Valentine's Day Romance - Candle Wrap Tutorial

 Hi ya everyone! Today I'm sharing my tutorial at She's A Sassy Lady.  If you haven't visited She's A Sassy Lady - you really should!  So many great tutorials and a free Gypsy tutorial every Saturday!  I'm getting excited for Valentine's Day and realized I had no decorations for the occasion and wanted to spruce up my dining room table.  I decided to I make candle wraps and wanted to share the how to's today.
I started with my Gypsy and used the following cartridges: Indie Art - lips, George - rectangle tabs, and Sweethearts - all other shapes.  First, I used the shadow heart cut from Sweethearts and attached rectangle tabs to each side of the heart.  Heart Shadow = 4.16x3.84 Rectangles = 1.3x1.77

The tabs allow you to connect each side of the wrap.  Once I had these designed I opened a new page and make the hearts that will go on top.  Hearts = 4.01x3.82

I also made a blackout version so I could have a little contrast in the background to help the upper heart stand out against the background paper.

Next, I chose each shape I wanted for three sides and doubled those for two wraps.  I used from Sweethearts - the cupid and the XO and the Kiss Me.  I also used the Lips from Indie Art.

I chose my paper and cut each shape on the Expressions.

Once I had all my pieces cut on my Expressions I layered each one accordingly.

 I didn't want Kiss Me so I cut the Me portion off and mounted the lips to the Kiss part.

 I set each of these cuts aside and scored each tab directly down the center of the tab.

 

 I then attached each tab to form a triangle using my ATG adhesive.

  I then ran my heart through the Xyron and attached it to the white heart.

 I then attached each of these to the wrap.

 Next, I attached each of my cuts using pop dots that I had set aside.

 Once the wrap was put together, I added some stardust Stickles to the Cupids arrow and the heart in XO.

  I also added glossy accents to the lips to make them shine!   Here the lips aren't dry and look cloudy.

 I left one candle wrap blank so you could see how pretty they are without anything on them too!

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial. Thanks for letting me share with you today.  If you have any questions please feel free to ask in the comment area.  I love comments too - feel free to share!  Thanks so much for stopping by - for more fun projects check out She's A Sassy Lady!

Snips, Snails, and Puppy Dog Tails - Stamptacular Sunday Challenge

Hey everyone,
  Just getting back from vacation and can finally post some things - whew I never knew how much I LOVED my internet until I didn't have it!!!  Anyhow, I made this card for the Stamptacular Sunday Challenge which is anything boy related!!!  So I decided to make this card with a free digi from Sliekje.  This little boy praying is just too cute and knowing boys - I thought a little computer generated paper saying "please don't let mom find out" was the perfect touch!  I have two nephews and from the sounds of it they often don't want mom to find out things! LOL  I used my alpha beads again with an elastic band that I could wrap around the card.  I popped the image of the boy colored with Copics using my 3D pop dots, I also cut two of the trains out of the Nanna's Stack from DCWV to pop. 

Finally, I used my cricut to cut out the word bubble from Indie Art - hiding the trouble - and placing in my generated paper. 
Enjoy!

Under My Umbrella - Jitterbuggin'

Hey everyone,
  I made this card for the Jitterbuggin' Challenge this week!  Sherri's sketch was fabulous and the rules were as follows:  use black and white with one accent color - (mine was blue my favorite color), use a punch (I don't have any since I have my cricut but I did use a die for some squares so I hope that counts) and use your cricut while following the sketch.    I had been checking out the Frosted Designs website today too and thought I would combine the two for both challenges since their rules were to use a song lyric. 

Now, my friend Jill and I laughed so hard at the song "Umbrella" when we heard Rhianna sing it because she says "under my umbrella, ella, ella, ella, ella" and it's sort of annoying - no offense Rhianna if you ever check my website.  But we did like the sentiment of being good friends and always being there for each other.  So, Jill did some leg work and found this same song sung by Scott Simon - check it out, it is a much better version of the song!  This is how my sentiment came to be and why I'm also entering it into the Frosted Design challenge. 
  The card itself is a 6x6 cut on white card stock.  I also cut the black and white square at a 5 and 3/4.  The image of the child with the umbrella is from Nursery Rhymes.  He has a goose with him, but I cut that out - didn't think it fit.  I also used Indie Art for the rain drops and welded two shadows together for the layered raindrops.  The sentiment is computer generated.  Once I layered the images using Sherri's sketch I thought the card needed a little more.  I took some sparkly blue brads and added three to the corner of the child's image, and then added some sparkly Stickles to the rain drops and the drips on the umbrella. 

I love the effect of the blue on black and white...I think I'll send this to my friend Jill!!!
Enjoy!