Helmar

My project for Helmar today is this sweet as sugar fairy frame. Please feel free to visit their blog for all the details ♥

Helmar products:

Helmar 450 Quick dry Adhesive

Helmar Decoupage and Craft Paste

Helmar Gemstone Adhesive

Helmar Liquid Scrap Dots

also:

Frosted Designs Shades of Spring kit

Graphics Fairy

Signo White pen

Little Yellow Bicycle - stick pins

Interested in joining a fabulous design team? 

Check out the Helmar site for all the details and while you're over there I'd love for you to leave me a comment! ♥

A Royal Highfalutin Contest

Calling all Queens, Divas and Princesses out there...yes you!

I am declaring 2014 a Royal Year, and to kick it off we are having a crown party. 

This event is sponsored by:

So practice your Queenly wave, and make your own 3-D crown. You can make any kind of crown as long as it is a 3-D project. Want to earn extra chances to win? Then post a picture of you wearing it and I'll put your name in the hat for 5 extra chances! It's as simple as that!

 You can have a chance to win some 

Helmar Fabric Stiffener & Draping Liquid and Craft Glue !

Helmar 450 Quickdry Adhesive and Gemstone Adhesive

Cardboard roll

Deco Arts Metallic 

Frosted Designs November Mixed Media Kit

Ranger - stickles

misc. pearl strand

( You can go HERE to see what became of my crown )

Helmar Stiffener and Draping Liquid

Helmar Gemstone Adhesives

misc. lace

Want 2 scrap - pearls

This contest will end on January 31st, so that should give everyone plenty of time to get their royalty on! You can enter as many times as you wish, as long as they are a new entry each time,no backlinking allowed. So blog about your crown and make sure you link up to that post ( and not your entire blog ) so we can all visit and leave you you some Queenly ohh's and ahh's!

 I want to thank Jeanette from the Helmar Design Team for giving us this fun and whimsical inspiration and for Helmar for giving me a prize to offer! 

We can’t all be a princess…someone has to sit on the curb and clap as I go by!

Tap Pants: noun

The name of this lingerie suggests its history.

This style of underwear resembles the loose shorts that women used to wear while tap dancing.

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Want to be in a magazine? Like sketches? Maybe a chance to win some shopping money?

Well then, this looks like a great time to enter the sketch challenge over at Die Cut Crazy Magazine where you have a chance to win a $25.00 gift certificate over at Two Peas in a Bucket!

I love card sketches almost as much as I love my Cricut! So, when I get to combine the two...I am happy as 2 peas in pod....or a bucket, in this case! :)

 I used the bride and groom cut for the vertical border on the sketch.


I used a banner shape for the bottom border shape and the butterfly in place of the circle. The butterfly's wings and the sentiment banner are popped up with Liquid Scrap Dots.

I water colored in the grooms tux and added pearls and glitter to the brides dress.

Cricut- Paper Trimmings, p.36
Stretch Your Imagination, p. 74
Helmar - 450, Liquid Scrap Dots, Acid Free Glue, Gemstone Glue
Ranger - Stickles, Liquid Pearls

Helmar - Summer

It was kinda surreal to be designing a summer themed project right after our first snow fall of the year and temperatures in the 30's, but nice too. Thinking about the summer for me, means Panama Beach Florida where I vacation every year...beach, sun, swimming...::sigh::

This is my 6 x 12" wall hanging that I designed:

This was my first time experimenting with Helmar's Fabric Stiffener & Draping Liquid and I must say I was delighted and will definitely use this again. Not only was I able to mold it to the shape that I wanted ( I laid a piece of wax paper over my sea horse so that I could mold the curve to match ) but after it is treated, you can paint on it and the inks don't bleed like they normally do when applied to fabric.

After the lace piece had dried, I adhered it with Helmar's 450 Quick Dry Adhesive.

Adding decorations with my Helmar's Gemstone Adhesive:

Enjoying playing with my typography and lettering:

The paper came from the Frosted Designs October Mixed Media Kit, on top of the paper was a lot of layering of these products:

May Arts - Halloween Challenge

I have to say that I was very excited to be in the top 20 that gets to compete in the Halloween Challenge over at May Arts. It's an honor to be chosen and I sincerely hope I hold my end up because there are some AWESOME ladies over there designing some amazing projects with ribbon. We got to choose 4 ribbons to work with, these were my choices:

http://www.mayarts.com/halloween-craft-challenge/

I made the center of my flower by knotting the black silk ribbon repeatedly until it formed the size I needed. I stamped 'hocus pocus' onto the wide orange ribbon accenting between the words with white pearls, I just love the tiny pom pom trim on it!!

The sheer spider web ribbon was looped into a big bow and then shredded for texture. The fuzzy black burlap string was wound around the box and knotted on the sides with orange pearls accenting the knots.

A big dangly spider hanging from the burlap string guards the treats within!

Cricut Craft Room - free cut -spider
BugBites - Magic Spells stamps
StazOn - ink
Tim Holtz - grunge paper
Helmar - 450 Quick Dry Adhesive, Craft & Hobby Glue, Gemstone Adhesive
Frosted Designs 2013 October Mixed Media Kit - 
( Deco Arts - Orange, black paint, Fancy Pants corrugate paper )

Entering my Halloween treat box in:
Anything but a Card - #28 Orange and Black
Craftin' Boutique - #12 Halloween