Swap Tag and Card

Hello and welcome!

I'm in a small online group of friends who

are doing swaps.
For the month of August, the theme was

"All that glitters"
I could make whatever I wanted to make.

Usually they are ATCs, tags or cards.

This month I chose to make a tag for my friend

Becky.

I cut a mask and stencil from 

adhesive stencil material using my Silhouette Cameo.

I first put down the mask of the lady and

ink blended around her.
Then I removed the mask and put the stencil

down, so only the lady was showing.
I used a VersaMark pen to "color" in the

hair and dress areas and applied 

embossing powder and glitter embossing powder

to those areas.
For the face and arms I used colored pencils 

to get a skin tone.

"Just be fabulous"

 was printed with my 

label maker on clear label tape.

I wish the glitter of it showed up better in the picture.

I really enjoyed making this tag.

I always like to send a hand made card along with my 

swap, so I made this card.

I wanted it to go along with the theme of the swap, so I used

silver reactive foil. When some of the alcohol ink was 

still a bit damp I laid down the foil, gave it a good

rub and then pulled it up, leaving random areas

of silver foil behind.

The alcohol ink and foil were done on vellum,

then it was layered onto a shimmery silver card stock

and finally onto pink and a white card base.

I was very happy with the card and tag alike

and Becky said it made her day 

when she received them.

I'm so glad you have stopped in today to see what

I've been creating.
I hope you have been inspired in some way and

will come again soon.

Until then,

glitter something up.

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Etched Wine glasses

Hello crafty people!

For Jaryd and Sara's wedding, there were

a bunch of crafty things that I helped with.

One of those things were some glasses that were

given to people at the rehearsal.
Sara's Mom was doing the etching,

but needed the stencils cut and I could do that.

So they told me what they needed and I created

and cut them with my Silhouette from vinyl.

Most of the wedding party got 

Buffalo Bills glasses.

This is what the stencil was like.

Yvonne would put the stencil on the glass,

then use etching cream to etch the image.

Once it was etched, she could rinse off the

etching cream and remove the vinyl stencil.

Here is one of the Bills glasses done.

Sara's sister is a chef, so she received 

this one with "skull chef" and the other was

for her boyfriend  In this case they left 

some of the vinyl on as a design element.

This is the design for my husband's glass.

He is a huge Trekkie.

And mine was this Scrap Queen glass.

There were a few others, but they were all done 

the day before the rehearsal, 

so I didn't see them before and

I didn't get pictures of them.

Sorry these last 2 pictures aren't very good,

but at least you can get the idea. 

Sara sent me the pictures of the others

and I think she did a beautiful job.

Thanks for coming by and spending time

at Kristie Kreates today.

I hope you'll come again soon.
I'll be posting more wedding fun and

scrapbook pages for their book soon.

Until then,

maybe you can give etching a try.

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see what the products are.
I didn't necessarily purchase from these sites,

except where specified,

and you may find better prices elsewhere,

I am in no way promoting any particular site.