Picture wall and monogram plaque

As promised here are the next pictures of our redecorated living room. We finally bought a piano after being married for almost 7 years, it's especially sad because my husband is a good piano player and has barely had the chance to play since we got married. But the waiting is finally over:) We decided to put it here, right next to our big windows that bring in a lot of light, we had to move our sideboard into the hallway and I still dont know what I'm going to do with it there.

We finally put up family pictures in our apartment and I think this is the perfect spot for them.

Here's a closer look of the monogrammed plaque from the picture above. This was a simple project thanks to my silhouette SD.
I cut three pieces of wood, I used what I had in the house and used two different sizes of wood so I could get the plaque size that I wanted.
Once they were glued I varnished them with this awesome grayish brown wood varnish which I love because it looks like I used old pallet wood to make this sign.
I had my silhouette cut out the design that I found on the online store and I added the 'T' for our last name. I filled in the stencil with antic white.

The lines aren't perfect but that's the way I wanted it:)

I love our new family frame wall!

Some of these pictures are over a year old and I haven't had the time to take better pictures so these will be staying for now!

Easter decorations....update

A little over a month ago I wrote a post about the blue eggs that I had painted for Easter and how I used them to decorate our dining room, this week I had a creative burst and redecorated our dining room and living room. In this post I just want to show the Easter related decorations we have in our home before Easter is over:)

I decided to use different branches for hanging the eggs.

This isn't a great picture, I'm actually trying to show the bird cage on the right that I bought in Italy 2 weeks ago.

I added some straw and a few eggs as well as a few branches sticking out from the top.

I made a cute tray for our dinning room table and added a blue egg on a plate for Easter and I love decorating with candles in our home:)

The tray was super simple to make I glued three identical pieces of wood together to make a rectangle and I cut molding to make a frame which I made separately and then glued on top of the rectangle. I just added a coat of antic white and that's it!

I won a prize! plus 2 cards...

About 3 weeks ago I won a competition over at http://waltzingmouse.blogspot.de/, they had 9 new stamp releases and I won ALL 9 of them:) They arrived in the mail at the beginning of the week while we were out of town so I only got to start playing with them yesterday:) Aren't they gorgeous? These stamps are such great quality and I love all the stamps sets that coordinate with spellbinders dies!

So I made one card using only the stamps that I won and I love how it turned out:)

The main image in this card is a cling stamp from Inkadinkado, it's really big so I left out part of the vase and colored it in with my distress inks. You can't really tell but I used one of the stamps that I won to create a background on the card base using versamark.

Mini album

My Grand-ma's birthday is coming up and since it just gets harder and harder to know what to get for my grand-parents I decided to make a scrapbook mini album. It's actually a wallet mini that I saw on youtube, I just made it a bit smaller.

I love it because it's very compact and I managed to fit a lot of pictures in it. It measures about 10.5cmX12cm when closed and mine is about 1 cm thick with all the pictures inside.

It has lots of flaps:)
I didn't use any scrapbook paper, instead I almost only used cream paper which I dry embossed with the cuttlebug and entirely inked with distress inks. It is definitively more work this way but I dont own a lot of scrapbook paper since it is so expensive here and I didn't think any of the papers I had would work for a mini album for my Grand-ma. I'm always proud when I can make a card or scrapbook project without using scrapbook paper:)




In the end I covered the outside of the mini with contact paper to protect it from ripping and I added a little Velcro half circle to open and close it. Enjoy!

Message board redo

I've been trying to function without a message center/calendar for the past 6 months...and it hasn't been working for me. I finally took the frames I was using in our old apartment and repainted them.

Finding the right place to put them wasn't easy, I had to put them in the hallway next to the front door where there is absolutely no light.
you can't tell but I actually embossed the paper in the two smaller frames using nice swirl stamps and sea foam embossing powder. I'm so happy to finally have a place to write down notes without loosing them:) I couldn't find a whiteboard marker so I bought a non-waterproof marker which is great because I can't accidentally rub it off but it comes off really easy with water.

More spring décor

I found these amazing branches at the market down town this week and couldn't resist buying two branches which only cost me 2 euros, the vase in this picture doesn't even hold half the branches that I bought.

I love this vase, I got it on clearance in Switzerland at Migros-Do it, Coop also has some amazing stuff sometimes and the prices aren't always insane (for Swiss standards).


I love this display, I think it looks fresh and alive:)

A banner for my daughter

So the other day I finished the banner for the relief society room and while I was at it I decided to make one for my daughter.

I was playing around with the spacing of the pennants, I think I like them a bit further apart better like in the picture above.

I used the silhouette to cut out the letters but I used my cuttlebug to do the rest. I used the largest nested pennant die from spellbinders, lacey circles (spellbinders) and Spellbinders Parisian motifs. I'll have to get to work and make one for my son soon:)