Homemade Alcohol Ink Spray Cards 2

Stamp image is an oldie from Stampin' Up!

Die cut letters came from Michael's

Homemade Alcohol Ink Spray Cards 1

I really like how this set turned out ! 

Rubber stamp images are oldies from Stampin' Up!

and were heat embossed black.

Impossible Fold Card - White Christmas

Today's card is my first attempt at an

"Impossible Card" fold

and is my design team project for the week

at Through The Craft Room Door.

The center image (sentiment)

is called White Christmas and

was supplied by this weeks sponsor

Decosses Dynamite Doodles

Prize:  A Touch of Class kit

Our challenge is an anything crafty goes
challenge that lasts for the week.
Share with us what you've been working on
for a chance to win !

Thanks for looking =)

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PROJECT DETAILS:

This is for a 5" x 7" card.

You can alter it to make other sizes

Grasp the left side of the card in your hand

and carefully bend the right side along the center score line. 

The bottom portion will

bend backwards and the top portion will

come forwards along the score.

It's an "Ah ha!" moment once you do it!

The side pieces are decorated with

additional layers of card stock

that are trimmed a bit smaller to fit.

Once the side panels are added,

you will want to adhere a strip of

 card stock across the gap of the two

bottom panels to help hold it in place.

Decorate as you wish.

Push the center panel down for mailing

Fairy Jar Lanterns - group 3

I'm finally getting around to sharing the fairy jars / lanterns I made last month! These are the final three of nine that I made. I think they'll be donated to a local charity resale shop.

Reusing candle jars, covered with wrinkled tissue paper and Mod Podge.
I added felt to the bottoms of them on the outside to protect surfaces they sit on.
Various goodies from my craft supply stash to embellish them. Some could be customized (the purple on has a blank tag for a name or special word).
Battery operated tea light candles - DO NOT USE REAL CANDLES !

This is something that I've not seen in quite some time:

a walking stick !

Fairy Jar Lanterns - group 2

I'm finally getting around to sharing the fairy jars / lanterns I made last month. There are 3 more to share tomorrow.

Reusing candle jars, covered with wrinkled tissue paper and Mod Podge.
I added felt to the bottoms of them on the outside to protect surfaces they sit on.
Various goodies from my craft supply stash to embellish them.
Battery operated tea light candles - DO NOT USE REAL CANDLES !

Fairy Jar Lanterns - group 1

I'm finally getting around to sharing the fairy jars / lanterns I made last month. There are 6 more to share, divided up in the next two days posts.

Reusing candle jars and a pickle jar, covered with wrinkled tissue paper and Mod Podge.
I added felt to the bottoms of them on the outside to protect surfaces they sit on.
Various goodies from my craft supply stash to embellish them, including old book pages.
Battery operated tea light candles - DO NOT USE REAL CANDLES !

Because I am repurposing several items on these jars, I am entering (the top one using the book pages) into the current challenge at Shopping Our Stash - Upcycle

Thanks for looking =)

I'm not sure what this flowering plant is,

but the butterflies are loving it !

There are nine of them in this photo.

EDITED TO ADD 9/24/2018

https://shoppingourstash.blogspot.com/2018/09/saturday-shoutout_22.html

I entered a couple of items in the challenge - and the fairy jar made with old book pages was a Top 3 Pick ! Thanks, ladies !

Cross Stitch Ornaments

Earlier this year we went to a church fundraiser yard sale.

I bought a grab bag of various crafty items,

most of which I could not use so I donated them.

However, there were some things I could work with.

These little cross stitch pieces were unfinished,

part of a mini treat bag kit. 

I decided to turn them into ornaments instead of 

finishing off the mini treat bags.

I cut some quick stik mounting board to fit the images.

I ran heavy duty double stick tape around the edges of the back,

pulling the fabric around and adhering in place.

I added little dabs of hot glue to the corners to hold them well.

A little trim was hot glued in place, gold cord hangers

then white chipboard cut to fit and glued over it all

to finish it off. 

I'm entering my project in the current

Animals challenge at Use Your Stuff
since there is a bear on one:)

Thanks for looking. 

Chenille Bedspread Snowman Head

Earlier this year we went to a church fundraiser yard sale.

I bought a grab bag of various crafty items,

most of which I could not use.

However, there were some things I could work with.

This "whatever it once was I don't know" was one of them.

I decided to make a snowman head to put on it.

I used a scrap of old chenille bedspread 

that I tea stained then

wrapped around a styrofoam ball

(which was once a satin string wrapped ornament!).

I added a torn piece of scrap fabric for scarf, 

scrap of fleece blanket for the hat (using the blanket stitched edge),

buttons (from an old shirt) for eyes and made a Sculpey clay nose. 

I'm entering my project in the new challenge blog for all things Christmas,

https://merrylittlechristmaschallenge.blogspot.com/
and
because I reused several things to create this piece,
the current upcycle challenge at Shopping Our Stash is perfect.

Also,
Anything But A Card at Christmas Crafts All Year Round.

Thanks for looking =) 

Snowman Shaker Card - tutorial

Today's card was created for the special challenge at

Through The Craft Room Door:

shaker cards.

You have until Ocotber 20th to submit your shaker card

for a chance to win a $5 Amazon gift card!

I'm entering my project in the new challenge blog for all things Christmas,

Merry Little Christmas

and

Crafting By Designs AnythingGoes

as well as

613 Avenue Create Anything Goes

Thanks for looking =) 

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PROJECT DETAILS AND ADDITIONAL PHOTOS:

This was a fun experiment in shaker card making: creating a snowman from various dies and paper punches.

If you don't have circle dies, you could still make this with something as simple as a compass and Xacto knife. All you need is something to make three different sized, stacked circles cut in your card front. Then of course whatever you want to shake inside your window and extra embellishments, if you wish, on the front.

Supplies I used:

Circle dies

1" square paper punch  = for the top of the hat

Word Window paper punch, Stampin' Up! = hat brim

"Leafy fern" (I'm not sure of the name) paper punch, Martha Stewart. I trimmed it into smaller pieces to tuck them under the brim of the hat.

1/8" circle hole paper punch = berries on the hat

Snowflake paper punch, Stampin' Up! = trimmed to make the arms

Red and white gingham ribbon

Black and white craft inks = details on the hat

Divine Swirls embossing folder, Cuttlebug

Acetate for window

White, black, green, red and textured brown card stocks

White fun foam = die cut to make the "corral" for the shaker material and to give it depth

Mini snowflake paper punched pieces (created with the fallout from a border punch, unknown manufacturer) made with silver glitter paper and shimmer white paper = shaker material

Clear micro beads = shaker material

Heavy duty double stick adhesive tape

Scissors

Pencil

I don't have photos of all of the steps unfortunately, but here are a couple to give you an idea of how I made the snowman.

If you are going to use circle dies to create your snowman, find three of various sizes that will fit your card front. Lay them down, slightly overlapping. When you are happy with the placement, trace the circle dies to help you line them up when you cut them. You can't cut all three at one time since they are overlapping, so you will need to run it through a couple of times. NOTE: I embossed the front piece first without thinking. Embossing should be done after die cutting the circles because it will get flattened out in places during the die cutting process.

I carefully lined my piece back up in the embossing folder and ran it through when I was done die cutting.

This photo shows pieces of fun foam that I die cut to fit around and under the die cut snowman window. I used numerous tiny pieces of heavy duty double stick tape to adhere the fun foam to the card stock and acetate. It was also used to adhere the acetate to the card stock. You will want to put one in place then line up the others and trim them with small scissors. Make sure that all of the fun foam touches each other, that there are no gaps. Gaps would allow your shaker material to escape.

NOTE: once again , I wasn't thinking it through. I should have had the acetate sandwiched between the back of the embossed card stock front and the fun foam "corral" in this photo. After realizing my mistake and fixing it, I didn't take another photo. Be sure your acetate is adhered to the card stock die cut window piece before applying the dimensional "corral".

Fill your "corral" with small items to shake. Make the sides of your "corral" deeper to holder thicker items if you'd like. I used clear micro beads with teeny tiny paper punched glittery and shimmery snowflakes to fill my snowman. The depth of a single piece of fun foam was perfect for my "corral".

Adhere a scrap piece of card stock over the filled snowman shaker then attach it to the card front. You may want to assemble the corral and shaker material on the card front itself then attach the window over it. This would be done easily if you were making a simple large circle or square shaker window.

Detail your snowman to your liking. You can even add a face and buttons.

Think of all the fun shapes you can make and fill to create shaker cards !

#MomentOfSilence #911Day

9-11 Memorial Garden in Winslow, Arizona

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