Special Gift for my Sister!

Hello & happy Friday Everyone!

I have a special post just for today!

If you are seeing this, it means I'm at

my sisters' house visiting and she has finally seen the gift I made her! 
I've been soooo excited to share this! 

I hope you like it as much as she does! :)

Most of you know I love to make wood projects -

and I really haven't been on the ball with it as

I should be, but this piece is now my
 FAVORITE Wood Piece Ever! 

In fact, I loved it sooooo much that I made 2 of them!!

One for her and one for me!! EEK!!!

Isn't this the coolest??? I so LOVE it!!!

I got the wood pieces from my local wood Craft store

I painted everything and added the papers I had in

my stash - lots of paint, Mod Podge, Wood glue, Hot glue -

a little drilling here and there - :)

The ladder was Spray-painted in black

The papers I'm using are from American Crafts - they were in my

 Scrap Stash pile - I had a couple of pieces of wooden snowflakes, so

I painted them to match the paper then used some wood glue to

attach it to the wonky shape - I made a bow with my Candy Cane Trendy Twine

then I hot glued a gold bell onto it - it's attached to the ladder with wood glue -

I had some silver Chenille Stems and twirled them with a pencil then

I hot glued a piece of it inside the wood shape (we drilled a tiny hole for it)

This piece was painted green and I inked the edges with black Momento Ink

The sentiment is all vinyl, then I added different sizes of red enamel dots

I grabbed some Red, Green, & White Tulle and tied them up then I hot glued

them to the wood - We drilled some tiny holes in the top so we could attach

some screw hooks for it to dangle on the ladder -

This piece was painted Green & red then I added the paper with Mod Podge

I sanded the edges then inked it in black - I attached the star to the top

and put some Clear Wink of Stella on it, just for some sparkle!

I had some leftover Red Mesh, so I made a little bow

out of it and Hot glued the mesh & Bell to the wood piece -

Then I used some wood glue to attach it to the ladder!

Here's Mr. Grinch himself! LOL 

I painted a portion of this wood piece in Green and the

other portion Red - His Face is Vinyl and I inked the edges in black -

I used an assortment of sizes for the White Enamel dots on his hat -

His trim was painted white then I used some 

DecoArt - Snow-Tex to create the texture on the trim - 

I never used Snow-Tex before, it was interesting to mess with, I really

like the added texture with it - 

As you can see we had to drill a hole in the top of his hat so he

could dangle on the ladder as well - 

Here's another Fun Wood Element piece - I painted this one green 

then added the paper with Mod Podge - It was plain so I went ahead an

grabbed a Sizzix Oval Die and Die cut a piece a green Fun Foam then

Die cut the Green & White Striped Paper, just to add a little something to it -

Of course, I felt it still needed a little something so I grabbed

my, My Creative Time Present Tag Die and die cut out the

gift portion and adhered that on top of the oval shape -

I liked that a lot better and then I added Some Clear Wink of Stella

to the bow portion on the gift - 

I found some Red Chenille Stems and twirled it up

with a pencil then I drilled a small hole and Hot glued

it to the wood ornament - I Hot glued the Red & White

Tulle and the red bell before using some wood glue to attach it

to the lower portion of the ladder - 

Here is the last piece that's dangling on the ladder -

The towns are all vinyl words- as you can tell I painted

everything either Red, Green or White! hahahaha

I mod Podge the striped paper then inked the edges in black

I added a couple of White enamel dots and used more of that

Deco Art - Snow-Tex on this piece... 

It really looks like snow from a distance...

I like the texture it adds to the wood pieces - 

As I said I made 2 of these - it took some time to

make both of them but so worth it - They both look almost

exactly the same - I had to use a different piece of paper 

on one of the wood ornament pieces -

 otherwise, they are pretty close in matching - 

Thanks so much for stopping by!

I'll be back sometime in a week or two?

I've kind of lost my Mojo for cardmaking, so

we'll see what happens - I've been trying to keep 

up with my blogging Comments, not so much on FB -

Work has been keeping me super Busy!

And right now, I'm trying to enjoy some time

with my Marine Son who is home for the holidays -

He hasn't had a Christmas with us in a couple of years -

I wish you ALL a Fabulous New Year!

Theresa