Little Birdie Told Me

A Little Birdie Told Me

A little birdie told me that “chicks” grow so fast. So here I am celebrating our baby “birds”. I love my family, and my grandchildren are number one. I love my new habit (hobby) using paper….well I will go back to fabric one day soon. I am so amazed at all that you create. So honoring all of you paper crafters I have tried to use some of the techniques I have learned from you! So here goes my first SCRAPBOOK page!

Supplies

• eCraft Diecutable Cardstock available at The PaperMill Store
• DCWV Collage Musings
• Organza Ribbon – JoAnn's Fabrics 
• Pearls Paper – JoAnn's Fabrics
• eCraft’s Fundementals I SD card
• CraftwellUSA’s eCraft Die Cutting System
• Colorbox ink
• Unity Stamps – Birds of a feather (my favorite!)
• Prismacolor Pencils – JoAnn's Fabrics
•  Stickles Glitter glue from Create for less
• 3L Adhesive foam squares and  tape
• Embossing folder and rolling pin (need a Ebosser bad)
• Brad in Pink, glitter  – JoAnn's Fabrics

I love the New eCraft Diecutable Cardstock and used it to build my page. I then trimmed a sheet of the DCWV Musings as my background for this “birdie” page. I love the wonderful cutting files on my eCraft SD card and quickly cut frames and the back of the little birdie out of Pearls Paper. I embossed the embellishment on the frame windows. Sized my photos and threaded ribbon through them.  Worked my placement on background and then inserted brad at the intersection point. I used my pencils to embellish die cuts and then the fun. I love the Unity Stamp set “Birds of a Feather”. I place them in various ways I stamped them in black and colored with pencils. Then I tried some glue and glittered the image. I love this new medium, well new to me!

I hope you enjoy my “Chicks” I know that I enjoy all of yours!

See you soon!

"Love & Valentines" Blog Hop

WINTER CHA 2012

BLOG HOP!!!

While the Cat's Away... the Mice will Play!

"Love & Valentines" Blog Hop!

Join with Craftwell's Ecraft Design Team to celebrate big time Valentines’ Day! We are also celebrating the CHA!  We are all about LOVE! and want to share a little with you! If your are following the hop you have arrived to my blog from http://www.firestormdesigns.com/
Jennifer McCrae’s Blog

But here is the full Hopper’s list!

KimberlyRae Forde

http://kreationsbykimberlyrae.com/blog/

Lyssa Zimmerman

http://lyssa-beth.blogspot.com/

Raven Baca

http://love4stamps.blogspot.com/

Lois Hale

http://auntielolocrafts.blogspot.com/

Jennifer McCrae

http://www.firestormdesigns.com/

Debi Tullier

http://fabric-ecraft.blogspot.com/ <---You are here

Denise O’Connor

http://purplepaperparadise.blogspot.com/  <----GO HERE NEXT

 

Blog Craftwell!

http://blog.craftwellusa.com/

 

 

Welcome to you . My project for the hop is this little heart shaped luminary. I made it from a SVGcuts “Love Me Do” set. I modified the sides to be deep enough to place a tea light in. I used my favorite card stock from eCraft Diecutable Cardstock from The PaperMill Store. The pattern paper was from an assortment of papers from JoAnn's Fabrics.  I used a heart shape cut out on the front of the luminary. I love my Unity Stamps ,” Birds of a Feather” set. I knew it would be perfect for my luminary.  I stamped  it on silk shantung using my colorbox inks to make the light window. I also used my Prismacolor markers to produce the rich color tones!  I made feet from two additional heart cut outs. and punched holes and threaded cord thru to embellish my light box.

I know that everyone likes or at least might have seen “Sweethearts” candies. Well DO I have a deal for you. Leave a comment on my blog below this post, and these glass heart beads could be yours. Remember not for use around small children or pets..

Happy Valentines’ Day

You don’t have to follow my blog to be a winner just leave a comment below for a chance to win my glass heart sentiment beads. They have a hole down the center for stringing!  REMEMBER  you want to complete the blog because there is a really big surprise at the end…….HOP HOP

Your Next Hop Spot is

Denise O’Connor

At Purple Paper Paradise

If you missed it the first site in the hop is

Kreations by KimberlyRae

 

This is the New eCraft Tool Kit it will be available soon !!!! Just click on the picture of  wonderful Kit to visit CraftwellUSA website!!

Hop Along and See you next week!!!

Happy New Year! 2012 here I come!

Happy New Year! 2012 is the year to experience your dreams!

 

eCrafting my inspirations!

Hello All! I am Debi Tullier (to-yay) I am a jack of all trades and a master of none, but that is where the fun is!!!

I am delighted to be back with the eCraft Design Team! I am looking forward to all of the wondrous adventures ahead with my eCraft.  I am so thankful for the inspiration that I receive from my fellow crafters and hopefully I will also inspire someone to open their crafting cupboard!

My Project is my One Word Inspire Box. I have a good friend that uses this to set her yearly goals. She uses a word to set her goal for the year. I am not a long term person and need to have inspiration on a daily basis. So my word for this month is Inspire and each day I take a slip of paper and write down one word. This slip goes into my inspire box. Next month I will draw one word a day and use it to grow my creative palette.

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Ingredients for Inspire Box:

• SVGcuts One piece Box Svg!
• DCWV cardstock (simply the most beautiful) Collage Musing Stack!!
• DCWV Black Cardstock for the inside of the box
• 3L Adhesive (LOVE IT)
• eCraft Cutting System
• Craftwell eCraft
• Eyelet and trim for box tie  from Hobby Lobby
• brad button cover from I-top 
• I-top2 from Imaginisce 
• 4 inches of sheer ribbon from JoAnn’s
• hand sewing needle and thread from JoAnn’s
• Misc material
• ink for inspire stamp

This wonderful DCWV cardstock spoke to me. I had to have it as my Inspiration Box cover. It speaks of all I hold dear. Family, Journeys, Adventures and so much more. How wonderful that it in itself is an inspiration.

My eCraft Cutting System was ready to take on the task of cutting out my one piece box.

I set the pressure to 3, No tabs, Cap on and cardstock stabilizer used.

Very quickly the box was cut and ready to be assembled. I used my favorite 3L Crafty Power Tape. I love the Super tack of this tape!

Next I put in the eyelet to make a catch for my beautiful little box.

I threaded in a small piece of cording to make a catch for the lid.

Next I used my fav Crafting Tool the I-Top 2 for my button cover brad!

I first place a inked dot with the word “Inspire” on the cover then covered it with sheer fabric.

I made the ribbon rosetta very easily.

I just hand sewed the edge and pulled and tied it to form a rosetta.

I then placed the button cover brad in the hole and placed it upon my little box.

Now for my new Beginning! I am ready to motivate myself into 2012’s best creative year ever!!!

I hope you will join me! Happy New Year to all and the hope for more to come!

Happy Birthday to Celeste!

Welcome to the Birthday Blog Hop for Celeste Lombas!

Happy Birthday to one of the most sweetest and giving ladies I know! Celeste, I cannot praise you enough. I just want to share how lucky I am to have you in my life! as if not for Celeste and her encouragement I would have not had the courage to start my own blog. She kept telling me that I could do it and here I am!

Celeste wants to share her Birthday with you through her Blog Hop! Several Companies know Celeste and decided to support her Birthday by sponsoring these awesome giveaways!!

Several Companies decided to celebrate Celeste’s birthday by sponsoring this  wonderful Birthday Hop with some great giveaways....

Here they are!! Thank you so much for doing this! By the way please visit these sponsors, they have great products and would love your online visit!

Paper Crafting World is giving a $20.00 voucher for her store.
Fresh Brewed Designs is giving 2 rubber stamps ( Love Mug and Gift Girl)
Purple Cows  is giving a pin it, roll it, and wind it (3 winners)
3 Girl Jam is giving 3 Bundles of Crinkle Ribbon (3 winners)
SVG Cuts is giving a $20.00 gift certificate.
PunkinPatch Stamps is giving a stamp set of your choice
Cat Designz is giving a new digital scrapbooking kit that she made Celeste it is called  the Celeste kit... (IT is BEAUTIFUL)
Heart Song is giving 3 digi images of the winner's choice.

I decided to create a lighted  gift box for Celeste’s Birthday Hop!

I am so fortunate that SVGcuts has such wonderful products. I saw their latest offering the “Love me Do” svg kit and I actually scrubbed my original project. I saw such great opportunities for creating more with Mary’s great insight. I took her candy box and made it my own “Birthday Cupcake Gift Box” it also doubles as a luminary after it has been emptied.

Mary’s design had a heart cut out on the front of the box. I decided to take it a step further and use a cupcake instead. It was a very simple task to add this cute svg and join them together. I put a sheet of opaque fabric inside so that you could put a light in the box and it would flick through like a candle was lit inside. I also applied a tag with a welded Happy Birthday svg from Miss Vickie’s.

I used baker’s twin to make the lucious icing on Celeste's cupcake. Don’t worry it is calorie free!

This was cut with my Craftwell’s eCraft cutting system.

I also designed a wall hanging to watch over your Birthday Dreams!

These cute fabric characters were cut out on the eCraft cutting system using clip art. Ifsand then the Sun got his sweet face from Peach Keen Stamps. I know that they will watch over
Celeste!

Lastly I also decorated something for Celeste’s smaller friends.

I love how easily fabric can be cut with my cutter. I decorated this onsie with beautiful blossoms which snap off for washing or you could leave them on. I love playing with my machine,and I thank Celeste for all of the tips and techniques that you have shared with me.

One more time Happy Birthday to you!!!

 

Okay now for the rules... Well only 2 RULES.... You must comment on all of the blogs in the hop. There will be more than one winner..

Most important RULE of all!!!! HAVE FUN!!!!!

Here is the line up in case you get lost along the way....

Celeste-- www.touchedbyabutterfly.com 
Heather-- http://joemamainks.blogspot.com/
Amy-- http://aimitup.blogspot.com/
Melin-- http://www.cookingwithcricut.com/
Paula-- http://purplecows.net/blog/
Monique--  http://www.uniquemoniquecreating.com/
Kerri-- http://kerripowell.blogspot.com/
Debi-- http://fabric-ecraft.blogspot.com/
Jani - http://papercompulsions.blogspot.com/(Next)
Yolie-- http://www.justyolie.com/

Your next stop on the hop is  Jani from Papercompulsions 

I would love to have you follow my blog but you don’t have too!  Also I will be posting my big surprise for Celeste in just a few days. It is something that I created for her and I am going to unveil it on my blog!!! Check back now and then to see it!!!

Happy Birthday my Friend!!! May all of your dreams come true!

I would love for you to follow my blog but you don’t have too! Remember I am creating a one of a kind gift for Celeste and it will be unveiled on my blog. So check back now and then for a big surprise!!!