Hybrid Thursday – Dazzling Decor
Hi, everyone! I’m so excited to kick off our Dazzling Decor challenge today! I love decorating my home, and I often love to make my own decorations that fit my style and put a bit of “me” into my home. When I am creating decor items, I LOVE hybrid, because I can just print what I need. So, if I only need 6″ of paper, I only print 6″ of paper without having a lot of extra scraps lying around.
Today I decided to focus on personalizing YOUR space. Where do you scrapbook? Do you have your own room, maybe just a corner of a room? Wherever it is, create something that makes you happy and put it in the room where you work. I am lucky enough to have a room dedicated to my hobby, so I made a couple of things to go in there. If you don’t have a certain space dedicated to scrapbooking, just pick a place in your home that needs a little something, and create an item for that space .
I first saw the idea for this butterfly project on Ali Edwards’ blog, and ever since I saw it I have wanted to make one. It was great to do this project hybrid, because for each butterfly I only needed about 1 square inch of paper. So, I just printed one sheet with lots of 1-1.5″ squares on it, then punched the butterflies. The papers come from a variety of kits from Simply Sweet Designs, Scrapmuss Designs, and Sya’s Blueprints. I love the way it turned out.
The second project I made is this initial hanging. I got the frame at Target, and the opening is 4″x4″. I used a paper from Jeni Hopewell, and decreased it’s size to 4.25″ before printing it, because I wanted the whole sunburst pattern as my background. I then glued black paper (also from Jeni Hopewell) to my chipboard J and distressed it a little to give it a worn look. I added some bling and I was done. This one was really quick to make . . . it only took me about 20 minutes.
Andrea (Chia) created this super cute robot art for her son’s room using Megan Turnbridge’s i.BOT. I think it is so perfect for little boys’ room!
So, now it’s your turn! Go create something that makes you happy and display it in your home!
Here are the guidelines for the challenges at Scrap Matters:
- entries must be posted in the appropriate challenge gallery, and in the corresponding thread in the forum
- entries must be posted before the end of the month (March 31st) to be counted toward that month’s point total
- you’ll get 1 point for completing the project and posting it. Plus, I’ll select one entry at random for a bonus challenge point.
Good luck, I can’t wait to see all the new entries to our hybrid gallery!
ETA: I just wanted to clarify that since this challenge is in the last week of the month, you can count it toward your April points if you want. Just wait until April to post if you are going to do that, and you have until April 23 to finish the challenge. I know some people were worried about not having enough time to complete the challenge. I hope this helps! 
March 26th, 2009 at 7:05 am
WOW, Jaime! What beautiful designs.
March 26th, 2009 at 12:30 pm
Wow, by the 31st? That’s in 5 days! I doubt I’ll make the deadline, but I’ll definately be doing some of these! Question on the butterfly one… How did you adhere them and keep the 3D look? Did you do two creases on each butterfly and use a pop dot on the “body”?
March 26th, 2009 at 12:32 pm
And the adorable robots really look like they are floating! Are they stuck to the glass? I can see me doing these for my son’s Buzz room…
March 26th, 2009 at 2:12 pm
These are awesome! Wow!!
March 26th, 2009 at 6:25 pm
Such beautiful work Jaime! Those butterflies are gorgeous and I LOVE that “J.” May have to make one of those for myself!
Love the robots and rocket on the foil too. What a great idea! Great new challenge.
April 2nd, 2009 at 6:07 am
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