Weekend Projects

Cover

Here is one of the items that I was working on this weekend. Its a Tattered Angels Glimmer Kit (Frosty Memories)  that I got a couple years ago at CKC-Buffalo. I finally got a craft mat so I was able to spray away!  The kit came with 3 bottles of Glimmer Mist - 2 different shades of blue and one of Cocoa.  This type of project I found takes quite awhile to spray each of the pages, let them dry and move to the next set.  You have to remember to cover any area of the book that you don't want to get sprayed each time you spray.  Another problem was that the Glimmer Mist had settled in the bottom of 2 of the bottles from sitting for so long so I don't think I got the depth of color/shimmer that I would have had the bottles been new.  Note to self:  don't buy things til you're ready to make/use!  On the cover above I used the Glimmer Screen snowflake stencil and both shades of blue.  You'll see on future posts of other pages of the book that I ended up using Tim Holtz Distress Inks to deepen the color as I found the 2 shades of blue too light for my taste.  I then used a jelly roll pen to outline the snowflake for a little sparkle. 

Page 1 and 2

On page 1 I used a Tim Holtz snowman stencil and I stamped the snowflake image with a Close To My Heart stamp and a Pearl Paint Dabber.  The kit comes with "calling cards" and I placed one on page 2.  It's title Snowday Checklist.  I thought this would make the book good for some winter fun photos, memorabilia and journaling. 

CKC-Buffalo

I'm home from CKC - I only visited the Vendor Faire this year. The last few years the Vendor Faire at CKC-Buffalo

has gotten smaller and this year it seemed even smaller. No Skinny Cow this year! The other thing I noticed was that the vendors - many of them - had much smaller spaces than last year. I spoke with some of them - one chose a smaller space as she had just had a baby and their decision to come to Buffalo was a last minute thing. Others say its based on the economy. Some were new to CKC and were trying it out. I noticed that many of the booths were based on clearance items or retired lines. Several had items ranging from 99 cents to $3. I have a couple pictures to share over the next few days of some things that caught my eye. Here's the first one - Stamplistic's booth had a $3 make'n take that quickly caught my attention just a few minutes on the floor. The single image is what I made and the picture with all the flowers is their display board. The single flower is made with one stamp that you stamp on 7 different colored papers. Then you cut the image out but each succeeding paper you cut another layer in. You use tape runner to create 3 sets of flowers than use pop-dots to connect the 4 layers that you are left with. Add some glue glitter & glitter and you're done! I'll post future projects once I get a chance to use the stamp I purchased.

Jumbo Greeting Cards

Are you saving the cardboard that comes with your 12 x 12 paperpacks? I hope so! Besides using them to cut letters and shapes with your Cricut you can use them to create Jumbo Greeting Cards. This is an assortment of cards I made with a CKC class kit.

As you can see a variety of materials have been used including Delta Paint for the chipboard letters and fabric strips used instead of ribbon in the holes along the top. Photos, journaling or memorabilia could be added to personalize.