Made by Karla

Hello! Check out these new DCWV Insta Photo Fun products. I love the purple/black/gold combo!  The Insta Ring Albums come with matching papers, including foiled vellum, stickers, and die cuts. I used the matte gel medium to adhere one of the vellum pages to the cover of the album. I spread it on with an old, used gift card. Then I carefully placed the vellum on the gel medium. I made sure the hole for the ring matched up. I used the gift card to smooth out the vellum as I adhered it. Then it was time to decorate the cover. I used the Insta Photo Fun Quotes stack and cut 2 of the 2x2 squares. I cut the heart with the stripes just a little on each side and layered it on top of the purple square. Then, I adhered the Happy Day sticker, star banner and arrow tab from the ring album set. I cut the XO from a transparency in the Insta Photo Fun Quotes stack.  I like to tie ribbons on the ring albums because it’s a fun accent that adds texture and softness. ...

Hello!  I have a Shadow box project to share with you. I have a couple of these and I like to change them up for each season. Here is my Christmas Shadow box.    I used the Hand Painted Christmas and Merry Memories stacks. So, if you have both Joann’s and Michaels near you, don’t be afraid to pick up both of these stacks. They work well together for sure! Both the background papers are from the Hand Painted Christmas and the birds are from the Merry Memories stack. I fussy cut them and they came to life right away. I adhered them with pop dots. I stacked 2 dots together on some birds and used only one on others to vary the heights. I curved some of the branches just a little bit to give them more dimension. It was surprisingly quick to make and it looks much more complicated because the papers are so beautiful and detailed! I can’t believe December is here!!! Are you decorating for the holidays? I'd love to see :)

Welcome to the SVG Attic - DCWV The Magic of Christmas blog hop! We are so excited to have you join us today! At each stop of the hop we hope you will be inspired by the creativity of the design teams of SVG Attic and DCWV. You are sure to find many wonderful projects that will be at the top of your Christmas crafting lists! You should be arriving from Tanya 's blog. If you happened across this post out of order, please head to the SVG Attic blog to start at the beginning of the hop. Here is what I created for the hop: I cut this card at about 4 inches high and added some ribbon on the top loop. The recipient of this cute card can use it as an ornament too! Recipe:   DCWV Hand-Painted Christmas Stack   SDS Ornament set   Mercury glass (berries) May Arts Ribbon I also made a scrapbook page about baby's first Christmas last year.  We had fun taking lots of photos. I'm not so sure she had fun. Haha! Recipe:  DC...

You have a few more days to get in an entry for the DCWV Stack-a-holic challenge for November. Check it out here . Megan from DCWV picks out a few winners at random. Email her your entry at  meganlloyd(at)dcwv(dot)com  Here's my LO to inspire you to play along! This is the LO sketch: There is also a card sketch if you're interested  That's it! I wish you lots of luck if you decide to enter!

I got one of those plastic, hollow half pumpkins at Michaels and I knew I wanted to make a decoration for fall, I didn't know exactly what I was going to make, but I knew I wanted it to light up. That part of crafting is so much fun! Knowing that you want to work with something without having every detail planned.  I designed the cut file with the brother ScanNCut Canvas online tool. I used some fonts and shapes provided as well as some files designed by Wilna Furstenberg .  I cut it on to a gold paper from the DCWV Mercury glass stack and backed it with a brown orange tinted vellum from the DCWV Premium 5 Pack papers.  I used a doily as a guide and layered leaves all around the edge. there is a mix of 99 cent store leaves, DCWV DIY Project pack of leaves and I tucked in some of the mercury glass cuts.  Since I wanted my pumpkin lantern to light up, I placed 3 LED tealights inside but I needed a way to take them in and out to turn them o...

Have you seen the new Mercury Glass stacks that are out at AC Moore? The paper is so beautiful and it makes anything extra special. I cut this simple bell and sentiment with my Scan N Cut. The mercury glass paper cut beautifully in my machine. I like that it actually looks like glass. I added a ribbon bow on top of the paper bow and there is something very pleasing about the contrast of the textures. These ornaments are very easy to make. I used a cut file from SVG attic . However, ornaments like this can be made with any cut file or shape that you can fold in half easily. I cut 4 of the present and 8 snowflakes.  I folded the cut ornaments in half and adhered them to each other one half at a time so that one half of the last ornament would be glued to one half of the first ornament.  These are so simple, but the mercury glass paper makes them look way more special! Hope I inspired you to get crafting for the holidays! 

DCWV and the Ribbon Resource (May Arts ribbon) are teaming up for a Blog Hop full of Holiday Craft ideas.  This Christmas I have a very curious and mobile toddler, so I'm already starting to make ornaments that are not breakable. In case she gets to them, which is guaranteed to happen.  Look at how beautifully that white paper shines when it catches the light! I used the patterns and paper from the DIY Ornaments stack. The ornaments stack also includes die cut snowflakes that are super easy to put together.  The gold and red papers are from the Christmas DIY Favor Boxes project stack.  The trees in the background come in the Winter Village stack. I scanned the patterns into my ScanNcut and then used my Scor-pal to score the patterns as indicated. I taped them up with Scor-tape and used May Arts ribbon to hang them.  The Ribbon really makes all the difference!  Look at that cute moose ribbon, that's my favorite :) I...

So it's been a long time since my baby turned one. I haven't shared her birthday decorations yet because... 1. we were so busy we forgot to take photos of the decorations! 2. the few photos that were taken are scattered over different cameras. 3. She's a handful! Here are a couple things which I kept long enough to take another photo: These are large chalkboard banners from DCWV and the rose was made with the 11x17 stack using the template on the back cover.  Because what's a Doctor Who party without a Rose?! I promise we were able to see this better outside during the party. I used the DCWV banners DIY project stack, the chalkboard banners DIY project stack, the Stardust stack, The 16x20 neutrals stack and the Glitzy Glitter stack.  I printed that tigger in the tardis and fussy cut it. I can't believe she's 1! I used the stardust stack for this one. I outlined the edges of the O and E with white chalk to help them stand out and giv...

Hello! I would like to show you how I made this little holiday house with the new DCWV DIY Project Stack Favor Boxes (Christmas edition!). I scanned the house favor box template in to my scan and cut and saved the file. Then I loaded the mat with the paper I wanted to use and Voila! A beautifully cut house!  The scaned image showed a few imperfections, but I decided to try anyway and the imperfections were really minuscule. The scanned image was hyper detailed. I'm glad I tried it anyway! I used my Scor-Pal to crease as indicated on the template and folded using my bone folder. I used Scor-Tape to secure it all together because I know it will hold. Since the paper in the stack is double sided, I used the squares that were cut out from the windows to embellish the chimney and make it look like it was made out of bricks. I used a red pearl for the door knob. I attached the chimney to the roof using a piece of clear tape. I folded the tape inside the c...

 Hello! Today, I want to show you how I take full advantage of the DCWV DIY Holiday Project stacks year round.  I used the Christmas Favor Boxes stack to create a House shaped favor box for Halloween! Yes! Halloween! I used the 12x12 Spooky Delight stack to make the house. I covered the door with washi tape and added an enamel dot for the knob. I cut a couple strips of the cemetery paper from the 12x12 stack and glued them back to back. Then, I folded them around the house to make it look like there’s a cemetery behind it.  The foreground is from the Spooky Delight 6x6 stack. I used a craft knife to cut the tombstones and bus almost to the bottom of the paper, then I folded it up so they would stand.  The little house is the container for a necklace and earring set I made with these blue moon beads Holiday Fright charms. There's an electronic tea light in there too so the recipient can use it as a lighted decoration.  I t...

Hello! Oh my. Time flies! It's Ocotber. How?! Ugh!  So here we go, let's get started with the Halloween crafting!  I have a quick little treat bag idea you can make with a couple of the papers from the new Spooky Delight stack out at Joann Stores. This one is for my husband…let’s hope he doesn’t see this! To make part of the bag, I used the ghost lines paper because it reminded me of Pac Man ghosts and he loves Pac Man. I scored it and folded it like in the image below. I used a Fiskars Punch on the top to get the pinked edge. The finished bag measures 9” high, 7” long and 2” wide. On the bottom, I cut some of the creases to make tabs. I folded them up and secured them with Scor-Tape For the front panel of the box, I cut the trick or treat paper the same size as the bag base and used the pinked edge punch on the top. I lined the edges with scor-tape and taped the two pieces to...

Hello!  Today, I'm up on the DCWV Blog  with a fall page for the Whimsical Woodland Blog fest with Spellbinders . I got to work with these cute mushroom dies from Spellbinders. I love the texture that I got after I ran them through with the embossing plates on my artisan explorer machine.  The page with the starry sky from the Spooky Delight stack gave me a good starting point for my background. I die cut the mushrooms from the Harvest House stack and added them on the bottom as an anchoring point for my title. I used the Spooky Delight 12x12 stack, the 6x6 Harvest House stack and the 12x12 Premium Vellum with foil stack to cut the circles. I Love the gold foil on vellum and it was tough to capture in a photo.  I'm saving this page for the photos of our first pumpkin patch visit. I don't feel the need to add pumpkin embellishments anywhere because there will be plenty of pumpkins in the photo. I've always loved mushrooms. They ar...