Product Shuffle - Napkins

Happy last day of 2015!

Preparing for our New Year's Eve party at our home tonight, the girls asked for a Pinata. We found one on clearance for 2$ at a local store.  Here is it.

It was kind of cute, but more fitting for a birthday party than a New Year's Eve party.  So we headed to my craft room and set out to alter this pinata.
I made the numbers with my cricut using foiled cardstock from Fancy Pants Design.  I then cut a large circle in a 12X12 pattern paper I had in my stash.  Since the Pinata was about 20 inches in diameter, the 12 inch circle did not cover all the dinosaurs.  I then added glue to the back edge of my circle and added 4 ruffled napkins.  I folded the napkins accordian style and simply pressed them in the glue. Here is the finished product.

The kids are eager for the countdown and make the candies fall from our new beautifull pinata.

I hope you all have a wonderfull evening and I wish you all the best for 2016!  See you all next year!

Product Shuffle : Metallic paper

One of the most trendy crafting item today is the metallic paper.  They are featured in many collections including Pink Paislee's Luxe (a real bargan at 40% off for this week only!!!).  They are stunning and add so much to any crafting project.
This week I played with the As You Wish collection by Fancy Pants.

This collection features the new foil paper.  I tried to think of different ways to incoporate this gorgeous shining paper onto my project.  It was intimidating at first, but I just love the finished product.   I am going to have to stock up on it!
First thing I did was plug in my Cricut machine and make a few die cuts.  I used a CTMH cricut cartidge to cut out words and flower doilies. 

Another technique I used was fringing.  I cut a two inch strip of paper and with the help of scisors I cut slits at a quarter inch intervals going almost to the edge of the paper.  It gives great texture to the paper.  I also ruffled a one inch strip and glued it on top of the fringe. 

I then added stickers,  Recollections flowers and few fussy cut flowers around my picture.

To finish, I added Zva sparkles and some Tattered Angels Oil Slick.

And there you have it!  So very easy and it gives such a statement to the layout.  I hope you like it too!

Have an awesome  day and don't forget to check out the amazing bargains over at the LCOM store!