Bella Blvd Warehouse Sale and World Cardmaking Day Event

THIS SATURDAY (Tomorrow)  is World Cardmaking Day!

Bella Blvd is celebrating with cards on the hour every hour on the Bella Blvd Blog.

Don't miss out!

Also, if you live in Wisconsin, don't miss out on this one!

Bella Blvd Fabric Style with Silhouette! Girl's Summer Outfit + Promo

Bella Blvd had a fun opportunity to team up with Silhouette, and I was able to play with the new
Fabric Blade and Heat Transfer Interfacing.
It was such a fun project, that I decided to create a full step-by-step tutorial to go along with it. 

You can find the FULL TUTORIAL which walks you through how to cut fabric with the Silhouette Cameo

 and create a NO SEW design for a shirt, go to the Bella Blvd Blog HERE!

I also decided to create a matching skirt and headband to make a complete outfit.

The headband features Crochet Flowers and Crochet Hearts by Bella Blvd.

They are great for fabric projects, too!

And the skirt and shirt feature Bella Blvd's Sunny Happy Skies and Puppy Park fabrics for Riley Blake Fabrics.

-Tiffany

Bella Blvd Warehouse Box Sale!!

It's our biggest consumer sale of the year! Boxes are limited supply and going fast! Treat yourself today to a box full of Bella patterned papers and embellishments worth more than $160, for only $47.⁵⁰ plus shipping!! For all Warehouse Sale Box Updates please visit the 

Warehouse Box Sale Page here.

40% off All Border Dies

We want to give you an exclusive deal!

On March 20-25th, my readers can get 40% off ALL BORDER DIES!

They'll be discounted 20% off on the Lifestyle Crafts/QuicKutz site,

but if you use my coupon code "RHINESTONES"

at checkout, you'll get an extra 20% off!

This sale starts Tuesday, March 20th.

You'll want to order fast. Once they're sold out, they won't be back for several months!

Click HERE to see all the border dies, and remember RHINESTONES at checkout.

Thanks- Tiffany

Family Christmas Card 2011 & Win an iPad 2!

Merry Christmas to all of you!

Here's my family Christmas card this year.  I made it using Stampin' Up!'s digital design program "My Digital Studio" as well as Echo Park's Sleigh Ride digital kits and of course, Lifestyle Crafts photobooth props found HERE.

The photos were a blast to take (you should see all the outtakes :) the kids were hilarious.  They couldn't stop laughing.  Usually you have to try hard to get kids to smile for photos, but this time we had to tell them to hold still and try not to laugh and smile "less!" Best family photo experience EVER!

Also, it's Week 8 in the "I Made This" Campaign, and Lifestyle Crafts has another giveaway:

 December 20-January 3, we'll be giving away an iPad 2!

To enter, just share the contest link on facebook. You get an extra entry for liking Lifestyle Crafts on facebook and writing about the contest on your blog. (Make sure you leave a comment on this post on L Blog saying what you've done to enter and tell them "Rhinestones and Ribbon sent me").  More information can be found HERE.

And just in case you forgot what the I MADE THIS Campaign is, check out this post to learn how you could win the Grand Prize of a digital SLR camera, printer, mac computer, craft space and more just by adding projects to the Lifestyle Crafts community gallery.

-Tiffany

Cricut Christmas Stockings

I made these stockings two years ago but I didn't have a blog back then.  We decorated the house and put up the Christmas tree on Sunday and I thought- I really need to photograph and blog about these!

I got a new sewing machine that year and couldn't wait to use it.

These were SO much fun to make!  We needed stockings, and I love the idea of something homemade that my kids can keep to remember me.  I have a homemade stocking that my great-grandmother gave me that I will always cherish.

I made these using the Cricut.  The two cartridges I used were Doodlecharms and Paper Doll Dress-Up.  I used Cricut Design Studio to stretch and "fatten" some of the characters so that they all had the same dimensions.  Though the Cricut probably could have cut the felt- I didn't want to mess with ruining the mat with fuzz so I didn't try it.  Instead I cut the images with paper and used them like I would any fabric pattern.  It was actually pretty fast.

This one's my husband's.  I straight stitched most of Santa and then blanket stitched the edges of the red to make it "pop" a bit more.  All stitches are done using my sewing machine.  The snowflakes were done using one of the design stitches on my machine, and sewing lots of intersecting lines to create the snowflake look.

This one's mine :)

My son chose a gingerbread man:

My daughter was a newborn, and a little angel, so I thought an angel was appropriate for her :)

 the necklaces' star is a brad.

 And here's my son's reindeer.  I think this one's my favorite!  So cute!

Then I finished them up by trimming the fuzz a bit and embroidering everyone's names on them using a Bernette embroidery machine.

I've been crafting like crazy lately.  I made cards all day today and I'm excited to start on some Christmas crafts!  I'm starting another advent calendar, too.  THIS ONE I recently made is for "events," the next one's for treats!

Also- Lifestyle Crafts has another giveaway.  Enter to win this:

And don't forget about the Grand Prize- submit your projects to the online gallery to be entered to win.
To enter to this week's giveaway- follow the instructions HERE and tell them "Rhinestones and Ribbon sent me".

-Tiffany

Yep... Lifestyle Crafts has Black Friday deals!

Nesting dies have been one of the most popular products for Lifestyle Crafts, so they're offering them for 50% off for Black Friday!  Sale runs Nov 25th-Nov 28th and they can be purchased HERE on their website.  Just enter "RHINESTONES" at checkout!

The sale includes holiday nesting dies as well. 64 total sets to choose from!

-Tiffany