Tidbit Tuesday-My Melting Pot

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If you have been a long time follower or if you have just started in the last couple of weeks, you may know that I usually do a little Tuesday Tidbit on well Tuesdays.  I started my Tuesday Tidbit in the beginning because I wasn't sure how this whole blog thing worked and wanted to make sure I updated it.  Little did I know I would not have a problem doing that since I am so crazily addicted to challenges!

So due to there only being 24 hours in a day and my love to craft I have decided that this will be my last little Tidbit Tuesday.  So here it is:

Today is about my Melting Pot.  I got this for Christmas from my awesome Husband.  :)  He heard me talking about how Tim Holtz made these paper flowers into what looked like porcelain flowers.  And he stored that info until Christmas.  It's been since May so that's a good memory!

So in the melting pot is UTEE which is Ultra Thick Embossing Enamel.  Now you are supposed to be able to melt other things in this little pot but I haven't gotten that far yet.

So on the idea of the flowers, I have these flowers that I took off of the stems.

 Here they are cooling off on the Ranger mat.  They look like glass!  I love them!

I dipped a piece of cardstock paper too.  

Now this is cool.  The stamped image is on a piece of shrink paper.  They make clear and white.  The only one I had was for the computer so it's white.  Here the balloons are the same size.

Now the stamped one is a little tile!  The ink blurred a little bit-but that's ok because some of more projects use more of an old distressed look.  I'll know next time to let it dry a bit more before I dip it.

Here's another picture of all of the flowers I made.  Some of the bigger flowers are a challenge because they fold on themselves.  But (there's always a but) if you don't like it-put the flower back in.  The UTEE will remelt and you can redo trying to get the flower out of the pot (which can be a challenge.  Tim had it right-his flowers have stems!) ;)  The white things are pieces of shrink paper that I shrunk.  The UTEE can be "painted" with alcohol inks too.  That's my next step!

Here is a scrapbook page here that I did using these little glass flowers.  I applied them with glue dots.  If you have a melting pot-what do you like to make with it?

Thank you for stopping by!  Until next time my friends...have a good night! :)

Tidbit Tuesday-Christmas Cards

Hello Everybody,

So it is time again to take the Christmas cards down that people sent to me.  In my heart I want to scrap the ones with the kids on them and save the printed ones for other projects-to give them new life.

However, they must get put away.  Until last year I used to just put them in a memory box (ticket stubs, programs, etc).  Then I realized I could put them into a Ziploc bag and date the bag.  So here is this years Bag O' Christmas Cards all neat and tidy.  And now it can go into the memory box!

Do you save your Christmas cards?  And the better question is-do you use them or scrap them?

Until next time my friends...Happy Tuesday!

Also, I want to thank you for being a Cut and Paste Pal!  I appreciate you comments and stopping by!

Happy 2013-Tidbit Tuesday

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Happy New Year!  

Have you reflected on 2012?  Have you made your New Year resolutions?  I haven't really looked back on 2012.  I haven't had time!  LOL!  But I have been thinking about resolutions for the new year.

Goal for 2012-100 scrapbook pages Actual-68 pages!  That's AWESOME!  I didn't make my goal but I scrapped more scrapbook pages than I ever have in a year!  So for 2013 I am setting the same goal 100 pages.

I made about 201 cards without really having any goals in mind so that's pretty cool too.  So what to do for 2013?  Here it goes!

100 Scrapbook Pages
200 Cards
5 Mixed Media Projects
20 ATC's
10 Tags

So here are my creative goals for 2013.  Can't wait to get started! :)  Until next time my friends...Have a great New Year!  See you soon! :)

Tidbit Tuesday-Customized Christmas Tags

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I was making Christmas tags when I dawned on me.  As crafters we can make things that other people can't.  Stay with me!  I am talking about complete customization.

So I am making these tags for some friends of mine.  You can see what they like...

I used a Mickey Mouse stamp and colored him with Copic Markers.  If you had a sticker you could just as easily put that on the tag and put a little Santa Claus hat on him.  These Santa Hats are from Jolee's.  From the same MM stamp set what the little Mickey Mouse head.  The R2D2 (Star Wars) was a sticker I had.

Do you have a friend that likes dogs or birds?  You can customize their tag not just for their gift and for Christmas but to take it a step further and reflect what they love.  Also, you can look at your stamps or stickers a little differently.  :)

Thank you for stopping by!  Until next time my friends...keep "taggin'" along! :)

Tidbit Tuesday-Faux Tile Technique

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It's the first Tuesday of the month-my Favorite Tuesday.  The Tuesday where a new challenge is posted at Technique Tuesday!

This month the technique is Faux Tiles.  The instructions are here.  Go by and see all of the beautiful creations that the DT have made!  Lots of inspiration!

Here is my card using this technique:

The Santa is from The Graphics Fairy LLC.  You can find him here (and for free!).

I printed him on white card stock and applied walnut stain Distress Ink around him after I cut him out.  I cut my tiles out in different shapes because I was trying to make sure I didn't cut his head in half.  The red is made using a border punch from Fiskars.  I used a gold pen around the edges of the card.  

I am linking this card to the following challenges:

Digi Haven: Merry Christmas Challenge

The Graphics Fairy: Brag Monday

Other Materials:

Pattern Paper: Recollections

Cardstock: brown and black (embossed with dots on Cuttlebug) and red

Gold wire ribbon.

Thank you for stopping by!  I can't wait to see what you create using the Faux Tile Technique.  Until next time my friends...Create! :)

Tidbit Tuesday-A Recipe

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I hope that all of the US folks had a great Thanksgiving.  We did!  Spent time with our family and ate way too much! :)

Over at Let's Scrap they have a weekly sketch-but they also have groups that have various challenges.  One of the groups is called Let's Scrap Our Stash.  If you join Let's Scrap you can be in this group.  So a wonderful and creative lady named Cathy creates the recipes for the challenges.

Here are 2 layouts I did for challenges #22 and #23.  (I did #21 earlier.)  The first recipe and where you can find them in this layout are as follows:

2 pattern papers-the background and the brown strip with the black lines at the top

4 color cardstock-black, navy blue strip, red strip and apple, green-the leaf in the apple (made on the cricut)

10 brads-in the black cardstock

10 die cuts/stickers-the apple is 1 die cut and it's inked.  The title in the apple and your first day are stickers.  The School Days on pg2 is a sticker.  All of the letters and numbers at the bottom are stickers.

Here is the 2nd challenge #22.  I know I inverted them but that's how I have them organized in my head.  LOL!  This one was a bit more challenging.  I needed to use flowers are buttons.  I realized that I don't seem to use that much stuff on my pages.  I also seem to do more themed pages and since I have a little guy...well I don't use flowers as much.  But I have lots of flowers so go figure!

So reaching deep deep into the archives I found some pictures of my sister and I at the Botanical Garden in Atlanta.  This was fun to scrap, and I forgot how much fun flowers are!  :)

Here's the recipe for this layout:

2 pattern papers-I used 3 from Making Memories Chloe's Closet.  All 3 are on the first page and then the green pattern goes onto the 2nd page.

4 color cardstock: The background (or base paper), the blue polka dot is from Bazzill and came that way, yellow matting photos on page 1, and the journaling square on the 2nd page

1 pc chipboard-yellow swirl on pg 1-it's from Bo Bunny

4 flowers-2 on each page-3 are paper and 1 is a bubble flower sticker

3 brads-the centers of the paper flowers

9 buttons-I used 10 on the green strip on pg 2

2 ribbons-one is tied on the chipboard pg 1 and the second is in the middle of the green strip pg 2-create, enjoy, laugh is a canvas ribbon

bling-2 little blings on the journal square

So today's tidbit is to use a recipe.  You can make one up and come up with random numbers and items, or join a challenge.  I like these challenges because I realized what I wasn't adding to my pages.  On the 2nd layout I put a chipboard piece (the yellow swirl) which I wouldn't have done before.  Hopefully, I will look at my supplies a little differently.

Thanks for stopping by!  Until next time my friends-use up those brads-because it's always fun to go buy some more! ;)

Tidbit Tuesday-A little hand and some old papers go a long way!

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How's that for a title?  I've been  a little busy this past couple of weeks getting things ready for my little's one's birthday party that was Saturday.  It was a success but talk about wearing me out!  Then I added Thanksgiving cards to my list-and succeeded!  Let me take care of business and then I can show you what I made!

I am submitting this card into the following challenges:

I am also linking this up to Pin and Tack: Spark Your Creativity-Anything Goes! Thank you Corrinne for telling me about this challenge! :)

Clear It Out Challenge:  Ugly Sweater (use up never used papers) Plus what a great name for a challenge!

For Fun Challenges:  Thankful-I'm thankful for the little hand I borrowed to make these cards :)

Here's my card.  I painted my son's hand multiple times.  I made different variations, but I was in spaz mode trying to get them made and sent out that I realized it too late.  I took only one picture.

Do any of ya'll still have these paper pads from Provo Craft?  I have 2 for Fall, one for Christmas, and made 2 or 3 others.  They are like circa 2000.  LOL.  This is a country look that I am not really into anymore!  But they work great for Thanksgiving!  :)  I would use a full sheet to cut backgrounds and then used the scraps on other cards because I could only make 3 (I think) backgrounds from each sheet.  They are 8X11 (or so) and my cards are 5.5 inches by 4 inches.  It reduced scraps which is nice.

 Here is my stack of Thanksgiving hands.  My son would only make 12 so there were a few people on my list I wasn't able to send a card too.  :(  I hope they won't be mad.

I painted each finger and his hand and thumb with acrylic paint (over and over again).  Then I put googly eyes on the turkeys.  This costs a little extra at the post office.  But goggly eyes are so fun! :)

Thank you for stopping by!  Until next time my friends...it's time to do something with that ugly paper!

Tidbit Tuesday-It's Technique Tuesday!

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It's my favorite Tuesday of the month--the Tuesday that starts off the new technique at Technique Tuesday!  This month's challenge is 3-D Punched Elements.  Mynnette has made a fantastic tutorial that you can see here.

Here is my card:

My niece just had a birthday and I am going to be mailing her a little box soon (everything I do seems to be late lately!).  Balloons just came to mind!  I made these on the Cricut because my 2 circle punches were too big or too small.  :)

Check out what the ladies have created for this challenge.  Their cards are awesome!  Hope you will join us!  Until next time my friends....Go Vote! Every Vote Counts! :)

Tidbit Tuesday-Gears

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The weather is so crazy!  My heart goes out to all of those up in New Jersey and New York City and other places effected by Hurricane Sandy.  Stay safe.

Today's tidbit is about these cool gears that my husband got for me for my birthday.  He said he found them in the jewelry section of Micheal's.  They are from bead landing and 18 come in a pack with 2 different sizes and colors (gold and silver).  

I wanted to share because sometimes I just wander around the scrapbook section and forget that jewelry or even the kids crafts have fun things too.  Can't wait to use them! :)

Thanks for stopping by!  Until next time my friends...have a Happy Halloween! :)

Little Round Pumpkin-Tidbit Tuesday

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Today's tidbit is about scraplifting.  I did this with this cute little pumpkin.  It's is sooo cute!  Here let me show you, and then I will tell you all about it!

I get the Weekly Scrapper email which is through the Scrapbook Expo folks.  It has products, trends, tips, and all sorts of other fun stuff.  I think I get an email daily.  So one of the emails is a tutorial on how to make this pumpkin.  There is an apple tutorial as well.  Go here to see the tutorial.  I didn't have the exact supplies, but I had the ink and paper to use that were the right colors.  The tutorial is easy to follow.  Amanda Corbet made the pumpkins and did the tutorial so I want to make sure she gets the credit.  :)

The leaves are different than what the original had.  I used a Sizzix die that had swirls and a little flower on it. (The flower will be for a different project.)  Then I used green Stickles on the swirls.  Both sides of the swirls since this is a 3-D project.  :)

The Halloween sentiment are 2 stickers from Authentique that I put on black cardstock.  One side is orange and the other is white lettering.

Here is a different angle of my pumpkin.  It's a 3-D thing.  I send my nephew a little Halloween goodie box, so I am going to put this in there for their card.  If I can depart with it!  LOL

I am going to link this up to Cut It Up: Eek! Boo! Ahh! Challenge #4.  The swirls are from Sizzix Flower and Vines #2.

I am also linking this to Unique Crafters Challenge: Halloween Themed Projects.

Thanks for stopping by!  Until next time my friends...have a bootiful evening! :)

Tidbit Tuesday

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Well Tuesday has come way too fast!  I am not at all prepared!  So here are a couple of little tidbits I thought I would show ya'll:

LOL!

If you are on Facebook and like tidbits about kids crafts, cleaning ideas, food ideas, etc. look up Lizzies Tips for Everyday Living.  She posts everyday and there seems to be something for everybody.

I'm still working on Halloween cards.  Also, I am starting to work on birthday invitations for my son's upcoming birthday party.  Whew!  Then it will be time for Thanksgiving cards.  So busy!

What are you busy making?

Until next time my friends..have a good night! :)

Tidbit Tuesday-Lots of Pictures!

Good Evening Everybody!

It's still Tuesday here so there is still time to do a Tuesday Tidbit!  I wanted to post this earlier but you know how time can escape! :)

I LOVE the sketch this week at Let's Scrap.  The photo size is 2.5 X 2.5 inches.  Ever since I figured out that I had Epson software to make my own picture sizes-I welcome these sort of challenges.  I don't have the patience to figure it out in Photoshop Elements!

So here's the sketch:

To me it invites pictures and embellishments.  So here is my take on the sketch.  I sort of changed it a little bit.  I used 2 scrapbook kits that I had gotten at the Space Center at 2 different times.  The boy astronaut is from the Cricut Cartridge B is for Boy.  This is a perfect sketch for a bunch of photos that you may not scrap if they were bigger.

Here's a close up of the second page.  And the journaling block.

A lot of times I will make a collage print from Walgreens or Snapfish.  The downsize is that you can't pick where your photos go.  And it always seems that the one you think should be the biggest photo ends up the smallest.  This way all the photos are the same size.  Genius!

Thank you for stopping by!  Until next time my friends...this sketch is outta this world! :)

Bargello-Now this is a Tidbit!

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It's time for a new technique at Technique Tuesday!  This one is so fun!  You just need paper, glue, and a paper trimmer.  Mynnette has done a great job of showing this technique-so go check it out!

Here is my card.  That cool background is Bargello using My Mind's Eye.  I cut a little bit of the card of to make the spider web trim.  I glued the trim on the card and then the bargello piece over that and the rest of the card.

Here is a close up of the frame.  It's from Recollections at Michael's.  It's supposed to change from regular people to spooky people.  It's seems to like being stuck on spooky people. ;)

If I angle it..."normal people" from back in the day.  The roses are from this same sticker pack.  The beaded flower is from Want2Scrap.

Thank you so much for stopping by!  Until next time my friends...Bargello! (I love saying that word!)

Tidbit Tuesday-Boo for You! :)

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Happy Tuesday!  I just finished a card for 2 challenges:

The sketch card challenge at Let's Scrap:

City Crafter Challenge Blog: An Early Boo Week 128

Here's my card:

Supplies: paper-My Mind's Eye, Cat's Eye for the black ink around the edges, DCWV letters, ghost stickers-Stickabilities

Today's tidbit is that if you have a sticker that is sort of sheer (like my ghosts), put the sticker on a white piece of paper and fussy cut it out.  That way your sticker looks like it does on the sticker sheet.  :)

Thanks for stopping by!  Until next time my friends...have a bootiful day! :)

Tidbit Tuesday-Go Round

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Today's Tidbit Tuesday is about going outside the square box--into a circle one!

I made this wreath for football season.  We like to have a decoration on our front door and didn't have anything going from 4th of July to Halloween.  Feast your eyes...

So as I was getting the photos ready for this post, I realized that it fits the challenge over at The Game: Round.  Yippee!  I'm excited.  There's still plenty of time, so when you're done here go check out the challenge.  :)

I am also linking this to the Anything Goes Challenge at Unique Crafters Challenge.  There is still plenty of time to play at this challenge too! :)

So here are some of the details on my wreath.

This is a smooth wreath that I bought from Michael's.  I covered it in Gesso and then painted it with a glossy black acrylic paint.

I used my Making Memories Slice Machine to make the letters.  Then I ran each letter through my Xron machine (the 5 inch one) using the laminate/permanent adhesive cartridge.  I put toothpicks on the bottoms of the letters and used Scotch tape to make sure the stayed on the letters.  Then I pushed them through the styrofoam wreath.

The football is from Party City.  I used 2 strands of embroidery floss to go through the football to attach it to the wreath.  Also, I used embroidery floss to hang the wreath.

Here's another close up.  I don't make a lot of wreaths so I am pretty excited about this one.  My husband likes it too!

Until next time my friends...get out the chips and dip-It's football season!

Texture Tidbit Tuesday

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I had to share this with everybody-Martha Stewart White Texture effect.  I was in Michael's last week and found myself in the stenciling section.  You never know when there will be cool stuff in a different department!

If it's not the scrapbooking department then I feel like I am in a foreign land.  Jewelry, knitting-I just don't know.  The same is true for the paint department.  But as I look around blogland, I see folks using fiber stuff and all sorts of things to add interest to scrapbook pages and cards-and I want to do that too!  So unfortunately, this stuff was too new for someone to explain it to me.  So I went out on a limb and bought some.

Here's a little video here.  It shows some of the other products in the line.

And I love it!  It is what it says.  It's white texture.  Just scoop and smooth.  I was making a card and tried to use a paper Tim Holtz gear as a mask-sort of and this part turned out pretty cool.  (The bottom did not so my card went a different direction.)

So I smoothed out the texture that I used on the gear and let it dry.  I added some paint and the gear looks rusted.  How cool is that!  There's my gear.  I don't know what else I can use it on but I'm very excited.  

If you have suggestions-just let me know!  Thanks for stopping by today!  Until next time my friends--Texture! :)

Tidbit Tuesday--It's Technique Tuesday!

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Happy Tuesday!  This is one of my most favorite Tuesdays of every month...because Technique Tuesday has a new challenge!

This month's cool challenge is to use masking tape, ink, and clear embossing powder to create a faux leather look.  Here is my example:

These printed die cut shapes are from K&Company.  Let me tell you I love them!  This is from a vintage collection I bought a few years ago maybe?  I was just looking in the package, and I kept finding these pieces related to games...so that's how I got the idea for this invitation.

I used a red ribbon on top of a brown ribbon for the ribbon on my card.

These letters are chip board letters from the girls' paperie by Margie.  I got them at the Scrapbook Expo because I don't think the company is still in business (I think Margie does Authentique now which is also awesome.)  But I LOVE these letters!

Here is the inside.  Scrabble-like letters on the inside.

This is a fun technique so I hope to see your entries very soon!  Until next time my friends....who's game?

Tidbit Tuesday-Pearl Paint

Hello Everybody,

I'm sorry that I am writing this so late!  I was going to do it yesterday but I got a stomach bug and it won-LOL.  I am on the mend hopefully!

I just wanted to share with you a product that I came across a few weeks ago.  I bought Re-Inkers for the challenge at Technique Tuesday from Close to My Heart.  I also bought this pearl paint because you can turn the ink into paint.  Cool!

Here is a dallop of paint.  You can see it's shiny. :)

Look how pretty this is!  You can make it darker or lighter.  I painted it on a piece of cardstock but I have made anything out of it yet.  I will-don't you worry!  But I wanted to share that with you.  I always like a way to stretch out supplies!

The challenge is still going on so you have time to get your project in!  You can go here to check it out!

Until next time my friends...make sure you take lots of vitamin C! :)

Tidbit Tuesday-Halloween Paper

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I know I've been quiet lately.  I got caught up in the Olympics and when I sat down at my craft table I was a little empty on ideas.  So my mojo will be back from vacation hopefully tonight and I will have a few things to share with ya'll in the next few days.

One thing I bought recently was this pad of Halloween paper from My Mind's Eye.  They have a nice selection at Michael's with Christmas paper and I don't know what else.  I had to grab the Halloween pad and just keep walking.  I love that they all match!  Which is one of the benefits to buying a pad or stack but still it's a nice reminder when you buy one.

I know I kind of wince when I realize that I am buying Halloween stuff in August.  But I know that time will fly by and if I don't get started now...I will be cramming in the end to get all of my cards done!  So until next time my friends...it's time to get an early start!

Tidbit Tuesday-Exciting News!

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I have some exciting news to share with you all today!  I am now on the Design Team for Technique Tuesday!

If you aren't familiar with Technique Tuesday-let me tell you about it!  The first Tuesday of each month a new technique is posted by Mynnette the owner.  You make a card using that technique and post it to the blog.  There are badges and sometimes even prizes!  How fun is that!

So let me show you my first card.  The technique for this card is to use re-inkers with stamps.  You can go here for the instructions.  For best results with the card-the instructions says to use stamps that have flat parts.  Keep scrolling, and I will show you the stamps I used :)

Here are the re-inkers that I used.  They are from Close to My Heart.  I bought them specifically for this challenge and also a white paint that I can blend them into to make paint (but that's a another post for another day).  

I used these foam stamps.  I have a box of them and haven't used them in forever!  The stamps for this card are from Making Memories.  You may remember that they used to sell their paint with them.  This technique works great with flat surfaces of stamps.  The majority of my rubber stamp collection is outlines so that's when I thought-ah ha!  What about these?  And they work perfectly!

Here are a couple of flowers I made before I cut them out for my card.  I love how different they are using the same technique.  And of course now I want more colors! :)

Here's another angle of my card.  The brown paper is embossed with a Tim Holtz woodgrain texture fade and then I used a gold paint on the raised embossed parts.  The centers of the flowers are from Robin's Eggs.

The paper I just kind of swiped through the baby wipe with the re-inker ink so that it would match my dragonflies and flowers.

Thank you for stopping by today!  I hope to see your card at Technique Tuesday!  Until next time my friends...get out those re-inkers! :)