My Sheri Crafts #188

Back to School

It's that time of the year again when the kiddos go back to school!  To celebrate this glorious occasion (yes glorious... I call it "my alone time"), I got to choose this challenge theme for My Sheri Crafts.  Come join us and create any project with a school theme!

 

I've always wanted to make one of these crayon / pencil wreaths.  I finally made one for a friend that works at our local elementary school.  At Michael's Crafts, I found this monogram wooden wreath base.  I thought it was the perfect thing to use so that I could personalize it for my friend.  

I covered the "M" using DCWV paper.  The "Ms. Martin" was created using SCAL.  I outlined the mini chalkboard with Stickles.  The school bus and the "READ" are recycled elements from an older project My Sheri Crafts #92 which no longer exists.

Four boxes of Crayola 24-pack crayons was used up for this project.  Can I just say... this is one HEAVY wreath... fragile too!  These crayons break so easily so I hope this wreath doesn't fall down

• Papers from DCWV
• 4 24-pack Crayola crayons
• "Ms. Martin" was designed in SCAL and cut with the Cricut
• Chalkboard bought from Michael's Crafts
• "READ" is from a Cricut cartridge (can't remember which one)
• School bus is from a Cricut cartridge (can't remember which one)

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My Sheri Crafts #184

Land of the Free

It's a color theme!  Design Team Sister, Peachy, has chosen this week's theme over at My Sheri Crafts in honor of our upcoming holiday.  Make any project in red, white, and blue

My project is a decor to hang on the door (for inside).  I saw a red, white, and blue ribbon and used that as my inspiration.  I made a giant ribbon to display the "4th of July"

The circle portion is 12" in diameter and with the tail, it's 22" tall

The "4th of July" is from Cricut cartridge: Phrases.  I used embossing powder on "July" and I didn't realize I didn't have red embossing powder, so I used glitter for the "4th of" to make it sparkle.  Both "4" and "July" are popped up
 

• Papers are DCWV
• "4th of July" is from Cricut cartridge: Anna's Garden
• Blue scalloped circle is a Spellbinder die cut
• Red, white, and blue stars are buttons
• Red, white, and blue ribbon was from DT sister, Charlotte

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My Sheri Crafts #158

Splish Splash

Summer is approaching fast and the heat is becoming unbearable... especially if you live in South Florida.  What better way to cool off but to go to the beach... or at least drench yourself with water.  Our very own Sheri had asked us to create any project that features the water.  So come check out the newest challenge over at My Sheri Crafts. 

Instead of a card that features the beach, I decided to decorate a simple hand soap bottle.  I used Goo Begone to remove all the branding.  The flourish is from Sizzix and I used a dark brown vinyl because it's water proof.  I hot glued the shells and silk flowers to represent the beach theme.  This is the color theme of my powder room and this project is LONG overdue.

Some of you may remember, this project from My Sheri Crafts #115 "Let's Take a Trip" where I made a wreath.  This wreath is hanging in the same powder room and I just now made a matching accessory for it.  It's been lonely for a long time.  You can check out the details of the wreath here.



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My Sheri Crafts #138

Christmas in July

There's a new challenge over at My Sheri Crafts... Christmas in July (with lots of layers).  That's right!  Design Team Sister, Sue, has asked us to create a Christmas project that includes lots and lots of layers. 

I couldn't really decide on what project to work on but eventually ended up making two things.  Here they are... a wreath and a tree!

For the wreath, I decided to recycle an old book that had missing pages.  I've always admired wreaths made up of newspapers, book pages, music sheets... paper in general.  I found quite a bit of images online of these type of wreaths and decided to make my own for the first time.  What do you think?

The only problem (which I didn't notice until the project was completed) is that each of those cones were rolled up the same way... showing the Author's name at the top.  So, I hope I can find someone who likes Pierce Anthony to give this wreath to

 

For the tree project, I decided to make multiple layers from using a Fiskar border punch, then folding at each scallop.  It turned out fatter than I had imagined so I stopped at the 9th layer and added a "stem" or base made from a finished roll of glue dots then covered with a coordinating paper from the tree

Here is a view from the top

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My Sheri Crafts #129

Spring Flowers

It's a new challenge over at My Sheri Crafts!  Celebrate the coming of Spring by creating any project that features... what else...  Spring Flowers!   This shouldn't be too hard of a task.   For this theme, I decided to create yet another wreath.  I didn't have a Spring wreath other than the Easter one but since Easter is not until April 20th, I needed to hang something up without eggs on it :) 

This is what I came up with...

I got the basic dried vine wreath from JoAnn's Crafts... what a pain to remove all the dead dried leaves stuck between the vines!  Anyway, after it was all cleaned up, it was time to bust out the hot glue gun.    

The cute glittery birds are also from JoAnn's Crafts.  They were so adorable, I had to add them in.  I had a lot of these large flowers already in my stash so it was great having to use them up


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My Sheri Crafts #115

Lets Take a Trip

For My Sheri Crafts theme this time... I decided to create another wreath.  Design Team sister, Charlotte, chose a "travel" theme.  Any project that has to do with traveling.  

Well, back in MSC Challenge #86, I did a project for my daughter, Zenica, to display the shells she collected.  She had so many shells that she asked if she could display some in a different way. 

This wreath is what we came up with.  My daughter and I created this together

The wreath is Michael's Crafts and the greenery is left over from my project in MSC Challenge #110

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My Sheri Crafts #110

Flower Power!

The theme this time around at My Sheri Crafts is to create any project featuring 3 dimensional flowers

For this project, I knew I wanted to make a wreath.  I bought one of the Spring wreaths Michael's Crafts was selling for 40% off and ripped it apart... well ripped off all the flowers (hot pink and purple daisies) and greenery off of the wreath.  I kept some of the greenery which had purple flowers attached to them (took all those off too)!  The flowers are rolled up flowers cut from Cricut cartridge: Artiste and inked at the edges.  I also sprayed them with home made glimmer mist but you really can't tell that there's any shine or glimmer to these flowers.  Oh well!

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Wreath size: 18"

Supplies used:

Wreath
Textured papers
Ink
Hot glue
Cricut cartridge: Artiste

My Sheri Crafts #88

Oh!  I love America!

It's time for some red, white, and blue over at My Sheri Crafts.  That's right!  This week's theme is all about some patriotic fun!  Make a project using red, white, and blue showing off some patriotism

For my project, I made a star-shaped wreath.  Ok, it's not a wreath... we'll call it a door hanging welcome sign of some sort.  All the cuts are from the Don Juan Cricut cartridge and each of the blue and silver letters were heat embossed individually (yeah... time consuming and MESSY!).  The star is a metal frame I got from Michael's wrapped in some red tinsel with silver stars... alright, they're not really silver stars... they have 6 points!  I think the red tinsel garland is actually some left over Christmas item because the silver stars look more like weird looking snowflakes but shhhhh... no one can tell right?

Now let's see what you come up with!  Come join us at My Sheri Crafts with your patriotic projects

• Star-shaped metal frame
• Red tinsel garland
• Nylon thread to connect the message to the frame
• Heat embossing for the blue and silver lettering
• Sure Cuts A Lot - white shadow lettering 
• Design Studio
• Cricut cartridge: Don Juan - all the lettering

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