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Friday, December 31, 2010

Wall Art for my Son's Room



My 19 yr old son moved away to college in September of '10, to study music. After he left, his room got a makeover...it was previously teal and brown...so this is a huge difference...he loved it when he came home for the weekend! All the guitar logos are from a font called gtartings and I cut them with scal...

Saturday, December 18, 2010

Christmas Place Settings


This week is all about Christmas at My Sheri...come and post your Christmas projects...

Gingerbread House Place Settings

Supplies

5" square piece ea of kraft paper and brown (a little darker than the kraft)

1 sheet of white cs

assorted scraps for embellies

extra fine white glitter

glossy accents

red and brown inks

Adhesives

pop dots

red pearl gem

cricut and stretch your imagination cartridge

scraps of gold foil paper

Instructions

Cut out a gingerbread house at 5" from the kraft paper, emboss with cuttlebug if desired

Cut out the shadow out of the darker brown cs

Cut out the silhouette from the white, as well as the layers

Cut out layers out of various patterns for star, candy canes and gumdrops

Put glue on the roof portion of the white layer and sprinkle the glitter on the glue and set aside to dry

Ink the edges of the shadow piece with brown ink

Adhere the white silhouette cut to the kraft piece and attach to shadow

Once your glittered piece is dry, attach over top of the silhouette

Ink the edges of the star, canes and drops with red ink, apply glossy accents to the candy canes, star and gumdrops and set aside.

Attach the door, leaving slightly open with a pop dot underneath

Attach all the extra pieces when dry

Saturday, December 4, 2010

Hanakkah!!!


This week at My Sheri, we are celebrating Hanakkah, or at least the traditional colors associated with this holiday. I made a simple card for this one...in blue, white and silver.

Sunday, November 21, 2010

My Sheri Challenge...Thanksgiving/Harvest


This was such a fun project...even though us Canucks have already celebrated Thanksgiving...I love this time of year, with all the vibrant colors and so much local produce available after a long summer of farming...and just in case you are confused about the fruit in the basket, they are apples!

Happy Harvest

Supplies

7 1/4 x 9 1/2" blue card base

6 3/4 x 4 1/2 black cs

4 3/8 x 6 5/8" brown cs

Assorted scraps of red, brown, green, yellow, and orange

6" 3/8" wide ribbon

12" raffia

Adhesive

Brown Inks

Leaf Punch

Sticker Letters

Cricut

Instructions

Fold card base in half, attach black cs, then brown

With your cricut, cut out a basket, 3 sunflowers in varying heights, a dozen small red apples, 3 corn stalks and punch a variety of fall colored leaves

Ink the edges of all pieces

Assemble as shown

With a 1 x 4" strip of dk brown cs, apply the sticker letters to form sentiment

Attach ribbon as if the sign is hanging from it

Tie small raffia bows and attach where ribbon meets sign

Saturday, November 13, 2010

Teddy Bears!!!!


What could be cuter??? This week at My Sheri, we are submitting projects with teddy bears...be sure to add yours...here is mine...

Saturday, November 6, 2010

Veterans/Troops Shadowbox Card

Picture # 1
Picture #2
Picture #3


This week we are honoring all the men and women who bravely sacrifice so much for our freedoms...those past and present...please join the challenge by posting your Veteran or Troop project at My Sheri Crafts

Sacrifice

Supplies

(1) ea 5x7" piece of tan and white cardstock

5x5 black cardstock

sticky strip

tag

metal charm

inks and chalks

cricut and printer

Instructions

In a word program, copy out the poem "In Flanders Fields" so that the text is in paragraph form, not poem form ( I have it saved if you would like me to email it to you) and 5" across at least 5" high...

Print the text on your white cardstock leaving 1" on each side

Score each of the tan and white cs pieces at 1/2" and 1" from each of the shorter sides (Picture #1)

Using a circle cutter (I used a coluzzle) cut out a 3 1/4" circle out of the middle of the white cardstock

With the white on top of the tan, lightly trace out the circle onto the tan

Using various shades of greens and browns, and a small paintbrush, chalk out a camoflage background onto the tan extending just beyond the circle shape (Picture #2)

Cut a 4 1/4" circle out of the center of the 5x5 black cs...and using the negative part, adhere to the tan cardstock

Cut out an army shape with your cricut...I used a dingbat called Soldier WW2, and place on top of the chalking positioning so you would be able to view from the hole cut in the white cs when placed on top...I used pop dots for an extra bit of dimension (Picture #3)

Using a border stamp, stamp the outer 1/2" of the white with a brown/green mixture of inks

Ink all the edges of the white, inside the circle and around the outer edge with brown and green inks

Cut a 1 1/2" oval tag and run through printer with words Thank You for your sacrifice, loop a key ring in the hole

Adorn with a small red poppy, topped with a button

Add a metal embellishment to the bottom left side

Put a length of sticky strip on the outer 1/2" of the tan cs and carefully peel and adhere the white on top...crease the folds to form a "box" and display (Picture # 3)

Saturday, October 30, 2010


MY SHERI CRAFTS CHALLENGE #29 - GET WELL SOON

Believe it or not, flu season is upon us! That's why we're challenging you to create a "Get Well" project so you'll be ready to brighten someone's day when they're feeling a little under the weather.

Here is mine...a simple, clean feel better soon card...love this paper by GCD Studios...the colors are so fresh and fun

Feel Better Soon

Supplies

10 1/2 x 5 1/4" green card base

5 1/8" sq piece of patterned paper

5 1/8 x 3" co-ordinating patterned paper

5 1/8" x 1/2" black strip

4 1/8" sq piece of black cs

4" sq piece of third co-ordinating patterned paper

1 1/2" oval and shadowed in black

Stamp for sentiment

3 small black flowers and various centers (buttons, gems, brads)

Scrap of fourth pattern to make scalloped edge

Scalloped Border punch

Adhesives

Instructions

Score and fold card base

Place the larger cs piece and adhere to card front

Punch the top edge and adhere the black strip behind and little bit higher than top of piece

Attach to card, keeping bottom edges even

Punch the fourth pattern scrap so that you have a right angled corner

Mat the 4" sq pattern on the black cs and adhere the punched corner on the bottom left corner of the square piece and adhere to center of card

Stamp greeting on oval and mat with black shadow

Adhere desired centers to flowers and attach around edge of oval

Cut a swirl with your cricut and attach to card