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Crafting Weekend Project

by CraftyAmanda in Close to My Heart, Cricut, CTMH, Scrapbook | 2 Comments

Here’s the photo of one of our crafting weekend projects. It’s an adhesive Tape Gun (ATG)  holder.  The funny thing is that after I had decorated my own (the red ATG with ladybugs),  it took using it about 3x before I was completely lost without it.  If you own an ATG, it’s a must have.  Wow.  I’m truly surprised with how much easier it is to use the adhesive gun with it standing up in the holder.
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To color the base, I used about 30 drops of re-inker with 1/4 cup of rubbing alcohol to make a stain for mine.  The holder on the left used a brown walnut stain and the pink one on the right used acrylic paint.  The painted ones needed to dry overnight, but the stained ones could have paper applied and sealed with liquid glass right away.   I recommend using non paper flowers as they will hold up better.  The vertical part of the holder can be removed from the base for travel.

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The purple gun in the above photo is a bit smaller and needed a custom vertical peice.  Thankfully the owner of the purple gun is the wife of the gentleman that cut these all out for me, so it wasn’t a problem!
So, do you think I should do a give away for one of the extra’s I have.  I’ll have to decorate a few of them so the winner would have a choice of colors. . .  Let me know what you think.

Happy Crafting.

Lovin’ the embossing folders

by CraftyAmanda in Artwork, Cards, Close to My Heart, Cricut, CTMH, Technique | 2 Comments

Well,  I should be working on the next scrapbooking workshop, but after I finished Timberline, I decided to play with the newly arrived Embossing folders.    I have to say, I am loving them!

I don’t know about you, but I have a few (hundred) old paper packs laying around that have been opened and most of the papers used, but still too much left to allow me to discard them.  So, I grabbed one,  and decided I was going to use as much of the paper that was in it that I could.

embeddedembossings1I grabbed a couple punches, (I didn’t want to get my cricut out as my craft table is still half covered with other projects, and I know that would never happen at your house!)  my ebosser and the new embossing folders.  I also snagged my card stock scraps bag and went to town.   I started by simply punching some flowers and vines and layered them on the card bases.  I was just playing, so I dry fit several cards then glued down my designs and ran them through the ebosser.  After they were embossed, I added the sentiment and some of my dry embossed flowers.  ( how to dry emboss )

Would love to see your project if this inspires you!

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Hopefully you can see more of the details  🙂   Also, I used up EVERY last piece of paper from my Dotty for You paper.   How cool is that?!

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Happy Crafting!

IvyLane Club Night Cards

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

For the few of you that didn’t get to club night, but received the project I’ve finally managed to take photos AND get them to my computer.  So, here they are.

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I used IvyLane Paper, one sheet of the pink glitter paper, Art Philosophy to cut the butterfly.
The three cards were designed using the Frosted Card Workshop.

With the extra sets of pre-cut cards, I put some together using different stamps.  I’m going to post them here for extra ideas for you.

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I’ve been working on the Timberline Scrapbooking workshop and also have some embedded embossing cards to share.  Hopefully I’ll carve some time to show them to you!

Happy Crafting.

Wrapping up Library Auction Pages

by CraftyAmanda in Artwork, Close to My Heart, Cricut, CTMH, Pattern, Scrapbook, Stamping | Leave a comment

Well,  I think this will be the last post of library auction pages.  When I started this project I thought it would be a great fun, which it was, but I also was looking forward to some easy blog posts showing off my work.  That last part didn’t work out so well.   If you want to see all the pages in one spot, go to http://www.craftingwithamanda.com/rudyard-2/

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The classic school themed pages aren’t there, but all the black & Orange pages are there.

Here is a layout that was created from the negative space when I cut the shape for “Shining Moments.”  The opening is the perfect size for a wallet photo.  This is a great page for a quick glance back over all the years.

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I will be working on finishing the Scholastic paper layouts and the new workshops on the go.  I will also try and take photos and post the club night project.  (In case you can’t come and play with us!)

Happy Crafting.

Sitting bolt upright!

by CraftyAmanda in Artwork, Close to My Heart, Cricut, Pattern, Scrapbook | Leave a comment

Hi Ladies,

I realized (in the middle of the night when I sat upright bolt awake) that I did not finish posting the photos from the library auction scrapbook layouts.  I will try and get those finished in the next few days!

We have been busy here at the Farm.  I had a women’s retreat, then the next day our family boarded a plane to FL to visit with Grandma, Uncle, Mickey Mouse, Harry Potter and several other friends.  We returned two days ago and luckily had a snow day yesterday to help us dive back into life.  I had hoped to do this post yesterday, but as in all things, life happened and I got to spend another 5.5 hours in a car.  Even though we didn’t change time zones, I am feeling jet lagged.

So, with out further ado, more library auction pages.

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I really like how clean these pages look.  If you haven’t noticed, I’ve gone back to matting all my photo spaces.  Sometimes even double and triple mats.  Love the layered look, and have decided I have enough paper and cardstock to use it this way.  <grin>

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“So Proud” was done with scraps.  I used the frame from the Shining Moments Layout and then just layered on more scraps that I had lying on the table.  It definitely fits into the whimsical category!

Thanks for looking.  I hope to be better about posting new artwork.  Now that January is almost over, I think I might have some time to catch up on things.  We have club day tomorrow, and I haven’t even figured out our project!  yikes.  (It’s all good though, I have lots of ideas.  Just need the time to play with my papers!)

Happy Crafting.

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