St Patrick's Day!

I've done my first "live" tutorial in honour of St Patricks Day! Being an active teacher, my hands are really destroyed after working with kids (and washing them constantly!), so I've never made a tutorial where my hands were seen before. Instead, I've stuck to computer tutorials. Well, it's time to break out of my box! Here's this week's project, bobby pin ribbon Shamrocks:



and the video tutorial on how to make them. They're lots of fun and pretty simple once you get the hang of it!



Please feel free to go to my channel on Youtube to view it bigger and in HD!

And here they are in "hair"! This is actually my daughter's dance wig, but I'll have a chance later this week to take some "real" photos :-)

Valentine's Day is approaching quickly, and I made a LO for my DD from our recent trip to Mexico. She went swimming with the dolphins, and got a giant pink dolphin stuffie for a present. She loves it, so I made a "love" themed page for her album:





Hearts were cut first, dry embossed, then edges were inked. Each heart is different!



First time I've ever used rick-rack on a page. Love the effect, but took a bunch of glue dots to hold both the ribbon on the page and the die cuts to the ribbon.



Supplies:
Cuts from Cricut Plantin (hearts) and Winter Woodland ("love")
Paper: Me and My Big Ideas "Destination Paradise"
Embossing folders: Sizzix Valentine set #4 and Love Set; and Cuttlebug d'vine swirl
Dye Ink
Rick-rack ribbon
glue dots and ATG adhesive

My Sheri Crafts -- Bears!

My Sheri Crafts challenge this week is Teddy Bear themed. I found this old photo of me, and decided I'd make a cute little Teddy LO for my "All About Me" book:



November 1st I was able to download six free cricut cartridges for my Gypsy, and fortunately I only had one already. I was thrilled to gain the Christmas solutions cartridge, as I'd already wanted it but couldn't justify buying it since I already had Christmas Cheer and Winter Woodland. Here's my first cut from it, the teddy bear:



He's embossed with the A2 embossing folder, Textile Texture. I cut first, then used a cricut marker, then ran through my cuttlebug and chalked with Pebbles Chalk. Love that stuff, love the effect.



I'm forever a sucker for some of the MS punches, so this one got me last week. It's a new one, called Cherish. It's a PATP set, and it's beautiful! I'm sure it'll make it on to many of my LOs!



Supplies:
DVWC WB Gypsy Baby Stack
Martha Stewart Cherish Punch
Ribbon
Martha Stewart Antique Gold Glitter
Cuttlebug A2 embossing folder, Textile Texture
Pebbles Chalk

Duplo fun!

A simple LO, but a cute svg for the LO -- Duplo!





Supplies:

Duplo.svg (see below)
Martha Stewart Playground paper pad
Yellow ribbon

My Sheri Crafts Challenge #20

This week's theme at My Sheri Crafts is Baby! You'd think that'd be an easy one, but I ended up with three LOs that I just didn't love. Finally I made this simple design of my mother holding her first granddaughter. Hannah is 9 days old here, and she's wrapped up in my baby blanket.



Supplies:

Papers: DCWV Whimsy stack, light pink cardstock, light peach cardstock, pink vellum
Circle Cutter
Fiskars Sunburst border punch
Corner Rounder
Pebbles chalk Pearlescent jewel tones
Basic Grey Wholy Cow! rub-ons #293
Spellbinders Nestabilities: Circle LG and Scalloped Circle LG
1" wide lace ribbon
Adhesive

Instructions:

1. Round corner on picture, then mount on light pink cardstock. Round cardstock corners.
2. Cut a 7" diameter circle in pink vellum.
3. Cut one strip of 1" x 10" light peach cardstock. Punch one edge. Chalk punched area.
4. Cut one circle using nestabilities in light pink. Cut coordinating scalloped circle in light peach. Emboss edges. Chalk edges. Adhere together. Apply rub on.
5. Cut lace ribbon to 10".
6. Layer and adhere from the bottom up: vellum circle, mounted photo, sentiment. Adhere to base paper. Adhere punched strip and ribbon as shown.
7. Enjoy!



Make sure you check out My Sheri Crafts and enter this week's challenge! You could win a $25 gift certificate!

My First Birthday

This is me, on my first birthday! The original photo came out of a magnetic book, and is in bad shape, but I managed to get it into useable shape, I think. However, This page needed to keep it simple, and so I decided to use my MS punches and make a pretty little border. Love those punches! Here's the result:



Supplies: Fonts: LA Headlights BTN (my, birthday) and Vivaldi (First)
Paper: ? from my stash
Martha Stewart punch and flocking
Atg and xyron sticker maker
ribbon
Prima flowers


1. Create lace doily frame using Martha Stewart Doily Lace edge punch using strips of paper 1.25" wide. The picture in the sample is 6.5" x 7" and required two 1.5" x 12" strips of paper.


2. Punch strips with selected punch.


3. Cut into punched strip to first dot.


4. Make a gentle curve in the border, tucking each section of tabs behind the next tab.


5. Lay down a layer of adhesive at the edge of the back of the photo.


7. Starting at an inconspicuous spot, gently bend around the photo, Match the joint if necessary.



8. If unable to completely match beginning and end, use embellishment to cover this area.


9. Cut title, then use adhesive to apply flocking. Shake loose, then adhere to page.


10. Adhere photo to page. Embellish.

I hope you found that helpful! There's a few punches that this works especially well with, mostly the ones that are scalloped edged. Try some out, and let me know how it works!

Thanks for commenting, and linking back to me if you try this out. I'd love to see what you make!