Little Honey Bee Studios: PWP Winter Blog Hop & Giveaway!

Friday, December 6, 2013

PWP Winter Blog Hop & Giveaway!

WELCOME to Paper Wing Productions' Winter Design Team Blog Hop & Giveaway! If you've arrived here from Katie's blog, then you're in the right place. If you’re just stopping by for a visit, please CLICK HERE to start from the beginning.

This month our theme is Winter. So grab something warm, get comfortable and enjoy the hop.

The main prize is a $25.00 gift certificate to the Paper Wings Productions online store.

For a chance to win all you need to do is:

be a follower of the Paper Wings Productions blog
visit each of the participating designer's blogs and leave a comment
come back and leave us a comment on the PWP blog telling us you completed the hop.

To increase your chances of winning: like our Facebook page and/or invite your friends to the hop. Be sure to leave a separate comment for each of your additional entries. The winner will be announced on Tuesday, Dec 10th, 2013 on the Paper Wings Productions blog.

Today I have a sweet little Winter Princess to share with you. I think she would look beautiful on a mantel or in a little girls room inside a glass globe.

If you follow me on FB, then you probably saw this pic. It was this light bulb that inspired my design. I recently replaced several of the light bulbs in my studio and being the ~~pack rat~~ recycler that I am, I saved them. I thought that I could probably make something with them. So when I started thinking about my project, I kept looking at this bulb sitting on my self and then it hit me. It looks like a dress!! So I found a small piece of cardboard tube from my ~~junk pile~~ stash and glued it to the top. The tube works to elongate the bodice and cover up the bulb's prongs. Then I started looking at my stamps and had another AH-HA moment, the tree looks like a skirt!! So that was my jumping off point and I ran with it :D Let me show you how I put her together:

She needed a base so I used an empty spool of ribbon, a sheet from a chipboard mini album, foam, lace trim and scrapbook paper.

I painted the chipboard with Gesso then stamped/embossed it with one of the snowflake stamps. Next I filled the empty spool with foam, topped it with paper and attached the lace trim. With that she was ready to take her place of honor.

I used Prismacolor pencils and Stickles to color and embellish my princess. Since my dress is three dimensional and she is two dimensional, I had room to embellish behind her. So I used the beautiful leaves and postcard stamp. Then I tucked in a piece of the ribbon from the Nov Nesting Components kit and some more snowflakes.

Since I ended up covering the "tree skirt", I decided to add another one front and center. I also added a wooden tree that I dyed with Lindy's spray ink, flowers and a sentiment glued onto an old key. The Shakespeare quote is on the Waves of Magic stamp set and is attached to a beautiful winter scene but I just wanted the quote so I cut it out.

You'd never know that this beautiful little princess started out as an old light bulb and empty ribbon spools, lol. I hope I've inspired you to get creative with your stamps and upcycle something that you might have thrown away.