Challenge Inspiration: Holly & Sara!

Holly here sharing my last post as a member of TPV design team...sigh.    For this challenge, I'm sharing an altered 8 x 10 picture frame that I made for a girlfriend who recently turned the Big Four-Oh!  Since 40's a special birthday, I wanted her gift to be clean, simple and went well with her home decor.  I originally got this idea from another design team member of mine,  Liz at Liz's Paper Loft.

To make this monogrammed frame, I covered a piece of 8 x 10 cardboard with burlap fabric (I heart burlap!) hot glued flowers cut from Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge at 4 inches, inked the edges with silver fluid chalk and then added a rhinestone center.  I just love the way this turned out!

Thanks so much to Abby and Suzanne for making this an awesome team to design for!

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I love creating packaging with my paper craft supplies.  I used a little kraft box and embellished it up with a doilies some punches and twine and now its ready for gift giving!  I also took a mini little paper bag and decorated it for the Holidays to hold a gift card!  You never know when you will need to give a gift so I like to be prepared!

 

Challenge Inspiration: Holly & Sara!

This past January we took a trip to the Grand Canyon via train.  The weather was bitter cold and equally miserable for the adults yet it didn't seem to bother the kids.  I mean, who doesn't want to climb trees in the dead of winter and eat fresh icicles? 

For this layout, I stuck to the sketch by cutting strips of ribbon and crimped blue card stock into flag banners. The sentiment frame is cut from Cricut Storybook and I chose a sentiment from K. Andrew Designs Winter Wishes stamps.  The layout title font is cut from Cricut Birthday Cakes at 1.5 inches.  You can visit my blog at Ribbons & Glue.

Now, doesn't this just make you miss all the fun of Winter?

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I just adore Diana's sketch! This was a perfect match for these photos!  I used lots of fun and bright Amy Tangerine products on this layout!  Be sure to join us for this challenge!

Tutorial: Teacher Gift by Sara!

Its hard to believe that summer is getting closer and that means school will be coming to an end as well.  Its time to start thinking about those end of the year teacher gifts. This year I have come up with a creative and cute gift card holder for my son's teacher. 

  I am going to show you how to make it!

I started off with a paper gift bag (about the size of lunch bag) and this adorable sign I printed off from Eighteen25 blog in a 5x7 size .

I found some scraps of paper that coordinated with the colors in my printed sign. I folded the bottom of the bag about 1/3 of the way up.  Cut a piece of paper about 1/4 inch short of that size of the fold and adhere to the folded part of the bag.  Then stitch both sides and the bottom with a sewing machine.

 This will create a 'front' pocket for your project. 

Use another piece of scrap to mat the sign.

 I cut a peice of note book paper (you could use any kind) down to fit inside the top of the bag - this will be for you or your child to write a message to the teacher on.  I also cut a cut little tage out of ledge paper and added an apple die cut. 

I put a alphabet sticker strip around the middle of the font pocket. Then slip the note book paper and sign into the top of the bag.

  To top it off it tied a double stitched red ribbon on around the bag, slid the tag under and added a  a little 'teacher' embellishment. 

Now you can write the teacher a note and slide a gift card into the front pocket!  She will love this! 

Challenge Inspiration: Holly & Sara!

Handmade flowers are fun to make and the options are really endless.  That seems to be the hardest part, figuring out what type of flower to make! 

For this challenge,  I decided to make a gift bag from Tags, Bags, Boxes and More and I added a spiral flower cut from Art Philosophy.    Lately, I've been totally into using Jute and Burlap so I had to add some to this project by using jute twine for a handle and tying it all together with a jute bow.

Thanks for looking and linking with TPV!

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I love making paper flowers! I choose to make this flower from the Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge.  This is a spiraled paper flower that you just roll up tight from the middle out an then let it go!  Add a bit of hot glue and you have a beautiful flower ever time!  This was the perfect accent on this gift bag.

Challenge Inspiration: Holly & Sara!

What a fun challenge this was to "Scraplift" a project created by my fellow design team members.  As you already know, these ladies are super talented and they've given me so many ideas over the past few months that I've actually made 4 other projects (make this 5 now) using there tutorial's. Yep- they do Inspire!  You can check there inspiration on my blog  Ribbons & Glue. 

For this challenge I made a flower pot card inspired by Sandi's Button Flower tutorial.  I hoard  have jars and jars of buttons so I knew these button flowers would be a perfect addition to my card. 

The base flowers are cut and layered from George and the Flower Shoppe cartridges.  I used a 1.5" scallop circle cut from Alphalicious for the base of the flower button and the leaves are cut from Doodlecharms. 

We look forward to seeing you link up your projects inspired by TPV design team, I know I have some more ideas I want to try. 

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We all need inspiration from some place, thats what I love about this challenge!  I was inspired my partner here at TPV, Holly!  Holly made the most incredible star decorations on her very first post here  - you can see them HERE.

My son has a space them to his bedroom so I knew just wanted I wanted to make and this challenge made me do it!

Tutorial: Gift tags by Sara!

Many products come in 'collection's or kits, a group of coordinating papers and embellishments. I love this because it only aids us in making layouts that look great!  When I am using a kit I get about 3-5 good layouts and maybe a few cards out of it and then I am left with a pile of scrap paper and some random embellishments. What now?!?  Well, I have a soft spot for gift tags so lately I have been making gift tags out of my leftover kits!

Here is a recent set!

I just love this Collection, Toy Box from Crate Paper!  I really used this kit to the max but I am not ready to ditch it just yet- I have a ton of scraps left!

I took a flag die for my sizzx (or you could cut the a tag from your Cricut) and cut out the shape out of a verity of my small scraps of paper.  Then to create a nice hole for a ribbon I added an eyelet to each one, make it in to a gift tag.

Next I had FUN layering the left over scraps of paper, stickers and embellishments to create 6 unique gift tags!

Check them out!

Now, what boy would not like getting one of these tags on their birthday gift? :)

I also have created sets of these tags and given them a way as gifts. Just as people need sets of cards they also need set of gift tags!

I hope these will give you a new look at your left overs from kits! Make the most of what you have!

Challenge Inspiration: Holly & Sara!

Today I have a card and coordinating envelope set to share with you.  I was lucky enough to choose a stamp set from Paper and Such to work with when creating this card.  I loved this chicken wire stamp set!

I was able to use this stamp to create a great back ground on both the card and envelope. Then using up some of scrap paper and stash of embellishments I finished the card off!

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   I'm so loving these Bitty Love Stamps from Paper and Such!  What a perfect set of stamps these are for teachers to use or to make little note cards to give as teacher gifts.   I just love them!

These little cards measure at 3 x 3 inches.  I embossed primary cardstock with various textures, stamped each sentiment and gave them some color highlights with markers.

Whenever I send out cards, I like include a matching envelope.  The envelopes are cut from Wild Card at 4 inches and I added a patterned paper liner and stamped each coordinating stamp on the outside of the envelope. 

Thanks for Paper and Such for giving the design team the privilege of choosing and designing with there stamps.  I know I will be using this stamp set for many years to come. 

Challenge Inspiration: Sara & Holly!

It was so fun to create with this sketch and the journaling prompt! I had been meaning to scrap this photo of Harry Potter, I mean my son Cole :) for some time now.  I was able to put it together with this double challenge and this wonderful collection, Old School from Pink Paisley.

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It's Holly from Ribbons & Glue sharing my take on our Sketch along with Scrap Fit Challenge.  My numerical list includes the things I love about my kids.

I haven't created many layouts in last 2 years so I found myself blowing the dust off a vellum sentiment that went along with my numerical list.   I kept the layout simple by using ribbon, buttons, glimmer mist and burlap.   The background paper is from Fancy Pants and I tore Core-dinations paper to use as a photo mat boarder.   I also have to mention that I made this entire layout without using my Cricut, now that's a rare occurrence for me!

Thanks for looking and linking up with TPV.

Tutorial: Make your own misting mask using Cricut by Sara!

I am big of using mist on my layouts and I really love the masks out there that you can use with mists.  Masks are meant to create a design on your layout by only allowing the color mists to fall on open areas. The problem I have is there are so many I like but I only want to use a mask a few times and then I tend not to use it much again - no very cost effective.  I have started use my Cricut to create my own masks these days!  Here is a how it works.

First I found the image I wanted to use. This layout I choose a cluster of hearts.  Then put a piece of scrap paper on your Cricut mat - you will be getting this paper a messy and it will have no actual use on your layout.

 Here is the paper with the heart shapes cut out of it and I have placed it on top of my back ground sheet for my layout. I gathered 3 different colored mists that work with my layout.

Before you start misting you must get other scrap paper to cover up the rest of your back ground paper.  Mist has a tendency to spray all over so you will want to be sure cover up the rest of your paper so you do not get mist where you dont want it. 

Then spray your masked area until you are happy with the saturation. 

Once you are happy with the way it looks remove the mask and the other papers and your misted image will be revealed. 

Here is the finished layout!  I think the misted hearts add a nice touch to the layout! 

I hope this makes you think of new ways to use your Cricut and create your own misting masks!