Ribbon Wreath

Today I am going to teach you how to make a door wreath with ribbon and a wire wreath.
I chose to use green, yellow and orange ribbon to match my party.

I picked this wire wreath form up at joann’s for $1.99

First I tied the yellow ribbon the the inner 2 wires.

Then the orange to the outer 2 wires

then the green to the middle 2 wires.

Continue to do the steps over and over again.

This is what the back of the wreath look like.

Continue the 3 steps all the way around the wreath until it looks like this.
Once you are at this stage, grab your scissors and start curling.

Here is the finished look.

Pirate Eye Patches

Another fantastic tutorial on how to make pirate eye patches.
I can hear what you are thinking, I have been posting a ton of stuff on pirate party items. well after this weekend you will have full blown photos of my pirate party. and let me tell you all, you are all going to simply love it.
Anyway back to the how-to today.
I printed off a pirate patch and cut around the design to use as a template.

Place the design on the whatever material you choose to use for the project. I chose to use 2 different shades of felt.
Now that the design is in place, use a pen, marker or pencil to trace around the design. Continue this process until you reach the number of patches you need.

Here you can see I chose a red and a green felt and have traced many patches.
Time to cut them all out now.

To make the holes more sturdy and so that the ribbon or thick thread you chose to use won’t pull through the felt. I used eyelets in a variety of colors.

Once the eyelets were attached to the patches. I used a thick black thread to make the straps. and now you are finished unless you decide to bling them out on the front or add a skull to the front.

New Die Cut Designs

I have been so swamped since the scrapbook expo that i have been going crazy today. So I thought since I was working on some of my SnugglyBugg orders that I would share with you some of my new drawings that I will clean up a bit and make into new die cuts.

these are all die cuts that some of my customers requested.
Slimer from the ghostbusters, DJ Spongebob and Gonzo. there still a little rough

Then we have the 4 penguins from madagascar

Last but not least Hello Kitty rocking it out.

If you are interested in any of these or have any questions let me know
You can find them at my shop: http://www.etsy.com/shop/snugglybuggs

Shopping at the Scrapbook Expo

I had so much fun checking out all the cool vendors at the scrapbook expo. click Here

So I wanted to share with you all what fantastic finds I brought home. Today was my day to just mosey  around the convention checking out all the vendors and products. Tomorrow me and my sister will be given the VIP treatment and are going to be scrapping all day.

any whoo Let’s take a look at what I found.

Vendor #1: Eyelet Outlet – where I found some awesome brads – each pack was $2.50-$3.00

12 Retro Button Brads

12 Bottle Cap Brads

12 Gear Brads

12 Pirate Brads

12 Moose Brads

12 Farm Animal Brads

Vendor #2: Doodlebug Design Inc.
the bundle I bought

They gave out FREE catalog’s. I have already flipped through it and it has some amazing organization products and ideas for your craft room.

crushed velvet flock.. in the colors of lily white and bubblegum – $1.00 each

Boutique brads – limeade assortment – $2.00

pink flocked brads – $1.00

Craft Knife – black n white daisies – $3.00

Craft Mat … reversible self-healing double-sided – pink w/pink flower print on back – $3.00

Mini Brad Keepers – 12 bottles for $2.00

Vendor #3: Basic Grey
They have a great sale going on. a Mix n Match deal 1 for $2.00 or 3 for $5.00 so I purchase 6 different items for $10.00 each cost $1.66

Rub-Ons – 5 pages worth

brads in 6 assorted colors

which i have already placed in some of my new mini brad containers – I giddy about this one.

decorative paper clips


decorative brads – each larger brad came with a matching little one.

Vendor #4: Part Time Sally
They were selling echo park paper co. products
The stickers I bought were 5 for $1.00

21 sticker Little Boy Set

23 sticker little girl set

22 sticker Paris & Love set

Vendor #5: My Scrapbook Zone
all of there 2 page layouts were $6.99

Monster on Parade 2 page layout

“toaddly’ in love 2 page layout

Vendor #6: Out on A Limb
Their 2 pay layouts cost $6.00-$7.00

Lil’ Stinker – $7.00

Vendor #7: Want 2 Scrap
Bling Bling Everywhere and all for a buck

Marquis Rhinestones – Silver

black, light pink and orange flowers with swirls

Finesse Swirls Pearls – White, Orange & LeCreme
lines of white crystal

Spellbinders Nestabling in clear and black

Swirls : Pearl, light pink, bright pink, black and yellow

Set of dots: black, light pink, red, purple, bright pink, dark blue, yellow, light green, light blue, dark green, green pearl

Alice in Wonderland Die Cuts

Here are some of my Alice In Wonderland characters I carry in my Etsy site. I have created them to hold a letter, number or name. They are great for parties, framing and decorating your kids room.

Here are some examples and you can find them in my shop here

You are able to customize them yourself: you choose the character, number, letter or name, and the color.

Characters available for Alice in Wonderland: Alice, Walrus, Carpenter, Little Oysters, Cheshire Cat, Mad Hatter, March Hare, Queen of Hearts, Kind of Hearts, Cards, White Rabbit, Caterpillar and much more.
I only have photos of the die cuts. But I can also make Banners, Cupcake Toppers and Name Signs.

Alice

Cheshire Cat

March Hare

Walrus

Carpenter

Little Oysters

Mario Brothers

Here are some of my Super Mario Brothers characters I carry in my etsy site. I have created them to hold a letter, number or name. They are great for parties, framing and decorating your kids room.

Here are some examples and you can find them in my shop here

You are able to customize them yourself: you choose the character, number, letter or name, and the color.

Characters available for Super Mario Brothers are: Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach, Bowser and more.

I also can make banners, door hangers and cupcake topper.

The following photos are for my awesome Happy Birthday Banner

and here is my door/wall hanger. You can personalize your kids room with this sign. I have had many kids that now own these and they love them.

How to Bling out a shirt

As I have said in previous posts, me and my younger sister are attending the scrapbook 2012 Expo here in Sandy, UT this Saturday. We wanted to make it a fun day, get dressed up and also represent pink possibilities. So here is a step by step on how we blinded our black v-neck t-shirts out. We first taped out a rectangular box on the front of the t-shirt which would help us keep the wording and design straight. (and in a proper place for a women’s chest area)

We chose to go with white crystals for the wording and pink ones for the pig face you will see later on.


First things first was testing out a few possible choses for the 2 capital “p’s”. we both designed our own (which are the following 2 shots)
this one is hers

this one was mine

after looking at both of them we designed and choose this one to be the winner.

so after placing the 2 capital P’s We had to figure out a way to line up the remainder of the letters and still be remotely straight and stay within the space.
I took to long pieces of masking tape and overlapped them. I then wrote with black marker on the non sticky side.

then flipped it over so we could place the stones.

by placing the stones upside down or color side down. we would be able to turn the whole word over and place on the shirt where it needed to go.


We did the same trick with the pig head.
First drawing the design on the non-sticky side.

then placing facedown the pink stones

once you placed all the stones. using a q-tip spread your glue on the back of all the stones

flip over and place onto the shirt where you would like it

make sure you press down for a minute or 2 before trying to take the tape off.

slowly and patiently start removing the tape.


then we made a pretty pink bow, added glue to the knot and placed on the pigs head

Next we wanted a little more bling. so decided to add some stars with stones from an old costume jewelry necklace I had.

here is what the necklace looked like before i started cutting it apart. it was already missing some pearls. so this was a great way to recycle this piece


I grabbed my pair of wire cutter

and started cutting the links apart




this is what the end result looked like


Final Product. Now it just needs to sit for 24 hours for the glue to cure. We were so excited with the end result.