If you have come here directly, you might want to pop back to the Counterfeit site (here) where the blog hop kicks off and we have some special hoppers today thanks to the peeps over at Scraptastic joining in.
If you have arrived here from Kim's blog, you are on the right track and next up after me is Margie. You'll find the complete list at the end of this post but do try and catch up with all today's hoppers as I'm sure you are in for a treat!
We were asked to create a home decor project. I've mentioned before that I was finding this month's kit a bit "tricky" to use. I love all the papers I've chosen but maybe not for using on pages so this challenge seemed perfect.
I was over at the Sketch Support site where their GD this month is the very talented Janice Daquila-Pardo and she'd created the most beautiful door wreath using origami leaves (see here). I decided to totally lift the idea, checked out the link she's included for the leaves, and made my own. I've been seeing these leaves all over the internet recently and have been wanting to give them a go and I'm so pleased I did. It was a super therapeutic process and I think they turned out great. I didn't have a gorgeous twig wreath like Janice had used but I did have a polystyrene one which proved easy to cover and light to hang.
Here is the pile of leaves I created while watching TV.
And then I brushed a little ink across the folds to make them more pronounced and pinned the leaves onto the wreath adding a little hot glue here and there for a bit of extra hold. Some ribbon pinned to the back for hanging and it's complete.
I confess to adding a couple of extra sheets of paper into the kit for this but all those very old Chatterbox papers that were proving a bit difficult have now found a happy home and made me happy in the process. Pat on the back for me ;-) The origami leaves were much easier than I thought they would be and I love the look of them so I may well try some other bits and pieces to see how I get on.
As promised here's the full blog hop list:
Scraptastc DT - Heather Landry
Scraptastc DT - Juliann Marchant
Scraptastic Guest Designer - Melanie StanczykScraptastc DT - Michelle Unruh Jen
Thanks for dropping by! Happy hopping.
Don't forget that this month, Scraptastic Club is not only our inspiration kit but also our sponsor. So check out their site at http://www.scraptasticclub.com/ and they will be giving away a $20 gift certificate to one lucky winner.
All you have to do to be entered in the drawing is either join the blog hop or comment on the blog hop...it's that easy! The blog hops will be on November 27th and 28th.
Thanks for dropping by! Happy hopping.
