More Silver Bella projects

With the rush of hosting family for Thanksgiving giving way to my December funk and the craziness of preparing for Christmas, my unfinished Silver Bella projects got summarily shoved to the side of my desk and and forgotten about. Now that I'm in the 'digging out' phase and enamored of the idea of having more than two square feet of workspace on my desk, I figured it was time to get them done. Hey, it's only been two months since I got back from Silver Bella, so I'm already ahead of my usual schedule--I still have unfinished projects from when I went to CKU back in 2004!

The two projects I finished were from my classes with Jenny & Aaron of Everyday is a Holiday. The first class was "Dreaming of a White Christmas" and we made this cute plaque with decoupaged images of candy-colored houses, hand-drawn by Jenny & Aaron. I think my favorite part is the icicles we made by cutting photocopied sheet music into random drippy shapes, then covering them with clear glass glitter. You can't tell by the photo but this piece is 10"x16".



The next class was called "Let Them Eat Cake" and features a plaque with this great cake image. We made a background using hand-painted wallpaper sheets and then decoupaged on the cake. We antiqued the whole thing using a paint wash and then added clear glass glitter to accent the cake. We had the option of adding fabric flowers and a feather for the bird's tail but I decided to forgo those in favor of this cute crepe paper pinwheel from a different class. I think I may use this to decorate for Maren's birthday each year. Maybe I can figure out a way to attach a number somewhere. This piece is 11"x15".


I loved the suggestions some of you had for the Coke bottle carrier I posted yesterday! If you have any more ideas, please share them