Craft With Me!

Organize Distress Oxides With Me!  I've recently purchased a lot of Distress Oxide Inks.  Close to My Heart does have a selection of them available on my shop: Distress Oxide™ Ink Pads | Close To My Heart   The big box stores have them as well but if you are my VIP you get credit on your purchases! I love them! I've been learning a lot from YouTube and have I love the storage solution I have. I found this old wooden cassette tape holder at Goodwill, painted it teal, and I use it for my ink pads. As you can see I again ran out of room but I am a hoarder so I just cannot help it, I love ink! I found a document online that has all the colors and names of each Distress Oxide.  I printed this out on label paper and had my Cameo cut out stickers.  I applied them upside down because I want to store my inks upside down. I have been told that you do not need to store them upside down but I just do. You can get your own copy here:   Organize Your Ranger Products (rangerink.com) They have

 Come 3d Print With ME! I am not a great 3d printer person.  In fact I've only had it for a little over a year and its not a fancy one.  I just wanted to try it out.  I'll list the model below so that you can look it up if you would like. Not long ago I bought one of those huge tape runners from Goodwill and I was so excited it was less than 1.00.   It was missing the inside piece that holds the tape on but it still works.  I checked on www.thingiverse.com and found a model someone posted and printed it.  It works perfectly now!  Yay! I 3d printed the yellow pc that holds the old tape on when it is used.   I then decided I just wanted to print some fun stuff so I printed the following items since I had everything fired up. A beetle cookie cutter Some peace signs I may use as earrings ' These peace signs were super small so I'm going to use them as scrapbook embellishments or I may use a couple as stud earrings. This is something you put over a coffee cup and sprinkle po

 Come use Distress Inks with me! The other day I found myself at Michaels and thought to myself, I need a present for myself.  I had just watched a youtube about it from Betz Golden and wanted to try it out on a card I had made. I decided I needed some distress ink.  Instead of full size I remembered one of my friends had some small inks in a container.  I found them!  I got these colors and this tin to store them in. I was looking for something to put on the back of this bus card.  It has shimmer but you really cannot see it and I wanted it to pop. I used the spiced marmalade and mustard seed to get the look below.  The background was made by smooshing the ink pads directly onto the card and moving them around a little.  I also sprayed it with a bit of water and rubbed it with a tissue to get get a more mixed look.  I really love how it turned out and will be making more cards with that fun tie dye background look. The next card I decided to make is for a friends birthday.  She has a

  Come Craft With Me! My Craft Room! Yes, I said my craft room.  I am going to show you the good, the bad, and the ugly of my craftroom.   Its not usually clean but I am organized and everything has its place.  I feel like I just have too much but I LOVE it.  Its far from perfect but its mine.  Its my absolute favorite place in my house.  Its under constant contraction and likely will never be up to my expectations. I am hoping this blog will get me to clean it up so that I can take pics for you. :) I'll start with my favorite organization techniques that I have found. Stamps I feel like we all have thousands of stamps.  I used to stamp them all in a binder and I would name and number each page with the same on a drawer.  I got really sick of that method and having to stamp everything, clean it, and then organize it.   Google Keep I found Google Keep.  What I love about this app is that I can take a pic of my item, name it, put in key words (like dog), tell myself where it is locat

Come Craft With Me! Brother Laser Printer and Foil HL-L2315-DW.  And a few Social Media Influencers I follow that you don't want to miss! As you know I have recently gotten into foiling with the Minc machine.  It uses glue or toner to adhere the foil.  I realized quickly that I really wanted to be able to design my own files to foil. For that I needed a laser printer.  Laser printers are not that cheap so I started doing a lot of research because I REALLY wanted to do this. If you are not aware, there is a YouTube influencer named Nancy Stamps .  She is the foiling queen and if you are interested in foiling, she is the ONLY person you should be paying attention to.  She also has a group on FB called Foiling Snobs Club.  Its where I have gotten all my printer tips.  Nancy uses a Brother laser printer and honestly every tip I have gotten has been from her or her group.  I found her initially by watching a video from Simon Hurley who is another one of my absolute favorite YouTube inf

Come Craft With Me!  We are going to play with the CTMH Embossing Pens and the Glue Quill Pen. I am eager to find out how the Glue Quill Pen holds up to the Heidi Swap Pen that I did a post on previously.  I cannot wait to get some embellishments ready to use. You can use these pens without an electronic cutting machine, but my handwriting is TERRIBLE, so I used my machine to create the images.  If you have good handwriting the same techniques could be used freehand or even with a stencil. You will need the following items in order to Craft With Me: Glue Quill pen (click here to buy) Close to my Heart Embossing Pens (click here to buy) Glitter (you can buy glitter anywhere you would like) Minc (click here to buy) Embossing powders (click here to buy) Heat Tool  (Click here to buy) Silhouette Cameo 4 (Click here to buy) Silhouette Cameo Pen Holder (Click here to buy) I have had the Close to my Heart embossing pens laying around outside of their packaging for at least a year and a half a