A place to showcase my crafts and talk about it...what's better than that? I hope to inspire and encourage others to create things for themselves, friends and family.
My sister turns 65 this month and I knew I had to make a special card for her. The cut file for this card is from My Scrap Chick. I love her cards and she has lots of different cut files. If you sign up for her newsletter, you'll be notified of her monthly freebies!
Before cutting the pieces, remember that you will need to change the inside lines from cut to score and then attach them to the image. I really need to do a tutorial on this!
The only thing I did differently is create a special front design to make it extra special!
Hello there! I've got a sweet project today using the Sweet Woodland Deer cut file from Printable Cuttable Creatables. When I saw this sweet image, I knew it would be perfect for a new baby card. Most of PCC's files have more than one image and this one is no exception. The deer is available with eyes open or closed. I chose the image with the eyes open.
After I cut all the pieces, I placed them on my mat and then laid them out before adding adhesive.
I used a pick tool and liquid adhesive with a fine tip to put the sweet deer together.
Once the image was completed, I worked on the card front.
Watch the process on YouTube
A piece of colorful plain paper from Lawn Fawn is perfect for this card so I cut it down to 5.25x4". Once I centered and adhered it onto the oatmeal card base, I felt like it needed something.
An oval! Using my oval cutter from Creative Memories (fun fact: I've had this tool for over 25 years!), I cut an oval and then used a stylus to emboss an oval inside the cut oval.
It's so subtle, but it looks so good! A little white pen details on the oval and the deer just adds more details for this card.
No need for foam adhesive for the deer since there are five paper layers on the deer and gives the perfect height to the card.
Do you love it? I certainly do and can't want to send it out.
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It's Saturday and March so it's time to share a card as part of my Sizzix Sidekick & Die Card Challenge for March. I love hosting my own challenges since it gets me to use products that I forget about.
For Project Two, I die cut a lighthouse birdhouse that I purchased from Spellbinders. I'm also combining it with a sketch challenge at sundaystamps.blogspot.com. I love using sketches for cards because it just makes it easier to start! Here's the sketch that I'm using:
Here's the card:
Be sure to check out the YouTube process video to see how it was made and come back Saturday for the third card!
Happy Friday and for another week to be thankful. This week was a typical Spring week. Rainy one day, sunny the next...repeat.
I'm thankful this week for long time friends. I was able to hang out and go to lunch from one of my work besties. Or should I say former work bestie? She retired last May so she had a little head start on retirement.
We both bought so many baby clothes for our own family's future babies. There was a huge clearance sale at JC Penney's! I bought some plain items that I'll customize for baby gifts. Stay tuned for those!
Hello there! Have you had a chance to try the Hat Press by Cricut? I purchased one in December with a plan to make caps for Christmas. Yeah, no...that didn't happen. There was so much going on in December and then I got sick to top it off.
But, I knew I had plenty of time to create this "In November We Strut" cap since our family's annual virtual marathon doesn't start until November. I cannot wait to show it off!
Fonts used: Arial for in and we; Gelato Fresco for November; and BFC College Sports Stencil for Strut
I pressed two different times since I had the white HTV and red glitter HTV. Using the included heat resistant tape was very helpful with this step!
Be sure to watch the How To video to see how I created this fun and sparkly cap.
My opinion of the Cricut Hat Press
Folks, I love it! I don't make a lot of caps but I have done a few. Let me tell you, this hat press made the project so easy and quick! It is bluetoothed (is that a word) so temp and timer is set on your phone which means there's no guesswork. It literally took 60 seconds to press the words to the cap.
No Brainer! If you make hats, you must get this product!
I love a fun challenge and The Scraproom always posts a Freaky Fast challenge on their IG account. I'm sure they post on their blog as well, I just get it from IG. For February, they posted the following:
When I saw the four 4.25" squares, I instantly thought of a grid pattern and that's what I did. For some reason, I also decided to make this a monochromatic layout as well.
Here's the final layout:
I love the back base page because it makes these blue paper varieties pop and that's always a good thing!
What I used:
Black & white cardstock from CutCardStock
Patterned Papers from Pink Paisley
Cricut for the title
Plane stickers, enamel dots and Bag Tag die from Simple Stories
Today is March first and it's time to share my project for the Love to Craft Challenge Blog (LTCCB). I am also starting a new challenge that involves my Sizzix Sidekick and dies. I realized recently that my die collection is growing and there are many of them that I have not used yet.
This card uses a Sizzix flower set that I recently purchased from a thrift store for $1 and paper scraps that are on my desktop.
Watch the process video to see how it was created.
Make your own crafty project and link it to the LTCCB site by April 15th. These challenges last for six weeks!
And be sure to check back every Saturday in March to see more projects made with my Sizzix and dies.
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