Just wanted to say thank you for a wonderful year and show you how I made our Christmas cards this year! I guess it’s really more of a thank you than a tutorial because it goes so fast but you can pretty much get the idea!
To make your own here are the steps!
You need:
Paper
Scissors
Photo
Glue
Pen
Ruler
To make the cards:
Fold a piece of paper in half and cut it so that there is even space around the photo. You can trace around the photo so you know where it goes.
Draw an X between the corners.
Cut out the middle section leaving enough of it to be able to fold back and create a frame.
Fold the flaps back to create a frame and glue down.
One of the things I wanted to make in the Home Sweet Home project was a notice board. I made one when we lived in Brisbane but it was too big to bring with us so I have been making do since moving here.
We have a massive glass door which leads to our bedroom so I figured that was the perfect place to put one! This is the result:
Now it’s up, I really like it but I’m debating whether I would rather just cover the glass with some nice paper and put the board and polaroids/business cards somewhere else. That’s for another day though so today I’ll just show how I made all of this!
You need:
Cardboard
Foam/corkboard/something to stick pins into (I’m using the rest of that old yoga mat)
Fabric to cover it all
Decorations: popsicle sticks, paint, lace etc
Hot glue
I was reusing old supplies for most of this.
Cover the cardboard in foam and hot glue it down. I used that same old yoga mat and because there wasn’t much left I made a bit of a patchwork XD
Next cover it all with fabric. Again I was using scraps so I did it in two sections.
Tadaa 😀
The finish was a bit rough so I glued thick elastic around the edges and middle. This made it look more like a window. You could easily use ribbon or something else similar.
So far:
Now I wanted to make a little white picket fence to go around it too so I used popsicle sticks.
I snipped off one of the ends…
Painted them all white…
And left them to dry while I did the next part.
I decided to hold this on to the glass using some double sided tape.
Here it is on the wall:
Then I added the popsicle sticks in a picket fence design over the top. It turned out that having the sticks over the top of the board made it too thick to slide back into the wall. Boo! I ended up removing that section and leaving the rest.
Decoration time now! I used some green yarn to hang from the top of the boards to the sides of the door.
I used little pegs to hold photos there.
I made matching swoops of yarn on the other panels.
It wasn’t quite fancy enough so I added some little flowers around the fences and drew in some grass with a green whiteboard marker.
Lastly I made our initials out of pearls and added them to the top.
All done!
I love that all my photos and pretty things are on display like this.
But I’m not sure if this is going to be the room’s final incarnation or if I’ll recover it.
I think I’m coming to accept a bit more that my house is always going to be a work in progress! 😀
This is almost like a Friday Fun video… except it’s Wednesday 😀 Totally counts though… Just wanted to say thank you all for a great year, I can’t wait for next year!
Automatically translated by machine. Hello everyone!
Just a quick video today to let you guys know about all of the cool things which are happening in December!
And keep you up to date with everything.
You guys might know that on my second channel, every couple of months we do a whole months of vlogs.
We’re doing that in December again.
We did it in December last year and it was really fun and we figured why not!
Make sure you head over to my second channel which is… somewhere.
It’s VioletsVlogs and subscribe if you want to keep up to date with us in December.
And we’ll be doing lots of cool and random things including live morning make up, I think we’re doing the Boyfriend Does My Make Up tag today which is going to be interesting.
We’ll see how that goes!
There’s heaps of footage as well, my little puppy.
She’s always running around and getting in between me and the camera.
Also I know a couple of people have been asking about the Bergamot Bunny stuff.
There’s actually a whole new range of Bergamot merchandise available for Christmas/the holidays/whatever.
So many sure you check out her website and store.
There are heaps of cartoons going up on her website too every couple of days a new thing pops up.
And Lottie’s featuring in those too because you just can’t keep her out of things!
Much to Bergamot’s irritation.
That’s about it.
This video was just to say thank you guys so much for supporting me all year and I can’t wait for next year, I think it’s going to be so much fun!
If you have any requests, as always let me know!
Thanks so much again!
Bye!
Violet cuts out paper with scissors and puts it together in fast motion.
She decorates is and then writes a note.
Dear subscribers. Happy Holidays!
Love Violet. Thanks for everything this year and look forward to next year, it’s going to be big!
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A blog and Youtube channel about a girl and her quest to make everything sparkle. New craft, hair and beauty tutorials every week!
Violet LeBeaux spends most of her time trying to think of ways to make life prettier, posting said ways on her blog and drinking very strong tea. She writes about big hair cute things, girly fashion, beauty finds, sometimes Hime Gyaru fashion (姫ギャル) and crafty tutorials.
She lives with her adorable boyfriend Jimmy, fluffy puppy Miss Lottie and Bergamot Bunny in Melbourne, Australia.
Illustrator. Strong tea, knitting, watercolours, and making a video game called Moonlight in Garland. Living with her adorable husband Jimmy, fluffy puppy Miss Lottie and Bergamot Bunny in Melbourne, Australia.
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