Win It Wednesday, July 1

Welcome to another WIN IT WEDNESDAY! This week our Win It Wednesday prize is an assortment of Patriotic Party Supplies!

Just Comment and Like this Facebook post to enter to win. A random winner will be announced Thursday, July 2. Facebook has complete release by each entrant or participant. (This promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, Facebook.) Winner will be announced on our Crafts Direct Facebook page and has 14 days to claim prize (Winner must pick up in-store or provide shipping address) before it is considered void. 

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Weekend Events: Mother's Day Make & Take Project.

Join us this Saturday from 1-3pm (while supplies last) at our Paints & Basics Demo Counter for a FREE Make & Take project! We will be creating these cute Happy Mother's Day Plates by applying vinyl to white plates and then customizing with fingerprint flowers. Stop in and have your kids make this creative and crafty Mother's Day project!

We hope to see you there!

Creepy Crafts - Day 20.

Today I have another way to alter one of our plain white plates for Halloween. For this plate we colored the plate using orange alcohol ink and then once it was dry added the vinyl pumpkin face to the plate. This would be great hanging on the wall, or on a stand, or even to use on a table to serve (wrapped) Halloween treats.

Creepy Crafts - Day 11.

Welcome to day 11 of our Creepy Crafts Countdown! Today I have a very simple but cute project idea to share with you. This project only requires three supplies and about 15 minutes! All you need to do is apply the vinyl "Happy Halloween" piece to a white plate, then use orange glitter paint to fill in the shape of the pumpkin and allow to dry.

Autumn Vinyl Projects.

Today I wanted to share a bunch of different projects and project ideas that all use one of our Autumn/Fall themed vinyl sayings in one way or another.

As you can see some of the vinyl we used on more than one project - and really that is one of the big advantages of using the vinyl sayings we have - you can put them on almost anything and create a project that best fits your space and/or decor. Add that to the fact that we have vinyl available in many different size options and different colors as well and you can see just how many options you have!

For this piece we painted (and then distressed by dry brushing) one of our wood inlay frames, added vinyl to a 12x12 tile, then glued the tile into the frame using E-6000 glue and embellished with a simple flower on the corner. A project sheet for this project can be found HERE.

For this shadow box we used the same vinyl - just added it to the front glass on the shadow box, placed a fall themed piece of pattern paper in the frame and embellished with a few die-cut leaves. You can find a project sheet for this project HERE. And an instructional video with step by step instructions HERE.

 

Following essentially the same steps for the shadow box above, we created the Autumn Rules frame below, only a different vinyl saying, pattern paper, and embellishments. 

For the project below, we used the same Autumn Rules vinyl - this time we just added it to a wood panel that had been painted and distressed and then embellished with a burlap ribbon. You can find a project sheet for this project HERE.

Here is another example of a 12x12 shadow box that we altered with paper pattern, vinyl and then also added a photo for a personal touch.

One more example of a shadow box - although here we used a smaller vinyl across the bottom section of the glass and then embellished a bit more with the pattern papers we used.

We used the same "Give Thanks" vinyl (this time in black) on the piece below - again very simply just added pattern paper and photo to the frame and then added the vinyl and a floral embellishment. A project sheet for this project can be found HERE.

For the next three samples we used the same "Harvest Blessings" vinyl on different projects and in different ways. For this piece we added the vinyl to a standard white canvas, painted over the vinyl and the canvas and then removed the vinyl once the paint was dry for this masked effect. A project sheet for this project can be found HERE.

We added the same vinyl to a standard plate that we had altered using alcohol ink for this project.

And finally, we also used the Harvest Blessings vinyl to create this decor piece, by altering a wood canvas with paint, pattern paper, and ribbon. You can find a project sheet for this project HERE.

14 days of love - Be Mine Plate.

 

Today I have a quick and easy project to share with you. This would be a perfect project to do with a group of people and kids could definitely help with creating this one too! All we did was start out with one of our plain white plates (which are only 50 cents each!) and using Mod Podge, glued down pieces of red tissue paper we had cut down into small square pieces. We then added the 'be mine' vinyl saying to a pink heart doily (which you can find with our valentine supplies) and used Mod Podge to adhere that onto the plate as well.

This would be super cute hanging on the wall or as a plate to give your valentine with treats on it!

Custom Plates

Well hello, Happy Monday! I am back for more project ideas. Lately I have been really interested in collecting and decorating with plates. The problem is the ones with the really intricate patterns are usually the most expensive, so I thought why not make our own version. It is a pretty simple project but I think you don't know how good it looks until you try it. We used My Mind's Eye, Bohemia collection scrapbooking paper for ours but you can use fabric as well. We traced the bottom of the plate onto the paper and cut out our stencil. Then to adhere to the back of the plate we found that using vellum adhesive spray works really well, then you won't see any of your adhesive showing through. That's it, that's all. That might be the world's shortest project! Obviously they are not meant to be eaten on but they work as nice chargers or just decoration for your table, walls or shelves. We used some of our seasonal chargers to really dress them up for decorating your table. Hopefully we have given you a project for your own home or at least sparked some ideas. Back for more tomorrow. Tiff