Halloween Stacker

Okay, so this is my last post for today. last night we had an unofficial ward craft night. I would like to say thanks to Amy for inspiring us, Melissa for inviting us all into your home, and cutting all the wood for us, and thanks to all the other wonderful women in our ward for coming. I have had so much fun getting to know you all over the last few months, and, of course last night continued that trend!

Most everyone used the design Melissa came up with (one more thing I'm thankful for), but ever since I saw the original inspiration, I knew that I wanted to use up some more of my scraps. I just didn't know that I was going to be the rebel crafter of the night. So the picture here is of my project, and I will up load another pic once I finish my second one. Finally, thanks to all the girls who brought ribbon (Anna, April, and maybe others?) The ribbon really tops the whole thing off nicely.

The fonts I used for the top two tiers of my stacker are from the Halloween Haunting cartridge and the font on the bottom is from Opposites Attract.

Fall Wreath

I loved my summer banner so much that I could help but to make another one. This one is for the fall, and so it isn't quite as bright, but I still think that it is super cute.

I used a lot of scraps and just one piece of new paper from the Imaginisce fall line. For me, it was nice to be able to use up some of the scraps that I have been collecting since our move here. I don't know who keeps coming into my room and cutting up paper, but I already have a lot of scraps. That really is a surprise to me since I decided when we left Utah that it would be silly to pack up and move all of my scraps. So, if you look close you will see that a number of the papers are used only once since a number of them were small strips.

I used buttons to cover up the centers of my medallions on this wreath.

Summer Home Banner and Wreath

Now that we are officially setting up house here in Texas, I decided that we needed a little something something to really make our apartment home. Therefore, in true crafter style, I decided that our new decorations would have to be home made.


Okay, I know that the first thing that you think of when you hear the word "wreath" isn't summer, but i saw this idea in the new Stampin' Up Mini Catalogue and I knew that I had to try it.


First, I made the home banner using some retired Stampin' Up DSP and coordinating cardstock. When I went to cut out the triangle shapes I was shocked (and slightly appalled) that of all the Cricut cartridges I own, I didn't have a single cartridge with a bloody triangle!! There isn't even a triangle on the Accent Essentials cartridge! In the end, I found a good compromise for the triangles. I used the piece of pizza on the Simply Charmed cartridge. Then I made a medallion to go behind each letter. Finally, I used Storybook to cut out the letters. I don't know if I just use too much glue int he middle of my medallions, but some of mine have big ugly centers. I used the letters to cover up the centers of the medallion. This is why a couple of my letters look like they are off center.



I cut all the scraps to 1-3 inches each. Then using my Score-Pal, I scored each strip at 1/2 inch intervals. It takes two stripe of the same width to make each circle, so be prepared to do a lot of scoring. I did mine while catching up with my Tivo recordings. Finally, once everything is scored, you just do alternating mountain and valley folds along the score lines.Finally, glue the ends of the two strips together (I used hot glue) and then add more glue in the center to make the circle shape.


Sorry, if this explanation isn't very clear. I will try to create a step-by-step demo so you can really see the process. This is really a pretty easy project, and as you can see from the pictures. I think it makes a big impact.

Welcome to Texas

Okay, so it has been a long time since I have blogged, in fact I had given up on my blog, but I have turned the corner and decided to try this out again. Especially since I like to look at other people's blogs online and get ideas, I decided that it was only fair to give a little bit of my inspiration and/or "Scraplifting" back.

And, to be honest, I have been missing a lot of my old Utah friends, and so I'm hoping that this will be a better way to stay in touch with all of the people out there that I miss. And love.

So, in short, here we go again. Welcome to a little bit of paper crafting, and little bit of sewing, and lot of our life here in Texas as we start to try to find our place int he world. Again