CCL Key to My Heart Holiday Challenge

CCL (Creating the Crafty Life), is having a Valentine challenge! The challenge was to create a project using a heart shape and it had to be dimensional. 

A few weeks ago, I found two of these heart shaped plaques at Goodwill for .99 cents each:

They were cute, in an 80-ish kind of way, 

but I wanted to dress them up a little so....

 ....this was the end result. :-)

THE DETAILS: I reached for my G45 Place in Time 

February Cut Aparts again for this project . 

It's embellished with flowers, bling, doilies, and lace

from my stash. It stands about 8" tall and can 

sit on the easel as shown below or be hung

from a peg. The pretty pink bauble at the top

was another Goodwill find. 

Valentine's Day is only a few days away and I need to get busy on some masculine/boy themed Valentine's for my sweeties and I still have a couple of projects to complete for the Artful Creation Contest! But it was nice to take a break and create this very girly project for my favorite holiday!

Blessings!

Millie

CCL ARTFUL CREATION CONTEST: Valentine Tussie Mussie (Project #5)

For my 5th project entry, I decided to create a Valentine tussie mussie. I used the following items from Lucky's box of supplies:

White lace

Silver mesh

12 x 12 and 6 x 6 sheets of grey cardstock

Pearls and rhinestones

Silver metallic pleated trim

White satin pleated trim

"PARIS" bling

Black mesh bling

Crystal acrylic chandelier drop

Large deep red velvet rose

I started  by printing a black pattern on the grey card stock

using a large damask stamp. 

Next I formed the tussie mussie. 

I inserted layers of the white lace, silver mesh, and

some black lace I had on hand. 

I added the pretty deep red rose, a smaller off white 

paper rose, and a grey paper flower I created using

the smaller sheet of card stock and a flower punch. 

I created the stickpin with some beads I had on hand

and some of the "PARIS" bling Lucky included

in the kit. Behind it is a small white feather spray

I found in Hobby Lobby's wedding section.

the Eiffel Tower in the back was cut from some 

Paris themed wrapping paper I hand. 

For the cone, I die cut a doily and heart using my

dies from Cottage Cutz. 

I adhered three rhinestones to the heart for 

added bling and hung the acrylic chandelier

drop to the bottom. 

The red, white, and grey paper roses are from my stash. 

Behind them is another white feather spray 

from Hobby Lobby.

I used the black bling as a dangle and also 

wrapped it around the bottom of the cone. 

Below that, I wrapped the silver and white pleated trims. 

Lastly, I cut the silver mesh into strips and attached

it to the bottom of the cone. 

This was way off my usual style. I'm not a big fan of the Paris theme but I like how this turned out. 

Blessings,

Millie