Dreamweaver Stencils March Madness Challenge!!

 Welcome to Dreamweaver Stencils March Madness Challenge!!

This month the madness is taking your creative personality and Dreamweaver Stencils and putting it on paper, canvas, a home decor item, oh the list could go on and on.

I haven't used the crackle technique in what seems like forever, so that is what my madness was this week.

Step One: I chose  Dreamweaver Stencils Star Flower (LL3027) for my project.  The first step to using Dreamweaver Crackle paste to to use Dreamweaver Matte Black Paste first.  This will provide a "toothy" background for the crackle paste to cling onto.  When the crackle paste cracks you will also see the black through the cracks.

Step Two:  Once the black paste is dry, replace your clean and dry stencil on top of the dry paste. Tape down your stencil again and apply crackle paste over the top of the back paste.  The above photo it what the paste will look like after applying.

It is now time to grab a cup of coffee and allow the crackle to paste to dry, as it dries it will start cracking.

Once the paste dried, I added a small amount of color over the crackle.  I used Prismacolor Color Pencils.

(sorry for the blurry pic)

The sentiment was pasted from Dreamweavers Thank Yous (LG691) with DW Glossy White Paste.

The shimmery background as well as the sentiment backgrounds were cut with a new Dreamweaver Stencils Nesting Frames (DD001) die cuts.

Thank you for stopping by today for a peek.  Check out these creative gals:

Lea Kimmel
Louise Healy
Stacey Rumsby
Terrece Siddoway

Wendy Jordan
Pam Hornschu

Dreamweaver Stencils February Flutters Challenge!!

Welcome to Dreamweaver Stencils February Flutter Challenge!!  


This month the team is creating with anything that flutters.  Today I chose butterflies because I AM READY FOR SPRING.    We have about 10 feet of snow here in Western Montana and I am ready for some window open weather!!

I can't believe that I haven't tried this before, but today I used stencils with velvet paper in my die cutting machine.  I LOVE THE RESULTS!!!  I dry embossed the velvet paper with same way that I would have embossed regular paper.   My "embossing sandwich" is multi layer platform, stencil, paper, rubber embossing mat, TWO acrylic cutting plates.  I put the TWO cutting mats on last, so that  I don't accidentally bend my stencil.

I used a new release stencil from Dreamweaver Crusade LX7025:

I then went on to use the Double Glitter Technique on two different DW Butterfly Stencils:

LL3037 Zen Butterfly

LG 740 Open Butterfly 

Here is a step by step video tutorial using the Double Glitter Technique.

When I was done with the Double Glitter Technique, I cut my designs out and adhered them to my background in a 3D manner.  

Obviously I wouldn't be able to mail this card in a traditional envelope, it could be mailed in one of those pizza box mailers, if you know what I am talking about.

I decided I was so happy with my creation, I put a frame behind it and placed in on my shelf in my craft studio/office.  

I never make things for myself and all day I have been looking at this and love it more and more!!

Are you ready for some more Fluttering inspiration???

Dream It Up! 

Lea Kimmel 

Louise Healy 

Stacey Rumsby 

Terrece Siddoway   

Wendy Jordan  You're HERE!!!

Pam Hornschu 

Cherylynn Moser 

Flutter over to your crafty stash and make a "fluttering" creation.   Link it to Dream It Up  Blog for your change to win!  See you there!!

Quietfire Designs Queen of Hearts Blog HOP!!!

Welcome to the day three of the Quietfire Designs Queen of Hearts Event!

For those of you that read my blog regularly, you see the same words a lot.  Quick, easy, simple.
Here I go again, I chose an easy  home decor piece,  using a Suzanne Cannon Silhouette Cutting File.

This is how my kiddo's will find part of their Valentines treats!!!

I started my Valentine project with a charger from the sale bin at a craft store, a roll of white Oracal 651 Vinyl,  Transfer Tape and a Silhouette Cameo (not pictured).

In Silhouette Cameo software, I opened up the files that I wanted to cut, the files I chose from Suzanne Cannon's  Silhouette Store are You Stole My Heart Calligraphy and Heart Flourish.  I was able to manipulate the sizes of the designs as well as how many flourishes I wanted for the project also.  I placed it on the virtual cutting mat where I wanted it to cut.  

After I finished weeding.  Weeding is removing all of the unwanted vinyl from around your characters.  In the above photo I have placed transfer tape over  the top of the design  to make placing the image in its appropriate place very simple.

Once I have my design where I want it I can remove the transfer tape, which is a  medium tack, so it comes off of everything nicely.

 Complete.  Sitting on my counter, waiting for the BIG DAY!!!

 Here is our Blog Hop Schedule and the dates each designer will be posting (Click on each person's name to go to their blog):

Feb 10 - Holly and Teresa 

Feb 11- Sherry and Jutta

Feb 12 - Wendy  (You're Here) and Terre

Feb 13 - Yogi and Robyn 

Feb 14 - Suzanne and Wanda

For a chance to win leave a comment below before midnight  PST February 14, 2014.

A winner will be randomly chosen from a list of comments and the winner  will be posted on February 15, 2014.

For more details AND to enter in the Queen of Hearts Challenge, please visit http://quietfirecreations.blogspot.ca/