Lime Green Love Bird

My focus today was to try and create some Valentine's cards that were of

untraditional Valentine's colors (red and pink).

I had a cute felt lime green bird that I based this card on.

The background is a blue, green, and brown floral pattern.

Green polka dot ribbons runs horizontally across the card, with a tan colored ribbon with love sentiments on top of that.

Pretty paper flowers with pearls decorate the lower corner.

A large green felt bird is the main focus of the card.It has a pearl eye.

A 3dimensional sticker that says "Be My Love" is located next to the bird.

This card is great for Valentine's day, a wedding, an anniversary, or just to show someone that you love them!

This card and many more are available in my Etsy shop

http://www.CreationsByKT.etsy.com

Anything Goes January Challenge

This month over at Scraptastical Kreations, they are doing an Anything Goes challenge.

The project is your choice, you just have to include one of their patterns in your project!

I have been working on Valentine's projects today, so I browsed through

the Scraptastical Kreations patterns that I had.

I settled on a flower from there "Garden Splendor" collection.

I chose this flower because the petals looked like hearts!

I started out with an ATC card that I covered in pink heart patterned scrapbook paper.

Then I (hand) cut the flower from "Garden Splendor".

I did one layer in hot pink cardstock and the second layer in

scrapbook paper with the sentiment "I love you".

I adhered pink ribbon with pink hearts running vertically on the ATC card.

I then used 3D dots to adhere the flower with dimension.

I then attached a pink rhinestone heart to the center of the card.

I covered the card a different pink heart patterned scrapbook paper.

I adhered pink glitter table horizontally on the card.

I then glued the ATC card onto another piece of the "I love you"

sentiment paper and then glued it onto the card.

I used pink chipboard stickers to decorate the corners.

To join in the fun, visit:

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To find great paper piecing patterns, visit

http://scraptasticalkreations.com

To purchase cute Valentine's cards like the ones above, visit my Etsy shop

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Pretty as a Daisy

I have been wanting to work on my Illustrator skills more lately and have finally found the time.

Over the past several months, I have learned a lot in Illustrator with my (school) courses.

I decided I wanted to make something original and pretty.

What better subject than my cute puppy?

I started out with a outline of her face and filled in the features.

I then created my own daisy pattern in another window.

I then copied and pasted that daisy pattern onto my outline.

I applied it to a layer behind the outline.

I then used my eraser tool to get rid of the pattern in places that I did not want it.

I used a light pink for the ears, grey for the nose, and brown for the eyes.

I am very happy with how it turned out!

I think it really captures Bella's personality!

This print will soon be available in my Etsy shop.

If you would like to be notified of when it becomes available,

please leave your e-mail address in the comment section.

If you want to keep your e-mail private, you may send it to me at

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Dry Erase Menu

So many tutorials lately have included using picture frames as different types of dry erase boards.

We have been trying to create a weekly menu so that we can eat healthier

and do better with our grocery budget.

I love to scrapbook and thought it would be really neat to create a dry erase menu

from a 12x12 picture frame with a different background for every month.

For January I kept with a winter theme.

The background is vintage sleigh paper in blues, browns, and tans.

I then decorated with a pretty blue paper and dark brown paper.

Pretty white winter ribbon was used along with blue sequins ribbon.

The cute little mice are a rub on sticker.

The title is made using metallic letter stickers.

This is now hanging in our kitchen!

My goal is to create a different background for every month!

And to utilize the menu to its full potential of course!!

Starting to Feel the LOVE

I know it is only January, but Valentine's Day will be here before you know it!

The stores have already stocked there shelves full of great goodies for you Valentine!

I did not want to fall behind, so I have also created some yummy cards

for you to give to your Valentine this year.

They are available on my Etsy shop.

They are also here for inspiration to you as well! :)

 

I love how this set of cards turned out!

I used two different stamps that I got from Michael's.

One was two cute little deer kissing and the other is a bear holding a heart.

I stamped them onto vintage tags.

I then colored them with my prismacolor pencils and Crayola markers.

I tied the tags with gold and white twine that I found in the $1 bins at Target! (Great find!)

I then glued them onto pretty paper that I used patterned scissors to cut.

I then covered the white card in red or pink card stock and then adhered my image!

This set of cards, along with many more, are available in my Etsy shop

http://www.CreationsbyKT.etsy.com

Bird Nest Brooch

There are so many pretty bird nest jewelry pieces floating around on Pinterest.

I decided to take inspiration from them.

I made four brooches for my Mother-in-law for Christmas.

She loves birds and anything dealing with Biology, she also likes brooches.

I started off each brooch by picking three beads.

I then threaded them onto 20 gauge wire.

I wrapped the wire around the beads until I got a thickness that was appealing.

I then took the wire end and threaded the pin back onto the back of the bird's nest.

I used that same end to wrap around the wire "nest" twice between each bead.

This also helped to secure the pin back.

Bag Holders

I have recently begun to learn how to use my sewing machine.

I found a tutorial online of how to make a a plastic bag holder out of a hand towel.

I would link back to the tutorial, but the link that I saved is now saying it is no longer available.

The Dollar Tree near my house usually has cute dish towels.

My kitchen theme is coffee, so I bought a coffee one for me.

My Mom likes coffee, so I also got a coffee one for her.

My boyfriend's parents like wine, so I picked up a wine one for them.

I started by measuring the length of the short end of the towels.

I then took 3/4 of that and cut that amount of elastic twice - one for top and one for bottom.

I then pinned the elastic where I wanted it on the towel, about one inch from the seam.

I pulled the elastic tight while sewing with my machine.

After sewing the elastic on both sides I pinned the towel inside out so that I could sew a seam.

I sewed the seam and turned the towel right side out.

I then found matching ribbon, made a loop, and sewed it to the top.

Ta da, I had a bag holder!