Tissue Paper Distressing and Texture Tutorial - Shabby Chic Tags

Hi Friends! Hey. . .I created a tutorial! Yay! It's been a while since the last time I made one! It's a simple tutorial so it wasn't so time consuming to make. The tutorial is to create a distressed and textured appearance on card stock. . .or any type of paper crafting projects or altered projects that you may want to have a textured shabby chic look to it.

Scroll down for the tutorial.

I decided to create a few distressed shabby chic tags for this technique. I created the base for a few more and all I need to do is decorate them. I've made three completed ones so far.

With this tag, I applied a paper flower that I created a while back and a heart lace.

With this one I also added lace, ribbon, seam binding bow and a crochet flower that I made.

With this one, I added lace again and a fabric flower that I made a few months ago.

You may view the tutorial by scrolling through the tutorial using the scroll bar to the right of the tutorial or click on the link below. . .it will link you to my Scribd site where most of my tutorials are stored. I have a bunch of tutorials on Scribd that I made in the past if you want to check it out.

Tissue Paper Distressing and Texture

Anyway. . .this technique is super easy to do. It's a fun technique for shabby chic or vintage inspired projects.

Scroll down to my previous post to check out the door hanger I made. I shared a SVG file and template if you want to try it out as well.

Hope you all have a fun Wednesday.

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Shabby Chic Door Hanger

Hello Friends! I decided to work on something different yesterday. A while ago, I had created a wine bottle tag template but I found that if you enlarge the tag on your Sure Cuts a Lot program or other cutting program, you can actually use it as a hanging door sign. If you want the template: CLICK HERE

There was a time when I loved making different SVG files or templates but like everything I do, it became time consuming and rather than creating anything myself, I was working on tutorials and templates. It's fun making them but I need to concentrate on crafting things. When I have the free time, I'll work on tutorials and templates and share them when I have a chance, okay.

Do you have a lot of scrap materials from other projects. . .I have a ton of them. They tend to pile up after a while so I decided to use some of the scrap materials I have and decorate my door hanger with them.

I used my Unity Stamps for the sentiment. I think the sentiment is fitting for a door hanger. I'm going to hang this project on my door so every time I walk in my craft room, I'll have a little reminder. I think I'm going to make a door hanger for my daughter but something more fitting for a college student. She doesn't like pink and cute so I need to design it more edgier . . a little bit more rock and roll. That's more my daughter's style.

To create the shabby chic distressed look. . .I crinkled and mod podged tissue paper on to my door hanger. ..I did not add Mod Podge to the top of the tissue paper, just under to have it stick on to the hanger. I then applied acrylic paint in white and pink. The tissue paper will somewhat rub off a little as you apply the paint but that's a good thing. . .that is what creates the distressed texture. Maybe if I have the time this week, I'll create a tutorial on how to do this. . .:)

To create the skirt, I used a small piece of tulle and lace and gathered them using a sewing machine. . .similar to creating ruffles. It's very simple...if you don't have a sewing machine you could hand stitch it and create the ruffle that way.

The rest of my design is just adding embellishments to the hanger. I think I'll do something different at least once a week. . .I have a tendency to make cards all the time because they're easy for me to create but it'll be fun to do something different weekly just to change things up a bit!

Anyway, that's it for today! I hope you all have a wonderful Wednesday!

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Shabby Chic Valentines Card

Hello Friends! Yes, another Valentines card! My focus right now is on Valentines cards so be prepared to see more of them. I'm trying not to go too traditional as far as colors and sentiments so the card can be used for other occasion if need be.

I used the same stamp as I did with yesterday's card. I also stamped the background rather than using a designer paper.

You can't see it in the photo but the hearts at the center of the card are heat embossed so it has a slight sheen and raised appearance in person.

To give it a shabby chic look I added a seam binding bow and topped it off with a crochet flower and a pearl at the center.

I also added lace . . .I love lace and it works really nicely for the vintage/shabby chic design.

Before I go. . .I wanted to share a little story. Yesterday, I was going through a container that I had stored in my hallway and as I was going through it, I realized that I had a buttload of rubber stamps that have not seen the light of day. Some were still in their mailing packages and unopened. I cannot believe that I purchase things and I don't even bother to open the package when it's delivered to me. I was a bit ashamed of my gluttonous self. I can't believe how I waste money the way I do. So. . .this year, my goal is to use all the stamps in this container. It may take a year to use them all I think but I'll try my best!! Do you do the same thing? Buy things online and never bother to even open the package . . .sort of just chuck it to the side, forgot about it until you come across it on a later date?

Anyway, I hope you all have a wonderful Tuesday!

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Shabby Chic Altered Bottle

Hello Friends!! I actually altered this bottle a few months ago but I've never posted it. It has been sitting on my desk and I've been meaning to take photos but keep forgetting to do so. I decided to use it to store vintage buttons that I use for my cards and projects.

I wrapped lace trimming around the bottle and I also wrapped a strip of fabric that I stamped images on to then tied it to the bottle to create a bow.

I created a beaded pin and stuck it on to the bow and also stamped a clothes pin and clipped it on to the bow next to the pin

I added pearls to the prima flowers and stuck it on to the lace.

I had sewn this fabric flower a while back and decided to use it for my altered bottle.


Lastly, I covered the cap with a crochet flower that I made, added a prima flower to it and a decorative gem to top it off. I also added the blue beads around the cap.

That's about it! It's really fun to alter bottles. . .I like the shabby chic look and this was a fun way to use up some of my materials that I had lying around in my craft room! It's also a great way to store buttons!

That's it for today. Hope you're having a wonderful Friday evening!

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Crazy 4 Challenges - C4C114

Hello Friends! Happy Saturday! Well it's Crazy 4 Challenges time again and Joycelyn once again came up with a fun challenge. This week's challenge is "BLACK, WHITE, and WOW!!!" that means create a card using black & white and only one other WOW color!!!


My "wow" color is turquoise.. . .duh! Not surprising considering I've been obsessed with this color lately. Last week I had cleaned up my craft and I found a heart chip board that I created a while back. I had cut the chip board with my Sizzix heart die, painted it with acrylic paint and added glitter to it. I didn't use it for one reason or another and thought it was time I use it considering I worked at creating it to begin with. I basically built my card up around this heart shape.

Nothing much to say about the card . . .I just added bunch of embellishments to the card such as lace, a ric rac, Prima rose, paper doily, ribbon, button, crochet thread and a punched border.


That's basically it for today. Hope you all will play along this week. . .stop by C4C and check out the gorgeous cards the crazies created. . .or stop by their individual blogs:

* Barbara Anders
* Cindy Haffner
*Dawn Easton
* Frances Byrne
* Jessie Rone
* Joanne Grzelak
* Joycelyn Pelkey
*Lynda Benden
*Silke Ledlow
* Silke Kittmann
* Tammy Hershberger
*Vicki Garrett

Hope you all have a wonderful Saturday!!

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Crazy 4 Challenges - C4C113

Hi Friends! Hey it's Crazy 4 Challenges time again! This week Joycelyn came up with another fun challenge. This week we're making a TRIPLE THREAT card! We want to see AT LEAST 3 of each of the following:

3 different papers (yes card stock counts as a paper)

3 embellishments

3 dies or punches

It seems like a lot of requirements but actually it's not. I thought with the recipe given, my card was going to look really busy but it turned out not so much. My 3 papers are the 2 designer paper and the white punched lace border. I actually added 4 embellishments, the blue trimming, blue ribbon, the snowflake sticker and paper doily. My die cuts are the white punched lace border, the rosette, and the circle senitiment. Yay!

I had such difficulties keeping my rosette together. . .it kept opening up but it finally held together. I used my Stampin Up stamp to stamp for the sentiment and a retired SU designer paper for the background.


To dress up the ribbon, I added a K&Co sticker.. . .that's about it! Fun stuff! Anyway. . .hope you all will play along with us this week. Stop by the C4C blog and check out the beautiful cards the crazy gals created or stop by their individual blogs:

* Barbara Anders
* Cindy Haffner
*Dawn Easton
* Frances Byrne
* Jessie Rone
* Joanne Grzelak
* Joycelyn Pelkey
*Lynda Benden
*Silke Ledlow
* Silke Kittmann
* Tammy Hershberger
*Vicki Garrett

Hope you all have a wonderful Saturday!!

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Shabby Chic Pink Card

Hello Friends! I'm still in the middle of cleaning, decluttering and destashing but I took a little time yesterday to create a card. While cleaning and decluttering my craft room, I gathered a lot of embellishments that I had removed from their packages or ones I created myself but for one reason or another did not use on a project and had thrown into a basket. Rather than returning the items into their package, I just sort of throw them in a basket and they've been piling up. I decided to work with some of them and add them to my card.

It's fun to find little treasures when cleaning up and actually creating something with them.

I made the fabric flower a while back but never used it for a project. As I was looking through my basket of embellishment, I decided to use it. It was the inspiration for my card. I built the card around the flower.

I found a package of pretty beaded hearts as I was organizing a few of my embellishment. I love it. . .it's so pretty. Luckily I have a few more of them so I can make more cards using that embellishment.


To finish up the card, I added the metal word, the Prima flower, the seam binding bow, buttons, and lace. It was a fun card to make.

Anyway. . .back to my cleaning and organizing! I'm progressing slowly but I prefer the slower pace. It's less stressful and life is a bit more balanced.

Well, I hope you all have a wonderful Thursday!

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Shabby Chic Thank You Card

Hello Friends! Guess what I've been doing the past few days? De-cluttering and cleaning! Yup! Yesterday I worked on cleaning my craft room and oh, it's wonderful. So wonderful that I was inspired to create a card this morning! I wish it could stay clean all the time. It's really hard to be inspired when your special place is a mess.

My plan is to de-clutter everything starting next year. I think I'm ready to let go of some of my things. I've been having a battle with my self and part of me just want to just part with at least half of my things and the other half is holding on dearly to everything but as time go on, I've come to realize that the clutter has actually sucked out my mojo to the point of my not wanting to create anything.

Anyway. . .I had crochet a bunch of flowers using yarn and when I was cleaning I came across a few of the bigger flowers that I had crochet and forgotten about.

I have a ton of lace that I need to use so of course I added lace to my card and also a pretty vintage button to my crochet flower.


Anyway. . .today's mission is to sort through my scrapbook embellishments and decide which ones to part with. I won't get part with them until the new year but I will be setting them aside to destash at the start of the year!

My sewing table is also known clear of clutter and I'm actually in the mood to sew. . .maybe I'll start sewing something today.

Well. . .I hope you all have a beautiful Tuesday!

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Thankful Thanksgiving Card

 Happy Friday Friends!!  Gosh, it's beginning to feel like fall.  I dropped my daughter off at the bus stop this morning and it was 43 degrees.  It's probably colder where you are at but 43 is chilly to me.  I worked on a Thanksgiving card yesterday.  I decided to give it a more shabby chic appearance using lace, crochet flower and a stick pin!

 I came across my Penny Black rubber stamp with the cute mouse and pumpkin and I actually had a different design in mind initially but it evolved into this shabby chic style.  I'm going to be honest with ya'. . .many times my card design is a result of whatever material I have at the top of my pile of craft goodies.  I don't like digging through containers because wow, it can be a big mess so if it's easily accessible, that ends up being the materials I use on my projects.  From time to time, I'll be motivated to look through my things and find something interesting to use.  

 

I had dyed the crochet flower a while back and decided to use.  I also had worked on a few stick pins using opal heart beads and used one of them on my card.  I rubber stamped the  image on to watercolor paper and colored the image with my Copic Markers.

I glued on the Prima flower on to the crochet flower and added lace to the card and that's basically it.  Anyway. . .that's it for today!  I hope you all have a fabulous Friday!!!

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Crazy 4 Challenges C4C107

Hello Friends!  Hey it's Saturday and that means it's Crazy 4 Challenges time again!  This month Tammy will be hosting the challenges and she's kicking off World Card Making Day by coming up with a great challenge.  Not only it is a great challenge, it's an important one! The challenge is that you can make any card you want. However, find a worthwhile charity that you can donate your card(s) to after today, and follow through and DO IT! Call a local nursing home... the residents love to have cards they can send to their family members. Check with your local hospital and see if you can donate cards to their gift shop. Maybe a local senior center?

 Tammy will be donating cards to "Operation Write Home" and if you want to learn more about it, stop by Crazy 4 Challenges for more details.  Also, while you're there, check out the fabulous cards the crazy gals created this week.  You may also stop by their individual blogs:

* Barbara Anders
* Cindy Haffner
* Frances Byrne
* Jessie Rone
* Joanne Grzelak
* Joycelyn Pelkey
*Lynda Benden
*Silke Ledlow
* Silke Kittmann
* Tammy Hershberger
*Vicki Garrett
 

Just a little info about my card. . . .this card went through an evolution of sort.  I first started off thinking I would make a Christmas card.  I looked through a designer paper pack and saw the pretty designer paper patterns and ended up going shabby chic-ish instead.  The designer paper is from "Linen Closet" pack by DCWV.  Anyway. . .I intended to stamp and color an image but I had stopped by Jo Ann's today and bought the Tim Holtz "Mini Paper Rosettes" die set so I decided to use it rather than stamping an image.  More often than not, when I create cards, I usually will start off with one idea and completely end up making something completely different.

Anyway. .. that's it for today!  Hope you all have a wonderful Saturday!

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