2013 Navajo County Fair projects...

Can you guess what I have been busy with?

 

That's right...

SVGCuts has done it again...

I used the Summer Street Carnival SVG Kit & the Happy Trails SVG Kit

to make these projects

 

Here is a picture of the projects before it went to the county fair...

 

 

The 3D boot from the Happy Trails SVG Kit

 

 

the Farris Wheel from the Summer Street Carnival SVGCuts Kit

 

 

Here is a close up of the Farris Wheel before I took it to the fair...

all the details I added...

I really like how it turned out...

I made some rosettes using a Lori Whitlock file that can be found

at the Silhouette America Online Store...

(you can also get this file on her website, in .svg format)

 or

Now I entered the boot in a western theme cowboy 'Booty full Boot' category...

it's a category that is open to all age participants to decorate a western boot...

I did not think of adding any extra to this boot...

as it was a VERY last late entry in to the fair...

I was not going to enter it, but I wanted more projects to enter...

and I did not plan on it being in the category, I could not enter both projects

in the same category/class...

 

so I never in a million years thought it would win a ribbon...

 

 

let alone a 1st place~ blue ribbon...

OMG it was a hit with the judges...

 

Next I added the Farris Wheel from the Summer Street Carnival SVGCuts kit

 

Again a late entry...

I have not doing much crafting lately...

kind of burned out right now...

so my darling son said I needed to get 'back' into making things

I love most

"3D paper crafting'...

 

so a few weeks ago I started this project...

and finished it just in time...thank you Alex

 

 

a close up to show all the details I added, Sunday before I

turned it in to the Navajo County Fair later that night...

 

 

a bigger picture of the entire project...

 

So you ask

"how did it do"

 

well take a look at the wonderful ribbons I earned

with this project...

 

 

I know Right...crazy...

I saw the blue ribbon and was so excited...

than the HUGE purple ribbon...

(I almost started to cry)

I could not tell if it was

Best of Show or Best of Class...

so I asked one of the judges there at the fair...

 OH Yeah Baby...

the Purple Ribbon is HIGHEST honor you can get at Navajo county fair

BEST OF FAIR...

I could not believe it...

a few years ago I entered a bunch of projects

and did very well then too...

but never heard of a purple ribbon

Best of Fair

I know, right...

 

I have decided to enter these projects into the

Arizona State Fair...

we will see how I do against all the crafters in the

good ol'  state of Arizona...

so cross your fingers and toes...

the state fair starts in just a few weeks...

Oh I wish I lived closer to the State Fairgrounds...

I would love to see them there..

but 3 hours is not so close..

so I wont get to see them on display or

how they did at the State Fair until they return after the fair...

you see the State fair does an outreach program

they will pick up the projects for the Sate fair after

the county fair is over, and submit your projects for you...

very nice, huh...what a great way to encourage

more participation throughout the state...

 

I will try to remember to post the outcome at the state fair... 

I still can't believe I won that honor at the county fair...

 

well I best get busy making some more cool 3D projects and cards...

 

Let me know what you think of these projects...

would love some blog'n love...

 

C ya all later...and remember

 

OMG, 400th Post...

Wowzers

What have I done?

I have made 400 posts on this blog...

wow, never would have imagined doing that when I started my blog...

I started my blog a few years back... November 18, 2009

as a family blog, to document my life and show my wonderful family

all the great things we do as a family...

 

Shortly after starting my blog I started to share my

projects I have made...than early 2011 I got more into it..

I started to share my creations as I have grown with my paper crafting......

 

I later became a design team member on a few different blogs...

Currently I design for Mark's Finest Papers a Heinrich Co.

their Friends of Speed TV and Tutorial Time on Speedy TV

great company challenge blogs...

I love it...

 

So it's a Happy day, for me to share with you my

400th post...

This is my project for the
Navajo County 2013 fair...

 

so what do you think?

Perfect for the fair...we get a fun Carnival with our fair here in Arizona...

Got to love it...

its from the SVGCuts Summer Street Carnival set.

I added some fun elements that I got from the Silhouette online store as well...

 

Well enjoy this post. and wish me luck at the fair...

I hope everyone at fair will enjoy this creation of mine...

 

Off for now... 

It's Chalk Thursday!! New Challenge

There's a new challenge over at

Chalk N Stock

I have but a few minutes to show you my inspiring projects...

This week we were lucky enough to have not 1 but 2 sponsors

for the 

'Lets See Your Humor Challenge'

Remember it's any image and any chalk 

but must be a follower and must use chalk 

in someway in your project...

This digi stamp by Bugaboo just cracks me up every time I read it...

It's so funny...

This next one is me getting into the spirit of Halloween...

Oh am I in the spirit...

I have been making all kinds of Halloween themed projects,

and loving every minute...

It's kind of funny, I love to decorate for Halloween but I don't

really care for the meaning of Halloween...oh well

keep the spirit going with decorating for it...

maybe this year I will get more into decorating for other

holidays too...we will see

This stamp is by Riley Stamps

It's darling too...I don't know that I stayed with the humor but oh well

it's a cute stamp anyway...

The 'Trick or Treat' stamp is from one of my favorite company's

Punkin Patch Stamps...they also make all my wonderful SVG files that

I create from...oh I love Mary and Leo...what a neat couple...

I used chalk on both of these cards... on the 2nd card I used it 

for the background and the moon..

for the first card I used it for her hair...

sneaky huh...lol...

Well off I go...you all have a wonderful fun filled day...

Happy Craft'n

Happy Chalk'n

KtsAngels

Let's Talk ...

... about Chalk ...

heehee

well you can add chalk to ANY project to give it a shine

or make it the background color or even color in the image with chalk

it's so awesome to play with ...

I get to play with it every week over at Chalk N Stock Challenge Blog

and we would like you to join us on the challenge each 2 weeks ...

I have a new card I created, it is NOT my original idea

I got it off YouTube but I did measure and create the cut file for it ...

as so I can cut it using my Cameo...I don't do scissors ... lol

Here is the card closed with the bakers twine band to keep the 

gate fold card closed...

Now I start to open the card...

 a little more...

 Now do you see the Magic...

The stamp is behind a hidden door...

yeah I think they called it the 

Magic Card? oh no I don't remember... oops

oh well I spent lots of time to create a cut file for it...

and I love how it turned out...

Now to show how the chalk was used...

yep you guessed it...over the boots to 'wear' them out and 

to make the sparkle...they have some teddy bear chalk then 

stardust chalk over the tops...it's so hard to show you sometimes

how the chalk can add such a small addition to the project...

but I guess it's a trust issue...heehee...trust me it's there and it looks good...

Well I hope you have enjoyed my Magic Card today...I hope to make many more

of these cards...they are way fun...

If you are interested in the Studio file let me know and leave an email addy

I will try to email it out to those that request it...

I am not a pro at the whole create a file to share but I would love to share this one...

Happy Chalk'n

Happy Craft'n

KtsAngels

Chalk Ah Lot Cafe DT Project ~ Sentiment

Hey everyone...this post is a bit late...but better late then never...lol...

no really I am so excited to tell you my news that I just don't know how to put it into words...

about a 1 1/2 weeks ago, I was on Facebook when  the

design team coordinator for Chalk Ah Lot Cafe

PM'd me and asked me to join her team at the

Chalk Ah Lot Cafe.... it's a Challenge blog using

Powdered Chalks

and using stamps from

Stamp N Plus Scrap N

So I could not pass up what a wonderful opportunity and kudos to me...

so with that then next thing I knew was I had this box on my door step...

OMG!!! HOW FUN!!!

I ALWAYS love mail...not bills...but fun mail...

and I opened it up and thought Christmas and Birthday was already over for this year...

but it was true, I got a HUGE start up kit from Chalk Ah Lot Cafe & Stamp N Plus Scrap N

I had picked out 12 different stamps and this is what I got... I got not only the 12 stamps but this HUGE kit of goodies to use for my design team assignment...

I got over 25 stamps...47 different powdered chalks...4 acrylic blocks all different sizes...some really neat Buzz N Magic paint... a fun feather pen ( to clean the work area off when done) oh yeah some really neat templates... this company and LuAnn are going to be great to work with ... I could not be more happy to represent such a cool stamp and chalk company...

Now for the Challenge card...we were challenged by using a sentiment....and as I had said before...I make cards for this company ... so you will see more cards on my blog...but I will continue to do my love and passion of 3D paper crafting...I just now have all kinds of goodies to work with now...

With this card there were 2 different ways of using the chalk...Direct to the paper and Versa Mark stamp covered by the Powered Chalk

So for my card I used versa mark to stamp the sentiment and covered  it with Blush chalk...then I used the cloud template that came with the kit to make the clouds using Sky and Dizzy Chalk... the sun has chalks Dandy and Sunshine....the grass is the same way ... 2 chalks Lime and Cool Green... added 3 flower brads and drew in the stems with a sharpie and added the frog button...I mounted this on a dark blue back ground and added some pink ric-rack...I love using all kinds of thing when creating card fronts...not all the chalks need a fixative as most have it in it...but I used some cheap aerosol hair spray to make sure to keep it all in place...

So with that... I encourage...no challenge you to make a card with a sentiment using this totally awesome powered chalk...and enter it in the Chalk Ah Lot Cafe Challenge page....

Just so you are aware... each Sunday I will be posting a new card for this team...and each week they have a challenge all lined up for us...so come back often and check out my new Design Team Assignment...

It's A Monday of MyGrafico ....

So some last minute crafting for gifts... I used the Christmas Friends Clip Art

To print and cut these great little gift bags full of Christmas goodies...





So Easy!!!

Print the Clip Art on some card stock...

Remember if you want it front and back that you put your images facing different directions...so when you fold the long strip of paper(at whatever size you choose, I made mine using the full length of an 8 1/5 x 11 sheet of card stock, I was only able to get 1 bag out of each page, but I wanted it wider)

Then cut a top accent color card stock

Punch 2 holes to tie the ribbon through...

Whala you have a little gift bag thing...

Add a tag and you are set for the last minute gifts for the class mates...

easy enough you can have your little ones help with this one...

You don't even have to have many supplies either...

Printed Card stock

Plain Colored Card stock, to coordinate

Ribbon

Baggies to hold the goodies inside...

that's about it...

Hope you have enjoyed this little tutorial of my cute gift bags using

Christmas Friends Clip Art

Please remember that MyGrafico is having the GREAT give away....

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>NEW SILHOUETTE CAMEO MACHINE

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>PRIZE PACKAGE

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>Beginning December 1st, all of our readers will have the chance to win the following:

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• A NEW Silhouette Cameo machine
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• Adhesive Vinyl Rolls package
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Good luck everyone...

have a great week....

Got Pie?

Just a quick post .... this is a great file from where else then SVGcuts.com Crisp Days of Fall SVG kit... I just love how it turned out!! Tell me what you think...

I could almost eat it right now...what a great Hostess gift this is going to make...

TTFN!!!

The 411 of SVG's

I wanted to share with you this video of what is SVGCuts. Leo, the co-owner of SVGCuts, put together this great short informational video for us to share. As you have seen on my blog I refer to this company as if it were my own...I am not one to see anything, unless I believe in it...and I do believe in this company and their products...Mary and Leo have put together 2 other great on line stores that are just as great,  Punkin' Patch Stamps , PumpkinCartCrafts , and the all SVGCuts .

So PaPaPaPlease take the time to check this little 411 video out to learn why I love the world of paper crafting...

Mary and Leo

This is for you!!!

Happy Craft'n

PS...if you leave me a comment that you watched the video, I have some blog CANDY for 1 special person...so leave me info so I can contact you with your winnings!!!

Christmas Projects Have Started

This is just 2 of the Items that I made in the set that you buy 

Santa's Visit SVG Set by SVGCUTS.com

OMG As always SVGCUTS.com has blown me away with their latest set... I just had to make part of it and share with you as soon as I could get the time.

I just can't wait to show you so here it is....

  

This is from the Punkin' Patch Stamps ... Holiday Traditions Set

I don't have any more time to complete the rest of the set, but you can bet you little booties that I will be making a BUNCH more of this file...so fun and pretty easy...just a few trick to the trade...so be sure to watch Mary at her best, giving us the step by step instructions.

I have a new post for Monday, so come back by....

Thanks for looking, and as always... Leave me some love so I know you like what you see and I know you were here...maybe I will hop to your blog and do the same!!!

Katie

Ok, So I got a LITTLE carried away...

Hey ya all, I just wanted to share with you some of the projects I have been working on... I am a host of a stamp'n up workshop later today. I wanted to give some door prizes out (what a good idea to get rid of some of my projects, right? lol ) so anyway I have wrapped about 6 bags of candies with these great files from where else than SVGCUTS.com ... I used the Party on Elm Street and Caramel Apple Pie SVG Kit to create most of these goodies. Well I am sure you want to see pictures so here they are...



Ok so I fouled my family too...it's ALL made with paper!!!



This picture do no
justice to the great
Lantern, fun fun





this is just so darling, I know I can make more pretty fast and they are really easy



Here's the Candy all wrapped up and ready to go....





a little of everything....



With all that, I think I better get some sleep before I have to get up and do just a few more things...I could keep going for hours, I just love SVGCUTS.com files... There is a new FREE set and it's Christmas... OMG its already for that again...

Oh yeah I also got a chance to use the stampables from Punkin Patch Stamps, yeah one of those 'had to have' kind of things...I really like the stamps.. I can see me buying more in the future, and I am not a big stamp crafter, but I like the words a phrases they have put together... and then added a svg cut to use ... I cut the paper then I was able to use a clear stamp block to see  the cut image and stamp right there... awsome!!!

Enjoy your weekend everyone...and I won't be posting a MyGrafico on Monday due to all this stuff.

So check back by soon for more from MyGrafico DT... until then  ....

TTFN!!!

Halloween Goodies

Hey, I have something fun to post...and can you guess what it is?  heehee

Oh yeah you know it...It's a new file from SVGCUTS.com (where else)

It is so much fun to make these little treats, the only think that I have found to be a problem, is that the open path in my SCAL2 is not working... If any of my followers knows what I am doing wrong. Pah Pah Pah Please let me know so that I can do it the easier way(the way it's laid out in the file by Mary and Leo)

 I know HOW CUTE are these? It's the mini candy bars with wrappers and a topping... then I added the great old fashion Tissue paper Sucker Ghosts...I was really amazed the other day when I showed my co-worker the ghosts and she had NEVER seen that before.

So if you are one of those peps...here is how its done...

You get any round sucker (I used the mini TootisePops) and cut squares of either tissue paper of even facial tissue if you want (it's already cut for you) put the sucker in the middle and pull it over the top... Then I used baby hair elastics, that's what I had on hand, I later got some clear/white ones and they look about the same, I cannot decide if I like the black over the clear but if you see in the 2nd picture the ghost to the far right has a clear one and the ghost in the picture on the left has the black one... you choose... and let me know which one you think looks better...

I used the Party on Elm Street SVG Kit for this project... I even made the very cute cauldron but I forgot to get pictures before I took it to work...duh how silly is that, make something and not show it off on my Blog, what was I even thinking...lol

I even ordered some stamps for the newest company that Mary and Leo has started Pumkin' Patch Stamps  and if you act now the This Link takes you to a FREE set of svg's for the  Trick or Treat Stamp Set , and you bet your booty that I set myself up on that one too!! but I just could not stop there I just 'had to' have more ... I felt bad getting so much from Mary and Leo for FREE,

as in; on their SVGCUTS Blog they have a FREE svg about every week... then if you spend $9.98 or more at the SVGCUTS.com store you can get the latest and greatest  (within a certain time frame) Set FREE. Right now it's the Party on Elm Street and you have til Sunday Oct. 23 to get the FREE gift...

Check out the details Here and it will show you just how to do it!!!

Ok so a lot of Blah Blah Blah... no, I think it's great info if you don't already know about it...

Watch for Monday's MyGrafico Post....It is soooo cute I just cannot hardly wait to share...

Have yourselves a Great rest of the weekend...

I hope to post a bit more in the future so watch for me...

TTFN

(Tah Tah for Now, if you did not know heehee)