Smashing my Stash...Simple Stories "Let's Get Crafty"

This is a video share that I thought I'd share.  I'm trying to smash my crafty stash, and I made some fun things...

I hope it inspires you to do the same.  There are so many fun things you can make with leftover items.  

Stay crafty, my friends!

Let's Make Rosettes! A tutorial for Country Craft Creations

 

Hi all! Welcome to what I hope you’ll find as a fun and informative rosette tutorial. I have been making a ton of these lately, and had a few inquiries as to how to do it. Rosettes are fun to use for so many things, as I will share in the video. In the tutorial I will share how I make them and what I’ve found to be easy techniques that I use to make them. I’ll talk about size of paper strips, scoring widths, scoring technique, and putting them together. We also talk decorating! Then I’ll go over variations such as edge punching, folded edges, and making heart shapes. We will even have a card tutorial using rosettes. There really isn’t a cut guide. I will use 12” strips of paper. Widths vary, and I talk about that in the video. I hope you like it and it helps you to make your own lovely creations! The examples shown and made in the video use papers from 

Country Craft Creations 

and this is a design team tutorial for them as well. 

Thanks so much for watching! Tutorials for the projects I share at the beginning of the video:

Love Is in the Air Z Fold Folio (Heart shaped rosette) 

Midnight Kiss Exchangeable Banner Tutorial

White Christmas Loaded Album

Love Letters Double Hidden Flap Never Ending Album Tutorial

Life's a Journey Wall Rosette

Check out these stash busters!

 

This was fun to do!  While I am waiting for the mail to deliver my next design team project I decided to dive into the scraps...and I mean scraps...of my past design team projects and create some fun things.  

These paper collections aren't available in the Country Craft Creations store anymore, as they are older collections, but there are many many more collections to be had.  You can use any and all scraps you have to do some really fun things.  

Thanks for watching and I'll see you soon with more tutorials.

Stay crafty, my friends.

Love Letters Double Hidden Flap Never Ending Album Tutorial

 

Hi all and welcome. I have a design team project for Country Craft Creations 

that I think you will like.

This project is a variation of the hidden flap card design that has been everywhere in the crafty universe. I was playing with the design and came up with this idea. It can be made as a single "folio" with one assembly, or can be combined into this assembly of 3 "folios" which creates a never ending type of album. I hope you like it. I also will share with you a bonus rosette tutorial, it's a fun and different way to make one.

There is a cut guide for the cardstock and links to the items used in the tutorial if you look in the description of the video.

There is also a bonus in that I share how to make the fun rosette on the front...it is a different way to make one and I absolutely love how it turned out.  

In case you missed the walk through video, that is posted below.  

Thanks for watching and have a crafty day!

Date Night!

At work we have a wonderful lady who's daughter was diagnosed with a brain tumor.  All of us are pooling our resources to have a charity night in their honor, all proceeds are going to help them with the mountain of medical bills that they have.  

We are including movie tickets, and gift certificates for dinner at a local restaurant, along with other things like romantic comedy DVD's, wine, chocolates, and the like.  My "core" is putting together a "Date Night" basket for auction.  One of the things that I was asked to do is to make a sign for the basket.  I created this rosette using Graphic 45's "Curtain Call" paper line.  I also used the Martha Stewart circle edge punch for the rosette and the Tim Holtz filmstrip die to create it.

 I then decided to make an album to include in the basket.  I had leftover papers, so I thought, why not? I used a Teresa Collins cover that I had in my stash.

 I made it very simple to put pictures in it, as I don't know who is going to buy it, and I don't know if they are scrapbookers or not.  A photo will slip right behind the filmstrip, and a photo will tuck under the die cut edges on the black page.

 Some pages have pockets, and I created tags for them.  They are double sided so that 2 pictures can go on each tag.  The word cards are by 7 Gypsies, and the small words are by Tim Holtz.  The flowers are Recollections, and the bling is by Prima.

Stay crafty, my friends!