Craft With Me!

I went to the Stamp & Scrapbook Expo in Mesa AZ! I have been to the scrapbook expo quite a few times but I wanted to share my purchases w ith you. I bought the following from Tall Mouse.  This is actually one of my favorite stores.  You can find them on facebook here:  https://www.facebook.com/tallmousecre8tiveartz Below you will see some shaker bits I bought, aren't those little dog bones sooooo cute?   The item in the shaker is foil bits for foiling, then they make a teflon bone folder so I had to get that too.  The pencil picks up tiny bits and places them exactly where you need it!  I just love their products and ingenuity.  Tall mouse is usually the first booth I go to. Got some sparkly glittery paper for cards. I also took a class called cool tools and in that class you also make 2 cards that can be made out of the tools you received. The two cards are below: The tools we received are below: Box card die by Stephanie Barnard and stacking dies from Spellbinders.  Then we g

Come and sublimate with me again on wood! So I am in love with sublimation.  I found out a way to sublimate on wood!  Supplies needed Sublimation printer Sublimation paper A flat wooden item Heat Press Thermal laminating pouches First you need to treat your wood so that the sub ink will adhere.  To do this you need to heat press your thermal laminating pouch on the wood. You only need half of one pouch.  Cut it in half and heat press it onto your wood at about 15 seconds.  You can also do this on top of flat canvas too.  I cut my lamination sheet to match the wood or you can cut the lamination off the wood once you are done.  Whichever is easier for you. Let that cool and print out your sublimated image.  Lay your sub image on top of the coated wood and press your image on.  Its that simple.  I man by simple I mean you have already uploaded a design, changed it, made it work with the wooden item. Here you have it!  I made a few things at lunch today from the dollar tree. This really op

   Check out the new Thin Cuts!  I just love the cupcake and the purse cards. I like to cut out a bunch of different colors and play when I get new dies.  I took a bunch of random paper and cut out some of the cupcake dies and put them together.  In the CTMH catalog I noticed they also used the same color but different shades so I tried that too!  I think they turned out so cute and they were not hard to make at all. I used shimmer pens, distress oxides, pop up dots, and the dies to make these cards. Next I made some purses.  I am in love with them! How cute are these purses!  They can be customized and used for almost any occasion! You can find either of these on my website:  https://jennifergamblin.closetomyheart.com/about.aspx Click  here  to go directly to my website! Let me know what you think in the comments section. Check out my instagram at www.instagram.com/imginbugcrafter

Let's Make a 30 Ounce Tumbler! I bought some 30 ounce tumblers off amazon and decided I needed to sub them.   I have an 8.5x11 printer so I knew I would either have to tape the paper together or just have an image that took up most of the cup.  I decided for my very first tumbler I would just use an image that was smaller than the entire cup. Items you need: Sublimation printer Cricut mug press Sublimation treated tumbler 30 ounce Sublimation paper Parchment paper Heat resistant tape Heat resistant gloves First design and print your image.  I use silhouette studio but you can print it with whatever you have on sublimation paper with your sublimation printer. This is the image I decided to print. Once you have printed it, cut as close as you can to the image. Wrap it around your cup and use your heat resistant tape to put it on your cup as tight as you can.  Do not try and save tape, the more tape the better image you will get. Next turn your Cricut mug press on until it beeps. Put

  I made cups for a friend, I even used her beetle color for the cup! I just love my mug press.  I can make anything and I love it!   So super easy with the cricut mug press and cricut cups. Items needed: Cricut Mug Press Cricut 15 ounce cups Sublimation printer Sublimation paper Heat resistant tape Print out your image on sub paper, cut it down, and tape it to your cup. Turn on your mug press and wait for it to heat up (it will beep) Insert your cup into the mug press and shut it.  Your handle will be sticking out and will remain cool. When your mug press beeps take your cup out do not touch it.  Use tweezers to remove the tape/sub paper to reveal your awesome cup!

 Come Craft With Me - Print Maker! Hi, I was watching HSN (I know dumb)!  And they had the todays special value as the Printer Maker.  This is a small hand held printer that will print on almost any surface!   It's AMAZING. I am so glad I bought it and I have no regrets.  Absolutely no buyers remorse on this one guys.   This printer is available at Michaels right now but on HSN you got special guides and things which made it a better price but most of the guides if not all of them are available for purchase.  American Crafts partnered with HP to make this printer so its definitely a good little printer. The PM is supported by Apple and Android apps and even has a desktop version that you can create print jobs from.  If you are a scrapbooker this is great because you can journal with this thing RIGHT ON YOUR SCRAPBOOK PAGE.  Think crops and portability! You can use this for cards, bags, tissue paper, ribbon, washi tape, scrapbooks, Band-Aids, popsicle sticks, I mean the possibilitie

 I am in love with sublimation. I found a great way to sublimate socks and ensure there are NO white lines in from stretching. get your sock, cut a pc of cardboard about an inch bigger than your sock. Put the sock on the cardboard before you heat press it. Yay socks I can wear!  The heel even comes out perfect! Stay Tuned for many many more items coming your way! www.instagram.com/imginbugcrafter www.imginbugcrafter.com 💓ImGinBugCrafter