Therese's Crafty Cabana

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...