I love this Safmat stuff!! LOL really – soon I will be decorating all surfaces of my house. Right now I have been in the lamp mode. This is my second. After making the first I found this cute desk lamp at Target for only $5.99…. I had to buy it and decorate it right?

Simple project, took less than an hour to do.

First you need to find an image – I chose Stampavie’s Tina Wenke “Hedgehog Reading” – perfect for a desk lamp. I colored with my ProMarkers (colors listed below)

Then gather up your supplies

Your colored image – desk lamp and Safmat – and whatever else you want to decorate with.

Scan in or photo your colored image. Then Size to the object you at attaching it to. For my shade I needed it to be 3.5 inches tall – And print out on a sheet of Safmat.

Cut out and stick down – pretty simple huh?

Then you can decorate with what ever you like – me I found some cute flower ribbon to attach around the top.

I kept it simple – small desk lamp so I didn’t want to over do it.

Looks really cool with the light on..

So simple – So Cute! Childs name – school mascot whatever could be put on this lamp and be very personal for not much money. Safmat really does add so much, so easy!

Hope you like my desk lamp… me I am not sure where this one will go. Wonder if one of my nieces would like it on their desk?

Have a wonderful Day -

HUGS

MichelleO

Promarkers Used : Powder Blue, Cobalt Blue, Marsh Green, Lime Green, Pear Green, Poppy, Antique Pink, Oatmeal, Blush, Ivory, Primrose, Putty, Warm Grey, Caramel, Burnt Sienna, Sandstone, Lavender, Bluebelle and Apricot.

Hello – While shopping the other day I had a light bulb go off in my head. Literally… a light!  I found these simple pretty glass lamps at IKEA – and for some reason I saw Sarah Kay Images all around the shade. I got so excited, because I knew with the Letraset SafMat product I could easily make that happen!

So how did I make my lamp – Well first I colored up 5 Sarah Kay images with ProMarkers -

Colors Used : Oatmeal, Ivory, Blush, Sandstone, Carmel, Apricot, Blossom, Dusty Rose, Antique Pink, Pink Carnation, Blue Bell, Lavender, Buttercup, Meadow Green, Marsh Green,  Denim Blue, Powder Blue, Tan, Burnt Sienna, Poppy,  Ice Grey 1, Ice Grey 5, Pastel Beige, and Blender Pen

I then measured my lamp shade. To determine the height I want to print my images on the SafMat -

Then  Scan or Photo your  images, and then print them to the size needed to fit the lamp shade.

Then it is just a matter of spacing the images around the shade and sticking them in place.

To cover the seams – I used a wide dotted satin ribbon. This is for decoration embellishment as well as to cover the edges of all the SafeMat printed images. I used a clear craft glue to stick the ribbon.

My Lamp is a clear glass – open on the bottom. I filled the glass with Mulberry Roses and Flowers, then used a piece of scrap card stock cut in the same size circle opening and attached it to cover the hole. You could also fill it with buttons, shells, whatever your mind can come up with!

I am pretty happy how this came out – I could see this in a little girls room, nursery or such. But for now I am happy with it sitting in my craft room   – I have to say I have been looking at all kinds of lamps now! I have a totally different one in the works  right now! What a great personalized gift item! A child’s desk lamp with their favorite character and their own name maybe – oh the ideas are endless!

Thanks so much for looking – hope you enjoyed my light bulb moment!

HUGS

MichelleO

Today I have a little tutorial for you! While I made my gift tags for the current SAV challenge I took some pictures to show you how I made my big oval framed gift tags. So I hope that you are interested in how this works.

Okay, don’t use an Ancient Page or Memories ink pad for your Clear Stamps otherwise you have a stamp like shown here. Today I’m using the Memento or VersaFine ink pads and my stamps are clear after stamping!

I used Rachelle Anne Miller’s “Frame  – Oval Birds“. Like you see in the pic I covered the birds with some tape. This way they won’t become inked up when inking the stamp! I removed the tape before stamping the frame and…

… now I have a frame without birds! I SO love this oval frame, I think I never stamped it with birds Now I want to place my main image into the oval frame. I know I could stamp the image right over the frame but I don’t want to “break” the beautiful edge so I need a mask.

You see I used this mask before! Stamp your image onto a thin paper (I used a big post it) and cut the middle oval out. Now you have to place your mask over the frame like in the picture above and stamp your main image into the oval which isn’t covered from the mask. Did I tell you that I love Clear Stamps? You can look right through your acrylic block and you will find the right position for your image!

I took the cute Sarah Kay Spring is back image for this tag. You see it’s perfectly matching into the oval frame. After I prepared this tag I had another idea so I made a second tag and of course I also took pics of how it works as well.

This is cute Lucy & Kitty. I stamped the image on my watercolor paper and then made a mask from masking paper (this is what I use for my masks today… the stamp fell off my hand while stamping on my masking paper… LOL … but it isn’t a problem because it’s only a mask and I have to cut the  image out). I cut the important parts of Lucy out and stamped the oval frame over her.

When I removed the mask I had Lucy & Kitty sitting in RAM’s oval frame! You don’t see the birds because they were stamped onto the mask. Of course you can take any other frame stamps you have at home for your (gift) tags.

Now I cut Spring is back out with different oval Spellbinders. Lucy is cut out by hand. I used an oval Spellbinders die cut as template for the oval parts and then cut out her legs and feet with a little white edge around them by hand as well as the oval. The mats are made with Spellbinders and my Cuttlebug machine.

This is a detail of the simple tag. I colored the image with watercolor pencils, the yellow frame around her is made with a Tombow pen (no. 020). I added some sparkles to the dots around the frame.

I think you can see the sparkling dots better in this picture. Here I also added some accents with my white gel pen to Lucy’s dress. In the end I added some sheer ribbon to the tags. Now you can use the gift tags as bookmarks when the special day is over!

I hope you enjoyed my little tutorial. Come on and try it yourself. This way you can also join in our current SAV challenge and with some luck you could be the next winner of our secret prize!

Hello and good morning. Today’s card is a little “wild” i love the strong red colors of this Imaginice paper and i must say i have used it so often that i must coordinate my postings so the cards that i show are not all the same lol. For this card i just matched up the mushrooms of the paper with the mushrooms from the Rachelle Anne Miller image “Fairy Magic“.

If you like the Rachelle Anne Miller designs make sure to check often the Stampavie Inspiration blog! From now on the Design Team is allowed to make cards with the new designs and we are allowed to show them on the blog. There is also many new things going on, on Stampavie…. on April 1 you can expect a brand new layout with lots of activities going on were Heidi and Stuart as the entire team would love to invite you. Of course there are also going to be many prizes to expect. So, please mark your calenders!!!

Below you will find a quick and easy step by step picture tutorial how you an re-create the paper flower embellishment. Iit is a fun and easy way to get rid of some scraps of paper and not just toss them in the trash.

[/lang_en][lang_en]All what you need is pictured here:

Scoring Tool – I love my Scor-Pal, Paper Glaze, Glitter i love Martha Stewart glitters, sticky tape, big glue Dots

This kind of embellishment is something that is really “in” currently USA.. it is been used on cards and on scrapbook sites equally often. It is perfect because it gives you the opportunity to get rid of some of the scraps we produce with our expensive Designer Paper.

You want to have 2 or more stripes of the same width. All what you need to remember is that your circle will be doubled the diameter than what you cut your stripe to. By example if you cut one stripe 1 inch wide your “flower” will be final size 2″ wide.

Score both stripes of paper in equal intervals – all the way to the end. I scored mine so the valleys and the mountains are going to be small.

start folding your paper stripe like this:

This is how both stripes of papers will look like after i have finished folding them

add some sticky tape to both ends and adhere the stripes together

This is how it is going to look like:

Place a big glue dot in the middle of your circle

and simply push with your fingers the paper to the inside, closing the circle

Now you can start to embellish your element. I used Paper Glaze and added it just around the outside of the “flower”

sprinkle generously glitter over it

shake excess off

add a generous amount of sticky tape to the back so it will hold in place and you can use this to add the element to your project

finish your embellishment off with buttons, prima flowers or as on my card seen on Pretty Cards with a circular sentiment stamped and cut out with punches.