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Spring Tags with Homemade Screens

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Monday Challenge #93 - Tags

InkaDinkaDoo dragonfly stamp.  CTMH  banner stamp.  Artiste dress form. 

Cloud 9 Design stamp.  Artiste bird.

Bazzill Chips key.  Artiste lock.  Unknown map stamp.

Cloud 9 Design stamp.  Artiste banner & Eiffel Tower.

I love, love, love tags, so entering a spring-themed tag for MCS's tag challenge was a no brainer!  I tried something new by creating my own screens cut out of basic office supply store acetate with some fun Cricut cuts.


I then inked them with combinations of LSG's awesome sprays and Distress Inks.  I used copies of amazing vintage papers to cut out the images and just adhered them down with Zip Dry.  A final touch with some sentiment stamps and an additional chipboard element and voila - beautiful, layered, collage-inspired tags with bright spring colors and themes.

Cardstock:  Petersen Arne

All tags cut from Plantin Schoolbook on my Gypsy.

Homemade stencils from various carts using ordinary office supply acetate.

Some of my selected carts.

Some supplies.

Thanks for stopping by for a look!

Home Decor with Vinyl

Here's a quick post highlighting some fun I recently had with vinyl.

Dog Food Jars

I love these big pickle jars (picked up at Fred Meyer for less than $20) for keeping our dog food dry and accessible.  As Sawyer requires a $pecial diet, we have separate jars, but kids don't always pay attention as to which is which.  So I decorated them to avoid any further confusion.

Originally I wanted their pictures on the blank frame areas below, but as I do wash these out by hand, I hadn't thought of a good way to secure a laminated picture.  They're blank for now, but I will fill them in soon.

Carts:  Paper Pups, Art Nouveau, A Frightful Affair, Paper Lace

My baby girl, Kate.

My craft buddy, Sawyer.

 Cricut vinyl in Black and White.

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Wall Art

Next up is a Christmas gift I made for my husband this year - his passion is golf.  These photos were snapped on a golf outing with two of his boys, and on a trip to Pebble Beach with his dad.

I expected him to want to put this collection either in his office or downstairs by the golf closet, but he chose to have them more prominently displayed by our stairs - how sweet!

12x12" canvases from Craft Warehouse - $7.50 ea on sale.  Photos printed out at local FedEx (Kinko's) for just a few dollars.  They were trimmed to 11 1/2 x 11 1/2". 

Brown vinyl from Provo Craft.  Distress Inks in Antique Linen, Vintage Photo, and Walnut Stain.  Photos edited in PSE 9 and Perfect Effects 4.

As you can see I love decorating with photographs in my home!  My hubby picked the spot and arranged the golf art just so.

I've used this fun cart for several projects - but truth be told, I mostly bought it because of the golf art.

Design was created on my Gypsy.  I broke the original art into 2, 11 1/2"mats, deleted some cuts, and stretched it to fit.

This is how the original artwork shows up. (Please excuse the glare, but just at that minute the sun peeked through!)

Thanks for stopping by!

Circles: "Less Is More" Challenge

Mother Nature had it right when the bumble bee was created.  Black and yellow are a great combination.

  Like most CAS challenges, when things come together quickly - it just works.  It took no time to put together the card base, cut, and ribbon.  Can't say the "congrats" was as easy.  Probably 3x longer to do the one sentiment, and I'm "meh" about how much I like it.  But that's the fun of crafting, trying new things to see what works!

  When its all together, I'm probably pushing the boundaries of the LIM challenge design rules, but I just love this cut for the circle design, so here goes...

Bazzill Basics cardstock.  Paper Lace and Wild Card carts.  American Crafts ribbon. Distress Ink in Black Soot.  Black Stickles.