Razor Sharp Crafts

This is one really made me think outside the box.  I wanted to create a 3D item, and this is what I ended up coming up with. I used the Tim Holtz Alterations Sizzix Bigz Caged Bird Die to create this.  I cut the cage 4 times, the bird once and the wing twice out of medium weight chipboard.  Then I painted the 4 cages on both sides with Rusty Hinge Distress Paint from Tim Holtz and sprayed them with some Sunflower Glimmer Mist by Tattered Angels. I glued the sides of the cages together with some Scotch Quick Dry Tacky Adhesive and just held them until it was dry and just did that for all 4 sides.  Then I, very gently bent in the tops of the bird cages (I cut off the little bump that is on top of the hanging whole) and used the Scotch glue again to glue them together.  I also used some Tim Holtz jump rings to help hold the tops together until the glue was dry and holding.  Then I use another jump ring through the wholes on the top to hold the...

My hubby has his own "crafting" that he does, he tears apart and rebuilds cars.  He bought a Mazda RX7 when we first arrived in Germany and he is turning it into his own little race car.  The only way I can understand it is to compare it to my crafting and he gets just as excited over car parts as I do over crafting supplies, so it must be a really awesome thing to him LOL!!!!So I wanted to make him something to recognize his project.   I took that canvas that I messed up the first canvas transfer on and I gessoed it until you could no longer see the attempt at the image transfer. First I used my Faber Castell Gelatos, metalic gold, squid ink, and silver and I randomly added them to the canvas and blended them in using my finger.  I also used my black gelato to distress the edges of the canvas and blended it with my finger.  Then I used a gears 6x6 mask from Crafters' Workshop and covered it with modeling paste and let it dry.  Once it was dry I us...

Back in February I threw a surprise baby shower for a girlfriend of mine here in Germany.  It was her third child and finally a boy, but she had never had a baby shower because it is not a something that they do here in Germany.  Their custom is to visit the mom and new baby in the hospital and bring a gift then.  She is married to an American so we thought we would share an American tradition with her.   She was so surprised!!!!  I had her convinced that we were going shopping so I could buy her somethings that she needed for the baby.  Her hubby and another one of our friends offered to watch my 3 boys and their 2 kids, my hubby was doing training in the states so he wasn't here to watch our kids.  So I picked her up to go "shopping", which she had told her hubby she wasn't feeling like going and he told her, "It's free stuff for the baby, you're going"  LOL!!!!  After I picked her up I "realized" I "forgot" my cellphone at...

Hello followers!!!! I wanted to try doing an image transfer onto a canvas, and what better way to try it then to do something for my wonderful hubby??!! So I took one of his favorite pictures of his car and I flipped it using Photoshop so that I had a mirror image. Then I printed it off on normal printer paper and got to work. My first attempt was a fail!!!!  I used too much glue n' seal and it washed out the picture.  That's ok though, I gessoed that canvas and used it in a later project.   Then I picked a 6x12 canvas and tried again and this one was a SUCCESS!!!!   I wanted to decorate it up some but my hubby likes things plain and he loved it so much that he wanted to hang it in his office at work.  So I opted to leave it "plain" so that he could have it the way he wanted.  I did paint the canvas around the outside of the picture and along the sides with charcoal colored acrylic paint to cover the white of the canvas. Happy Cra...

I'm so far behind on blogging and I apologize for that!!  I get busy watching all the wonderful crafters on YouTube and I forget to come over here and update you all.  Well let me spend some time this evening getting you all up-to-date on what I have been doing. Lets start with the Valentine's that I made for my kids classmates and teachers.  Here they are: I made matchboxes for the boys, they are actually red, but the color seems a little washed out to look pink in the pictures.  And I made little mini purses for the girls!!  These really are pink. For the teachers I made a larger purse!!  I absolutely LOVED how these ones turned out!!! I'd carry one of these everyday if it could hold everything I have in my purse!!! And of course they were all FILLED with yummy goodies!!!!  Everyone loved them.  My oldest's teacher even took them to the teachers' lounge to show them off at lunch time before they passed ...

This is a memory box that I made as a birthday present for a friend of mine.  Her favorite thing is elephants and her favorite color is green so i just rolled with that. I made the elephant charm hang over the edge to help hold the lid shut.  I punched a whole in the lid and put a large eyelet in it.  Then I stuck an eye pin through the eyelet, with the eye part on the inside of the box and used a jump ring to keep it from coming all the way through.  Then I curved it and decorated it with Swarovski crystals.  I rounded the end creating a loop and attached the elephant charm using a jump ring. The tulle flower I got in a RAK swap at Mini Album Scraps  from Laura Stirckland. I used the Tim Holtz 30 game piece because she was turning 30.  I colored it with a black Sharpie and then glossy accented it. The butterfly was a wooden butterfly.  It's either a Maya Road one or it's one that I got in a R...

My oldest son wanted matchboxes to take to school at Christmas time to give to all of his classmates.  So these are what we came up with.   We decided to make them look like presents and sealed them with a kiss :) I used the Stampin' Up! matchbox die to make these and it also cuts out the little labels so we used them to label them all. Red with Green Ribbon, it was a satin Ribbon from Paper Trey Ink. Green with Red Ribbon, Pure Poppy is the color of the ribbon, from Paper Trey Ink. Lots of boxes!! And of course a special one for his teacher!!  I used Graphic 45's Nutcracker Sweet paper to make the box and the Rosette.  The kiss seals the Rosette and then there's a star stick pin stuck in behind it.  Sorry this is blurry,  I was trying to get some quick pics with my phone before he left with them. A view of the side. I hope you all enjoyed seeing these!!  I would have liked to do...

I know I am VERY late uploading these.  My New Year's resolution was to get more active on my blog and on my YouTube Channel, which is kjsharp82.  So I'm working on loading projects that I have completed lately and then I hope to get working on some new ones to share!! These altered Matchboxes were made for a swap that I hosted at Mini Album Scraps .  The swaps was back in September of 2012. It was make 3 to swap and 1 to keep yourself. I filled mine with German candy, as a treat for those in the states.  German candy is so good!! Who couldn't love that face?!?! Thank you for checking these out and stay turned for more posts of other projects that I have completed!! Happy Crafting!!!!