WWII Navy Veteran, my Grandpa

I made this for my grandpa. He was a Torpedoman in the Navy. I am very proud of him and wanted to show my appreciation. He is 17 years old in this picture.
Recipe for shadowbox:
10x13 shadow box from Hobby Lobby
multiple Navy sheets from K&Co.-torn
Star buttons from Dress it up Boot Camp
Embossed stickers Navy foil from K&co.
Rub ons from Memories in Uniform.com (unfortunatly no longer in bussiness)
Jolee's 3-D Navy stickers
Cricut cuts: Navy hat, Anchors Aweigh and American Pride-Stand and Salute cart.
Vinyl words-Base Camp w/ DS
Modgepodge-Matte and pop dots
light and darkblue rhinestones in 3 sizes
Tim Holtz vintage photo
If you look along the edges of the shadowbox I have words along the edges.
TFL~

Cricut Circle Magazine challenge Thrift store find contest~

THRIFT STORE FIND CONTEST!
We are taking the challenge from Lisa’s Design Star Feature for our contest this month!

Find something from the thrift store to repurpose with your imagination and your Cricut Machine. Please use at least four Cricut cuts in your design. Upload before and after shots of your project to the blog under the Magazine Challenge Tab. Only one entry per person. Entry deadline is Friday, January 14th, 2011. Winner will receive a new April Showers cartridge!!  Prize will be shipped within 4 to 6 weeks after the announcement.

I found this at our local thrift store a few months ago and was not sure what to do till now. This is what it looked like before I altered it, I beleive I only paid a few dollars for this, I know it was not much more than 5.

Recipe for this:

White Tulle

4 sheets silver translucent paper form The Paper Company + 1 sheet for alcohol inks to be applied to

alcohol inks: Carmel, Butterscoth and Lettuce

2 heart buttons

Black vinyl 

Cricut cart. Home Accents-words used are Home, Family, Faith and Grow 

2 bunches of flowers from local craft store Darice classical silks brand

Gold Tattered Angels glimmer mist

Tim Holtz distress ink Vintage photo

battery operated frosted white lights

1 small strand of green beads

1 sheet of plexi glass

GBS cart for ovals. 

I first applied the vintage photo ink to the window frame here and there to give a distressed look and then sprayed glimmer mist on it. Not sure if you can tell in photo, that it has some glimmer and looks aged.

Here is pic of it with lights on.

I cut the words Home and Family at 1 inch, Faith and Grow at 1 1/2 inch so it would look proportioned. When they were all cut a 1 inch the words Faith and Grow looked smaller so I adjsuted them.I applied them to the front of the plexi glass.

I then took one sheet of translucent paper and applied carmel all over it then took the butterscotch and lettuce here and there. I then cut out 4 ovals from the sheet with GBS cart. at 5 inches wide and 2 3/4 inches long in CDS. I applied them to the back of the plexi glass. Then I took the other 4 sheets of silver paper and put them over the glass.

       I then wrapped the beads around the tulle pulled the tulle through the button holes on the back and glued to each corner. Then I arranged the flowers and lights. I even glimmer misted the flowers with gold so they to would have a bit of shimmer.

TFL

Scrapbook Jingle song swap on Cricut MB

I recently joined a swap where you choose a fav. Christmas song and design a scrapbook page out of it. You sent in only the recipe items for it. You needed 4 blocks for pics.,1 Jornaling block, 4 die cut images and at least 3 other items to be added, such as brads, ribbon and etc., a title piece on sturdy cardstock.
I chose the song Silver Bells. I printed out the song and put it on cardstock. I then did 4 blocks for pics. I found a pic of Santa and children from a postcard (I think) put it in an editing software, added lines to be used as a jb. With my Cricut, I cut a city scene at 3 inces from PSB. The bells at 3 inch from Wedding cart. Silver Bells from Jasmine and the shodow using DS. The two women shopping I found on the internet. I converted it to an SVG and useing my Cricut and SCAL, I cut them out also at 3 inches. The street light is cut at 3 inches with the lights hidden in DS. I shortened and then used a 1 inch circle punch to punch the red and green for the lights.

Cricut Circle stamp

Here is the stamp I made with DS to make the Cricut Circle Cricut. I used Storefront the cricut face in blackout. Circle from GBS. I will have it uploaded to the site I have my cut files on. It is on the right side of my blog under My cut files. I used a new mat to hold the material, the deepcut blade and multicut twice.

Last year for Christmas I made this for my friend Anita. She loves to play pool.

The carts I used are: Indie Art(8 ball and crown), Anita and Pool Queen with Base Camp and all welded in Design Studio. I put this in a 12x24 picture frame.

Twilight paint can swap

I was recently in a paint can swap and the theme was from the movie Twilight.

This was originally a scrapbook page and I converted it into a paint can theme. I bought the kit off of eBay and ordered more directly from them.

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