Style Tech Craft + Designer Crafts Connection Blog Hop

The holiday craft season is here and today the Designer Crafts Connection have teamed up with Style Tech Craft for an amazing blog hop.
Make sure you visit the Designer Crafts Connection blog for the list of blogs to visit.

For my vinyl project, I used several colors of the Ultra FX vinyl to create a layered sugar skull design. I used the Cricut Maker to cut the sugar skull for a Día de los muertos glass jar. The most difficult part of my project is choosing the colors! So many beautiful colors to choose from. You can find the color chart here.

In Design Space, I separated the layers and changed the colors to match the vinyl. I trimmed the Styletech Craft vinyl sheets to fit the size of each layer and prepared to cut.

I weeded each layer and used Styletech Craft's transfer tape to place each layer on the jar.

Once I had the last white layered in place, I kept the transfer tape and burnished the design and removed a few of the air bubbles.

In this photo you can see the glitter on the vinyl.

Thank you for stopping by and remember to stop by the Designer Crafts Connection for the next link.

DIY Traveler's Notebook

I created a book journal for my Fall reading. I stamped on canvas fabric using Plaid Fabric Creations™ Paint. I also stamped a few of the header banners from Finders Keepers Jots & Dots: This Week stamp set.

I allowed the fabric paint to dry and then heat set it before sewing the journal cover.

 I sorted through the Libris paper crafting kit and the Jots & Dots: Dot Grid Notebook.

I made the Sing canvas cover a B6 size and the Jots & Dots Notebook was bigger, but no worries. Grabbed my handy dandy seam ripper and carefully ripped through the binding. I trimmed the notebook to fit the B6 journal cover and sewed it right up.

First I decorated the notebook cover with the stickers included in the Libris kit. I also Scrapbook Adhesives Metallic Transfer Foil Sheets to add some fun foil accents throughout the pages.

I added a pocket to store the library card cut outs from the kit. Added some fun quotes, stickers, foil and stamped through out the notebook. 

Here are a few of the pages:

Here is the front and back over of the Sing book journal cover turned out:

Mermaid Journal

Yay! Excited to be doing another giveaway!! This round is for a bundle of large metal pieces. These can be used for journal covers, home decor pieces etc.

These were given to me when I was with U-Paint Metal Crafts. Here is one of my favorite projects I created with their amazing Mermaid! Unfortunately, the company is no longer around, but here is a chance to win some of their metals!

 

This metal bundle has 20 pieces! If you are interested, just leave a comment below.
I will choose a random winner on September 1st. The winner will be announced on this post. 

Please note, this giveaway is only open to US residents.

Pink and Main + Paper Sweeties Blog Hop

It's a party hop! Paper Sweeties is celebrating their 7th Birthday! Pink and Main Design Team is helping with the celebration with a super fun hop full of the adorable projects!

I'm the last stop for Pink and Main's Design Team. Make sure you visit Paper Sweeties blog for the next group of stops.

Now onto my card, I used Paper Sweeties Happy stamp and die set with Pink and Main's Flower Cover die. I also used the new Sparkle card stock.

I used the Gold Sparkle card stock to die cut the Flower Cover and used the single flowers die to cut a few on Sparkle card stock in white.
I cut the word Happy twice, on Ice Rink Sparkle card stock and Night Sky Sparkle. I also used a bit of the Ice Rink Sparkle to stamp the word birthday with pigment ink.

Paper Sweeties is offering 25% discount of their shop today! And we are offering one Surprise Package worth over $25 to one lucky crafter!

Make sure you leave a comment at each stop, both on Paper Sweeties and our team's blogs. You have until August 27th to hop and comment. The winner will be announced on August 28th.
Thank you for helping us celebrate our friends at Paper Sweeties!

Artful Cards

I used a gel plate for the first time ever and it was amazing, but I wasn't forewarned about how addicting printmaking could be! I got print after print after print! Each was unique and gorgeous!

I started off by gathering my favorite Plaid Crafts paint colors and stamps.

These are just a few of the prints. Before I knew it, I was surrounded by beautiful artful prints.
I don't have photographs of the gel plate and the actual print making. It's difficult to stop midway of the creative process to snap photos. I hope you understand.

It was so difficult to decide which print to showcase. Look at these beauties, do you blame me?

I finally made decided on two, Grateful Heart and the Princess print.

Look at her, she's emerging from the ashes. This has to be my favorite print. I did mount it onto a card base, however I may just frame her.

I hope you enjoyed my print making experience. Thank you for stopping by.