DT Seguras Crafts: Fiesta Bookmarks for Teacher’s Appreciation Week

 

Dear scrappers,

Here is my next design for the company: Seguras Crafts.

This time I decided to make bookmarks for my school teachers for their appreciation week. I used sentiments from the  “Believe In Yourself” and another soon-to-be-released stamp, Emotions and Opposite. These sentiments were perfect for affirmations to the wonderful job teachers do.

I really enjoyed making these no-two of the same bookmarks and ended up making 40 of them. To appreciate all the teachers and staff of kids’ school and my day job.

I also added Seguras Crafts’ Rhinestones In And Opal Glow and Ocean Bliss to add some shine. These rhinestones are so glossy that are perfect for this effect even with the busy fiesta patter of the Crafty Chica’s papers or the neon bright solid papers.

I had some paper frills from Doodle Bug Design, which were perfect for stamping the sentiments and to add more sass to the bookmark. The same with old unknown source of rhinestone ribbon in red, which I trimmed to the wide and length I needed.

I general, I love the bright colors of Fiesta and I’m very glad that San Antonio’s fiesta fell the same week than teacher’s appreciation. Some teachers were even joking that they could use the bookmarks as fiesta medals 😁

Here are some of the bookmarks I did. I missed some of them from the pictures:

For this post I tried to make a little video of my process. I really tried to bring the teachers and staff some happy thoughts by using very bright colors and fiesta-themed patters . Here we go:

I hope you join me in checking Seguras Crafts and following the other amazing design team members. 

And remember the team logo, “Together we create for mental health”

I’m also joining the following challenges:

a perfect time to craft: open-challenge

alessandras angels: allys-angels-93-anything-goes-theme-92

beautiful blossoms challenge: beautiful-blossoms-challenge-anything

crafters cafe blog challenge: 318-april-anything-goes-optional

creations in pink1 challenge: challenge-80-anything-goes-in-mainly pink

do-all kreatives: 101-atg-opt-flowers

girlz creative fun art of scrap: challenge-9

girlz rebel challenge: challenge-39-alles-mag-met-bloemen

love to craft challenge blog: ltccb-86-anything-goes

paper-rocks-scissors: may-4-challenge

the flower challenge: the-flower-challenge-102-add-spots-or strippes

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DT CraftWell: Fiesta Medals/ Ribbons and Fiesta Earrings

 

     Hi, 

This is my next post for Craftwell. For this post I decided to use my several Fiesta stamps and dies to create shrink plastic charms for fiesta ribbons and earrings:

First, I used the colorful flower gift bows from the Dollar Tree and complimented them with the tail parts of the Ribbon Rosette Die & Stamp Showcase Set, Tonic Studio. I also used the banner and trophy die (which I cut to just show the No. 1 part) out of gold paper.

I used Spectrum Noir alcohol markers to highlight the embossed No. 1 sentiment and created a 2 for the other two ribbons. It is hard to see that part in the picture below, but I did trim the center part to show them later on (above picture).

The ribbons looked kind of plain, so I decided to stamp charms using my HeroArts and FSJ fiesta sets on printable shrink plastic (Sizzix, on the white/ rough side) and then die cut them with the respective die. My daughter helped me color the stamped images using gel pens and metallic/ glitter markers. Then, I punched a hole in each die cut and attached the rings. I, then, used my heat gun to shrink the plastic- scary step as it curls totally up until it reaches its final size where it flattened back. If not perfect continue melting and turning back and fort until nice and straight:

Sadly the metallic/ glitter part doesn't show on the shiny side of the charm:

Here, a closer look of each fiesta charm pair:

And finally, the fiesta chihuahuas were so cute that I made earrings out of the charms:

and on the ribbons, I added two or just one charm:

Craftwell Tools: 

SNAP die cut machine

Other Companies:

FSJ black licorice ink

CTMH Cardstock white 

Gold paper, IKEA

 I hope you enjoy it this fun project and please follow Craftwell as well.

Happy April

Vicky Tovar

Some challenges:

http://unicornchallenge.blogspot.com/2023/04/86-add-animal.html

https://craftingfromtheheartchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2023/04/challenge-1.html

 

http://mmmchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2023/04/199-flowers.html

https://cupcakeinspirations.blogspot.com/2023/04/cupcake-inspirations-challenge-567.html

http://welove2create.blogspot.com/2023/03/challenge-3-craft-card-making.html

https://aperfecttimetocraft.blogspot.com/2023/04/a-perfect-time-to-craft-open-challenge.html

https://artydivaschallenge.blogspot.com/2023/04/april-challenge-2023.html

https://beautifulblossomschallenge.blogspot.com/2023/04/anything-goes-florals-with-optional.html

http://craftyanimals.blogspot.com/2023/04/challenge-71.html

http://happylittlestampers.blogspot.com/2023/04/hls-april-anything-goes-with-dies.html

https://papercraft-challenges.blogspot.com/2023/04/challenge-93-spring.html

DT CraftWell: Fiesta Ribbon Medals

 

Hi, 

This is my next post for Craftwell. 

I live in San Antonio, Texas and April is its Fiesta month.

In my kids school, we did a Fiesta celebration on April 30th and I was in charge of arranging a shoe box parade for the little ones.

So I made Fiesta ribbon medals for the winners:

In short:

I bought already made birthday ribbons with the pin in the back and converted them in fun Fiesta Medals (that's a big item here, everybody collects them during April).

I stamped sentiments and cute little Fiesta critters from HeroArts and cut them with their complimentary die cut.

I stamped sentiments directly in the ribbons used for the Fiesta Wreaths and even the chihuahua/ tacos directly to them using the FSJ licorice black ink. And colored everything with gel pens.

Then, I used my hot glue gun to assemble the medals. I used small Mexican hats, decorated them with rhinestone ribbon, to cover the "birthday" sentiment.

Those were super cute and quick to make.

I did prizes for these categories:

"Fiesta Diversity"

"Fiesta Medal Craze"

And

"#ILoveTacosSoMuch"

Don't the little ones look so cute with their ribbon medals and their shoe boxes floats?

Craftwell Tools: 

SNAP die cut machine

Other Companies:

Dies and stamps: HeroArts

Hot glue gun

Fiesta ribbon

Birthday ribbons with safety pin (Walgreen)

 I hope you enjoy it this fun project and please follow Craftwell as well.

Happy Cinco

Vicky Tovar

Some challenges:

https://worldwideopendesignteamchallenge.blogspot.com/2022/05/world-wide-open-design-team-challenge-05.html

http://ttcrd.blogspot.com/2022/05/anything-goes-challenge-may-10th-2022.html

http://unicornchallenge.blogspot.com/2022/05/challenge-76-include-pearlsbling.html

http://trystampinontuesday.blogspot.com/2022/05/challenge-556.html

Technique:

https://colouringinscrapland.blogspot.com/2022/05/recordatorio-del-reto-de-colouring-mayo.html

https://2craftycrittercrazies.blogspot.com/2022/05/challenge-62-anything-goes-with.html

http://craftyanimals.blogspot.com/2022/05/challenge-61.html

https://diesruschallenge.blogspot.com/2022/05/dru-challenge-193.html

HeroArts

https://mixitupchallenge.blogspot.com/2022/05/miucb-59-anything-goes-optional-3-d.html

https://papercraft-challenges.blogspot.com/2022/05/challenge-82-add-bling.html

https://colorfuloptions.blogspot.com/2022/05/may-2022.html

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