Vicky's Scrapping Passion

Wednesday, April 27, 2022

CraftWell DT: Love Browny -G45 Minialbum

Hi,

This is my next post for Craftwell

I have been accumulating the Graphic 45 monthly kits since their beginning, thus, I finally decided to reminiscence on my paw-baby in doggie heaven and used the 2021 Vol. 9 Well Groomed kit.

I changed some of the suggested papers from the kit with background papers from the complementary Graphic 45 paper pad.

In short:

First, I created several shaker elements as embellishments using the Dog's Life kit.

I tried to recreated my boy as best as I could using the elements from the kit and some PowerPuff chalks:

No too bad comparing him with the original Browny:

Then, I followed the instructions from the Well Groomed kit, just changing some of the papers with the background papers without flowers (which are also cute but not what I wanted to portrait for our dear 16 year old male dog).

Then, I used tacky glue to glue the papers to the thick black cardboard sheets. And decorated the title page using the shaker elements that I had died cut previously.

For some pages, I used the TC beautiful words embossing folder to emboss the dark mats before attaching them to the pages:

I'm still working on decorating the inside pages with the G45 ephemera/post cards elements and stickers as well as more shaker die cuts I made. I really like the ribbon suggested binding of the book and might do it, attaching my Browny's rabis shot tag as dangle. Once I finish the album, I'll post it to.

Here are some close ups from the title page shaker elements.

Finally, I die cut the letters to spell "Browny" using two different G45 papers and glued them to the "love" shaker to finish the album title page.

I used the BoBunny alpha die for the "B" and the TH alpha dies for the rest.

Comparing both albums:

Suggested Graphic 45’s album:

From the Grapic 45 blog

And mine uncompleted one:

As I mentioned previously, I ended up changing the background paper of all the pages, but one (the multi-colored paw printed page)...

Craftwell Tools:

SNAP die cut machine

Beautiful Words embossing folder, Teresa Collins, Craftwell

Other Companies:

Dies: Sizzix TH alpha, Bob Bunny alpha and Dog's Life shaker kit, Queen & Co

PowderPuff Mango Mai Tai ink

Dutch Blue, distressing ink, CTMH

CrockAdile

2021 Vol. 9 Well Groomed kit, Graphic 45

Well Groomed Background paper, Graphic 45

Tacky Glue

Foam Squares

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

Happy Fiesta

Vicky Tovar

Some challenges:

https://ikesworldchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2022/04/ikesworld-challenges-155-anything.html

http://unicornchallenge.blogspot.com/2022/04/challenge-75-include-animal.html

https://craftinghappinesschallenges.blogspot.com/2022/04/122-april-anything-goes-always.html

http://pathofpositivitychallenge.blogspot.com/2022/04/ch-100-anything-goes-positive-with-opt_01566073737.html

https://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/mondaychallenge/?p=27068

https://2craftycrittercrazies.blogspot.com/2022/04/challenge-61-anything-goes-with.html

http://craftyanimals.blogspot.com/2022/04/challenge-60.html

https://do-allkreatives.blogspot.com/2022/04/64-embossing-folders.html

http://happylittlestampers.blogspot.com/2022/04/hls-april-anything-goes-with-dies.html

https://worldwideopendesignteamchallenge.blogspot.com/2022/04/world-wide-open-design-team-challenge.html

http://yourscrapbookplace.blogspot.com/2022/04/april-challenge-moonflower-digistamps.html

Monday, March 28, 2022

DT: Hidden Garden Sitting Chart

Hi,

This is my next post for Craftwell.

For this post, I was asked to decorate a sitting chart for our school's gala. The theme for the gala was the hidden garden. So I went with the theme.

I made a video from a PowerPoint Presentation I made to explain the techniques and steps I did for creating this sitting chart:

video

Here are some closer views of the different elements I created:

I really love this flower drapery die and coordinated charisma from Tattered Lace, so I had it ready for my next project, which was perfect for creating a secret garden theme stage.

The decorative borders and corners dies from Graphic 45 were also a perfect match for this project.

I went with DCWV gold printed paper for the die cuts of the words/ numbers and corners/ border because I love how this paper looks like glitter chunks reflecting in the light.

For the tables and 8 chairs, I went with hearts doilies with the gold number die cuts.

I mounted each piece with foam squares to give them more depth.

This was a fun project to make and I did not have much time and only used the supplies I had at my workplace.

Craftwell Tools:

SNAP die cut machine

Other Companies:

Dies: Queen & CO alpha, Graphic 45 and Tattered Lace

DCWV Solid Gold paper

Tattered Lace Printed Paper

Tacky Glue

Foam Squares

Poster Foam Boards

Gilded Metallic Paste

Cricut Explorer and Design Space

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

Happy Spring

Vicky Tovar

Some challenges:

https://creativeartistemixedmedia.blogspot.com/2022/03/welcome-to-creative-artiste-challenge-80.html

http://cutitupchallenges.blogspot.com/2022/03/challenge-248-spring-project.html

https://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/mondaychallenge/?p=27058

http://welove2create.blogspot.com/2022/03/wk-4-craft-card-making-scrapbooking.html

https://blog.dare2bartzy.com/march-challenge-anything-goes-4/

http://dreamvalleychallenges.blogspot.com/2022/03/challenge-266-springtime.html

https://trimmiescraftchallenge.blogspot.com/2022/03/challenge-631-anything-goes.html

http://addictedtostamps-challenge.blogspot.com/2022/03/challenge-425-die-cuts-andor-stencils.html

https://modsquadchallenge.com/anything-but-a-card-2/

http://everybody-art-challenge.blogspot.com/2022/03/510.html

https://craftinghappinesschallenges.blogspot.com/2022/03/121-march-anything-goes-always.html

Tuesday, February 15, 2022

DT: St. Valentine's Day Bookmarks

Hi,

This is my next post for Craftwell.

For this post, I made some bookmarks for my children's teachers for St. Valentine's Day:

I found these cute deep cut dies from Taylored Expression (TE) for making felt bookmark critters for Christmas, and made these ones for the Fall and Christmas Bazaars:

I particularly liked the penguin.

So, when I saw that TE made some penguins dies in Valentine's theme, I had to have them and wanted to see if they cut felt as well and yes, they did using my SNAP. I had to put a piece of carstock in top of the sandwich and run it twice, but the SNAP got it right. Best is to use the felt sold by TE, but I run out and used some from Michaels, which also worked fine, but took more effort.

In short, I died cut the felt pieces, cutting a piece of black carstock for the penguin body (no the arms) as well (in this case, I didn't need to put a piece of carstock in top of the sandwich). I was able to cut all different pieces I needed in the same plate/run. I also cut some of the Christmas Critters Penguins.

Then, I glued the felt pieces together and used the included eye stamps for stamping the eyes (so much nicer than gluing felt eyes):

Then, I stamped on a DCWV heart foiled paper my children's names and the included "HUGS" sentiment. I cut those in slanted strips.

Then, I assembled the bookmarks, using the black cardstock as back, I hot glued the big paperclips, and hot glued to the back of the felt penguin. Then I hot glued the arms, hugging the sentiment strips and to hold the chocolate hearts: