Sew Cute Techniques with Best Creation Inc - Blog Hop!!!!

Today we have a fun blog hop with projects using thread! Visit each Best Creation Inc Design Team member blog listed below to find the secret FALL words! Once you have found the FALL words, email them to mel@bestcreation.us for a chance to win Best Creation Inc's new 12x12 Hello Fall collection kit:

Winners will be announced Tuesday, September 6th!

I got this great little tool from WRMK, the Sew Easy, and they recently came out with a banner, so I played around with that.  I ended up piercing the banner pattern on the back of the Best Creation Inc Glitter Cardstock and instead of going in a straight line I gave it a bit of a curve.  I stitched with floss, then taped the back with clear tape and then cut around the shaped.  It might have been better to cut out the shape and then stitch though....live and learn :)  I used the Rock Star line for my layout:

I popped up the banner with my Helmar ZapDots and added some cute buttons I made with my Epiphany Crafts Button Studio and a heart shape bubblecap from my Epiphany Crafts Shape Studio.

So...now its time to continue on your Hop to the other Design Team members, and dont forget you are looking for Fall words that will appear in just a few of the blogs.

Good luck everyone! And your next stop is Monique's Blog where she will share another great thread technique :)

If you get lost along the way be sure to go back to the Best Creation Blog where you will find all of the blog links.

Have a great hop!!!

Creative Water Techniques with Best Creation Inc

Best Creation Inc has the best paper line for water play called "Splash fun"....so many possibilities with this one!!  I just love the colors and all of the glittery accents!!!  So they (Best Creation Inc) challenged the Design Team to use a technique to create the look of water using this new line.  The Blog has some fun contests going on today and tomorrow (June 17 & 18) and lots of giveaways so if you didn't come here from there you will want to head on over ;)  Also I am going to giveaway a fun selection of papers from this line including the die cut pages and a page of stickers!!!  I have to limit it to US only for shipping purposes though.  All you need to do to be entered for my giveaway is to leave a comment on this post and tell me where your favorite place to swim is :) (by Monday June 20)

So if you came from the Best Creation Inc Blog you know what you are looking for right????  Let me share my layout with you, some close ups and some tips :)

 

One of my go to techniques for water is to use a mist on the background, I love a great white background with a couple of colors of mist :)  I used Maya Mist for the background on this one in blue and orange....a little bit goes a long way, lol!!

I added a Chipboard die cut to the circle and used my Helmar Adhesive Runner to attach it.....its not going anywhere now!

 I love using wave patterns and scallops to imitate the look of water too!  Best Creation supplied me with those patterns as well in both the paper and the sticker sheets!  One other thing I like to do is fussy cut and that's just what I did with the water splashes!!  Adhering them with my handy dandy Helmar 450 Quick Dry made the job super easy!!

One last thing I love to use are epoxies, shiny and glossy they look like water!  I made my custom epoxies with my Epiphany Crafts Shape studios in the new Oval shape, the large Heart and small Circle.  Best Creation Inc has the best graphics to cut and punch out!!  A little dab of the Helmar 450 Quick Dry and they are all set!

So there you have it....a great water layout created with the Splash fun line of papers from Best Creation Inc, put together with Helmar Adhesives with the added touch of Epiphany Crafts epoxy's!!  I hope you have enjoyed your visit and don't forget to leave a comment here on my blog for my giveaway!!!

Best Creation......Rock Star....oh yeah!!!!

So the Best Creation Inc Design Team coordinator challenged us to create something with acrylic...using any line of papers.  I went through my acrylic stash and settled on a little mini album by ScrapWorks....just 2x3 in size, which I used to make a hanging banner for my grandson Trevor.  And low and behold the new Rock Star line had the exact same blue plaid pattern that Trevor has in his room...not only that there are tons of black accents and thats what Trev has in his room too!  What a great find!!

I spattered the fronts of each acrylic piece with black acrylic paint using an old toothbrush and then I dipped the edges in black paint as well.  I love to adhere paper behind the acrylic because it gives such great dimension so I used the 6x6 papers from the Rock Star line, perfect for the size of the banner I was making!!  I used my Helmar Gemstone Glue to adhere the papers to the acrylic, just a little dab in each corner and it worked so well I cant even see where I did it!!  Cant beat that!!!

 In my stash I found some great felt alpha's in black from American Crafts so I adhered them to the front of the acrylic....again gives great dimension over the paper below the acrylic.  I added some stickers from the Rock star line as well to add to the design below the acrylic on the paper.

 I punched additional holes in the small acrylic sheets for the purpose of threading ribbon in order to hang them one below the other.

By accident I punched holes in the last sheet, the last letter of his name, when I didnt need to so I searched around my stash and found these great Heidi Swapp Chandelier beads in black.....the perfect touch!!!  I love when accidents work out so well, lol!

All in all this was a super easy and quick project...but dang its so cute!!!  If you happen to be at CHA summer in Chicago this year you can check this project out in person at the Best Creation booth!!

Thanks for visiting!!!

Best Creation, Punky Sprouts and Helmar, oh my!!

Now that is a mouthfull!!!  I had the priviledge to work with Best Creation papers, an awesome Punky Sprouts album and my favorite Helmar Adhesives!!!!   The album I was given to work with was Punky Sprouts Steampunk'd, such a great combination of cardboard, acrylic, canvas and chipboard!  I decided to team it up with the Best Creation Robot line of papers, stickers and chipboard diecuts:

 I used a slew of Helmar Adhesives for this book, with so many different mediums you have to have a great selection and Helmar sure does!!!  When I adhered the paper to the chipboard or cardboard I used Helmar Acid Free glue, perfect for this type of application because it does not wrinkle or warp the papers or the cardboard or chipboard.  The Robins Nest Dew Drops were adhered with Helmar Gemstone Glue.  The alpha title is self adhesive but I have found that with time they fall off so I add a dab of Helmar 450 Quick Dry to each letter and they stay where I put them....forever!!!  I added a small charm from Epiphany Crafts to the first page with the small round bubblecap...such a great touch!!

 

I love the Best Creation Glitter Cardstock for mats!

 The Helmar Gemstone glue worked great for the acrylic page! Along with a Helmar ZapDot to raise up the star!

 Whenever I am adding the Glitter Cardstock I use the Helmar 450 Quick Dry and find that it works best!

 I love the Best Creation Basic Glitter Dot paper for backgrounds!

 

Working with the canvas page was so fun!!!  I used some Heidi Swapp stars as masks and sprayed some Maya Mist on....love how it came out!!  I also sewed a border and made some custom buttons with my Epiphany Crafts Button studio (the hearts) and sewed them on too!!!

 More Helmar ZapDots and some Best Creation Glitter Cardstock and Basic Glitter Dot papers were perfect for my little book!!

And there you have it....a great collaboration between some of my favorite companies!!!

Its time for Best Creation Inc and Helmar to team up!!!

And a great pairing they are....love me some Helmar and some Best Creation!!!  I am on both Design Teams so this is old school for me...I wouldnt consider any other combination!  So I thought I would share with you some of what I have done in the last few weeks with these two companies!!

First up I used the new line from Best Creation Inc called Loops and Scoops.  This paper is perfect for carnival and theme park photos or just the random Ferris Wheel photos you may have...I love ferris wheels!!  Anyway this time we paired up the collection with a sketch from Becky Fleck and I used my Helmar Adhesives :)

I popped up that arrow with the Helmar ZapDots, love me some dimension baby!!!  I used the Helmar Adhesive Runner for the papers and the Helmar 450 Quick Dry for the Glitter Cardstock.   A cute addition to this layout are the charms from Epiphany Crafts paired with the small round bubblecaps!!

Another of our assignments for Best Creation Inc was to create a layout and incorporate paper piecing.  I choose to cut a tree with my  Cricut Serenade cartridge and the Best Creation glitter cardstock, and then I ended up making a sun from a flower cutout as well.  I used the Bella line of papers from Best Creation:

The tree has individual leaves which I popped up with some Helmar Liquid ScrapDots....love that stuff for random dimension!!!

The sun was a last minute add on and was made from a flower cut with my Cricut, some loops of ribbon added to the back and adhered with my Helmar Adhesive Runner, an Epiphany Crafts large custom bubblecap adhered with my Helmar Liquid Scrapdots and the punches from a border punch that I had made earlier.

As you can see Epiphany Crafts adds the finishing touch to just about any project!!!

Thanks for Visiting!!!

Best Creation Inc Mini Book Blog Hop!!!

The Best Creation Inc Design Team is teaching you how to make a super simple mini book that uses only one sheet of paper to create the book itself and then scraps to complete it!!  The mini book was a make n take at Winter CHA in Los Angeles this year and it was a huge hit so we all decided to create different versions of the same book to share with you!!  I have seen them all and you are definately in for a treat!  The Best Creation Inc Blog does have the basic directions and then all of the blogs you will hop to have different variations.

So here is one way to create your Mini book:

I used one sheet of paper and decided to use the graphics on the paper as part of my design:
Cut one sheet of paper in thirds

 Fold each piece in half, two with the part you want showing facing in and the other with the part you want facing out.

Put the sheets together with the backsides against each other

Adhere the backsides together like this....

Round your corners.  This book was originally staggered as well, the first page is trimmed 1 inch and the second page is trimmed 1/2 inch.  I chose not to do this with this book because I didnt want to lose the scene on the paper.

So thats my book to start with and this is what I did with it:

I made pockets with doily's to hold pictures....I used Helmar 450 Quick Dry to adhere the embellishments and Helmar Liquid Scrap Dots for the butterflys, love that stuff!!

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I backed the photo's with papers and added some tags that would show while they were in the pockets

And there you have a fun quick little book that can be made for any occassion with lots of variations!!!  I hope that you enjoyed my little book...and that you will move on to the next blog and see what Liz has done!


Be sure to go back to the Best Creation Blog when you are finished hopping and leave a comment for a chance to win a huge prize pack of goodies and 3 more chances to win if you sign up to be follower or join us on facebook!  And if you get lost and want to make sure you hopped all the blogs you can go to the Best Creation Blog for a full list of blog stops :)

 

Best Creation Inc Projects...with a little Epiphany Crafts thrown in

Thought it was about time I shared my Best Creation projects with you all....they all have been featured on the Best Creation Blog so its safe to post them here now.  You dont know how hard it is not to share them as soon as I complete them, lol!!  I am finding that my Epiphany Crafts Button and Epoxy makers are a great addition to my Best Creation projects!
And this is one layout that totally benefited from my Epiphany custom buttons....the perfect touch!! This layout was done as a part of the Recipe Challenge over at Best Creation on the Blog:

And then I had shared this project on the Spring Flower Blog hop earlier this month but wanted to share how I used the Epiphany Crafts smaller custom buttons:

This layout features Best Creation papers and the large custom epoxy's I made with my Epiphany Crafts Shape Studio:

Featuring the Jubilee line from Best Creations I created a mini book in acrylic from our recent trip to Hawaii:

A couple more layouts to go!!
This layout features the Safari Boy line from Best Creation:

I just love that die cut paper!!
And one last layout to share, this one was created with the Travel Forever line (one of my all time fav's!!  I did the stitching with the We R Memory Makers Sew EAsy tool....love that thing!!  And check out the heart epoxy in the circle in the lower right corner....that is a custom epoxy I made with my Epiphany Crafts Shape Studio :)

thanks for visiting my blog, I love sharing!!