Get Crafty With It

So It's been awhile since I posted.  Been kinda busy at work which didn't give me a lot of time to play. But my creative juices are flowing always, when I wake up, when I'm driving, when I have free time.  My youngest sister is a Zumba instructor and her birthday was coming up. Since she has a unique name I know she would never find anything personalized just for her right off the rack so my thought process began.

I captured the Zumba symbol and put it on a shirt and drink cup for her to wear when she is teaching her class. She was really happy with it as a matter of fact she said she LOVED IT!  My work was done.

Happy Birthday Girl!!


Until next time...

Hoppy Bookmarks inspired by Jin

Under A Cherry Tree by Jin Yong has got to be one of my favorite sites when it comes to paper crafting.  Her creativity is well just...AWESOME!!!

I really don't know how she comes up with the things she does. I'd like to borrow her brain just for a day and soak up her thought process when she thinks up these clever ideas and turns them into reality.

Well here is my take on her post for some really cute bookmarks. Because I love reading and would love for everyone in the world to read more I decided to try my hand at creating some myself.  In Jin's version she made them more 3-D, but because I was making them for a class of 1st graders, I didn't want them to pull off pieces with there inquisitive minds and busy fingers so I did mine as a print-n-cut using Make The Cut and my Silhouette SD.  I made 20 of those little rascals and they were a blast to make.

I pretty much followed her directions on making the "U" shape for the slit, it was very easy and the visual help me put it together, but all that gluing UGH!  I had to cut each piece twice and glue together because the card stock I had was a little to flimsy and I wanted a sturdy base for the little froggies to sit on.

I'm mailing them today....can't wait til my sister gets them.

Here are my results:

Thanks Jin for your creativness you are truly an inspiration.

Until next time...

Sympathy Card w/ Elements

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of finished card

Last week a dear friend of mine lost his sister to cancer. On those moments you're not sure what words would comfort, but I wanted him to know I was thinking of him and his family.  I love making personalized cards with special messages in them.  With this one I used Lettering Delights Graphics and my trusty Make the Cut Software.

The initial elements came from LD's "Butterflies and Blossoms" collection (butterfly and branch) and the other elements came from using basic shapes in MTC and fonts Another Typewriter & Satisfaction.  For a distinguished background element, I created a circle, copy and pasted in place, the top circle I reduced in size and stacked.  I used the join feature for the two circles and then duplicated it with a -.05 spacing, I got a wonderful circular pattern which I welded together.  I changed the look of the circles by adding one of Lettering Delights patterned tiles from their 100 tiles pack. I adjusted the color using the "advance/color adjust" option. The background square also used a pattern tile that I adjusted the color and rotated 45 degrees.  Printed it all onto photo card stock and cut out using my Silhouette SD print and cut feature (the butterfly was printed and cut twice for 3-D affect).  This particular card gave me a hard time, I had to keep restarting both the Silhouette SD and MTC so that the registration marks would read correctly. I usually create a "mock-up" before I put my elements together so I can have an idea on how the card will look complete.

Here are some images of how it was laid out:

Card Mock-Up

Card Elements

Card Circle Element

Until Next Time...