Love Wins - Blog Hop

Hi everyone!  Today I am here with the Love Wins blog hop with The Buckle Boutique.  All the designers were asked to come up with a wedding idea using The Buckle Boutique Rainbow Colored Rhinestone Sticker Sheet.  You should have arrived here from Patti Holder's blog.  If not, sneak back to The Buckle Boutique and start at the beginning.

 I used a beautiful cut file from SVGCuts Mistletoe Manner to create the lantern with my Core'dinations cardstock and my Cricut.  Be prepared...those panels take quite some time to cut.

I added the Rhinestone Sticker Sheets in the panels with a few flowers from my stash.  The lantern has a place to insert an LED candle to add a beautiful glow.

Next stop on our hop is Tammy Smith Santana, so head over there next.

Oh, and here is the entire line up...just in case.

The Buckle Boutique
Patti Hodder
Nancy Keslin-----ME
Tammy Smith Santana
Madge Gillen
Shawn Mosch


Hugs

Paper Lantern - Core'Dinations

Hey Everyone!  Hope you are having a great day...me?  well....trying to get caught up and share a few of the tutorials I have done for Core'dinations.

You may remember seeing me post a sneak of this back in December that was on the Core'dinations blog.  I really love this lantern and have since made a more spring version, but I wanted to share the tutorial here as well.  To make it more spring like....why not add some book paper?  pinks and blues?  flowers instead of snowflakes?  butterflies?  let your creativity take flight.

Winter Paper Lantern Supplies:

• Core'dinations White Wash Cardstock
• Core'dinations Core Basics Vellum
• Core'dinations Sand-It Set
• Darice 12" Paper Lantern
• Darice Snowflake Embossing Folder
• Snowflake Die
• Poinsetta Die
• Beacon Zip Dry Adhesive

Step 1:  Begin by cutting snowflakes and flowers from both the Whitewash cardstock (I chose blue for the snowflakes and red for the poinsettas) and vellum.  I used a combination of electronic and manual dies to create my cuts.  I love the wintery feel the Whitewash cardstock created.

Step 2:  To add additional texture and color, emboss the red Whitewash poinsettias with the snowflake embossing folder.  After embossing, use your Sand-it Gadget to reveal the pattern, and the Dust Buddy to remove any excess paper dust.

Step 3:  Layer the red poinsettias with the vellum poinsettias to soften the look and adhere with Zip Dry to the paper lantern in a curved pattern.  Spacing the flowers out to fill the space.  I made nine flowers in two sizes for my 12" lantern.  Remember that if you plan on using an incandescent light bulb in the lantern do not use hot glue, the glue will heat and your items may fall off.  Zip Dry will continue to hold even when the lantern heats up.

Step 4:  Add snowflakes in and around the poinsettias for additional color and texture, producing a gentle curve along the lantern.

Allow the glue to completely dry before hanging.  I used a battery operated candle light inside of my lantern, and it looks lovely during both day and night.

Pinterest Plan - Snowman Lantern

Hey everyone, Happy New Year!!!!!!  Goodness...can you believe the new year is upon us?  New year, new plans...and this year I have a Pinterest Plan.  I am forever pinning crafts, recipes, home decor items...but I never really seem to find the time to get anything done.  So, this year, I have a plan to do one project, recipe, something each week from my pinterest board (you can find me here) and tell you about it.  It may be a recipe, or just some new housekeeping idea...but I promise to try and then share.

Well, to start, this beautiful lantern from Linda Albrecht for Maya Road has been on my boards
forever.  And it is really quite popular.  Probably one of the most pinned things from my boards.

Well, I needed a table centerpiece, so I decided to see if I could whip one up.  I didn't have many of the "right" supplies, but in no time with just a few things I had lying around the house I was able to whip this up.  No where near as fabulous, but I really didn't have much time to devote to it.

It still needs more work, but was lovely that evening...and overall it didn't take too much time.  So, I am going with this project was a win.

Be sure and follow me on Pinterest to see what other projects I make.

Holiday Paper Lantern - Core'dinations

Hey everyone!  Things here are crazy!!!!  With prepping for CHA (not to self, get new business cards), dt work, CHA projects, and the holidays...eeek!

Just a quick drive by to share with you this paper lantern I made for Core'dinations!  I have had a project like this pinned forever and finally found the time to make one for myself.  Of course, I put a holiday spin on it, and with the use of the Core'dinations papers was able to add additional texture.

Be sure and check it out.

Lanterns and Leaves

Hi everyone!  Nancy here today and I have quite a bit to share with you.

A few weeks ago I shared this photo on my Instagram.

And I had people on Facebook and Twitter asking for a tutorial, so I made a video which you can see here...

ClearScraps acrylic sheets are so very fun to work with, especially when you die cut, emboss, and ink them up with a bit of Stazon.  hee hee

Then, the question arose, what do I do with these leaves I made. Well, I told you recently how much fun I have been having with the files from svgcuts....so I decided to make this lantern.  Seriously, this took me so long to cut.  But it was all worth it in the end.

Of course I used Core'dinations Basics Neutrals cardstock and Core'dinations vellum.  They both cut so beautifully on my new Cricut Explore (once I got the stupid program to run properly....ugh, shockwave).

I added my fall leaves, lots of trims and a bit of ribbon...and of course a few flowers from the stash.

And then I gave it to a friend.  hee hee.  You can add a little battery operated tealight inside to make it glow, which was hard to photograph, just saying.  I wouldn't advise using a candle, as....well, this is made of paper after all and lighting your home on fire would not be a good way to start the holidays.

Hugs.