Rough around the edges!

Hi everyone - it's Karon, from Karon's Krafty Korner, for my monthly visit to you all here at She's A Sassy Lady.  Thanks for putting up with me each month :-)

June seems to be the months for birthdays around here, so I have a birthday card to share with you.

For my card, I decided to have a go at a little shabby chic.  All my layers have been distressed with a Tim Holtz Distressing Tool and then I inked all the edges with Tea Dye distress ink.

The main layers are from a Momenta 6 x 6 pad called Rendezvous.  The rose topper is from Moonlighting Designs by Mary.  It is from a set of 8 called French Flowers.

I decided to add some rolled flowers,  the flowers are from the Cricut Flower Shoppe cartridge, scallop 1 on page 13.  The leaves are from the Art Philosophy cartridge, page 43.

I added a little bit of lace on that second layer to give it a more vintage feel.  The sentiment is from Scrappy Moms called Hooray for Birthdays.

This was really fun to make and once I had decided on the papers, didn't take too long to pull together.

For the inside I used the papers from the front and the little rose stamp is from a See D's stamp set called Springtime Swirls.

Thanks for having me stop by Sheila.

I hope you all have a fabulous week.

Happy crafting.

Shabby Chic Butterfly Clothespins

Hello! Leah from PaperBlossoms here to share a simple project making some shabby chic butterfly clothespins. My daughter's birthday party is coming up and the theme I chose this year is garden party, so butterflies and flowers are for sure a part of that! I wanted to make some little clothespins for decorations and also to use as favors (I'm thinking the mom's for this one;)  so let's get started!

I bought my clothespin at Walmart and you get a whole bunch for about a dollar. I chose to paint mine with some acrylic paint, also from Walmart for a dollar. You'll want to let them dry completely before the next step, but it's doesn't take long, just a few minutes.

What's shabby without a bit of glitter? :)  So I used my very favorite dry adhesive, Scor Tape. I just cut two strips of it to fit the front of the clothespin and sprinkled my glitter on. Love that there is no wait time for it to dry.

I wanted a layered look for my butterflies so I chose a PTI die and for the white butterfly I found a cut off the Art Philosophy cartridge that layered with it nicely on page 41 and cut it at 1 1/2". After die cutting I dry embossed the white butterfly with the Cuttlebug Swiss Dot folder.

Then comes the fun part, putting them all together and embellishing! I used scor tape to adhere all my pieces together and for the different centers of my butterflies I chose to use a button with embroidery floss, a little felt flower with a brad and a rolled flower with a pearl center. To tie them together so they are different but cohesive I used a silk hydrangea flower for each of them. The rolled flower was cut using the Flower Shoppe cartridge, page 13, cut at 1 1/2".

I hope you enjoyed my little project and if you make any I'd love to see them! Leave me a comment here or on my blog and I'll be sure to come take a peek:) Thanks so much for joining me today!

Vintage flower tag with the new Flower Shoppe cartridge!

Hey everyone, this is Kimberly from My Craft Spot and I am so excited that it is my turn to share another project with you!  

I love to make paper flowers and so of course I absolutely love the new Flower Shoppe cartridge!  I have started a video series showing how to make flowers from this cartridge.  So far I have done 3 and have another for this week.  (Scroll down for a video tutorial showing how I made this flower!)

I made this tag in fall colors and added a vintage flower for fun.

 I hand cut the tag and it measures 4 inches wide by 5 3/4 tall.

I used decorative edge scissors to trim a small piece of brown  cardstock, then added Pumpkin Spice crinkle ribbon and a piece of flower trim.

I inked everything with Tea Dye and Walnut distress ink.

  
The stamped sentiment is from the Friends & Neighbors stamp set.  

Here is a video showing how to make this vintage flower:

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Strawberry Box - Cricut Flower Shoppe

Hi! this is Gaby from http://www.gabycreates.com/ wishing you a happy Thursday
Today I created a Strawberry Box to mimic the Sizzix Big Shot Pro Strawberry Box Die.
I came across this die a few days ago and thought what a great idea it would be to make some of these cute boxes to put candy and give out this coming Sunday at my niece's 9th B-day celebration... but (there's always a but), at $59.99 plus shipping and time of arrival, it would have not serve the purpose intended.  So I set out to see if  any of the flower Cricut cartridges I own would have something similar without me having to design the whole thing.  The first cartridge booklet I opened! there it was!...

... and this is how I made it using the Flower Shoppe Cricut cartridge:

 1-Cut flower Mum2 pg. 21 at 12.42" h

 2-Fold in half and score

 3-Repeat #2 three times (only 3 possible ways to score in half)

 4-Cut down one of the petals from the valley to the center of the flower

 5-Cut on the other side of same petal leaving a piece as a tab to adhere in next step

6-Adhere tacky tape to tab and adhere together to adjacent petal

7-Punch holes on tip of each petal

 8-Thread desired ribbon or string (I tried the pink side, but decided for the red)

 9-Tie together

10-Cut topper Sunflower4 pg. 17 at 5"  (now that I look at it, I think I will cut at 4" next time)

11-Emboss with desired  folder (if desired)
12-Ink and add Shimmer (if desired)

 13-Embellished as desired (after looking at it some more, next time I will add larger embellishments)

Not bad for my first try! (if I might say so...)
 Hope you enjoyed!
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