My craft room is a horrible mess!!! I am at the point where I do not like going in the room because it is so messy. Today, I am going to try to spend some time organizing and clearing out. I have been told many times that I could open a store with all of the things in my craft stash! I would love to do that, but I live in a small town and a Hobby Lobby is being built in a neighboring town, about 20 miles away. I can't wait for Hobby Lobby and tell my husband that when I retire from teaching, I am going to work at the Hobby Lobby!
As I make progress in my messy craft room, I will post pictures. Right now, I am using my Silhouette Cameo to make labels for some storage bins. I have sorted out some of the cards I have made and have a bin for Halloween cards, Thank You cards and Christmas cards. I will take a picture after these bins find a shelf to land on. Wish me luck today! (I am going to need it!)
Wednesday, December 21, 2016
I have been crafting up a storm the last few days! Again, mostly for Christmas presents, so I can't post pictures. Darn!
This morning, one of my students from a couple of years ago came and hung out with me while his dad went to a meeting. I asked what he wanted to do, watch a Christmas movie, play a game or do some crafts? He knows me well, so he picked do some crafts. He and I went to my craft room and looked around. We settled on getting out the watercolor colored pencils and playing with those. Before we got started, I had him watch a Youtube video on what watercolor colored pencils were. He said he had never used them before. He thought they looked fun from the video so we got started playing. The first page we did was just random drawings to see how they worked. I am an avid stamper, so the next thing we did was get out some stamps and made a full page picture with the stamps. He then colored in the pictures. He chose a Halloween stamp set, so he ended up with a very spooky picture when he was done with the water. For his last page, he drew a picture of a house and we both used the pencils on it. He did not want to add the water to it. We had a lot of fun together.
When Jax left, I called my friend Cindy because she had a project she wanted to work on. It is a Christmas gift, so I don't want to give out too many details. We designed a layout for a phrase from the bible to be cut in vinyl and applied to the wall. We used regular vinyl and glitter vinyl. I hope the person receiving this gift loves it as much as Cindy and I did when we were finished.
The last project I completed today was name cards for flowers for the altar at church. There will be memorial poinsettias in the windows and on the altar Christmas day for mass. We wanted people to know who each flower was in memory of, so I made some simple name cards. I printed out the names on Whisper White Stampin Up cardstock. I then mounted that onto Basic Black cardstock and Real Read cardstock. I love Stampin Up colors. Reds are so hard to find a good one, but Stampin Up has done it. Here is what the cards look like.
I am curious if anyone is reading this blog yet. Please post a comment so I know if anyone is out there! Ha Ha!
This morning, one of my students from a couple of years ago came and hung out with me while his dad went to a meeting. I asked what he wanted to do, watch a Christmas movie, play a game or do some crafts? He knows me well, so he picked do some crafts. He and I went to my craft room and looked around. We settled on getting out the watercolor colored pencils and playing with those. Before we got started, I had him watch a Youtube video on what watercolor colored pencils were. He said he had never used them before. He thought they looked fun from the video so we got started playing. The first page we did was just random drawings to see how they worked. I am an avid stamper, so the next thing we did was get out some stamps and made a full page picture with the stamps. He then colored in the pictures. He chose a Halloween stamp set, so he ended up with a very spooky picture when he was done with the water. For his last page, he drew a picture of a house and we both used the pencils on it. He did not want to add the water to it. We had a lot of fun together.
When Jax left, I called my friend Cindy because she had a project she wanted to work on. It is a Christmas gift, so I don't want to give out too many details. We designed a layout for a phrase from the bible to be cut in vinyl and applied to the wall. We used regular vinyl and glitter vinyl. I hope the person receiving this gift loves it as much as Cindy and I did when we were finished.
The last project I completed today was name cards for flowers for the altar at church. There will be memorial poinsettias in the windows and on the altar Christmas day for mass. We wanted people to know who each flower was in memory of, so I made some simple name cards. I printed out the names on Whisper White Stampin Up cardstock. I then mounted that onto Basic Black cardstock and Real Read cardstock. I love Stampin Up colors. Reds are so hard to find a good one, but Stampin Up has done it. Here is what the cards look like.
I am curious if anyone is reading this blog yet. Please post a comment so I know if anyone is out there! Ha Ha!
Monday, December 19, 2016
Today was the last day of school before Christmas break begins. I gave all of the preschool students a gift that I embellished for them. I have 45 students in all, so I needed to come up with an economical gift. I went to the Dollar Tree store and bought some small stuffed animals. I then used my Silhouette machine and cut their names out of a glitter htv. I used my heat press to iron the names on to the animals. Here is a picture of an animal in the heat press.
Poor little guy! He is smashed tight in the press with just his head sticking out. Here is the final project.
The students loved their animals! I had a lot of fun making them.
Poor little guy! He is smashed tight in the press with just his head sticking out. Here is the final project.
The students loved their animals! I had a lot of fun making them.
Friday, December 9, 2016
The trouble with starting a crafting blog this time of year is you can not share all of the crafts you are working on because they are gifts for someone and you don't want them to see it before you give it to them.
After a busy week, I finally made it to the craft room on Thursday night. A friend wanted to give a birthday gift of a homemade sign to someone. The friend just wanted me to cut out the vinyl for the sign. She was going to paint the board and apply the vinyl to make the sign. I got to work on a design that included me finding an image on the web and tracing it and then editing it to be able to make the different colored layers in the design. I have not done this for a few months, so I enjoyed the challenge. I took it to work and gave it to her today. She seemed happy with it and sent me a picture of her completed sign a little bit ago. One project done this week.
The next project is also a secret one. I had another friend contact me to help make something. She sent me the supplies I needed and I made the item tonight. I will get it in the mail in the morning so she will get it right away. Top Secret though, so I can't share it either.
The last thing I worked on tonight was personalizing 45 stuffed animals. I am a preschool teacher by day. I have 4 different classes throughout the week with a total of 45 students. Finding a Christmas gift for 45 students and affordable can be a challenge. I went to Dollar Tree and bought the stuffed animals. I then cut out the students name in HTV. I used my heat press and applied the HTV. I think they turned out cute. I also made these last year, so some of the students will be getting their 2nd stuffed animal from me. I decided to use glitter HTV to make them different from last year.
It was an enjoyable couple of days!
After a busy week, I finally made it to the craft room on Thursday night. A friend wanted to give a birthday gift of a homemade sign to someone. The friend just wanted me to cut out the vinyl for the sign. She was going to paint the board and apply the vinyl to make the sign. I got to work on a design that included me finding an image on the web and tracing it and then editing it to be able to make the different colored layers in the design. I have not done this for a few months, so I enjoyed the challenge. I took it to work and gave it to her today. She seemed happy with it and sent me a picture of her completed sign a little bit ago. One project done this week.
The next project is also a secret one. I had another friend contact me to help make something. She sent me the supplies I needed and I made the item tonight. I will get it in the mail in the morning so she will get it right away. Top Secret though, so I can't share it either.
The last thing I worked on tonight was personalizing 45 stuffed animals. I am a preschool teacher by day. I have 4 different classes throughout the week with a total of 45 students. Finding a Christmas gift for 45 students and affordable can be a challenge. I went to Dollar Tree and bought the stuffed animals. I then cut out the students name in HTV. I used my heat press and applied the HTV. I think they turned out cute. I also made these last year, so some of the students will be getting their 2nd stuffed animal from me. I decided to use glitter HTV to make them different from last year.
It was an enjoyable couple of days!
Sunday, December 4, 2016
As usual, I did not spend as much time crafting today as I would have liked. Today was a day of finishing up projects. The first on the list was a Paper Pumpkin kit. Paper Pumpkin is a subscription monthly stamping kit from Stampin Up. I have subscribed to it for about a year now. I am afraid I have several kits that I have not done yet. They have all been opened. I open them right when I get them. It is so nice to receive happy mail every month. But then there are lesson plans to write, housework to do, and bills to pay, so the box gets set on the shelf.
Saturday night, I picked one of the Paper Pumpkin kits from the shelf. It happened to be the August kit. It was a card kit. Sometimes the kits are a decorative item and sometimes cards. You never know ahead of time. That is what makes it so fun to open the box. The August kit is called Bold Botanicals. It has 3 different cards and you make 3 of each card, for a total of 9 items. I made 3 thank you cards, 3 Hello cards and 3 gift card holders. Envelopes for the thank you and hello cards are included. The kit came with a mini stamp pad and a stamp set. They are the clear photo-polymer stamps that I love. You also get instructions on how to make the projects. It is fun to go online and see what other ideas people have come up with for the items. It is almost like those cooking shows where they give the contestants the same ingredients and they have to make a dish with it. Here is a picture of the items that I completed today, the instruction page and the stamp set. Click here if you would like to subscribe to Paper Pumpkin. It would make a great Christmas gift that lasts throughout the year.
Now, for the other craft project that I finished up today. I love using my Silhouette Cameo. I had a couple of custom orders for some cutting boards that I needed to finish up. I had cut the vinyl a week ago. Today I just needed to weed it and then apply it to the back of the cutting board. This is how it turned out.
I have made 4 of these for others. I really need to put something on my own glass cutting board. If you live near by and are interested in something like this, let me know. Sorry, I don't mail out these glass cutting boards. I am not that good of a packaging person!
Saturday night, I picked one of the Paper Pumpkin kits from the shelf. It happened to be the August kit. It was a card kit. Sometimes the kits are a decorative item and sometimes cards. You never know ahead of time. That is what makes it so fun to open the box. The August kit is called Bold Botanicals. It has 3 different cards and you make 3 of each card, for a total of 9 items. I made 3 thank you cards, 3 Hello cards and 3 gift card holders. Envelopes for the thank you and hello cards are included. The kit came with a mini stamp pad and a stamp set. They are the clear photo-polymer stamps that I love. You also get instructions on how to make the projects. It is fun to go online and see what other ideas people have come up with for the items. It is almost like those cooking shows where they give the contestants the same ingredients and they have to make a dish with it. Here is a picture of the items that I completed today, the instruction page and the stamp set. Click here if you would like to subscribe to Paper Pumpkin. It would make a great Christmas gift that lasts throughout the year.
Now, for the other craft project that I finished up today. I love using my Silhouette Cameo. I had a couple of custom orders for some cutting boards that I needed to finish up. I had cut the vinyl a week ago. Today I just needed to weed it and then apply it to the back of the cutting board. This is how it turned out.
I have made 4 of these for others. I really need to put something on my own glass cutting board. If you live near by and are interested in something like this, let me know. Sorry, I don't mail out these glass cutting boards. I am not that good of a packaging person!
Saturday, December 3, 2016
Well, let's get this party started! For my first post, I am going to post a picture of a card I made last Christmas. I am now a Stampin Up demonstrator, but this card was made before I joined Stampin Up. I really don't know where the paper came from, it was in my stash. I also have a Silhouette die cutting machine that I LOVE! I made this card by digging in my leftover stash and finding some Christmas themed paper. I then cut the cute reindeer out on my Silhouette. Isn't it a cute cut file? I love it! After I had it all cut out I inked the edges of all of the pieces. My sister says that she loves the finishing touch that puts on the projects. She now inks the edges on things she makes. It does add a little something to paper crafts. If you are not an edge inker, you need to give it a try. I can give you more details if you are interested. Just send me a message and I will explain more. I hope you enjoy this reindeer card as much as I enjoyed making it!
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