Monday, October 29, 2012

Blog Hop WINNER!!!!!!

 
 
The winner of the blog candy for my blog hop is #9 Tee! Congratulations Tee. Please send  me  you mailing information so I may send you your goodies.
 
 
 
 
9:Tee
Your wreath is so pretty - and who doesn't love blog candy...

Friday, October 26, 2012

Cutters Creek Holiday Blog Hop


Welcome to the Cutters Creek Design Team Holiday Blog Hop! We want you to hop along with us and play for some awesome Blog Candy. The objective for our Blog Hop this weekend is to provide some inspiration to help you get your holiday crafting underway! Our Design Team has come up with some fabulous projects and we have a little bit of everything, from cards to gift ideas, and home décor items. So we invite you to hop along with us and get your creative juices flowing! If you came from Fran's blog then you are at the right place. If you just happened to pop and would like to start from the beginning then please head to the Cutters Creek DT Blog to start with Chris's wonderful project.

I have two projects for you today. My first project is a Fall/Thanksgiving Wreath. All of my leaves were cut using my eBosser and the Cheery Lynn Dimensional Large Leaves Die Set. I love this die set, you get 4 different leaf styles and sizes as well as an acorn die. For my wreath, I used all the leaves, and inked them with Distress Inks in fall colors. (I used Rusty Hinge, Mustard Seed, and Spice Marmalade, and Ripe Persimmon.  I then sprayed my leaves and acorns with some Gold Glitter Dust.I used some acorns that I found at my local LSS for added dimension. I adhered my leaves to a grape vine wreath that I picked up at my local craft store.with my hot glue gun as well as the acorns. Finally I cut my sentiment With Gratitude from the Phrases Cricut Cartridge at 3". If you need this cartridge Kim at Cutter's Creek can order it for you. I added some ribbon to hang my wreath.

For my second project, I went with a Christmas theme.

I found what was called a floating frame at my local craft store. The frame was already black but because it was on clearance there were a few nicks in it. I took some Black Soot Distress Ink and a sponge dabber and sponged the ink over the outside of the frame and covering the nicks. After letting it dry I sprayed the frame with some Silver Glitter Dust. If you don't have any of this product yet, get some, it is a must have for your holiday crafting, so easy to use and adds so much sparkle and shine.
The frame is 4" X 6". For my image I cut the Santa1 from the Quilted Christmas Cricut Cartridge using the Silhouette creative feature, at 3 1/2" out of red and white vinyl. I then cut the Believe banner at 1" from the Creative Memories Tis the Season cartridge. I used red, white and green vinyl for the banner. I cut two snowflakes from the same cartridge and used both the negative and the positives of the image on the back of my glass and sprayed it with Silver Glitter Dust  and Iridescent Glitter Dust. The glitter dust gives the glass a frosted sparkly look. Finally I used a Sizzix Snowflake die (Which Kim can likely order for you) and cut two snowflakes from the Tim Holtz Mirrored Paper and adhered them to opposite corners of my frame.


What is a blog hop without some blog candy?


I have the following blog candy I am giving away. To enter please leave a comment with a way to contact you by Monday October 29th at 6:00pm PDT. I will draw a winner using Random.org on Monday evening and post the winners name here. You don't have to be a follower to enter but I would love it if would like to follow me.


Don't forget about the awesome blog candy that Cutter's Creek is giving away. To win that blog candy you need to leave a comment on each blog as you hop along.

Here is the complete blog hop line up in case you get lost along the way:
Fran - http://scallopsandswirls.blogspot.com/
Deanna -
http://deannaspapercrafts.blogspot.com/


Thanks for hopping with us and we hope you enjoyed the hop and got many wonderful ideas!

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Let's Hear it for the Girls!



The new Cricut Cardz Challenge is to make a project in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. This is what I came up with.

I started with a white card stock base cut and scored to 4 1/4" X 5 1/2" then added a light green mat cut at 4" X 5 1/4" and then the patterned paper mat cut at 3 3/4" X 5". I inked the edges of my pink paper with some Spun Sugar and Worn Lipstick distress ink.  My rose is from the Indie Art Cricut Cartridge. I cut the layers at 3 3/4". I cut the rose flower layer twice out of pink and sprayed it with some Pink Glitter Dust. I adhere the base flower directly to the green layer and the used some clear gel foam tape to layer the second flower on top of the first flower for added dimension. I added a pale pink ribbon that I tied in bow. For my sentiment I used a Tim Holtz Ticket that I inked with some Worn Lipstick distress ink and sprayed with Pink Glitter dust. I adhered it to my card and added a small Breast Cancer Awareness Ribbon cut at 1/2" from the Stand and Salute cartridge. To finish I added a few pearls.

Thanks for visiting and I hope you will play along with us at Cardz TV for this Challenge.

Sunday, October 21, 2012

Halloween Decor Graphic 45 Style

I found these cute little canvas's and easels at a local craft store and just had to get them. I painted the easels and the canvas with some black acrylic paint. I then used the Graphic 45 Happy Haunting's Paper Pad for my images. I cut around part of the image and used some Matte Inkssentials Glue N Seal to seal my canvas and adhere my image. Then it was time to decorate.
For the square canvas I made some roses using a tutorial found here. I adhered them to the canvas with some hot blue and added some Diamond Ice Stickles to the edges of the flower petals.Then I added a couple of Rhinestone flourishes. I then embossed the edges of the canvas with some Black Glint WOW! Glitter Embossing Powder.
For the other canvas I again used the Matte Inkssentials Glue N Seal to seal my canvas and adhere my image. For this one I also made a rose and used some Stardust Stickles along the edges of the petals. I had some black tulle with some purple glitter in it and that cut and gathered to put behind the rose. I used some Majestic Purple Liquid Pearls to add some dimension to the canvas. I then outlined the edges of the canvas with some Black Diamond Stickles.

Friday, October 19, 2012

Fall-o-ween Fun



The Cardz TV Design Team has a fun new challenge up called "Fall-o-ween Fun". The challenge is to create a project for Fall or Halloween. This is what I came up with to enter.

My card base is a portrait style black card stock cut and folded to 4 1/4" X 5 1/2". I added an orange mat cut to 4" X 5 1/4" and then my patterned paper cut at 3 3/4" X 5". My image is from the Trick or Treat Lite cartridge and was cut at 3 3/4". I stamped a tiny black spider on his trick or treat bag and stamped my sentiment with some Memento Tuxedo Black ink and added 3 small black buttons down the side. Thanks for visiting.

Thursday, October 11, 2012

Trick or Treat!

So today I have for you a quick fun little Halloween treat bags for you. I started with the Mini Kraft Bags. They were the perfect size to hold two little fun size snickers bars.I then stamped different sentiments across the front of the bags, such as Trick or Treat, or It's all in the Treats. I used Persimmon, Seedless Preserves, and Black Soot Distress Inks to stamp my sentiments.I cut belly bands using punches, and just plain Halloween paper. I cut my strips at 1 1/4" X 6" and after placing my Candy Bars in the bag wrapped the band around the bag and adhered it with a piece of Kool Tak Tape. I then cut some small images from the Create a Critter 2 cartridge at 2" and adhered them to the front of my bags. Finally I dressed up the images with some stickles. My container was a bright lime green metal bucket that I had and I cut a pumpkin face from the Pumpkin Carvings Season Cricut Cartridge out of some black vinyl and adhered it to my bucket. These would make great treat bags for co-workers or for a class party. They were really quick to make.

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Anything Goes Challenge



The new Cricut Cardz Challenge at Cardz TV is Anything Goes!! This is what I came up with.

I started with a rust colored card stock cut and scored to make a 4 1/4" X5 1/2" card base. I then added a olive green mat cut at 4" X 5 1/4" then another rust mat cut at 3 3/4" X 5" and then the striped patterned paper cut at 3 1/2" X 4 3/4" from a K & Company paper stack. I cut my lady scarecrow from the Simply Charmed cartridge at 3 1/2". For her face I cut it out of white card stock then colored it flesh color with some Copic markers and used a Peach Keen stamp for her face. I added some rosy cheeks and my white gel pen to add some highlights on her checks and to color in her eyes. For the gem on the flower and on her pinafore I took some clear rhinestones and colored them with a gold colored marker. Happy Fall Ya'll is from the Thankful for You Cardz TV Stamp set. Thanks for stopping by and I sure hope you will play along with us for the challenge.

Monday, October 8, 2012

Fall Project

The new challenge over at Scrappy Frogs is to make a Fall or Halloween inspired project. This is what I came up with.

I started with a green card base cut to 5" X 7". I then ran a piece of orange Core'denations Card stock through my eBosser and embossed it with this Sizzix folder then sanded it. I added some paprika WOW! embossing powder to the leaves on the ground and falling from the tree. I also added some toffee flower soft to the bush on the left. Finally I colored in my leaves on my tree with some Copic and Spectrum Noir Markers and then spritz the whole things with a bit of gold glitter dust. I stamped my image with some Rich Cocoa Memento ink and attached it to my card base. I am real please with how this turned out. I hope you will play along with us for the Scrappy Frogs challenge this month.

Friday, October 5, 2012

Harvest Blessings



Today is World Card Making Day and the Cutter's Creek Design Team is asking all our card making friends out there to come play with us. We are encouraging all card makers to make a card and link it up to the post on the DT Blog. There are no prizes or giveaways. we wanted this day to be about you the card maker. We wanted to give everyone a place to share their creations and help inspire each other. So, this is the card I made.

My card base is Kraft card stock cut and scored to make a 4 1/4" X 5 1/2" card base. I added a rust colored mat cut at 4" X 5 1/4". I than ran a piece of the Chocolate Core'denations card stock through my eBosser and embossed it with this new M-Bossabilities Folder called Tweets and Twigs. I then sanded the  embossing so the red background would show through. Next I sprayed the paper with some Suns Sisters and Sun Kissed Peach glimmer mist and allowed it to dry then adhered it to my card. My leaf is cut at 3 3/4" from the paper trimmings cartridge. The paper for the leaf is from the DCWV Natural Paper Stack. I then use a scrap from the leaf shadow and cut this tag from Tag, Bag,s Boxes and More at 2 1/4", stamped it with Rich Cocoa Memento ink and added a twine bow. Finally I added some mosaic embellishments.

I hope you will play along with us at the DT Blog and will drop by and see the wonderful creations from the Design Team and your fellow card makers.