American Crafts | Thanksgiving Place Card

Hi everyone,

This week on the American Crafts blog is all about place cards.  Place Cards are such a nice way to add a personal touch to your Thanksgiving day table.  I used sequins, foam tape and a few supplies that I already had on hand to make these one of a kind shaker cards.

Supplies:  DIY Shop (366983) - 6x6 Paper Pad, Christmas (95304) - Mini Clothespins, Autumn Crisp (366533) - Sycamore Photo Overlays, Home Made (732621) - Gold Stickers, Autumn Crisp (366518) - Walnut Lane Paper, This To That (AM617-13) - Dots Adhesive, This To That (AMF617-10) - Foam Tab Adhesive Squares

How To: Trim a piece of DIY shop note paper to 4x6.  Use a corner rounder to round edges.  Adhere Home Made gold stickers.  Use a die cut machine to cut a photo frame from light woodgrain paper.  Adhere Sycamore photo overlay to backside with adhesive.  Adhere foam squares to the back side of photo frame, fill with sequins and adhere to 4x6 card.  Use a punch or die cut machine to cut deer head and small tag from dark woodgrain paper.  Adhere deer head to center of frame using liquid adhesive.  Use a white pen to journal name onto small tag.  String tag with white twine and adhere to frame with mini clothespin.

American Crafts Banner Tutorial

Hi everyone!  Happy Wednesday!

I had a tutorial up on the blog yesterday that I would like to share with you.

I love using the Knock Outs punches on my projects.  They are very easy to use,

and small and portable enough to take with me to crops.

1. Cover pieces of smooth cardstock with DIY shop washi tape.  

Using Knock Outs punches, punch out several shapes.

Inspire Banner Tutorial

2. Gather punched pieces and DIY shop banner and pennant pieces.

3. Using a sewing machine stitch the punched pieces onto the DIY shop

     banner and pennant pieces.

4. Using Knock Outs 1.5" and 2" circle punches, punch out several pieces

from DIY shop paper.  Layer pieces together, adhere and then use scissors 

to fray the edges to create paper flowers.

5. Adhere glitter tape across the top of the pennant and banner pieces.

Embellish by adding paper flowers, fabric flowers and thickers.

Inspire Banner

supplies: Knock Outs Punch 2" Circle (KOP63112) - Punches, Knock Outs Punch 1.5" Circle (KOP63100) - Punches, Knock Outs

Triangle Banner Dear Lizzy Punch 2" (KOP63123) - Punches, Knock Outs Punch 2" Banner (KOP63117) - Punches, Knock Outs

Punch 1.5" Star (KOP63102) - Punches, Glitter Paper Tape Gold (AC-GT-96039) - Ribbon, DIY Black & White Washi Tape (DIYWT-66615) -

Washi Tape, DIY Gold & Silver Washi Tape (DIYWT-66613) - Washi Tape, DIY SHOP Kraft Notch Banner (DIY-BAN-66649) - DIY Shop, 

DIY SHOP Chalkboard Pennant Banner (DIY-BAN-66651) - DIY Shop, Maggie Holmes Glitter Foam Letter Stickers Daiquiri Gold

(MH-TH-81354) - Thickers, On Trend Fabric Flowers Pom Poms (683062) - Embellishments, DIY Shop Paper Pad 6X6 (366983) -

Paper Pads,  Smooth Cardstock White (AM71-793) - Cardstock, This To That (AM617-13) - Adhesive, 

Make sure to check out the American Crafts store to see their wide selection of punches.  I started with just a few and now I have a large collection of them.  I love their cute little shapes and ease of use.  Thanks for stopping by today!  I hope you enjoyed my tutorial!

The Good Life

Hi everyone,

I finally had some time this weekend to sit down and play with Studio Calico's Printshop collection.  I know, I am way behind the times because this came out awhile ago, but some of the pieces I was waiting for were backordered.

Can, I just say I love this collection so much!  I am totally hooked on the colors and patterns.  I threw in some super awesome die cuts from The Paper Bakery Love Potion #9 Scrapbook kit and some flair and cork paper from American Crafts DIY Shop collection that just debuted at CHA.

 I added in some stamping from Amy Tangerine's  Cut and Paste collection, and some messy stitching.
The messy stitching was an accident my sewing machine for some reason is going hay wire. lol

Sometimes I scrap more clean lined and sometimes I scrap more messily (if that makes sense).  I find that I can get more creative when it is more messy and add in more things like stamps and things that I otherwise forget about.  Do you always stick to a theme?  Or do you sometimes mix it up?  Do you find one way to be more freeing and more creative than the other?

Thanks for stopping by!  I will be back later this week with some more project reveals!

Crate Paper - August Creative Challenge

Hi There!

This month I decided to take part in a fun challenge on the Crate Paper Blog which is all about Navy Blue and sequins.  I was recently given these awesome photos by good friend  taken of her sweet daughter Sierra.
They come to visit with us often and were just here to stay with us a a couple of weeks ago.  Whenever we get together we always do fun photo shoots of the kids.  Suzy recently took these photos at a train station near her house and when I saw them I knew right away I had to use them on a project (or two).

Anyways, on to my layout.  Since the challenge was all about Navy blue and sequins I thought these photos of Sierra were perfect since she was already wearing a Navy blue dress.  I built my layout around that using a mix of Crate Paper collections and embellishments. So fun!


Lovely Lady Layout

This layout came together quickly once I decided to stitch a vellum pocket with lots of sequins inside.

I love this Ephemera die-cut collection pack from the DIY shop collection.  I loved all the vintage looking pieces that went along with my layout.  Those fun doilies are a punch from Martha Stewart that I bought recently and they are quickly becoming a fun staple of mine to use on all my projects.  Anyways, that's my layout that I put together for the challenge, I love the way it turned out and I hope that Crate will like it too :)


supplies:
Crate paper: The Pier collection papers, Ephemera die -cut collection pack - DIY shop, Flashcard Thickers, Fox Glitter Foam Thickers, photo overlays - DIY shop, The Pier layered stickers - Standouts, Studio Calico - Atlantic sequin mix

Super Fun Day

Hi there,

I hope you are having a great week.  We are still getting on the back to school schedule this week.   I have a fun layout to share with you today using the new Pier collection from Crate Paper.  I had my eye on this collection for quite some time and was ecstatic when a brand new store in our area started carrying it.

Super Fun Day Layout

I had these fun pictures of Kalee and Sierra taken with mustache props during a recent photoshoot.  I loved the expression on their faces and couldn't wait to scrap these photos.

I cut these fun mustaches out using my Silhouette cameo and backed them with some dark brown cardstock (Rocky Road by American Crafts) I loved the fun look that it gave my layout.  I added some fun 3d embellishments and sequins.

supplies:
Crate Paper: Summertime Paper, Splash Paper, Merry Go Round Paper, Heatwave Paper, Standouts layered stickers, layered embellishments - pinwheels & flags, Funkidori Thickers (Pier Collection),
flashcard brown thickers  (DIY Shop)
Cardstock: Rocky Road (American Crafts)


Thanks for stopping by, have a great day!