Holiday Gifts - Heat Transfer Vinyl to the Rescue

It's time for some vinyl!  It's been a while and in an attempt to switch gears and do something new. I pulled out some felt bags that I received as a gift from a good crafty friend of mine a while back and then Brandy came over.  The holidays are upon us and she has office gifts to give out.  So, we decided to personalize these bags for some of her employees.  I have had this heat transfer sitting around for ages.  And I used it!  

I love projects that use my supplies and nothing else!  I had to take a few minutes to watch a video because it really has been that long since I've worked with heat transfer.  And it was a little rough going there for a few moments, I won't lie.  But overall I really like the results.

And there was one over the shoulder bag.  Hard to photograph, but here's my best effort.

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Take What You Need . . . From the Heart

Tired of these yet?  I know, I know.  I run it into the ground before I'm done with it.  I changed it up a little bit today and I like the results.  I hope you do too.

Recipe:

Paper:  My Mind's Eye's Miss Caroline 6 x 6 pad; Canvas Corp Cork Adhesive sheet

Silhouette:  Heart shape mats

Cricut:  Flower shoppe flowers

Spellbinders:  Gromet Tags and Classic Cards

Misc:  Leather Cord & bling from my stash

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Trick or Treat featuring DCWV's Bewitched!

Can you believe Halloween is a little over two months away?  I love Halloween, it's a paper crafter's dream.  DCWV's Halloween stacks are always a must have and I am thrilled to show you a project featuring their new Halloween stack Bewitched.  These are pictures of my son from last Halloween  that I never got around to scrapping.  Which was a good thing because now that I am an Instagram junkie I was able to add a fun little filter for effect that I would not have otherwise bothered with.  My son was going through his second Star Wars phase last fall and he begged to be Darth Maul for Halloween  He initially asked if we would paint his face and I nixed that idea pretty quickly, too much trouble!  We went with the mask instead!

 

Don't you love those trick-or-treaters?  I do, in fact, this was the reason I purchased this Cricut cartridge - Autumn Celebrations last fall.  It was bound to end up on a page at some point.  It's been so long since I've used my Cricut E2 I loaded the paper incorrectly twice before I remembered it was different than my Silhouette. Moving right along! The rest of the die cuts were made using my Cameo, and some of the other  embellishments are also from DCWV.  I am thrilled that Erin from DCWV was so kind to send those to me to use, I never see them in our local stores.  So there you have it.  One Halloween page down, several more to go given the number of pictures I have to get through!

Recipe:

DCWV Bewitched Stack and Bewitched Cardstock Stack

Cricut - Autumn Celebrations (trick or treaters)

Silhouette - all other die cuts

Embellishments:  DCWV

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Happy Father's Day Layouts

Good morning everyone!  Happy Father's Day to all of the fathers out there including my own.  And because of the special day it is, I have a Father's Day layout to share with you guys.  These are pictures that were taken last year on Father's Day.  Unfortunately I was out of town with my youngest son, but my Dad, my husband and my oldest son got together for a short time that day.  And someone took some really good photos!  These are two layouts that I started a long, long, long time ago that I again got *stuck* on.  Brandy pulled these out the other week and we finished them. Now why are there two of them?  Remember last year when I was scrapbooking in doubles?  Yep, these were a part of that adventure - it's been that long.  So I have an extra one!  I think I'm going to put it in a frame and give it to my Dad when we get together later today.  I'm sure he will appreciate it.

And here is Number Two!

Look at that balloon journaling.  That was like, only the second print and cut I did with my Cameo.  Oh my, have I come a long way since then!

Recipe:

Paper:  DCWV Main Street stack

Cricut Cartridges:  Elegant Edges

Silhouette:  Print and cut journaling

Beads and pearls:  My Stash

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Stump Reading - DCWV Stack a Holic April Challenge

I'm back with another scrapbook page which, from the looks of it was the last thing I posted.  Eh, what can I say, I work on whatever I'm moved by.  This page is for this month's DCWV Stack-a-holic Challenge.  I've been playing for about four or five months now and I have to say it's quickly become one of my favorite challenges.  I have quite a few of these stacks, many I've never used so it's a good opportunity to put that paper to use.  Plus, these are always sketch challenges and I love a good sketch.  Erin is now using sketches from a new site called Got Sketch.  The sketch artist is Valerie Salmon.  I hadn't discovered this site before now, and I've looked high and low for sketch sites, but  no matter - I have it now!  There are a lot of great sketches that are easily modified to suit your purposes.  

I think I mentioned some time ago that I have started working out my pages using the Silhouette Studio software.  The fact that I can import the sketch and pictures that I am using right into the software really helps me get a sense of what I want to do and get the sizing of elements right the first time.  I am a totally visual person.  I need to be able to see it, otherwise I have to go back and fix, and change, and fix, and change, and well, you get the idea.   Here is the page in the Silhouette Studio:

And here is the finished page

I used DCWV's "The Guy Stack" for this challenge, with just a small addition of orange cardstock from their Dots, Stripes & Plaids stack.  The journaling label is a Silhouette print and cut.  I just printed it on cardstock from the stack cut down to fit into my printer.  The grass as the bottom is actually a Cricut cut.  I tried it in my Cameo, but this paper is textured and has some sort of enamel top that the Cameo just wouldn't cut through.  My Cricut, however, handled it with no problem.  If there are any drawbacks to my Cameo, this is it.  I really wish it could handle thicker paper.  But I still love her!  I also used my new Wide Format Printer to print out the photograph - yes I printed that myself!  The photograph measures 5 x 9 1/2 inches and I absolutely LOVE that I can size photos to any size I want now. 

Recipe:
Paper:  DCWV The Guy Stack, Dots, Stripes & Plaids
Silhouette:  All shapes, dragonfly, journaling tag, title
Cricut:  Grass (Zoobaloo)
Embellishments:  The knit flowers are Recollection, the others are from my stash, as well as the brad and the bling

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Father & Sons

Last fall my husband's grandmother was in town with her new husband (sweetest story ever and I will have to remember to post about it sometime) and we gathered the troops and headed off to dinner at the most allergen friendly restaurant we could find - THANK YOU Outback Steakhouse in Roswell GA - you completely GET gluten and casein free.  Anyway, someone (other than me) snapped these photos while we were there and I just love them!  All of my guys looks so happy and full of love.  So of course they were going to end up on a scrapbook page. I used one of the sketches from my new favorite sketch blog, Little Sketch Book, and I am pretty happy with the results.  I will warn you - this not my best sewing ever.  Not even close.  And I thought about adding some more embellishments but, eh.  I still like it.  We can't hit it out of the park every time now can we?

Recipe:

Paper:  My Mind's Eye Follow Your Heart, American Crafts Campy Trails

Silhouette:  borders, P&C journaling tag, title (&)

Cricut:  Flower Shoppe flowers

Bling:  My Mind's Eye Lost & Found Christmas

Misc:  Thickers (title) and "Love" sentiment - my stash

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Sabriolet Designs Felt Pouch

My friend Kymberlee had the most amazing gifts for my friends and I this past weekend.  Each of us received these really cute felt bags and pouches that you can use for just about anything.  I immediately thought it would be a great thing to personalize it and since I have some new heat transfer vinyl I decided to give it a go.  I absolutely adore flourishes and I have been collecting them in the Silhouette store ever since I bought my Cameo months ago. Combine that with some more flocked vinyl and this turned out really, really well.  I think I'm going to keep my receipts and such in it for my crafting purchases.

Recipe:

Silhouette:  Sabriolet Designs, Flourish

Cricut:  Mother's Day Bouquet - Felt Flower

Brad:  My Mind's Eye Fun Day

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