Crepe Paper Costumes!

This is from another blog that I just had to pass on today to you! Back in my childhood crepe paper was still an essential for decorating birthday parties and making paper flowers. My mother had a Dennison book on flower making but I never saw that she made any. When I got older I made some. They turned out so nice and almost life like (as far as paper goes) and i love the way you could shape crepe paper!

Anyway it is also great for making costumes!
 



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Also...check out this video on how to make a striped background with Distress inks from Gina K and Stamp TV: http://vimeo.com/15172436
You will like it!

Little box

I had this little flower -

It’s been sitting on my desk waiting for me to make something with it. So i decided, finally, on a box with the flower on top. This is what came of that.

Materials

• match box template that I had downloaded from Mel Stampz blog but you can also get one from Mirkwood Designs.
• 26 gauge brass jewelry wire (Wal-Mart)
• beads (dollar tree jewelry kit – butterfly knob and bead feet)
• glue I used for attaching things was Monomulti except the butterfly knob which is stuck onto the drawer with a 3D Dot square.
• The flower was cut from Blick’s Sulphite Drawing paper and colored with Distress ink and the flower center is embroidery floss.

The box is very fragile due to the lightweight paper but the paper was so pretty and it will not be doing any heavy duty work, I figured I could live with it like that.

Cutting File for the Rose

The cutting file for the Rose can be found here : flower_1rose1.GSD
For those having to do this the ancient way I have a pattern for you here...

You can size this any size to make any size rose you want.

Silhouette again

I have great enjoyment in sitting at my desk watching the Silhouette do my cutting for me. Every wavy line comes out just like it was drawn. It is superb. I took a photo of a flower and let the software trace it and though some of the lines did do some editing (removing of anchor points and lengthening the dip between petals) it wasn’t all that much effort.  I did a little cutting, colored my little rose in the making with distress ink (tattered Rose) and cotton ball. Glued the layers together and let dry (as long as I could stand it) then spritzed with water, scrunched and shaped till I got what i wanted. -

I was so tickled that i went ahead and plastered a whole screen of flower petals for my rose. And there was a background to make as i didn’t have any paper the right color, but i had this lovely shade of blue (VersaMagic Agean Blue) and Impression Obsession’s Thick and Thin Striped background stamp and so this happened….

This is not finished but I figure that with Mother’s Day coming. Then I thought this would look nice as a box. So now i need to get busy.

I used:

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  Tim Holtz’s Glossy Cardstock for background
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  Dick Blick’s Sulphite Drawing paper
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  Neenah Cardstock for label
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  AC Cardstock pastels for the leaf and stem
  the cutting file for the leaves is at the silhouuette store: 3_flower_sprig_with_butterfly_C00480_19210
  The other cutting files are my designs and you can email me for them.
  

Birthday Today!

My oldest Granddaughter is 21 today and so, of course, festivities are ensuing. Must have a birthday card !!! That goes without saying. I grabbed a little  stamped and painted image of mice having a blowing out the candle ritual that has been lying around for about a month. So glad that i have some things done ahead of time needed. Had cut out a little doily (a Samantha Walker design for Silhouette) just a little while ago and  thought it would be real cute behind the image so that was the  next piece. I used distress ink to do the background behind the ice and silhouetted the mice, used 3D-DOTS for them and everything was going good at this point. The background paper came next; that was easy! Bittersweet from basic gray had just the perfect paper for this. But then come the sentiment and I had’ to cut that on the Silhouette…I thought it would look just great so I cut that out and the top half of the ‘B” didn’t cut correctly. But i cut another one and that worked out.Now I had to figure out, without a lot of supplies I used to have, i feel a bit hampered. But i had a roll of ‘cheap’ low tack dollar store cellophane tape and thought that would work so i laid out the lettering on my crafty acrylic craft thingy that i lay on top of the Olfa rotary cutting mat that has lines on it for this kind of thing. Adjusted the letters so that they were as straight as i could get them and and carefully laid the cellophane tape over them and lightly pressed it down so i got all the letters on the tape. Whew! i did it. only the exclamation point went haywire but i can do that after i lay down the sentiment on the card.

Then i carefully turned the lettering over and applied mono-multi to the backside of the letters. Now, my eyes are not as good as they used to be i cannot see some details like white glue on white paper, i used too. So some spots got more glue than they should but at least the glue dries clear! The dot to the ‘i’ is somewhere on my table, ah! there it is. So I grabbed my handy-dandy Quick Kutz quicker-picker-upper and picked up the dot and laid a bit of glue on the exposed side and let that sit so that the glue would dry to tacky and placed it in it’s spot and now i have to get everybody to sign the card…Bye! :)

baskets

Easter is this Sunday and I was lagging behind thinking i had another week. So, being that we had nothing in the house going, i started with the baskets. Then, when someone went to the store to get the other items necessary, they forgot the grass. !!!! Now, who in this world, would forget the grass! Oh, well. “I will make my own”, i said and did with tissue paper from last Christmas and handy scissors!

 

First basket

Second basket

Third basket