FaveCrafts Blog Hop Winner! Me!

I am extremely grateful to FaveCrafts and everyone who voted for my entry.  It was a lot of fun participating and I noticed a huge increase in the traffic to my blog.  Here is the official post on their site

Thanks to everyone who participated in our Paper Crafts blog hop this month! We challenged you to share your best handmade cards, scrapbook layouts, and other crafts made with paper with the FaveCrafts community and then vote on your favorites.

The winner receives a Paper Crafting Gift Basket!

And the winner, with 35 votes, is Roberta from Decorables with her 3D Love Flowers Card! Congratulations, Roberta!

 Thank you for stopping by,

~Roberta

Desert Rose - paper flowers created with SCAL and Cricut

My experimentation continues!!! I now have a wonderful petal template that I also created with SCAL and cut out with my Cricut. What do you think?

I created the red flower first, using 3, 11 inch strips of petals.  I then wrapped the 'leaves' around the base of the flower.  For the centre of the flower I used a red crystal drape ornament.

Gold and peach Stickles were added and then I misted the flower with marshmallow Tattered Angels and Green Smooch.
I used a quilling tool to roll the leaves.

Thank you for stopping by,

~Roberta 

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Monday Crafting Tip ~ Paper Punches

Tip #421  Regarding paper punches.


Be they little punches or edge punches, and no matter HOW tempting it might be, 

do NOT

put ANYTHING BUT paper into the punch.  They are meant for paper. They will chew up and/or get really jammed with whatever you stuck in there and then you might wind up spending a LOT of valuable time trying to pry, pull, coax, and swear at the material to come out so your beloved punch can function again.

Oh, I heard all this from 'a friend'. :)

~Roberta  

You are welcome:)

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Let's SMOOCH!

Come on a journey with me as we 

SMOOCH in SO many different ways!

Can you pick out all the techniques I used  and surfaces friendly to Smooch in making this frame?  I'll give you a hint: 12.

  

  

Use inks to enhance stamped images

Decorate a card by applying mists to a wet sponge and stamping/smooshing it along the surface.

Marbling

Marbling

With Smooch you can: spray, stamp, mask, paint, marble, colour, enhance; you can spray/paint on paper, wood, fabric, metal, chipboard, grunge board.

WANNA SMOOCH??? 

Smooch is available for purchase from MICHAELS.

Smooch is made by Hampton Art

Thank you for stopping by,

~Roberta

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UPDATE: 3D flower template designed by ME!

I designed my own 3D flower template tonight  using my Cricut and Sure Cuts a Lot! I can control the size of my petals.

 I hand-rolled all of them, but can you tell which is the one I designed?

Designed on the computer using SCAL and printed out with my Cricut.

The Pink flower, centre bottom, is the one I designed.  

I made 4 strips and cut them out with my Cricut

Carefully removing the strips 

Here are the 4 strips once I peeled them off the mat

One strip glued on top of the other

rolled flower before peeling the petals back

Slowly peeling the petals back, one by one

I added a third strip using my EKSuccess Punch (the green outside strip).

Thank you for stopping by,
Roberta


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