~ Crafty Secrets Design Team Challenge ~ New Product Showoffs! and a tutorial

Howdy Monday! It's DT-challenge day for Crafty Secrets and we're going to show the new goodies that have recently been released: lots of stamp sets, mini creative scraps and other stuff.

My project used the new Born to Fly stamp set ....... looky at it in all its cute glory!


I paper pieced one of the little girls. It was dreadfully fun, and I'm going to show you how...... 

*TUTORIAL DISCLAIMER* I know I did a not-so-great job on this. It was so befuddling to have to stop at every step and take a photo, so inevitably, I missed out on a few things. Hope you won't notice though :) 

First, let's make the fairy.


Now, we assemble the card.
 Next, we dress up the card with a few fun things..........
There it is..... a silly little tutorial I hope you had the patience to run through. I'm not quite sure if it was helpful to you, but if anything, you probably learned something of my creative process. It's called Disorganized Chaos. (truthfully, I rarely plan the whole card out or use sketches. I use whatever comes to my whim and fancy at the moment in time).

Just a few more photos and I'll be done.
 




SUPPLIES:
patterned paper and resin embellishment - Melissa Frances
scrunchy ribbon - PLG shop
rhinestones and pearls - Kaisercraft
other - doily, button, twine, lace trim snips, and Crafty Secrets stamp set


Thank you for visiting! now you want to hop on to the rest of the DT ladies' blogs and see what's up their crafty sleeves.

• Crafty Secrets website


• Heartwarming Vintage blog


• Vicki Chrisman Team Leader


• Pam Hooten


• Heidi Blankenship


• Linda Duke


• Michele Kovack


• Julie Campbell


• Amy Teets


• Debbie Marcinkiewicz


• Fauve van Maanen


• Gini Cagle


• Jan Hennings


• Tammy Roberts


• Victoria Warren Mears

happy hugs,
~ Vi

~ Blue Wednesday ~ Crafty Secrets mid-week mini-scraps

***Quick! the Crafty Secrets' blog is having giveaways of the new stamp sets the whole week long. Click HERE to participate! And scroll down to read more about my own giveaway***



Hello! I am sorry for my absence the last few days. There's really no reason except that I felt lazy and didn't want to create much, and even when I did, I didn't want to post... =)

Anyway, I mentioned a while back about the Mini Creative Scraps I helped to design for Crafty Secrets:



Well, I didn't do everything, all and all myself.. it would have been impossible without the hard work of Sandy, the owner of Crafty Secrets, and Cindy, her amazing graphic designer. I just pitched in and did my little bit to conceptualize and collage.



Here is my first project using the awesome little scraps. The 1" squares are SO fun to piece together!!! I also used some patterns from the Vintage Patterns CD and a cute little sentiment from the all new Born to Fly stamp set!


Isn't that cute? I love all the different "fairy-options" and the special sentiments. I've already made another project that I will share on Monday next week with a step-by-step tutorial. (OOPS! I spilled the beans!)


Can you see the gentle shine over some of the mini-scrap squares? Those are epoxies that fit perfectly over the mini scraps. Fun!!!

I guess you should get some Mini Creative scraps and have some fun yourself too........ I'm just so excited about them them, and I have two extra sets that I would love to share. If you care to try them out, please let me know. I will draw two comments from this post on Sunday, and let you know who they are on Monday. (I already wish that I had enough to send to everyone who leaves a comment!!!)

Thank you for stopping by!

~vi

~ Recycle and Refresh ~ embellished tin pail

For having used the word "recycle" I really should have the *original* item as proof, but I can't ever remember to take a photo before I get started on a project (I'm brilliant like that).


anyway, it all started with a shiny tin pail and some un-pretty print on it that I didn't like.

All it took was some FolkArt paint by Plaid (I used Basil Green and Wicker White) to change up the silly little tin into something fun!


Prima fabric flowers and rhinestones .. beautiful ribbons from dear Miss Kim Duran (so many lovely colors to choose from in her etsy shop) ..


And some very, very special trinket pins from sweet Miss Patty. Thank you so much Patty..... I have been saving them for ever so long, waiting on the perfect project. Here they are, mixed with a few of my own berry pins.

(I decided that if trinket pins can go right side up, they can go upside down too)

 
Other goodies from Melissa Frances (resin keyhole) and Want2Scrap (chipboard swirl).

thank you for visiting!

~ vi

~ 2012 Calendar ~ Want2Scrap guest designing

Today i:

~ felt grungy and therefore made grungy things. (okay, not grungy, but I'm getting tired of saying "shabby" so I need to find a new word)

~ stamped with paint ~ messy but fun!



~ hung a heart in a frame and I feel so pleased about it (nothing is prettier than a bling-y heart)

~ cut out rose motifs from scraps of cloth and sprinkled them with pearls ...


The lovely ladies at Want2Scrap invited me to guest-design for them this July. I have never before used their chipboard and goodies, but they got me started and I am afraid I am hooked. Here is a list of the Want2scrap goodies I used for this project:

~ scalloped chipboard album
~ chipboard embellishments
~ rhinestone heart

I painted the chipboards with wicker-white acrylic paint (FolkArt) and sanded it before stitching and embellishing. The rhinestone heart was originally a ribbon slide, but it was easy to clip off the "slide" section.



Visit the Want2Scrap blog today for more information about this calendar, AND photos and details of another project I am not going to share on my blog (so you better bop over there quick!) ;)


Other goodies came from Melissa Frances (5th Avenue patterned paper, resin frame, and crystals) and Crafty Secrets (Artsy Banner stamps and Tophat ABC stamps).

As you can see, I got an early start on next year's calendar. I thought it would be nice not to rush for once ... and I hope to get some special pages done for the inside. Maybe over the next few months I can do 2-3 pages each time and by the end of the year, the whole calendar will be ready for 2012.

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I hope my friends in the US had a wonderful 4th of July. Freedom is a beautiful thing!


I grew up in the American schools, so I know all about the war for independence and 1776 and George Washington and Thomas Jefferson and everybody else :) .. I even had to memorize the Pledge of Allegiance and ......... the Gettysburg Address (which is not related to 4th of July I know).
I still love every bit of American history I learned.


sorry for rambling!
hope your day is a wonderful one!

~ vi

~ Brand New ~ Crafty Secrets digital CD and more

... and time for some new Crafty Secrets projects.

Here's a list of the supplies I used on this card:
Creating with Vintage Patterns CD ~ gorgeous patterned papers, you will love them!
embossed frames ~ twelve in a pack .. they will last for ever so long
Love and Support stamp set ~ one of my favorite sentiments ..

  
I will end here today as I had a flu relapse over the weekend. This morning in music lesson my teacher was chiding me for remaining sick the whole week .. he thought I might faint during the lesson lol.

we'll see how it goes from here.

thanks for visiting.
~ vi