Special Order Apron

I came up with this idea for my bestie and I to make customize t shirts at first.  Then I thought to myself I have a million t shirts I don't need another one, so I found these aprons.  I cut the crowns out on the cricut altered them a little bit (they had a weird thing on the top that I didn't love so I cut it off).  I was going to cut the letters out of the same fabric and just iron them on but long story short that didn't happen and I end up using fabric paint.  Then I decided they were still a little blah so I added some vintage buttons from my stash and then dyed some white seam binding pink.  I then pleated it along the pocket that was a little bit of a chore, but well worth it.  We wore them yesterday for our National scrapbooking day crop.  People seemed like them a lot.  In the long run they were well worth what I went through to create them and I offered to make customized ones for the girls at the Vintage Room.  A couple members wear aprons at our gatherings and they are great because they protect your clothes from your mess project.    And frankly I think they are a lot of fun!!

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What are your plans?

So saturday is National scrapbooking day!! What are your plans this year?? My plans include spending the day with my best friend at a crop at our favorite local store Captured Moments!! I'm really looking forward to celebrating this year as I haven't really celebrated in the last few years.  It should be an awesome day of crafting with friends.  I also signed up with Big Picture Classes because the scrap store has wifi!!

So I will be following also with them and hopefully all sorts of fun stuff!! I hope you all have a wonderful National scrapbooking day and that you get to do something fun with friends even if you just do some shopping.  Have a great day!

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July's Altered Tag

So here is my altered tag for July.  It seems these come to me in clusters.  Its nothing too fancy I just inked the background with Faded Denim and Fired Brick ink.  Then Embossed Fireworks in white.  I cut my main image out on the cricut with Child's Year.  Made a Rosette out of Tim's Holtz holiday paper pack (I got for $5 at Micheal's on clearance wooooowhoooo!!) Then added some tissue tape and Distress stickles (and regular stickles) and July that I welded and cut out on the cricut (and more stickle!).  Now I just need to sit down and duplicate June and July's tags for myself and I will have them done then on to August and September.

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June's Altered Tag

Front

Back

This tag has been staring me in the face for weeks now.  I had the men and the tag front sitting on my table along with the vintage truck.  I knew I want those element on the tag in some way but I wasn't sure how to get it the way I wanted.  So I just starting placing and pulling stuff to make a tag I was proud of.  So today I sat down and said to myself "You are going to finish this!"  and of course I did.  So here is what I basically did.  I started with a blank manila tag I stamped the background with one Tim Holtz's new stamp sets (I'm not sure the name of the set and I don't feel like walking to my craft room to figure it out.  Its the one with the stamp of the three men, which I also used).  I then took distress ink in Peeled Paint and Broken china and turn the manila tag green and blue. Then I made my June pattern paper using my calendar stamp set from CTMH and added peeled paint distress ink so it would match the tag.  The next thing I did was I color the truck Aged Mahogany (again with distress ink) and to tie it in with the rest of the tag I used a very light amount of the mahogany around the edge of the tag itself.  I then glued the strip of DCWV gear paper (which measures  3/4 inch)  and then my June paper (which measures 1/2 inch).  Then I set my men on the tag and decided it needed more so I went to my stamp collection and found a CTMH stamp set with a pocket watch and embossed it using copper embossing powder. I still thought it was too plain so I went off to my gypsy and looked through my Heritage cartridge and found the tree I used.  I cut it out on white paper and then used Vintage Photo and Walnut stain distress inks to color it (which I should have colored the paper first then cut it out).   I glued the tree down then Foam dotted my men in place.  So as you can see my truck ended up pushed to the back of my tag, so I used it like I wanted to but I just couldn't work it into the front.  I repeated a few techniques on the back.  I really like how it turned out.  Now I'm going to move on to July and hopefully I will share it very soon.

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Playing with my cricut

I got a few cartridge for my birthday and easter so I sat down yesterday and played a little bit.  The three cards I made are from the Simply Charmed Cartridge and the motorcycle is from Groovy times.  I'm going to make it into a card I think.  I just wanted to put it together last night and figured that I was already taking pictures of my cards so I'd take a picture of it too.  

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I made some cards and Birthday art from my friends

Over the last couple of days I have taken sometime out to do a little creating.  I made some cards using my new Tim Holtz Stamps, distress ink, some white and black cardstock, ribbon and brads.  They came out pretty cool in my opinion.  The other thing I wanted to share is the birthday art on display from all my friends in my art group.  I received some beautiful art as I do every year!  I have it hanging as you can see in my art room on a "clothes line"   

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Happy Birthday to me

So yesterday was my birthday it was pretty low key.  I had dinner with my parents, my bestie and my nephew.  Then my boyfriend and my brother (and fur-nephew) came over for ice cream cake and presents.  It was nice to quietly celebrate 28 years.  So I got some great stuff some pretty jewelry from Funky Vintage Lovely, some cool motorcycle related t-shirts, some new music to jive to in the craft room from Michael Franti and Spearhead, a gift card to Kohl's (I can't wait to go shopping), gift card for Walmart and a gift card to get a mani, pedi.  Then of course I got all of Tim Holtz's new stamp sets, and 4 cricut cartridges to play.  I can't wait to play!! I think the best thing was that my nephew was there.  With some help from Tabitha Jamison turned a little blue lol.  He put his hand in the side of my ice cream cake and got his fingers and face a little messy.  I can't wait till his first birthday and watching him play with cake!  I'm a good Aunt lol.  I'm going to spoil the child rotten!!

The picture above is from my art gathering birthday cupcake.  The ladies were sweet enough to remember me and that cupcake was sooooo good.  On top of that I got lots of beautiful goodies to display!  My art friends are so awesome.  I love giving a receiving art.  I'll try to remember to take a picture of my new art in my art room. Pin It Now!