(I will be adding more details about the supplies this weekend. In the meantime, enjoy the pictures.)
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Gift Card Holders
I found the cutest and super easiest gift card holders while browsing YouTube the other night. My mother-in-law's best friend is always giving gift cards for various reasons and requested that I make her something cute to present them in. I have a lot of ideas that are a little more involved than this that I plan on doing for her, but in the meantime, school is back in, and time is a rare commodity. :)
(I will be adding more details about the supplies this weekend. In the meantime, enjoy the pictures.)
(I will be adding more details about the supplies this weekend. In the meantime, enjoy the pictures.)
Friday, January 4, 2013
Personalized Composition Notebook
Just a quick post. I gave this notebook to my mom-in-law for Christmas. I wasn't originally going to. I was going to hoard it. I love this paper. It's called Spice Cake by Stampin' Up! and it is probably my favorite of all of their patterned paper. When I found myself inventing a need for the notebook (I already have so many other notebooks that I use for various purposes), I decided to go ahead and share the love and include this as a gift on Christmas. When you're struggling for excuses to keep something, it's time to give it away.
Funny thing, though. Later that evening I drove over to my bestie's house so my daughter and I could ride with her and her mother to the movie theater to see Les Miserables. She presented me with TWO MORE PACKS of this paper for Christmas! Woot woot! What an awesome gift from an awesome friend. Love her!
Split Monogram Vinyl on Tile
This is what I made for my best friend (and her husband) for Christmas. I had to wait to post it, because I wasn't able to give it to her on Christmas like I had planned. I had those horrible vinyl issues that set my timeline for gifting back. Strangely, we haven't seen each other since Christmas night. Normally, we would have had at least one sleepover by now, but she's dealing with some stuff with her parents, and I've been crafting like a beast and burning up the miles on my new treadmill. Anyway, we went back to work today so I just walked the four doors down from my classroom where her classroom is to give it to her.
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
Who's Out of the Classroom?
Just a quick bonus post for today.....
In my classroom, only one boy and one girl can be out at a time. When a student leaves the classroom to use the bathroom, they have to give me one of the two bathroom tickets they are issued each quarter and then put the appropriate bottle of hand sanitizer on his/her desk. When the student comes back, he/she uses it and then puts it back in the student supply center.
I cut these shapes using eCAL for the Sizzix Eclips. The shapes were included in the software so they didn't cost me anything extra.
In my classroom, only one boy and one girl can be out at a time. When a student leaves the classroom to use the bathroom, they have to give me one of the two bathroom tickets they are issued each quarter and then put the appropriate bottle of hand sanitizer on his/her desk. When the student comes back, he/she uses it and then puts it back in the student supply center.
I cut these shapes using eCAL for the Sizzix Eclips. The shapes were included in the software so they didn't cost me anything extra.
New Card for the Recruit
The inspiration for this card came straight from Robin at My Pink Stamper. She posted a video for the cutest card the other day, and I was just so excited to make one myself. I don't have the Cricut cartridge she used, and it was going to be about $30.00 to buy it (not the time of the year for extra stuff like that) so I looked through the ones I already had. I found this cute little birdy on my Create a Critter cartridge, which I have NEVER used but just HAD to have. I actually have a lot of cartridges that fall into that category. I really need to start using more of my stuff. I don't even know what I have!
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Isn't he just the cutest thing? I used Night of Navy from Stampin' Up! for his body with a brown I got from Michael's during one of their 8 sheets for $1.00 sales. The yellow came from Hobby Lobby and the patterned papers are scraps that I've been using for all of his cards (leftover from the sendoff back in September). I drew a little 'glint' in his eye, because it seemed so plain. The ribbon is 1/4" grosgrain from Stampin' Up! in Chocolate Chip.
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I don't have any of Robin's stamp sets (sniff sniff). I never could decide which one I wanted to start my collection with. Then she announced her retirement and it was at a bad financial time for me. By the time I could get any, all the ones I wanted were sold out everywhere. Ah, well. I can take the same ideas and use my Eclips (Which I named Soleil Moon. I know. By the way, I named my Cricut Jiminy and my Samsung Galaxy is named Andromeda.) to draw the words for me. Zoomed in, it doesn't look very clear and pretty, but you can't tell it by just looking at the card. I used my Night of Navy stampin' markers. The Eclips drew the trace-line, which it wasn't supposed to do. I filled it in after. I'll be playing around tomorrow to find out why it did the outline when I asked it to just do the 'fill'.
Overall, I really like it. :)
Monday, December 31, 2012
Decorative Organization
I'm celebrating New Year's by making pretty things for my craft room. We're quiet folk. My daughter and I have the t.v. playing the Dick Clark special right now, but we'll probably switch back to Snow 2 on Netflix now that the ball has dropped.
While watching the movie, I've been crafting as well. The Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog has an organization challenge running and DL.ART is doing an anything goes challenge. I suppose I could also do a second post for Use it Tuesday, too. I might just do that. I'll include how my project fits into each of their challenges at the end.
Let me start by telling you about my husband's 50th birthday party last March. He loves John Deere so I bought these perfectly colored green and yellow buckets at Target. They were in the bargain bin for $2.00 each. I used my Eclips to cut out an svg of a tractor in black and then used green and yellow paper to make photo holders. I glued them to small dowel rods and stuck the dowel rods into the buckets. The pictures are not glued on. They came out of my mom-in-law's photo albums and we wanted to make sure they wouldn't be damaged and would make it back to her albums.
Here is a picture of one of them:
There were two short, fat green ones like this one and a tall, skinny yellow one. Here they are now painted black with black and white ribbon and white vinyl. I'm going to use them to store things that I commonly use but don't want just laying around. I have a lot of my adhesive in one of them, but I think I'm going to have to separate it into two-maybe one for liquid adhesive and the other for dimensionals/pop-dots/tape runners.
I used black Fusion spray paint to paint over the green and yellow on the buckets. I didn't even have to sand or prime or anything. It covered great. I had to do two coats, but only because only of the ridges. (The bucket above is supposed to say "hope" at the top, but the ribbon is covering part of the 'h'. ha ha!)
I used E6000 to adhere the ribbon to the buckets. I've never used it before, but I've heard that it's great for projects involving metal so I bought some. I've been afraid to use it so it's been sitting in my craft room for over a year. I saw a video on Above Rubies Studio this morning that convinced me to get it out and try it. It's not so bad. I was worried about the fumes (I have asthma.), but it wasn't that bad. No wheezing or anything. Yay! :)
I made the bow using a bow template that I made after watching this YouTube video. I just hot glued the bows onto the ribbon on the buckets.
I used the Wall Decor and More cartridge to cut my words. I didn't have to do anything special to them. I used my Gypsy just so that I could get them all lined up on the mat. They were already set to 1" in height so I just left them. That turned out to be the perfect height. By the way, using my Gypsy also allowed me to pause the cut when I saw that the vinyl was tearing on some of the more intricate parts like what happened with my Eclips the other day. I did my little trick with the Goo Gone and continued the cut with no more problems. Note to self: Do that first and then cut. :)
While watching the movie, I've been crafting as well. The Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog has an organization challenge running and DL.ART is doing an anything goes challenge. I suppose I could also do a second post for Use it Tuesday, too. I might just do that. I'll include how my project fits into each of their challenges at the end.
Let me start by telling you about my husband's 50th birthday party last March. He loves John Deere so I bought these perfectly colored green and yellow buckets at Target. They were in the bargain bin for $2.00 each. I used my Eclips to cut out an svg of a tractor in black and then used green and yellow paper to make photo holders. I glued them to small dowel rods and stuck the dowel rods into the buckets. The pictures are not glued on. They came out of my mom-in-law's photo albums and we wanted to make sure they wouldn't be damaged and would make it back to her albums.
Here is a picture of one of them:
I used black Fusion spray paint to paint over the green and yellow on the buckets. I didn't even have to sand or prime or anything. It covered great. I had to do two coats, but only because only of the ridges. (The bucket above is supposed to say "hope" at the top, but the ribbon is covering part of the 'h'. ha ha!)
I used E6000 to adhere the ribbon to the buckets. I've never used it before, but I've heard that it's great for projects involving metal so I bought some. I've been afraid to use it so it's been sitting in my craft room for over a year. I saw a video on Above Rubies Studio this morning that convinced me to get it out and try it. It's not so bad. I was worried about the fumes (I have asthma.), but it wasn't that bad. No wheezing or anything. Yay! :)
I made the bow using a bow template that I made after watching this YouTube video. I just hot glued the bows onto the ribbon on the buckets.
I used the Wall Decor and More cartridge to cut my words. I didn't have to do anything special to them. I used my Gypsy just so that I could get them all lined up on the mat. They were already set to 1" in height so I just left them. That turned out to be the perfect height. By the way, using my Gypsy also allowed me to pause the cut when I saw that the vinyl was tearing on some of the more intricate parts like what happened with my Eclips the other day. I did my little trick with the Goo Gone and continued the cut with no more problems. Note to self: Do that first and then cut. :)
Can you have too much adhesive? I don't think so. LOL!
- Anything goes
- Getting organized for 2013
- Cricut cartridge used: Wall Decor and More
- Anything goes-project has to include hoarded supplies
- Green and yellow buckets left over from last March
- white vinyl in craft room for about a year
- Wall Decor and More-hasn't been used in almost two years
- ribbon and E6000 bought over a year ago and never used
Why I Love my Gypsy!
I want to start off by saying that I hope everyone has a safe and happy New Year's Eve. I'm looking forward to lots of fun crafting this upcoming year! I appreciate everyone who has come to visit my blog and an extra thank you to everyone who has left comments. It's like Christmas morning everytime I get an email notification that someone has left a comment!
I'm linking this project on the Use it Tuesday blog. To be able to link to that blog, you have to use something that has been sitting around for some time and you're just getting to using it. I think they mean actual physical craft supplies, but I'm going to cheat a little. My Gypsy has been sorely neglected since I got my Eclips last year so I decided to dust her off (I call her Esmerelda, by the way. I name all of my electronic devices. Weird, I know.......what can I say?) and design something for my daughter. You don't have to have a Gypsy for this project. You can do this is in the Cricut Craftroom as well. You just have to uplink your cartridges, which I'm not willing to do just yet. I will over summer break when I have more time. In the meantime, I use the Craftroom to design where it's nice and big, then I note the sizes for everything and quickly re-do the design in my Gypsy. It doesn't take long at all when you know exactly what cut in what size from which cartridge.
Actually, the vinyl has been sitting in my craft room for almost a year now. The white sheet was on top and did have to literally be dusted off in order for me to cut it so I guess technically this isn't a "cheat" link. ;) Whew! I feel much better about it now. LOL!
Anyway, the latest challenge is an "anything goes" challenge so go and link up anything you've done that involved using any supplies that have been around awhile. You just have to be thinking about your crafting goals for 2013. One of my goals is decorate my life with my craft supplies. I already do a lot of crafts to give away, but once they're gone, I have nothing but supplies left for more projects. I want to have some of the end results around me to enjoy as well. :)
Here is my project. I made a decal with white glossy vinyl for the back window of my daughter's car. I used the Old West cartridge for this project.
The reason I had to use Esmerelda on this project is because the original file comes with flowers instead of the horse and horseshoes.
Here is what the cartridge handbook looks like in case you're looking for it. I can't wait to do something with the rope and wood-board letters! :)
The running horse is found on the "A" page. I didn't use the layer pieces-just cut the horse.
The horseshoe came from the "H" page.
I just deleted the flowers from the "Country Girl" image and added the horse and two of the horseshoes (welded together) in their place. Voilà! Happy girl!
Not one to waste leftovers........we took this framed mirror we had found at the flea market many years ago (I think it was a vanity tray that had a wall hanger added to it at some point.) and put the left over letters/icons on it. It is now hanging in the country girl's bedroom. I love two-in-one projects!
I'm linking this project on the Use it Tuesday blog. To be able to link to that blog, you have to use something that has been sitting around for some time and you're just getting to using it. I think they mean actual physical craft supplies, but I'm going to cheat a little. My Gypsy has been sorely neglected since I got my Eclips last year so I decided to dust her off (I call her Esmerelda, by the way. I name all of my electronic devices. Weird, I know.......what can I say?) and design something for my daughter. You don't have to have a Gypsy for this project. You can do this is in the Cricut Craftroom as well. You just have to uplink your cartridges, which I'm not willing to do just yet. I will over summer break when I have more time. In the meantime, I use the Craftroom to design where it's nice and big, then I note the sizes for everything and quickly re-do the design in my Gypsy. It doesn't take long at all when you know exactly what cut in what size from which cartridge.
Actually, the vinyl has been sitting in my craft room for almost a year now. The white sheet was on top and did have to literally be dusted off in order for me to cut it so I guess technically this isn't a "cheat" link. ;) Whew! I feel much better about it now. LOL!
Anyway, the latest challenge is an "anything goes" challenge so go and link up anything you've done that involved using any supplies that have been around awhile. You just have to be thinking about your crafting goals for 2013. One of my goals is decorate my life with my craft supplies. I already do a lot of crafts to give away, but once they're gone, I have nothing but supplies left for more projects. I want to have some of the end results around me to enjoy as well. :)
Here is my project. I made a decal with white glossy vinyl for the back window of my daughter's car. I used the Old West cartridge for this project.
Here is what the cartridge handbook looks like in case you're looking for it. I can't wait to do something with the rope and wood-board letters! :)
The running horse is found on the "A" page. I didn't use the layer pieces-just cut the horse.
The horseshoe came from the "H" page.
I just deleted the flowers from the "Country Girl" image and added the horse and two of the horseshoes (welded together) in their place. Voilà! Happy girl!
Not one to waste leftovers........we took this framed mirror we had found at the flea market many years ago (I think it was a vanity tray that had a wall hanger added to it at some point.) and put the left over letters/icons on it. It is now hanging in the country girl's bedroom. I love two-in-one projects!
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