January "Craft & Crop" at Jo-Anns'

 

Januarys' "Craft & Crop" was so great! I wanted to share a couple photos. This is the new education classroom at my Jo-Ann's in Hurst. and we take up the whole room.

 

Here are some of the ladies who love to join me here once a month to create a two page scrapbook kit that I create for them.

 

 We also will put together a card for the same theme for that month.



 The ladies also get to create a craft that goes with what ever theme we are working on. We have so much fun.

 Each lady brings a dish that they want to share with everyone. Some will print the recipe so if you really enjoyed a dish you can recreate it at home. We all have fun visiting with each other. When they are finished with crafts we can go shopping. The store closes at 9:00pm and we are there till 11:45pm so they have the store to themselves and enjoy walking around together shopping with no lines to stand in, we treat them like royalty. You can come and be a fun part of the evening. Call and sign up spaces are limited. The next date is , Saturday February the 23rd. 6pm-12am. Hope to see you then!

Marye Bird

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Valentine "Craft & Crop" pages

I could not get my blog to post photos when it was time to share this page, but I wanted to share it anyways. This was the free page kit that was given to all who attended our once a month "Craft & Crop" for January at Jo-Ann's in Hurst.

 

 



 

Hope you enjoyed this one too.

 

Marye Bird

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" Love Is In The Air"

This is the the theme for our next Just-a-scrappin Design Team project.
I just created this Valentine card for my ladies for our Valentine "Craft & Crop" night at Jo-Ann's. They loved it, hope you like it to. You can change it up to what ever design you like.

This is a Gate fold card with a elegant double band around it.

 Inside is a pink and white frame where you add your message. Stamping was added to the bottom of the white layer before it was added to the card.

The band has two layers. The first layer of dark pink was folded around the card and glued . the second layer is lighter pink and slightly thinner and the heart stamp was applied across the bottom and turned and applied to the top also. Then just free cut around the hearts as shown here. Now fold it around the dark pink band and glue. A piece of ribbon of your choice is added around the whole band and glued. Then for the center it is 5 of the heart punches glued on a small circle and then the gray and pink circles were added and finished with a pearl. This cool stamp is from Inkadinkado it is a double heart design and the pigment ink pad is from Hampton art. This is a class you can take at Jo-Ann's for February there are a couple of other crafts done in this class too. Check it out. Saturday during Open House you can get the class at 50% off. Hope you enjoyed this project. I enjoyed creating it. I have not worked much with stamps so this was fun for me. Thanks for joining me again.
Marye Bird
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Original Cricut Expressions Machine

Price:$199.99


Some of you ladies know how much I love the Cricut Expressions and we don't have the machine at Jo-Ann's at this time. But you can get them elsewhere. I found this sale in my email. It is from Cricut.com. This is a website that carries a lot of Provo Craft products. They have the Pink Cricut Expressions that was designed to support Cancer Research. You get the two normal cartridges that I received with my machine and in addition you get a special cartridge called Journy, that you can only get with the pink machine. It is priced at $199.99. You also get two mats instead of the one 1 I got with my machine. And you get a pack of Vinal. I printed the add details.  You can go there to their site and order it. Craig's List, EBay and Amazon, are some other places you can go. There are still some stores who carry them too. There are some other online stores who carry then. Just Google it and they will come up. I have seen them for $169.00 on some of the sites. I know some of the Walmarts still carry them. If you have any questions about the machine or want to learn how to use the many buttons etc. I have a 2 hour class for called "Cricut Workshop" for $5.00 at Jo-Anns' in Hurst where I teach and show you all the great things you can do with your machine and give you some cool tools to use with it. The Cricut is not just a Scrapbooking tool as some think. I use this machine for  so many craft projects, school projects, cards, Girl Scout projects etc.

 

Pink Cricut Expression with Pink Journey, Accent Essentials, and Plantin Schoolbook cartridges

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Larger than the Cricut^® Create or the Cricut^® Personal Electronic Cutter, the Cricut Expression^® precisely cuts letters, shapes, and motifs in impressive sizes using the 12" x 24" mat or the 12" x 12" mat. You can also create bigger die cuts for classroom decor, scrapbook layouts, signage, and so much more.
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Includes the Pink Journey Solutions cartridge, Plantin SchoolBook font cartridge, and the Accent Essentials^® shape cartridge.

Machine Resources:

·         digital user manual

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·         message board forum

·         warranty

·         replacement blade housing

Cricut® Vinyl Rose Pink

New Decor Vinyl from Decor Basics comes in two 12" x 24" sheets per pack. These adhesive-backed sheets of 3 mil vinyl are available in a range of colors for trendy home decor, window signage, and crafting!

Cricut® 12 x 24 Cutting Mats

By Provo Craft®. 2 mats per package, the Cricut® cutting mat has a tacky surface to hold paper in place. Using both mats allows you to cut one thing while working on another. Mats last 25-40 full mat cuts depending on paper used. Never try to use a spray adhesive with these mats or your Cricut® machine. Doing so would void its warranty.

Marye Bird
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Look what you can do with a Mistake!

Over at Just-a-scrappin.com, they asked us members of the Design Team to create something for Christmas but not to use the traditional colors of red or Green. Here is what I made by accident while I was trying to print these cute pictures of a Snow Friends, I ran out of ink and printed two pages of them but in Black & White for our last  "Craft & Crop" night card project. I was going to through them away. But, when I was asked to make something with out green or red, the idea came to me to recycle these instead of discarding them. And here is what I came up with. They came out so cute!

I cut out the Black & White Snow friends pictures and framed them using scraps from black , white and glitter paper from Martha Stewarts' Birthday Party pack. Then I created 4 1/2 X 5 1/2 (A2) cards I cut out of left over card stock from Cloud9 Specialty pack. I found a darling quote and printed it from my computer, cut it out and framed it in black. Aren't they adorable? So, you can recycle those mistakes and make them beautiful gifts.  Hope you enjoyed this as much as I did.
Marye Bird
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Design Team Request

Here is Vacation Time project. This the first of more pages I am creating for a friend of mine. Her and her sweet Husband went to Atlanta for their Anniversary. The page on the left you can see that I created a way to hold the flyers and items they brought home for keepsakes. There are photos of the Gladys Knight famous resturant. They have photos, pictures of the inside of the resturant, Gladys, and the menu thay looked at to order their special meal. She has not seen this yet but I know she will love it.

#2 Craft for Octorber "Craft & Crop"

I was looking for something for a ladies event at church and I found an adorable box.

I could not copy it because I did not have the cartridge that was used. The box came from one of my favorite blogs. "Above Rubies Studios". Here is a perfect example of improvising.

 

 

I used Cricut Cartridge "Bridal Shower" Events and cut the bottom and the top of the box at 11".

 

 

I love this cartridge!

It's not just for Baby Showers!

 

 

Set your machine for 11 inches, make sure you do the top at the same size.

 

Next I used "Flower Shoppe" Projects cartridge and cut the flowers.  This cartridge has a variety of Flowers you can create. 

 

Here is a sample done in what for testing the size. You want to cut 9 Flowers of your choice at 3 1/2 inches. If you use a 12X12 piece of card stock you can use the button (Auto Fill) and it will cut 9 for you.

 

Then you will layer them on top of each other

 

 

 

This is what it will look like. Then take each petal and curl it with your fingernail

Then I took cartridge "A Child's Year" on page 37 are the leaves I cut 3 at 2 3/4 and 1 at 2 inches. If you don't have these cartridges take a look at the ones you have and see what can be used instead.

 

Than attach your leaves and this is what you get. You can can pinch the tips and make then look 3-D for a more natural look.

 

 

The finished project is so cute. You can make tags for them, add ribbon or bows. Thanks to "Above Rubies Studios" for the inspiration.

Marye Bird

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