Back in the 70's I made dolls and quilts, and more dolls and quilts. I have given away 100's of dolls. This is only a portion of the ones I still have. Today I gave them a little Tide stain pen treatment, hung them on my clothesline and sprayed them with Fabreeze, so they hung around getting a little sunshine.
November 28, 2009
Vintage Dolls Just Hanging Around
November 24, 2009
Foam Donut Mini Pincushion Thingy
You know those little donut shaped foam things that come on the top of a stack of CD/DVD's when you buy them, I have always wondered what to do with these. So, my first inventive use for one is as a mini pincushion on my paper crafting desk, so I don't have to keep going back and forth (as if 12 feet is a problem) to fetch my sewing machine pin/needle cushion.
My next idea is to cut little holly leaves with Cricut, then cut some of those pretty long straight pins that are called quilting pins, and come in beautiful colors; cut the red ones off to about 1/2" and stick the holly branches on them. Or use the MS branch punch and tiny buttons, or Stickles.
And then.....now I have all sorts of idea, but just have to find where I put those silly things, cause you know I don't throw anything away.
November 19, 2009
K104 Swap: 4x4 Tic Tac Toe
This project was to make a tic tac toe like grid on a 4x4 square. Now you know what to do with all those inchies.
Belinda
Diane (Capadia)
Deb
Irene
(a state bird for each swappers state)
(sorry about the drunken cardinal, middle of middle row)
Kopperhead
Celtic Weave
Do you think I signed the back large enough?
Karel
Jenny
Vivienne
Karen
Lisa
Sue
Tammy
Tiffaney
Velva
One canvas I made from the cards, I'm working on the other one right now.
View of me lying on couch in my favorite room after sorting squares
View from other end of couch. That's my comfy reading chair.
And you can see the temporary photo studio I set up on the ottoman.
That's all folks!
November 15, 2009
Asian Frame Faith Hope Love
Click on image to see larger picture.I found this cute kimona frame at Old Time Pottery yesterday, for a dollar. The jacket was also a dollar. I used my Faith Hope Love Asian stamp. Each is stamped on black cardstock with gold Brillance ink, then matted several times. The openings are 2" x 2". Now I need to find a place to hang it.
November 14, 2009
Kopperhead's 4" Tic Tac Toe Squares
Click on image to see larger picture.I made some of these, and received others in a swap I'm in. (My dear swappers, don't worry, I'm going to make another using yours also, just haven't received everything yet. I'll put the credits up then.)
Squares are 4x4 with tic tac toe design. Couldn't be any easier and the design options are endless.
How to: I used a 12x12 wrapped finished canvas. I colored the sides with the broad tip of a Sienna Copic, which you can't see in the photo, but just thought I would mention.
Glue, I Mod Podged, the square to the canvas, two coats of Mod Podge, and ready for hanging. Easy!
Kopperheads Inchie Art
Dirty old used Cricuit 12x12 mat.
Same mat after I cleaned off all of the glue boogers.
Same mat after I cleaned off all of the glue boogers.
Finished ProjectThese are all my inchies. Next I am going to make one with inchies I received in swaps.
Closeups
This wasn't planned, but notice how the "bliss" inchie overlaps onto the skeleton. I would like to say I planned that, but it just happened.
I needed a gross of inchies, and I didn't think I had that many that I had made myself, so I made some spare, but I ended up with lots left over. And since I like borders on things, I used a similar inchie for each corner, and then on each edge alternated with a free hand doodled inchie and a Celtic design inchie.How To:
I covered the edges of the mat outside the 12x12 grid with paper, using Mod Podge matte to adhere it. I cut a pretty corner piece using Storybook cartridge for the corners. The next step is to adhere the inchies, I used Mod Podge for this also. I planned out the inchies that were sets, and placed them in various places at random, then I filled in any gaps with individual inchies that weren't part of a set. When dry, I put another coat of Mod Podge.
Once the final coat was dry, the corners turned up a bit and needed to be flattened, so I placed the mat on a 4" wide round jar (my Mod Podge jar actually) and left it overnight, and the corners, not being supported, flattened out. I must credit this idea to my husband the engineer.
I cut a 13x14 piece of stiff corrugated cardboard and glued (MP'd) to the back of the mat. I placed my sewing basket on top of it for pressure, and let it sit overnight so the glue would be nice and dry and everything would be flat.
How to make the crochet lace with dangly buttons:
I saw this trim at Hobby Lobby and liked it a lot, but it was $12.99 per yard. I bought 1/4 yard (9 inches) with a 50% off coupon. (Yeah, I'm cheap, I know.) I figured I could make it myself.
Ingredients: Lots of time and patience. Buttons of assorted size and colors, or all the same if you want it that way. Flat crochet trim. Baby sized rick rack. Bias tape, 1/4" double fold. The piece I purchased did not use the bias tape, but I thought it would be easier to make using it, so I did.
I calculated how much a yard would cost me to make, time not included, by calculating the yardage price of the crochet lace trim, buttons, rick rack and bias tape, and it came to $3.27 per yard. For this project, I needed 13 inches, so I made lace and bias tape 14 inches to have some to wrap around the back.
Cut the rick rack into various lengths from 2" to 4". I just cut randomly. Now, this is the fun part, oh, and Jello optional. Thread the rick rack through one of the holes in the button and make the ends even. On larger buttons it is rather easy to thread through the hole. On some buttons I dipped the end of the rick rack into glue, rolled the end between my fingers, let it dry a minute, and it was easy to insert. On the very smallest buttons, there was no way that rick rack was going in there, so I had to fake it. I just sewed the ends of the rick rack together through the hole, then put a dab of glue. I like to use quilting thread when hand sewing, it's a little stronger than regular thread.Once I had my buttons on the rick rack, I sewed them to the lower half of the bias tape. Then I cut the ends of any rick rack that was extending above the fold so that it would be even. I folded the tape over and basted it together encasing the ends of the rick. Next, I sewed the bias tape on the back lower edge of the crochet trim.
I like to hand sew, so I enjoyed this, but you could just as well pin the rick racked buttons and sew across it with machine, as well as sew the bias tape to the crochet trim. Or you could even glue it as I'm sure that would work also.
Sewing the buttons on the bias tape.
Completed buttons on bias tape.
I Mod Podged the completed trim to the bottom of the mat, folding 1" ends to the back. I added a piece of braided trim above the dangly buttons just because I liked it.
The ribbon hanger is just that, a length of ribbon with a bow and two extra tails which I added yet another button to end of each. I like buttons.
To "sign" my art, I used Storybook cartridge and combined two letters to make the "K" look similar to the way I sign it by hand. It is 1", since this is an inchie project, and I covered it with Black Diamond Stickles.
The ribbon hanger is just that, a length of ribbon with a bow and two extra tails which I added yet another button to end of each. I like buttons.
To "sign" my art, I used Storybook cartridge and combined two letters to make the "K" look similar to the way I sign it by hand. It is 1", since this is an inchie project, and I covered it with Black Diamond Stickles.
Did I forget anything? You, too, can do this if you are as crazy as I am!
October 31, 2009
October 26, 2009
Muffins
Bill said he wanted muffins, and he usually gets what he wants, so he's got muffins! Three dozen, six flavors. I can't say no to someone who stops at JoAnn's to see if they got the "Peppermint Forest" card stock stack in, now can I?
The plant ledges in the family room.
See that blank canvas? It's awaiting for me to put some paint on it. along with the two canvases leaning against the piano. B. took this painting "Storm of Sunshine" when he moved, so I need a replacement.
October 25, 2009
October 23, 2009
ATC Dress Album
Of course all the dresses had to have their own album. You can see the individual ATC's in the previous post.
I used Every Day Paper Dolls for the dress, cut it at 9" Real Size on double sided card stock. I hid everything except for the dress outline. I cut one for the front, then flipped it and cut the back. (If you have noticed, sometimes shapes aren't symmetrical, so if you want them to match, just flip.)
To assemble, I first scored the front dress from underarm to underarm, so it could easily be folded up. I stitched the front to the back across the sleeve bands and around the neckline, then covered both with baby size rick rack. I adhered a 1/8" ribbon at the score line on the front and added a bow, and the pink buttons. And rickrack at the hemline also.
I used a scrap cut in the same arc as the dress bottom and used the Martha Stewart Lacy Border (I'm not sure if that is the name of it or not) and punched around the edge, which was a little confusing because I was punching it on a curve, instead of straight, but it worked out.
For the inside pages, I cut 4x5 rectangles and scored one end of 4" side at 1/2" and adhered a cellophane ATC card holder on each rectangle, close to the bottom edge. I had to have space for six cards. I used four of the 4x5 rectangles, adhering the first at the score line up inside where the dress is folded up when opened. Then I adhered the 1/2" scored portion of the other three rectangles with the edge butted up against the one on top. Each card will easily flip up, and the ATC's can be removed to see the info on the reverse side.
I adhered a holder directly to the back cover for the fifth ATC.
The ATC I made was rather bulky so I made the pocket, put some eyelets and ribbon to hold it closed (there is also a bottom flap folded to the inside so the ATC won't go all the way through the pocket), and adhered it to the inside front of the cover.
That's all there is to it.
October 22, 2009
ATC Dresses Swap
Camille
Diane
Jodi
Pam
Sally
KC - Kopperhead
Thank you ladies, I really enjoyed this swap and the beautiful dresses cards!
October 10, 2009
Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves, and Kitty
Removed part about Gypsy and coupon cause it's no longer valid.
And just for the heck of it, another photo of Sophie and her tent:
October 7, 2009
Yes, It's a Cat Tent
Back story: Last week when Zack took me to Hobby Lobby because I wanted some McCall's patterns while they were on sale for .99. The limit was 10 but I was short one, so I went ahead and got pattern M5412, which is a pet tent. When I got home I couldn't believe I had purchased a pattern for a cat tent. So yesterday, Zack goes to JoAnn's and picks out fabric for the tent and said he was going to make it for Brandon and Val's new kitty, which you can see here: HERE. I instructed Zack on how to trim the pattern, cut out the pieces, and by then he had to drive Bill for an outpatient procedure, which took hours, and asked me if I would sew it while he was gone. So I ended up sewing it, and it turned out really cute. Zack did sew and stuffed the pillow, and assembled with the PVC pipe. Since the PVC pipes were scraps from Bill's shop and had writing on them, I just had to cover them with strips of fabric and colored the top caps with orange Copic. I told him I would keep tying bows and adding beads if it stayed here any longer.
Zack didn't purchase enough fabric, but the fabric he got that is on the front was so pretty, orange and yellow, and I just happened to have a piece of coordinating fabric, so we used that for the sides and back. He made the cushion out of felt, which he found in the remnant bin. Smart shopper that he is.
October 2, 2009
Call Me Thelma (or Louise)
I think I have finally reached the edge, and probably gone over:
My Copic Chart Booklet
I used the Copic color chart that Sue sent me, printed it out, and cut it into sections. When you see the chart, the cutting is obvious. I made the book out of black card stock. I cut 8.5x11 sheet cardstock in half, scored down the center, so basically, you have a 5.5x4.25 card. I stacked enough folded cards to hold the charts, made a spine out of the pink paper (a scrap), and punched four large holes using Big Bite Cropadile. The flower eyelets were not long enough to set through the entire booklet, so I put a little glue to hold them in place, then laced the ribbon up through the holes and tied it. Glued some scrap ribbon, cut the letters with Cuttin' Up Cricut cartridge, and colored with, guess what, Copics! I got three more today by taking the children and coupons. I glued the cut chart sheets to each page, and it fits nicely in my purse. I need to know what I already have or I'll end up buying things twice, so this is very helpful, and much better than the chart on the Copic site.
Note: When you are making a booklet like this, stack the folded card stock, do not insert the pages into each other, or you will have a very uneven book. And I forgot to say to score the cardstock pages about 1/2" on either side of center score (so the pages will turn easily), and score the spine piece in the center with two scored lines so there is room for the spine part to fit.
You can get the chart here. Leave me a note here if this is helpful to you please.
October 1, 2009
Paper Princess
I may be wearing my paper crown at this moment, you just never know.
Isn't paper wonderful. I have had some strange thoughts of what to do with paper that I hoard. Actually make an album of just paper I like? Yep, I've thought of it. I've even wondered how I could paper a room with it. A 12" border up next to the ceiling would be pretty, wouldn't it? I'm going to repaint my bedroom shortly (already have the paint, and I don't mind the painting part, I just hate the prep). I have a long blank wall, actually two, in my bedroom and plan to cover them with artful projects, so a ceiling border at the top wouldn't be out of line, in my thinking. I'll let you know how that works out.
Karel-speak: Fast and Furious (in a good way)
If you know Karel, she does things in a big way, and like "Gone in 60 Seconds", a fast way. (Can't you just picture her as Angelina Jolie Nicholas Cage ?
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From Karel's blog:
A Special Skittles Prize for Following Me!
I'd love to have 200 followers by the end of October. If you are a new visitor, scroll down to the bottom of the blog and sign up to follow me! Then, sign my guestbook and I will enter you to win 1000 clear Skittles, ready to use, dye or color with Sharpies! Leave a comment here, so I know to look for you!
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Go there, watch out for the tacky flamingos, of which two cousins reside in my bungalow garden. But I live in Florida, the only place they are required and not tacky. I do need skittles, so I better get busy!
September 28, 2009
My Fantasy (well, one at least)
I love books. And when I open an art book and see such beautiful things, it makes me want to start at the front of the book and make every project all the way to the last page. Probably won't happen, but I can dream.
September 27, 2009
September 24, 2009
K102 - 6x6 Pages For 2.5x3.5 Photo/ATC and Journaling
Cover I made for my album
For the inside of the cover, I used bits and pieces of leftover stuff in my little leftover jar on my work table, so it was quick and easy, totally unplanned.
The eyelets and ribbons on the spine are merely decorative, they are not part of the album binding.
Participants Pages--Each page is doublesided card stock with the back blank so the recipient can add journaling, more photos, scribbles, footprints or snowballs, whatever they want.
Kopperhead
Denise (Starlight)
Velva
Belinda
Belinda's Album Cover
Tammy
Charlene
Karen
Jenny
Irene
Tiffaney
Sue
Binding into Album: I don't have a Bind it All, I prefer to make up binding solutions as I need them (part of my non-pre-planningness).
Score all of the pages 1/2 inch from the left edge.
To strengthen the spine and add expansion space for any lumpy pages, I cut a strip of card stock 6.5x1 inch. The album pages are only 6" in height, but when using pages from different artists, the cuts could be off just a smidgen, so it's better to have extra and trim it later. Score down the center of the 1" strip lengthwise, and crease well with a bone folder. You will need one strip for each page, and perhaps an extra spacer strip if there is a particularly lumpy embellished page.
Adhere a card stock strip to the left edge of each page. I use wet glue for this (Martha Stewart white craft glue) because it holds well and doesn't wet or buckle the paper. When the strips are dry, trim each end even with the page.
Glue all left edges together along the card stock strip, keeping the left side binding edge and the bottoms of pages aligned.
Measure the width of the spine, in this case I am using 1/2", and cut two pieces card stock the width of the spine plus 4 inches, and 6.5" in height, just a little larger than the album pages.Score the spine piece four times vertically at 1.5", 2", 2.5" and 3". This will give you a center fold of 1/2 inch and another fold 1/2" on either side. Make two for each album. Glue together between all of the scored and creased lines. Before gluing, you can add some ribbon, fiber, or other trim in between the center of the spine piece.
For each album, cut two pieces card stock 6.5 x 6.5 inches. Score 1/12" from the left side. Glue the 1/2 inch between the two layers of the spine piece, just the 1/2" edge. Let dry. You will now have a cover, that has a center score with a 1/2 inch score on each side, this will make the pages easier to turn.
Next, put some glue on the spine of the pages you glued together earlier, put some glue in the center of the spine plus the two 1/2" areas next to it. Insert album pages in center. You should have extra card stock on the right side, and just a little extra on top and bottom of album. I suggest using clips to clamp it at this point until dry. When dry, cut off about 1 to 1.5 inches of right side so it extends only about 1/4 " beyond the pages.
Now it is ready to decorate. I covered my front and back with a piece of card stock, made a spine piece which I put in some eyelets and ribbons, and then tied more ribbons on the ribbons in the eyelets.
Swap participants, there is a little surprise in the back of the album for you. I didn't adhere it so you can place it however you wish. Thank you all, thankyouverymuch!
September 22, 2009
September 21, 2009
ATC Swap September - Music
Sally
Pam
Diane
Kopperhead
When "Music" was selected for the September theme, I had been practicing the theme from the canceled TV show "Firefly". The opening music is printed on vellum. The image is printed on canvas from my own acrylic on canvas painting 24x36. I added the "Firefly" digitally, it's not on the original painting.
September 20, 2009
Silly Day -- Am I Misbehaving?
I declare today Silly Day! All you have to do is one silly thing to celebrate Silly Day.
Hmmmm......the following definitions do not give "Silly" a good report, so I'll go with this definition:
| silly - lacking seriousness; given to frivolity; "a dizzy blonde"; "light-headed teenagers"; "silly giggles" However one definition does mention "cricket" (as in the sport) so it can't be all bad. |
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition copyright ©2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2009. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. silly Adjective [-lier, -liest] 1. behaving in a foolish or childish way 2. Old-fashioned unable to think sensibly, as if from a blow 3. Cricket (of a fielding position) near the batsman's wicket: silly mid-off Noun pl -lies Informal a foolish person [Old English sǣlig (unattested) happy] silliness n Collins Essential English Dictionary 2nd Edition 2006 © HarperCollins Publishers 2004, 2006 ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2008 Princeton University, Farlex Inc. silly adjective 1. stupid, ridiculous, absurd, daft, inane, childish, immature, senseless, frivolous, preposterous, giddy, goofy (informal) idiotic, dozy Brit. (informal) fatuous, witless, puerile, brainless, asinine, dumb-ass (slang) dopy (slang) << href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/clever">clever adjective 2. foolish, stupid, unwise, inappropriate, rash, irresponsible, reckless, foolhardy, idiotic, thoughtless, imprudent, inadvisable << href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/sensible">sensible noun 3. (Informal) fool, twit (informal) goose (informal) clot Brit. (informal) wally (slang) prat (slang) plonker (slang) duffer (informal) simpleton, ignoramus, nitwit (informal) ninny, silly-billy (informal) dweeb U.S. (slang) putz U.S. (slang) eejit Scot., Irish doofus (slang), chiefly U.S. nerd or nurd (slang) dorba or dorb Austral. (slang) bogan Austral. (slang) Collins Essential Thesaurus 2nd Edition 2006 © HarperCollins Publishers 2005, 2006 Translations Select a language: Afrikaans / Afrikaans Arabic / العربية Bulgarian / Български Chinese Simplified / 中文简体 Chinese Traditional / 中文繁體 Croatian / Hrvatski Czech / Česky Danish / Dansk Dutch / Nederlands Estonian / eesti keel Farsi / فارسی Finnish / Suomi French / Français German / Deutsch Greek / Ελληνική Hebrew / עִבְרִית Hindi / हिन्दी Hungarian / magyar Icelandic / íslenska Indonesian / Indonesia Italian / Italiano Japanese / 日本語 Korean / 한국어 Latvian / Latviešu Lithuanian / Lietuvių Malay / Bahasa Melayu Norwegian / Norsk Polish / Polski Portuguese / Português Romanian / Română Russian / Русский Serbian / српски Slovak / slovenčina Slovenian / slovenski Spanish / Español Swedish / Svenska Thai / ภาษาไทย Turkish / Türkçe Ukrainian / українська Urdu / اردو Vietnamese / Tiếng Việt ----------------------- silly adj silly [ˈsili] foolish; not sensible Don't be so silly!; silly children. n silliness Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary © 1986-2008 K Dictionaries Ltd and partners. All rights reserved. |
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silly - ludicrous, foolish; "gave me a cockamamie reason for not going"; "wore a goofy hat"; "a silly idea"; "some wacky plan for selling more books"September 12, 2009
Before and After
Remember when I showed you my art space and I was sorting out things, and it looked like this. I finally got everything (almost) organized and in it's place. I had just finished a project (See Elvis word book below) that I had a lot of stuff out,and since it was out I decided to get a little more organized.
This is how it looks today, and I made a resolution to put things where they belong as soon as I finish a project. We'll see how that works out. I save even the tiniest scraps of pretty paper, and basically everything else.
Warning, there's lots of photos.
This is what it looks like when I walk in the front door (only door, actually).
Everything in the room is re-purposed furniture from the house, except for the Making Memories wall shelves.
Everything in the room is re-purposed furniture from the house, except for the Making Memories wall shelves.
Looking back at the front door, I have bins in the top of this cabinet, and in the bottom is patterned text weight paper that I mainly use to make envelopes.
Bookcase and window. My MM carousel organizer is still a mess.
Bread box where I keep all of my MS border punches.
Shuttered cabinet
Under my work desk. The turquoise step is the old aerobic step, and when I can't go walking or do not want to use Bill's bicycle, I use the stepper.
My desk where I put everything together, the jar in the center is now the only things that aren't in their place, and I would rather sit here and make small embellies rather than put the assortment of stuff away.
Some of the embellies made with the bits and pieces at hand.
Identical cabinet as one of left side of door. It is kind of messy on the inside, still has quite a few office supplies. All those boxes on top hold Christmasy wire ribbon, and the tins will be for Christmas gifts, after I put something in them, of course.
The four drawer cabinet sits on top of my sewing chest that holds my good sewing machine and serger.
I organized embellishments in all the drawers.
Bottom drawer holds MS punches and a few others that are favorites.
My computer and Cricket table, all the jars hold cuts and punches from scraps, which I sorted into flowers (large and small), celestial things, birds, hearts, inchies, miscellaneous shapes, mulberry paper scraps, large clear skittles (I can't seem to find the small ones).
The glass jars are from McGuire's Irish Pub. You get to keep it when you purchase the drink "Irish Wake". I don't drink, but I got the jars from friends.
Cartridges. I make a little label for the front because their color combos and choice of font make it hard for me to locate quickly, so I put my own labels on them.
My Jim Shore owl. He watches me all day long.
My pink laptop and stuff.
Cricuit wearing it's pink and green pj's.
Owl again.
The two MM Embellishment Centers over table.
These are 12x12 canvases I made. They don't really signify anything other than what I was doing that day.
Top of bookshelf. Yes, it's Florida but I love snowmen, or snowladies, so I keep them displayed all the time.
A framed project board with samples and miscellaneous stuff on it.
And where do I keep my snoflakes--in this snowman, of course.
Messy MM carousel
You may be wondering shy I have this tiny Hamburgler from a Happy Meal about 15 or so years ago. Well, one year Christmas came along, and I was putting out one of the many nativity sets I have, and in one of them the Baby Jesus was missing, so I put the Hamburgler in the manger. He was the perfect shape and has arms and legs in position of Baby Jesus in manger. I didn't mean anything by it, it was just representation. My kids just freaked out that I would do such a thing. I found the baby the next Christmas, so all is well, but we still put the Hamburgler somewhere around Christmas time.
Room from the back
Another view from the back
This is an over the kitchen shelf that I put under my work table. The Snap Ware bins hold mostly markers and pencils, clear stamps, one with assorted adhesives, and a few other things. I have no idea why that yellow spot is in the photo.
Under the table. They make shoe boxes so pretty now that I use them for temporary storage. These hold most of the swap items I have received in the last few months and haven't done anything with them except get them out and look at the once in a while. And my paper scraps are there too.
My end table. I love containers for some reason. I uses the melamine bowls to hold projects I'm working on. The quilted boxes have more paper scraps, and assorted envelopes I have made. The boxes on top, which you can't see very well, hold my completed cards, and I let anyone look in the box and get what they need.
The end of my table. A cuphook holds my Cricuit mats.
On the inside of table behind the mats, are more cup hooks that hold various acrylic rulers and quilt making rulers. In the corner is my heater that I use when it's cold.
Other end of table, cuphooks hold my little bags.
Martching shuttered cabinet on other side of table. This one has my printer on it, with jars holding short lengths of ribbon.
Sewing area. This is my inexpesive Brother sewing machine I use for paper, although it works great for fabric also. I made Bill two shirts with it.
Sewing supplies are in bottom of the hutch, in front of that is my painting table. which rolls out and opens and has all supplies in it.
My bird stamps and some wooden bird houses I am going to alter.
My fences. I plan tomake some flowers to decorate them with.
Black boards are actually the doors from the cabinet below. I liked the Christmas bins. They hold some sewing items and one holds my Cricut books.
Printer on shuttered cabinet. The jars on the window sill hold silver buttons, and the hammer has "Mom's Hammer" written on it, because I was always using anything I could find to hammer with, so Bill painted the handle white and wrote on it, so I have my own hammer and keep it handy.
Inside shuttered cabinet, I keep card supplies in it.
Touch these scissors and you will leave this bungalow with a bloody stump for a hand!
Storage for extra ribbon. I put one of the MM embellishment centers dowel that I didn't use on the other two cabinets because i wanted the shelf space instead. I put the down in a jar and stuffed craft straw all around it to hold it up straight. This is duplicate ribbon that I am trying to use up first, if possible.
Glass door pantry is full of paper.
OK, I know I should be ashamed, so go ahead and call me a paper ho if you want to, however I prefer Paper Princess. The breakfast table holds all my pads. I, myself, can't even believe I have so many. Another glass front pantry to the right holds more paper.
This is my little photography studio space. I can't do anything simple, so I set up two additional speedlights (you can see one on the left). The fabric is draped over two stacked boxes, and can easily be changed to black velvet, kraft paper, or whatever.
More rubber stamps
My Jim Shore angel and nativity, and another tart burner with snowman on it. Bill got all my Jim Shore things for me.
Butterfly and tree stamps.
Under the two sewing area tables. I have lots of canvases waiting for someone to put paint on them stored under there. In the basket is your precious K102 swap items.
My Brother sewing machine again. I ordered it from JoAnn when they had it on half price and free shipping. For a lightweight basic machine, it works very well.
My other two MM embellishment centers. I love these things and if I could find space I would put up another one.
Top of hutch, has Christmas boxes and a Nativity.
I keep my cartridge boxes and some big rolls of ribbon in this cabinet, it's kind of messy and I s hould straighten it up.
The other pantry loaded with paper.
Sewing cabinet with the scrapbook storage drawers on top.
Shuttered cabinet drawers hold Cuddlebug things, printer cartridges, and the Cricut keyboards.
Dress form shelf with two rubber stamps and a few other pretty things.
My cartridges, and some dew drop ink pads, and another Nativity.
September 11, 2009
September 10, 2009
ELVIS Word Book
Here's the pics. I'll explain some of the things tomorrow, I am so tired right now, it's past my bedtime.
It's tomorrow now, so let' see if I can explain anything here:
Here's the cover, which I cut on black cardstock, and the single letters with glitter paper from a 4x6 glitter mat stack. (When I cut something like this, I cut the letter out of the center of the piece, so it can still be used as a mat if I wanted to.)
The book is 8 pages instead of 5, because I had so much stuff there just wasn't room to put it all on the 10 fronts and backs, so I made some shorter pages and placed in between the L and the V, the V and the I, and the I and the S.
Most of the images I cut from some calendars I had purchased for .50 a long time ago. I had three different calendars to work with. I had already given one of each I had to my friend, Terry, so I wouldn't be cutting up anything she already had. She would have probably had an attack of some sort had I started cutting things up in her presence.
Front
Inside the E and the I page
The little envelope holds "Did you know" information that I cut from the calender, and colored over each with the broad side of a light colored Copic. I put a pretty piece of patterned paper on the back to cover the calendar parts on the backs.
The L page
Untie the bow, and an accordion list of all of Elvis movies unfolds
Back of page L and short page between the L and V
Small paper bag contains several tags, with photos or info back and front
Short page between the L and V, which folds out and has some book pages inside it
Page folded out
Left side of this page folds down to reveal photo of Elvis in his uniform
Small envelope holds some small pics
Turn the page of the booklet page and it is the words to "Love Me Tender", photo of Elvis, and info about his first movie "Love Me Tender".
Turn the Love Me Tender page, and there is more photos and info about Graceland.
The V page
The smaller page in between the V and I pages
The back of V and small page before I added the guitar. There was a bare space on the black/white stripe pocket, and can't have a bare space!
The back of V and small page before I added the guitar. There was a bare space on the black/white stripe pocket, and can't have a bare space!
The picture on the guitar unfolds for a total of 9 images. These are from non-USA postage stamps. The ovals on the I are epoxy letters, E A P
Another little envelope with Did You Know facts
Small page between V and I before I added the guitar
Remove the spiral clip and the montage of "Jailhouse Rock" photos unfolds
Remove the file folder and there is more info and pic inside
Back of the small page, more stamps, info card and photo
Triple tag that folds to reveal two additional photos on the right and left backs.
Bird from Indie Art
After I took the photos, I still couldn't stop adding things, and this part of the S was kind of bare, so I tied a ribbon like the one in photo below around the S, and put a small USA flag on it. If Terry had not come over to pick this up, which was a surprise, I would probably still be adding things.
Back of I page and small page in between I and S
The music is "Blue Suede Shoes", the blue box is, of course, a shoe box.
The right flap opens
to reveal another photo
and opens again for two more photos
Elvis Death Date on the S
Back of the short page; more non-USA postage stamps
The S page. The text under the Elvis signature reads "The Sun Never Sets on a Legend". The sun is a copy of my own art from a 24x36 canvas, which I digitally wrote Always and Forever on the sun. Heart is from Indie Art
Back cover. I ended up putting a red star at the right center of the parenthesi, and signed it on the black part.
I reinforced each bound side edge with a folded piece of cardstock, and then put double 1" wide spacers between each page. I used my three hole method and some satin cord for the binding, and then covered the one inch edge with some 1" "belting" that I had found at WalMart on clearance years ago. I thought I had given them all to Terry, but I found one hanging around, so I punched the holes for eyelets in the front, wrapped it around to the back, and sewed the ends together by hand. I also glued it, but the belting is heavy and very rippled and the glue wasn't holding very well. I tied a red ribbon over the hand sewn seam on the back.
I used the 4.5x6.5 DCWV Rock Star mat for most of the cardstock.
Tip: I used the large hole from the Big Bite Cropadile and large eyelets on each page. Since you do not see them, it really doesn't matter what they look like. At J's or HL you can buy the notions eyelets that come in gold, silver and copper colors and are longer so they will accommodate at least 7 layers of cardstock, and they are much cheaper than the pretty eyelets from the scrapbook section, especially when they have half price on the notions wall at J's. I still get the pretty ones for decoration, of course, but the large black eyelets I had were so short they barely looked like they would be suitable for one sheet of thin paper.
And that's all there is to it!
September 7, 2009
The Most Gigantic Tag Album You Have Ever Seen (Probably)
This is an album of the Tags Plus Inchies Swap I hosted on the Cricut MB since last April. We kept the swap going for seven rounds, each with a theme. You can find photos of the TPI's for each swap by searching this blog for "Tags Plus Inchies" and you should get seven posts with the photos.
Aren't the tags beautiful?
A page from the "orange" section
Some tags needed their own pockets because they were designed front and back.
The back needs something, I'm sure I won't leave it blank for long.
On the inside back is a list of all participants with their real name and mb name.
Side view of top of pages, binding is to the right in this shot.
Stuff sticks out all over the place; and that's the way I like it.
Album bound edge is 6" high
I just couldn't give away any of the tags or use them on scrapbook pages or cards, well, because I'm selfish and want them for myself. (I figure I can always copy the idea.)
Here is how I did it, and it took me days and days so if I haven't been posting or online, this is what I have been doing.
I used this 12x12 cardstock pad from Wal-Mart. I just started from the front and worked my way through. It has 50 sheets and that is exactly what my tag album came to--50 pages, front and back, although each section does have a blank page as the last of that section just in case I forgot something or wanted to write on there.
Using Cricut Expression and Tags, Bags, Boxes and More cartridge, I cut a tag at 11.5 to use as a template for the top of the tag pages for the album. I cut all pages for the album with paper trimmer. The height of each page is 7". Each section graduates in length, starting at 8.5" with "Wings" and ending at 12" for "Lucky 7".
Template: The floral coaster in this photo has nothing to do with anything, I just had to have something for the camera to focus on to take the pic.
I first trimmed the cardstock to 7" width, and then the appropriate length. I laid out the TPI's so I would know how many sheets I needed for each section, and added one (just in case). I used the front and back of one sheet of the texured cardstock for each page. After cutting, I just traced the corners of the template and cut them off the page. Then I scored two inches from the left (tag shape) edge that would be bound. I scored it so you could actually look at the album and turn pages.
I reinforced the first two inches of each page with six additional layers (use the scraps from cutting the 12" paper to the lengths). I made a template of the tag top two inches, and using a 7x4 piece of cardstock, scored it at 2" and cut the corners, just like the tag, and glued it on. Then I glued on two smaller scored squares the width of the top edge of the tag, and not quite 4" wide, scoring down the center. This makes three additional layers on each side of each page. This not only reinforces the bound edge, but it adds spacing for the lumpiness of the tags (if you have ever used a post bound album and those little cardboard strips to place between the pages, this is basically the same thing.
I then made a template for the tag top with three holes for the binding, and used my Cropadile Big Bite, and yes it punches through all seven layers of glued cardstock like butter. I used the large hole and large eyelets on each page to reinforce the binding.
I placed the tags on each page in what I considered an attractive arrangements, and labeled with the artists names. I used bits and pieces of emblelishments, according to the section theme, to add to the pages, and I did a lot of doodling and such. I am probably not finished because I got really tired by section 7 and I'm going back through the book in a few days and probably add some more notes or doodling or embellies.
I made a cover and a back for the album.
Using Cricut and Fabulous Finds, I cut a tab for each section. I used Photoshop and background art to print the theme title on, and cut it to fit the tab, which I attached with brads, and a little embellishment for that section.
I used some paper covered wire to bind it. Using the three holes in the tag edges, bring the paper covered wire (or ribbon or whatever you use), using two strands up through the center hole, then one strand of each on each side hole. Get them nice and tight and everything lined up and tie in knots. Tie assorted ribbon scraps on the paper covered wire.
That's all there is to it.
August 25, 2009
ATC Ice Cream Cone Album
I made this album for the ATC's from the previous post.
Here's how I made it.
Indie Art Cricut cartridge
Cut size 9.75
For front and back I cut a blackout base in the light ice cream cone color. Then I cut the brown cone portion by hiding the ice cream top. Then using the shift I cut the ice cream. For front and back covers I cut two of each, flipping one set.
For the inside pages, I cut the blackout base, and an ice cream top, two sets, flip one set. On the last inside page, I cut the cone base out of the stripes, and the waffle cone part from brown, like the front and back, and did not cut an additional ice cream scoop.
Assemble the cones back to back. I kept the larger of the cones hangover plop on the left side so there would be a larger area to punch a hole.
I used the ATC cellophane envelopes, adhered them with a glue dot runner, so the ATC's can still be removed to look at the information on the back or manipulate the interactive ones. I added little decorations: Stickles, buttons, skittles and hand doodling to the pages.
I made a template to punch large hole with Cropadile Big Bite, and put a large pink eyelet on the left side ice cream scoop hangover place. (Don't you just love technical terms.)
I used a ring thingy, you know the thing, a ring that opens up, I think I used a one inch diameter ring. I went through my scraps (short pieces) of ribbon and found a good assortment and tied on until the ring was covered, and a couple more between the inside pages.
I used Design Studio because it was easier to flip the one set of shapes, but you can use the flip manually on the Expression, I guess you just have to cut each separately--cut one, cut same with flip.
I think most of the papers I used came from last years Spring Glitter Stack, and the solid textures from the $7.00 12x12 stack you can get at WalMart.
August 24, 2009
ATC Swap August - Single Image Ice Cream Cones
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