Baby name art and my Christmas decor

I have wanted to try the split letter names on coloured card stock for a while. The opportunity arose to make a gift for a baby boy’s nursery. I love how it turned out.

The frame is the Virserum from Ikea, the cardstock is a beautiful blue which may not show up well on the screen; not too dark and not typical baby blue. In the white frame it’s stunning.

 

 

This is the entire extent of my Christmas decorations. Bah Humbug.  I have to let myself be ok with not being able to do everything. I don’t get to spend all of my time being crafty and decorating how I would like to, so I have to let it go, take a deep breath and let it go.

More Monograms

If I seem to have been a little absent this week, I have good reason.  I received orders for 6 more monograms!

I now realize that it was a mistake to offer to frame them at cost; it does not account for my time, gas, framing, wrapping and then delivery! For those of you that sell your handmade items, how do you account for this type of thing?

Anyway, they are done and I will definitely be raising the price for those that want them framed. They are each a lot of work, but knowing that they will be cherished is so gratifying.

A while back I purchased a stamp from an Etsy shop to brand my creations. It was not very expensive and the selection was great.

All packaged up and ready for delivery. Tick that off of my list of things to do this weekend.

 

Please don’t forget about Beautiful Junk Saturday link party going on.

I’ll be back with some thrifty finds later. 

Right out of an L. L. Bean catalogue – knock off art

I fell in love with these latitude and longitude signs from the L. L. Bean catalogue and knew that I could make my own version. I couldn’t figure out how to get the text to curve in Toronto, but that’s a minor detail.
If you would like to make your own, I found a website that allows you to type in your city and state and it will give you the coordinates.  Go to Satellite Signals to get them. How cool is that!

I used vinyl and cut out the lettering with my cricut. The font is Garamond. I really wish I had a better camera because some weird colours are showing up that are NOT on my sign LOL

Here is my inspiration