Holidays in a hurry!

Sorry about my last week's post.......I forgot to hit publish (it's a blonde thing)

This week I am sharing an accident that turned out better than the original idea.

On a heavier cardstock, paste LX7016 Season of Joy:

with Pearl paste.

Sprinkle a bit of crystal glitter on the star, trees, and verse.

This is where the mistake came in; I was in a hurry to finish my moms birthday card.  Did the same steps as above, but with a flowered stencil.  Do to my rush I started heating it from underneath.  What I found was the paste bubble more evenly through the thicker cardstock than it did from above or from beneath a standard cardstock weight.

So heat from underneath.  Watch it rise, I love it!!

(The picture does not do it justice.  It's much prettier in person)

 

 

Matt and done!  This stencil can be power stenciled if you use the LM 2010 Paste Spreader.

I can usually get four or five before I have to clean my stencil.  For the size of stencil, I thought that was pretty good.

Continue on to see more quick ideas (and sometimes not so quick).

Dream It Up!

Laura Drahozal

Stacey Rumsby
Lyn Bernatovich
Pam Hornschu
Heidi Erickson
Louise Healy
Cyndi Bundy

MERRY MERRY CHRISTMAS & Happy Holidays to you and yours! 

Looking forward to 2014.

 

Holidays in a Hurry!

Hello everyone,
Just wanted to show you how I used my pieces I did for the November challenge.

 

I love how they complete my rooms!

Make sure you visit the group listed to see more fun quick ideas!

Dream It Up! 

Laura Drahozal
Lyn Bernatovich 
Pam Hornschu 
Heidi Erickson 
Louise Healy 
Cyndi Bundy

 

Holidays in a Hurry

It's that time of year again.  Time to remember friends and family.  And enjoying the season......don't I wish.  It's the time of.....I should have started earlier......can't forget to......still need to...... etc!

I always have the best intentions this time of year but inevitably I forget something or someone.
This months theme is quick and easy.  Need a card in a hurry, we have ideas galore for you.

This week I started with LG 674 Oval ornament:

Paste with Red Glossy Paste.  Let dry.  Cut out.  Use a piece of Pine Tree decorative paper.  Attach Merry Christmas ribbon to front of ornament with double stick tape.  Attach ornament with double stick tape (three layers in the center of the ornament) to front of card.  Cut two slits one on each side of the tree bough.  Thread ribbon through slits.  Tie to top of ornament.  Done!

Check out the rest of the teams sites for more quick Holiday ideas!!

Dream It Up! Lea Kimmel Louise Healy Stacey Rumsby Terrece Siddoway Pam Hornschu 

 

 

 

Holiday Celebrations - Everything but cards!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!

 

 

 

 

This is our final week of the Dreamweaver November challenge...Holiday Celebrations, also know as, Anything But A Card! This has been a big step outside the box.  I find cards come easy, but coming up with ideas for the decorating my new home and for gifts has been a wonderful adventure.

This week I am still keeping it simple again.  I made a decorative tree with Dreamweaver Snowflakes and Beacon Adhesives.

First cut three semi circles from cardstock.  Each slightly smaller than the last.  Paste two snowflakes on the two larger pieces and one on the smallest with Pearlescent paste.  Sprinkle a soft blue glitter over them and let dry.

Next attach pearls to each tier with Beacon Gem-Tac, let dry.

Next using Beacon 3-in-1 Craft Glue (There is nothing this glue can't do!  It's my new best friend), glue the ends of the two largest pieces and the full edge of the smaller piece. 

Finally assemble.  I attached mine to a papertowel tube.  My friends little girls saw it and wanted to make their own.  It was great fun!! 

Hope you enjoyed this months creations, make sure to see the incredible creations of the rest of this weeks group!

 

Dream It Up!

Linda Neff (GD)

Lea Kimmel
Louise Healy
Terrece Siddoway
Pam Hornschu
Cherylynn Moser

Wishing you and yours a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Holiday Celebrations - Everything but Cards!

Ready to be festively distressed once again? The Dream Team have been playing with Ranger's Distress Paints, and are ready to inspire you to be distressed as well...paint distressed that is! Dreamweaver Stencils are the perfect choice to mix with all things festively distressed, as nothing shows off color and texture better than great designs. By following our hop and leaving love along the way, you have the opportunity to win a great prize package including five Ranger Distress Paints and five Dreamweaver Stencils! Here's the lineup for today, including our November Guest Designer:

Linda Neff

Dream It Up!

Laura Drahozal

Stacey Rumsby
Lyn Bernatovich
Pam Hornschu
Heidi Erickson
Louise Healy
Cyndi Bundy

Holiday Celebrations - Anything but cards!

Ready to be festively distressed once again? The Dream Team have been playing with Ranger's Distress Paints, and are ready to inspire you to be distressed as well...paint distressed that is! Dreamweaver Stencils are the perfect choice to mix with all things festively distressed, as nothing shows off color and texture better than great designs. By following our hop and leaving love along the way, you have the opportunity to win a great prize package including five Ranger Distress Paints and five Dreamweaver Stencils! Here's the lineup for today, including our November Guest Designer:

Dream It Up!

Linda Neff (GD)
Lea Kimmel
Louise Healy
Terrece Siddoway
Wendy Jordan
Pam Hornschu
Cherylynn Moser
 

This is also our first posting day featuring our new monthly challenge, "Holiday Celebrations", and for the entire month we will be demonstrating ways to use Beacon Adhesives' entire line of products with Dreamweaver to create special projects in home decor and gifts of love. Here's mine:

I recently purchased a home.  In trying to decorate on a budget, I have found my ideas don't match my pocketbook!

I've been looking for a square red tissue cover for the bathroom.  I can't find anything less than $30 (budget $7.50).  So I decided to make one.

Cut 5 pcs of  chipboard 5 1/2" square each.  Cut 5 pieces of red paper; 4 - 5 1/2" x 5" & 1 - 5 1/2" square.

Using Beacon  3-in-1, Zip Dry and Gem-Tac we'll put it all together.

 

Cut hole in one square for tissues to come through.

Glue box sides together with 3-in-1 glue.

 

Using the three reindeer stencil LL467 Three Deer. 

 

 Paste in gold on each side panel.

Score top 1/4" on each edge.  Score sides 1/4" on one side.

Using Zip Dry adhear top first, folding the edges over the top.  Attach sides the same way.

 

Finally using Gem-Tac, draw squiggles over top and drip off sides.  Cover with glitter.

 

Set over top of tissue box and .......................

 

Tah - Dah!!!!  You have a custom Tissue Box cover.

 

Make sure you contine through the rest for more creative ideas.

 

Holiday Celebrations - everything but cards

 

 

 

Ready to be festively distressed once again? The Dream Team have been playing with Ranger's Distress Paints, and are ready to inspire you to be distressed as well...paint distressed that is! Dreamweaver Stencils are the perfect choice to mix with all things festively distressed, as nothing shows off color and texture better than great designs. By following our hop and leaving love along the way, you have the opportunity to win a great prize package including five Ranger Distress Paints and five Dreamweaver Stencils! Here's the lineup for today, including our November Guest Designer:

Dream It Up!

Linda Neff (GD)
Ranger

Cyndi Bundy

Lyn Bernatovich

Terrece Siddoway

Wendy Jordan

Heidi Erickson

Cherylynn Moser

Laura Drahozal

Louise Healy

Stacey Rumsby

Pam Hornschu

Lea Kimmel

This is also our first posting day featuring our new monthly challenge, "Holiday Celebrations", and for the entire month we will be demonstrating ways to use Beacon Adhesives' entire line of products with Dreamweaver to create special projects in home decor and gifts of love. Here's mine:

I decided to make a note pad holder.  I started with chipboard and the Beacon 3-in-1 Craft Glue.  Cut chipboard to the size needed.  Glue the binding chipboard to back piece of chipboard.  Using book cloth spread the 3-in-1 Craft glue over the book cloth.  Cover spine and a portion of the front and back of book.

 

Emboss front paper cover with holiday stencil.  I used LL468 ornaments.  Stencil gold pigment ink over image.

  Spread Beacon 3-in-1 Craft Glue over the back of the front paper and back paper.  Butt up against book cloth press flat.  Let dry.  Miter corners and spread Beacon 3-in-1 Craft Glue over back of paper.  Fold over.  Glue strip of ribbon over seam in front and back.

 

Using Distress Paint add polka dots to book cloth and back paper cover.  Let dry.  I also covered the top of the note pad.

 

  Adhere a piece of ribbon in the inside front cover and back covers.  Line the book with book cloth that has 3-in-1 glue over the back side.

 

Tape back of note pad and attach inside.  Tie ribbon and your gift is ready for giving!

 

 

Final Week of Mysterious and Magical.............

Okay - so I last week I was confused........It was really week 4.  I'm trying to make time slow down and it isn't working (can you tell).   Anyway - Happy Halloween to all of my favorite ghouls out there! Today concludes our entire month of Magical and Mysterious, and your final opportunity to link your own creepy creations to the Dream It Up! blog for an opportunity to win the stencil of your choice!

 

This week I chose two of my favorite Halloween stencils.  First the Bat Trio LL525

 

 

Paste with Blue glossy paste, let dry.  Stencil with silver pigment ink, then cover with Black Soot Distress Powder, heat and cut out.

 

Then paste the Two jack-o-lanterns LL531 with Yellow Matte Paste, let dry.  Stencil color using pigment ink.

 

Edge card with Distress ink and a sponge, layer and tah-dah.................

 

 

Check out the rest of the team's creations, as well as our wonderful guest designer, Alison Heikkila (she really is a creative genius!!). Thanks so much, Alison, for joining us for Spooktober!
 

Dream It Up!

Alison Heikkila

Terrece Siddoway

Cherylynn Moser

Pam Hornschu

Lea Kimmel

Lyn Bernatovich

Louise Healy

Mysterious and Magical - week three

I hope you are enjoying being spooked, mystified and magically transported to the land of Halloween and holidays? Hop on board the Dream Team train as we journey through all things Mysterious and Magical through the month of October. Our guest "engineer" is Miss Eerie herself, Alison Heikkila. October promises to be a very bumpy ride...

 

In honour of all the Halloween specials, I patterned this week after the Charlie Brown, Great Pumpkin tv special (one of my favorites!!).

 

Start with LL515 Pumpkins

 

Paste front with Yellow Matte Paste. Clean and flip, paste again with Yellow Matte Paste.

Stencil with pigment inks.  Cut out.

 

Then dry emboss LL3029 Dog and stencil color with pigment ink. (I flipped him before I embossed).  Cut out

'

 

Attach pumpkins with 3-d foam mounting tape.  One layer for the pumpkins over dog.  Double thick for the pumpkins on the left to make them appear closer.  Set dog over pumpkins to decide how much of him you want to appear above the pumpkins.  Cut off just below this mark.

Add double stick tape to back of dog and slip in behind pumpkins.

 

Make sure you check out the rest of group 2, to see what haunting ideas they have!!

 

Dream It Up!

Alison Heikkila (guest designer)
Lea Kimmel
Louise Healy
Stacey Rumsby
Terrece Siddoway
Wendy Jordan
Pam Hornschu
until next time...............................

Mysterious and Magical - Week Two

I hope you enjoyed the first week of being spooked, mystified and magically transported to the land of Halloween and holidays? Hop on board the Dream Team train as we journey through all things Mysterious and Magical through the month of October. Our guest "engineer" is Miss Eerie herself, Alison Heikkila. October promises to be a very bumpy ride...

I decided to go "Magical" this week.  Dreamweavers Stencil LG705 - The Unicorn always makes me think of magical, mythical fairy tales.  So does the upcoming TV show "Once upon a time in Wonderland".  Creepy good..................I digress............

 

 

I used the double glitter technique for this one.  Generally you do the image in a dark glitter and the background in crystal glitter.  I decided to reverse it.  I used the crystal and pastel colors on the pony and the dark on the background.

 

I added a lite gold to the horn and hooves.  Then lite pink glitter to the mane and tail.

 

 

 

 

I can see him flying through the nite sky of my imagination!

Travel on to find more magical mysteries:

Dream It Up!

Alison Heikkila
Lea Kimmel
Louise Healy
Stacey Rumsby
Terrece Siddoway - Me
Wendy Jordan
Pam Hornschu
Cherylynn Moser

 

Mysterious and Magical

Are you ready to be spooked, mystified and magically transported to the land of Halloween and holidays? Hop on board the Dream Team train as we journey through all things Mysterious and Magical through the month of October. Our guest "engineer" is Miss Eerie herself, Alison Heikkila. October promises to be a very bumpy ride...

Your next stops can be found here:

Dream It Up!

Alison Heikkila

Laura Drahozal
Lyn Bernatovich
Pam Hornschu
Heidi Erickson
Louise Healy
Jessica Griffin
Cyndi Bundy

 

 

Don't miss any of our creative designers this week.

 

Until next week,   happy stenciling to you, until we meet again!

Dreamweaver/Art Glitter Monthlong Collaboration - Awesome in Autumn - Week 4

Ready to be sparkly? This month is our annual collaboration between Dreamweaver Stencils and Art Glitter, and we promise double the glitter and double the fun! Follow the trail of bling all of this month on the Art Glitter blog, and the Dream It Up! blog. Play along with the monthly challenge of "Awesome in Autumn" and link your creations to the linkytool on the Dream It Up! Thursday posts for a chance to win some stupendous stencils and glamorous glitter! As if that wasn't cool enough, Art Glitter is offering a 20% discount this month if you use the code DW20, and the Stencil with Style site is offering a 20% discount this month if you use the code SWS20!

Here's what I've created for today's post:

I started with Dreamweaver stencil LL462 Wheat Crest. 

 

Paste with gold paste.  Cover with Art Glitter 230 Halo.

Cut into square, layer, add ribbon and you are done.

 

 

Check out the rest of the teams creations:
 

Dream It Up!
Lea Kimmel
Louise Healy
Stacey Rumsby
Terrece Siddoway
Wendy Jordan
Pam Hornschu
Cherylynn Moser

Until next time.............happy stenciling to you until we meet again!

Quietfire Stamp Designs/Dreamweaver Stencils Day Five

 

Get ready for an amazing week of Awesome in Autumn! This week we are playing with the Quietfire Design team, and are so excited to play with their amazing images and sentiments. In their beautiful calligraphic style, their quotes and thoughts are the perfect addition to our Dreamweaver designs. Follow along with us, and leave your comments for an opportunity to win one of two wonderful prize packages:

 

Here's what I've created for today's post:

I've taken Autumn right into the holidays with today's card.  I used Quietfire Design # 5748 and Dreamweaver Stencil LG 677 Season's Greetings.

First paste top line and holly leaves from stencil with gold paste.  Let dry.  Position Quietfire Design #5748 underneath and emboss with gold embossing powder.  Then position bottom line and holly leaves from stencil under verse and paste with gold.  Let dry.

 

Add ribbon and decorative papers and tah dah....... you are done.

Check out today's awesomeness which includes...

Quietfire Design Members...

Sherry Cheaver

Holly Estabrook

Yogi Grunwald

Robyn Josephs

Debbie Sherman

Teresa Horner

Terre Fry

Suzanne Cannon

and

Dream Team members...

Jessica Griffin

Cyndi Bundy

Wendy Jordan

Lyn Bernatovich

Louise Healy

Terrece Siddoway

Lea Kimmel

Heidi Erickson

Laura Drahozal

Cherylynn Moser

Pam Hornschu

and the

Dream It Up! blog

and

Quietfire Creations Blog

 

Quietfire Stamps - Dreamweaver Stencils Day Four

 

Get ready for an amazing week of Awesome in Autumn! This week we are playing with the Quietfire Design team, and are so excited to play with their amazing images and sentiments. In their beautiful calligraphic style, their quotes and thoughts are the perfect addition to our Dreamweaver designs. Follow along with us, and leave your comments for an opportunity to win one of two wonderful prize packages:

 

Here's what I've created for today's post:
Start with Dreamweaver Stencil LL3029 Dog and QuietFire Design "Dream with your eyes wide open".  Dry emboss Dog and stencil color with Distress Ink.  Stamp verse in Archival Coffee color.  Cut dog bone paper in shape of a wishful thought and assemble as shown.

Check out todays awesomeness which includes...

 

Quietfire Design Members...

Yogi Grunwald

Suzanne Cannon

and

Dream Team members...

Wendy Jordan

Louise Healy

Terrece Siddoway

Lea Kimmel

Pam Hornschu

and the

Dream It Up! blog

and

Quietfire Creations Blog