Thursday, December 2, 2010

New Christmas Decor


About a month ago I decided to create some things for my house for Christmas.  With the craft show, school and work, I was only able to get this one thing done so far....although I do have an idea for a card display for all the wonderful Christmas Cards we get.  For now this will hang on our wall with the photo updated every year.

These are available for custom order, in a wide variety of colors, styles and themes.

Supplies:
12x12 Canvas
Miscellaneous Christmas Paper: My Little Yellow Bicycle, Jilly Bean Soup, Imaginisce
Chipboard Words: My Little Yellow Bicycle
Flowers: Color Me Crazy
Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist in Scarlet and Gum Drop
Jewels: Imaginisce and iRock Heat Setting Tool
Modge Podge

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Happy B-Day!

I've been away for quite awhile!  I started school in January for Graphic Design and took a ton of credits the first quarter.  I won't be making that mistake again!  I missed my scrapping time and haven't gotten to make as much for my shop as I would like to.

On a positive note:  I'm BACK!  During my hiatus I had a couple of custom orders and one of them was for a set of matching birthday cards.  Below are samples of the cards.

Quick tip for the buttons.  I have a MILLION buttons, but mostly in pastels and greens and reds.  The colors I had didn't work for these cards and I didn't want to go out and buy more.  So I picked out a button that was the right style and size, covered one side of it liberally with VersaMark and dipped it into my American Crafts Zing Embossing Powder.  I picked it up with a tweezers and heat embossed it.  That quickly and easily I changed the colors of my buttons!  I love that I can now customize all of my buttons to whatever project I'm working on.  Be careful though, if you heat it too long, your button may warp.

In order to get a full bow on top, rather than the cut out like it is on the cartridge, I went into Design Studio and hid the lines so they would not cut.  I like this look a lot better and I think it adds a lot more contrast.


Both cards were made using the Lyrical Letters Cricut Cartridge and BoBunny Love Bandit Collection, plain white cardstock and miscellaneous buttons.  The second card uses Archiver's pink cardstock.