Lili of the Valley and Gelatos PLUS a Tutorial!

 

Hi there all my crafty blog peeps!

 

Hope you are all having a wonderful weekend. I got home a little early from work and was able to sit and play a little. I'm trying to get some new ideas going for my classes and try to expand my little creative mind a little...It sure is nice to explore all of these new craft items I'm not used to. I'm like a little kid in candy store..

 I sure do love these Gelatos® by Faber-Castell. I decided to do a little 'How To' for you all.

So, I hope you enjoy it!

 

I took my Lili of the Valley Grunge Elements Stamps. and stamped a few of them randomly all over my 5 1/2 x 5 1/2 white cardstock with some versamark and embossed with clear embossing powder.



 

Then I took my Faber-Castell Gelatos® and scribbled the Pistachio Gelatos® over where the leaves are.Then, I scribbled the Butter Cream Gelatos® over the flowers. along the edges and around the butterflies I scribbled Acqua Dolce Gelatos®.

I dabbed a little water on my finger and in a circular motion I spread the Acqua Dolce color around the butterflies, first. Then I wiped off my finger and again dabbed in water and smudged the Pistachio color. Last, I did the Butter cream. With the remaining coloring left on my finger from the Butter Cream, I added a little color around the butterflies.

 



 

 Wait a few minutes for it to dry and then wipe the embossed area with a paper towel. This will remove the color leaving the white outline. a stunning effect, LOVE it!!

 

 

 Then I took some Whipped Spackle and added some to the center and around the embossed butterflies. Then I took my little poker pen and made some swirls in the Whipped Spackle.

 

 

I decided I wanted to break up the pattern a little so I cut this into 4 squares and put a white mat behind each piece. I also added some faux stitching around each square.

 

After applying then to my card base with the foam dots I decided to take some Glass Bead Glitter Gel and mix some of the Acqua Dolce Gelatos® into it making this gorgeous color that you will just love! I then added this to the corners of my card.

 

 

I used my Spellbinders Dies and my Lili of the Valley Quotables for the sentiment. I added some of my Wild Orchid Crafts flowers, ribbon and lace... and voila!

 



Digi Paper Tutorial

I've had many requests on a tutorial for printing Digi-Paper.

Soooo... here it is..

 

Enjoy!

 

1. Open Adobe Photoshop and all of the papers you would like to print.

2. Then go to File>New>8.5 x 11.

3.Drag your paper file to the 8.5 x 11 canvas.

4. Do the same with the 2nd.

5. I already had a layout in my head so I just turned the heart paper on it's

 side and then I pulled it to the 8.5 x 11 canvas in the remaining areas left on the paper.

6. I pulled another sheet over. I use any left over pieces for the inside of the card.

7.Then go to Image>Image Size>Resolution change to 1000.

8. Now your ready to print.. File> Print.

9. Under Print Settings change your paper to Other Photo Paper. I use Hammermill 65lb. Any smooth white light weight cardstock will work fine. Then Print!

 

 

 

If you don't have Adobe Photoshop you can use Microsoft Word.

1. Open a new project and add a photo. Choose your paper.

This is optional.. sometimes I forget to do this. It makes the pattern a little more crsp if you do, though. Right click the photo and go to format picture.

Sharpen by 25%.

 

 

Then Print. You can add pages and save them as a PDF if you'd like. That way all you have to do next time is print the PDF. You can save the Adobe Photoshop one in a PDF, too!

Here's the paper!!! :)

Mini Magnolia Ornament Tutorial!

Hello everyone! I've gotten so many emails and questions about the plastic ornaments I made using the Mini Magnolia's. So here's my tutorial! There's LOTS of pictures, I'm sorry if they take a while to load or make your computer lag.

Supply List

Mini #3092 Tucked Tilda, Christmas Sentimen Stamp, Crafters Tacky Glue, Silver German Glass Glitter, Bakers Twine, Roses or Flowers, Crop o dile, eyelet, ribbon, Q-Tip, Oval Spellbinder Nestabilities, 2 ovals, one with your image and one with a sentiment, Plastic Ornament from Michaels (.99)

Put your stamped image and sentiment image back to back and use your Crop-o-Dile to make a hole.

Place your eyelet in the hole.

Tie your twine in the eyelet. Leaving the strings a little long. I would say 3-4 inches on each strand.

Put the image aside and get your ornament and take off the silver cap.

Pour your tacky glue inside.

Using your Q-Tip spread the glue all along the bottom of the ornament.

I made swirls to make it look like snow.

Add a few pinches of white FlowerSoft.

Shake it around covering the glue.

Then I add a little Silver German Glass Glitter and shake that around.

Now grab your image and round it around your finger.

Tada!

Squeeze it into the ball, leaving the twine out.

Make sure you hold the twine, so you can control the way your image is placed.

Now, with your pinky, or maybe a pencil, push, flattening the image.

Like this....

and this...

Now pull place the twin on each sid of the ornament, centering your image.

Pop the silver cap back on.

Add bows, flowers or whatever you like.

Here' the back.

Here's the first one I did, I decorated it a little different.

And the back.

I hope this helps, if you have any more questions please don't hesitate to ask!

Have a great day!

Mini Magnolia Hair Bow Tutorial!

Hair Bow Tutorial

Supplies

Ribbon (wired ribbon works best but you can use regular, I did)

Lace

Scor-Tape

Twine

Bow Easy

Favorite Mini Magnolia's

Flowers

Wrap the ribbon around the largest part of your bow easy 8-9 times.

Cut a small slit in the center of the bow.

Cut on the other side too. Make sure you DO NOT let the cuts meet!

Tie some Twine in a knot inbetween the slits and pull tight.

Pull the bow off and start pulling apart your bow loops.

Pull the loops in all different directions.

Fan the loops out, if you want the bow to go all around.

Here's how it should look so far.

Hot glue the center to help keep it in place.

Place some Scor-tape on the back of your image. This circle is 1 1/14 circle.

Put your lace all around for the border.

Isn't it cute!?

Glue to the center of the bow.

On the back of the bow glue the plain clip.

Make sure you open it so you don't glue it together. :)

Add flowers if you'd like.

Here's the back.

Here's my daughter modeling them.

Supplies

Stamps - Mini #3055 Something for you Tilda, Mini #3092 Tucked Tilda

Paper - Copic Xpress

Ink - Memento and Copics

Wild Orchid Crafts - orchid satin ribbon, lace, 15mm lilac roses, lilac hip rosebuds, 4mm white rosebuds, twine,

Accessories - 1 1/4 in circle punch, Bow Easy, hot glue gun, clips to decorate.