Ye Olde St. Patty's Decor by Laura C

Have you enjoyed our National Craft Month posts this week?

Hopefully you are inspired to get crafty this month!!

One of my favorite things to do is altered art projects, so for

our special National Craft Month posting, I mixed the fun of

altered art with the idea of home decor for one of my favorite

holidays.....St. Patrick's Day!  And so,  St. Paddy's Pub was born:

This project is the kind of thing National Craft Month is about,

to me....just playing!!  With paper, and ink, and tools....it's

all about fun!  I have a few close ups of the steps along the way:

I started with a divided box I picked up on clearance, it's

similar to a Tim Holtz Configurations Box, the edges are

 painted with an Adirondack Paint Dauber (I used Lettuce)

And here is the side view:

I covered the sides and the B&W strip in each cubby

using Core d'nations embossed cardstock, you can do

this yourself or use a pre-embossed type, then sand to

bring out the embossing.  And then I started the cubby

decorations, using bits and pieces of different items:

I used a lot of different Idea-Ology products.....everything

you see here plus a few others on the finished project.
Lost & Found Paper pad, Cash Keys (charm on the calendar
with shamrock sticker inside),Clock Keys (lantern "hanger"),
Corked Vials (small glass jars in small cubby), Game Pieces
 (bingo #17 in red), Plaquettes (porcelain looking #17) , 

Ornate Plates (in lower cubby with Ruler Ribbon inside),
Locket Keys (metal piece on Pub Sign under shamrock),
 Ruler Ribbon (inside ornate plate), Memo Pins (stuck into
wooden spools lower right cubby) and Hanger Clips (holds
small piece of burlap with shamrock sticker in lower cubby),
Salvage Stickers--Crowded Attic (label on mini vial).

  Kim can order you any and all of these fun goodies!
The vials are colored using Adirondack alcohol inks
in Meadow and Sunshine, the calendar is distressed

with a Tonic distress tool, and Distress Ink in Walnut Stain

and Black Soot.  Tiny Attacher staples finish it.

In the close up of this cubby, you'll see I added one of the 

Idea-Ology Woodlands Miniatures dyed with re-inker in a

Mini Mister bottle mixed with water, accented with Paper Twine,

and you can see the Mini Lantern hanging from the clock key

(Yes it's lit up....the battery pack is attached to the back!):

A close up of the left side....

 

I used saved corks (love to recycle!) in addition to the

Tim Holtz goodies.....each cubby is outlined with

Tinsel Twine.....this is FUN stuff....so many different uses!

The top of my little "pub" is a medallion stamped on black

cardstock and embossed with WOW embossing powder 

(the Metalline Green color), the letters are cut out of the the 

Lost and Found pad, inked with Black Soot Ink, layered onto 

chipboard and then painted with Rock Candy Crackle Paint to 

give them an old antique tile look, you can see in the close up:

 

And a close up of the last two cubbies....a little twine,

and Glossy Accents on the bottle cap....and Distress

Stain in Peeled Paint on the wooden spools:

And a final look from a different angle at the finished project:

My "go to" adhesives for a project like this are Scor-Tape

and Glossy Accents.  They really hold, and are both

available in Cutter's Creek. Same goes for the products

used in my project....many are already in-store, and the

others can be ordered any time!  

Hope we have inspired you this week to join in our

National Craft Month fun with some projects of your own!

Tell us what you are inspired to make!! 

Holiday Blog Hop-Mousetrap Memo Keepers by Chris

Welcome to the Cutters Creek Design Team Holiday Blog Hop! We want you to hop along with us and play for some awesome Blog Candy. The objective for our Blog Hop this weekend is to provide some inspiration to help you get your holiday crafting underway! Our Design Team has come up with some fabulous projects and we have a little bit of everything, from cards to gift ideas, and home décor items. So we invite you to hop along with us and get your creative juices flowing!

I first used a pair of pliers to remove all extra hardware from wooden mousetraps (leave just the mouse clip) and then,  painted the edges with paint dabbers and under the middle spring. I cut two pieces of decorative paper for each trap—one at 1 3/4x2” and the other at 1 3/4x1 5/8”. Edges were inked and then pieces were glued down with my ATG. I wrapped each base with ¼” scortape with which I adhered the chosen trim. Each trap was decorated differently (see below) and magnetic strips were added to the back so they could be hung on a refrigerator.

Ornament: Red Pepper Paint Dabber with Ideology Holidays Past base paper, inked with Festive Berries Distress Ink. Christmas Cheer cartridge: ornament cut at 4” from Inkessentials Shrink Paper. Image was colored with Copics: R29, YG67, Y28, B05, shrunk, and decorated with Gold Stickles. Red Tinsel Twine used for edges.

Snowman: Sailboat Blue dabber with MME Winter Wonderland base paper, inked with Tumbled Glass Distress Ink. Christmas Cheer cartridge: snowman cut at 1 ¾”. Decorated with Stickles: Cinnamon, Orange Peel, Black Soot, Tumbled Glass Distress stickles and Marvy Liquid White.

Snowflake: Snow Cap paint dabber with MME All is Bright, inked with Peacock Feathers Distress Ink. Joys of the Season cartridge snowflake cut @ 2”, embossed with Wow Neutral Ultra Shimmer. Blue Tinsel Twine edging.

Tree: Bottle paint dabber with MME Winter Wonderland and covered with Picket Fence Distress Stickles. Christmas Cheer cartridge tree cut @ 1 ¾” embossed with Peeled Paint Distress Embossing Powder. Gold stickles and green Tinsel Twine to finish.

Candy Cane: Red Pepper paint dabber with MME All is Bright paper, MME Winter Wonderland Tape, and Festive Berries Distress ink. Christmas Cheer cartridge candy cane cut at 1 ¾”. Bottom layer embossed with red embossing powder and red Tinsel Twine used as the edging.

Poinsettias: Bottle and Snow Cap dabbers used with Ideology Holidays past paper and MME All is Bright paper. Spellbinders Poinsettias cut from mulberry paper. Stickles: Silver, Gold and green Tinsel Twine to decorate.

Poinsettia Print: Snow Cap paint dabber with MME All is Bright paper. Picket Fence Distress Ink, and edged with blue Tinsel Twine.

Check out Cutters Creek Store for:

Paint Dabbers,  My Mind’s Eye papers, Ideology Holidays Past paper, Distress Inks, Stickles, Distress Stickles, Wow Embossing Powders, Ideology Tinsel Twine (Winter), Marvy Liquid White, Scor Tape, Glossy Accents

Now for details on blog candy! In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month we are giving away  the Ink Pink Collection by Jillan Vance.

The Ink Pink Collection includes:
• Pray for the Cure Stamp Set in your choice of Round or Rectangle
• Pink Acrylic Stamp block in either 3x3 for the Round set or 3 x4 for
the Rectangle set
• 5 Charming Jilly Charms, Breast Cancer themed, made of fine pewter
right here in the USA!
• 5 A Jillian Vance Design Pear Pins to attach the Charms onto your
projects.
• A sample of Rinkle Ribbon, vintage ribbon to wrinkle and crinkle, ½”
wide and Made in the USA.

This collection is worth over $45!!
In addition to all the wonderful products in this collection, they
coordinate with Spellbinders Nestabilities!!!
The Round Set coordinates with:
Spellbinders Nestabilities
Beaded Circle S4-292
Classic Scalloped Circles S4-124
Standard Circles Small S4-116
The Rectangle Set coordinates with:
Spellbinders Nestabilities:
Large Labels S4-168

 To enter to win all you need to do is leave a comment on each blog as you hop along.You will have until 12:00am on Monday October 29th to leave a comment with a way for us to get a hold of you.   We will use Random.org to select a winner on Tuesday, October 30th and will post the winners name by 9:00am.

Here is the complete blog hop line up in case you get lost along the way:

Cutters Creek Blog (Chris) - http://www.cutterscreekdesignteam.blogspot.com/
Kim - http://kreativekim.blogspot.com/
Pebbles - http://sheissocrafty.blogspot.com/

Tee - http://tee-myspot.blogspot.com/

Melissa - http://www.ourmadhouseof4.blogspot.com/
Lori - http://savingmine.blogspot.com/

Laura - http://www.scrapaddict4life.blogspot.com/

Fran - http://scallopsandswirls.blogspot.com/
Deanna - http://deannaspapercrafts.blogspot.com/

Don’t forget to leave a comment before hopping along to Kim’s blog. Thanks for hopping by and we hope you enjoy the hop and get many wonderful ideas!

 

Spooktacular Layout by Laura C

This is a 12x12 layout that starts with the Basic Grey (BG) Lime Rickey collection.  The 12x12 lime green page is distressed around the edges and then inked in black.  The next layer is the orange polka dot from
Lime Rickey cut down to 6&1/4" by 8". This is also distressed and inked.  The photo is 4x6 and is double matted--first on a 4&1/4" x 6&1/4" piece of orange (from Lime Rickey) and then a 4&1/2" x 6&1/2" piece of lime green core'dnations from the Black Magic Spellcaster collection, that has also been distressed. The matted photo is then placed about 1&1/2" from the bottom and from the side of the orange polka paper.

From here, you can embellish and have fun.....I used a bat punch from EK success on a 1"x8" piece of black
cardstock, and placed this close to the bottom, then pleated and stapled on Halloween ribbon--the Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher is perfect! The medallions were made using the Cuttlebug A2 folder "Boo to You", and the same piece of Core'dinations cardstock. Once embossed, it was sanded to make the images "pop".  They were cut out with a 1 & 1/2" circle punch. The skeleton head circle is mounted on a 2" circle (distressed and inked) and then pop dotted.  The "boo" is just adhered with glue dots. An American Crafts pearl brad holds the "paper lace" in place (PS that was the bat punch that was punched on BOTH sides of the 1" strip of paper!).  The "scary" was adhered with glue dots, to a rosette made from a 1&1/2" x 12" piece of the polka dot from the Lime Rickey collection. After accordian folding this piece, I adhered the ends together with adhesive, and then the entire rosette, to a 2" circle of plain cardstock using glue dots.

Hope you get some inspiration for those "Spooktacular" fall and Halloween pictures you'll be scrapping soon!!

Available at Cutter's Creek:


Basic Grey Lime Rickey
Core'dinations Black Magic (Spellcaster)
American Crafts Pearl Brads (Earth Tones)
Cuttlebug A2 Folder (Boo to You)
Glue Glider (permatac adhesive)
Glue Dots (Dot n' go memory dots and pop dots)
Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher Stapler

Graduation Layout by Laura C.

Now that those graduations are over, do you have pics waiting to be scrapped?? This layout is great, because it will fit YOUR pics. No right or wrong....just use these cute file tabs (NEW Tim Holtz On the Edge File Tabs Die!!) to label or journal your pics. Super simple.....just cut pics and mats (in school colors) arrange the way you want, and you're good to go!! A border on a page creates a nice frame, so I used 2x12 strips cut from the same cardstock used to mat pics. Extra
touches make a page, so I used a little AC glitter cardstock to "bling it up", some grad ribbon, the clocks (since it's "time" to celebrate, and they are set at 8 going on 9 because that was the change in grades). I used the Tim Holtz Lost & Found paper pad, cut the clocks out of one of the pages, roughed up the edges and then used Tim Holtz Chipped Sapphire distressing inks (used this on all the file tabs and mats as well!). Lastly, the diploma on the left is made using a 2" x 5 & 1/2" piece of paper folded and distressed. I've included pics to show how it was folded and also
an example of a card made using the same technique...I used rock candy distress crackle paint to make the diploma "pop". Hope you've grabbed some inspiration....so you can grab those pics, and get scrappin'!!

Available at Cutters Creek:

Tim Holtz On the Edge Dies (File Tabs)
Tim Holtz Distressing Inks (Chipped Sapphire & Vintage Photo)
Tim Holtz Idea-Ology Paper Stack (Lost & Found)
Tim Holtz Distress Crackle Paint (Rock Candy)
American Crafts Glitter Paper (Silver)
Glue Glider Pro