My Heart Belongs 2 U....by Laura C

Sometimes....don't you want to just get inky and have fun?

That is what this project is about....just pulling out

different inks, paints, stamps.....and having a 

crafter's paradise of playtime!

I started with a blank base tag.....then I stamped and
embossed the heart (a Tim Holtz stamp) using WOW embossing
glitter in Angel Wings then inked the rest of the tag up
with Distress Inks:
Festive Berries, Barn Door, Shaded Lilac.
I dripped water on it to give the background
a more distressed look. 

After using a distressing tool around the edges of
the tag....I reinked with more Barn Door ink.
Then I lightly brush the tag with Adirondack
Paint Dauber in Pearl.  I also used the daubers
on the metal #2....first Red Pepper, then while
still wet....some Pearl to mix it into a silvery pink.
I also used the Pearl to fill in the word "Cherish" on
the metal tag and brushed it around the edge of
the plastic TH fragment piece under the letter
"U".....that piece was also colored with Red
Pepper Alcohol Ink.  Then I inked up the
love definition stamp from the TH
"Love Struck" set in white, and stamped
randomly on the tag.  Then it was just finishing
touches....a bit of TH tissue tape under
the letter U (which is a TH sticker) and
attaching TH baubles, charms, and some
seam binding ribbon.

Many of these fun items are in Cutter's Creek,
if you can't find them in store....please ask Kim,
she is glad to order for you as well!

Take some time to have a little of your own
creative playtime....hope we can inspire you to
do just that!

Holiday Blog Hop-Mousetrap Memo Keepers by Chris

Welcome to the Cutters Creek Design Team Holiday Blog Hop! We want you to hop along with us and play for some awesome Blog Candy. The objective for our Blog Hop this weekend is to provide some inspiration to help you get your holiday crafting underway! Our Design Team has come up with some fabulous projects and we have a little bit of everything, from cards to gift ideas, and home décor items. So we invite you to hop along with us and get your creative juices flowing!

I first used a pair of pliers to remove all extra hardware from wooden mousetraps (leave just the mouse clip) and then,  painted the edges with paint dabbers and under the middle spring. I cut two pieces of decorative paper for each trap—one at 1 3/4x2” and the other at 1 3/4x1 5/8”. Edges were inked and then pieces were glued down with my ATG. I wrapped each base with ¼” scortape with which I adhered the chosen trim. Each trap was decorated differently (see below) and magnetic strips were added to the back so they could be hung on a refrigerator.

Ornament: Red Pepper Paint Dabber with Ideology Holidays Past base paper, inked with Festive Berries Distress Ink. Christmas Cheer cartridge: ornament cut at 4” from Inkessentials Shrink Paper. Image was colored with Copics: R29, YG67, Y28, B05, shrunk, and decorated with Gold Stickles. Red Tinsel Twine used for edges.

Snowman: Sailboat Blue dabber with MME Winter Wonderland base paper, inked with Tumbled Glass Distress Ink. Christmas Cheer cartridge: snowman cut at 1 ¾”. Decorated with Stickles: Cinnamon, Orange Peel, Black Soot, Tumbled Glass Distress stickles and Marvy Liquid White.

Snowflake: Snow Cap paint dabber with MME All is Bright, inked with Peacock Feathers Distress Ink. Joys of the Season cartridge snowflake cut @ 2”, embossed with Wow Neutral Ultra Shimmer. Blue Tinsel Twine edging.

Tree: Bottle paint dabber with MME Winter Wonderland and covered with Picket Fence Distress Stickles. Christmas Cheer cartridge tree cut @ 1 ¾” embossed with Peeled Paint Distress Embossing Powder. Gold stickles and green Tinsel Twine to finish.

Candy Cane: Red Pepper paint dabber with MME All is Bright paper, MME Winter Wonderland Tape, and Festive Berries Distress ink. Christmas Cheer cartridge candy cane cut at 1 ¾”. Bottom layer embossed with red embossing powder and red Tinsel Twine used as the edging.

Poinsettias: Bottle and Snow Cap dabbers used with Ideology Holidays past paper and MME All is Bright paper. Spellbinders Poinsettias cut from mulberry paper. Stickles: Silver, Gold and green Tinsel Twine to decorate.

Poinsettia Print: Snow Cap paint dabber with MME All is Bright paper. Picket Fence Distress Ink, and edged with blue Tinsel Twine.

Check out Cutters Creek Store for:

Paint Dabbers,  My Mind’s Eye papers, Ideology Holidays Past paper, Distress Inks, Stickles, Distress Stickles, Wow Embossing Powders, Ideology Tinsel Twine (Winter), Marvy Liquid White, Scor Tape, Glossy Accents

Now for details on blog candy! In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month we are giving away  the Ink Pink Collection by Jillan Vance.

The Ink Pink Collection includes:
• Pray for the Cure Stamp Set in your choice of Round or Rectangle
• Pink Acrylic Stamp block in either 3x3 for the Round set or 3 x4 for
the Rectangle set
• 5 Charming Jilly Charms, Breast Cancer themed, made of fine pewter
right here in the USA!
• 5 A Jillian Vance Design Pear Pins to attach the Charms onto your
projects.
• A sample of Rinkle Ribbon, vintage ribbon to wrinkle and crinkle, ½”
wide and Made in the USA.

This collection is worth over $45!!
In addition to all the wonderful products in this collection, they
coordinate with Spellbinders Nestabilities!!!
The Round Set coordinates with:
Spellbinders Nestabilities
Beaded Circle S4-292
Classic Scalloped Circles S4-124
Standard Circles Small S4-116
The Rectangle Set coordinates with:
Spellbinders Nestabilities:
Large Labels S4-168

 To enter to win all you need to do is leave a comment on each blog as you hop along.You will have until 12:00am on Monday October 29th to leave a comment with a way for us to get a hold of you.   We will use Random.org to select a winner on Tuesday, October 30th and will post the winners name by 9:00am.

Here is the complete blog hop line up in case you get lost along the way:

Cutters Creek Blog (Chris) - http://www.cutterscreekdesignteam.blogspot.com/
Kim - http://kreativekim.blogspot.com/
Pebbles - http://sheissocrafty.blogspot.com/

Tee - http://tee-myspot.blogspot.com/

Melissa - http://www.ourmadhouseof4.blogspot.com/
Lori - http://savingmine.blogspot.com/

Laura - http://www.scrapaddict4life.blogspot.com/

Fran - http://scallopsandswirls.blogspot.com/
Deanna - http://deannaspapercrafts.blogspot.com/

Don’t forget to leave a comment before hopping along to Kim’s blog. Thanks for hopping by and we hope you enjoy the hop and get many wonderful ideas!

 

Holiday Wishing Well by Deanna M

I have for you today a Home Decor or Gift Item. I saw this wishing well in one of the KaiserCraft Workshop magazines Kim sent me and I just had to have one. I thought this would make a cute table decoration for just about any event. You can use it as a bank if you wish.

As you can see, I decided to decorate mine up for Christmas. First I painted all the areas I wasn't going to cover with paper with my Bottle Green Adirondack Paint Dabber. I then traced around my pieces onto my patterned paper and attached them to the wooden pieces with some Matte Glue N Seal. I really  like this adhesive and find it doesn't wrinkle my paper like some of the other products out there. Once I had all my pieces covered with paper I sprayed them all with some Gold and Silver Glitter Dust. WOW! Do they sparkle, love it.

I let everything dry overnight and then put my pieces all together adhering them with a little Beacon 3 in 1 Glue and the tabs to help secure the pieces together. I really like this glue thought it can be a bit stringy. It is my go to glue with nothing else will work, like when I am glue wood, or metal pieces. It is a thick clear glue and dries clear. I added some Cabbage  Glitter Tape (just ask and Kim and order this for you) along the edge of the roof peak and the top and bottom of each side. Finally I hot glued a few small roses to each side of the well.

It was a lot of fun to do and really quick and easy. I know Kim can special order one for you if you are interested.

Tutorial Tuesday: Enhance Your Embossing by Laura C

The project today is a tag I made using an embossing folder, and I've got a short video on how I enhanced the simple embossed look with different products to get the final result here:

I apologize the video has a "strange" ending....we had some technical difficulties....lol....and then couldn't "merge" the final video.  But the finished project is, of course, in the pic above!  So here is the video on adding texture with an Embossing Folder, Distress Ink, Paint Daubers, and Glimmer Mist and how different each of these looks can be:

So in the end, my "whitewashed" wooden tag, is finished off with a few touches of a die cut border a little Stickles bling, a stamped sentiment, and a second tag of acrylic layered on top, a stamped floral image with Staz-On ink,and brushed around the edges with more paint dauber.

Hope you got a few ideas on some fun things to play with when you use your embossing folders!

Mother's Day Card by Deanna M

I recently received my new Tim Holtz Spring Distress Inks. Wow, are they beautiful. I love them. I decided to make my own background paper using some Adirondack Acrylic Paint Dabbers. I started with a piece of white card stock cut to 3 3/4" X 5". I used a flourished background stamp from Hero Arts (yes, Kim can get this for you, just let her know) and inked it generously with the Snow Cap acrylic paint. Once the paint dried I used my sponge applicator to apply the ink to my paper. I love how it turned out.

For my card, I started with a piece of white card stock cut and folded to 4 1/4" X 5 1/2". I added a gold patterned paper mat from My Minds Eye. Then I added the background paper I made. To finish the card, I added one of the Kaisercraft Dress Forms. I painted my dress form with Eggplant Paint Dabber. I then spritzed it with some Dragonfly Glimmer Mist. Once that dried I spritzed it lightly with some Pearl Glimmer Mist.


I cut a mat for my sentiment from the Elegant Edges cartridge at 1 1/4". I used the same ink colors to ink up my shadow mat and then inked the edges with the Lilac color and stamped my sentiment with the lilac color. I added some pearls to finish my card.

Here is a short video showing you how I did the background paper.