3 Ring Circles in a 3 Ring Circus

Yes, my life often feels like a 3 ring circus between kids, work, teaching classes and all the daily business of living.  Crafting keeps me calm and allows me to de-stress while letting my creativity flow whether it's creating a bangle, pair of earrings, card, or, in today's case, a wreath!  I can't even begin to tell you how much fun I've had with this week's collaboration between Stampendous and DIY Bangles!  I used a wreath form from DIY Bangles line of "3 Ring Circles."  This project was especially fun to do as I enjoy creating wreathes.  Admittedly, I don't usually get to combine a wreath with stamps but I did and I like the combination!  I started out with the 3 Ring Circles 12" Floral and Craft Wreath ring.  I wrapped approximately 7 yards of green ribbon around the ring completely covering the bare wood.  I could have just painted it but I had something else in mind and I often go with the flow of creativity.  Next I added strips or white tulle by just looping each piece on.  I have this really cool sparkly May Arts ribbon that I wrapped around leaving  it loose giving it an almost floating look.  For the final touch I added three Jumbo Cling Poinsettias that I stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black, colored with Copics and cut out.  This stamp can be found at Michael's. I attached them to the wreath with pop-dots.  It's a very simple wreath but I'm a simple kinda gal!

Here's a close-up of the poinsettias:


I hope you get some time out from your 3 ring circus to do some crafting, maybe even with some 3 Ring Circles! There are several different sizes and widths to choose from but no matter which one you pick, you're sure to love it!  A lot of the design team ladies are playing along today and we've each created a project we hope will inspire you to create your own.  For now, how about a hop?  At each blog (or just the ones you want) leave an insightful comment that lets us know you actually looked at the project and we'll enter you once for each comment in a chance to win some DIY Bangles, beads, or circles plus some Stampendous goodies with which to embellish them.  Now who wouldn't want to win one of those prizes?  Stampendous goodies are always the best kind of goodies!!

Annette Witherspoon

April Derrick

Barb Turpin

Jennifer Ingle (Jingle)

Kristine Reynolds

Lea Kimmel

Mary Dawn Quirindongo

Melinda Gleissner

Tenia Nelson

Wendy Price

We sure hope you've had some serious fun with our collaboration this week! Thanks for joining us. Would you mind sharing our hop on your Facebook page? We'd sure love to grow our audience a bit more to be able to keep bringing you all these great prizes.

Join us as well for our new December Challenge - CAS (Clean and Simple) Christmas Cards. We'll be doing our best to give you last minute card ideas you can complete quickly to fill out your card sending list. We'll be providing simple Christmas card inspiration all the way up until Christmas day, so stick with us. This will be our last challenge of the year and we're mulling over what to do next year, so stay tuned for that as well!

Stick around and we'll announce November Prize winners and the Winners from this hop early next week (once the staff has recovered from their Warehouse Sale and Holiday Party this weekend!).  Thanks for stopping by today and I'll see you again really soon!

Hugs,

Lea