Posted on Friday, October 17, 2014

A Warm Welcome Gift Basket

It less than 4 days our friends from Indonesia, who serve with a local mission organization will visit us and stay with us for 3 nights! I am so super excited! 😀 It has been a long time since we have guests from my home country. And to welcome them to our little home, I made little Warm Welcome Gift Basket with my Silhouette Cameo.

Stuck On U Sketches has their new Die Cut Challenge up on their blog now with theme: Everything Autumn. You are invited to play with our challenge and share your project you create with any of your die cutting machine that goes with the theme this week.

What you need for this project:

1 – 12×12 Silhouette Chipboard
1 – double-sided Pathfinding paper (or any pattern paper you have)
Woodgrain Embossing Folder
Embossing Machine (CTMH embossing folders work well with any brand of die cut/embossing machine)
Strong glue (I use Xyron Max and Tombow Xtreme)
Liquid Glass
Tombow Liquid Glue
Embellishments: brads, or gems, or pearls, hemp or twine, etc.
Silhouette Cameo
Silhouette cutting mat
Silhouette Spatula
Silhouette Studio Designer Edition
Cutting file: Leaves with veins (Hero Arts), 3D Bushel Fruit Basket (Lori Whitlock)

First open the file on the Silhouette Studio Designer Edition. The original size is small that makes easy to resize to as big as you want. I resized my basket. And then ungroup the shapes. First I cut the base basket using the Chipboard cardstock. I cut them all at once.

Second time I open the leaves and resize them again, put them all around the space where they can fit so I can cut them all at once. I used the pattern paper for the leaves and the layer the base basket.

I cut the paper basket shape into 5 pieces. I cut at their folding lines. It is easier to add them on the chipboard basket. After all shapes cut, I use my Xyron Max to add adhesive at the back of every piece for the basket layer paper.

I used Liquid glue to assemble the basket after adding the layer papers on it. I love this liquid glue because it is multipurpose glue that can be used on anything, dries clear and even you can use to give some dimensional glossy looking on any flat embellishments.

I also made one layer Fall theme cards to put inside the basket with other knick knack. It is a quick one. I cut white cardstocks in 3.5×3.5, stamp it with Quick Cards – Autumn stamp set (retired) using Autumn Terracotta exclusive inks pad. I tied up some Natural Hemp and added some sequins to finish the cards.

I embossed the trim pieces for the basket using Woodgrain Embossing Folder with my WRMK Embossing machine. I love the woodgrain looking for the basket. I added them on the basket edges using Tombow liquid glue. And then wrapped the Natural Hemp cord couple times. Before I tie up the bow, I added those leaves. I use the other side of the Pathfinding paper, the one side I use for the basket layering. Using liquid glue, I added the leaves one by one, made them like a cluster of leaves. Carefully curl them if you want like I did just the edge of each leaf.

I finish it up with a metal brad after I tied up the bow. For extra security, I added some Liquid glue. Let it sit to dry before I put all the goodies inside the basket. And all done 🙂

I hope you like it as much as I enjoy making it! Thanks for visiting and don’t forget to check SOUS Challenges this month!
Have a fun weekend!

Posted on Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Some Fall / Thanksgiving Cards

Last week my friend asked if I could make her some Fall/Thanksgiving cards. I am so thankful to be able to do this for her. I have been working on some cards and I would like to share some them that I made yesterday.

Lately, I have been so much fun with embossing and watercoloring. I tried some techniques on these 4 cards:

I really enjoy making them 🙂 Thank You for visiting, I hope you’ll like them too!

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I link up these cards at:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge – Use Watercolor.

Inspire Me Monday – Week 145

Supplies:
Close To My Heart: Thankful Heart stamp set (B1463), Gold Embossing Powder, Craft Heater, Natural Buttons, Adhesive runner, Liquid Glass.
Others: Tombow liquid glue, Pearl gems, gold sequins, hemp cords, leave glittered foam, and watercolor.

Posted on Monday, October 13, 2014

DIY Fall Leave Paper Wreath

Fall! Fall finally arrived in our area. The colors of leaves decorate every hill and valley, the cooler and the freshness of the air is just perfect 🙂

I went looking for Fall/Autumn theme decorations from our storage and I realized that we do need more decorations in our house and my craft room, too 🙂 So here’s one of the the decorations I made:

Have I told you that I LOVE MY SILHOUETTE CAMEO A LOT? 😀 This handy dandy die cut machine is amazing craft buddy ever! I started with searching for Fall/Autumn Theme cutting file from Silhouette Online Store and found a bunch of them with pretty good deal because I subscribe to their monthly subscription.

I found this pretty Fall Wreath. Open the file on Silhouette Studio Designer Edition. Resize it to the size you like. I did mine to 11″ x 11″. Because I used 10.5″ circle cake base cardboard as the wreath base. After I resized it, ungroup the shapes to cut with different colors.

Once the shape is ready, send them to cut one by one to Silhouette machine. I used Red, Orange and Dark green cardstocks for the leaves and dark brown for the pine cones.

I want the pine cones look more sparkly, so I added some glitter glue all over them and set them aside to dry while I was working on the leaves.

I added the vine for the leaves using my embossing tool and foam pad.

Oh look! They are prettier now 🙂

When I arranged them on the circle cardboard, the center need something. I decided to have a thanksgiving quote for the middle. I found the give thanks phrase in my library from Kolette Hall Studio. I resized it first to fit in the middle of the wreath and the cut it using Black cardstock.

I added some Chocolate Distressing Ink on the leaves with dauber sponge to give some rusty and fall-ish looking 🙂

When everything is ready, I put them together using Liquid Glass glue from Close To My Heart. The pine cones I added them the last with 3D foam tape.

And it has its spot in my craft room 🙂

My Silhouette Challenge buddies and I are all sharing projects related to this theme of FALL/AUTUMN on our blogs today, so peruse the projects below for a wealth of Silhouette inspiration!

Want to Check Out More Silhouette Projects?

1. Create & Babble // 2. Lil Mrs. Tori // 3. unOriginal Mom // 4. Zanaree // 5. The Kim Six Fix // 6. One Dog Woof // 7. Cupcakes & Crowbars // 8. Living My Given Life // 9. Architecture of a Mom // 10. Put A Bird On It // 11. Just Add Paper // 12. Weekend Craft // 13. Silhouette School // 14. Minted Strawberry // 15. My Paper Craze // 16. McCall Manor // 17. Chicken Scratch NY // 18. Mama Sonshine // 19. Creative Ramblings // 20. From Wine to Whine // 21. Please Excuse My Craftermath… // 22. Dragonfly & Lily Pads // 23. The Thinking Closet // 24. Simply Kelly Designs // 25. Sandpaper & Glue //

Posted on Saturday, October 4, 2014

DIY Quick Note Card Set

One of the things I am always thankful for our church is that they care so much for missionaries who come to visit and share with us what God has been doing through their lives on the field. There is a little closet we called it as Missionary Cupboard, where missionaries who visit our church can find supplies (school supplies, stationeries, note books, kids toys, craft supplies for kids, diapers, soaps, towels, hand sanitizer, toilet papers, etc.) if they need any.

This weekend is our Mission Focus. And there will be some missionaries visiting and sharing with us. And we need extra supplies for Mission Cupboard. I have been making note card sets for this cupboard 🙂

This is one of the sets I made. I made them quick and easy. I found a box of lace border cards at store and been sitting in my drawer for a while. I cut piece of ribbon as wide as the card, stapled it using Mini Stapler on both edge and then add the sentiment with 3D Foam Tape.

The frame is from one of the stamps from Holiday Tags set (D1560). The sentiments are from Give A Lift (D1581). I stamped them using Canary Exclusive Inks Stamp Pad (new color on the block!)

Posted on Friday, October 3, 2014

SOUS Die Cut Challenge: We’re All Mad Here…

It’s Friday. Wow… time just flies so far and here we are in October. Trees on our backyard is changing colors, that for sure Fall is in the air.

Today is time for Stuck On U Sketches Die Cut Challenge. The new challenge theme is WE’RE ALL MAD HERE.

It has challenged me to think hard for this one. But our team is awesome, they came up with a lot of ideas for this challenge that you can use any of these die cut shapes for your project: a top hat, tea cup, tea pot, saucer, etc. You also can go all Alice In Wonderland idea if you’d like. Totally up to you, but this is another one to totally go crazy with your project 🙂 Link you your finished projects here to win our monthly blog candy!

I picked the tea cup and saucer for this challenge. I found Lori Whitlock Tea Cup easel card at Silhouette Online Store and cut the shapes using my amazing die cut machine, Silhouette Cameo.