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Shrink Plastic Necklace

Make a necklace from Shrink Film. #sponsored @graphixarts

I was sent a sample of Shrink Film from Grafix. I was so excited to see the film in silver and gold. I wasn’t aware of the color options. The gold was such a nice color for jewelry making. The technique I used was so simple and easy to do and the result is one of my favorite pieces.

materials

Materials:

  • Shrink Film – gold
  • StazOn black ink
  • stamp
  • hole punch
  • corner rounder
  • scissors or paper trimmer
  • toaster oven or heat source
  • UV resin (optional)
  • UV light (optional)
  • jewelry making materials
  • beads
  • cord

Video Instruction:

finished

To finish it off I used a black spacer bead and a gold crystal. Gold wire was used to join the pieces together and it hangs from an adjustable waxed cord in black.

Learn how to tie an adjustable knot [youtube video]

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Making a Notepad Cover with a Napkin

Learn how to use a napkin to cover a notepad.

This colorful notepad is covered with a napkin. Learn how to easily use a napkin and Xyron to make a cover. Covered notepads make a quick and easy gift. Make a few of them to have on hand. These bright colors will give a special someone a lift.

Materials:

  • notepad
  • napkin
  • Xyron
  • scissors
  • cardstock
  • ribbon
  • adhesive

Video Instruction:

finished!

Creating Bookmarks for Charity

Crafting for charity can be a very worthwhile cause, Today I am sharing how I made bookmarks to donate to Cardz for Kidz.

I am creating a variety of bookmarks for the charity Cardz for Kidz. They accept cards and bookmarks to distribute to children and seniors. Please visit their website and review the requirements before crafting and items for the charity.

This is a post I have up on ScraPerfect today as a part of their design team, I post tutorials there twice a month. [bookmarks]

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Gift Tag Tutorial with ScraPerfect

I have a post up on ScraPerfect today.

Today I am sharing a video tutorial for making this snowflake gift tag over on the ScraPerfect blog today as a part of their design team, I post tutorials there twice a month. [gift tag]

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Scraperfect 32 Clog Writing Cap, Medium
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CutCardstock Christmas Trees

Grab these free SVG files and make your own light-up Christmas Tree decor.


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I created these Christmas Trees for a post at Cut CardStock. We were presented with a mood board to influence our creations this month so I changed my original plan for green trees to red. I think they would also look nice in white. There are two different tree versions, a four-sided tree, and a five-sided tree.

I cut the free SVG files on a Cricut Maker. A special thanks to Cricut and Cut CardStock for providing materials for this post.

The free SVG files:

four sided tree
christmastree4Download
five sided tree
christmastree5Download

Don’t forget to set the red lines to score before cutting. You can change the size of the trees as you desire.

Follow the Video Tutorial:

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Snowflake Place Cards

Making beautiful place cards with Cut Cardstock linen card stock.

As a part of the CutCardStock design team, I am sharing a free SVG file to make these beautiful snowflake place cards.

Visit the CutCardStock blog to see all the fun and creative posts made with cardstock.

Cutting Tip: To cut the card stock on the Cricut Maker, use the 100-pound card stock setting and adjust the cut to more. Then cut the card stock twice. After the first cut and before removing the mat, hit the Cricut cut button again.

The place card free SVG file shown above can be downloaded here:

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Swatching a New Watercolor Set

Learn how to swatch a watercolor set.

I love getting new craft materials. I purchased a new watercolor set on Amazon because my daughter has been powering through my supply of watercolor paints. Before diving into painting, I swatch the colors. It doesn’t matter if the material is watercolor, markers, or such, I always swatch the colors and you should too.

I swatch them in the order they appear in the packaging. It might also be nice to swatch them in blending relationships or color family relationships if they aren’t packaged well together.

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Why should you swatch? Often colors won’t appear the same in a solid form. Even if you are provided a printed color chart, it might not relate to how you use the colors. This is often seen in the cap colors of markers. Many artists talk about how the cap colors don’t appear similar to the swatched colors.

I keep the swatch sample with the color materials and often refer to it before choosing a color.

Did you find this helpful. Let me know what materials you swatch before usage.

DIY Color Experiment

A color experiment using Kool-Aid. Can we craft with it? It ends up being spritzed and painted with.

I recently saw a YouTuber use Kool-Aid to dye paper. I thought the Kool-Aid looked similar to shimmer powder. I also thought instead of staining the paper with kool-aid we could just paint with it. So the experiment began by going to the grocery store and seeing what colors I could find. I basically bought yellow, red, blue, and purple. Each package was about twenty-five cents. So home I went to try out our Kool-Aid colors.

Materials:

  • Kool-aid
  • paper
  • water brush
  • plastic containers
  • spritz bottle with water
  • Eye shadow
  • Deco-foil

Video Experiment:

spritz and paint sample page
shimmer trials
card parts

I decided the true test would be if you could use the kool-aid colors in crafting. So I made a few card fronts with the kool-aid colors. The version above has all the kool-aid colors and gold foil. A sentiment was stamped onto the bottom with coordinating purple ink.

xyron sticker maker

I used a Xyron sticker maker to apply adhesive to the back of the card front and then adhered it to the front of the folded card base.

finished red

And here is the red version. I added a Rinea foil sentiment and a diy flower from another tutorial here on Try it – Like it – Create it. Here’s the link to the flowers if you want to see how to make them: flower embellishments.

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