Baby Blocks

Good morning,

well it's been a long time since I've dusted off my cricut for a real paper craft.  I forgot how much I loved using it.  I've been so busy with other projects that I hardly ever use my cricut.  Today I did because my son't girlfriend does photography and she is doing a new baby shoot in a week and asked me to make her a baby prop.  She wanted those old time blocks with the babies name (Skyy, her mom's name is Starr) spelled out on one side and GIRL on the other side but all in pink, so this is what I came up with...

I cut the blocks (boxes) in various sizes from 1 inch to 2.5 inches using my TBBM cartridge in light pink

and inked all the edges with a darker pink.

I used various fonts from different cartridges to get a good mixture. 

Using a darker pink paper, I used my SCAL to cut the block thingies 

(not sure what they are called)

and cut them and the letters 3 times to give them a 3d affect.

I also used my New Arrival cart to cut all the side panel motifs.  Those I just cut once and I used my Xyron sticker maker to attach all of those to the blocks themselves.  

I just realized I have no pictures of the sides.  :(

She really loved how they turned out.  Hopefully I can show off some of the pictures she will take with these.

I hope you've enjoyed my project and as always, have a great day and God Bless.

Headwrap Charms

Good morning and welcome to another Creative Paperclay® post.  Today I am showing you a follow up from two weeks ago when I created some paperclay charms from "non" molds.  If you don't know what I am talking about go here.

So I started with one of the charms I created while it was still a bit wet.

When the clay is not yet hardened all the way

I took the original charm 

and laid it onto the clay and gently pressed

it into the clay 

it gives the clay some definition 

see. 

After the clay piece was completely hard

I painted it with Metallic Pure Gold

Acrylic paint. 

Then I used the Shimmering Garnet from 

Terri Sproul's Mixers and you can get 

those here.  Not only does this give the

crown a glitzy effect, but it also seals the

piece when you mix it with the 3D 

Crystal Lacquer.

I wanted to add some glitz to my crown and remembered a purchase 

I recently made from my favorite "Dollar Tree". 

In the health and beauty aisle I came across these

nail art bottles.  I knew I needed them for

my altered art projects and they came in

handy for this project. 

I added some rhinestones and these itty bitty

pink balls from the nail art with the 3D Crystal Lacquer 

and covered them again with it to seal it. 

Then I took an unfinished crown, (yes I

usually make more than 1 piece at a time

in case of mishaps) and traced it onto a scrap

of soft faux leather. 

I cut it out just a bit bigger than the piece itself. 

I also bought these elastic headwraps at 

the Dollar Tree that day, (but not knowing

what I would be doing with them).

I might have a buying problem lol.

I added some glue to the backside of the crown

and glued a part of the headwrap to it.

Then I glued the faux leather piece on top

of the elastic ribbon onto the crown. 

and now I have a gorgeous headwrap charm. 

Close up (it's hard to take a picture of yourself)

So...what do you think?  I think I might be making some of these for my granddaughter for Christmas.  

I hope you've enjoyed another tutorial from me using the Creative Paperclay®.  Remember, the possibilities are endless...just use your imagination.

As always, have a great day and God Bless.

Robin's Nest DT Call

Good morning and welcome to another day filled with surprises.

Today I am showing you what you can make with so little, but make it so beautiful.  As most of you know I am a thrift store junky.  I love rummaging and finding old things to make new again.  A long time ago, (remember I am also a hoarder) I was at a thrift store and saw this cute little house like frame thingy.  It was 25 cents (I know this because I left the tag on it).  I can't resist a bargain, plus I knew I could make something of it.  Well, in my hoarding state, I tucked it away to be forgotten about.  Not long ago I was going through some of my stuff, because I have waaayyyy too much, (Just ask my hubby) and decided I was going to start purging a little, a little!  Shortly before that I had gone to my friend, Terri Sprouls "Live Stream for the Robin's Nest".  I have looked at their papers and such but never had to opportunity to play with any. While watching the "live stream", I won a paper pack from the Robin's Nest...yeah for me!  I didn't know which paper pack I'd be receiving, but knew I was going to create something for the DT Call that Terri mentioned.  As I like to dabble in a lot of different crafty things, I decided to submit this for the Altered Arts team.  I love to upcycle, recycle and unicycle...lol, not really.  So, here we go...

This is the paperpack I won.  It's filled with glitzy snowy paper, alphabet stickers and dew drops.  I've made my own dew drops before, but I am in LOVE with these.  They are so much better than my homemade ones.  There were white, silver, clear and pearl ones.  LOVE, LOVE, LOVE them.  There were also some snowflakes in the packet and I knew exactly what I was going to do with this packet.

I used the white paper with the glitzy snowflakes and cut "snow" with  my cricut and SCAL 3.  I tried to cut where the most of the "glitz" was.

Here is the frame, and I spray painted it blue.  I think "blue" when I think winter, not sure why.  I wanted to have a blue house to go with the papers.  I glued the "snow" to the frame of the house and some onto the chimney.  Then I used some fishing line and attached that to the snowflakes.  I used 4 glue dots and adhered them to the top of the "heart" cut outs and attached the snowflake-fishing line to them.  You can hardly notice that and it looks as if it were snowing.  I used the alphabet stickers to say "Let it Snow" and added some of the dew drops as accents and this is what you get.

Really honestly these pictures do it no justice at all.  I wish you could see how glitzy the "snow" look.  I absolutely love how it turned out and can't wait to give it to my mom,  but by the time you read this, I will have done so already.  I'm sure she will love it...  So, see what you can do with a little?

Now, I also love to make jewelry...beads are a blast.  When I got the paper from the Robin's Nest, I fell in love with the blues and wanted to create something that I can have around all the time.  So I thought and thought and came up with this idea...I used my Creative Paperclay® and cut a circle with a cookie cutter.

Then I cut a piece of the paper slightly larger than the dried piece of clay. 

See where it had fit in?  I glued the paper onto the dried paperclay with 3D Crystal Lacquer.   I also made this fleur de lis out of paperclay and painted everything silvery to go with the paper.  I got the idea of using the fleur de lis from the paper itself. 

I then sealed the entire piece with 3D Crystal Lacquer so that it would sparkle a bit also. 

I wish this picture were better 

but here is the finished piece.  I cannot wait to wear it.  The beads were a perfect match to the paper.

I hope you've enjoyed my little projects and keep your fingers crossed for me...I may soon get to be on the Robin's Nest DT.

Quick tip making an embellishment

Good morning to you all...

I am so glad to be back on the DT for Creative Paperclay®.   I so love this product and cannot wait to get into full swing.  

Today's post will be a quick tip post.  Next time I will show you what I did with the finished things.  Now, sometimes we just don't have a way of making a mold, unlike the Amazing Mold Putty, which, by the way, I love just as much as the paperclay.  So improvise...On a recent shopping trip I found these adorable metal embellishments from Tim Holtz and...they were super cheap, regular $7.99 and I got them for $2.99.

When I took them out of the package to put away, I noticed the nice indentation of the packaging.  With my frugal mindset, I knew I could do something with it.  I hardly EVER throw anything away. 

So I pressed some of the paperclay into the indentations.... 

and added some beads to one of them and then pressed the paperclay ontop of that and let it dry...

now, just because you don't have any molds, use what you have.  There are endless possibilities.  Please come back in 2 weeks to see the finished project.  I know you will love it.

Thanks so much for stopping by today and I hope I've inspired you  to use your imagination.