100 Followers Giveaway!! Closed

Alright Ladies (& Gents)!

For quite some time now I've known exactly what I would do for my very exciting 100 Followers Giveaway.  Some of you may remember a certain ModPodged piece of wall art I made for a friend earlier this year.

Remember Jaimie Paris?

And Hubby's ManCave Sign?

And my dear sweet friend Michelle's abolition plaque which is currently living overseas with her?

Look at those ridiculously goofy grins.

Well, if you haven't quite figured it out yet, I've decided to create a custom made piece of Wall Art with pictures, words, paint, paper, or fabric or whatever you'd like up to maybe 11" x 14" or up to 3 smaller coordinating pieces.  Does that sound good?!

Alright.  How to win.

1. MANDATORY!  Be a public follower of Mrs. Lavespere.  because....this is a followers giveaway...ya know.  However, new followers are welcome to join in.

(2 entries...woohoo!)

Sample: 'I follow you, yo!'

2.  Follow Mrs. Lavespere on twit-twit-twitter.

(1 entry)

Sample: 'I follow you on twit-twit-twitter!'

 3.  Grab any of my past or current buttons and post them anywhere on your blog.

(1 entry)

Sample: 'Check it out!  I have your button!'

4.  Blog or Tweet about this giveaway.

(1 entry each)

Sample: 'I blogged / tweettweettweeted about your giveaway at plainjane.blogspot.com / @plainjane.'

Now that's a total of SIX possible ways to winnn!!


Make sure you leave a separate comment for each thing you do! I'll be using random.org to choose a comment number as the winner!

The giveaway closes December 31st, New Years Eve!!

And a Winner will be announced on the First day of 2011!!

 

There you have it!  Enter away!!

*Open to only blogger friends currently living in the U.S. I can't ship around the world, you know!*

Framed 3D Christmas Tree

Ok so I made this tree for our house over a week ago, but have been busy with work and never got around to working through my pictures to make a post.  I have to tell you, I am sooo super stoked about it!  I knew I'd been wanting to make something like it, but never really tried yet. 
If you want to jump to the end to see it, go ahead...but if you'd like to blindly follow me through my crazy tutorial, I'd LOVE to show you how to make one too!

You'll need:

   A frame, the size of your choosing (hopefully thrifted, like mine was)

   Coordinating scrapbook paper of your choice

   Roll or sheet of foam double sided tape

   Scissors (of course)

   Paint color of your choice

   Oh, and the use of a computer & printer

Pick your paper:

 I chose 4 different patterns for:

background

tree

& two for the ornaments.

Next, you'll need to find a tree pattern online, or create one if you'd like.

I found this one:

Source

With your fave snazzy chosen tree paper, print out this pattern.  Make sure you put your paper in upside down so that the pattern will print on the blank side.  I used photoshop to edit the size of my tree so that it would be nice & big to fit in my frame & I also grayscaled it so I wouldn't be wasting any pretty ink.

 By the way.  Don't you love my great new printer?!  It's an awesome wireless update of the old hp all-in-one I've had since college...hubby got it on sale for $20 at Staples because they'd used it as a display!  20 bucks!!

Cut out your tree.  Doesn't it look good against the background paper already?  Now, I don't know if this would work with any pattern you find, but I chose mine so that I could do this:

Fold it like so.

 So that it jumps out a little like this!

Once your tree is pretty, you'll need to find an ornament pattern.  I found a great set of 3/4...

Here

 I picked out 2 different paper patterns for my ornaments...blue winter swirls & red polka dots.  Print your pattern and cut out whichever ornaments you want.

Use your foam tabs on the back of each and scatter them over your tree pattern.

Then do the same to the back of your completed tree and stick the whole thing to your background paper.

If you hadn't had a chance to already (I didn't necessarily make this in the nicely organized order I've made up here)...grab your frame and fix it up a little bit.

$0.10 woohoo!

I painted mine bright red!  

Now, once everything's foam tab covered & painted, put it all together.  I chose to not put my glass frame cover back on to let the tree stick out.  I also had to trim my background paper a little bit to fit snugly in the frame.  All done?!  Me too.  

Here's mine!:

Do you like it?!  I love it's simplicity.  

I'm also in the middle of making a mini gingerbread style one too!  I'm just also in the middle of making 15 million Christmas presents so I'll get it up as soon as I can!

I hope you like it and might try to make one too!  If you do, please let me know!  I'd love to see it!!

Thanks for any new friday followers!  Don't forget I'll be announcing a 

super duper 100 Follower Giveaway this Saturday!!  

Happy Friday!!

Just a....

Supppper quick post to let you know that I am doing a little construction around the place...it may be messy, but it's sweepy time.  I have work in the morning but will not leave it looking like this for long.

Also, I've got a post nearly finished about some Christmas-y things that have been going on around the house.


And I'll be announcing my 100 Followers giveaway THIS Saturday!  Woohoo!  I hope you guys like it!!  It's from the heart!

Love

Yesterday...

I got a new mug. 

I like it.

Do you?