Sweet: Pretty Jelly Jar with Lovebug Creations Ribbon

12 Wednesday Feb 2014

Posted by kryztyne2012 in DIY & Crafting, Lovebug Creations, Papercrafting, Rubber Stamp, Rubber Stamp, Textiles

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apricot jam, apricot jelly, emboss, jam, LOveBug Creations, polka dot, polka dot fabric, ribbon, rubber stamp, Rumple Ribbon, sheer ribbon, Simply Sheer, simply sheer ribbon, stamp, vellum

Last summer my apricot tree gave me a bumper crop of gorgeous, juicy, fuzzy apricots. There were so many that I didn’t know what to do with them! So, over the summer I made some into apricot sauce and some were mixed with lemon juice and sugar and put into the freezer for safe keeping. I recently had a desire to make some more jelly (because getting a new freezer that’s smaller than the other one you previously had will do that to you!) and whipped up a mini batch.

Savannah, my sweet daughter, asked if she could take a jar over to her boyfriends family. Well, I couldn’t let that jelly jar leave the house undecorated! I jumped into action and cut out a circle of fabric, a circle of vellum and got to work decorating.

I used some of the beautiful Simply Sheer ribbon from Lovebug Creations and created a cute double bow. This ribbon is White from the Christmas Candy collection.

I embossed this adorable deer image onto the vellum and I had a cute jar of jelly ready for Savannah to take over! Easy!

Thanks for stopping by!

xo,

Christine Barker

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Birthday Card: Happy Birthday, Dorcas!

14 Tuesday Jan 2014

Posted by kryztyne2012 in Art and Crafting, Cardmaking, DIY & Crafting, Lovebug Creations, Rubber Stamp, Rubber Stamp, Tags

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Alterations, Augusta, birthday card, Cecilia, CHA 2014, CHA winter 2014, CHA2014, clear stamps, cling stamps, copic marker, craft and hobby association, dorcas troche, Family Ties Collection, frameworks, fussy cat, fussy cut, Hand Made Card, Happy Birthday, hexagon, Honeycomb, LOveBug Creations, Lovebug Creations Creative Team, mother of pearl button, Rumple Ribbon, signo uniball, sizzix, tim holtz, vellum

It’s time for another birthday on the Lovebug Creations Creative Team. This time we’re celebrating

Dorcas Troche

and we’re ready to help her get the party started!

The beautiful ribbon on this card is from Lovebug Creations. It’s called Augusta, from the Family Ties Collection. This collection features yards of gorgeous Rumple Ribbon in all of my favorite vintage-inspired colors.

I added a vintage yellow-colored mother-of-pearl button to the center of the super cute bow.

The flowers are fussy-cut, using two different sizes and they’ve been popped out using foam pop dots.

I have a little thing for vellum, so there’s a piece of vellum on here to give a little visual separation between the background and the die cut hexagon shapes.

I outlined each of the hexagon shapes with my white, Signo Uniball pen.

The tag has been stamped with a Happy Birthday Sentiment and dusted with a rust colored embossing powder. A couple sets of gold brown toned crystals gives the tag just a little bit of bling.

The edges of the card and flowers have been lightly rubbed with a brown Copic marker to give the card a bit of a vintage feel.

I’m so excited to tell you that I used a brand new die from Tim Holtz’ Alterations Frameworks line. This Sizzix die is so new, I just brought it home Monday from the Craft and Hobby Association (CHA) convention in Anaheim, CA, where I won it and one of my BFF’s stood in line to pick it up for me (Thank you, Julie! I owe you!) The name is “Honeycomb” and it’s pretty versatile, allowing you to cut out different sheets of paper from the same collection and then mixing and matching the hexagon shapes.

Happy Birthday, Dorcas! I wish you a wonderfully creative day and I hope your family spoils you!

Thank you so much for stopping by and please leave a birthday wish for our special Creative Team friend, Dorcas!

Click on the names of the Creative Team to see their beautiful cards for Dorcas:

xo,

Christine Barker

PS: Don’t miss the Lovebug Creations Creative Team “Loves Me, Loves Me Knot” Blog Hop on January 25. We’ll be unveiling the newest Lovebug Creations products and you won’t want to miss it. I’m not allowed to tell you about the new colors because they’re top secret but I will tell you that one of the new lines is NOT ribbon! Can you guess what it is?

Home Decor: Sweet Mason Jar Tutorial

29 Monday Jul 2013

Posted by kryztyne2012 in Art and Crafting, DIY & Crafting, Lovebug Creations, Mixed Media, Papercrafting, Tags, Textiles, Vintage

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ball jar, burlap, canning jar, Cindy Loo, color shine, copic, copic marker, craft, cricut, Cricut Cindy Loo, crochet doily, diy, diy gift, gesso, Heidi Swapp, heidi swapp color shine, homemade gift, hostess gift, lovebug creatins, LOveBug Creations, Lovebug Creations Rumple Ribbon, mason jar, mother of pearl button, mushroom, muslin, oh cecilia, paper craft, Rumple Ribbon, scarletcalliope sweet mason jar, sentiment, shabby chic, thank you gift, twine, vellum, vintage button, vintage music paper

Hello Crafty Friends!

First of all, I have to say a HUGE HELLO, G’Day, Hola, Bonjour, 您好!, and Hallo to my visitors from across the miles. I check my blog stats and I see that I often have some visitors from Australia, the UK, Canada, Argentina, Singapore (Hi Aida!) the Netherlands and France. Not to mention from all the other corners of the globe and you have no idea how happy that makes me! Leave a comment and say hello and tell us where you’re from!

So, you may have noticed that Mason Jars are a big deal right now. They’re so popular that Target, Michaels and some other large US retailers are selling the vintage-color blue Ball brand canning jars. I bought a case the other day without any idea what I would do with them, I just knew they needed to come home with me and I’d figure something out. 🙂

I decorated a mason jar with some fabric, twine, some adorable paper decor and some beautiful Lovebug Creations Rumple Ribbon. This project would make a great gift for a hostess, a thank you or just because! Or, what about using some as centerpieces for a pretty wedding or party? The jars could be filled with sand and votives instead of flowers for a fun seashore themed look!

I started off punching out a 3.5″ scalloped circle from vintage music paper. I also punched out some craft paper and glued it behind the music paper to give it some oomph, I don’t want it folding over once I start adding on some embellishments.

I gave the paper a spritz with some Color Shine in Teal from Heidi Swapp. (I’m so excited that they finally restocked this color at my local crafting shop!)

Next, I went over the paper with a little bit of gesso mixed with water.

While my scalloped circle was drying I wrapped the jar with a scrap of muslin and used a drop of hot glue to secure it.

Next, it’s time to wrap the jar with twine. Apply a line of hot glue, about an inch, and place the end of the twine in the glue until it cools.

Once the hot glue has cooled completely, begin wrapping the twine around your muslin. I wrapped my jar about 6 times and then used hot glue to secure the end of the twine.

Add a scrap of burlap to your scalloped circle and add a sentiment. I used a sentiment that was on a piece of vellum but you could print out any sentiment on your printer or use a rubber stamp.

Next, I cut an adorable mushroom using my Cricut Cindy Loo cartridge. (I LOVE this cartridge and all of the sweet, whimsical designs!) I used a Copic marker to go around the edges of the mushroom. Then, I added a mini crochet doily and accented it with a vintage mother of pearl button.

Now it’s time for your ribbon! I used Lovebug Creations Rumple Ribbon in “Mae” to wrap around the jar and to create a sweet bow. I love the “Oh Cecilia” Family Ties collection because it is full of gorgeous, shabby-chic hues that are perfect for my vintage-style crafts!

This vintage style Mason Jar craft goes perfectly with my collection of vintage-style milk jugs!

Thank you so much for joining me. Please leave me a note in the comments and let me know what you’ve been doing with Mason Jars besides canning!

xo,

Christine Barker

Crafting: Spring Banner featuring Lovebug Creations Rumple Ribbon

18 Monday Mar 2013

Posted by kryztyne2012 in Art and Crafting, DIY & Crafting, Lovebug Creations, Mixed Media, Uncategorized

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Hello Artists!

For this week’s Lovebug Creations project, I have a Spring banner to share with you. I actually made it a couple weeks back for the Blog Hop, but as it happens, I had a lil snafu during my photo shoot (yes, another backyard photo shoot issue. Imagine!) My daughter, Savannah, helped me set up the backyard with some fun party decorations and we got the table settings laid out. I was going for one of those beautiful pictures like you see on Pinterest. It turned into a total Pinterest FAIL! The moment we got all of the decorations set up, the wind started gusting and blowing everything around. Then, really huge drops of rain started falling all over my paper projects and started soaking all of the decorations. So, we threw everything in a box and ran inside. Literally 2 minutes later the rain stopped and the sun came out. Score 1 for Mother Nature!

So, today I tried again and at least I got a picture of the banner without it twisting and turning all over the place. You can see the banner and tablecloth getting all crazy here in this picture from a couple weeks ago.

The way our house and the wall are situated, it creates a wind tunnel through our backyard!

Anyways, let’s talk about crafting and we’ll go through each tag one by one. This Spring Banner project was just the beginning of my recent infatuation with vellum. I ran the vellum through my Sizzix Big Shot Pro die cutter with my favorite die to create a nice sheer separation for my letters from the background. The letters were cut using my Cricut.

Don’t you just love velvet leaves? I found them and the mushrooms at Gilding the Lily in Fullerton and it’s one of my favorite shops to find unique millinery, vintage photos, feathers, beads, pearls, crystals and jewelry findings. The beautiful ribbon in all photos is “Pink Clouds” from Lovebug Creations. The colors that I received ranged from a sweet, light pink to a deep coral and were so perfect for this garden inspired banner. I just love the way these ribbons curl and ruffle! I used my white pen to outline the blue letters and die cut pieces to give them an artistic touch.

The cherubs head is from my stash, it’s probably 20 years old. I love painting objects to look like moss-covered garden statuary. For this panel, I cut out vellum flowers with my Sizzix Big Shot Pro die cutter and colored the back of them with my copic markers. This gives them a nice color without being too strong and overwhelming the rest of the piece.

The buckle on the P is made from a chipboard piece from the dollar (and fifty cent!) section at Michaels and I painted it and then glued vintage rhinestones to it.

For this panel, I used a wonderful paper flower technique that I learned from Arlene Baker at a class at French General during Kaari Meng’s Art of Craft event in January. To learn this technique, you’ll have to take one of Arlene’s classes. I never give away other peoples secrets! Can you believe the result of Arlene’s technique? I love how the paper flower wrinkled up just like a real rose.

Paper rosettes are used in a lot of my projects because they look so whimsical and add great depth.

To create a waxy look on silk flowers (like the one on the bottom, second from the left) I stamp them with clear embossing ink and then sprinkle with clear embossing powder. Using your heat gun, move it around and slowly melt the embossing powder. Be careful not to burn your flower!

Detail of another cherub I painted to look like moss-covered garden statuary.

This panel has a piece of vintage wallpaper at the top that I cut with one of my punches. The punched circles at the bottom right are accented with clear glitter.

I featured these vintage-style paper straws in a past blog post, but they were part of this project so I wanted to share them with you again.

I used my Cricut to cut out LOTS of butterflies in different sizes and shades of tangerine-colored paper to adorn the Japanese paper lantern. I love the ombre effect and I’m going to file this idea away and use for decorations in the future.