A Little Valentine’s Banner

This little banner is only about 16” long and each piece of the banner is only 3” high and a bout 1 1/2” wide.  I plan on hanging it in my husband’s van during my 14 days of Valentines.  And here’s the thing, every single cut is from one cartridge—Storybook! 

From the first base layer to the letters on each medallion, every single cut is from Storybook. This is a great old cartridge and it has some great all purpose cuts. The paper is the My Mind’s Eye stack Love Nest and the cardstock is all from DCWV.  Love Nest  is exclusive to Hobby Lobby.  I also used some pink and red hued Petaloos  Flora Doodles as well as some Paper Studio gems from Hobby Lobby. 

I made the cut file on my Gypsy and from there this project went together very quickly. 

How about some close ups! 

I’m pretty sure I won’t get any time in my studio today.  Two of our grandchildren are coming to spend the night. Saturday I’ll have some time with my husband who has worked for the past two Saturdays.  I’m looking forward to the grandchildren and to my hubby time.  Have a great weekend. 

Number Nine—We Believe

Only one more page to go after this one and I’m ready to move on to some new projects.  I love the way this album is turning out even if I’m eager to do something else. 

It’s a pleasing page I think.  I used the same DCWV stacks as in the other pages.  I used Storybook for the wreath like border I used on both pages.  I welded three of the squares with my Gypsy.  The title was made using the Alphalicious cart and the holly and berries is from Joys for Seasons as are the tags. 

That’s it.  Nothing fancy but it will keep the momentum going and gets me one more pages closer to being done.  I am off to bed since I can no longer keep my eyes open.

Page 8—Can I get through it?

Two more pages and I can hand this long over due album to my daughter!  I can’t wait to do so.  She’s waited patiently for so long.  So Amy, one more page done and two more to go!  Yea!

A simple page with not a lot of adornment but I think that’s OK.  The paper seemed to me to be enough.  I kept using the gold faux stitching on the photo mats as I have through out the whole album.  The tree on the pocket holding the tags is from the Solutions Christmas cart.  I have to confess that I measured incorrectly when I cut the tree and had to snip the top little curly cue off.  The paper is from the same sources as I’ve used throughout the album.  The title is cut from Storybook and Alphalicous and welded with my Gypsy. 

The tags are the special part of this LO.  The tag comes from  Winter Frolic and the gift is from Joys of the Season.  The jewels are actually brads that I’ve had a long time. I got the ribbon two years ago at Hobby Lobby.  I also used some green Stickles on the bows. 

I love these tags!  I know my daughter will too. 

What do you think Amy?

Christmas Blocks

Several months ago Karlee over on Karlee Krafts made some blocks with letters that spelled words on them, and I’ve wanted to do my version ever since.  I wanted blocks that were about 2” but couldn’t find any.  I finally settled on some that are 1 1/2”.  They turned out quite nice. 

I have to apologize though because I was in such a big hurry to get them on my blog that a few hadn’t dried all the way.  However, you get the idea, right! 

I started with the following supplies:

6- 1 1/2” wooden blocks

Glossy Mod Podge

3 sheets of cardstock: 1 green, 1 red, 1 black

1 sheet of DCWV gold from the Glitter stack

1 sheet of patterned paper

Tools

1 paint brush

Xacto knife

Sand paper. 

Cricut Expression

Base Camp Cartridge

Storybook Cartridge

Paper trimmer

To begin I cut 18 1 1/2” squares of red and 18 1 1/2” squares of green card stock, and 36 1 1/4” squares of the patterned paper.

I generously applied the Mod Podge to the blocks, stuck a square of cardstock onto the painted side and generously applied Mod Podge to the top of the cardstock too. 

I did this until all sides of all blocks were covered, and then I allowed them to dry.

Next I followed the same process to add the patterned paper to all sides allowing the blocks to dry before continuing.

This what they looked like at this point. Also at this point I used my Xacto knife to trim excess paper and did a little light sanding.

Knowing I had a least two more coats of Mod Podge to go, I decided to use my gold ink pad and ran it around the edges and lightly across the flat surfaces to add some depth of color and glimmer.

At this time I loaded the gold Glitter paper from DCWV into the Expression and cut all my letters at 1.2” as well as the swirly embellishment to fill the empty squares. Then I loaded the black cardstock and cut the shadows.

I decided to spell these words:

Noel

Angels

Manger

Advent

Merry

Jesus

I glued the letters to the shadows, and I was ready to start adding them to the blocks.

I followed the same process as before, painting Mod Podge on the surface of the block, applying the Mod podge to the back of the letter, and mod Podge on the whole surface. 

Since I was so close to being done, I got in a bit of a hurry since I wanted to get this on my blog tonight.  I intended to spray the blocks with Glimmer Mist Gold., so I went ahead and did it even though there were a few letters and swirls that were not finished.  Still they turned out very nice.

Now pictures for the whole set.

 

It’s really hard to see in the photos but the Glimmer Mist and the gold stamp pad gave the blocks a very glitzy look.