The Year's Last, Loveliest Smile

Hello and Happy Autumn Sunday

Now that Halloween is over, I can start to concentrate on other projects and feeling that I've neglected Fall a bit, I've decided to make a few more projects with the lush and wonderful colors.

First of I made the Barn 3D Model:

I downsized it by 50% to match some of my other mini houses and left the roof unglued so I'm able to change the small LED candle inside.

It is made from AC Cardstock in Chestnut and Cranberry along with Bazzill Bling Cardstock in a light grey.

I also used some vellum behind the doors and windows and decorated with Prima flowers and different pearls and gems from my stash.

A totally adorable little fall barn and VERY easy to make - even this small.

I also made the Autumn Bouquet Card from the JGW Enchanted Autumn kit:

I used AC Cardstock in Chocolate, Vanilla, Mustard, Rouge, Cranberry, Coffee, Plum, Abricot, Rust and Banana along with Bazzill Swiss Dot Cardstock in light yellow and patterned paper from Recollections' "Autumn Dream"

I inked all the edges with Distress Ink in matching colors and used two screw-like brads to hold the tag

The sentiment I found in the Silhouette Design Store design ID #23118 by Rivka Wilkins and used the Print and Cut function for it.

I really think what it says it true; Autumn really is the years last, loveliest smile

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Sweet Dreams

Hello and Happy Sunday to you - thanks for joining me today.

Let's talk sleep! Do you sleep enough? Do you sleep well? Ha ha ha ok....getting to the point:

I've always loved the old legend of the Dream Catcher - that if hung in a window in the bedroom, it would sort the good dreams from the bad and only let the good dreams through.

Not that I've been having nightmares, I just thought it was time for such a pretty ornament in our bedroom window, so I jump to the chance of making one.

I used the Indian Dream Catcher and cut the ornament piece 8 times, stacked and glued them together for a stronger ornament. 

Then I altered the feather piece slightly to make room for a hole for the raffia to go through, so I could tie them onto the ornament.

Finally I added some pearls and gems as decoration and voila - done in no time!

I used AC Cardstock in Chestnut, Woodgrain patterned AC Cardstock in Chestnut and patterned paper from DCWV "Mercury Glass Paper" and "Wood, Marble and Brass" from Recollections.

Now no bad dreams are to be dreamt and I look forward to a nice long nap....LOL

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You Brighten My Day

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Hello all! I-team member Sonja here with my latest card. Let's talk about challenges. I love to be challenged when it comes to crafting. One way to do this is to take a file and make it into something it wasn't intended for. 

This SnapDragon Snippets hot air balloon is originally a 15" tall centerpiece. For some reason though, I decided I should make it the centerpiece to a 5" x 7" x-fold card so I shrunk it down to about 5" tall from flag tip to bottom. Why? Well why not should be the question. 

To start with, I needed to design the card base. To do this was 5 easy steps. 

1. Create a 5" x 7" rectangle 
2. Divide it in half with a score line
3. Center the shape of your choice and erase any extra score line within the shape
4. Create an 'internal offset' size of your choice for decorative paper
5. Cut out four bases and four accents

After I got the base cut out, I cut all the balloon pieces out and got to assembling.

(Note, I built the balloon around a strand of fishing wire. The reason is at the end of this post)

 Tweezers were very helpful for the tiny details on this!

For the clouds, I ran each cloud and some foam through my Xyron Creative Station Lite® for an even distribution of adhesive. I used my Teresa Collins Mega Runner by Xyron® for the card base and accent pieces.

Final Project: 

At the last minute I decided to add in a few suitcases from SnapDragon Snippets for details.

No matter what angle you look at the balloon, it is always the centerpiece of this card.

Fishing wire reasoning

Materials Used: 

• Paper
• DCWVinc. Indigo Craft & Rose Gold stack
• Recollections Rose Gold 12" x 12" cardstock
• Die Cut Machine
• Silhouette Cameo 3
• Silhouette Studio-Designer Edition
• Silhouette Design Store
• SnapDragon Snippets Suitcase 3D Box Design ID #77321 
• SnapDragon Snippets/SVG Attic files
• Hot Air Balloon Box
• Adhesive
• Xyron Creative Station Lite®
• Teresa Collins Mega Runner by Xyron®
• Sentiment 
• VersaMark Ink
• Darice Heat Tool
• Recollections Copper embossing powder
• Virginia Turtles 'you brighten my day' stamp

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Steampunk 'Once upon a Time' book

Hello all! I-team member Sonja here with my newest project. A few weeks ago, I made a Steampunk Top Hat that I posted to my own personal blog, Sugar Bean Cards. I had some left over supplies and decided I needed to do a matching book!

I decided the Love Stories 3d book file would be perfect to accomplish my goal. Once I had my file picked out, I grabbed some Tim Holtz trinkets, his Lost and Found stack, and (3) sheets of Bazzill's Milkshake cardstock to get started.

With the Walnut Stain, I threw some ink around the books edges to distress it a bit.

Next, I grabbed a Darice clock embossing folder and my Sizzix Big Shot to emboss the top layer to my book.

Then I put it all together with my fingers crossed that it would turn out somewhat decent!

On the background paper, I took it outside and burned the edges. My husband asked me what in the world I was doing outside (it's freezing here). I told him burning paper. He just looked at me like I was crazy, shook his head, and mumbled something about he should've guessed that that was what I was doing. Well come on now honey, I really should never be left unsupervised.

  I love the spine on these book files.

For the paper gears, I cut them on white cardstock and then used some distress spray to get the colors on them. 

 Materials Used: 

• Tim Holtz
• Lost and Found 12 x 12 double sided stack
• Time Pieces
• Long Fasteners
• Sprocket Gears
• Swivel Clasps
• Walnut Stain Ranger Ink
• Vintage Photo Ranger Ink
• Distress Spray
• Hickory Smoke
• Fossilized Amber
• Twisted Citron
• Bazzill brown Milkshake 12x12 cardstock
• SnapDragon Snippets Love Stories 3d Book Gift Card Box
• Silhouette Cameo 3
• Silhouette Studio~Designer Edition
• Recollections rose gold cardstock
• E6000 Industrial Strength glue
• Aleene's Original Tacky Glue
• Canon 80D 

Mailing some Love

Hello all. I-team member Sonja here with an extra special SnapDragon Snippets Valentine's mailbox to share with you!

I wanted my mailbox to be on a stand so I grabbed the stand from the Angel Nativity set and built the stand.

Using the flowers and vine from the Flowers Vine tag set, I was able to wrap the stand and add some flowers to the box and stand to wrap it all together.

 The flag moves up and down.

 The back of the mailbox is just as detailed.

Materials Used: 

• DCWVinc. Copper Luxury 12x12 double sided stack
• SnapDragon Snippets files
• 3D Mailbox
• Nativity Angel Stand
• 3d Flowers Vine tag
• Recollections Embossing powder
• Versamark Ink
• Darice Heating gun
• Aleene's Original Glue
• Recollections Heart Brads
• Silhouette Cameo 3
• Silhouette Studios-Designer Edition
• Canon 80D