Name Ornaments

Hello blogger world!!!  I have been away for too long.   Youth football and cheer were running my life and when it was over we went on vacation to Disney World.   We came back from that and headed right into Thanksgiving and now the holidays are in full swing!

 

I'm almost complete with my annual neighborhood ornament project and apparently I forgot to post my neighborhood ornament from 2013.  I bought these balls and used the Glitter It glue inside and then added the fine glitter, swirled it around and here you have the final product!  

 

The names were done using vinyl and I cut the letters using the Storybook cartridge.   The red initials is at 3" and the last name is at 1 1/2".   I think I made 12 of them last year.   I was very pleased with how they turned out although working with the vinyl on a rounded surface is a job that requires quite a bit of patience! 

Nest Favors

My nest themed favors were No Bake Cookies with Reese Pieces eggs.   I only got about 10-12 nests per batch because I dropped big scoops of the cookie mixture on wax paper and let them sit for about 10 minutes and then took a melon baller and pushed the round end down on the center of the cookie to create the nest and then I added the Reese Pieces egg so that it would stay in the nest.
I bagged each of them up and tied them close with three pieces of ribbon, brown, cream and shiny gold.   The tags were made using the Robin cut on the Storybook cartridge at 3", including the shadow.  The sentiment is a blend of Studio G and Fiskars.

Adding to the Nest Party Ensemble

Hello everyone!  Today is  BIG post kind of day!   Over at the Paper Crafts blog, they have a challenge to create a party ensemble.   The challenge is in celebration of their new book, Party Ensembles.   Check it out HERE.

So, my ensemble is done.   I would have liked to do more but, honestly the 2 foot rosette sign has really caused me to lose sleep!!  It took an entire day for me to do but, I LOVE IT!!!   I will give some details but, not too much.   I'll do some posts to provide the details of each item later.   But for now, here it is.   The theme is 'Adding to the Nest' and it's for a baby shower.

The 2' rosette was made using a Martha Stewart border punch, my scoreboard, my Cricut, the Ribbons and Rosette's cartridge, the Straight from the Nest cartridge, paper and a hot glue gun!

Included with the Rosette Sign is a decorative napkin ring, an invitation, a favor and a tent card for the food. 

The invite and the tent card feature the Martha Stewart border punch with birds perching on branches.  The invite is three layers with a chocolate brown, a tan, and then a gold metallic vellum paper that was printed with the invitation.   I added a nest from Create a Critter, a little egg and a real feather to accent.

The tent card was a chocolate brown layer with a tan layer and then chocolate again and a printed sheet that I inked a little to relieve the stark white color.

The favors are one of my favorite parts.   They are No Bake Cookies with a Reese's Pieces egg (since this is that time of year).  The tag is from the Storybook cartridge with a stamped sentiment.   I tied the tag on with three different colors of ribbon.

And the napkin ring was made out of the gold metallic paper, border punched with the Martha Stewart punch, again, and then attached with some glue tape.   I also added the same three ribbons around the napkin ring, as I did the favor.  I really love how this all turned out!!!

Wedding Invites

My post today is one that I have been working on for weeks. I made the 180 invitations for my cousin's September wedding! What a job it was. The cutting wasn't bad but, as you will see, there were soooo many layers to glue and that was just a boring job. :) I've never done something on this big of a scale but, I am glad I did it, it was a learning experience!

The actual invitation is the four fold with the crown on the Sentimentals cartridge. I used Design Studio to hide the contour of the crown shape so that the four fold would be plain. The dimensions of the four fold were 9.509 x 10.175". This size makes the invite a 4x4 when the four flaps are folded in. I then used my guillotine cutter and cut the red square at 4x4 to fit in the center. The pearl paper with the wording was cut at 3 3/4 x 3 3/4". After scoring and folding all of the four sides, I added a monogram.

The monogram is mounted on a fancy frame that I used DS again to alter. The fancy frame is the first frame on the Storybook cartridge. It's more of a rectangle so, I altered it to 2x2" and recreated it as many times as would fit a sheet. The 'S' monogram is cut using the Tie the Knot cartridge, monogram creative feature. The 'S" was tehn glued onto the fancy frame and then embossed using the Swiss Dots embossing folder. After embossing, the pearl gem was added in the center of the scroll on the 'S' monogram and then the entire monogram was attached to the invitation. On the bottom, I used a permenant glue dot and on the top, I used a repositionable glue dot so that the invite could be opened and closed easily.

The invite also included the reception information card, the RSVP card and an accomodations information card. All three were cut using the guillotine cutter and then mounted together, black, red and then the pearly white paper with the information printed.

Birthday Girl!

Today's card is one that I made for a friend's daughter's 2nd BD. The printed mount is from the Paper Studio 'So-So Sweet' stack. I used the Storybook cartridge & DS to make do the scallop cut of the mat. It was the accent blackout key in shift...I just can't remember off the top of my head, which key it was. I cut the mat at 4 x 5 1/4" though.

I then cut the words BIRTHDAY GIRL also from the Storybook cartridge using the shadow creative feature and the Birthday Girl phrase key at 2 3/4" using paper from DCWV's Citrus Stack. I cut the layer feature in a different color and then embossed them together using the Tiny Bubbles folder. The butterfly ribbon is from the Target dollar bins (again).

On the inside, I cut the butterfly using the Tall/Border creative function and then shift on the C Butterfly. I cut it twice and cut the butterfly off the second one so that the butterfly would be a different color.

Birthday Card

A birthday card made for a friend who loves owls. I bought the tree (BasicGray bling it) from Archivers. I cut the card 4" in a gate fold and cut both sides at the top to create the hills. I inked the hills and cut the owl from the Storybook cartridge

MPS Challenge #8 - Monochromatic

Here was my stab at monochromatic....not my favorite at all but, a neutral and a color....