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Paislee Party Hats For The New Year!

I had a hankerin’ to do something fun for the kiddos for New Years. We are headed to a friend’s house with the kids, so we won’t make it until midnight, Steve has to work on the 1st, but I thought we should have fun while we are there! 2009 is almost here!

Ever since I first spied the Pixee Stix from Pink Paislee I have wanted to turn one of them into a magic wand for one of my girls. I’ve had an empty one for a little while and thought it would be a great way to bring in the new year.

I wanted to make some party hats to go with it and after searching around for a fun template, I decided to do a Martha. You can download a template for a cone hat from Martha here. Cone hats are really simple though, so you don’t even need a template. You can enlarge the template size to fit your needs, though. I kept mine small because I thought it would be fun to have fun little sassy hats for the kids, and this made it much simpler to do which is great when you want to create something fun but don’t have a lot of time.

Because the template is round, I HAD to use a round piece of paper, and went with Blue Moon from the Vintage Moon collection. The beautiful thing about this paper is that all you’d need to do is cut it in half and you’d have two perfect cones with scalloped edges. Perfect! But for this project, again, I wanted tiny hats, so I turned it over and traced my template on the back.

For the front of my hat, I simply used a circle punch on a piece of Cutie Pie from the Sweet Cakes line, and then used the negative from that circle to trace a circle on the back of a piece of Hollow Moon from the Vintage Moon line. Using pinked scissors, I then trimmed a little outside the black circle so that when I layered it you would see the pinked edges.

After I was finished, I added some Making Memories tiny black alphas and used Press-ons for the date. I then finished it off with a button and some Karen Foster floss. I attached this to the cone with a pop dot.

For the top I thought I’d have fun with curlicues.  To make them, simply trim your scraps to approximately 1/4 inch thickness. I used several papers from the Vintage Moon line.

After you have made your strips, you simple run them under the sink until they are wet, and then wrap them around a pencil. Don’t get them too wet or pull them too tight or they will break. When you are finished it should look something like this:

I had these laying on a cookie sheet. I then whisked them away to my bedroom and set them partially on the heater vent. I left them there for several hours because you need them to dry before you work with them. I ended up letting this batch sit overnight.

When you are ready to work with them, simply punch a small circle, I think this one is about 1 1/2 inches, and begin adhering some of the strips.

After attaching about 4 of them, I took my cone, turned it over, and poked the curls through the top. The circle is bigger than the hole at the top of the cone, so it will stay inside with the ends of your curls. I then attached a few more strips until I got the desired effect.   After I was finished I gave some of my curls a little haircut, and then voila, a hat was made. To finish it off I punched a hole on each side and threaded a ribbon.

To create the wand I filled an empty Pixee Stix with a couple of coordinating glitter colors, pinched the top closed and taped it shut. I covered two chipboard stars with paper and more Pixee Stix glitter, attached some curls to the backside, and put them together back to back, smashing the “wand handle” between them. After it was dry I attached ribbon just underneath the star, to cover up any adhesive, etc. Very easily done!

And that’s it! I just love the size of my little hats. We are going to be spending New Years with a small baby. I think she’s just about 2 months old. I can’t wait to put one on her and take some photos!

Give A Hostess Gift With Flair!

This embellished wine holder is so easy to decorate there shouldn’t be any reason why you can’t add a little handmade touch to your holiday hostess gifts!  With New Years Eve fast approaching you need to run out and grab one of these containers soon!

Just choose your papers and embellishments and wrap around the wine holder using a strong adhesive!  I used the Tinsel Town papers and some of the Pixee Stix Glitter in Raspberry for this project.

This is the before photo!  Paint around the edges of the container opening if it doesn’t quite match your paper scheme!

Mix & Match With Ease…

I have a new layout to share with you today!  As you can tell the Pink Paislee papers are so versatile that they can be mixed and matched and used for just about any theme!  On this layout I combined some of the Pop Fashion and Sweet Cakes papers with some of the Tinsel Town stamps and press ons and I just love the combination!

I also used a page from the Maya Road clear snowflake album behind my photos and sprayed it with the “snow” that you can buy at the craft store. Then I sealed it with a paper sealer before adding it to my page.

Don’t be afraid to mix and match our patterns and use them for any photo!

Join Us For Our Birthday Bash!

On January 1st, 2009 we will ring in the New Year and celebrate one full year of being in business!  Having a “1st” birthday is always an anticipated milestone and ours is no different.  As we look back on 2008 we lovingly reflect on just how far we have come in such a short amount of time!  Without our fans and our retail partners we wouldn’t be able to host this very important celebration!

Be sure to join us here on January 1st!  Details will be coming soon on how you can celebrate along with us and how you can play along for a chance to win some “party favors!”

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