Upcycled T-Shirt Rose Napkin Ring with Sakura

Today on the Sakura Hobby Crafts Blog I show you how to create a fabulous napkin ring using the technique I shared in my last blog post but with Terri Sproul's Mixers and Sakura Hobby Crafts Crystal Lacquer. Hop on over to the blog and check out how I did it! The post below has a template and a video to further describe the process! Thank you for looking!

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leslierahye's crafty gig special | replay and an ornament download

Paper Ball Ornament from Special Ornament leslierahye's crafty gig

This past Friday I created this wonderful paper ornament on a special leslierahye's crafty gig. I love making this ornament as it's super easy but looks complicated. As promised, I made a printable download with a template in different sizes for you to use to make these ornaments! If you do not have your own sizzix die, this is the next best thing!

Paper Ball

Borax Snowflake from the show

This was the super simple Borax crystal ornament that I made on the show too. It was "done" within 12 hours. For the pint jar that I used for this ornament, I pour about a ½ cup of Borax in total to make the super saturated solution.

Below is the replay to that show! Thank you for looking!

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Blog Hop Winner and a Tutorial Download

Thank you to everyone who stopped by my blog during Nicolette's Mom's Day Blog hop! I enjoyed greatly making my projects and sharing them with you!

I used random.org a few minutes ago to select my winner and it was #33 Anna Dowdy!! Congrats Anna, I have sent her an email and www.cutnpastememories.com will send her the gift certificate!!

Tonight on In The Zone, I demonstrated how I constructed my Mother's Day Bracelet and explained how I created the photo fragment charms. You will find the playback to the Beat It! Episode of In The Zone on the Creative Edventure's Blog soon [I will link to the video here when it becomes available].

In the mean time you can check out my Download Tutorial of how to make the digital paper to match your photos! If you have ANY questions, please feel free to post them and I will answer to the best of my ability!
Creating Digital Paper to Match a Photo
Thank you for stopping by!

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Creative EdVentures Special Event | Reece's Rainbow Art Tiles

Last night I joined Cynthia Gagen on a special Creative EdVentures Webcast to share a project that is near and dear to our hearts. Marion Smith of A Piece of Craft shared her passion for this charity and challenged everyone she knows to participate in a artistic endeavor to create collages from 4×4" art tiles that will then be auctioned off to raise funds for this deserving charity. Reece's Rainbow helps orphaned special needs children get adopted into loving families. It is our hope that we will raise enough money to help get several children adopted! Details on the inspiration for the Creative EdVentures Challenge can be found here.

In addition to sharing the Peace Hope and Love Tile, I shared how the metal flower and colored plastic letter beads were made. Additionally I created on camera the Happy Heart Tile, sharing a few more fun tips.

Peace Hope Love Art Tile for Reece's Rainbow Charity Drive

 All tiles are constructed on 4×4" chipboard. Cutnpastememories.com is providing a great deal on precut chipboard squares that you can use for your art tile.

For my Peace, Hope, Love Tile, I layered free digi papers with ink and lace and fun flowers that I rubbed in ink as well. My embellishments for this tile included diecut swirls, buttons from Buttons Galore and Maya Road metal flowers. I completed the embellishing with charms and wire from my stash.

detail of Peace, Hope, Love Tile showing altered bead letters

To create the colored letter beads you can do one of two things. You can use Ranger Alcohol Inks  and blot the color on, or you can use Sharpie Markers or BIC Mark-its and color right on them. Since alcohol-based inks stick to non-porous surfaces, they stick really nicely to the plastic beads and also to the metal flowers.
Embellishments were added to the tile using hotglue so that when these are hanging upright as part of a collage they will stay put!

I created the Happy Heart Tile using downloaded  free digi papers and layering diecut cardboard and grungeboard to create dimension. The edges of this tile were inked with Distress Inks and embossed with clear emboss powder. The flowers were rubbed in distress inks and then spritzed with homemade glimmer mist--made by combining in a mister bottle water, a few drops of dye based ink refiller and Ranger's Perfect Pearls powder.

Happy Heart Art Tile created on 2-Hour Event for Reese's Rainbow Charity Drive

 The heart in the right hand corner is an upcycled dvd that had been split apart to reveal the mylar inside. It was inked up using Ranger Alcohol Inks. I then stamped into the ink with a stamp inked with Stazon and gently rubbed off the ink to lift the image back off the cd. Split CDs and DVDs are easily cut with Tim Holtz scissors or die cut with the Bigshot Machine into any shape you desire.

Detail of Happy Heart Tile showing altered CD heart and metal flowers.

You can also see to the right of the heart in this detail my initials--all art-tiles need to be discretely signed in the bottom right-hand corner.

I completed the embellishing of my tile by adding a little grungeboard butterfly--as a hat tip to Cynthia Gagen, Creative Edventures founding creator.

Detail of Happy Heart Tile showing Creative Memories Butterfly.

Thank you for looking! I hope you participate with us in this wonderful endeavor!!
Details on participating in the charity drive can be found here. 
You may watch the play back here.

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And the Winner is....

First of all, let me just say WOW! This was my first ever blog hop to participate in and I am in awe. What a great bunch of ladies to hop with! And of course, kudos to the birthday lady herself for hosting such a great hop! Thank you Jess!!!
I am humbled by the outpouring of kindness from everyone who came to visit me and offered such positive words. Thank you all.
Now...let me get to what you came for. I have entered the numbers at Random.org and the winner is....
#55 Scrappy Jackie!!!
Congrats!!! I have a kit for you which includes the book, the papers and embellishments and the instructions printed out for you. I hope you enjoy making this book as much as I.
Also, I had several of you ask for a tutorial. I have created the written instructions and made them available for free on Scribd here.
Thank you for looking!
Have a super day!
and Jessica...

HAPPY 34th BIRTHDAY!!!

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