Thursday, January 30, 2014

Villain's Love!


So this week is the Joker and Harley Quinn turn in my “Famous Couples Card Series”.





This card is my son, Jota, idea. He is such an action figures expert (I don´t even know who Harley Quinn was)





Thank J, I think this card is going to be a hit.











The villain lovers at the city













The Joker 










Harley Quinn













To make this card I used the “Superpalz 2” ScrappyDew cutting file.


This is a huge file that includes almost all the heros and the villains.





You can find this lovely cutting file





HERE

Monica




Alice in Wonderland Anniversary card







 


 


Here is a belated anniversary card I made for friends.  I thought the theming was perfect since we were late getting it to them.  I used the Alice in Wondrland file you can find here: http://shop.scrappydew.com/shop/search/wonderland/


I used a Alice Themed paper from my Disney stash and layered it on top of pink cardstock.  On the inside I made it a pop up card.  I cut slots for the table and mushroom chairs.  Once the table was popped up I used an exacto knife to cut out the whole for the table legs.  I used the Walt Disney font from Fontspace.com

Potatoe Head Sign








This is a functional sign that I made as part of  my design team project.  This was made with the Potatoe Heads free file in the vault.  If you haven’t checked out purchasing the vault now is good time.  You could pair this with the Story Toys 2013 file for an adorable scrapbook layout.


I used Toy Story themed paper from a seller on Etsy and printed at home from a digital file.  I used the free font Walt Disney from Fontspace.com I laminated it and it is now on our front door.

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Dinosaur Easel Cards










Today I’m sharing 2 easel cards that I made using the Dino-Mite Dinosaurs file. One is a Valentine’s Day card for my son and the other is a Birthday card for my friend’s daughter. TFL! 





DT~Melissa






Saturday, January 25, 2014

2 Hoots in Love


Today I have a Valentine that I made for my DH Bob.  Of course I had to tell him that it was for a cute couple in Canada.  I have to be sneaky like that because I bounce ideas off him and show him the results. I just love this pattern called Hoots in Love 2012.http://shop.scrappydew.com/shop/item/50459  Isn’t this adorable.  I just love easel cards and this was a fun one to make. So here is the finished card. 





What do you think?












Now I can’t take credit for the design of the card base.  I found this design on a website that I have been following for a couple of years. Birdscards.com http://www.birdscards.com/page/2/ is where you can find the easel card shaped like a heart.  Bird has wonderful designs so head on over and take a look. The saying is a stamp I picked up at a garage sale a couple of years ago.  I love a good treasure hunt and a good bargain.  The envelope paper is K & Co.  I wanted to make the heart stand out a little more so I backed it with white glitter paper and the easel stop are 3 heart jewels I have had forever.  





Well that is it for this week.  Next weekend I will show you what I have been making for a very dear sister of my heart for her birthday. (just gotta be careful and say it’s for someone else)  





Have a wonderful week and see you next Saturday!!!





Bright Blessings, Jana





Thursday, January 23, 2014

Love is a Mystery


Keeping on with our famous couples cards series, this week we go back on time to 1969, to the Hanna-Barbera series: Scooby Doo, Where are you!










So I made a van shaped card showing Fred and Daphne, using the “Mystery Gang” ScrappyDew cutting file.










 Fred Jones










Daphne Blake










“Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.”




Rabindranath Tagore






You can find this cutting file





Tuesday, January 21, 2014

I'd Be Lion If........










For this weeks project I made my son an easel card using the “Valentine Day Lions 2012” file. I made this to match a lion I bought him at build a bear. I think he’s going to love it! TFL! 





~Melissa~









Saturday, January 18, 2014

Happy Birthday!


Sooooo glad you could visit today.  I needed a birthday card to send off to a friend this week.  Didn’t have the time or energy (still feeling a little under the weather) to make a really fancy card.  So I created a rather large card from one element of the Bear Clowns 2013 Scrappy Dew file.  http://shop.scrappydew.com/shop/item/86985





To make this card, I used Zenith Zing and Make the Cut software.  I created a shadow about 1/4 inch larger than the cake.  Duplicated the shadow, mirrored it and welded together to form the card.  The glitter paper is DCWV and the rest is little scraps of various manufacturers.   So here is how it turned out.














It is a large card 5 1/2 by 7 inches.  Had to really get creative on the envelope.  It’s colorful and sweet and I sure hope she enjoys it.  That’s all for today.  I am up to my eyelashes in red paper, ribbon, sparkles and stamps all for Valentines Day.  Hope you have a wonderful week and see you next Saturday!





Bright Blessings, Jana






Thursday, January 16, 2014

I Love You.....I Know


This week, I continue with my famous characters Valentines cards series and today is Han Solo and Princess Leia turn. 













Han Solo












Princess Leia 













In spanish “Solo” means “lonely”, I think that will be Han´s future if he keeps answering that way. LOL





To make this card I used the “Star Fighters” from ScrappyDew and you can find it HERE

Monica






Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Nuts about You!










I’m so excited about this card! I made this to
go along with my daughter’s valentine’s day gift. I got her the valentines
elephant from Build a Bear and this file is a perfect match! TFL!





~Melissa~






Thursday, January 9, 2014

Finally.....


Valentine’s Day is coming, so I’ll be posting a series of cards of famous couples made with ​​ScrappyDew files.





Who does not know about Mario´s battles to find the Princess?





So, after years of searching, fighting, running and jumping, he finally could reach her.










Mario










The Princess










This card is perfect for any persistent lover.





For this card I used the Scrappio Dew Brothers file from ScrappyDew and


you can find it 





HERE

Monica








Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Valentine Candy Box







For this week’s project I
made a candy box for my hubby who is deployed. I’m thinking I may make a couple
of these for teacher gifts! I used the Hogs and Kisses file to make this! 











Thanks for looking!


Melissa












Snowman Kits For Sale Snowglobe








Upcylced Snowglobe


Here is a fun and easy winter project.  I repurposed a “Prima” flower’s jar by adding Recollections Tinsel Glitter and using the Scrappydew Snowman Kit 2012 pattern.  Because this was a small jar I dit the project as a print and cut.  I mirrored the pattern and printed 2 copies.  One tip, do not mirror the sign as it will reverse the words.    I scored a 1” wide piced of paper about 3” long at 1 1/4, 1 1/2 and 1 3/4.  I folded in the middle and adhered the 2 folds together for the base.  I slipped the folded piece in the middle of the 2 pieces.  I added ribbon and voila an adorable snow globe!




You can find the pattern here: http://shop.scrappydew.com/shop/item/75818

Saturday, January 4, 2014

Blessings Box


Last year I tried something new.  It was a post I saw on Facebook.  It was a mason jar that had been spruced up.  The jar was then labeled Blessings 2013.  So I had a very cute jar the girls had given me for Christmas, I labeled it and put little pieces of paper in it.  On each slip of paper I wrote the date and the blessing.  Then on New Years Eve I opened each blessing.  A few tears were cried but it is something I hope to continue each year from now on. 






BUT~~~~~you know that I can’t do anything without creating a mess first.  Glitter faerie fights with the Bling Brats is fairly common in my studio.  I decided that I would re-purpose a wooden cigar box into a beautiful blessing box that I could use over and over.  So let’s get this project started!!!









Here is what my cigar box looks like.  It’s dinged up and battered.  Just wait little box, you are going to become treasured.

















So the first step is to cover the inside of the box.  I carefully measured the inside bottom and then side height.  Added it together and the inside came to 8 3/4 by 9 1/4 inches.  I am learning in my old age to cut a pattern out first (to many mistakes to waste my pretty paper or material)  I cut a square with these dimensions and then cut each corner out using the height of the side. I scored a square linking the cut out squares and folded up the sides.



A pic is a better explanation.







 Well I thought I was on the right track.  THIS IS WHY I ALWAYS USE A SCRAP.  Trial and error is usually how a project starts for me.  So I measured again, took the same steps and this is how it looks.  


Yes dear friends, I hear you yelling.  YOU HAVE TO ADD THE SIDE TO EACH SIDE OF THE BOX.  Not just two sides….So it took Geometry in College to teach me how to play pool (all about the angles baby)  I’m a little slow on the uptake.  ZENITH ZING to the rescue.  I made a square using the bottom dimensions, added the side height to each side and cut.









 I now have the bottom pattern and can decide what to use.  Pretty paper or maybe some felt with tinsel. Next up is the inside of the lid.  It’s scratched and dinged.  So I got the dimensions and cut another pattern using freezer paper that I had laying around (use it for appliques in quilting).  So now I have patterns for the inside top and bottom.





Next is to give the entire box a new pretty surface.  I picked up some black enamel paint while at the Habitat for Humanity ReStore, just a very little bottle and for 25 cents I was happy.  I had forgotten how much I DISLIKE painting with oil based enamel.  Yes it is beautiful when done, nice shine and gloss.  But the clean-up took longer than the actual painting.  So the box is all painted and I let it dry over night.

























DAY TWO









Time to get the inside done.  I decided on the black felt with multi-colored tinsel.  I cut the felt using my pattern, sprayed the back with 3M adhesive and stuck it down.  I used my paper folder to make sure the felt was pushed into the corners.  Well I didn’t take into consideration the thickness of the felt, it stuck over the edge of the box.  So I got out the scissors and trimmed it.  Well if you look in the above pics, the lip around the inside is a reddish tan.  It looked horrible.  So got the enamel out again and painted it.  It looks much better now. 












DAY THREE









The paint has had plenty of time to cure.  It had felt tacky.  Smooth as glass, so that means is time to transform what was a very sad little cigar box.  Let’s start with the inside cover.  I used ColorBok  Pastels paper pack for the background.  Then added some ribbon on the edges.  Next I created the little angel from the ScrappyDew Little Angels 2012 filehttp://shop.scrappydew.com/shop/item/73964.  The clouds are from the same file.  I did use some pink pastel chalk on the edges of the large cloud.  The font is Missed Your Exit and I did a print and cut using MTC to complete the clouds.  Silver stars and tiny flowers are from my big box of sparkles.  I think it looks really cute.














Now for the outside.  I have a punch from EK Success that is beautiful.  I tried and tried to get it to punch through some very thick glitter paper.  Here is the solution.  I used my foot.  I have hardly any strength in my hands anymore.  So I gently stepped on the punch and it worked beautifully.  I trimmed each strip and adhered one to each side (carefully avoiding the hinges and latch).   














Almost done!  I love faeries and wanted a big one for the top of the box.  I used the Royalty Palz #3 princess http://shop.scrappydew.com/shop/item/68599.  The eyes are a pattern that I found over on Brigit Manns’s website.  Can’t share but I will show you the location http://www.brigitsscraps.com/.  Thanks Brigit! Now I needed some pretty big wings.  Looked in my Scrappy Dew files and found the wings in the Butterflies 2013 set http://shop.scrappydew.com/shop/item/88712.  Using MTC and my Zing, I enlarged the wings and cut one out of Vellum and the other out of DCWV Glitter Paper.  (Just a hint, I saved the glitter paper and used it like a stencil to place the parts on the vellum like a puzzle)  So now to put it all together.  The background paper is DCWV Pretty Posies, more glitter paper around the edges and the font used is Romance Fatal Serif Std.  The final item for my treasured blessings box is pretty paper to write my blessings on.  









So my dear friends, Let me show you my blessings box!!!
























It has been a long 3 days.  I really am pleased as punch with the way a dinged up cigar box has become a box to be filled with blessings!  Thank you from the bottom of my heart for visiting today!   If you happen to make a blessing box I would love to see it.  Happy New Year and bright blessings for 2014.









Bright Blessings, Jana













Thursday, January 2, 2014

Tree Frogs Card


My first post of the year is all about frogs. 





I really love this colorful frogs from the “Tropical Tree Frogs” ScrappyDew`s file, so I made a shape card with it.

























You can find this lovely file 


HERE

Monica