Sunday, December 7, 2014
Friday, December 5, 2014
Wine Glass Tags
When everyone comes over for Christmas, there is inevitably a point in the evening where someone says "Hey, you're drinking my drink!" or "Hey, who stole my drink?!?". So this year everyone's getting wine glass tags when they come to the bar.
I made mine with my Silhouette machine but with a little patience you can easily do this without a cutting machine. Here's what you need:
Materials:
-Special Occasion paper and plain paper
-Glue runner, scissors
-markers or sketch pens
-if you're not using a cutting machine you can use a template or some other small round object to trace
Steps:
1) Create a circle shape about 2 3/4" round.
2) Create another smaller circle just inside and off centre.
3) Make a copy of this shape, group it, and set it aside.
4) Now create an overlapping rectangle across one side of the large circle, overlapping edges.
5) In the modify toolbox, click on the Crop button. The will leave you with only the piece that was overlapping.
Now these next few steps are going to seem a little repetitive but this is how I usually operate when using my sketch pens and cutting.
6) Copy enough of your weird little shape from step 5 for the number of tags you want. Using your text tool write the names of your guests inside each one.
7) Now go back and delete all of the outline shapes.
8) Load up your favourite Sketch pen and send to Silhouette for printing.
VERY IMPORTANT: DO NOT MOVE YOUR MAT AFTER MACHINE IS DONE SKETCHING. Leave your mat in place and do not take it off the machine.
9) Hit undo until your screen looks like it did in step 6. Now delete all of the names. Replace your sketch pen with your cutting blade, and send to Silhouette for cutting.
10) Don't forget to cut out all of your base circles from some pretty Christmassy paper. Then just glue the pieces together.
11) I know what you're thinking...how the heck do I get this on a wine glass? Easy, just make a little snip in between the two circles.
Now you can really go to town and ink the edges or add glitter if you want, or you can just add them to your wine glasses as is. If you have a few beer drinkers at the party, steal some of this colourful little loom elastics from the playroom and attach a tag to a bottle that way~
You can make some extra blank ones for those surprise guests and just write names on with a marker. Or you can really make it fun and instead of names write some Christmas trivia on the front with the answers on the back. Get creative and have fun with your tags~
Check out my other fun (and very popular) wine glass project HERE.
What will you put on your tags? Leave a comment below.
I made mine with my Silhouette machine but with a little patience you can easily do this without a cutting machine. Here's what you need:
Materials:
-Special Occasion paper and plain paper
-Glue runner, scissors
-markers or sketch pens
-if you're not using a cutting machine you can use a template or some other small round object to trace
Steps:
1) Create a circle shape about 2 3/4" round.
2) Create another smaller circle just inside and off centre.
3) Make a copy of this shape, group it, and set it aside.
4) Now create an overlapping rectangle across one side of the large circle, overlapping edges.
5) In the modify toolbox, click on the Crop button. The will leave you with only the piece that was overlapping.
Now these next few steps are going to seem a little repetitive but this is how I usually operate when using my sketch pens and cutting.
6) Copy enough of your weird little shape from step 5 for the number of tags you want. Using your text tool write the names of your guests inside each one.
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| I'm using the font :Gentle Touch |
8) Load up your favourite Sketch pen and send to Silhouette for printing.
VERY IMPORTANT: DO NOT MOVE YOUR MAT AFTER MACHINE IS DONE SKETCHING. Leave your mat in place and do not take it off the machine.
9) Hit undo until your screen looks like it did in step 6. Now delete all of the names. Replace your sketch pen with your cutting blade, and send to Silhouette for cutting.
10) Don't forget to cut out all of your base circles from some pretty Christmassy paper. Then just glue the pieces together.
11) I know what you're thinking...how the heck do I get this on a wine glass? Easy, just make a little snip in between the two circles.
Now you can really go to town and ink the edges or add glitter if you want, or you can just add them to your wine glasses as is. If you have a few beer drinkers at the party, steal some of this colourful little loom elastics from the playroom and attach a tag to a bottle that way~
You can make some extra blank ones for those surprise guests and just write names on with a marker. Or you can really make it fun and instead of names write some Christmas trivia on the front with the answers on the back. Get creative and have fun with your tags~
Check out my other fun (and very popular) wine glass project HERE.
What will you put on your tags? Leave a comment below.
Wednesday, December 3, 2014
Practical Christmas Cards
This year for Christmas cards I thought I'd try something a little different...a little more practical:
I love that this card contains something that's actually of use, cute little tea lights!
For the top 2, I used some papers from my stash. For the bottom 2, I cut up some Christmas cards from Christmases past. See, this is my problem with cards....how long do you keep them? What do you do with them afterward? At least these 2 got put to use again~
You can see here that the top part opens up. I haven't put my sentiments in there yet but hopefully I will before Christmas rolls around.
I found that I had to enlarge the design about 1/4" to fit the tea lights. Maybe tea lights are different sizes in different countires? Who knew? The design also comes with several Christmassy embellishments that I didn't use.
You could add some acetate to the front window but I didn't want it looking like it was purchased so I left it open. The glitter tea lights are from the dollar store.
Do you still give Christmas cards every year? What do you do with yours at the end of the season? Leave a comment below~
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| This is Silhouette design #67747 by Lori Whitlock |
For the top 2, I used some papers from my stash. For the bottom 2, I cut up some Christmas cards from Christmases past. See, this is my problem with cards....how long do you keep them? What do you do with them afterward? At least these 2 got put to use again~
You can see here that the top part opens up. I haven't put my sentiments in there yet but hopefully I will before Christmas rolls around.
I found that I had to enlarge the design about 1/4" to fit the tea lights. Maybe tea lights are different sizes in different countires? Who knew? The design also comes with several Christmassy embellishments that I didn't use.
You could add some acetate to the front window but I didn't want it looking like it was purchased so I left it open. The glitter tea lights are from the dollar store.
Do you still give Christmas cards every year? What do you do with yours at the end of the season? Leave a comment below~
Sunday, November 30, 2014
Make it Monday!
We're getting closer and closer to the big day in December, so I know you're all crafting like crazy! I can't wait to see what you've all been working on.
Before you link up though, make sure to find out if your project from last week was featured over at Distressed Donna Down Home.
Now onto this week's party!
Your Hosts:
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Thanks for sharing!
Before you link up though, make sure to find out if your project from last week was featured over at Distressed Donna Down Home.
Now onto this week's party!
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| Donna, Tamara |
Please don't forget to post our button on your blog~
Thanks for sharing!
Saturday, November 29, 2014
Make Your Own Nail Stickers
My nails were doing ok until I had to go and change out almost every bulb on my Christmas tree this week. Now they're a wreck and I can't be bothered to paint them again. My solution....DIY Nail Stickers!
Here's what you need to make your own stickers:
-Blank stick on labels and a printer
-Cutting machine or pencil and scissors
-images
Steps:
1) First find your images online and print them onto your label sheet. My labels are 3.33" X 4" (shipping labels) and I just did some Google searches using phrases like "Small Christmas Background" or "Small Sequin Background" etc.
2) Now find a nail template online like this one from LifewithFaith.org
3) If you don't have a cutting machine just cut out the shapes, trace onto your labels, and cut out. If you do have a cutting machine you can use the trace and replicate features to let your machine to all the work for you.
Import your image and then find the Trace options:
Click on Select Trace Area and move your pointer to select one section of the nail images.
Now click on Trace Outer Edge. Once you've done this you can move the original image out of the way and just use your traced image. You will probably have to readjust to fit your finger size.
Don't forget to Replicate another set by mirroring the image first.
It took me a few tries to get an ok fit. I was a little disappointed at first when they wouldn't stick but then I took off my nail polish and tried again.
Much better!
Try coating with a layer of clear polish to really seal down the edges.
So much fun! These won't last more than one party, but I find the expensive ones from major nail brands don't do much better either.
What images would you put on your nail designs? Leave a comment below~
Here's what you need to make your own stickers:
-Blank stick on labels and a printer
-Cutting machine or pencil and scissors
-images
Steps:
1) First find your images online and print them onto your label sheet. My labels are 3.33" X 4" (shipping labels) and I just did some Google searches using phrases like "Small Christmas Background" or "Small Sequin Background" etc.
2) Now find a nail template online like this one from LifewithFaith.org
3) If you don't have a cutting machine just cut out the shapes, trace onto your labels, and cut out. If you do have a cutting machine you can use the trace and replicate features to let your machine to all the work for you.
Import your image and then find the Trace options:
Click on Select Trace Area and move your pointer to select one section of the nail images.
Now click on Trace Outer Edge. Once you've done this you can move the original image out of the way and just use your traced image. You will probably have to readjust to fit your finger size.
Don't forget to Replicate another set by mirroring the image first.
It took me a few tries to get an ok fit. I was a little disappointed at first when they wouldn't stick but then I took off my nail polish and tried again.
Much better!
Try coating with a layer of clear polish to really seal down the edges.
So much fun! These won't last more than one party, but I find the expensive ones from major nail brands don't do much better either.
What images would you put on your nail designs? Leave a comment below~
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