Dee Disney Girl's Crafty Creations

Christy's Secret Santa

2009-12-15T14:41:00.000-08:00

My daughter Christy is participating in Secret Santa at her office this week. I took a few pictures of the creations that I made to put her goodies in. I ran across the neatest blog from which the ideas for these first two creations came from. It is Dandelion Designs but I warn you!!! You will have so much fun there you will get LOST for hours!!!

Inside Out Box

Little Slide Box

This next creation came from a similar place -Mel Stampz - this blog comes with the same warning as above.

Cute Box Alert!

Click HERE for the actual website and link for a tutorial on this purse. It is a link that I got from Mel Stampz under "Purses".

Hanging Star Tutorial

2009-11-28T12:58:00.000-08:00

This is a step by step tutorial for the Hanging Star Printable which is the next post.

Little surprise at the end!!!

1. Cut out all pieces.

2. Fold or score and fold where indicated by red lines. If printed on card stock you may need
to score to get sharp folds.

3. Glue all five pieces of the star together by gluing the tab to the side of the piece that you would
like to have next to it.

4. Punch the dangling embellishments on the top and bottom. Punch the star. Refer to
completed picture for placement of punch.

5. Finish your star by adding a hanger across the top and dangle your charms from the bottom.
Your completed star can be embellished and finished many ways! You could use wire, ribbon,
- whatever!! In these examples, I used wire garland, raffia, and added some ribbon.

If you would like to make your own hanging star, you can download the template HERE.

(OK - that was the surprise! - the template)

Please share with me a picture of what you made and I will post it!!!

It would be so much fun to see what you can come up with!!

Hanging Star

2009-11-28T12:47:00.000-08:00

Another Creating Christmas Goodie!! The Scrap Kit is Gingerlicious by Delicious Scraps. The Template was created by me.

Click HERE for the printable.

Click HERE for the instruction sheet or simply follow the tutorial above.

Magnetic Bookmarks

2009-11-23T18:16:00.001-08:00

A bit early - but maybe this can be some inspiration for next Monday...once we get the Thanksgiving food fest weekend out of the way!

Click HERE to Download

Candy Cane Mouse

2009-11-23T09:16:00.000-08:00

An oldie - but goodie! Remember when we made these from felt? Well - paper is so much fun to play with I just HAD to make me a template so that I could make up a slew of these!

Click HERE to download

Christmas Tree Place Cards 2

2009-11-22T10:50:00.000-08:00

This was just too much fun!!! Here is another one - sorta just like the other one!
I got the Snowflake Overlay from Delicious Scraps. She is one of my favorite designers!

Click HERE to download.

For some reason the 4shared download may not have a preview - or the preview is really weird...but the file seems to be downloading just fine.

Christmas Tree Place Cards

2009-11-22T09:39:00.001-08:00

Click HERE to download

Snow Woman Round Corner Bookmarks

2009-11-22T06:33:00.000-08:00

These are some bookmarks that I made for an online group that I belong to. We are participating in a project called Creating Christmas. There are ZILLIONS (well - maybe not that many) of Christmas printable there. The Link to Creating Christmas is....http://creatingchristmas-tlc.blogspot.com

Here is a preview of the bookmarks.

Click HERE to download.

Basket Flower

2009-03-27T17:56:00.000-07:00

These are the instructions for the flower we did on the basket.

This works best with 2 sided paper. We sponged the back side of our single sided paper to create a 2 sided paper look! (Remember?) However in this tutorial - the paper is indeed 2 sided.

Using a scallop circle, (this one was cut with a Spellbinders die) fold in half as shown in diagram.

Count 4 scallops from the left and fold in with creased sides touching.

Count 2 scallops up from baseline and fold backwards from baseline to left side fold.

Now - your front should look like this.

Flip to back. It should look like this.

Fold right to left 3 scallops from the right. This picture is a little misleading. (It's a camera thing!!) You see a mountain fold (outward) - you will be doing a valley fold. (inward)

And now from the front - it should look like......THIS!!!!!!

Unfold to full circle and cut in half on center crease.

You now have 2 pieces that look like this...

Now - refold the pieces up to make them look like this....

Repeat with all 8 pieces. LOOK how BEAUTIFUL these are!!! FUN!!! EH?

Now you will begin to assemble the flower by placing the different sections next to each other as in this photo.

Keep Going........

Continue adding sections until it is all done!!! WOW - isn't this AWESOME!!!

If you so choose - you can then add some sort of embellishment to the center of your flower. A button, bead, small flower, jewel - whatever looks great!

Thanks to Christi Lee for all of the WORK behind this tutorial! I LOVE CHRISTI!!! :)

Mini Maze Album

2009-03-27T11:14:00.001-07:00

This Mini Maze Album creates a great little 3 x 3 mini album.

Materials:
1 sheet of 12 x 12 scrapbook paper (any square size paper would work - your album would just turn out a different size!!)
1 piece of 6-1/2 x 3" stock for cover.
Approx. 1 yard or fiber for closure.
Various small pieces of scrapbook papers, ribbons and embellishments

Instructions:
Fold the 12 X 12 sheet of paper in half and open. Fold the edge that you just opened and fold into the middle. Do that on the other side. Turn your paper 90 degrees and do the same in the other direction. Your page should now be divided into 16 portions.

Cut paper as indicated in picture to the Cut to Here arrows.

You are now going to begin to accordion fold the paper. Start with one of the back side of the paper on the outside of the accordion fold.

Add ribbon or fiber closure.

Glue down one side of the accordion folded paper.

Then glue down the other side...

And...TA-DAAAA!!! Here is what you little album looks like!

Here are some samples of this album completed...

Samples of Baskets!

2009-03-26T14:52:00.000-07:00

Binder Clip Photo Holder Tutorial

2009-03-10T14:20:00.000-07:00

Photo Clip Instructions
The Bunny!

Supplies:
Clipart Sheet (contact Deanna at bbaranowsky@cox.net for info)

2” binder clip
Flattened Bottle Cap
Ribbon – approx 12 “
2” X 3 1/4” piece of paper or card stock to wrap around bottom of clip.
Piece of coordinating paper to mat saying.
2 ½ “ Circle of pink Paper
(I used Spellbinders scallop dies to cut the circle in the sample picture. You could use any sizes or colors that suite you or you could cut the circle by hand.
2” X 3 ¼” paper to wrap bottom of binder clip with.
½ inch pom pom for tail

Use a 1” punch to punch out the bunny face.

Color the ears and the face. (I just colored the outside rim of the ears and the nose on the face. I got GREAT results with a pink Hi-Liter! Any marker would work.) Smudge a bit of pink on the cheeks for blush (I used a q-tip) and then lightly sponge some pink ink over the face, ears, and saying to turn them a bit pink. (Of course - if you want a blue bunny...use BLUE!) Cut out the ears and the saying.

Mat Saying

Glue the bunny face inside the bottle cap.

Glue the bunny ears to the back of the bottlecap.

If desired, emboss the circle and the paper. I used my Cuttlebug and embossed the circle and the pink cardstock with the Swiss Dots embossing folder.

Sponge Circle with pink ink.

These are all of the parts that you should have now.
Some of them are already somewhat assembled.

Glue the 2” X 3 ¼” piece of paper around the bottom part of the binder clip.

Glue the bottle cap bunny on top of the circle.

I attached the finished bunny to the binder clip with a double thickness of foam tape. See picture for placement.

Tie ribbon to the top of the binder clip around the outside of both pieces of the metal part of the clip. This makes the clip hold together tight enough to hold your photo nicely.

Add the saying.

Don't forget to give your bunny it's tail!!! Glue the pom pom to the back side of the photo clip.
(This also shows the back side of the clip and how the ribbon is tied completely around it.)

The Cat's Meow and the Birdie

Supplies:
Clipart Sheet (contact Deanna at bbaranowsky@cox.net for info)

2” binder clip
Flattened Bottle Cap
Ribbon – approx 12 “
2 ½ “ Circle of black paper
2 3/4" Circle of white paper
(I used Spellbinders scallop dies to cut the circles in the sample pictures. You could use any sizes or colors that suite you or you could cut the circles by hand.)

There are just a few differences when making the Cat and the Birdie binder clip.

1. The clip art page provides the decorated paper to wrap around the binder clip.
2. The saying does not need to be matted. The "mat" is printed as part of the saying on the clip art sheet.
3. There are 2 circles behind the bottle cap - and of course...no ears to glue on. :)
4. I embossed the Cat circles with the Cuttlebug Tiny Mosaic folder and the Birdie circle with the Cuttlebug Swirls folder.

Halloween!

2008-11-01T08:13:00.000-07:00

What a great time we had once again this year for Halloween!

We enjoyed our annual Pumkin Carving event on Thursday night - and then had a blast with all of the little trick or treaters that we had come along on Friday.

Our neighborhood has TONS of little kids trick or treat here. It is such a wonderful evening not only with all of the little kids, but it is such a great time with all of the neighbors.

I do indeed live in one of the most wonderful neighborhoods in the entire universe!

I just wanted to post some pictures. For some CRAZY reason, I did not get many pictures of the normal stuff - carving pumpkins, the pumkins themseves and such. (Jennifer did and she is going to send them to me.)

It was a very wonderful yet BUSY, BUSY couple of nights as I had FULL GRANDMA DUTY!

I was in charge of holding Anthony for 2 nights in a row! It is a HUGE, BIG, important terribly exhausting job....but SOMEONE has to do it!!!!!! HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I LOVE EVERY MOMENT THAT HE IS IN MY ARMS! I think I am beyond crazy and in love with my Grandson!!!!!

OK - no more rambling....here's the pictures.

Liam and Aidan
My GREAT Nephews - and let me tell you...they are GREAT!
of course - as you can see....it's the REAL LIVE
Woody and Buzz.
Aiden entertained us all night with his version of....
"To infinity and beyond!!!!"
Uncle Danny tried to tell Liam what Woody would say - but he would have no part of Uncle Danny's ways. Woody simply says - "Howdy - Howdy!"
Oh my gosh - I am CRAZY over these boys!!!!!!!

Anthony.

However, I am certain that there is a misprint on this bib.

I think it was supposed to say...."I want my GRAND-Mummy"!
Right Diane?!?!?!?!

Here - Kitty, kitty.

Christy off to work. It was sort of like those first day of school pictures! HA

Bob's Owl Pumpkin.

Go figure - he is the MOST creative person ever.
(He keeps that a secret!)

My Grandson - Anthony
Me - doing my all important job.
Holding him!
Right Diane????

Anthony the little precious Ghost.
In whose arms? Oh yah - those would be MINE.
Grandmas!
See - I really WAS working hard!

And my PRECIOUS Kailee!!!!! She is SUCH a doll - and her mommy is so pretty too!
She does raspberries for us now. Looks JUST like here DADDY - and if they are lucky will never be too much like her Aunt Dee during those growing up years! HA!

So - there are the pictures and just a spattering of the JOYS of my life.

Love to you all!

Deanna

PS - Diane is Anthony's other number one fan. His other Grandma!

OH What FUN!

2008-05-28T21:51:00.001-07:00

How fun! I just found Blogspot!

I LOVE to look at blogs with fun paper crafting ideas on them. And POW! This lightbulb went off in my head! How are all of these people doing this? It looks like fun!

So....little research - and here it is! Blogspot!!

I am now officially on the band wagon.

Why? Because I can!

Deanna