Hanging Around the Kitchen Kit

Introducing our Thanksgiving Kit

Create the perfect hostess gift and 

make one for yourself too! 

The kit contains a wooden hanger, wood clothespin, recipe cards, collage and die-cut stickers for decoupaging.  We even provide a couple recipes!

We give you a choice of a kit with or without chalk paint.  It's a ready to go kit or add your own colors. We show you how to create two different paint techniques.  And when not using it for recipes, add a photo and hang it where it can be admired.

Die cuts are so versatile and help create Fantastic  projects of all sorts.  

Thanks for visiting, now order one of these sweet kits!

Camelot

I went to see my first play during my Freshman year of high school.  What better introduction to theater than to see Camelot?!  I love the romance and the action and, oh the music!  

I wanted to capture that Medieval feel with today's card.  Castles always have tapestries and banners so I used two different size banner dies with three of the images from the Mists of Avalon collage sheet and two pages from the Life Time Prima paper pad.  

What is royalty without a little pomp and circumstance, right?  So I added shine to these tapestry banners with some gold glam stickers and gems.

I just happened to have a crown and sword die cut in my stash and it really gives this card the Camelot feeling!  Both shapes were cut out of gold paper.

Please stop by again tomorrow for more inspirations from the DIY Design Studio Team!

Bee-ing Happy Creating a Journal for a Friend

Bee-ing Happy Creating a Journal for a Friend

Recently I attended a workshop with Cheryl Boglioli Gel Press Ambassador where we used the Gel Plate and a Sizzix Travellers Journal Die to create a fun journal. I wanted to make another journal having purchased the die to share this method and idea with a friend who I know loves bees as I had just brought a magazine that included a Bee die. I thought this would be perfect to share for our Die Cut Theme this month.

I worked with honey tones of yellow and orange paint along with white and black to decorate the covers of my journal by layering paint on my gel plate and taking prints and starting with the darker tones working to the light tones, subtracting the paint of various layers from the plate using stencils etc. including a hexagonal pattern to represent honeycomb.  My first layer was black.

I kept layering on color with my Gel Press Plate and Stencils until I was happy with the look of my inside and outside covers.  Any excess paint I had on my brayer I painted over a page in my journal with.

Once I was happy with the look of my journal covers I constructed my journal gluing the two halves of my die cut journal together.

I created signatures using bee patterned paper in a PAPER COLLECTION and Watercolor Papers.

   

To finish my cover I die cut 3 bees out of glossy black card stock and stamped out the sentiment BEE Happy on a white piece of paper in black ink and then proceeded to cut this out before coloring it yellow with a Paint Pen.  Using the same Paint Pen I outlined some of my honeycomb/hexagonal stenciling.

Now it's just a matter of fastening the signatures in place inside my journal and adding a band to keep my journal held shut working with elasticized cord weaving it through the allocated holes.  This style of binding I love as it requires no stitching.

I will hopefully have the binding completed and some pages decorated to share with you next time.

Danie xx

In the FALL mood

We are a DIY store, so let's DIY Fall!

I like to have a simmering pot or mini crock pot of spices to give the house a great autumn aroma.

Below are a couple recipes and ideas for gifting a welcoming aroma for the home during fall and winter holidays.

Add the following combinations to water and allow to simmer to bring out the gorgeous aromas.  

You can also use cheesecloth to gather your spices (dried), tie with twine and place into a mason jar with our wonderful lids, give with a bag of oranges or lemons as a hostess gift. 

For a truly special gift add our ornate Vintologie Silver metal jar jewelry added to the jar with a label.

You could also use our Autumn Felt flowers.

 

We also have die cut instructions for creating beautiful flowers as adornments as well.    

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Orange Cinnamon scent

2 cinnamon sticks 

1/2 tablespoon nutmeg (or a whole nut) 

1 orange (large slices) 

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

2 cups water

Orange Spice Scent

• 1 orange rind  fresh or two rinds dried
• 2 whole anise stars
• 2 tablespoons whole cloves
• 3 bay leaves
• 1-2 cups of water

Southwest Autumn

• 3 lemons thickly sliced
• 3 star anise
• 1 small knob of fresh ginger cut to release scent (or grated)
• 1/4 teaspoon dried orange peel
• 2 dried chili peppers
• 10 peppercorns
• 5 cups water

Thanks for visiting today!