Greetings crafty dolls and guys from Desiree' of Her Own Fairytale with you!
Happy to be back and sharing my latest project with you all!
An altered canvas inspired by a Quote? A poem? A prayer?
All of the above! All I can say is that it's beautiful and came from an author name Susie Larson. As I recently hit one rough spot in life after another, these words inspired me AND reminded me I AM LOVED.

I started off this project with choosing a paper from the Black Rainbow stack from Michael's and it's an 8x10 canvas. It has all this pretty design and was in my craft stash.




I first flipped my paper over, traced around my canvas and cut it out using my paper trimmer. This will make the decopodging easier.

I put down a coat of white gesso on the canvas and let it dry.
Then I painted the canvas with a coat of white acrylic paint and also let it dry.
After giving them enough time to dry, I adhere my paper to my canvas and again let it dry again with all the decopodging.




I printed out the quote I wanted to use then cut it to bits and glued it down to my canvas. I did this by hand for the most part, clearly. Hehe! #HandmadeNotHallmark am I right?



It was then time to have the Snap machine get to Work!
I die cut some sparkles, a moon and I actually fussy cut out a heart from some other paper collection... from the stash of course.

After the dies are cut, they had to be arranged and adhered, right?
So that is what your girl Did! I used some holographic paper scraps, and even recycled some packaging paper by cutting some of the stars out of it. It was so pretty and hate to waste. Oh, I also had to add some beaded hearts and some sequins!



And this was the final product! I hope you LIKE and get INSPIRED! Most of all I hope you remember IF you are going through a rough time, these beautiful words can remind you too that YOU ARE LOVED! Please come back to visit this blog, be inspired by our other members design templates!

June greetings, all you beautiful crafty peeps!
Today I am sharing a 12x12 layout I created featuring
my youngest son many years ago and my hubby!
I started out choosing my pics that was super easy, I adore this set of pics!
Next was to choose my papers, again that was easy!
The cog paper is from an old DCWV stack that has been in my stash forever.
Next I die cut some of my paper using my beloved Snap machine.


Then I cut my pics down to 4x4 and cut some more paper using my paper trimmer to mat my pics on.
I did a little distressing and inking around my mat edges.
After adhering my matted pics to my background paper, I needed to get an idea of where I wanted to place my die cuts. So far loving this!





Next I picked a few embellishments from my craft stash, and finish this layout!




I took my "What makes a daddy?", sticker and placed it on my label die cut and mounted it to alack shadow cut, I made using my electronic cutting machine.
At the bottom of that I took some Tim Holtz, alphas and adhered the word "Love" the bottom.
I made another small embellishment by placing the word proud on a one inch circle using a circle paper punch, then stacking that on another die cut.
I then clustered my embellishments on top of the "live" bingo card. I also clustered some more cog die cuts and placed a genuine tag and a little brad.
I really love that hat pin by Prima! I was hoarding it forever! LOL





And there it is all finished! As always I hope somehow you were inspired by my project!
I also want to sincerely wish all the dads out there an early, but very blessed and happy Father's day!
Specially to those ones who have to do and be everything on their own!
Please come back to the Craftwell blog and visit often!

    ♡- Desiree'

 For the background, I chose a light colored patterned paper. You don't need to use a dark or busy background, otherwise, the words we put on later won't show up well.
 For the words to be facing right, put the die cut right on top of the patterned side. You don't want to deal with the frustration of ending up with backward words!
 Place the die cut on platform A, flat side down. Put your paper on top of this (the back side should be facing up). Remember with die cuts: D is on the bottom, then A (die cut on top of it), B, then A.
 Now stick it all through the slot of your Cut n' Boss and watch it do its magic!
 Here it is cut. I didn't need all that blank space on top, so I folded it before cutting so it would be straighter. However, you can use a ruler if you want to make it perfect...
 Now you need a second (solid)colored sheet of paper for the background. Then use a glue stick and stick it down. Let dry for a bit before cutting it out.
 Prepare to use your best penmanship to do the rest of the words. This is easier and turns out better when starting lightly with a pencil. Get all the spacing and centering worked out with pencil, then go over with a black sharpie.
 Lastly, tape the end of a toothpick(s) onto the back of the paper. You may need two for longer words.
And there you go: a quick, simple, and inexpensive way to spice up someone's birthday dessert!
 
P.S. The cheesecake was delicious!

Lia Griffin has a fabulous set of patterns for some succulents.  I used the pattern from her site to create this mini. 


Hoping your crafting time is coming up shortly!  Have some fun with some creative paper play, the eBrush and markers.