JustRite Projects and Spellbinders Sale!

We have some stunning creations to share with you today

from some of the JustRite Stampers crew!  

Eva Dobilas designed this awesome Bendy Card using the Bendy Card with Fence (#53893) Silhouette file with JustRite's Home Tweet Home Clear Stamps. 
Don't you just love it?  You can see more about her project here.

Michele Kovack created this fun tote bag with a stamped burlap texture using the the Silhouette Tote Bag Cut File (#45838) and JustRite Stampers Appliqué Flowers & Vintage Sentiment Tag Clear Stamps, offset cut file from SVG  Appliqué Flowers & Vintage Sentiment Digital Cut File Download with their Burlap Cling Background Stamp.

For all the details visit Michele's blog post.

Spellbinders CHA Winter Release dies will be arriving early next week over at JustRite and they are celebrating with a Spellbinders 25% off all Spellbinders Dies. (Please note that this sale does not include JustRite Dies).   You will find over 55 new die additions to their website assortment!  Just click HERE to see more!

JustRite Papercraft

I am so excited to share that JustRite Papercraft has a new website! (This is the company where my stamp sets can be found.) The new site is absolutely gorgeous, and easy to navigate. You will love it! If you haven't had a chance to check it out...do so now! It's definitely worth your time! 

If you were one of the first to check out the website a few weeks ago, you may have discovered that there was a log in issue. JustRite wanted me to pass on to you that the issue has been fixed.  They also wanted to thank everyone who helped them trouble shoot the issue. So if you were one of the first to try out the site, please go back and try creating a new login, as it is fully working now. 

Also, In celebration of the new site, JustRite is passing along a Grand Opening Coupon Code for you to use in the store - simply type: RESET (all caps)  in the coupon code box at check out and you will receive 25% off your entire purchase. Yup! Fantastic, huh! This is their largest coupon code of the year, and it's just for you for checking out their new site. The coupon code sale includes all JustRite Products, All Spellbinders Dies and All Faber Castell Products! I'll repeat...ALL of them!

Please note: If this is your first time shopping at their new website - you will need to reset your password.  You may use your password from their old website or you can create a new password. Have fun shopping!

  

Also...if you aren't familiar with JustRite stamps yet...let me introduce them to you!

Today JustRite is releasing my Valentine's Day set: Sweet Hearts Clear Stamps.  This set is designed to coordinate with my Spellbinders Lace Hearts dies. You will die when you see what the JustRite stamp team did with my sets!

Sweet Hearts Clear Stamps

Spellbinders Lace Hearts

Debbie Olson designed this adorable 5 1/4" heart pocket card using my Sweet Hearts Clear Stamps and my Sweet Lace Background Stamp.  Debbie used the following Spellbinders Dies to create her card:Lace Hearts Dies, Grand Labels One Dies and Grand Decorative Labels One.

 You will move how the lace heart die cut makes a sweet pocket for Debbie's message. Such a cute idea!

Michele Kovack designed the sweetest heart shaker box gift bag using Sweet Hearts Clear Stamps with Spellbinders Lace Hearts.  For all the details visit Michele's blog.

Eva Dobilas created this beautiful card uisng Sweet Hearts Clear Stamps, Spellbinders Lace Hearts dies with Spellbinders Ornamental Iron M-Bossibilities.

Heidi Blankenship  Sweet Hearts Clear Stamps,   Spellbinders Lace Hearts,

  

 Darsie Bruno designed this stunning friendship card using Sweet Hearts Clear Stamps,  and Spellbinders Lace Hearts.  Click through to Darsie's blog post to see all the details.

  

 Kristi Schurr has a very sweet Valentine's Day card using Sweet Hearts Clear Stamps, Spellbinders Lace Hearts Dies and Spellbinders Curved Borders Two.

Marisa Job designed a fabulous card using Sweet Hearts Clear Stamps with Spellbinders Lace Hearts, Rose Creations, Grand Labels One and Grand Decorative Labels One.

Kathy Jones paired my Sweet Hearts Clear Stamps with our Moroccan Cling Background Stamp, Rose Garden Background to create this gorgeous Love You card using the following Spellbinders Botanical Swirls and Accents Dies, Lace Heart Dies and A2 Bracket Borders One Dies.

Sheri Holt has a fun carefree and sassy card using Sweet Hearts Clear Stamps with  Spellbinders Lace Hearts.

  

Barb Schram created this whimiscal card playing off Samantha's "You make my heart Flutter" sentiment using our Sweet Hearts Clear Stamps and Spellbinders Lace Hearts. For more details visit Barb's blog.

  

Margie Higuchi showcases a fun way to use the Spellbinders Lace Hearts with the emboss only feature.  Margie used the following stamps and dies to create her card: Sweet Hearts Clear Stampsand  5x7 Matting Basics A, 5x7 Matting Basics B and 5 x 7 Detailed Scallops.

Angela Barkhouse is working on her daughters Wedding Album and decided to alter a wooden letter L with Sweet Hearts Clear Stamps, Spellbinders Lace Hearts, Wonderful Wings as an embellishment for one of the pages in the wedding album.

Thanks for joining us all week for our November Release.  Have fun shopping with our RESET Coupon code. 

Samantha Walker 

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Fabric Owl Tutorial by Eva Dobilas

Hi there, it's Eva here today with a fun tutorial.  If you came joined us in this month's blog hop, you have seen my little fabric owl.  Well, since so many of you loved it and even asked if I would have a tutorial for it, I decided why not?  Sure hope you enjoy this.  As I mentioned in my original post, I saw this owl on Pinterest, so I had to create the pattern for it myself, and I am sharing it with you, so you can just print it out and have fun at it.  Here is what you will make.

So, let's begin.  All you need is fabric, thread, buttons, scissors, hot glue gun and little flowers for embellishment. Of course in this case I used Samantha's Riley Blake fabrics.

Here is the pattern.  Just click on the picture, save and print.  It should come out as the size I made it in.

Here are the items I used to create this owl.

First step is to cut out all the pieces.  After working on my project I realized I missed the beak of the owl, however it is in the downloadable pattern, so you won't miss a thing.

Next you need to sew the orange fabric piece on with blanket stitch.  If you don't know how to do that, I did a little google search and found this for you, just in case.  Blanket stitch tutorial

Next you do the same with the eyes.

Than it's time to stitch the beak on.  I only used one stitch, just to secure it, as my eyes will be stitched over it anyway.

Time to sew the eyes on.  I used regular stitches for that.

Than add the button eyes and you can see this owl come alive...fun isn't she?

 

For stuffing you can use all kinds of things, I didn't have anything special, so I just used some cotton makeup remover pads.

And here is what she looks like stuffed....LOL

Finally to create the bow, I folded the circle in quarter and hot glued it, so it stayed like these two and just glued them on her and added the little flowers.  If you want you can trim the bow a little bit, as it seemed a little big for my owl.  Remember, this pattern was very organic, kind of evolved, as I worked with it.

And here she is all finished with her BFF.  Aren't they cute????

 Well, hope you enjoyed this tutorial.  Hope you create one of these little guys and if you do, I sure would love to see.  ENJOY!

3D Scalloped Cake Box by Eva

Hi there, it's Eva today with a fun tutorial.  Samantha has so many fun treat box Silhouette cutting files that I decided to highlight one of them.  With June here, there are so many weddings, so I thought it would be fun to play with the 3D box scalloped cake and 3 flower sprig with butterfly cutting files.  Here is what I came up with.

I started by cutting out my flowers and I used white card stock for that, 

so I can paint my flowers .

Once I painted them, I dried them.

  Once I cut out the file I assembled it with Scor Pal tape.

I added some pretty lace to it and adorned my cake with the pretty flowers, and butterfly and added the Congratulations sentiment from Samantha's stamp collection.

Here is another view of my final project.

Hope you enjoyed this tutorial and perhaps it will entice you to create some party favors for a special occasion.

Stencil Tutorial by Eva Dobilas

Hi there, this is Eva today and I have a fun card to share with you.  I decided to pull out Samantha's Creative Imaginations Stencils and used them with Creative Imaginations Luminarte Radiant Rain Shimmering Mists.  Here is my finished card, where I also used Samantha's beautiful Spellbinders Antique Frame and Accents and the sentiment came from her Unity Stamps Co. stamp set called Emcompassed Grace.

So first I started with my background piece, and I cut a 5.25" x 5.25" piece of white card stock, laid my stencil on it and sprayed it with the mist.

And here is what it looks like after removing the stencil.  I distressed my edges with Vintage Photo Distress Ink, which is my to go distress color and I actually used that on all the pieces.

Here is the heart stencil I used.

And here is the beautiful pattern showing off, after I pulled off the stencil.  Once it dried, I cut the image out with decorative scissors.

Finally I used this beautiful stencil to spray.

And here is what it looks like.  Once again, I cut out the shape, as that is what I wanted to use.

Finally, here is the close up of my finished card.  I added some twine and a pretty Petaloo flower with leaf and some pretty Creative Imaginations bling.  

Hope you enjoyed this little walk through on how I created my card using Samantha's beautiful products.  Have you tried her stencils??

Be sure to check out more of Eva's work by visiting her blog, For the Love of Life

Creative Team Spotlight with Eva + Wonderful Wednesday! March 28, 2012!

So thrilled to be spotlighting  Eva Dobilas this month!  Eva is extremely talented!  She loves to add her brand of detail to whatever she creates. Her designs gush happiness in craft form. Her use of color is phenomenal and perfect to share this time of year, as we turn to Spring. I know you will enjoy this spotlight on Eva. 

Today Eva is sharing two very different cards!  The first one's card base is cut out with  Silhouette.  The shape is called 3 artisan nesting shapes.  Papers are from Samantha's Creative Imaginations paper line called Heidi. Eva also incorporated plain old dictionary paper, which she die cut with Samantha's Spellbinders Ornate Artisan Tags and Accents dies.  The beautiful frame is from Samantha's brand new CHA released Spellbinders Antique Frame and Accents die.  The pretty sentiment is once again Samantha's Unity Stamps called Encompassed Grace.

On her second card she used Samantha's adorable Creative Imaginations Kokeshi paper line, using again the Spellbinders Ornate Artisan Tags and Accents dies.

 

Let's get to know Eva a little more...
Q: What is your favorite technique?
A: I don’t have a favorite technique per se, I simply like to try new things that attract me. Sometimes, it’s an old technique, that is was just rediscovered strikes me and gets me inspired to create. One thing I love is using my Silhouette, so if that can be called a technique, than that would be it.

Q: Where did you learn how to design?
A: I have been creating for 13 years or so, and throughout these years I learned a lot from my peers, just perusing magazines, online galleries, and I have been fortunate to take classes from well known artists and you could say I picked up a lot of things from them. But I always say, if one has the passion for something, they will learn everything that helps them to achieve their goal and my heart is in designing, so you could say I have done a lot of “homework” and practiced a lot. It’s been a fun journey and it’s something that I am still on as I continue to grow.

Q: What influences your design choices?
A: I lot of things can influence my design choices, not all at once, of course, but here are a few to mention.  Shapes, colors, textures, papers, fabrics, stamps, coloring mediums, just to name a few.

Q: Who are your artsy inspirations...
A: Throughout my years of drooling over gorgeous creations done by other designers, I have collected a lot that inspire me and that I just adore. Here are a few, but really there are so many designers that I just love, so it’s hard to narrow them down to just a few: Amy Sheffer, Betsy Veldman, Jennifer McGuire, Tim Holtz, Christine Middlecamp. 

Q: What do you enjoy doing besides crafting and designing…
A: Last year I made a lifestyle change about the way I eat, and currently obsessed with collecting and trying new low carb recipes.  Huge Pinterest addict, I have to say!  Cooking and baking is always something I love to do. Since I am a Life Coach, my other favorite thing to do is reading anything spiritual and learning new healing modalities, so this year I am in a lot of trainings that help me grow, which I pass down to my clients, so they can achieve healing of childhood issues and by doing that flourish in life.  

To see more of Eva's work, be sure to stop by her blog For the Love of Life 

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