Fun with American Crafts

Step Card Using American Crafts

I am having a great time making cards with my Ebosser and the great papers and goodies from American Crafts!

I love these great “step cards” and American Crafts sure makes it fun and easy. I love the rub-ons and the great chip board pieces. You will see that they also have many items that blend together to help you create your own masterpieces.

I love the ingredient list on their chipboard pieces. I have had so much fun discovering this product line! I love American Crafts.

Back to School with Style!

A Gift for Teacher!

It is so wonderful that school is back in and so many great learning experiences are right on the horizon. I have many friends who are teachers. Several of them enjoy reading books as their form of escape, from everyday life. I know two of them in particular  that read like crazy and always have their books with them. They are old school and actually carry their books everywhere. No electronic books for them. So  I decided to try my hand at making a bookmark with a twist for each.

I love Teresa Collins beautiful folders they just sing out to be used. I love  her Cabbage Rose Folder it  is one of my favorites.For this project I used foil tape and a cereal box for this one. I so love the embossed foil. My ebosser rules the roost here. 

After embossing the foil and placing on the cut out cereal box, I applied a series of permanent  inks to the foil. I love the blues and purples. I also cut a hole for my shaggy yarn bookmark fringe. I then sprayed it with an acrylic clear coat. I know that it will be a hit with my friends! Happy 2014 School Year to all!

 

Elegant Idea for Holiday Gifting

Holiday Gift Embellishment Idea

Having Teresa Collins around has given me so much enthusiasm. I am so ready to get my holiday preparation into full gear. I love Teresa Collin’s elegant style and long to have gifts to give that others will say “what decorator wrapped her gifts?” So my adventure begins!

I decided to make a metallic gift tag for my gifts. Now this is not a little out of the light tag , NO.. I am talking about a beautiful package. I want to have time stop when they see their gifts. Well it is my fantasy..LOL.

So I took the soda can and cut it into a flat sheet. If you do this be very careful as the metal edges are very sharp. I then took my stack of soda can sheets and placed them under several heavy books.  I left them until they didn’t curl much, The next step was to cut my blank out . I took  one of my Spellbinders dies and cut the tag shape that I love. I love my eBosser it makes all of my projects so much fun.  My next step was using the Teresa Collins Cabbage rose embossing folder and placed my tag in it. I love the clean emboss that I get from my eBosser. I next took some inks and “antiqued” my tag.  I  also placed some ribbons of organza I can’t wait to put my gifts into the waiting hands of my family!

The tag is backed with craft foam. This offers a great place for a sentiment or greeting. I love the look and hope that you will share your great ideas for gift box embellishments in the comment sections below..

Thank you for viewing my Holiday Tag!

See you next week,

Debi

Princess Has Found Her Slippers!

Princess Slippers Found!

Well my summer visitor has by the time this posts gone back home to mom. I had so much fun and for the first time in years had to rush around to get all done! We did have a magical time and it was worth every moment. I discovered so much that I have taken for granted. I pray that one day again I can have this great and inspirational experience again! To make accessories for a little princess was so much fun. Last week we made hair bands and this week we made princess shoes.

 

My princess is four and loves all things pink and glittery, so that is right up my alley. I found that Wally World had these great flip flops for the unbeatable price of .97 cents. So two pairs of princess shoes were made in a wink. She was and is so delighted with them.

I was also delighted with them as I used up so many scraps to embellish them. The pink “ribbon” was from a purse that I made and the silver glitter “tear drops” were the left overs from the glitter paper cut out from my last project. I also used some decorative rhinestones to finish off the effect. Well they looked nice but something was still missing so we experimented with my favorite Teresa Collin’s embossing folder. It was a great finishing touch!

I used the folder to “stamp” on the edges of the flip flop. It was so wonderful. I used both the Sophisticated (UNI) and the Cabbage Rose (UNI) folders to decorate the shoe edges. You can see all of the wonderful embossing folders that Teresa Collins has designed for CraftwellUSA by clicking here.

 

I used StazOn ink in several colors to apply these designs to the shoes. It was very easy to use a brayer and then roll the folder on the side of the shoe. I wish that you could see all of the glitter and see the true beauty in the eyes of the Princess.

Thank you Teresa Collins and Craftwell for helping keep my grand-daughter’s belief that I can do anything and that her Princess Shoe are magical! I guess together we are Magical!

Thank you so much for putting up with my ramblings, I wish all of you more and great events in your lives as well best,

Debi

Vacation is Ending

We Want More!!!

I am so in love with all of the fun that I have had with my grand-daughter. Long summer days filled with fun and sun. We have learned so much about and from each other. Who would have thought that a four year would change my world so much.

Now for the fun part. We are all royals now. My dogs have  titles of Princess and Prince before their names. Even Grandma and Gramps are not without the Queen and King title.

She runs around in her favorite princess garb many days. It is so funny to see her chase the squirrels in her satin Rapunzel gown. Yelling Squirrel at the top of her lungs to keep the little guys from taking off with our garden veggies. \

Well on the days we don’t dress-up we needed a “royal” looking wardrobe accessories. So thanks to my eBosser and some flower dies we are making new headbands and flip-flops to rule our world.

I love this so!

 

I love how the “Royal” set came out. I used several layers of satin, pink felt and organza to fashion her accessories. My eBosser  worked its great magic, buy cutting layers of tule and satin. I used the Embelle Gelli to place the  larger sequins and then painted it on  to capture loose qlitter to add sparkle to her shoes.

 

It was so much fun and I am so glad that I have the Scraperfect tools to keep my creations together.

I used Scraperfect Glue and Embellie Jelly to add all of the sparkle. Reilee loves adding glitter with it as well.

Thank you so much Craftwell and Scraperfect for all of the great Summer Fun!

Hugs to all,

Debi

Stop and Smell the Roses!

Well a little over a week down and we are still surviving the visit of the four year old. She has been a joy and thank goodness none of my fears of tears have happened. Each day she looks forward to what we are going to do. She is in love with my eBosser. She can load the little pirate and crown dies herself and cut till she uses all of her paper. She is having a blast.  Best of all me to. She has brought back and zest for life that I didn’t realize that I had misplaced.  Thank you Craftwell for helping me give her a daily dose of her own “crafty time”.

Well every day we try to come up with a fun event for the next day and Rei wanted so much to have a picnic. No not the red gingham and basket but a fancy tea party picnic. (where in the world did this come from) So she told me that we need cards to put people in their seats. She is four going on twenty. She said at her Teddy Bear Tea she always has a cute card with her name on it. So we dug into my dies and came out with the Birdie Place Card die by Sizzix. She loves it because she loves the bluebirds. So we got busy with the CraftwellUSA’s eBosser and some great paper as well as the ScraPerfect Best Glue Ever. She is really adept at using this glue little spots hold very quickly and our project is done.

We also used a wonderful Pounce pad called the Perfect Crafting Pouch. This little pouch dried ink almost instantly so no smears with little hands!

Here is our project a cute little place card for Rei!

I tried to convince her to use another color but she said she loves Pink. Oh well , can’t wait to see what is in store for us tomorrow. Grab a moment and hang on!

Debi

Ice Cream Dreams!

Well my last two weeks have been a rollercoaster. I had a death in my family and had to travel for the service to honor this sweet lady. I also had to make a decision to enjoy my four year old grand-daughter on a one to one summer vacation. I am very excited and tired. We didn’t remember all of the moving around we are doing right now. My grand loves my craft room and so we took a little break today after our trip to come up with a sweet treat for her. I showed her all  of my files and she loved the Ice Cream Cone.

We had so much fun making this. I used Fiskar’s texture plates with my Craftwell eBosser. I had to use several of the extra plates to build up the sandwich for this one. I am still experimenting with this one. But you can see the pattern on the cone and on the “ice cream” I love them and used a chalk to brush the depth on.

I also am now totally committed to my new best glue. ScraPerfect Best Glue Ever  Even my grand-daughter loves it. It is really great and becomes firm right away.

Here you can see the wonderful patterns that my eBosser produced. I am more and more in love with my machine each day! Hoping that my next few weeks remain quiet!

Have a great week,

Debi