Don’t have the right color brad?
Posted by: dinglefoot on: June 21, 2009
Here’s a quick tip for you when you’re in a jam! If you’re like me, you have brads galore, but how come you can never find the perfect color for your project? Here’s a quick tip: just find the right size of brad, dip it into clear embossing ink, and then dip it into embossing powder the color you want, set it with your heat tool, and voila, perfect brad color. This is also great if you want a glimmer brad, just use sparkly embossing powder 
More cricut cuts…
Posted by: dinglefoot on: May 28, 2009
Hmmm…just got Cricut Design Studio the other day, and I just can’t quit “designing stuff”! I know they are all their designs in the first place, but with the design studio, you can use the cartridges you have to put your own twist on things (nope, they are not paying me to say this, I just love anything to do with the Cricut ). For instance, I put a flower design with a saying from the Storybook cartridge and came up with this:
using Cricut Design studio to make your own designs.
Hope you are having a creative day too! Come visit me @ http://www.dinglefoot.com for more fun projects and ideas along with great scrapbooking and cardmaking supplies!
Card Using Cricut Wild Card
Posted by: dinglefoot on: May 28, 2009
The more I use my Cricut, the more I love it. I actually haven’t been paying much attention to the newer Cricut cartridges, but then had a look and saw the Cricut Wild Card cartridge and got it for a good price. You know how small those sample pictures are in the ads, so I wasn’t exactly sure what I was getting. I was so happy when I saw what the card patterns were! I just love this oval one with the scroll work on it. I cut the card at 5.5″, then popped up some butterfly stickers on zots and also put a brad through a two layer flower. Voila! Just like that, and easy and beautiful card! Then of course, there’s no guess work on the envelope either, since the cartridge easily cuts a matching envelope just the right size…ahhh….card lover’s heaven 
Here’s another version using lots and lots of silver stickles…another product I love to use!
Card with Cricut Wild Card Cartridge
Card using Cricut Wild Card Cartridge
3-D Mom Card
Posted by: dinglefoot on: April 27, 2009
This Mother’s Day card will take a little extra time to complete, but it will be worth your time! It has a 3-D effect because you will be adding a little extra to the flower.
You will need:
2 sheets of paper with flowers and leaves ~ they must have the same design!
Small foam adhesive dots
Double-sided tape
4 gold mini brads
1 mini spiral clip
Sheer gold ribbon
Beige cardstock
Red cardstock
Scissors
Glue stick
Gold Glitter Glue (optional)
Black Pen or Clear “MOM” sticker
Directions:
Cut a rose or other flower from patterned scrapbook paper.
Cut out another flower exactly the same from the second sheet. Now pick out 5-6 flower petals and cut them out. Using foam dots, adhere the cut petals right on top of the matching flower petals on your first flower. After they are all put in place, use gold glitter glue around the edges for an elegant touch. Lay the flower aside to dry. (You can see the 3-D effect below on my finished card.)
Use a beige piece of cardstock or a premade card and have the fold on top.
Cut a red piece of cardstock slightly bigger than your beige card and adhere to the back of the beige card.
Cut a piece of sheer gold ribbon the width of your card plus 4 extra inches. Using the edges of your card as a guide, fold the ribbon back and hold it in place with 2 gold mini brads on each side. Use double-sided tape to affix the ribbon to the front of your card. (If the prongs or the brads show through the ribbon, carefully cut them back using scissors or a wire cutter.)
Make a tag out of red cardstock, either cutting it by hand or using a die-cut. Place a gold spiral clip at the top and adhere to the left front of the card with foam adhesive tape. Write “MOM” on the tag or use a clear sticker.
After the glitter glue is dried on your flower, adhere it with foam tape to the top right of your card. Now glue the leaves that you cut earler on either side of the rose. You can use a pencil to curl the edges of the rose petals a little if you want.
This card does take a little longer with all the cutting and letting the glitter glue dry, but your mom sure will think it’s extra special!
Baby Congratulations
Posted by: dinglefoot on: April 8, 2009
Baby Congrats
Belated Birthday Birdie Card
Posted by: dinglefoot on: April 6, 2009
Birdie Belated Birthday Card
This sweet birdie is wishing a friend a happy be-lated birthday. You will need:
Red Card
Birthday or matching patterned paper
Small piece of blue paper
Small piece of beige paper
paper flower
red ink pad
iridescent snowflake embossing powder
Glaze Embossing Pens (Blue, Green, Yellow)
Pop Dots & Glue Stick
Red pen to write greeting
Instructions:
Cut a piece of patterned paper slightly smaller than card front. Stamp a double scroll in red ink- length ways towards the left side of paper and emboss with iridescent embossing powder.
Adhere a red paper flower with a pop dot.
Stamp Birdie on a beige piece of paper and emboss with gold embossing powder. Color in the birdie’s head & body with blue ink, the wings with green, and the beak with yellow. Cut a rectangle around birdie and chalk the edges with red chalk. Adhere birdie slightly over the flower with a pop dot.
Make a small greeting tag with the blue & beige paper and place a brad on each end. Adhere greeting to the bottom front of card with pop dots.
For the inside of the card, stamp a birdie in red to one side. Make corners by cutting out triangles from your left over paper and write a greeting “hope you had a “tweet” day” with your red pen.
Are you Irish today?
Posted by: dinglefoot on: March 17, 2009
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! I’m wishing for green today! Out here in Iowa, green grass would be nice , and actually it is a very nice day after all those cold winter days….and I really am Irish (50% anyway). My mother was born and raised in Belfast, Northern Ireland and I still have many cousins, aunts and uncles there. We correspond often, but mostly by email. It is my life’s dream to go visit, but hasn’t happened yet.
If you’re making a friend a St. Patrick’s Day card today, here are a few beautiful Irish blessing that you might want to add as a message, now or for any time they need a pick-me up:
Wishing you a rainbow
For sunlight after showers—
Miles and miles of Irish smiles
For golden happy hours—
Shamrocks at your doorway
For luck and laughter too,
And a host of friends that never ends
Each day your whole life through!
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May your day be touched
by a bit of Irish luck,
brightened by a song in your heart,
and warmed by the smiles
of the people you love.
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Wishing you always…
Walls for the wind,
A roof for the rain
And tea beside the fire.
Laughter to cheer you,
Those you love near you,
And all that your heart may desire.
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and I have to throw in a little irish humor too
May the frost never afflict your spuds.
May the leaves of your cabbage always be free from worms.
May the crows never pick your haystack.
If you inherit a donkey, may she be in foal.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
Too cute ~ Imaginsce Acrylic Stamps
Posted by: dinglefoot on: February 24, 2009
Sorry honey, but I’m totally in love with these cute new Imaginsce clear acrylic stamps! Oh my, the things I could do with these Have you seen the Twitterpated & Fairest of Them All? Just had to show you…these aren’t all, of course, but they’re all this cute!
Carriage
Castle
Birdie
Frog Prince
Favorite Scrapbook Tools
Posted by: dinglefoot on: February 18, 2009
It’s funny, I seem to be more of a scrapbook collector sometimes than a “user”. I have so many tools, paper and embellishments, that it’s pretty ridiculous! I was thinking today though of all my very favorite things that I just can’t operate without in my craft room. For one, once I got my Cricut, of course, how could I ever live without that? But it’s the small things that make crafting so much more fun. Ink pads, 3-D adhesives (I’m addicted to them…can’t make much of anything flat these days!), edge distresser, adhesive remover, Sakura glaze pens, embossing powder,outline stickers, brads, ribbons….I could go on and on. I don’t know if I could name an absolute favorite embellishment, but all of these work together to make some very satisfying memories for my family and hopefully for others who receive my crafty offerings. How about you? I would love to hear some of your favorite tools you use in your craft room…
Pretty Fairy Card
Posted by: dinglefoot on: February 9, 2009
Pretty Fairy Card
Here’s a pretty fairy card that is just perfect to give to a friend! You will need:
For more fun & free cardmaking designs, please visit me @ http://www.dinglefoot.com/
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