Quilled Roses Wooden Heart Magnets

My baby shower will be on Oct 11th--guess who volunteered with a lot of the crafts? That's right, me!

One of the things that I'm working on are various quilled magnets. I know they aren't standard baby shower favors, but it'll be one of the last projects that I'll be working on for a while so I wanted it to be something different, yet special.

The magnet bases are wooden cut outs of hearts. You can find these in your local craft store. The background was decoupaged with pattern paper. The 3 small roses also has a strip of ribbon going across it, much like a pageant ribbon sash. I added glitter as a top coat for the dual purpose of sealing it and making it pop a little.

Since I easily get bored with mass producing the same style when it comes to projects, I will be making all different kinds. Stay tuned for more quilled magnets in the coming weeks!

Yay for the weekend! Enjoy!

Upcycled Coupon Holder for Fridge Door

Lately I've been doing a lot of coupon clipping because why not? What I didn't like was the clippings ending up randomly all over surfaces when I wasn't ready to use them yet. Therefore, I borrowed an idea from my friend, Jenny, and decided to upcycle a small box that I already had:

From here, it'll turn into a functional box and affix temporarily by way of magnets to the fridge.

I snipped off the top portion to create an opening. Then, I covered the entire box with my choice of scrapbook paper, which happens to be a gray polka dot paper. I did a crisscross on the front with peach ribbon (yeah, I know I'm loving peach these days!). I threw on the die cut flourish and a premade flower from Michaels.

All you need to do now is put on the magnets! I actually didn't glue mine to the back. Do you know how the N and S poles of the magnets attract? Well, keeping that in mind, I put multiple magnets on the fridge and I followed up with an equal amount of magnets inside of the box. Just as strongly as they repel, they seem to attract. This allowed me to keep the set up as temporary as possible. My reasoning was that if down the road the box starts falling apart, I would still be able to salvage the magnets cleanly and fuss-free. The trade off is that I am using double the amount of magnets upfront and I'm sacrificing the thickness of the magnet on the inside (where I could've kept more sheets of paper instead).

So there you have it; a quick project with materials that most of us crafters have on hand and totally useful for coupons, menus, and other notes you may want to keep easily accessible.

Happy crafting!

Entered in:
-MIM#181

Softball Cupcake Handmade Birthday Card for Khris

I found this card that I never posted from back in June. It was to my coworker, Khris, for his birthday. He so proudly shows off his softball injuries each week that it's hard not to think of this theme for his card to make his day complete.


The card took on a cupcake shape and instead of regular frosting, I decorated it using acrylic paint to look like a softball. Each stitch was brushed on with red paint and then sprayed with glitter.

This is the free cupcake card template I used.

I hope spring comes around again soon!

Happy 100 Days Baby Girl Pink Quilled Roses Card

I made a quick baby card for my co-worker who needed a last minute one for a 100th day celebration. For those of you who are unfamiliar with this term, it is a traditional celebration for a newborn 100 days after their birth. It is commonly observed by Korean and Chinese families. In addition to this day, I know that the Chinese have a gathering on the first full month/full moon after the baby is born. For this particular celebration, it is the first official introduction of the baby to relatives and close friends. Are there any such celebrations in your culture?

The baby feet were chalked and then a layer of glitter was applied sparingly to it. 3 various sized roses were quilled. 

This interior also sports the same footsies from Cuttlebug. 

Enjoy!

Entered in:
-Crafty Calendar May Challenge Blooms and Blossoms
-Our Creative Corner Anything Goes
-One Stop Craft Challenge Anything Goes

Blue Letterpress Butterflies Birthday Card

March is a busy birthday month for my family as both my brother and I's birthdays are coming up! I hope this year is better than the last (totally not complaining about last year either)! How does time pass by so quickly?!?

I'm working on simple things at the moment. I can't tell you why I'm in a slumber, but that's the status of my craft life right now. :T Slowly, but surely I will get there. :)

These butterflies were stamped in various mixtures of blues, purples, and off-white ink, then wet embossed with a pearlescent gloss. Sentiment was letterpressed. It's simple, but elegant. The mesh ribbon is actually a bit shimmery too, but it's hard to capture such details on camera.









Daylight savings this weekend--enjoy it... -1 hour!

Entered in:
-365 Cards Day 66: White Space
-Crafty Ribbons Challenge 40: Anything Goes w/ Ribbon
-Happy Campers CC 12: Flutterby Butterfly

Printed Happy Birthday Unisex Leaf Cards Autumn/Fall

Good afternoon! We started our Thanksgiving shopping yesterday and will finish off out list in the next few days with the perishables. How are you all doing with it? Last year we had a big one with friends and it was a nightmare. By the end of the night we were about to pass out from all of the cooking. This year we're a little smarter and will do a much smaller one and make sure to start preparing much earlier. :)

Autumn cards are quickly being retired for the season, but I got in at least these 2 before it becomes completely weird to hand out! :D Here are 2 cards that you can give to both men and women alike!  I was inspired by a Hero Arts card that I saw on a Pinterest board. The gold leaf is a vellum sticker whereas the maple leaf (Thanks Laine for the stamp set!) was stamped and then wet embossed with glitter embossing powder. You can compare the appearance of the two against the same background. 

Eyelets sit in a row on the upper left corner of the center frame. Flourishes were stamped with white ink for a DIY pattern paper. Inside square with "Happy Birthday" in brown was printed with a photo printer. Leaves were centered on top of yellow vellum paper. 

You can see how the maple leaf interacts with different light angles. It really is an explosion of iridescent colors. 

 Have a sweet, short week!

Entered in:
-Cards for Men #23 Anything Goes
-Challenges4Everybody Anything Goes
-Dream Valley Challenges #45 Anything Goes
-Gingerloft Challenge GL52 A Touch of Gold

Baby Blocks Card For Boy + Free Address Labels

This week I was working on getting out birth announcements for Chelsea, my cousin's newborn. They're ready to ship out! Yay! 

Design Finch has some free labels for you to use and download as I have used for these 50 birth announcements for my cousin! They're gorgeous and easy to use. Just type into them the info that you need and print it out! The only issue I had was I couldn't save it with my version of Adobe Acrobat Reader. 

You may have noticed that these labels have a "from" area. I didn't use them because my cousin already had preprinted labels that she wanted me to use (I put those on the envelope flap in the back), so I just cut them off. They still look very fun though. :)

I also want to show you a card that I made using ribbon that I won from Laine's blog giveaway. :)

The pattern on the bottom is actually the envelope. I couldn't figure out how to photograph it properly. :D The baby blocks were cut out of blue textured cardstock. It's centers are little footsies (pattern paper). 

This weekend is gorgeous in NYC. We will be going to the World Maker Faire at the Hall of Science (which is a fabulous science museum in Queens, NY--so many fun opportunities to learn in a fun environment)!

Entering this card in:

-Cute Card Thursday Challenge 236 - Letters & Numbers

-Through the Craftroom Door Challenge #37 Sept 25th -Oct 1st

-MIM #108

-Love to Create Challenge #34 Anything Goes

Quilled Cupcake Swinging Card

This was the first time I made this type of card--swinging card. It is actually pretty fun. The only thing is that I couldn't make it a double sided circle because I used quilling and that is much too raised. If I added quilling to the other side, then the card wouldn't close flat if you know what I mean. 

I am not as satisfied with the way the cupcake came out--it doesn't look the way I originally imagined it in my head. :P I covered the brown frosting with glitter to make it look like sprinkles. The wrapper is alternating blue-greens. It is shy one color to complete this week's Tuesday Alchemy color theme: sea green, brown, and pink. The circle background is dry embossed, but it is hard to see. I had a hard time taking a head-on shot of the card as you can tell. :D

As always, a huge thanks to our sponsors! This week's sponsors are:

-Di's Digi Downloads ($10 Store Voucher)
-LEJ Designs (3 Digital Images)
-Hugs4theHeart Designs ($10 Gift Certificate)

*Thank you to Laine for pointing out my earlier error in listing the sponsors--I sincerely apologize! 

Entered in:
-MIM #102 Anything Goes

Quilled Bouquet of Tulips Trifold Card

Happy Tuesday! I am here to share with you my card for the new Tuesday Alchemy challenge this week--it's Bingo! You may remember Marion, a DT and also last week's sponsor, from stopping by our blogs; she was awesome enough to make up this BINGO chart for the theme this week:

Do you know how to get BINGO? Just chose a row or column/diagonal works too and make sure to do all 3 things on your project. If you're feeling a bit stuck, I would suggest purposely using up the "Your choice" star as I have done below. ;)

This card will be given to a couple on their wedding day in Sept. I went down the middle: flowers, glitter, dry embossing. Do you spot where I did the dry embossing and glitter?

It's a trifold card that is being held together by this blue satin ribbon/belly band. The inside is decorated with pattern paper. I forgot to take a picture of it. :X Maybe I'll remember to do it when I write the card. The backdrop that the quilling sits on was die-cut into various sizes of scalloped circles. 

-White Prima flower
-Quilled tulips: light cornflower blue, green, peach
-Cardstock: Paper Presentation 80lb, Cambridge                   Blue; Touché Cover, 13 pt. White
-Martha Stewart Glitter
-Blue Satin Ribbon
-Cuttlebug embossing folder

This week's sponsors are:

-Flonz-- win a $20 Store Voucher 

-Scrapper's Delights-- win 6 single digital stamps 

Such exciting stuff! I hope you'll play along!

Entered in these challenges:
-Make It Monday MIM#101
-Crafty Sentiments Clean and Simple
-Deep Ocean Challenge Challenge #31 Anything Goes
-Papertake Weekly Anything Goes
-Craft Your Passion Anything Goes

2012 Graduation Cap Window Card With Pearls

This card is sort of a "flashback" design for me because I've made a very similar window/peep hole card in the past. It is for 365 Cards Day 97 That Looks Familiar. What this means is that you have to make a card that borrows many of the elements from a card that you've made in the past. The first picture is the recent card I made for a friend's friend. 

This card was made months ago:

Do you see the similarities and differences?

I didn't do quilling for the new one, but the layout was the same otherwise. I used vellum in both for the inside as well. 

Here are a couple of more pictures of the newer card:

Have a fantastic evening!

Love of My Life Quilled Card

It was a beautiful 58 degrees on Saturday which is really rare in New York City. I took the opportunity to go for a long walk at the park. What did you do this weekend? I wish all winters were this warm--then we'd all be in lovely moods all the time! I even saw daffodils growing in yards already!

This week there is another Etsy workshop on drawing in Brooklyn. I am pretty excited! It was a lot of fun last time and this time I am looking forward to learning something new!

Today I want to introduce my window card. I have a lot of pictures for this card because I was getting really excited about the details of it!

The way this card is, you really need to be careful where you write the message on the inside otherwise it will show through (I have done that before, oops!). To help you make sure you don't do that, all you need to do is write your message on the space around the vellum paper (see last image for interior of card to see what I mean).

I added extra puffed ink to make the swirls pop at the tips. It is an extremely raised background!

I will be entering this card for Day 3 - Pretty In Pink at 365 Cards and Sketch 155 at Card Patterns.

Etsy

Orange Double Heart Charm "Love" Card

I have a new card for you today! 

A "love" card for someone special to you. The double heart charm is dangled by twisted ribbon. Flourish, word, and banner are rub-ons. The edges of the card are rounded.

What a beautiful day it is today in New York City!

Etsy