"A Cheeky Xmas"

I made this for my friend Rina (you can check out her blog Scrapmusubi). We both agreed to create something for one another using The Greeting Farm - A Cheeky Xmas stamp set.

As always this was a fun little project to create. I recycled a Del Monte Sliced Peaches fruit jar, any glass jar will do. I just so happened to have an abundance of these empty peach jars (thanks Costco) on hand.

The vellum wings were misted with Lindy Stamp Gang - Creme Brulee Cream Starburst Spray. I also painted the color on all the fur trims. It gave it this beautiful gold iridescent shimmer. Various cutting dies were used:

Sizzix - Snowflake 655545
Revolution - Tatoo Art REV-0095
Revolution - Butterfly REV-0088

Please watch the video below if you are interested in how I assembled this. Thanks for passing by and I hope everyone had a great weekend.

Flowers on Etsy

Hi guys! My flowers are on sale at my Etsy store Cuppycakecrafts. Check them out.

More Flowers

I went to town making flowers today. They were made for a few friends for "just because". I love how they turned out. This is how I packaged them:

Flower Tutorial

Hello. Just wanted to share these flowers that I made using these newsprint vintage paper bags. These can be purchased at my etsy store: CuppyCakeCrafts.



Here are the flowers:





The newsprint paper gives the flowers a rustic and natural look. I sprayed them with various glimmer mists.

Here is the video tutorial:

Cookbookin' Booth @CHA 2010

Hi guys. As promised here are my samples that I designed for Cookbookin'.

Card & Recipe Box
(Grandma's Pantry Collection):



Cards (Chocolate Celebration Collection):



Recipe Album & Card
(Modern Market Collection):



Altered Recipe Notebook
(UR Cookin' Collection):


Cards (Mom's Diner Collection):




Fred workin' the fruit hat and drawing customers to our booth.

Glimmer Fun

Today I was playing around with my glimmer mists after being inspired by watching this youtube video by pepsigirl4ever. Here is my take on her project using glimmer mist instead:







The glimmer mist colors that I used were: Tiger Lily, Cinder, Gold, Coffee Shop. The base is corrugated cardboard (a flap cut out of a cardboard box). I did a lot of embossed stamped images, all the flourishes, polka dots and the diamond pattern. White acrylic paint was used in the background and embossed with ultra thick embossing enamel. Besides owls, I love dragonflys as well. The dragonfly is a glimmer chip from Tattered Angels. It was sprayed with Tiger Lily and Coffee Shop, then distressed with Black Soot. The flowers are Prima and sprayed with glimmer mists. On the same youtube video you learn how to make the handmade flower, love it! The photo was distressed with Tea Dye around the edges. Add some rhinestones, pom-poms and call it done. This project was a lot of fun. I wish you could see it in person, I love how the light reflects against it with all the glimmer mists. This last photo was taken with the sun hitting it, hopefully it can capture some of the "wow" factor, lol. Enjoy!

Finally Done!!

Well there it is. Wow this is the most I've ever posted in one day, geez. I'm on a roll, lol. Anyways, here's my last clipboard specially for Andrew. I tried to keep it as masculine as possible for a tween. I guess rhinestones would have been too much...well, j/k. Also here's the matching card.

1 down...

1 more to go. I finished one clipboard. This one is for Samantha (aka Sam). She's like a mini-me, I gave her my old graphic tees that are too small, so we pretty much have the same taste. Lots of layering with the modge podge medium. In order for me to get around the metal clip, I cut vertical strips of paper, which really made a difference in getting around the nooks and crannies.


The heart and wings are Tim Holtz's Grunge board. I used acrylic paint and then spritz some glimmer mist, iridescent gold.


To personalize it with her initial "S", I used Tim Holtz's Grunge board again. Used the same technique of painting with acrylic paint and then I spritzed on glimmer mist, red velvet. The other letters are American Crafts Thickers alpha stickers. Now on the final clipboard project...stay tuned.

Christmas Stocking

Before:

@ScrappingLounge the Design Divas were assigned to make their own "handmade" Christmas stocking. I got this red velvet stocking at Big Lots for only $2! Wow what a bargain! With some pipe cleaners, Prima flowers, paper from My Mind Eye's Christmas Glitter Stack and some imagination...voila!

After:

Last Call...Calendar Girl Class

Hey Gals, last call for my "Calendar Girl" class. It's this Saturday, Nov. 1st (i know it's November, can you believe it?). Located at Scrapping Lounge, Time: 12-3pm, Cost $35. There are only a few spots available so come on by or call to sign up. Hope to see you there.