Thursday, July 22, 2021
BFF Open House
Saturday, July 17, 2021
Tutorial: Coffee Filter Flowers
- Coffee Filters. The basket kind, not the cone kind. You can get them everywhere...Dollar Store, Grocery Store etc.
- Dimesional or Thick Glue. I used Glossy Accents by Ranger. Available at craft stores, online, etc. You can also use a thick glue like Aleene's Turbo Tacky.
The quarter folds make a kind of natural well in each layer. Place a dab of Glossy Accents in the middle, then slightly offset the next layer atop the glue, then repeat with the last layer for this section.
Thursday, July 15, 2021
BFF Open House
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Papercrafting: Layered "Moonogram"
I mentioned that I'm going to be a "Fairy Grandmother" since my bestie's daughter is having a baby. The nursery is coming together with a very cool ombre wall done by one of our other friends and has Moon elements. I made this layered "Moonogram" to complement that theme.
Supplies:
- Black Cardstock
- Lavender Glitter Cardstock
- Coordinating Scrapbook Paper ( Let's Wander Stack by Recollections from Michaels)
- Shadowbox Frame (Michaels)
- Moon SVG (Creative Fabrica)
- Digital Cutting Machine ( I used my Cricut Explore2)
As always, I needed to choose what papers I wanted to use. I had a general sense of what I wanted to do but the papers were key! I went with black, since like me, the mom to be is non-traditional and has a lot of black and white in the nursery, a lavender glitter paper and a sheet of very celestial looking paper from the Let's Wander Stack by Recollections.
The next step was to design the "Moonogram" so I popped over to Creative Fabrica (disclosure, I am an affiliate there) to look for a Moon themed SVG and found this bundle which was perfect:
I uploaded the "Man in the Moon with Stars" and the "Man in the Moon" images to Cricut Design Space. Then I chose the letter of the baby's first name in a font that would work well with the Moon images and used the Slice function in Design Space to make the cut out layer of the letter adding stars as well.
I assembled the "Moonogram" layers using foam squares.
Then I cut the background paper to fit the frame and attached the "Moonogram".
The paper, with the gold foiling was already pretty but I'm a more is more person so I wanted to add some more bling and when I saw these jewels at Michaels ( on sale for $5!) they had to come home with me for this project.