Decorated Wooden Frames

I made these frames for a booth I had at a craft fair. I bought $1 wooden frames from Michael's, cut scrapbook paper to fit over them, Mod Podged the paper on with multiple coats, and decorated with various flowers, stamped images, ribbon, and metal words.

Autumn Card

I love Autumn! The air cooling in the mornings and evenings, the smell of cinnamon and vanilla, the re-introduction of pumpkin-flavored EVERTYTHING make me happy. It also makes me with we had the joy of seeing the leaves on the trees change to brilliant shades of oranges and reds. Since we live in the desert and everything is either green-ish or a lovely shade of dirt, I love dreaming of the fall colors in my artwork.

This card features beautiful Autumn colors as well as showcasing some words describing this beautiful season. I used September's stamp of the month: Poster Tidings. To get the multicolored panel using just the one stamp, I stamped the image on colonial white card stock multiple times using multiple ink colors. I then cut the accent words out of the stamped images into long strips and glued them overtop of the image I had stamped in slate. The leaves and scrolls were cut using the Cricut Artbooking cartridge.

Thank You Card Workshop

One of the things I enjoy most about having a booth at an event is networking with other business owners. Just a few weeks ago, I met a group of Mary Kay consultants. We were talking, and they were looking at my artwork, when they came up with an idea. The director of this group of ladies asked me to design a Thank You card workshop for her team. These are the cards they will be making at their team training meeting on Monday night. They will each make 5 of each of these 3 cards. They will each leave with 15 cards they've made themselves that they'll be happy and proud to send to their customers.

All three of these cards were made using For Always paper, Black Shimmer trim, black cardstock, hollyhock cardstock, and archival black ink.

This frst card also uses a border cut from the Cricut Artiste cartridge, and an image from the 4 My Friend stamp set.

 

This card features a cut from the Cricut Artbooking cartridge as well as an image from a retired thank you stamp set.

 

And the final card (my favorite of the 3) features the Thank You image cut from black glitter paper using the Cricut Artbooking cartridge.

 

I'm proud that they asked me to design their cards for them and happy that they liked my designs enough to make them for their customers.

Best Friends Scrapbooking Layout

At my daughter's 9th birthday party, I snuck her and her best friend into a seperate room for a little phot shoot. I had them pose in a bunch of silly poses. I thought the pictures turned out so cute and couldn't wait to make a layout using the colors in their dresses and lots of sparkles and glitter. I love how this layout turned out.

I would love to help you make layout YOO love with YOUR pictures to document YOUR memories - give me a call so we can get started!

Brag Books

These are some little brag books I made to sell at a craft fair. You can easily make these too. I purchased these inexpensive photo albums from Target for less than $2 each. Then I removed the printed cardstock from the front and back cover panels, cut my own cardstock or patterned paper the size of the pieces I pulled out, decorated with stamps and/or stickers, and reinserted the new covers. Viola! New and improved brag books. These can be made with any scraps you already have, and make a cute little gift for anyone who just wants to store their pictures in here and enjoy! Happy crafting!

Reusing Cricut Mats After They Have "Lost Their Sticky"

I've read on Pinterest a few different ways to get some more life out of your Cricut mats after they've lost their sticky. 

I decided to try them for myself. I took 2 old mats I had lying around. First I used a little soap and water and scrubbed the mats with my fingers and left them to air dry on my dish rack over night. In the morning, they were dry, but not sticky enough.

So I tried another experiment I saw on Pinterest. I got out my Close to my Heart Bonding Memories glue, and covered the entire mat with it. When this glue is wet, it is blue, as you can see in the picture below. I let them dry on the table for about 12 hours while I was at work.

The glue dried clear by the time it was scrappy time that night. I was over joyed with the results when I was ready to play. The papers stuck to the mat perfectly - and released perfectly. Success! I definitely recommend trying this technique to get some extra life out of your mats you would have normally thrown away.

Frosted Holiday Card Class

These are the cards I designed for my Frosted Holiday Card Class. When you come to this class, all the pieces will be cut out for you. You will get to stamp some pieces, then assemble 5 cards each of these 3 designs. You will leave with 15 cards and envelopes!

Each of these cards are made using the Frosted Paper Pack, Whisper cardstock, Crystal Blue cardstock and ink, Silver glitter trim, silver sparkles - and each features one of the three snowflakes from the Artbooking Cricut cartridge.

 

 This first card also features the Hostess Stamp Set: Card Chatter - Bright all Night

 This second card features the stamp set The Best Things.

This card features the word "joy" cut out of silver glitter paper using the Artbooking Cricut cartridge.

This card class is being offered on the following dates:

Friday, November 1 @ 7PM

Thursday, November 7 @ 7PM

Saturday, November 9 @ Noon

Thursday, November 14 @ 7PM

Saturday, November 16 @ 1PM

Friday, November 29 @ 6PM
Contact me today to reserve your spot. Call me at (702)460-7038 or email me at dana09@yahoo.com

Death by Chocolate

These are the little treat boxes I made for the ladies in my club this month. I cut the coffins out of black cardstock using the Artiste Cricut cartridge. After assembling and gluing the coffins, I inked the edged with white ink. I then cut the tombstones out of grey, and the spiders out in black cardstock, also using the Artitse cartridge. Using August's Stamp of the Month, Chocolate Affair, I stamped the sentiment onto the tombstone, then distressed the edges in black ink. Finally, after using 3-D foam tape to attach the spider, I covered him in Liquid Glass and allowed it to dry.

November Club Layout

I really enjoyed creating this scrapbook layout. This is the layout the ladies in my scrapbook club will be creating during their November Club Night. The Huntington paper pack and stickers were so easy to coordinate with these pictures, and the layout came together so smoothly. I used Barn Red and Cocoa cardstocks to compliment the beautiful patterned papers in the Huntington Paper pack. I kept the layout clean and simple by using only the coordinating MyStickease. For my journaling, I created a Word document, then printed directly onto the MyStickease sheet before placing the printed sticker on my layout.

To order all the supplies needed to create this layout, click here. Contact me if you'd like to join one of my scrapbooking clubs.