Therese's Crafty Cabana

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  Hello there! Thanks for stopping by my blog today. I know for some, Spring may feel like it will never come, but hang in there, Spring really is near! Which, for a Floridian, means so is the heat, pollen and love bugs, lol!   SVG Cuts has a Spring Challenge on their Facebook page and the challenge is to come up with something using only six of their collections/kits. I'm a little tight on time, but I just love Spring projects so I just had to make something.   I made this little Spring box using the following files from SVG Cuts:   Toil and Trouble Kit Garden Nouveau Memory Garden       These poppies are so pretty, and the inside is a black pearl sticker. I wove the Posy Trendy Twine through the burlap so I could pull it tight around the lid and tied a bow with a shell button. If you look at the picture below, you will see there is a banner wrapped around the lid... But it also un-ties and is a de...

First off, and I don't mean to brag, but I am grateful to be in sunny Florida today. I've been seeing some crazy snow storm pictures for all of you in the north east and I hope you are all safe and warm.   For today's card that I want to share with you, I used the Sizzix eclips  Cards and Envelopes cartridge. The cartridge includes the card base, the circle in the front of the card, the circle frame and the cupcake layers. The card has some other elements that I added, including a scrap star paper cutout from an earlier project, a butterfly and the words which I used the import and print-n-cut feature on my eCAL program.    I have been playing around with the import and print-n-cut features a lot lately because there is un-tapped potential there! I have some really great digital embellishments for scrapping with Adobe Photoshop, but now I'm discovering that I can import those elements into my eCAL program, clean up t...

For Christmas almost every year I get some really great scrapbook paper pads from my mother-in-law (who I call mom) and this year was yet another happy paper year! I just love this beautiful Floral Specialty paper from K&Company.   I know that since my mom picked it out she must like it, so I set to work making her a birthday card showcasing this pretty paper.     For my card base I used SVG Cuts waterfall card from the Acorn Autumn Kit .     I used my eCAL font library to create the words and the shapes library for the brown flowers.     How about some stamping to reveal a message when the waterfall is open.     Along with the pretty papers, she also got me some great sticker embellishments, and I just had to put a pretty butterfly on the inside.   For these flags I just used my shapes library to make a triangle and used scraps of my leftover paper. Then I added some Posy ...

I just love the look of stamps and all of the varieties of ways that you can use them for.  I wanted to do a collage type card, and I also wanted a little bit of a vintage feel, so I came up with this card. For the cut files I used SVG Cuts Cruising Caravan and Everyday Cards The decorative papers are Sweet Day from Echo Park  digital. I also used Trendy Twine's Gray Licorice and Black Licorice . For the background I just used plain black cardstock and I dressed it up with white zig-zag stitching. I also did a straight stitch on the green Bazzill cardstock.  I'm really pleased with the nostalgic feel of this card and I love how the yellow and pink pop off the black background. I hope this inspires you to think of a creative alternative in your crafting. All of us at Cutting Edge Magazine would love to see what you're working on or what inspires you. So if you have a moment please stop by our facebook page and say hello! ...

Hello everyone! I hope your Christmas was filled with fun family memories.  I wanted to share this super cute birthday card I made for my niece. It lays flat for mailing, but when it's open it has a 3-D look to it because the layers in the front stand out from the back. All of the files are from SVG Cuts Tropical Friends Collection . I found the tutorial for this card on You Tube, by Kim Score . It goes together pretty easily with the you tube instructions, and really you can change it to any subject you like. I think the under the sea look turned out really great and my niece loved it.

Hello peeps! How was your weekend? I had a wonderful time with friends and my hubby at a Christmas party and I even got some projects done. So today I just wanted to share a few gift ideas that I think are quick and easy, and add that special home-made touch. First up is a cute Christmas wine box, I used Recollections: Believe paper pad and SVG Cuts Classic Gift Boxes kit for the wine box. The stamp is from Punkin Patch Stamps . For the next gift idea, I made a stocking box which can hang from a tree and hold small gifts (still figuring out what I want to fill it with). I used  SVG Cuts Santa's Village for the stocking and 3-D Wintergreens for the sprigs. I used some peppermint stick by Trendy Twine to hang it and for the button. Hope you are all having a creative and happy Holiday Season.