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Showing posts with label dollar store crafts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dollar store crafts. Show all posts
Valentine's Day Dollar Store Craft: Sweetheart Foam Necklace
Sweetheart Foam Necklace and Earrings Copyright Margot Potter 2010
I have plenty of romantic projects in my crafty coffers, so I'll be bringing them out over the next few weeks and introducing some new ideas as we lead up to the oft dreaded holiday of St. Valentine. This one is so quick and easy and of course, depending on which foam stickers you select, can be adapted to suit any occasion! You can find the step by step instructions with lots of pics here. What's not to love about that?
You can find these foam stickers at the discount chains, craft and dollar stores.
If you'd like the original set, it's for sale for a song in my Etsy shoppe!
Love
Madge
Retrofabulous Christmas Craftabration: Dollar Store Christmas Stocking
Retrofabulous Dollar Store Stocking Copyright 2010 Margot Potter
This is a tricked out dollar store stocking I created last year using yet another scanned vintage postcard image from my Victorian postcard stash. The postcard was really beat up, but a little work in Photoshop and a quick resize and it looks simply fabu! (Do not be afraid to get the 'crafter's lot' of vintage post cards on eBay, there are diamonds in the rough lurking there!) I printed it on a sticky back canvas sheet and adhered it to the stocking adding a smattering of various and sundry gee gaws and doo dads I had around the studio. A few judiciously placed glitter accents...and...it was ready to go to the local VA Hospital and hopefully cheer up a vet for the holidays.
I like clean and simple design, a few too many gee gaws or doo dads and you've lost me. It seems hard to believe, I know, that someone so over the top likes simplicity, but it is true. I believe it was Coco Chanel who advised that before you leave the house you remove one accessory. Yes, well, same with crafts. Less is more. Well, more can be more too, but it all has to make sense and have synergy. It's hard sometimes to see things objectively when you've been staring at them for a while, but try taking away one thing and see if it doesn't bring it all to life.
Or perhaps, if you're afraid of gee gaws and doo dads, add one more. All things in moderation, including moderation.
Either way, a dollar store stocking can look quite rich with just the right combination of gee gaws and doo dads. That is all I am trying to say. Perhaps an editor is in order?!
Doo dad, doo dad.
Yes, I am officially losing it and no I have not been drinking egg nog.
Mistletoe Kisses,
Madge
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