SVGCuts 3D High Heel Shoe

SVGCuts.com has a new promotion out.  They are giving away a free file for a High Heel Shoe, and if you make it and post your picture, they will give you a gift card for $6.99!!!  You can select any of their kits and get it for free, just by participating in this.  You can find more details at their blog... SVGCuts 
I downloaded the file earlier today, and had a chance to make it and here is what I came up with.

I cut everything on my Silver Bullet electronic cutting machine. I decided to go simple yet elegant, and used some Coordinations card stock with black on one side, and the light blue on the other.  For the panels I used some Charcoal  POW Glitter Paper from American Crafts.  You can't really see the sparkle in the photos, but it looks amazing in person.  The flowers I put on the toe were from my stash, and they have been there for so long I don't know where I got them, but decided it was time to start using some of them in my projects.

I love using SVGCuts files, they look complicated, but they always go together so easily and fit so well.  I just may have to make another one of these... it was so much fun.

Some Crafty Fun this weekend...

This weekend a friend of mine wanted to have a virtual crafting party, and have people craft something that they had pinned on Pinterest, or found from another online source for inspiration.  I happened to have the weekend off, and was excited to be able to have time to join in on the fun.  I made the little Tea box from SVGCuts, Tea For You and Me set.  I got the box together, and thought it was cute, but it needed something else... but I have the hardest time trying to decide how to embellish things. But here is a picture of my box after putting it all together.  I love the files from SVGCuts, they are so easy to cut and put together.. even I can look like I know what I'm doing with them.

This morning I decided that I needed to find something else to add to it, so I decided on some of the Crochet trim from the Battenburg Lace and Crochet trim set and sized it to fit around the box.  Then I got the flowers and leaves from the Spring Birdhouses kit and added them to one side.  It always amazes me how just adding a little bit of detail can make something go from okay to looking more finished. 

I'm not sure what I'm going to use this box for, since I don't drink tea... LOL  but it was a lot of fun to make and it gave me the opportunity to figure out how to finish it off and add more detail.  

After I finished my tea box, I wanted to make another box inspired by The Gentleman Crafter.  I have always admired his boxes, and when I learned how he put them together using structure strips, it just floored me.  I am the type of person that needs step by step instructions the first time I do anything, and I can not for the life of me look at something and figure out how someone made it.. so finding tutorials on the web on how to do some of the awesome things I see,  is a lifesaver for me.  However, once I figure it out, then I can start adding my own twist, but the first one is always a "lets see how it all goes together even if it isn't pretty" type of project.  So I got out my kraft cardstock and made some structure strips.. those were easy enough to make, but if I had to come up with the idea, they wouldn't be around.  I then cut some flimsy chipboard, because that is all I had around, and since this was just to see how to put it all together, I didn't care.  I am going to have to go watch some more of The Gentleman Crafters videos and pay more attention to the details of how he puts his boxes together, because mine leaves a lot to be desired.  

Then I added some decorative paper, that  I bought back when I first started doing paper crafts, and now look at it and wonder what possessed me to pay money for it (yes it's pretty, but the colors are so NOT me).  I need to figure out a way to make the corners and the top edge more finished, and I'm sure if I pay closer attention to The Gentleman Crafters videos, he will give me all kinds of ideas on how to have a more finished looking edge... but for a first time, just wanting to get it done project, it didn't turn out too badly.  Of course, I still need to add some embellishments to it to make it look better, but until I figure out what I want to do with the corners, I don't want to add anything else too it... so as sad as it looks, here is my box.... please, don't laugh too hard.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a chance to do some crafting this weekend.... and enjoy the journey!!!

Love is in the Air

I was looking through my files, the other day, and decided I wanted to make some of the 3D letters from SVGCuts  I had purchased them when they first came out, and never made any of them, so decided it was about time I used them. Once I decided on the letters, I used SCAL to resize them to 4 inches tall.  I love the way SVGCuts makes their files so that it is easy to resize all the parts to the same size with out having to guess at it.
The letters I choose were L O V E and here is a picture of them.

 The O is a little "off" but they said that the letters with curves are the hardest ones to make. For me the hardest part of making the letters was deciding on embellishments for them.  I cut out some patterned paper for the flower on the O and used a heart shaped brad to  hold them together.  I got the idea for the heart on the L from the Art Glitter  blog. But I couldn't think of anything for the other two letters.  Over the weekend I was watching some videos on YouTube, and one was from The Gentleman Crafter.  I love his videos, he is so fun to watch when he is making things.  He cut out a heart from Chipboard, and then decorated it.  That got me to thinking, I can cut chipboard with my Silver Bullet Electronic Die cutter, so I grabbed a piece of chipboard and started cutting. I created the heart file from a basic shape and just altered it a bit in SCAL and made different sizes. I started out putting gesso on them then painted them. Once they were dry I used different mediums like Glass Bead Gel and Modeling Paste. The inspiration for those came from the Creative Jump Start videos. I even played around with mixing my own color after taking Julie Fei-Fan Blazers Getting Started class, and made purple for one of the hearts (on the E).  I'm not sure what I'm going to do with the extra hearts, but I will hold on to them for future projects.

Here is a closer look at the individual letters and some of the left over hearts.
I added some glitter and white paint to this heart.

 

 I stacked two of the chipboard hearts together, the bottom one is painted, the top heart I put some Heavy Gel Medium on it to give it some texture.  Not sure it shows up well in the picture.

 On this heart, I used a line of Glossy Accents around the bottom heart, and filled the top heart with Glossy Accents, before gluing them together.

 Here are a few of the other hearts I was making to show some of the different ways I painted them. The smaller ones just have a base coat of red on them for now.  The pink heart on the right has some Glass Bead gel on it... I think it needs something more, but not sure what just yet.  I will probably wait until I am ready to use it for something before I do anything more to it.

On this heart I started with modeling paste and added some pink paint to it, before putting it on the heart.  Then I covered it with the Glass Bead gel. I wanted to try some of my spray inks, and the color I choose did NOT look good, so I covered it all up with paint.   You can still see the texture of the beads on the heart, but not as much as before I painted it.

 

 I will be making more of the 3D letters from SVGCuts in the future, and I can't wait until I have more time to play with more of the different mediums.

I want to thank you for taking the time to stop by and I hope that you enjoy the journey.

 

Thinking Spring

Today I finished up a project using an SVGCuts.com set that I bought last year called Spring Birdhouses. Here is the link directly to that set.  Spring Birdhouses  I know it isn't spring yet, but I had some time to work on these cute little birdhouses, so I made some for my Card Club group that will be meeting tomorrow. 

You can just make out my Silver Bullet Electronic die cutting machine in the background. (I just L O V E that machine).  
I used Stampin Up patterned paper for the fronts, Worldwin DoubleMates for the boxes, and various papers for the other embellishments.  I glued everything together with ScrapFusion (TM) glue from Ivy Hallow.  Here are some close up pictures of the houses. 

I think I'm going to have to make the other Bird Houses in that set and use them to decorate for Spring.  They went together easily, but then all the files from SVGCuts.com are a joy to work with.  I'm going to have to start using more of their files.  
All the photography was done by my in house photographer... Daniel Hammond.