Two Projects Today

 

My first project for today is for a challenge at Turtle Soup:

Today I have a challenge up for the Birthday Bash Crop at Turtle Soup. 

 My challenge for you is to create a shaped card.  Be creative and have fun! 

I created this "Make A Wish" card using my Cricut and the

Creative Cards cartridge.  Be sure to check out the forum and be inspired by

all the wonderful challenges from the design team this month.

 

 

 

 

My second project is  a  tutorial that I have up on

the Off the Rails Scrapbooking blog.  I was inspired by my husband Randy when he wore a bow tie to church last Sunday.  I remembered I had a Cricut cartridge (Brooklyn Iron-On) with some cuts on it that would be perfect for making a tag. He is an avid book worm ... I mean reader and this tag
will make a  perfect bookmark for him.

 

I've listed directions and photos of the steps but did not list photos of the tag in progress.  Two thoughts on this:  One: I did not want to give you a perceived idea as to what your tag should look like.  There is no right or wrong way to do this ... and Two: I totally forgot to take the photos in between the steps. 

I got to excited about making the tag!

 

1) I gathered all my supplies

that I thought I would need.

 

 

2) To create a mask area I adhered strips of torn

tissue tape and applied them to the tag.

 

 

3) I placed a stencil over the tag and applied some

texture paste.  I dried with a heat gun.

 

 

4) I applied several colors of distress stain to my

craft sheet and lightly misted the tag with water. 

I swiped the tag through the stains to

create random colored areas. 

 I filled in areas on the tag using distress stain directly

from the bottle and misted with water to blend. 

I dried the tag with a heat gun.

 

  

5)  I placed another stencil over the tag and inked with

distress ink using a blending tool.

 

 

6) I used various colors of distress paint to alter my

metal word embellishment.

 

 

 

7) I then started to add my embellishments.

 

 

8) Some of the embellishments were sewn on to the tag.

 

 

9) I then distressed the edges of the tag with a distressing

 tool and inked the edges of the tag.

I added the rest of the embellishments.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 The finished tag: