper

candles set in an old maple sugar mold from
Country Living Fair

dried pomegranates in mercury vase 

Art Project: Luggage Tags

A few years ago, I bought a giant box of luggage tags. 

They work great for gift tags, sales tags, and even art!

The first things I made with the tags were some wedding and baby gifts, 

some of which I showed you here.

Then I made some more personal art pieces for my daughters and friends.

In each one, I chose scrapbook paper in a color that I knew they loved, along with pictures and quotes or verses that would have special meaning to them.

This is the one I made for myself

 

Then I started to make some that were more generic for sale.

Here's some closeups so you can see more clearly what I use to decorate the tags

Stickers, pictures cut from magazines, things picked up on walks, old pictures, buttons, jewelry, stamps, typed or handwritten verses and quotes...really anything.

If it's too big to fit in a a frame with glass, use a shadow box or eliminate the glass. In the one with the burlap backing, I used an old cabinet door with no glass, covered some strong cardboard with burlap and used brads to secure the tags.

Just get creative and have fun!

Wedding/Baby Shower Gifts

I like to take handmade gifts to wedding or baby showers whenever possible.

Sometimes it's easy to make something personal.

For a cute wedding gift, try this:

Spell out the word, "Love" using pretty paper as background and add the wedding date.

 Or use luggage tags with scrapbook paper to match the wedding colors as background. Add the wedding date in the corner to make it even more personal.

As for baby gifts, most people find out their baby's gender early, making it easy to make a personal gift.

Scrapbook paper to match the nursery, baby's name written on luggage tags, 

add date of birth, maybe even height and weight.

But sometimes it takes a little more creativity.

For example, I attended a baby shower recently for someone having her third child. They don't like to know gender ahead of time, so I didn't have much to go on.

This is what I came up with:

Pretty scrapbook paper as the background again.

An appropriate saying, such as,

"we are known to You by name and loved for all eternity"

 

Then I added 3 luggage tags to write each child's name and birthdate on.

I included a few more tags for any future children.