Posted on Monday, October 13, 2014

DIY Fall Leave Paper Wreath

Fall! Fall finally arrived in our area. The colors of leaves decorate every hill and valley, the cooler and the freshness of the air is just perfect 🙂

I went looking for Fall/Autumn theme decorations from our storage and I realized that we do need more decorations in our house and my craft room, too 🙂 So here’s one of the the decorations I made:

Have I told you that I LOVE MY SILHOUETTE CAMEO A LOT? 😀 This handy dandy die cut machine is amazing craft buddy ever! I started with searching for Fall/Autumn Theme cutting file from Silhouette Online Store and found a bunch of them with pretty good deal because I subscribe to their monthly subscription.

I found this pretty Fall Wreath. Open the file on Silhouette Studio Designer Edition. Resize it to the size you like. I did mine to 11″ x 11″. Because I used 10.5″ circle cake base cardboard as the wreath base. After I resized it, ungroup the shapes to cut with different colors.

Once the shape is ready, send them to cut one by one to Silhouette machine. I used Red, Orange and Dark green cardstocks for the leaves and dark brown for the pine cones.

I want the pine cones look more sparkly, so I added some glitter glue all over them and set them aside to dry while I was working on the leaves.

I added the vine for the leaves using my embossing tool and foam pad.

Oh look! They are prettier now 🙂

When I arranged them on the circle cardboard, the center need something. I decided to have a thanksgiving quote for the middle. I found the give thanks phrase in my library from Kolette Hall Studio. I resized it first to fit in the middle of the wreath and the cut it using Black cardstock.

I added some Chocolate Distressing Ink on the leaves with dauber sponge to give some rusty and fall-ish looking 🙂

When everything is ready, I put them together using Liquid Glass glue from Close To My Heart. The pine cones I added them the last with 3D foam tape.

And it has its spot in my craft room 🙂

My Silhouette Challenge buddies and I are all sharing projects related to this theme of FALL/AUTUMN on our blogs today, so peruse the projects below for a wealth of Silhouette inspiration!

Want to Check Out More Silhouette Projects?

1. Create & Babble // 2. Lil Mrs. Tori // 3. unOriginal Mom // 4. Zanaree // 5. The Kim Six Fix // 6. One Dog Woof // 7. Cupcakes & Crowbars // 8. Living My Given Life // 9. Architecture of a Mom // 10. Put A Bird On It // 11. Just Add Paper // 12. Weekend Craft // 13. Silhouette School // 14. Minted Strawberry // 15. My Paper Craze // 16. McCall Manor // 17. Chicken Scratch NY // 18. Mama Sonshine // 19. Creative Ramblings // 20. From Wine to Whine // 21. Please Excuse My Craftermath… // 22. Dragonfly & Lily Pads // 23. The Thinking Closet // 24. Simply Kelly Designs // 25. Sandpaper & Glue //

Posted on Friday, October 3, 2014

SOUS Die Cut Challenge: We’re All Mad Here…

It’s Friday. Wow… time just flies so far and here we are in October. Trees on our backyard is changing colors, that for sure Fall is in the air.

Today is time for Stuck On U Sketches Die Cut Challenge. The new challenge theme is WE’RE ALL MAD HERE.

It has challenged me to think hard for this one. But our team is awesome, they came up with a lot of ideas for this challenge that you can use any of these die cut shapes for your project: a top hat, tea cup, tea pot, saucer, etc. You also can go all Alice In Wonderland idea if you’d like. Totally up to you, but this is another one to totally go crazy with your project 🙂 Link you your finished projects here to win our monthly blog candy!

I picked the tea cup and saucer for this challenge. I found Lori Whitlock Tea Cup easel card at Silhouette Online Store and cut the shapes using my amazing die cut machine, Silhouette Cameo.

Supplies I use are from Close To My Heart:

Kraft Cardstock
White Daisy Cardstock
Balloon Ride Paper Packet
Lovely Birthday stamp set (B1462)
Sorbet Exclusive Inks Stamp Pad
Pear Exclusive Inks Stamp Pad
Black Inks Stamp Pad
Liquid Glass

Supplies not from CTMH: Pearl gems adhesive

Posted on Friday, September 19, 2014

Die Cut Team 5th Anniversary Blog Hop

Welcome to Stuck on U Sketches 5th Anniversary Blog Hop! To celebrate this month each team will be having a hop and today is the Die Cut Team Blog Hop!

Our blog hop runs 5 days starting today through Tuesday September 23, 2014 at midnight EST. If you have come from Stuck on U Sketches blog then you are in the right place. If you happen to be here first and would like more info on the hop, head back to SOUS here.

To be eligible for our sponsored candy, we ask you complete the hop by visiting EACH blog, commenting and following EACH blog! Once you’ve completed the hop you’ll be eligible to win this prize from Pretty Paper, Pretty Ribbon.

Also if you JOIN in ANY of our challenges this month you will then be eligible for one of our 2 Grand Prizes! The more challenges and projects you share, the more chance to win! We’d like to warmly thank Fancy Pants Designs and Zeus and Zoe for their kind and generous sponsorship!

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Prize from Fancy Pants: True Friends Collection Kit

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Prize from Zeus and Zoe

Remember to make sure you are also following SOUS! Please finish at SOUS to let us know you have completed the hop and followed the gals blogs.

For extra entries, let us know if you are following on Facebook or Pinterest to win! All winners (grand prizes and blog hop winners) from this month will be announced on Friday, October 10, 2014!

I made a set of cards using my Silhouette Cameo and A2 Geometric Lace Band Card cutting file from Jamie Koay

Stamps set I used on my cards are from Close To My Heart: Oodle of Doodles and #30yearsofhappy – National Stamping Month stamp set (only available until 9/30/2014).

Here’s the complete list of the Die Cut Challenge Blog Hop:

Stuck on U Sketches

Return to SOUS to let us know you’ve completed the hop!

Your next stop on the hop will be my creative friend, Janis to see what she has created! THANK YOU so much for visiting my blog today and HAVE FUN Hopping and Playing with us!

Posted on Friday, September 5, 2014

SOUS 5th Anniversary Festivities Is Here!

This month is a big celebration month for Stuck On U Sketches Challenge Blog!

5 years Stuck On U Sketches has been providing our fellow paper crafting community with inspiring and creative challenges as well as having shared here hundreds of projects from our super talented design team, present and past.

We thank you all for having been with us, the long timers and the sweetest friends finding us new.

To celebrate this month we will be having 5th Anniversary Festivities! Each blog hop will be open for 5 days and each hop will have it’s own prize offered. Join us for full-fun-and-prizes-month!!! Here’s the schedule:

Project Life Blog Hop on Monday, September 8
Die Cut Blog Hop on Friday, September 19
Sketch Blog Hop on Friday, September 26

ALL September challenge participants will be eligible for 2 Grand Prizes this month from:

And we would like to warmly like to thank each company for their kindness and generosity sponsoring our special month!

Each time you join ANY challenge this month your name will be entered to win one of these 2 amazing sponsored gifts! Plus 3 hops this month gives you MANY chances to win!

Our first 5th Anniversary challenge is…

This week we challenge you to create any projects to show us your school or class themed die cuts! Projects MUST have a DIE CUT fitting the theme (not a stamped image) to be eligible for prizes. Link up your project for this challenge HERE and while you are there, check out all the projects the Die Cut team have created for inspirations 😀

Here’s my project for this challenge:

This is my daughter’s first school album! I am so blessed to hear her stories every day she comes back from school since the first day she went last week. I am so thankful to be able to record her memories in this special book. I am using My Creations™ Hip Pics Album and Workshops On The Go™ Chalk It Up Scrapbooking Kit.

Additional embellishments to this page are:

Chalk It Up Complements
Durables Triangle Studs
Aqua Dots
Black Arrow Washi Tape
Lagoon Hearts Washi Tape
Exclusive C-sized stamp set #30yearsofhappy – FREE with purchase during September, National Stamping Month!
Canvas Die Cut Shapes (retired)
Flaxen Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad
Sorbet Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad
Lagoon Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad
Black Exclusive Inks™ Stamp Pad
Non-Stick Micro-Tip Scissors
Mini Stapler
Craft Heater
Memory Book Glue Dots™
Memory Book Mini Glue Dots™
3L® E-Z Dots® Adhesive

Posted on Monday, August 25, 2014

One More Tag Card…

Today I made one more card with tags on it.

This card I also use Waffle Flower Surface Tag Starter Kit dies. I cut those tags using my Evolution Advanced die cutter and then I stamped them with the polkadot tag stamp from Waffle Flower Surface Tag Stamp Set using Close To My Heart Gypsy and Honey Exclusive Inks pads. Paper packet I used is Sarita from Close To My Heart (retired). I use the Stitch Guide and to make the stitches and some coordinating color thread.