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Valentine’s Day Card #2

Chelsea — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:53:15 +0000

Valentine’s Day crafts are in full swing and I’m bring you another card today. This was is another very clean, plain, simple, easy and cheap card. Wow. That was a lot of adjectives. Tomorrow should be a treat bag. Thanks for watching.

Valentine’s Day Card #1

Chelsea — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:42:52 +0000

Seeing as how it is the first day of February and there are only 14 days until Valentine’s day I figured I would share a few Valentine’s day tutorials with everyone. First up, this cute, modern, clean and easy valentine’s day card. I want these tutorials to be easy for anyone to do whether you’re a beginner or an expert. You should find them fun and enjoyable.

Downloadables

I’m offering the heart file to download for free. You can print it out and use it as a template or save the SVG file and cut it with your electronic cutter. You can either save the jpg below or go to the SVG file or the AI file (right click save as).

Florida Mini Album

Chelsea — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 04:46:45 +0000

Last year Garrett and I went on vacation with his parents to Orlando, FL. After the vacation I wanted to thank them for letting me go with them so I made them this mini album for all of the pictures and memorabilia I collected. I actually finished this album last year and already shipped it off. Before I shipped it off I was able to record a really quick video showing some of the pages and paper memorabilia. I wasn’t able to get any quality photos of the album before it was gone though. Originally when I recorded the video I was doing it to show my cousin, so throughout the video I was talking to her so I forgot to mention some of the products and other things used but hopefully it inspires.

Free Button Card Printable

Chelsea — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:36:38 +0000

I was sitting around designing some vintage elements the other day while also thinking about buttons. My mind works in mysterious ways, what can I say. I realized that I couldn’t find any free printable button cards, which is completely unacceptable in my book. So I decided to make one and share it with you. I give you my free vintage button card printable. Click on the image to be taken to the full high-res download.

The actual card should only be 2.5″ by 3.5″ but I made the borders a little wide to give you room to cut it out (see my example below).

You are free to use it as you like on your cards, scrapbook layouts, other mixed media and paper projects. I would love to see your work so don’t forget to share pictures. I put together this birthday card using the free vintage button card.

Buttons, gears and burlap. What more could a girl ask for?

Ribbons and Fabrics, Oh my!

Chelsea — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:49:15 +0000

Found a fantastic deal going on today and tomorrow. Visit Plum District for $20 worth of ribbon, fabrics and crafting supplies for only $12. You can purchase up to two for yourself and two additional as gifts so be sure to stock up. I think I’ll be picking up a few shabby chic flowers with my voucher.

December Daily Mini Album Christmas Scrapbook

Chelsea — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 23:20:56 +0000

Is it just me or does it seem like it was just Christmas? Truth be told, I finished this December Daily Scrapbook a few weeks ago but I’ve been too busy to tell you all about it. I’m finally settling into the new year and getting some serious work done. So here it is, my December Daily.

The paper collection is from Teresa Collins and it is called Christmas Home. I still have quite a few scraps left that I think would be perfect for some crafts or maybe cards next year.

Pair Of Jeans Greeting Card – Masculine Handmade Fathers Day Card – Levi’s Jeans Card

Chelsea — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 03:55:45 +0000

Making a masculine card by hand is difficult. I have had a seriously difficult time with it. Here is a fathers day card that I think has some potential. It is a handmade and sewn greeting card that looks like a pair of jeans. Genius! I made this last fathers day. The card is full of custom stitching and I even created the graphic for the tag.

The pocket was fun and I even thought of making it an open pocket and sticking a $20 in there. It would be a fantastic card for holding gift cards.

Hopefully this gives you some inspiration for some masculine cards.

Creative Birthday Gift Wrapping

Chelsea — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 21:59:40 +0000

You know why I like birthdays, weddings and baby showers more than Christmas? A smaller quantity of gifts means I can put more creativity and effort into the gift wrapping and decorating. Every year I see so many lovely Christmas presents done up all fancy with bows and tags but who really has time to do that on every present? I choose a select few to wrap nice and by the end I get far too lazy and end up doing it the easy way. But with birthdays, I usually only have one or two gifts so I go crazy!

These were all kind of a rush job but I absolutely love the way they came out. There is a gift tag, a wine tag and a card that I made all to mach with the same papers, ribbons and colors. Of course, I had to wrap the present in newspaper but I choose pink newspaper to match the tag. The newspaper came pink one day so I saved it, well actually I hoarded it, this is the first time I used it in over a year. It matched so perfectly.

Halloween Mini Album

Chelsea — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 18:25:59 +0000

I know it is way past Halloween but I couldn’t help but share this. It is probably one of my favorite mini’s to date. I actually finished it quite a while ago but I didn’t have any book board for the front and back covers. Now that is all finished and tidy I thought I would share.

Pretty much all of the products used are from the Recollectiosn line at Michaels. The paper, the die cuts, the flowers and even the bling all come from there.

Hope you all had a fantastic holiday weekend. It really doesn’t feel like a Monday to me. It is hard to get back into the swing of things. Happy holidays and an even happier new year!

Christmas Tags

Chelsea — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 04:51:43 +0000

For the last 3 years it has been my tradition to wrap Christmas presents in newspaper. Why do I do this? I think it looks nice. It is cheap and I save myself a ton of money on fancy wrapping paper. Newspaper is easily recycled: reduce, reuse, recycle. So because my presents can be kind of plain I have to dress them up somehow. I usually add fancy ribbons and twine and nice tags. Here is a sample of some of my tags from this year.

I also experimented with fabric tags. I basically took a small rectangular piece of fabric and stamped on it. It looks pretty nice and was nice and cheap, just how I like it.