Birthday Witch Cake Topper

For those of you that love Halloween throughout the year, you'll appreciate this cake topper I made for my daughter's friend. She is one of those people and I love her for it!

I designed this cake topper with one title in mind, but then changed it at the end. Both ways, it's adorable! You can find the file in Cricut Design Space. I added lots of foam adhesive between the layers, a wobbler on the witch and used clear transparency for the two bats that are floating outside the circle. (the transparency is sandwiched between two bats)

I love all the extra details that make this such a fun cake topper! Look at all that dimension!

Note that the purple glitter paper is the type that is embedded into the paper. There will not be any loose glitter on the cake!

Surfing By To Say Hi Card

This was a cute stamp set that I bought from Rabbit Hole Designs at the Expo. I told myself, no more stamps! But he is so cute & only $3! I had to have it!

The card is actually pretty basic with mostly just stamping & coloring with alcohol markers but I did add some extra elements to really make it a fun card.

First, I added lots of white dots to the squirrel and wave tops to add some highlights to the colored images; added some dimension to the right wave with foam adhesive so the surfer really looks like he's riding those waves! 

I also added some glimmer to the tops of the waves with glimmer sticks and the fun shaped sentiment box with added fiber knot gives more interest to this card.

Be on the lookout for some sort of slider card with this image! Can you just imagine it? So fun!

Check out this YouTube Short for a super quick look at how it was made.

TGIF; Thankful Friday #317

Happy Friday and Happy Thankful Friday! 

This week I'm thankful for coworker fundraisers. These type of "you don't have to cook dinner" fundraisers are my favorite! Good food brought to me, yes please and thank you!

I remember when I was the one bringing in the fundraiser booklets when my kids were younger so I'm always willing to purchase a thing or two when I can. These are definitely my favorite as well as See's Candy :).

What are you thankful for this week? Let me know in the comments!

Let's Get Messy May Series; Episode 2

Are you getting messy? I am and I love it! There's something so freeing about just adding different products in a journal. If you don't have an art journal or junk journal of your own, I highly recommend getting one. Check out my previous posts for Junk Journal or even Mixed Media. I also have a Mixed Media playlist on YouTube.

Anyhow...as you know, I'm posting a new spread every Thursday in May and this is the second one. Be sure to go to my YouTube channel to see the process and hopefully get some tips or ideas for your own messy project!

Here's the spread:

The process video:

And more close ups and views:

Products Used:

Painty Paper Scraps

Ranger Crayons

Acrylic Paints

Green Lindy's Spray

Bold Tip White Posca Pen

Black Paint Pen

White Acrylic Gesso

Mod Podge

If you have any questions or comments, leave them here or on YouTube. Be sure to subscribe to my channel so you don't miss any future videos! Thanks for watching!

National Scrapbook Day Flip Through

Did you get a chance to scrapbook on National Scrapbooking Day? I did and I finished so many layouts. Here are some photos but be sure to watch the flip through on YouTube. 

Not only a flip through but how I completed them once I got home!

This layout, I cut and added strips of paper from the paper pad called Hopscotch from Colorbot Ichose for this event. The embellishments were cut from the Cricut and from a pennant die bought from CTMH. This spread has 10 pictures!

This two page spread also has 10 photos. All cuts are from the Cricut and the quote on the right page is Print/Cut. The two red sheets are 7x12” and there’s a 1.5” strip on the top of each side. The white photo mats are 6x8”.

The teal paper on the left side was trimmed to 11” square. The marathon paper is from Stampingstation and I trimmed it so I could use it for another time. The teal paper on the right was adhered and then I used a pencil to mark where to trim it. This layout spread holds 16 photos!

Watch the video here:

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Beware Ogre Signs; Shrek Anyone?

I love custom orders and this one was a fun one for sure! This started off as a discarded (in the recycle bin of course) box that I cut down to size. They are both around 12x20" and perfect for wood signs.

I used a combination of two shades of brown, brick red and white acrylic paints to change the look of cardboard to wood planks. Then I cut the ends of the planks very jagged to emulate old wood.

The "Stay Out" sign I used a thick point white Posca paint pen and then highlighted them with a fine point black pen. I tried to write it sloppy and a little juvenile.

The "Beware Ogre" sign was a little harder to finish because well...I wasn't sure how to make an ugly ogre! I used two shades of green, red and white to finish him up. Luckily I had a photo to assist with the drawing and I think he turned out as he should - mean & ugly!

Another Trash to Treasure project that I love! The person who ordered it loved them too and that's what is important!

Celebrating Cinco de Mayo

This is a simple way to dress up a bottle for Cinco de Mayo. I used the Lemons & Limes E140 cut file from Printable Cuttable Creatables for the fruit and lots of shades of yellow and green paper scraps!

The bottle tag is available on Cricut Design Space but can easily be made by punching a circle in a rectangle. I used red to make the fruit really stand out! 

As always, I stacked the layers to make sure the placement is correct before adding adhesive.

I used a sand stamp from a ocean stamp set that I have to add some texture to the lemon and lime with Versamark ink so it would blend in. What a difference that makes to the flat paper!

The complete lemon and lime were adhered using liquid adhesive and the sliced lime was adhered with foam adhesive.  

Watch the process video to see all the details! There is stamping, scoring, marking and other cool things going on to make this project so fun! All it needs is a little salt!

Salud!

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