Tim Holtz Distress Glitter Birth Announcement Frame

I got crafty this past weekend! I made a birth announcement frame for my son's daycare teacher. I was inspired by the song "Isn't she lovely" - Stevie Wonder.  I also was dying to use this Heidi Swapp frame and the new Tim Holtz Distress glitter. This was a labor of love and a craft of truly epic proportions. The nursery colors are pink and brown. Pink is my favorite color so I was tickled to work on this project. The walls are pink so I though focusing on brown would allow the birth announcement to pop on the wall.

Supplies

• Heidi Swapp decorative wooden shadow box frame 13.5" x 11"
• Recollections - felt bow, bling, sequin bear
• American crafts - Thickers
• Adhesives: 3D Galazy Gloss, Hot glue, Glossy Accents, sticky dots by The Paper Studio
• Ribbon - stash (perhaps from Micheal's)
• My Mind's Eye - lost and found two polka dot cardstock
• Basic Grey - "happy day" flair from the Hey Girl collection
• Tim Holtz - blending tool, Vintage Photo distress ink and distress glitter
• Buckle Boutique - Dazzling Diamonds (mounted to mat board and cut with Sizzix die)
• Flowers - pebbles, paper studio - spare parts, prima, jolee's, recollections
• Copic markers - E37, E18 hand colored pearls in the bottom right corner

I printed the picture at 25% and edited it in PicMonkey to add the birth info and a simple frame. The picture is mounted on two layers of the leftover part from pop dots. I use it all! 

Although it's not my usual style, I took a risk and created a collage with flowers and accents. Some I built by laying with foam tape. The flower in the lower corner was made by my friend Lyne and I added my new fav craft item - dazzling diamonds by Buckle Boutique. My friend and CTMH rep Cardmonkey Jarvis gave me some to play with at Eileen Hull's Paper Trail. Eileen brought mat board and sizzix dies to get our crafty juices going. Thanks ladies!!

Tim Holtz distress glitter is like glass glitter but without the glass (YAY!). It goes on best with a wet glue that dries clear. I tinted the decorative part of the wood with Vintage Photo distress ink first just in case I missed any spots with the glitter. The result is a vintage look with a brilliant shine. Love it!! I also love the depth of the frame. It's perfect for really tall embellishments and for layering to build the perfect scene.

I attached the ribbon to the back with hot glue using plaid hot glue helpers. The best thing that ever happened to me!! I was able to spread the hot glue and press it with the tools and not get burned or make a mess! Woo hoo! I will use hot glue much more often now-a-days!

Well, I hope you enjoyed this post and will let me know what you think!

La-Vie

Challenges

• Crafting From The Heart: Challenge 22
• Crafting for All Seasons - #79 Don't be Square
• Fantastic Tuesday - #38 ATG
• Inky Impression Challenges - #163 For the Girls
• Craftin Desert Diva's - Linky Party #33 Fav color
• Crafting by Designs - Birthday
• Cute Card Thursday - Perfectly Pink
• Craftitude - Pop it Up
• Crafty Catz - Challenge #234 Inspired by a Song
• Creative Fingers Challenge #38 - ATG
• Delightful Challenges - Tickled Pink
• The Squirrel and the Fox - Let's hear it for the girls
• Suzy Bee's Bloomin' Challenge blog - #32 ATG
• Little Scrap Pieces - Show it off Saturday Linky Party
• Pile it on #23 - Use patterned paper and combine with another challenge
• Whoopsi Daisy Challenge - ATG
• Word Art Wednesday #136 - ATG
• Just Inspirational Challenges - Girls vs Boys
• Ladybug Crafts June Challenge - Father's Day or use dies
• Digistamps for Joy Challenge #94 - Flowers
• Crafty Calendar Challenges - Petals and pearls
• Once Crazy Stamper - ATG with glitter and ribbon
• Penny's Paper Crafty Challenges - ATG

Anniversary Spinner Card

Today my project is the result of combining 4 different challenges: a sketch from Sketchy Friday, color inspiration from Tsunami Rose Designs, anniversary theme from Hiding in My Craft Room, and the technique of using brayering of sponging from Repeat Impressions. I had lots of fun using most of these materials and tools for the first time. Now that I am organized I use new things so much faster and have been pulling out the older things as well. I loved the sponging technique to create the heart background and the shading on the spinner wheel.

KISS - Keep it Simple... I went old school today with some of my crafting techniques. I pulled out a pencil and traced the circle stamp onto the cardstock to get the right sized circle, cut it out by hand and then re-trimmed it once I stamped the image. It was much quicker than pulling out the Cricut, cuttlebug, dies (because I didn't have a punch the right size). Then I used the sponge and ink to not only ink the edges, but to color in the beige parts of the spinner to give them a pink tinge. Love it! Here's a closer look. The spinner hand is attached with a small brad that comes in the package from Stampin' Up! I affixed it tightly to make sure you know it's an anniversary card. I'm sure it would spin if I affixed it more loosely (and I will next time ... just to see).

Supplies:

• Cardstock - Bazzill, stash
• Ribbon - The Paper Studio, Spare Parts
• Stapler - Memories Direct long reach stapler and staples
• Stencil - Pebbles: baby girl
• Embossing - Anna Griffin for Cuttlebug - Smitten (border folder)
• Punch: Martha Stewart Punch around the page - Topiary
• Stamp: Stampin' Up! Take a Spin
• Adhesives: xyron, 3D Zots
• Ink: Clear and Simple Stamps, Paint the Town Pink
• Corner rounder - Creative Memories
• Sponge

 

 

wish me luck!!

La-Vie

Dinosaur Birthday Card

Usually when we need a boy card we go right to the cars or super hero themes. But this time we wanted to try something different. So we pulled out thge Cricut cart Dinosaur Tracks. This simple dino cut was embellished with millenium zig pen outlining and inked with a brown EK Success sweetheart inker. The pre-cut card is from DCWV.

In order to make a scene for the dinosaur I used a Martha Stewart punch called cracks along the bottom and inked it with Tim Holtz distress ink called Iced Spruce. We decided that the scene needed a sky so we included a blue layer punched with a Martha Stewart punch named laurel leaf. No sky is complete without puffy clouds so we added two felt ones from Pebbles. Once the scene was set, the dinosaur was added... perched on pop dots.

The sentiment was built from several stamp sets. The brackets were part of a stamp in the Art by Design set from Stampin' Up! I only inked the brackets since that's all I needed. The font we used to spell roar is from a $1 set I bought Micheal's.  I freehanded the "=" and Zora stamped Happy Birthday from the Inkadinkado Birthday Fun set. We are excited to have stepped out of the norm and created a super cute project together.

La-Vie

Happy Mother's Day 2012

This one is a 2-for...I made this card yesterday for Mother's Day and for the NSD Crop: Art Inspiration challenge hosted by the Cricut Circle. The prize is a Cuttlebug and 2 embossing folders. The winner will be chosen at random. I am lucky #28! Wish me luck! I have included the art provided for the challenge below. I chose to focus on the colors, butterflies and flower as my inspiration for this original creation.

This card is for my Godmother who has been in my life from birth. I wanted to make a very special card to thank her for her presence in my life. This is one of my fav card cuts from the Sophie cart. The layers were cut from stock images in the Cricut Expression 2. I love adding bling to the butterflies. I combined the tulle flowers from K and Company with Pebbles to create unique embellishments.

• Cricut cart Sophie, stock images in E2
• SEI Poppy Stack
• Bazzill cardstock
• Pebbles
• bling from my stash
• K and Company Brenda Walton Fabric Art

La-Vie

Sweet Little Baby - Cricut Circle Weekly Challenge #54

Weekly Challenge #54: Decorative Letter Challenge!

The Challenge: Create a scrapbook page, card, home decor item, or other project where you include a word of your choice. One or more of the letters in your chosen word must be replaced by a Cricut shape. For example, replace the letter “o” in the word LOVE with a heart.

Rules and Guidelines: Circle Blog Challenges are open to Cricut Circle Members only. Your project must be newly created for this challenge and include atleast 2 Cricut Image Cuts. You must submit a project to be entered into the Challenge Prize Drawing. One entry per person, please.

Prize: We will select one winner to receive $25 in credit added to their Cricut.com account. Please allow 4 to 6 weeks for delivery from winner announcement.

Winner: The winners will be selected randomly from qualifying entries using www.random.org and will be announced on the Cricut Circle Blog on Friday, March 30th, 2012.

Here's my entry for this challenge. This card is for a friend who is having her third child but her first baby girl next month. It includes 4 Cricut cuts using the Cricut Imagine machine and the letter "b" is replaced with a glittery rattle.

I wanted to experiement with the sillhouette style that I have been seeing on blogs and Pinterest lately. I chose the baby image (cut at 2.5") and the word baby (cut at 1.5") from the Cricut Cartridge A Child's Year. The rattle was cut at 1.7" from Craft 'n Craftin pink glitter cardstock and Cricut Cartridge New Arrival. The scallop oval (cut at 4.5") was a stock image in the Cricut Imagine machine. Sweet Little is a portion of a stamp by Stampin' Up from the Something sweet set. I did not ink the word baby that is the last part of the stamp. I punched it out with the Stampin' Up word window punch.

The inside of the card is finished with Bazzill pink cardstock punched with Martha Stewart scallop three dot. The sentiment is from Stampin' Up Full of Life stamp set. I will write a message to the mom-to-be with an at you Spica glitter pen by Copics.

Other supplies used:

• adhesives - ATG, foam dots, zots glue dots, xyron 1.5"
• pebbles twine
• DCWV Mango Frost stack, Nana's Kids - baby girl
• magenta seam binding
• We R Memory Keepers Sweetheart Inkers - pink
• Inkadinkado ballerina pink pigment ink

Wish me luck!

La-Vie