Stationary Box

I watched a You Tube video tutorial from Beate at Splitcoaststampers and made this supah dupah cute stationary box.

The box itself is made from (2) pieces of 12" x 12" kraft colored cardstock and some designer paper. 

The strip attached to the front of the box was stamped with Versamark ink and the medallion was stamped in Versafine brown and black then applied with dimensional foam.

I used premade Michael's ivory cardstock sold in packets as my base for the A2 cards.

I made Photoshop brushes from some Graphics Fairy images and printed them onto the cards.

The hang tags and 3" x 3" note cards were made with the same kraft colored card stock. 

Not bad for some paper and some time, what says you?

Crafty Secrets Necklace

Look what I did yeah,
I picked up these image sheets at a craft show. They are Heartwarming Vintage Creative Scraps from Crafty Secrets.

I used some ribbon from my stash, a crimping tool with 2 crimp beads, 2 jump rings, 1 lobster claw to make my ribbon necklace then used a 1" round punch to cut out my image put it in a 1" blank round bezel pendant used glossy accents to cover the image, let dry and bada bing bada boom I had meself a fantastic necklace.

Going digital

I designed these on letter size paper so they will come out A2 size.
I made them in Photoshop using grayscale then went in to fill areas with color.
Some of the images are from the generous Graphics Fairy.
The card with the bathtub was actually a digital scrapbook layout that I sized for a card and added a digital stamp.
I have so many images on my computer. I need to stop looking to acquire more images and get down to MAKING SOME ART!!!

Lovely Lavatory Label

A Graphics Fairy image was taken into photoshop and made into this lovely label you see here.

 I printed it on an Avery 8 1/2 x 11 white shipping label so there was no worry about lining the image up. Afterward I sprayed some "Preserve It" fixative to prevent any water from marring the inkjet image. Now it is off to stand on my bathroom counter.

The Paper Craft Magazine card challenge

Hi there,
Cissy and I decided to make our own versions of a card we saw in the most recent Paper Craft Magazine.
I thought I would do a digital version of the card "you made me feel right at home".

Equipment needed:
Photoshop or similar graphics editing program. Open a new document, size it to 8.5" wide, 5.5"length, 300 resolution, transparent background. Place a vertical grid line at the 4.25" to divide the right side (which is the front side of the card) from the left side (which will be the back of the card). All elements will be placed on right side of the card.
Printer.

Supplies needed:
 Glossy cardstock 8.5"x11", I used white for my card base but you can use any color you like since we will make the card on a transparent background.

(3) images- googled from the web, scanned from paper, or from a digital kit that you own, each image should be scaled to about 1 1/2 inches square- change their backgrounds if needed to beige or white- the 3 images side by side should equal 4.25" overlapping images if needed to make the three images the width of the card. I googled from the web using the search word "dimestore".

The free digi kit Holiday Party by Brandy Buffington at Two peas in a bucket. I only used the red and blue scallop edge from the kit.

O.K. Let's get this started in here.

Layer #1  fill with white or desired color.
Layer #2  fill with kraft paper color, I used #c6af8d in PS then scaled it down to 2 3/4" tall by 4.25" wide and placed 1" down from top edge of paper.
Layer #3  place your 3 images in the center of the kraft paper layer (my final image color was different because I was running low on ink).
Layer #4  place your scallop edges on top and bottom of 3 image panel, flip horizontally to place one scallop facing downward.  Move the edges around until happy with placement.
Layer #5   text layer- add "You made me feel right at home" in black ink with any font you like. I used Papyrus 20 point and moved it under the kraft colored layer.
Turn off layer #1 (the white background) before printing. Merge all layers if you do not want to edit or move images again.
Print on glossy paper and then send to your hostess with the mostest!

Totally lazy, cheesy way to make a fabric flower necklace

Muslin fabric, ranunculus template copied on tracing paper, ribbon necklace with round bezel, pearl brad, foam mounting tape

1. Place tracing paper in printer and print ranunculus template.

2. Place piece of muslin fabric over the template and trace petals using a pencil.

3. Cut petals out and stack together, use a crop a dile make a 1/8 inch hole in center of all pedals then place a pearl brad in center.

4. Using a ribbon necklace with a 1 inch bezel stick a piece of foam mounting tape inside the bezel and then stick your fabric flower on the mounting foam. Ta-da, easy peasy so mac and cheesy!