Liquid Glass and Liquid Applique fun techniques!

by CraftyAmanda in About Me, Artwork, Close to My Heart, Technique | 2 Comments

Anyone remember the technique tags? It was a well intentioned series of blog posts that got pushed aside for life. Well, I am going to revisit them, and push myself to complete the series so I can finally pick a winner to receive the beautiful set of tags. (More information on that later.) With no further ado. . .

Let’s start with Liquid Glass. (Z679) Some have said it’s the same as liquid glaze you can pick up at a local craft store, but I will politely disagree. I purchased the “off brand” at a scrapbook retreat as I ran out of Liquid glass. It was not the same. It didn’t hold it’s shape when creating a puddle of it or covering an embellishment, and it certainly didn’t hold as well as Liquid Glass. I used it up on Christmas cards, and was very happy to see it fly into the plastic recycle container!

In this tag, I tried to show many ways Liquid Glass and enhance your project.

To highlight lettering

To “pop” the center of a flower

Add some re-inker and create “berries” on a branch

It’s also a great adhesive for buttons and other bulky embellishments

Liquid Applique is another product that you can do different things with it.

Heat for puffy clouds, fur on animals, or Santa’s beard.

Don’t heat for a smooth opaque look

So much fun in a tube of liquid applique!

Here are the Club night tags.

Now you might want to know how you can earn chances to win these tags. There are several ways. Write a comment on this post. (1 entry) Share this post link on your Facebook post and let me know on my FB page Crafting with Amanda that’s you’ve done it. (1 entry per share). Like my FB page. (3 entries) If you’re a pinterest person, for every technique tag you pin, you receive an entry. (up to 35!) At the end of the contest I will assign each entry a number and using a random number generator will pick a winner. I will announce the winner on this blog, and then contact them to get the address where the tag book should be sent.

If you would like a copy of my technique instructions file, leave a comment with your email and I will send it to you.

Happy Crafting and Good Luck!

Quick peak at the new Flower Market Cricut Cartridge

by CraftyAmanda in Artwork, Close to My Heart, Cricut | 3 Comments

Hi Everyone,

Been a busy summer around here. In good news the weather has allowed us to get all the fields of hay finished and now we are starting in on grain harvest. In bad news, I’ve only gotten to play with the new exclusive CTMH Cricut Cartridge, Flower Market, for one night. In great news, this cartridge is AWESOME. I can make beautiful flowers quickly with out much fuss or mess!

(It comes with all the newest colors, so that made it even more fun!)

I decided I would cut a few flowers just to get a feel for the cartridge and loaded a piece of white daisy cardstock and let the games begin! The first two flowers I cut were the lilac (p6 of the book) and a background flower from p11.

The lilacs I used our spray pens filled with rubbing alcohol, 12-20 drops of re-inker and for a nice shimmer, one of them I added 3 pea size drops of pearl paint (delta). The lilac is made up of 4 layers, then I cut three bigger flowers and 2 little flowers to add on top of the 4 layers. Love how well these turned out, and how quickly they came together. I used our green marker to color the stem.

For the next flower (background p11) I used markers to color it in. I love how you can use one marker and get great shade variation just by adding more layers of color.

Hope to find some more time soon to play with this WONDERFUL cartridge!

Happy Crafting!

Revisiting old favorites

by CraftyAmanda in Artwork, Cards, CTMH, Pattern | 2 Comments

Do you have those paper packs that you just loved but can’t get anymore? Me too. I have LOTS of partial packs left over from scrapbook workshops and other projects. I’ve decided to love it or leave it. Meaning I am going to use up the partial packets or give them new homes. This will free up some space for other papers that I can use!

In the quest to use old papers, I have more card photos to share. These were from an old paper pack called Miracle and I used Kathryn’s 6×6 patterns again. (Found them here http://kathrynscards.blogspot.com/2013/05/6×6-cutting-formula.html)

Pattern #1 Card #1 Pattern #1 Card #2Pattern #1 Card #3 If you didn’t notice I split the triangles up and made more cards from the same pattern. I had some extra scraps left, so I was able to incorporate those papers with the open space.

Pattern #1 Card #4 Once again the stamp set is one my Mom got me several years ago.

Happy Crafting!

Scraps that were just lying around the studio

by CraftyAmanda in About Me, Artwork, Cards, Cricut | 2 Comments

For the past several months paper scraps have been gathering from club night, quick cards, and left overs from the teenager’s school projects. In an effort to find my craft table again, I started to glue the pieces on to card bases. Not with much rhyme or reason, but with the goal of clean crafting space. Here are some (most) of the results.

As you can see I love embedded embossing. Next set: The next group was paper that was given to me at a crop weekend. Paired it with some of the aluminum grain bin paint embellishments and black cardstock. Happy Crafting!

Found a New 6×6 pattern

by CraftyAmanda in Artwork, Cards, Close to My Heart, CTMH, Pattern | 1 Comment

So, while I was on a long crafting weekend with friends, they asked if I could find another 6×6 card cutting guide and I did find one! Very few meet my standards, but this one does. You can find the pattern here.

Recently someone gave me a couple sheets of one of my all time favorite paper packs. Pemberly! So I gathered all my scraps from this paper pack and came up with these.