~Make A Wish- New Stamp Designs!~

Happy Monday my friends! :)

Had a lovely weekend with the friends, and the hubs

even headed out with his buddies, all good stuff. 

You know I watched Moulin Rouge for the first time- FUN time! :) 

Anyways, I was headed to a boys birthday party on Saturday

and realized that I don't have any BOYS birthday cards on hand, or

gender neutral so I decided to sit down and start creating some.

I have been dying to use these new VLVS stamps, they are so beautiful. 

I LOVE the dandelion and the distressed Make A Wish- so I used Plate 918. 

I also stitched on some Basic Grey tags- love those so much!!!

After seeing it I wish I had left the red pearls off, but it's all good....

I mean they don't always turned out as expected. 

Isn't this set awesome? I love it so much!

I am also up on the Viva Las vegaStamps blog today with another project!!

Using some fun snarky stamps and images...I would really appreciate it

if you would head over and say hello :) 

It has to do with some "Stache" fun, you have to see it! :) haha

Here is the link:

http://vivalas.blogspot.com/

Ok I am off to spend President's Day with the boys and 

have some good fun with friends too!! 

Happy Monday, have a wonderful week! Hope to see you tomorrow!!!

~Stamping On Fabric- Fabric Card Tutorial~

Good morning my crafty friends! :) 

I have a fun post today, you know I am designing with Avocado Arts

and I thought it would be fund to do something a little funky this time around

and just dive in and make a fabric card. 

You might recognize the fabric from yesterday's Rice Bag Tutorial post,

I really thought it was perfect for the Grateful Season- 

Avocado Arts Stamp set I am using.

So here is what I did:

Step 1. Using creamy ink (not a dryer ink it needs to have liquid) & Grateful Season

stamps from Avocado Arts- lay fabric onto hard surface, and stamp directly onto fabric. 

Press firmly.

*tip* make sure plenty of ink is applied to stamp*

 I used the Clearsnap Colorbox Fluid Chalk ink. 

 Step 2. After it dries for 5 minutes, using very sharp and micro tipped sheers

cut stamped images out. IF you use fabric bond you could cut on machine using

SVG/cut files from Avocado Arts. I prefer to hand cut fabric. 

 Step 3. Trim out 4.5X6" paper for card base. 

Step 4. Trim out 5.5X4" paper.

Step 5. Adhere fabric to paper from step 4. 

Step 6. Trim adhered fabric using paper as cutting guide to get it nice and even. 

 Step 7. Using sewing machine stick around adhered fabric from step 6. 

The paper gives it stability. 

Step 8. Adhere stitched paper onto paper from step 3. 

Step 9. Using Beacon 3N1 or strong versatile glue, adhere stamped images onto

card as shown below. 

Step 10. For the sentiment I followed steps 1 through 8 using the sentiment stamp.

Revising size of cuts to match sentiment. 

Step 11. Adhere sentiment to card. 

Step 12. Take leftover strip of fabric, run through fingers to fray and create bow. 

Step 13. Adhere bow to card. 

Step 14. Apply lace to card and stitch. 

Step 15. Adhere card to full size card base. 

That's it! A beautiful fabric card! :) 

Don't forget to visit the rest of the crew! 

THE PIT CREW (DT)

Ashley Harris

Becky Oehlers

AJ Otto

Vera Yates

Latisha Yoast

Avocado Arts

~No Worries- Fun In The Sun Card!~

Good morning my friends, 

I wanted to share a fun shaped card that I created for Trinity Arts.

How fun is this?? It's a flip flop card or as they say in Hawaii

a "slipper" card. :) I love it. 

If you want to find instructions for this card I have them on the 

Trinity Arts Blog right here.

http://trinitypaper.blogspot.com/2012/06/no-worries-flip-flop-card-tutorial-with.html

I used the beautiful Clearsnap Smooch Inks, and Colorbox ink

to make the edges pop out a little and for the sentiment. 

Now tomorrow I have a special blog hop, be sure to come back! :) 

Have a wonderful Thursday my friends. 

OH don't forget my class begins this week! You can take it day or night. 

ANYTIME! and the class stays open after it is ended too! :) 

Check it out please and pass the word along too.

http://www.mycreativeclassroom.com/course/info.php?id=606