Flower Shoppe Project

I am scheduled to attend a National Scrapbook Day Crop the theme is Paradise and we are supposed to wear vacation attire

I immediately thought I would wear my Hawaii dress with a flower lei from Hawaii

Then I thought I will make one, yeah I will make one with my cricut

here is what I came up with 

See my mess of beads and paper:)

Here is my tutorial on making your very own Hawaiian lei using Cricut and Flower shoppe Cartridge

1.gather your supplies

Flower shoppe cricut cartridge, mouse pad, bone folder, something with a blunt end I used a paint brush, paper piercer, wire, seed beads, cardstock colors of your choice

2. Cut the main flower (think of a real hawaiian lei I had one made with hibiscus)

3. now take your bone folder or embossing tool and crease the flower to the center on each petal

4. Once the flower is creased now turn it over and you will be embossing the opposite side(think of coloring in do not emboss over your creased lines just in between the lines (gives it a real life look) you may use an embossing tool or just something with a blunt end, I used a paint brush!

5. Now take that paint brush or embossing tool and roll the flower petals around the tool 

(see how it just came to life:), very neat I have found that stiff cardstock works the best)

6. now you will want to cut out the centers of the flowers I used white and yellow (dont have a picture of the actual center but of the cuts)

 7. now you are ready to string the made flowers on to a wire, I placed the seed beads in between each set of flowers to give that space so you could see the inside of the flowers

here is the final product again

Hope you enjoyed the tutorial come back to see the hair accessory I made to go with this lei

Happy Crafting

Danielle

(this was not an original idea but I cannot remember where I saw it, saw it a while back and just thought I would attempt at making one)

Recap from the Crop

Our annual crop/scrapbook retreat was this past weekend, as usual it was a blast!

We arrived on Friday to see the room decorated as a 50's diner(super cute) here are some photos from the weekend
Had a Great time on Friday, Saturday, Sunday! I can not wait until we do something like this again but it is going to be a few years (as you can see the hostess has a lot of money invested)

I taught a gypsy class on Saturday everyone that came loved the gypsy and actually got on their phones right away and ordered a gypsy:) I can see more gypsy classes coming in the future!

We did a make and take and made little treat boxes (I did not complete one because I made the sample box)

We received 2 double page kits, eyelets, chipboard album, flowers, cute clothespins embellishments, chipboard words-- I left each time she gave away doorprizes but they were awesome-- here are just a few, paper pads, embellishment kits, page kits, and gift cards to hobby lobby!

Just a few photos from this weekend...


The entrance to our room had this over the door, we walked through the fringe too many times and kept pulling it down so we moved it to the side of the door!
my workstation in the middle of scrap-booking-- a mess but a fun mess
my gypsy board that advertised my gypsy class-- everyone wanted to be able to make a title like mine(loved the gypsy font cartridge)
table decorations car headed to the diner
getting all set up for my gypsy class
the huge milkshake that greeted us as we arrived(Looked almost good enough to take a sip:) )
Our root beer float treats on Friday night

Our crop station decorated like we were going to eat at a diner super cute:)


Until next time Happy Crafting
Danielle:)

Playing with my cricut and a new cartridge

My friend got nifty fifty for a crop retreat we are having next weekend! We have been making diecuts for a month for page kits being given away! This past weekend we sat down and made a make and take with 2 cartridges Art philosophy and Nifty fifty! We made the box with AP and the little tag with NF!

This is my box that will be used as a sample!




Side view


box was cut fit to page which ended up cutting at 11.5"
paper was American Craft CS
Tag was cut at 2.5"
I dotted the edge with a marker (Faux stitiching)
the saddleoxfords was cut at 1.5"
Ribbon from M's
Pink Starburst is a Fiskars hand punch medium size

Happy Crafting
Danielle:)