Therese's Crafty Cabana

Well butter me up, 'cause I'm on a roll! I'm posting twice in one weekend, wow, I never get the chance to be so on the ball! Before I get to my project, I wanted to share what Spring looks like in my part of the world...beautiful sunny Florida! Ok, so today's project is my entry for SVG Cuts Spring Challenge. It's hard to come up with something that someone hasn't already made, and so far I don't think anyone made a bird bath.  Look at the cute blue bird family taking a swim! Bet you are wondering how I made this, and which kits I used. Well one kit is obvious, the birds and flowers with vines are from the Spring Birdhouses kit . The bath is made from the bottom of the 3-D egg (bottom half) and and base the is made from the pedestal from the Poplar Street Tulips kit . And the yellow flowers on the bath are from the 3-D Mums and Fall Flowers kit . To create the "water" I painted the bottom inside ...

Hello Everyone! I'm really enjoying this wonderful Spring weather, even a few thunderstorms that cool the temperatures are nice. {As my cat cowers in the kitchen terrified} A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of designing a banner for my friend's bridal shower; Take a look see... Supplies that I used :  Sizzix eclips, eCAL program,  Papers from DCWV Rustic Stack, Trendy Twine , Basic shapes from my shapes library for the banner and fringe, Lettering Delights and SVG Cuts files for details. Now for some closer pictures to show the details... I used my fonts, to create the words and then added a shadow layer in my eCAL program. The flowers below are from SVG Cuts Happy Birthday to You kit . The butterfly is from Lettering Delights Blossoms and Butterflies set . The twine, is Trendy Twine's Posy , that I used to tie all of the banner pieces together.  One last detail that I added was embossing on the lette...

This month SVG Attic challenged contestants to use moss green, grey, black and ivory in their submissions. So this is what I came up with... The box container is a candy holder that has a dispenser on the bottom from the Fun Favors SVG Collection . The rounded container is from the set Kiss the Cook , and it holds the little bird house, which is also a candy holder and it is from the set Welcome Spring . I used Trendy Twine's Posy twine which looks so perfect on Spring projects.       I had to shrink the original size of the birdhouse by about a third to get it to fit in the container. For some dimension I used a polka dot embossing folder for the roof accents.  I wanted to have a way for the bird house to hang from the twine on the top of the birdhouse, so I made a hole in the bottom of the container and threaded the twine through. To hang it, I tied a bow, but to get to the candy inside, you...

So this year for my nephew's birthday card I got my inspiration from The Pirate's of the Caribbean, and decided to make him a pirate themed card along with some pirate accessories such as a Happy Birthday Banner, a treasure chest and some eye patches. I used SVG Cuts's card base from the Everyday Cards kit  and changed the Party card to say Ahoy Birthday Boy. I used elements from my Lettering Delights kit called Aye Matey  and I just love all of the elements that helped make the card look rustic (especially love the compass on the back layer!) The papers I used are from DCWV Rustic Stack. I used Trendy Twine's Chocolate Truffle , if you haven't explored twine yet, I think it's such a great trend that has taken over in the paper crafting world! I used  black  brads to attach the anchors and the twine. Since I didn't have room to write my message on the card, I created a rustic-map looking page that I folded and unfolded and scrunched ...

There's just something so peacful about Spring, the birds start chirping in joy for warmer weather, the air is still fresh, and the trees and grass have the new baby green growth starting to bring life to what was a barren land.  I could do without the pollen though {it's the downside to Spring}. So with that said, I couldn't resist making a sign to welcome Spring. I used SVG Cuts star pattern from Made in the USA . I made the title by welding the shadow layer of the words together in eCAL/SCAL. To add dimension to the flowers I used Scotch foam tape. I used Trendy Twine's Strawberry Cupcake  in the center and for the star to hang with. To finish the words and make them stand out, I used Stickles Star Dust. Hope this gets you in the mood for Spring time fun.

So last night my husband says he has a challenge for me...I love it when he says that, because he's really good at giving me ideas, and he lets me run in whatever direction I want to go with it. First he said he wants me to make a Spring lantern with soft colors and flowers. I knew for sure I could create something for him, but it seemed a little odd that he would have this sort of request. Well before I even picked out the color scheme in my head he said, on second thought, make a lantern with dragons and wizards...something cool! Ok, now this is much more his style. I was actually excited to start thinking of how I would create this lantern, and I of course used my favorite SVG Cuts Oak Lantern , but I just used the plain lantern and welded in the dragons.  I'm no expert on creating dragons, so I Googled images for dragons, and when I found one that was black and white and looked cool, I saved the image and opened the image in Inkscape. Then I clicked on the ...

I am so excited to share some crafty Valentine projects featuring Trendy Twine's fabulous twine and SVG Cuts fantastic files.  I was invited to be a guest designer for Trendy Twine  (go check them out if you haven't yet), and I'm so thrilled to use their twine on my projects, it gives them that little something they were missing. I made a two projects, so for starters, I will show you a count down to Valentine's Day calendar. The SVG files are from SVG Cuts . The twine I used for this project is Valentine Cherry Cupcake and Peppermint Stick . I used SVG Cuts  Classic Christmas Advent Calendar , but ungrouped the files and created my own layout using only 14 of the 24 windows. The Be Mine Caption is from 24 Valentines . I mostly used left over pink red and white scraps that I had laying around, but I did use a few papers from K&Company's Geo Floral paper pad and the black and white border is from Me & My Big Ideas black and white speci...