Baby Boy Banner

Friday, April 8, 2011

“Baby Boy” Banner created by OMC designer Whitney



Supplies Used:

Sizzix : Album, Tags

Sizzix : Townscape
Sizzix Bigz XL Die : Album, Scallop Circle
Tim Holtz : Grunge Paper 
Tim Holtz : Grungeboard Alphabet
Mark Richards : Mosaic Crystal Stickers - Lime Green
Fancy Pants : To the Moon
Fancy Pants Bazzill : To The Moon/Beach Bum Coordinating Paper Pack
Maya Road : Boys Keychain Set
Tattered Angels : Glimmer Mist - Scarlet
Jenni Bowlin : Paint Dabber - Chili Powder, Seed Packet and Lemon Drop
Jenni Bowlin : Ink Pads - Chicken Feed, Spice Tin, Lemon Drops, Chili Powder, and Seed Packet
Tim Holtz : Distress Crackle Paint - Clear Rock Candy (and paintbrush)
Tim Holtz : Distress Ink Pad - Black Soot and Fired Brick
We R Memory Keepers : Wide Shimmer Eyelets - Black and Yellow
We R Memory Keepers : Crop-a-Dile
We R Memory Keepers : Corners-Blue
We R Memory Keepers : Main Squeeze
We R Memory Keepers : Main Squeeze Corner Attach Plates 
Stickles : True blue and Crushed Olive
Cuttlebug Embossing Folders : Herringbone and Polka dots 
Slice : Little One (cut star and shadow)
Tombow : Mono Multi Liquid Glue
3L Foam Squares 
Black Tulle
Black Ribbon

Instructions:

1. Cut banner tags out with Sizzix Album, Tags and Bazzill cardstock primary colors.

2. Distress with same color ink pads (Jenni Bowlin has great coordinating colors).
3. With grungeboard “B-a-b-y” letters, spray with red Glimmer Mist. Let Dry and then darken embossed segments by distressing with dark red stamp (Tim Holtz Fired Brick).

TIP - You can cut and emboss your own letters with grunge paper if you don’t have the precut grungeboard alphabets.

4. Die cut 3 circles using Sizzix Album, Scallop Circle, with lined paper.
5. Cut one circle in half following the lines of the paper.
6. With red ink pad, distress all the circle borders.
7. Set aside for later.

Tag 1

1. Truck

2. Paint Truck (from Maya Road Boys Keychain) with red paint dabber then cover with crackle paint. Let dry.
 

TIP - Pour crackle paint onto separate surface, so red paint will not contaminate entire bottle of crackle paint.
 

3. Attach black eyelets with Crop-a-Dile.
4. Adhere truck to grey paper, crop rectangle around truck.
5. Adhere to cream paper, crop closely to edges.



Tag B

1. Adhere pre-cut circle at the top.

2. Adhere mini-banner diagonally, over circle.
3. Attach Main Squeeze corners to bottom edge using Main Squeeze and the Corner Plates.
4. Adhere “b.”
5. Add dots with stickles on the letter “b” and next to the Main Squeeze corner plates.



Tag A

1. Adhere precut semi-circle at the bottom of the tag.
2. Adhere mini-banner to the top.
3. Using stickers from the paper pack, stick 3 stars to tag.
4. Adhere “a.”



Tag B

1. Adhere circle to bottom right corner, with some hanging off the edge. Trim that extra paper off and discard.

2. Adhere mini-banner to top of page.
3. Die cut Townscape out of grungeboard and paint with yellow dabber. Let dry and add crushed olive stickles to the bottom. Trim off one house and trim the bottom so the ground is thinner. Adhere to bottom of tag.
4. Stick 3 large mosaic tiles on the upper-right side of tag.
5. Stick 3 small mosaic tiles to the bottom left of tag.
6. Adhere “b.”



Tag Y
 

1.  Adhere precut semi-circle to top of tag and trim the excess that hangs off. 
2. Adhere mini-banner to top of tag
3. Adhere stars, and add rub-ons. 
4. Paint rocket body (from Maya Road Boys Keychain) with green dabber. While wet, press on green Sparkly Fluff. Paint rocket wings and exhaust pipe with red dabber. While wet, press red Sparkly Fluff onto rocket. Let dry. Attach yellow eyelets for windows. Adhere to tag. 
5. Adhere “y.”



Tag 6

1. Adhere mini-banner with pop-up foam over the banner paper that was previously set aside from Tag 1.
2. With “BOY” letters, ink with red stamp pad and then immediately sprinkle Red Glitter embossing powder while ink is still wet. Heat to set.
3. Cut star 2 ¼ “ with Slice “Little One” cartridge in patterned yellow paper. Add a shadow with blue polka dot paper.
4. Attach star to bottom tag.
5. Attach “BOY” with pop-up foam squares.
6. Finish by attaching tags with black tulle.


 

Banner

1. From 12x12 patterned paper, find the banner strip and cut out.
2. Layer on top of 12x12 blue paper.
3. Cut at the same length of tag and set aside leftovers for last tag.
4. Make mini-banner to go on each tag:
    - Start with varying colors, cut at 1 ¼ x 12”.
    - With strips, cut triangles so the base is 1 ¼ “ long.
    - Emboss flag triangles.
    - Adhere black ribbon across the top. - Use pop-up foam to attach mini-banner over the banner on the paper.

 

TIP - Add ink with a stamp pad to an embossing folder and then emboss paper to add additional depth and interest. When done, rinse folder off with water to clean.




Happy crafting!

Easter Egg Tree

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

This decorative Easter tree brings a beautiful spring day inside. It is a perfect project to work on with your children or grandchildren. Plastic eggs and bling stickers make up most of the supplies for this project so it comes together quickly!


Supplies Needed:


Mini Plastic Eggs : General supply

Doodlebug : White tree, jewels

Mark Richards : Jewel embellishments
Basic Grey : Bling it

Bazzill : Cardstock, jewels

Oh My Crafts Vinyl : Pink, Blue, Green Metal flake

Ink : Distress Ink – Milled Lavender

Sizzix : Big Shot, Emboss folder

Provo Craft : Cricut Expression, Easter 2010 mini cartridge – retired (many cartridges have these same elements)
Tattered Angels : Tweezers

Ribbon : Assorted scraps
 


Eggs:

1. Select about 8 inches of ribbon (can all be the same color or choose 3 or 4 colors), fold in half and insert ribbon through the hole from the top. Tweezers help to pull the ribbon through the hole. Knot ends.
2. Close egg and decorate with jewels or vinyl cutouts. 




Vinyl:


1. Using small scraps of metal flake vinyl cut out desired vinyl shapes to attach to eggs. Hint: bows, rickrack and words: Spring, Happy Easter – all work well for decorating eggs.
2. Cutting chart:


Cartridge
Object
Size
Speed
Pressure
Blade depth
Easter mini
Bow, rick rack, phrase,
3/4 inch
Medium
Low
4



TIP - Hide seam of eggs by covering with stickers or vinyl.  
Base:

1. Cut 4 squares of light purple cardstock 4 ¾ x 4 ¾”, set aside
2. Cut 4 squares of light lavender cardstock 4 ¼ x 4 ¼”.
3. Ink both insides of embossing folder with water based light purple ink. Repeat inking before each embossing.
4. Center the light lavender square in between the inked embossing folder (some kind of dot large or small) and emboss. Repeat with all squares. Using permanent adhesive, adhere the inked lavender squares to the light purple squares.
5. Next, place repositionable adhesive on the backside of light purple square and attach to base of tree. (By using repositionable adhesive, you can easily remove squares and decorate the tree for another holiday.)
6. Save a few eggs to place around bottom of tree with crumpled tissue paper or Easter grass.




Happy crafting!

3.5.11 EASTER CARD CONTEST

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Share pictures of your Easter Cards - we will be picking 8 lucky winners to receive a special prize from Ohmycrafts.com! We love to share fun creative ideas! Winners will be announced Friday the 8th of April!

Enjoy the Journey

Monday, April 4, 2011

Harlequin “Enjoy the Journey” Card 
by OMC designer Whitney!



Supplies Used:

Cuttlebug : Harlequin Embossing Folder 

We R Memory Keepers : Main Squeeze Tool
3L Foam Squares
White Paper 
Brads


Instructions:
 

1. Cut an 8 1/2” x 11” smooth white paper in half (hamburger style) and fold in half (hamburger style again) to form a card.  
2. With four colors of paper and medium sized diamond cutting die (Harlequin), die cut 8 diamonds (2 diamonds per color). 
3. Starting at the top, adhere 2 diamonds on the card so the two meet in the center and the tips are almost touching. From there leave a little bit of white space between each diamond and adhere the rest of the diamonds. The diamonds won’t fit exactly on the page so trim the tips hanging off the edges. 
4. Die cut one large diamond (Harlequin). 
5. With white embossing powder, emboss sentiment on light colored paper and trim a rectangle around the sentiment.  
6. Adhere sentiment to large diamond and place in the center of the card with foam squares.  
7. Die cut flowers and leaves (Harlequin) and form a flower using a brad for the center and adhere to upper right corner of sentiment.  
8. With stickles, squeeze three dots to left of sentiment and squeeze dots on the flower petals.  
9. Squeeze yellow metal corners to bottom of card.  
10. On the inside of the card, decorate with more flowers from Harlequin.




Happy crafting!

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