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Designer Crafts Connection Hop

1 Oct

Today’s hop day! Click on the blue icon on my sidebar to see all of the fun Halloween and fall projects created by my crafty designer friends.

My Halloween project is a candle screen. Instructions for the project can be found here.I used an orange battery operated tealight that I found at Michael’s… a good alternative to fire when you are making a candle screen from paper :-).

SPECIAL GIVEAWAY!

If you leave a comment below by 7 PM tonight, you will be eligible to win the Sizzix ScoreBoard Candy Jar die, which I used to make the project.

Thanks for stopping by and Happy October to all!

Drawer or Box? You decide…

21 Aug

On the Sizzix blog, I showed this Stacking Drawers project I created using the new Candy Drawer die from the Sweet Treats collection.

I promised to show you another way the die can be configured to make a box with a lid- yes- all from the same die… It’s all in how you tape it up.

The drawer part goes together the same either way. Add strong double sided tape to all tabbed areas. Fold the drawer up and center the square piece on the bottom of the tabs. Press into place.

I also decided to emboss the frame section of the drawer so I ran it through the Big Shot with a Textured Impressions folder.

Add tape to the two segments of the box nearest the notched end. Place the drawer section on top of the second segment and fold and press the notched end up to the edge of the drawer. This forms a fun little box that opens and closes. I love that this box may be used in different ways!

I couldn’t resist adding some glitter. Take your Versamark Watermark stamp pad and run it over the raised areas of the embossing. Pour glitter on top and shake off excess. I love these new Momenta metal stickers and this one was just what I was looking for. Add sticker first, then glitter.

Wishing a Happy Birthday to my son Chris who is in Afghanistan. Can’t wait to give him a huge hug…

Thanks for stopping by!

CHAS 12 Sneak Peek

27 Jun

Just a quick look at two of my new dies coming out in a few weeks! Can you guess what the theme of this collection is?

Here’s how I used the seam binding I made here.

Birthday Bash

17 Mar

On the night of March 6, the Woolies held their annual birthday celebration. This is a group of 18 amazingly creative women who meet twice a month in the local Wegman’s. Two of the members have moved- one to Hawaii and one to CO, but they keep in touch through email and FaceBook. Read here about how I came to be invited to this group by Pat Sloan.

Since most of the group are quilters (I don’t really quilt but I still love fabric!), each person brought a fat quarter and a $15 gift. The exchange of gifts was quite lively! Here’s what one of the gifts looked like. Are these little guys not adorable? They were made by the talented Lina LaMora.

A call went out to the group to help organize different parts of the celebration. Not wanting to look like a slacker, still being new to the group, I volunteered to handle the cake. I also volunteered my friend Lorine Mason so she wouldn’t feel left out 🙂 Plus she makes killer cakes…

We decided to bake cupcakes. I cut 30 paper cupcake wrappers using my Sizzix ScoreBoard Cupcake Holder die. Did you know those dies also work great with paper?

The Cupcake Stands (below) and pennants (above) are part of the Sweet Treats Collection and I was dying for the chance to actually use them.

I cut 17 individual cupcake stands. The bases were decorated with sewing pattern tissue (we are mainly a sewing group) and spring colored toppers.

A blurry picture of a cupcake sandwich. Still have to try this!

All the cupcakes on their stands- so pretty. Lorine did a great job decorating them and the taste was out of this world. They were lemon…mmmmmm.

Here’s the group!

These pennants were so much fun to make and really fast! I stamped the sentiment, added a line of double sided tape on the inside fold, tucked a toothpick in the crease and folded it over.

All in all, I can’t wait for the next birthday celebration. Thanks for the warm welcome into the group everyone! You are so inspiring…

Almost done!

29 Feb

For the past few weeks, I have been working on designing my next set of dies for Sizzix scheduled to be released in January 2013. Today I was taking a break and thought it would be interesting to see if there were any posts from Stitches, a trade show held in the UK for the craft industry similar to CHA. I looked on the Sizzix UK blog and found this picture of my Sweet Treats collection! Isn’t it cute? I need to write to Paula Pascual and thank her for designing such a cool display.

It’s interesting to see how the US and UK Sizzix Art Departments have decorated the same basic dies for two completely differently looks. I love them both- but I might be biased…

Here are a couple of pictures taken by my buddy, Vicki O’Dell, the Creative Goddess. In addition to being a great photographer, Vicki is such an amazing all around crafter- she does it ALL- home decor, jewelry, paper, and her faux food is to die for! Plus she is a fun person to hang around with! Check out her blog post for more pictures from CHAW 2012.

I’ll be posting again when the artwork is delivered!

LOVE using Metal Stamps

11 Feb

Since Valentine’s Day is coming up, I wanted to share a project I did for the ImpressArt booth at CHA. I used their awesome metal stamps to stamp into matboard- crazy, huh? But look at it! These stamps are so much fun…

According to Suzann Sladcik Wilson‘s CHA Jewelry Trends Report on Mixed Media and Cross Crafting, metal stamping will be hot for 2012, and not just for jewelry. I may be a little biased here but I think matboard is the perfect material to use with metal stamps. There is some give to it, but it’s also thick enough that the stamp does not go through it, as it could with lighter paper.

I will admit it takes a little practice to get the hang of metal stamping, but once you get going, it’s hard to stop. FYI, it’s best to do this in daytime hours as the banging gets the non-night owl people kind of cranky…

I used black pigment ink on my stamp before applying it to the matboard. I did this because it was going on a wall in the trade show booth and I wanted it to stand out. But the impression looks great even without ink. It’s subtle and has a letterpress look to it. Believe me, this is something you will want to try! So easy to make tags, title blocks and accents- then ink, distress, chalk, etc. I hope you will check out ImpressArt and give this craft a try!

Head over to the Tip Junkie to see lots of other fun Valentine ideas…

Also make sure to check out the FaveCrafts blog hop!