Christmas Home Decors - 2013 projects + Pomanders + Wreaths

Christmas Home Decors - 2013 projects + Pomanders + Wreaths

Posted by Venus on November 27, 2013 in Christmas, Christmas Decor, Home Decor, Pomander, Silhouette Cameo, Silhouette cameo rolled flower, sizzix 3d roses, Wreath,

hello and welcome to Sisters Craft Cafe!

it's me Venus posting here once again, and i'm happy to be back to crafting blog.

Christmas is just around the corner and I just want to share with you

some of my home decor projects this year.

 

These are floral pomanders I made ...

 

 

A fashion-inspired wreath in Advent colors.... now decorates the glass panel in my office space..

I had been keeping some scrap fabric for so long... finally served a purpose.

Everything is handmade! The lollipop roses and even those sequin embellishments - which I bought from a local craft shop.

 

 

And a huge wreath that now decorates the bare wall in my home.

I love the looks on my kids' faces when they stare at this wreath.

 

 

 

 

POMANDERS

materials:

1. Paper

2. ceramic mugs

3. branches

4. dry moss

5. styrofoam balls

6. stones

7. hot glue

8. KC and Co. die cuts

9. Abacca fiber trim

10. pre-made organic decor

 

 

FABRIC WREATH

1. Wood base ( i got the base from a junkyard, used to be an elctric wire spool)

2. satin fabrics

3. pre-made decor

4. Lollipop roses *pearl beads, tulle, candle, thread, needle)

NO GLUE USED

 

REGULAR WREATH

1. synthetic pine

2. synthetic poinsettia and glittered leaves

3. Abacca fiber trim

4. stuffed toys

 

 

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Halloween Artist Trading Card 2013

Halloween Artist Trading Card 2013

Posted by Venus on October 21, 2013 in ATC, halloween atc, halloween craft,

Hello fellow crafter! 

Im back to blogging here at Sisters Craft Cafe.

Halloween is just around the corner, and I want to share my first Halloween ATCs for swapping with 

my groupmates at Philippine Crafters Association.

Virginia the Witch

 Don't you think she's a sassy, fashinista witch? I really like her hat and her poufy sleeved outfit!

I used Cosmo Cricket Halloween papers for the ATC background, Websters Pages paper for her hat and Websters Pages transparency for her outfit.

"Gayuma"

It means Love Potion in Tagalog.

My easel ATC. 

The tombstone serves as the easel, on it says "Till Death Do Us Part"

 

I used Cosmo Cricket Halloween stamp, heat embossed it.

The number 31 is actually die cut foam which I painted with metallic crackle paint---

I'm not sure why but it did not crackle, hehhhehehehe...

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Besties of Oz Creation Shadow Box Diorama Watercoloring

Besties of Oz Creation Shadow Box Diorama Watercoloring

Posted by Venus on August 07, 2013 in Besties of Oz, diorama, shadow box, sherri baldy stamp, sizzix 3d roses, Sizzix cupcake box, sizzix pop up house, Venus' Posts,

Hello friends! It's me Venus. Thanks for dropping by Sisters Craft Cafe.
I have something extra special project today.

 I never thought I could make a shadow box diorama from scratch!
But I did, and I'm so happy. It doesn't look like that the box was a milk formula (my baby's) before!

The main feature of this shadow box diorama is a Besties of Oz digi stamp. I love her eyes!
I printed the stamp on watercolor paper, and painted the image with
rangers distress stains and glimmer mists. I just figured out the coloring technique and I love the effect.

 The shadow box banner was printed and I just hand cut the wavy banner shape.
(too lazy to use a die cutting machine!)
I used several dies and punchers to create the paper embellishments.

 The shadow box frame was created using a 12x12 chipboard, cut out the hole piece by hand.
I just drew the ornate square shape by freehand, then started gluing pieces of scrap paper to create a decoupage; then I painted it with white poster paint.
Once dry, I stamped the whole thing using a Hero Arts stamp.

The house was a die cut shape by Sizzix pop up house.
The roof was made of foam, each tile was cut by hand.
The base of the house was a recycled spool, topped with a die cut shape from Sizzix Cupcake box.

 Oh I love how this house turned out. Such a pretty piece of decor for my craft room. 
Hope you liked my project.

I'm entering this project to
BESTIES CHALLENGE - BESTIES OF OZ

A SIMPL LIFE- INSPIRE ME FRIDAYS 115- ANYTHING GOES


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Water coloring - Birthday wishes card

Water coloring - Birthday wishes card

Posted by Venus on July 21, 2013 in coloeing with rangers distress ink, coloring with glimmr mist, handmade cards, jasmine, sherri baldy stamp, Venus' Posts, water coloring digi stamp, watercolor cards,

Hello freinds, its me Venus posting here once again.

I've been water coloring digi stamps lately,
and I am liking it!!! Surprisingly, I can color with watercolor faster than color pens or pencils.
The colors are easy to blend.

Here's a card that I made using Sherri Baldy stamp - Jasmine

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 For coloring, I used:

Hair- Glimmer mist -black gold

Face and body - Ragers distress vintage rose

Dress - Glimmer Mist June berry

 I like that Jasmine is holding a lamp, so I chose Birthday Wishes as the sentiment

front of the  card when laid flat

 Hope you like my creation and my coloring technique!!

Challenges entered:
1. Besties challenge - Black white and another color

 

 

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Scrapper's Delights Challenge Blog: Challenge #3 Summer Brights

Scrapper's Delights Challenge Blog: Challenge #3 Summer Brights

Posted by Venus on July 18, 2013 in

Scrapper's Delights Challenge Blog: Challenge #3 Summer Brights

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Inspired to paint

Inspired to paint

Posted by Venus on July 17, 2013 in handmade cards, sherri baldy stamp, sisters craft cafe, Venus' Posts, watercolor cards,

Good day to all and welcome to Sisters Craft Cafe.
It's me Venus posting here today. 

 I love painting! Although I haven't attended a formal painting class,
I am still thankful that my mom sent me to a summer painting class
when I was young. You know, you can never go wrong with the basics!

I've been wanting to use watercolor papers for so long,
and finally I got this chance, after collecting all sorts of materials
for quite some time (I can't afford to buy all of them at once!)

Then...I've always dreamed of having Copics. But they're too pricey! Hell, yes!
And even those water brushes are unbelievably overpriced! 
So today you'll be surprised what coloring tools I used...

 Coloring details...

 Hair -Tim Holtz Rangers distress stain, walnut stain
Dress, hair bow, ribbons on her shoes -Tim Holtz Rangers distress stain, wild honey
Dress detail- Tattered angels glimmer mist, olive vine
Head band, shoes - Tattered angels glimmer mist, black gold
Cheeks - pink acrylic paint (homemade mix)
Skin - Tim Holtz Tangers distress ink pad - victorian velvet

 I added liquid pearls on the edges for a polished look..
Now, isn't she lovely with her yellow dress? 


Other supplies used:

Paint Brush: High quality round brush - Momiji

Papers: AC, Websters pages park drive
watercolor paper 

Rangers liquid pearls

UHU

vintage flowers

Martha stewart punch

Swirl die

foam 

Rangers distress ink pad - Vintage photo

Hope you liked my creation, and enjoyed this post.
Remember.... utilize what you have in your stash, improvise, and be creative!

Here are the rest of the digis  that  I won from 
Sherri Baldy, called Besties
there are lots of cute digis and card inspiration in her website.

CHALLENGES I'M ENTERING:
1. http://craftsandmechallenges.blogspot.com/2013/06/challenge-138-anything-goes.html

Scrappers Delights Challenge- Challenge 3- Summer brights

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Spiced Palette Digital Designs and 3 FREEBIES

Spiced Palette Digital Designs and 3 FREEBIES

Posted by Unknown on July 10, 2013 in digital papers, Freebies, Luanne's Posts, spiced palette,

Hello everyone! How are you? It's been so long since I shared something here on the blog and really missed it. What I would love to share here today is I started my own digital creations and blog design. I am inviting everyone to visit me at Spiced Palette Digital Designs, I have three FREEBIES for everyone from Facebook, Newsletter and Blog, pick one or two {grab them all!}.

Candied Bright Facebook Freebie

Newsletter Freebie

Blog Opening Freebie

Terms of Use for Digital Paper

Commercial license is included.

• You can use these digitals for all your Personal digital scrapbooking, invitations, greeting cards, collages and crafts.
• You can use these patterns for small Commercial sales as long as they are altered and incorporated into your own creation.
• They are not to be resold as is anywhere and are not to be shared among computers. If you wish to share them to your family and friends please direct them to Spiced Palette's FREEBIE Section.
• I reserve the right to amend these terms of use at any time.

All copyrights are retained by the artist.

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Making a Mini Album with Accordion Spine

Making a Mini Album with Accordion Spine

Posted by Venus on July 09, 2013 in lori whitlock, Mini Album, Silhouette Cameo, silhouette cameo chipboard album, silhouette cameo lori whitlock, venus fortuna, Venus' Posts,

Greetings to all! 

 Today I want to share a pretty little album that I made

using Lori Whitlock cutting file in Silhouette cameo.

The file says, it is for chipboard mini album, but since I couldn't get a Silhouette brand chipboard anywhere,

I opted to skip that part and proceeded with cutting cardstocks and just improvised on the album cover..

 This is how the finished product looks like....

At first, when I opened the cutting file, I was like "WHOAAAA!!" 

because of the many cutting pieces in one file.

So okay, again let me skip that part...

 This is the assembled piece from the die cut

It took me a while to figure out how to put the accordion spine altogether

but it became so easy after a few trials.

These are the tags and shaped cards that came with the file...

And these are the pocket cut outs that also came with the file...

I applied glue on the accordion tabs, front and back...

Then slid the pockets and creased the edge to allow the glue to hold

The page should look like this...

After putting all the  pockets together, I inked the edges to create a vintage look

I did the same on the tags and cards

Next, I stamped the front cover, poured embossing powder, then used the heat tool
to create a raised effect on the stamp. I used Gelly scented powders, this one smelled like cookies and cream, oh so yummy!!

Embossed

I embellished the pages

CHALLENGES I'M JOINING

1. Silhouette Blog shape giveaway challenge -3D
2. http://craftsandmechallenges.blogspot.com/2013/06/challenge-138-anything-goes.html

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Let's Make Cards

Let's Make Cards

Posted by Venus on July 08, 2013 in Echo Park, echo park hello summer, Filipino Scrapbookers Challenge, handmade cards, marianne anja square, Marianne Anja's oval, Marianne creatables, Venus' Posts,

Hello everyone and good day to all!  It's me Venus, posting here.
I've been making handmade cards for quite some time.
I am now so thrilled to be asked by FILIPINO SCRAPBOOKERS CHALLENGE
to be their guest DT on their first ever card challenge.
Let's have some fun!

Here's the sketch made by Melissa Bonifacio
of Isay Creative Genius blog
It's a very versatile sketch and I can make as many interpretations as I wanted....
oh, but I lack the time, LOL....

 Card 1 - Wedding theme
Size: 6x6
Supplies:
white cardstock
Webster's pages 6x6 paper
Marianne Creatables Anja oval die
Spellbinders Parisian motif die
Spellbinders circle nestabilities die
Catalina die
Sentiment stamp
flowers and leaves
stick on gems
lace
Rangers distress ink Victorian velvet
vintage postcard
adhesive

Card : Baby
size: 6x6
Supplies used
cardstock
Embossalicious embossing folder
Spellbinders circle nestabilities die
Marianne Creatables Anja square dies
Rolled daisy flower die
Fiskars baby stamp
Embossing powder and heat tool
vintage flowers
adhesive

card 3: Circle Swing Card "beach party"
Supplies used
Echo Park Hello Summer kit
Embossing folder
cardstocks
adhesives
Silhouette Cameo swing card cutting file

swing card when opened
I had so much fun making this card, and it's very easy to make too!

Hope I gave you enough inspiration for today, and hope you'll join
Filipino Scrapbookers Challenge
this month!
 

CHALLENGES IM JOINING

1. Craft dee bowz challenge - anything with bows

2. Silhouette Blog-Shape challenge 3D

3. Fashionista Challenge - Wedding or Birthday

4. Bunny Zoe Crafts -July- Pink and White

Are you looking for fresh invitation designs for your next party?
Well, hop on to INKPRESSIVE INVITATIONS
and check out their wide range of handmade invites for all occasions

Have a pleasant day!


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