Baby Book

This is a blank 8x8 baby book that I made for my cousin's new baby boy. I added the watermark because last time I posted a blank baby book online someone decided to take my pages, add her pictures, and post them in a gallery as her own. Crazy people.

Most of the book is done with DCWV's Nana's Nursery Baby Boy stack with a little Basic Grey thrown in. The cardstock is all Bazzill, with a few miscellaneous embellishments. The cricut was used some, with the Schoolbook Plantin, and Stretch your Imagination cartridges. Also, some Michael's $1 stamps throughout. Cateye chalk ink is also rubbed on most of the edges.

My divided tray project

This month's design project for Glue Art & Paper Studio was sooo much fun. I did the shallow 4 section tray but actually used it as a home decor piece that I'll probably display on a plate stand. Lots of possibilities again with this one. Last minute I changed from a sports theme to this, but I'm quite happy with it.

This is what it looks like naked. Its really good quality and perfectly smooth, I didn't even have to sand before I started.For starters I painted the edges with a couple coats of white. I didn't bother painting the top since I knew I was covering it. Once it was dry I cut my paper to the size of the square and laid it on and kinda pressed around the square cutouts to leave an impression so I knew where to cut. You can kinda see it in this picture.I traced the indentations with a pencil and used my craft knife and a ruler to cut out the squares. Then I used Terrifically Tacky tape to stick it on. I cut chipboard into 1/4" strips, inked them Dark Moss green and used them to frame each little window. I painted on a little glossy accents to cover them and make them shiny.

For the inside of my windows I took a picture of flowers, cropped them into a square and printed them the exact size I needed it. Then I trimmed and cut it into 4 squares.

I finished the whole thing up by sticking the pictures in, using rub-ons on the corners (letting the design fall onto the edges as well), and using tiny little half pearls on some of the design.

Check out the rest of the design team's work this month, they're quite amazing!
Suzy
Dawn
Kris
Susan
Jen (she just joined the team this month, check her stuff out, its awesome!)

Supplies: Wooden Divided Tray: Glue Art and Paper Studio; DCWV (Old World Stack); Heidi Grace Rub-ons, Half Pearls (Target $1 Section); White paint, regular acrylic craft paint; Dark Moss ink (Cateye Chalk)

Easter Cupcake Stand

This year for Easter I used my Glue Art & Paper Studio Cupcake stand to display and serve petit fours. They're one of my favorite things in the entire world, and perfect for the cupcake stand.

I started with my neutral stand that I painted and crackled a few weeks ago. I used my Cricut (Plaintin Schoolbook cartridge) and the Cricut Design Studio to cut out long strips of grass out of light green Bazzill Bling, which I adhered to the edges of each tier with my ATG.

For the topper, I used the Cricut again to cut out the word Easter and its shadow. The scalloped ovals were cut with Nestabilities from dark pink DCWV cardstock, light green Bazzill Bling, and a shimmery piece of vellum. The 'happy' was stamped from a Michaels $1 Stamp. I put it all together and glued it to a miniature skewer to stick into one of the petit fours.

Cupcake stand

Hi everyone! Sorry its been so long, I've had a lot going on lately and haven't been very crafty. I have a couple things to upload in the next few days though :)

First, here's my cupcake stand from Glue Paper & Art Studio. Once again, it comes as unfinished wood so you can decorate it any way you want. I did the 3-tier version, but it also comes in a 2-tier and another size. Its nice and sturdy, it could defintely handle some weight with no problem.

I decided to keep the stand itself pretty simple to make it more versatile for future use. My goal was to be able to use it for whatever occasion I needed it for. I painted all the surfaces with an acrylic craft paint in Country Tan. I let it dry then applied a coat of crackle glaze just to the edges. When that was dry I finished with a coat of Warm White on the edges.

St. Patrick's Day is coming up so I decided to make a decoration for my living room. The letters and the shamrocks are cut out with a Cricut then Stickled to make glittery. The bottoms of the letters are glued on to a strip of paper which is glue-dotted on to the edge of the cupcake stand. I finished it with candy (Lindt chocolate, Rolos, and M&Ms- yum!), and a green feather boa from Target's $1 Spot. Everything is removable so I can switch over to Easter easily when the time comes. I'll take another picture and post when I do!

Before I played with it, it was sitting unfinished on my craft table. It was super handy to place things on to keep my work area clean. When I'm not using it for holiday decorations or parties, I'll probably keep it on my desk. Here I used it for easy access to all of my Stickles. So you can see how versatile it is, besides using it for cupcakes (which I fully intend to do the next time I bake!)

A card for my herd :)

I sent this to a few friends as an inside joke thing. PTI had a sheep stamp last month I didnt buy that set but I knew I wanted to make a sheep valentine of some sort so I kinda sorta went with the scallop idea and ran with it.

The sheep body is fuzzy. You know that really thin cheap 'snow blanket' they sell at Christmas time? With glitter in it? Thats what the sheep body is cut out of. (I turned the glitter part the other direction) I backed it with white cardstock so it wasn't so flimsy and cut it with an oval scalloped Nestabilities.

The head and the legs are cut with my Cricut out of the Stretch Your Imagination cartridge.

They're really upside down ice creams. See the pic? Smaller ones for the feet. Then the ears & nose are the cherries. See it now? LOL

I just inked them up with Chestnut Roan & Creamy Brown Cateyes and stuck them on.

The googly eyes with eyelashes I got at Hobby Lobby last year. I love those things, I need to hunt down some more though since I don't have a HL anywhere near me. I gave them a little pink eye shadow with a Copic marker.

The tan cardstock is Bazzill bling, then I sewed a tiny zig zag stitch around edge. Figures I snapped a pic of one that I sewed all wonky on.

Then the red cardstock is from a 50pk all of that color I got at Big Lots before Christmas, so no clue on the brand (it was supposed to be for my Christmas cards but that never happened...) I cut it out with the square scalloped Nestabilities.

The pink pattern is from Wild Asparagus. Sewed the edges on that one too. I used the cricut again to cut out a heart in the red and the pink pp from the Accent Essentials cartridge, then used the different parts to make one heart. The white base is just Georgia Pacific cardstock from Walmart.

The inside I didnt take a picture of but it had a pale pink scalloped square that said "Wool you be mine? Happy Valentine's Day to Ewe!" Gotta love puns.

Mini Card File

This month's project for GLUE Art & Paper Studio was their Crafter's Card File. I did the mini size which uses 2.25"x4" cards. (They also have a bigger version that holds 3"x5" cards.)

I tossed quite a few ideas around in my head before I settled on a recipe file. I've been trying to cook more meals lately and thought it would be nice to have the 'keepers' all in one place for easy reference. When it comes time to decide what's for dinner, I'm always forgetting something we made one time that I meant to make again. So from now on, if I try a new recipe and it gets the ******* Family Seal of Approval, it'll get its own card in my recipe card file.

Like the rest of their products, it comes in unfinished wood ready to decorate.
I knew I wanted it in deep reds to match my kitchen. I painted the whole thing with regular craft acrylic paint, then I inked all the edges with a darker ink. I dug through my papers and decided on Basic Grey's Scarlet's Letter line. I covered it with pieces of patterned paper, cut slightly smaller than the sides so some of the paint and ink can still be seen.

The cards are from Glue as well. They come in tons of colors but I used the ones below. I inked all the edges before I decorated them to get them to flow with the rest of the project.
For my divider pages I actually used 2 cards on each one. The scalloped rectangle Nestabilities was a perfect fit and I ran the red cards through my Cuttlebug with the die to scallop the edges. I then inked them and stuck them to the lighter colored cards (which I inked some more). I finished them off with some more (inked, of course) Basic Grey, computer printed categories (the green is also Basic Grey, yep inked too), and copper Stickles to give them some bling. I made an extra blank one to grow into at a later date.

Then I just formatted some of our favorite recipes to fit on the cards and printed them on regular computer paper (inked slightly with Creamy Brown chalk ink to take the whiteness away). The ingredients and title are on the front of each card and the instructions are on the back.

Thats it. I just repeated the process with each of the cards, adding a few embellishments & Stickles here and there. Now I have a quick way to flip through my recipes and a convenient little stand that holds my card visible while I cook.. Hopefully this will help me to not forget about the yummy recipes we've made once in the past, never to be remembered again.

Besides recipes, there are a zillion things you can use this for. Some of the ideas are an address file, a monthly birthday reference, a catalog of your craft supplies, pretty way to display your friends' rolodex cards, a handy place to keep all the sketch ideas for cards and layouts (this was my runner-up idea actually), a mini way to remember a baby's first year and milestones- anything! Check out the gallery at Glue Art & Paper Studio, new ideas should be up any day now!

A couple of cards

First up, another acetate card:

Supplies: Papertrey Ink's Cardstock, Chatterbox PP, transparency, Papertrey Ink's 'Out on a Limb' stamp set, Brillaince Dew Drop Inks, stickles, sewing machine, rectangle nestabilities

Then a cutesy card for our friends' baby's 1st birthday.

This one was fun! I remembered seeing a card forever ago with the character's heads made from flowers so I went with it. I was just digging around trying to find it to give credit and I think this one was it: scookesews

Such a cute idea!

Supplies: Papertrey Ink's Cardstock, Bazzill Bling, Basic Grey on top embossed with Cuttlebug, Magnolia? on bottom, Michaels $1 stamp for the flowers for their heads, Versamark ink with clear embossing powder, Googly eyes (big bird's had eyelids that I colored with copic markers), Brillaince Dew Drop Inks