Stuck on Helmar

Hi everyone, it's Sandee here with my first Helmar Design Team post, bringing you a easy gift idea for the upcoming holidays. A sewing box, made sew easy with Helmar Adhesives.

 I love to re-cycle, up-cycle and re-purpose just about anything and today my project begins with a discarded ribbon card board tube and a foam insert that you find in your package of brads.  So the first thing I did was to paint the cardboard and cut the foam into a circle.

Using Helmar's Craft & Hobby PVA glue I attached the paper to the cardboard tube. This glue truly grabs hold and secures the paper, even along a round shape.

Then I added ribbon around the box, leaving one side open. You need a strong glue like Helmar's Fabric Glue to make sure the ribbon holds up to the opening and closing of the box.

I used Helmar's Foam Glue to attach the ribbon onto the foam.

I attached the foam pin cushion to the top of the box, again with Helmar's Foam Glue.

There are 12 thin layers of flowers secured with Helmar's Fabric Glue and a dollop of Helmar's 450 Quick Dry Adhesive which holds the gold bead in the center of the flower and holds the flower onto the foam base.

I love that Helmar's 450 Quick Dry Adhesive dries to a crystal clear finish because, sometimes, what you don't see is the most important part of your artful creation!

Helmar Craft & Hobby PVA Glue
Helmar Fabric Glue
Helmar Foam Glue
Helmar  450 Quick Dry Adhesive
along with:
Core'dinations - The Chocolate Box paper

Maya Road - Butterfly stickpin

Little Yellow Bicycle - woodedn stickpins

May Arts - ribbon, 421-05-33

millefleur: adjective

 having an allover pattern of small flowers and plants

pronunciation
( How copacetic is this? The WOTD is an apt description of the background paper I used for my card. )
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Cards Create Challenge Blog -  June

Little Yellow Bicycle - Special Summer Challenge

blue suede shoes:Elvis  ( 1955 )

Blue Suede Shoes  ( 1956 )

Blue Moon of Kentucky ( 1954 )

Since we could be creative with how we interpret the 50 challenge, I went with the music of Elvis Presley from the 50's.Evidently he was a little blue during the 50's ( oh, and how I was in love with him! If I had been old enough I would have thrown my panties up on stage for him....just sayin'. lol ) So I decided to go with a blue monochromatic card in honor of the King himself.

And here is my card with it's millefleur background:

I admit, I love to hand stitch around my cards, I think it's a left over urge from my cross stitch days. I used 3 variations of the running stitch. The outside border is the dusky blue, the oval is stitched in white. Then the sentiment strip is offset with alternating blue and white floss. It's a great way to add both dimension and detail to your cards without adding bulk if you are mailing it.

The butterfly is a clear cut which I completely covered the back with glue and adhered it to a piece of white card stock and then fussy cut it out. That way the different pattern papers aren't showing through the delicate image.

 

also entering this in:

 

Fab 'n' Funky - #175 Birthday

Little Yellow Bicycle - Elizabeth Park,  ( the millefleur background paper ) Saturdays ( butterfly ) Fern and Forest Boy ( the 2 remaining pattern papers and the chipboard cloud )
Petunia Bounce - font

sandbag: verb

to bank, stop up, or weight with sandbags

 

  to hit or stun with or as if with a sandbag

 

 to treat unfairly or harshly 

 

 to coerce by crude means

 

 to conceal or misrepresent one's true position, potential, or intent especially in order to take advantage of : to hide the truth about oneself so as to gain an advantage over another

pronunciation

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Digi Haven - Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp - Transportation
Fab 'n' Funky - #175 Birthday

Paper Smooches  - June 10-16 Designer Drafts challenge

I did have to add on longer legs to the sand piper or his beak would have been up the shrimps hoo hoo. lol And we wouldn't want that, would we?

The glue for the bicycle clear cuts is under the hubs,basket and seat so it doesn't show. The banner has a small dollop of LSD under it so it won't flatten out when it's mailed.

Paper Smooches - Surf and Turf stamps
Little Yellow Bicycle - bicycle clear cut
Really Reasonable Ribbon - twine
everything else from my scrap paper stash

sky pilot: noun

clergyman; specifically : chaplain

pronunciation
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Page Maps - boy-girl challenge with Stephanie Perdue + Fancy Pants prize! 

 "Create a layout, based on the sketch above, in a boy or girl theme. We'll be looking for something creative in place of the flowery embellishment on the sketch." 

So here is my LO, with acorns and leaves replacing the flowery element. I also added a button instead of more flowers alongside the journaling.

 and a close up for your viewing pleasure:

I altered the colors of the orange dots on the polka dot paper by coloring them in with a lighter pink so that they would match the colors of the flowers better and used pink letters and numbers to further tie in the colors together.

I loosely glued the acorns and leaves down so that they have dimension, without using any pop dots 

also entering this in:

Anything but a Card - #20 Dust off your old supplies

Fancy Pants - button ( the only FP product I had )

Little Yellow Bicycle - brown woodgrain and polka dot paper, journal card

 ( Used really old papers from my stash for  the background and an old piece of hoarded vellum )

Cricut - Stretch Your Imagination, p. 46  ( acorns )

Simply Scarecrow - ( leaves )

Ranger - Distress Marker, Distress Ink

ZIG - marker

Signo - white pen

Heidi Grace - pink sticker letters

Sandy Lion - expoxy numbers

pertain: verb

to belong as a part, quality, or function 

 to be appropriate to something

 to have reference

pronunciation

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Hi everyone, here is your Monday inspiration over at Frosted Designs where our new challenge is to use punches. What do you mean it's not Monday? sshhhh....don't tell on me, I am posting this a day early, you really weren't suppose to notice!  I do hope you go over and see what the other lovely ladies on my DT have come up with, the creativity astounds me sometimes!

OK, so coloring on the canvas was a wee bit of a learning curve. When it's wet my gelatos ran...so had to wait for it to dry and then went back in with my pens to try and straighten out the coloring a bit. They color much better with markers. I added some glitter to the wings.

I admit I don't have many punches. I never invested in them especially after getting my Cricut machine, but I have a waterfall punch and used it here on the bottom of my card.

Little Yellow Bicycle - Acorn Hollow pattern paper, canvas bee
Faber Castell - PITT pens, gelatos
Traveling Typewriter - font

This weeks sponsor is :

Boys Rule Kits

And by playing along, you could win this....

So get punching!

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I seem to "bee" working a theme here :) 

I think it's bee-cause I've been out in the garden working lately!

entering this bee-utiful card in:

( last bee pun, promise! )

Inkspirational sketch challenge

 The honeycomb was made using paints and a stencil with my gelli plate.

Cricut - Art Nouveau, p. 56

Plaid paints

ZIG - writer

Traveling Typewriter - font

Ranger - Glossy Accents

American Crafts - Mr. Huey's stencil

Faber Castell - PITT pen

amalgamate: verb

to unite in or as if in a mixture of elements; especially: to merge into a single body

pronunciation

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Cute Card Thursday - #270 Tie it Up
Paper Smooches -  Cool Shades challenge

 

combined with this challenge from Pagemaps:


using this sketch

Amalgamating several challenges and elements to create this card:

I stamped the sand piper and piling on Kraft paper, shaded it and cut it out. I also cut into the waves so that the piling is "sunk" into the top layer.

I added a small fish stamp on top of the brad ( which I painted white ) and then added a little bit of glossy accents on the fish. I swear if I had known there was an air bubble in it, I would have tried to move it over his eye, wouldn't that have looked cool?

Sand Piper, pier stamp, fish, sentiment - Paper Smooches Surf and Turf
red striped paper, Kraft hexegon paper - Little Yellow Bicycle
large brad - American Crafts
Faber Castell - PITT pens
Ranger - Glossy Accents, stickles
Really Reasonable Ribbon - twine
Cricut - Heart Bubble layout ( free cut thisweek )


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I made it to the top 3 finalists for designing a wooden book for Genuinely Jane Studios, would be honored if you would go visit there and cast your vote for me...( I designed the camera. )

scrumble: verb

to make (as color or a painting) less brilliant by covering with a thin coat of opaque or semiopaque color applied with a nearly dry brush

 

 to apply (a color) in this manner

 

 to soften the lines or colors of (a drawing) by rubbing lightly

pronunciation
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Little Yellow Bicycle Spring/Summer Color Challenge

Use this color range (orange, navy, light blue, green, and brown) 

 

No scumbling here folks, I love the bright vernal colors from LYB!

Little Bicycle products:

frame, dotted cloud chipboard - Just Because

fox, small blue cloud, sentiment chipboard, pattern paper - Fern & Forest Boy

green paper - Acorn Hollow

OK, it's a shame that you cannot order individual pieces, because I would order the heck out of the little fox, isn't he cute? 

I needed a navy color so I "painted" the inside of the photo frame with a distress stain.

other:

Ranger - distress marker, distress stain

Martha Stewart - fringe scissors

Eyelet Outlet - butterfly brad

I did add one other product to the card that wasn't LYB, but gosh, that tiny butterfly is just perfect there, don't you think?

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I made it to the top 3 finalists for designing a wooden book for Genuinely Jane Studios, would be honored if you would go visit there and cast your vote for me...( I designed the camera. )

filial: adjective

of, relating to, or befitting a son or daughter

 having or assuming the relation of a child or offspring

pronunciation

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♥ WOYWW ♥
Have you missed me? I certainly have missed you!! I have been sooooooooo very busy since joining 3 DT's and business is picking up again at the Art MoB now that winter is over. On my desk today is a mini album that I tried to sell last fall, but maybe it will get a better reception earlier in the summer. Plus, revamping it it with some prettier ribbon might help...crossing fingers!

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I made it to the top 3 finalists for designing a wooden book for Genuinely Jane Studios, would be honored if you would go visit there and cast your vote for me...( I designed the camera. ) I REALLY , really need your vote!! ♥

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Little Yellow Bicycle 

Now for more fun stuff I entered the sketch challenge for NSB day:

And a close up of my lay out:

Little Yellow Bicycle:

cork background - Making the Grade

dark brown woodgrain paper - Acorn Hollow

light brown striped paper, chipboard shapes, sentiment words, Fresh Verse - Fern & Forest Boy

canvas butterfly sticker, cork sticker letters - Naturals ( colored with distress stain )

Clear cut - Saturdays

I love how 5 different paper groups merged so well together, mixing them up is the best way to get the most use out of your stash!

I love that the canvas stickers can be colored in but since I needed both orange and white to balance out the lay out, I only added a tiny bit of color.

Here, I did darken the cork letters with distress stain so they would show up better against the light colored backgrounds.

I mixed in some chipboard banner pieces that I wrote on with a permanent marker along with the Fresh Verse so I could make a sentiment.

other:

Ranger - Vintage Photo distress stain
American Crafts - Slick Writer
Faber Castell - PITT pens
Really Reasonable Ribbon - twine

troglodyte: noun

 a member of any of various peoples (as in antiquity) who lived or were reputed to live chiefly in caves

a person characterized by reclusive habits or outmoded or reactionary attitudes

pronunciation

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Hi there everyone, it's time for a new challenge over at...

 Feminine and Fancy   challenge

  Corsets,  dresses  etc  but we would also like to see a piece of lace. 

I used a photo overlay that I cut to fit the size of my card. Covered up the cut end with lace and trim. I love these overlays, they have glittered flowers, so sweet. It had the word "Sweet" already on it, I just added the "16" with rub ons.

Yummy new flowers and a chipboard butterfly on top of all that girly lace held on all snug and tight with some awesomely strong adhesive!!

Little Yellow Bicycle - Girl overlay, butterfly

Prima- flower

Really Reasonable Ribbon - lace, ric rac

Martha Stewart - doily

Helmar - 450, Liquid Scrapdots

rub on - misc

So channel that inner softer side to yourself and come join us for some fun feminine crafting over at Try it on Tuesday! 

entering this in:

Cute card Thursday - #267 Come Fly with Me

xenophobia: noun

 fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign
pronunciation
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Cute Card Thursday - #265 Cakewalk
CARDZ TV - #28 Cute as a Button

Do you think a sticker has to stay in the way it was made? Or do you like to alter them? I buy sticker sheets for usually about ½ of them, and then have leftovers that use to drive me crazy because I felt I wasn't getting my moneys worth...now I love the left over stickers because I can play with them, change them up, alter them and it's fun!

 

Tip 'o the Day!

 Here, I had used half of this sweet little glittered flower border and had a portion left over so I used my hole punch to remove those flowers and put them on the cupcake as sprinkles. And if you look at the tag itself, those cute little bees were all cute out from the sticker sheet. ( I do recommend placing the stickers on a piece of paper before cutting, makes it very easy then. ) That big Happy Birthday sticker is another one I changed up, it was too big for the tag so I removed an element and then ran a line of stickles around it to hide where it was cut off.

So, alter..or leave in your scrap pile in case you might need it one day...which way do you roll?

 

Viva - Pearl Pen

Little Yellow Bicycle - striped paper, bees, sticker sentiment

Ranger - stickles

candy buzz - font

Cricut - Rock Princess, p. 77 ( cupcake )

Stretch Your Imagination, p. (tag )

Zig - marker
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Fantabulous Cricut - #156 April Showers
Chocolate,Coffee, & Cards - #37 Download

Sketch as is on left, and flipped on right

 

As you can tell I chose to flip the sketch over;

The umbrella was cut out of chipboard and then the handle was cut off so I could lift the canopy up for some dimension using Liquid Scrap Dots. Added some faux stitching to the canopy.

Cricut - Everyday Paperdolls, p. 42

My Little Shoebox- pink cloud

American Crafts - felt flowers

felt flower brads - misc.

Copic

Zig Writer

Assorted sprays

Fiskar - embossing plate

Petunia Bounce - font

Helmar - Liquid Scrapdots, Gemstone Adhesive