Origami Box

A while back I posted a video of this box from Card-Making-Magic. Here is mine, it was actually a lot easier than it looked. This was another item for the fall swap. I thought this would fit the berries theme. The color reminded me of strawberries and cream.




Sorry I can not remember what all I used. It was left over items from my stash.

TFL:)

Fall/Pumpkin Stick Pin Easel Card

I made this for a swap. Thought it turned out pretty good for my first try at it. The theme is a fall alphabet theme. Pumpkins is for this one.

Beads for stick pins are from Jesse James Beads-Fools Gold, flowers from Petaloo-Citronelle, solid cardstock from Colorbok, pearls from Prima-peach, pumpkin bling from Recollections and pattern paper from DCWV Fall paper stack




TFL:)

Challenges I have entered:
Link Up Tuesday/Pink Cricut
Brown Sugar Challenge #51- Anything Goes
Anything goes challenge #22 at Krafty Girls

Easel Stick Pin Card Tutorial

I have been searching for a way to hold stick pins. I did not always want to make a pin cushion. I came across this video and this is what I will make for any future stick pin swaps I will be in. TFL:)

Origami Box Pt 2 The Top (card-making-magic.com)

 Lovely, she is just amazing!

Origami Box Pt 1 Base (card-making-magic.com)

This is how to make the Origami box that is in the video below, Part 2 soon to follow:)

Vintage/Shabby Chic - Origami Box, Calendar, Pin Cushion, Easel Card -

I know I have not been posting much. But I promise I will be. I am currently in a Fall Alphabet swap due in Sept. So I will share pics soon. In the meantime I will be posting youtube videos I like and hope you will enjoy.
On another note, after being  out of school for 24 yrs, I have decided to go back to school. In August I will be attend Marion Technical College. I will be the first in my family to go and my parents are proud of me going back. Wish me luck with my new adventure to add to my life.

TFL:)

Frost Technique

Water Reflection Technique

Love this, would also like to try it in sunset colors.

Vintage 'Iced Snowflake' Ornament/Embellishment Tutorial and Altered Box

Magical Masking Tape

This is a neat way to do cards. I can see this for a patriotic theme:)

Drop dead GORJUSS!!! Shabby Chic Enchanted Winter Sleigh Stick Pin Holder

This is gorgeous!

Snowfall Acetate Cardstock

This is a new product by Crafter's Companion, the makers of Spectrum Noir pens.

M83 'Midnight City' Official video

Kenny K Contest Time!

Hello KennyK fans, we've got a brand new collection coming out June 23rd, and we haven't got any names for these girlz yet.........so we're going to leave it in your hands and let you choose the names.

Now if you want to win one or more of these cuties, then get your thinking caps on and give us your best names you can come up with for them. Each girl has a number underneath them, so what we want you to do is.........

1. Write up a blog post with your name choices for each girl or just one girl as long as you put the number for them ie

3. Rachel

2. Copy the poster to your blog post, then come back here and link up your blog post with Inlinkz.

KennyK and Elena will be checking out your blog with your name choices and will choose the ones they think best match the girlz.

If your name/s are chosen, then you will win the girl/girlz for the winning names.

This contest will run until June 21st, and the winners will be announced on the day of release

JUNE 23RD.

GOOD LUCK

 

 

 

Here are my entries:

 

1. Darling Donna

2. Fashnista Fanny

3. Bubbly Brenda

4. Lovely Linda

5. Workout Wanda

 

 

Thanks for stopping by:)

Spectrum Noir

Awhile back I bought Spectrum Noir alcohol pens. Since then I have been learning how to use them. Once I was confident that I was using them properly, I took Spectrum Noir's colorist test.

Skills required for Colorist Level

1. Smooth coloring – coloring an area smooth without blotchiness
2. Basic shading – blending three colors together to build volume or dimension to your image.
3. Basic coloring of a face and hair. (hair can be smooth or textured)
4. Basic coloring of a floral or landscape image.
5. Palette blending.
6. Layering – ability to add a bit of shadow or shading to show layers.
7. Correcting with the blender pen.
8. Skills that show basic ability to get consistent results using the Spectrum Noir Alcohol Pens.

Here is what I colored.

If you look closely you can see that the flower pot has some bleeding around the edges.

I really enjoyed learning the Palette blending.

 

 

 

The couple I colored did not turn out well at all:(

The couple is a CTMH stamped image.

The colorist instructor said all passed but the flower pot and the couple. She asked me to resubmit.

 

Here is my resubmissions.

 

 

 

These turned out much better.

 

 

Today I received my certificate that I passed!

 

I am now a Spectrum Noir Accredited Colorist!!

 

 

This means I have accomplished in learning basic coloring techniques using Spectrum Noir Alcohol Markers.

 

There is two more levels:

Advanced Colorist & Spectrum Noir Pen Instructor

 

 

In time I hope to achieve the advanced colorist level, I am not sure about becoming an Instructor but only time will tell:)

To learn more about Spectrum Noir click here. They have amazing videos, techniques, tutorials and so much more.

Thanks for stopping by:)

Cartridges and More Giveaway

Go to their facebook page and enter for your chance to win all three of these hard to find Cricut Disney cartridges.


https://www.facebook.com/Cartridgeandmore?sk=app_228910107186452

Challenge # 138 Easel Cards

Since I am at home for two weeks or more,with severe arthritis in my knee...I figured might as well try to work on some scrapping. I have been wanting to try my hand at some digital stamps and coloring them. I just got the Spectrum Noir markers a few months ago and now I am giving it a go.

Now what digital stamp? Awhile back I found Kenny K's Krafty Krew and I have been hooked ever since. I bought a bunch of his digi's now I get to give it a whirl.

So I took the time to enter this challenge. This weeks challenge is easel cards. I searched the web and found this tutorial at Card Making Magic, a Quad Easel.She has a lot of card making written and video tutorials and other crafty ideas. Go check her out:)
Hope you enjoy and please be easy on me, this is my first time at coloring an image. I think I did okay.
                                      

I used Paige Parasol for this and her pics are near the bottom:

Sentiment wobbles...see the action!

Some gears from Tim Holtz, Copper sheet embossed  using provocraft clockworks embossing folder  & gems from Walmart-Martha Stewart.

 

Sentiment found on internet. I just love Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory so this sentiment fits the Steampunk theme. Pearl beads from?

Here is Paige!! Recipe for her is last pic.

Steampunk heart from Jolee's and other jewel from?

Here it is closed up. Blue cardstock from DCWV solid stack, copper sheet from Walmart brand, Steampunk sheets- diamond sheet and collage from Hot off the Press.

Here it is opened up.

Close up of Paige

 

 

Recipe for Paige:

Spectrum Noir markers

Clothes:  GB 8,9,10 and 11

Hair: EB 3 and 4

skin: TN 2

Feather and flower: CT 2,3 and 4

Eyes: TB 4

 

 

 

Thanks for looking and come back again:)

 

 

This week`s Challenge we want to see Easel Cards and we have 

2 sponsors and of course 2 chances at winning prizes :-)

 

is offering 5 Digi's of the Winner's Choice

and

is offering a stamp to the value of $10

Other challenges I am entering:
Brown Sugar Challenge-#37 Step or easel card
Link Up Tuesday at PinkCricut
Spectrum Noir-Spring
IDIC:Challenge #155 Easel cards
Paper Playtime: Ch#8 More than 1 fold
 OLLCB: Easel Cards
Sassy Studio Designs: #173 Fancy Folds

WeR Envelope Maker

I think I need this. It looks so easy. If anyone has this...leave me a comment on how you like it.

Jammie Class: Terrazzo Valentine Heart

Jammie Class: Will you be my Valentine?

Valentine Gift Box

Giveaway Friday: DCWV INC

Come and put your chance in for 5 stacks of DCWV's new cardstock papers.
Follow them on pinterest, post to your blog, facebook and etc. for more chances to win.
 So come on and see what the surprise is all about:)

Happy New Year 2013

Wow! Where did the year go? I hope everyone had a great Chirstmas! I have not posted anything for December, our family had a lot going on.
Several Christmas Eve and Day meals. My nephew LJ turned 2 on Dec.30th, so a Birthday party is a must. He loves Lightening McQueen!  So he got alot of that for Christmas and his birthday. Then my youngest brother Logan (LJ's daddy)  his birthday is New Years Day! We took him to Logan's Roadhouse for his birthday. Whew... There was alot going on in those few weeks.
I was in a Secret Santa swap for December. As soon as I can I will post pics of what I received. My partner had some issues going on, so the other swappers became angels for me:) Thanks for hosting scrappinchic!!

Now for the year in review, these were some of my favorites for the year :

January
link-up-party-at-pink-cricut

March
My new craft toys!

April
Steampunk flower centerpiece

May
My trip to Canada!

June
My new Blog design by TCBOTB

July
Featured at FCCB for Scrappin' Saturday by Melissa and top 5 at FCCB

Featured on Pink Cricut

and on Ooo-La-La top 5 at My Sheri Crafts

August

KKKKrew my favorite digital site for sexy images, If you know of any other sexy image sites. Leave me a comment:) I will check them out and let them know YOU sent me. Please do the same for KK:)

September and October

Youtube videos

November

frames of JOY

I hope you enjoyed the year in review:)

Glass ornament with winter scene ~ lizspaperloft.blogspot.com

If you ever wanted to learn how to put an image inside a glass ornament........then this is the video for you. I really liked how she did this.

JOY

I seen this from Alysabeth blog, she  made a holiday Joy sign. Check out her blog for her tutorial:)

Here is my version:

 

Recipe:

3 5x7 frames

scrapbook paper of your choice (wrapping paper can be used)

plastic candy cane from dollar store (comes 6/pkg)

Santa Village cartridge- image on pg.3

bell garland from dollar store

Jammie Class: Beautiful Star Light

 This looks easy peasy! Love the star, can see it in cool blues or pinks :)

Adding Glitter with an Embossing Folder

 I like this card:)

Rubber Band Emboss

 Who would have thought of using rubber bands, I guess she did :)

Acetate & Tissue

This is a pretty card and could do it with so many different images and holidays.

Paper Pinwheel Technique - Stampin' Up!

Very pretty. I will be trying this one.

Stampin' Up Polished Stone Season of Joy Card w/ Book binding

Great card and technique.

Christmas Tealight Easel Pop Up Card WOW

This is a fun card to make!
I can see these for Halloween also:)

Heirloom Photo Ornmanent

I like this one. Hope to make one for my mother for Christmas with us kids photos in it.

Fleur de Lis Snowflake Ornament

 This is beautiful! I am going try this with my Imagine:)

Technique: Smackin' Acetate

Faux Window Technique - Part 2

Faux Window Technique - Part 1

Seamless Tiers Technique

Easy Triple Time Stamping Technique Card

 Over the next few days I will be sharing videos of different styles and ways to make cards. Hope you enjoy!

Scraplift of the Stampin Up ornament

Here is my try at making this ornament. I made a mistake and had to cut more out to get it to look right. See if you can tell what I did wrong:)  I still think it turned out nice.
I plan on making these for Christmas this year.


Recipe for this:
Follow Stampin Up you tube video I have posted
Cricut Imagine for the large ornament cut 20 @ 3.2
for smaller ornament cut @ 2.6 printed paper used
5 pcs of glittter tulle at 5 inches
any other embellishments you want to add (I added a few rhinestones)
Glimmer mist all of ornament ( I used suede)
I used a handmade paper flower from a swap I received
Holiday greetings stamp to stamp on back from Stampin Up-Sincere Salutations set
small hole punch to put hole in ornament and ribbon to make hanger
color choice of ink to ink edges of cardstock on large ornaments
Snow Angel cartridge-ornament on page 4 bottom one

Challenges I am entering this in:

Link Up Tuesday at Pink Cricut
Cooking with the Cricut #104 Texture

Jammie Class: Spooky Wobble Frog

Jammie Class: Glitzing Spectrum Noir

Jammie Class: Sparkling Desk Notes

PKGlitz Jammie Class: Terrazzo Techique

Jammie Class: Sticky Paper and Metal Stencil

Jammie Class: Watercolor Pictures and E P Lite

Jammie Class: Glitter Collage

Today I am sharing some of my favorite PK Glitz Jammie class videos. Hope you enjoy!

Glitzy Medallion Ornament Card

 More videos:)

Pop Up WOW Ornament - Stampin' Up

If you have not figured it out by now.....I am in the Christmas mood:)

Make the stampin up ornament with your cricut cartridge

Here is the scraplift of the stampin up ornament using the cricut and Joys of the Season cart. I have seen the Imagine Snow Angel used also.

Stampin' Up Holiday Mini Catalog Ornament

 You can do this also with your cricut!

Spellbinders Christmas Decoration (card-making-magic.com)

Some more videos from Christina1716

Spellbinders Heirloom Ornament (card-making-magic.com)

I will be sharing awesome you tube videos I like.  I will be scraplifting this idea with my cricut.

Kenny K's Krafty Krew

 Kenny K's Krafty Krew is having a blog candy giveaway. If you love digi's that are a bit sassy,sexy, glam, gothic, steampunk and etc........then you will love Kenny K's Krafty Krew. The Krew is giving away 3 digi's from Kenny K's download store.  So what are you waiting for...Click on Kenny K's name and check them out and become a follower.

I have bought some of the digi's and the artwork is fantastic! You will love their work:)

Swap on Cricut MB

Scrappinmomma and I were partners in a swap. We were to make at least 5 items. Here is what we created for each other. Altered box.

 Another altered box that I filled with some Imagine cutouts

Alterd pink mask. My partner loves pink!

Really cute photo box she made me.

An altered paperbag album. I have wanted to try one of these. She did an amazing job on it.

 A really cool small altered paint can, love the retro look she used. I feel like driving down route 66.

A matching 6x6 album she made for me to put my own spin on route 66!

 Back of altered journal I made for her.

Front of altered journal

Front of paperbag album

 Check out the wire friend she created on the page and the flowers on opposing page!

I had wandered what a Junk Journal was and now I now. She did this with a steampunk feel. She used papers with gears and such on them:)

Inside of one of the pages

Altered journal

I made this altered journal a while back. I had forgotten about it and just happened to find this pic.

I used my Imagine and Lori's Garden for this. The butterfly is from a swap item I had received and the pearls are from ? I will have to look that one up.

TFL~

I got picked for the top 5 on FCCB and the Ooo-la-la award at My Sheri Crafts

My wreath made the DT TOP 5pick on the Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog and I received the   OOO-LA-LA award at My Sheri Crafts Blog!! What an honor.

Thanks to all the ladies of all the challenges I entered. I will be back again:)

Featured at FCCB for Scrappin' Saturday by Melissa

Melissa from FCCB hosts Scrappin' Saturday. She has chosen my wreath along with two other ladies projects to be featured today:)  I do not know what to say... I am speechless.

 Thank you Melissa for featuring me on the FCCB!

Go over to Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Blog and check out all the entries. There is still time to enter. It ends July 8th at midnight. Maybe I will see your project featured on FCCB!

I have been featured on PINK CRICUT!!!

My patriotic wreath has been chosen by Pink Cricut!!!

 I am very proud of my wreath. I hope it represents the love I have for my country and the freedom to live it each day and a THANK YOU to all the veterans past, present and future for believing in our rights to live a life.

So please join Sarah's link up party because....

Sarah wants to see what YOU are UP TO!? It can be paper crafts, sewing, home decor, jewelry–whatever it is– she wants you to share!!       

Wow, does that sound like a Uncle Sam wants you poster:) LOL.

All you have to do is link up your blog post or picture below, and be sure to say you are LINKING UP with us on your blog post- you can also grab our gray and pink linkup button to the right. Be sure to stop by a couple other blogs to say hi and give some bloggy love!

Weekly Challenge #61: Stars & Stripes Challenge!

The Challenge: Create a Cricut project of your choice incorporating at least 3 stars and stripes somewhere on your project.

Rules and Guidelines: Circle Blog Challenges are open to Cricut Circle Members only. Your project must be newly created for this challenge and include atleast 2 Cricut Image Cuts. You must submit a project to be entered into the Challenge Prize Drawing. One entry per person, please.

How to Enter: Submit your entry using the InLinkz tool found at the bottom of this post. Please post your full name along with your entry. Entries are due by 9:00 pm MST on Thursday, July 5th, 2012.

Prize: We will select one winner to receive $25 in credit added to their Cricut.com account. Please allow 4 to 6 weeks for delivery from winner announcement.

Winner: The winners will be selected randomly from qualifying entries using www.random.org and will be announced on the Cricut Circle Blog on Friday, July 6th, 2012.


I made this wreath for this challenge.
My two cricut cuts are the rosettes and the flags w/ banner. My stars are the foam stars and the ribbon is the wreath hanger.

Recipe for wreath:

Cartridges: Ribbons and Rosettes cut at 1"x11" and 2"x11" - Crown and grass

Imagine Cartridges: Enjoy the Seasons-flags/4th of July ribbon

Bucaneer-small blue rosettes

Greeting Cards ISO- large rosettes

flattened bottle caps

red buttons

red and blue foam stars

stars spray

Patriotic ribbon

fireworks/sparklers-pearl and blue grass

hot glue

TFL~

Other challenges this is entered in:

BBTB2- Patriotic challenge

My Sheri CRAFTS -Red, White and Blue challenge

Scrappymoms stamps -Patriotic Pride

Exploring Cricut- Show your Red, White and Blue

Fantabulous Cricut Challenge - Firework, sparkler or other "boom"

Pink Cricut Link Up Party

Cooking with the Cricut- Happy Birthday, USA!

Blog Design Celebration Winners!!!

Since only 7 people posted.....YOU ALL WIN!!!!:)


Thanks for checking out my blog. Please email me your addy's at

donnaschnees2008@embarqmail.com

Blog Design Celebration

I have had a facelift to my blog. I was not satisfied as to how my blog looked. I just did not feel it was me. So for the past several years I have looked at blogs, blog designers and free blog items.

Here is what my blog first looked like.



I like Native American things but this still is not me. So after a long search of blogs, freebies and blog designers, I decided to have my blog desgigned. I looked into several and their pricing. After I figured on the price I was able to spend I then had to decide who would design my blog.

I chose THE CUTEST BLOG ON THE BLOCK. I looked at the blogs they have designed for and liked them. I chose to go with the OHH-LA-LA package. So I filled out the form, uploaded some pics that I wanted to see on my blog and chose a few other things.

After a few days I was contacted by Jenn.

She was the lucky one to design my blog. I am glad she did, she designed the blog to fit me and I LOVE IT. Thank you Jenn and TCBOTB team.

So in celebration of my new blog design, I am giving away 7 Gypsy sleeve starter kits. Yes, I said 7.
All you have to do is leave a comment on my blog and which one you would like to receive and a second choice, and I will have random.org pick the winners.

Gypsy sleeve starter kits to choose from:
Gold/Black
Red Owls
Black and white Damask
Green and blue Damask
Black owls
Gypsy Green
Gypsy Black

Each kit has the sleeve,styles, lanyard, and screen protector.
This will end 6-17 at midnight.