Glitter, Glitter, Glitter - 3 DIY glitter projects

I love Gentry's glitter from the Blingage collection - I know, I know, I know, you have heard me say this a time or two but I do LOVE it! It's so fine and sparkly!!

PROJECT#1: DIY CHARM NECKLACE

Supplies used: Gentry's Glitter, Sweet afternoon pink paper from 6x6 paper pad. Die Cuts also from Swee Afternoon and one pink bling brad. Other: 1x3 strip of music notes, 1x3 memory frame and glass 1x3 (two pieces), pink ink pad (Tim Holtz distress in spun sugar).

1. Cut a 1x3 strip from the pink paper, lay it pink side down on your glass. This will become the back side so that you have a nice pretty back for your necklace.

2. Lay your music notes on top. (You don't need to glue it because the glass will hold it all together.)

3. Trim your sweet afternoon banner to fit inside the frame and ink around edges.

4. Cut a heart shape from your pink paper.

5. (*Optional - ink first in pink) Cut the "you make my heart sing" into strips.

6. Put you pink heart face down in your Teresa Collins Xyron sticker maker. Then adhere your glitter to the front.

7. Put all the word strips, larger banner and sparkly hart into sticker maker and then start layering.

8. Put your charm into the frame with your glass.

9. Cut the prongs off of the back of your brad and adhere to outside of frame.

10. Add ribbon of choice to top and your finished!

PROJECT #2: DIY GLITTER ACCENT CONE

Supplies used: Gentry's Glitter, Fabrications Linen - Green Fleur de lis side B, flower, die cut. Other: Double sided tape (I used red line for this project), cream ruffle ribbon, cream satin ribbon.

1. Cut out the shape of your cone from the side b of Green Fleu de lis paper.

2. Tape along top edge of cone and add Gentry's glitter to the tape.

3. Tape your ribbon to the inside top and along the side you will be adhering the cone together.

4. Adhere the large black die cut to the front center

5. Adhere your large cream flower.

PROJECT #3: DIY GLITTER KEY

I loved this one, so easy to do and so many ideas!!

Supplies used: Gentry's glitter, Collin's Keys. Other: Glossy accents liquid glue, pink ribbon.

1. Choose your key of choice

2. Squirt some glossy accents onto one half (and I mean the top or bottom half, not top or bottom side. Hope that makes sense.)

3. Sprinkle Gentry's Glitter on the key, then I used a clothes pin to hold it on the top half to try.

4. When the bottom is done drying flip it around, glue and glitter the other side.

5. Add ribbon and your done!

This would also make a great idea at Christmas - we had a home when my daughter was younger that did not have a fireplace and we made a "SANTA" key so that we could hang it on the outside doorknob, that was a "special" way he could get in on Christmas Eve! ;)

Sophisticated Cricut cartridge - Fluer De Lis project

I have had this frame for quite some time, just waiting for the right project to come along. I Love how it has a beautiful space in the middle that allows for dimensional items. 

To create this project I cut the Tan Damask paper (side B) from Fabrications to fit my opening then added the silver photo corners also from Fabrications to each corner.

I cut the Fluer De Lis using the "Sophisticated" cartridge in Cricut Craft Room & cut size: 4.5 x 8.1 from Sweet Afternoon "In The Attic" paper.

After I made my cut I used a ruller and drew very thin black lines creating shading on the fluer de lis. Once all of my lines were drawn I then went over the shading and around the edges using distress ink. I adhered it using Foam squares.

This is such a nice addition to my home office! I absolutely love the look and it was so easy to create!


Supplies:
Fabrications: Tan Damask paper (Side B) 12 x 12 paper, Trinkets
Sweet Afternoon: In The Attic 12 x 12 paper
Blingage: Jamie's and Stephanie's Gems
Cricut Craft Room, Cartridge: Sophisticated
Other: Frame, Therm O Web 3D Foam Squares, Micron Pen 01 (Black), Distress ink - Frayed Burlap, Ruler


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Wedding card using Teresa Collins Stampmaker

Love is in the air! There is nothing like a beautiful wedding, I have several that I will be attending in the coming summer months.

I loved this months free negative download, that included these. 

These were just perfect!

Click {HERE} to download this months free negative download. Be sure to check out other ideas using this months free download by visiting the Stampmaker Blog.

Sweet Afternoon - Checkerboard project

I have a new project over on the Teresa Collins Designs Blog today!

Please stop by the team blog for more photo's and complete instructions on how to recreate this fun project!

Old fashioned clip board using Teresa Collins Sweet Afternoon

My ever growing collection of clipboards inspire me so much. When I saw this on Pinterest {HERE} I was so inspired to create something like it using one of my clipboards. 

The dates are Danny's birthday, my birthday, our anniversary and E's birthday. We have a long time family joke that I will always be "29" *Wink!! So, while it hangs in our family room we shall see if anyone notices! HA!!

To create this project I used the Cricut Craft room - SOPHISTICATED cartridge and the Cricut MINI. Let me tell you my two favorite reasons for LOVING the Cricut craft room, and I mean that! #1 - I am very visual, so for me, I will use this, the ease of use to pull it up on my laptop and create something and know EXACTLY how it will cut makes me super happy!! #2 - See picture two on the right? Because of reason #1 I can cut multiple papers for my project ALL AT ONCE because I know where and how to measure the paper, to put on my mat! SWEETNESS!! Papers I used - For the numbers: Flying Kites. For Family and the scroll:In The Attic (back). For the Key hole: 6x6 Pad blue sheet

 

Oh but the project gets better! I wanted the key hole to sparkle, but oh my gosh, that little frame around it had to be glued and sparkled too!! No EASIER way to do this than to run in thru the new TC X sticker maker by Xyron! See the steps below to see how I created the piece.

 I was able to use the sticker maker on the ENTIRE project!! What a dream, saved me so much time!!

I took all of the metal off of the clipboard and covered it using the paper: In The Garden (back)

For my base page I used 2 strips cut 2.5 by 8.5 from By The Pond paper. Then I cut 9.5 by 8.5 from With a Book (back).

***TIP*** Then I layered my "cut paper template" (the piece that the numbers came out of) that I peeled off of my mat and set it on my base paper so I knew EXACTLY how to space all of my numbers because I had already spaced everything when I was creating the project in the Cricut craft room! So I placed all my numbers back into that piece that I had pulled them from then carefully pulled it back up after all the numbers were in place (kind of like a puzzle) and it worked perfectly!!

I used two boarders from the Die Cut Sheet #2 and placed them where the base papers abutted each other. I added the "A wonderful day" adding glitter around the edges and then adhered it using pop dots.  I punched my holes for the top and added some blue paper reinforcers. I pleated some crepe paper and added it on the back side of the bottom strip.

I hope you enjoy! 

Sweet Afternoon Vintage layout - Before and after

I LOVE that you can use this collection for bold and bright colors as well as for your HERITAGE photo's! 

I enjoyed really playing with the papers in the collection for this layout - I used inks on the flowers and leaves on the "In the garden" paper then highlighted them with a glitter pen. Even if I had not recolored the paper it still would have worked perfectly just by adding some distress ink around the edges to give the papers an additional "old world" feel.  

Teresa Collins Designs: Sweet Afternoon -  Items used for Layout:

Papers: In the Garden, At the Picnic, In the Attic, By the Pond

Embellishments: Chipboard elements, Die Cut accessory sheets #1 & #2, Sticker sheet, decorative brads.

Other items: Prima Chalk Ink - Attic dust, worn jeans, vintage pink, antique rose. Tim Holtz ink - Bundled sage, antique linen. Sakura gelly roll - clear star. Coffee filters dyed creamy/brown. 

New mini book using the new Teresa Collins Debut! Sweet Afternoon!

I am loving the new collection!!

What do you think so far, isn't it beautiful?

Multiple layering is so in right now and with the white binder it was perfect for the "white space" and layering trends.  On the cover you can see I cut multiple shapes with the paper collection and added them onto chipboard to give "depth". 

Photographer's credit

The stamp set that comes with the collection is so much fun! You can see how I cut the butterfly and added foam dots underneath it's wings on page 1. I used the large die cut saying "everyday moments" as a tab - don't be afraid to go large with your tabs, it gives your book a new interesting look.

On the pocket page I sewed the papers together and layered the journal tag onto a larger piece to give it a "showcase" feel to the page - tie it off with some pretty ribbon and a crown from the Blingage collection. 

 

From my scraps I punched matching photo corners for my pages and ran them through the NEW Teresa Collins Sticker maker by Xyron! This was so much easier than gluing them individually - What a dream!!

To see more of this album be sure to view it on Teresa's Blog