Gladhartcreations

Sunday, June 9, 2013

Robbin Gladhart 7:15 PM 0 Comments

Sneak Peek of Kathy Orta technique Paper Bag Book

I am currently working on a paper bag book I saw Kathy Orta teach. The pages them selves

have been very easy to put together, it is the embellishing that is taking me so long.

I am making it for my daughter who graduated from High School, and I wanted

something she could save memories from freshman year to her senior year.

It started out as black and gold color theme, which are the school colors, but

she is such a girly girl that it just wasn't working out for me so the colors kinda changed

to pinks purple blacks greys and white. which I think looks way better. This book is

taking a bit longer than I had anticipated, because I want it to be something really special and

that she could keep for a long time. I only up loaded a few pages and tages that I have

completed so that you could see what I was working on. I hope to have the book

done sooon.

This is the front cover of the book. I used lots of flowers and
beads, some tulling. and a wooden frame that I painted and
then white washed it.

This is the first page with the tags in the bottom pocket.

This is the first page with out the tags in the pocket. There is a
pocket to the left side of the book and a pocket at the bottom
of the page.

These are the back side of the tags from the first page. The
tags are made so that you can place pictures on them.

When you turn the page this is what you will see. This is
also space in which photos can be place. This page also
lifts up to reveal more pockets and a water fall embellishment

This is the water fall embellishment that is an interactive part of
the page. I plan on adding more to this page. You can't see the
top part very well, but there is a pocket on it as well

When you pull the ribbon you can see that
there are places to journal and then the last page
a place to put a photo.

This is the next page across from the one with the water fall
embellishment. I am not finished with this page cause I am
not sure how I want to embellish it or just leave it alone since
the tags are pretty fancy.

These are what the tags look like once you take them out of
the pocket.

These are the back side of the tags.

This is the next page

This is what the tags look like out side of the pocket

These are the back side of the tags.

This is all I have done so far on the book. As you can see I have put a lot of embellishments all over the book and I am making most of them by hand. I have not bought any premade flowers. I have taken old flowers and then re worked them to look kinda like sprays and such. So I have been busy stamping, cutting, and gluing stuff. I hope to have this book done soon so you can see the entire thing.

If you feel so inspired to make one of these books, head over to Kathy Orta at Paperphenomenon.com and watch her videos. She is very good at directions, and you all are probably getting tired of me saying how amazing people are but Really Kathy is unbelievable.

Hope you have been inspired.

Robbin Gladhart 5:33 PM 0 Comments

Special Cards For Special People

Happy Sunday to you all. I have not been able to post anything lately, I have been

very busy with my daughters graduation prep. Wow what a whirl wind that was. I did

slip in a little time to make the card down below. I saw this card on pintrest and thought

it would make a good challenge for me to try to make it. I needed a card

to send to my boss who just resigned from our company. It will be sad to

see her leave.

I used CTMH card stock and

stamp sets to recreate this card. I will give more details down below. I sewed around

each layer individually so that there wouldn't be any stitching inside the card

and then wet the edges slightly so that I could roll them with out tearing the paper

too much. Then when it dried, I ink the edges with the chocolate in pad. I wish

I could remember the lady's name that created the original card, because she did

an amazing job.

Supplies:
Juniper Card Stock
Bamboo Card Stock
Blush Card Stock
Burlap cut into a square
Tags were cut from Cricut Art philosophy (by CTMH)
Pins I made by Gluing beads onto large straight pins
Stamp Sets:
Authentic (D1401)
Heartfelt Treasures (C1456)
Star Power (D1403)
Ink CTMH:
Chocolate
Baby Pink
White Daisy
Ribbon was something I had laying around,

Please enjoy this card and if you have any questions, feel free to contact me

at Robbinstamps@yahoo.com

I found the cutest cards to cut out on your Cricut or other cutting machines

over at Treasureboxdesigns.com

These were a lot of fun to make and sooo clever. You need to really go and check all

the cute cut files they have over there. I believe they are even having a 50% sale on

their files. Below I posted the ones that I made. I put my own little twist on them so

they may not look exactly like the ones they are showing. So again go check them

out you will fall in love with their site.

This one was for my niece for graduations so I added a
cap and tassel.

This is the card opened up. I placed a caption on the chalk
board, added a sticker on the left side, and had to add glitter
on the hat and glasses.

Behind the pencils, is a pocket for a tag. I made the tag different
from the one that comes with the cut file. I made an extra
pocket on the tag so that I could add money in side it. Then
on the black part I wrote my message to my niece.

This was card I made for my father in law who was in the hoptl.
When I saw this card on their site, I just had to have it.

This is what the card looks like inside.

Behind the pillow is a pocket in which the chart tag fits inside.
I also changed this up too so that I could write a message on
it.

Treasure Box designs has a few more of these really cute cards, so go and check them out you
will totally fall in love with them. Very talented designers at that company.
Happy creating.

Thursday, March 7, 2013

Glass Block Flourish and Initial

Robbin Gladhart 10:57 AM 0 Comments

I am excited to show you how my glass block turned out. I have seen a lot

of glass blocks out on the web but have not been to thrilled to do them. I came

across findingtimetocreate.blogspot.com where the lady created her own flourish

and initial. (Check out her site) She did a wonderful job on her vinyl cut out. She inspired

me to try one for myself. I like how it came out, the only thing I didn't like

was when I went to weld everything together it changed the curves and made

them look kinda sloppy. So I will need to do some more tweaking on my SVG

file to get it to look exactly the way I want.

I bought the glass block at home depot for $4.95. I chose the glass block that had a

decorative design on it instead of the clear block. The clear block did not look as

good because you can see the strand of lights which is distracting to your eyes.

I recommend using the decorative block it covers up the lights better.

You can still see some out line of the lights but its not as bad.

This view of the glass block is from the top looking down and with the light off.

As you can see, the strand of lights are pretty visible and this is the decorative

block. If this was the clear block you would be able to see the individual lights.

I finished off the block by wrapping a wide gold ribbon around it and then

hot glued a bow on the top of the block.

So there you have it, a fun project that is fairly easy to do.

Thanks for stopping by.

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Hugs & Kisses Box

Robbin Gladhart 6:21 PM 0 Comments

This 15 compartment box looked so cute I just had to make it. I was looking for something different to make that would look nice on a teachers desk. In side each compartment I placed a Hershey Kiss so that at anytime the teacher can open the box door and eat a piece of sanity. I found the box on http://qbeesquest.blogspot.com/ (Brenda Quintana) This women is a very clever crafter. Please go and visit her blog and you will see what I mean. She has graciously put together a tutorial on how to make these box. The tutorial is very easy to follow and the measurements actually work perfectly. Thank you so much Brenda for sharing your talents with me.

Close to My Heart supply list to make this box.

My Reflections "Pemberley" paper pack

Ink colors Outdoor denim, Bamboo,

Stamp sets Cricut Artiste Word Balloons

Wonderful You

Cricut "Artiste" Flower

I used tiny pearl beads for the center of the flowers and some

honey brads that I had on hand. The Fancy tags I used for

the top of the box was my own svg file. The world hugs & kisses is

from the stamp set " Cricut Artiste Collection Word Balloon" .

The Cricut Artiste was created by Provo Craft to go along

with Close to My Heart stamps. I cut out the balloon at "2 and

then stamped my image right on the cut out balloon.

The bottom fancy tags are the same size as the one I use at the top

of the box. The front of each box was stamped using the

"Wonderful You stamp" set and then I cut around each image

to fit better on the box door.

I hope you will go to qubee quest to see the tutorial and then try this yourself I think you will be

amazed how fun and beautiful this project is. Also check out how qbee quest uses this box for

other project through out the year.

Saturday, February 23, 2013

Gift for Cheer Mom

Robbin Gladhart 9:59 PM 0 Comments

I finally FINISHED my gift for our Cheer Mom. It was definitely a labor of love. Actually I really enjoyed working on it. I wanted to make some items for our Cheer Mom Lisa to let her know how much my daughter and I appreciated everything she has done over the years. This will be her last year as Cheer Mom because her daughter graduates along with my daughter this year. Lisa is an amazing and talented Cheer Mom. She has taken on the task to make each of the 26 cheer leaders feel like they are an important part of the team. Lisa has made some of the coolest gifts for these girls and the send off breakfasts for state competition was absolutely beautiful. So to make Lisa feel appreciated, I put together a few things for her to remember the years as Cheer Mom. I decorated a paint bucket and made it into a cheer chair. These are used at games for he cheerleaders to sit on during the games. They can store there pom poms or snacks or anything they might need for the game in side and the lid is a cushion so they are able to sit comfortable.

This is some of the thing that will be going in side the Cheer bucket.

This is the front. I drew each letter and accent and then cut them out
of vinyl with my cricut. I glued different types of ribbon around the top
and bottom of the bucket. The cushion is made with foam and cotton fabric.
I attached it to a round piece of wood that is the same size as the lid and then used
a stapled gun to attach the lid to the wood.

This is the side view. I even drew the schools logo. I wrapped the handle with ribbon also.

This is the back of the bucket.

This is the other side of the bucket. I also made cheer bows and attached them to each side of
the bucket.

Different view of the front of the bucket.

This is a paper bag scrapbook decorated in the school colors Black and Gold with some
Bamboo (CTMH paper) card stock. The papers used for this book were some that I had to digitally created
to go along with some solid color cards stock from Close to My Heart.

The background paper is some I created. The colors are black and gold

but for some reason my camera turned some of the black paper into a blue like color. The roses

and swirlies were cut on the cricut using " Art Philosophy from Close to my Heart". The stamp on

the other page also is a Close to My Heart. I made a tag that can be use to put a photo on or used for

jounaling. I glued tiny little beads on the swirlies and flowers.

Again I made polka dot, zebra paper shown on these pages. The butterfly on the second page is a tab to
pull the tag out so a photo can be place on it. I also dried embossed the paper. Many of the embellishments
were cut using the cricut.

I use some glitter paper to make this page sparkle. I stamped on the black paper and then used clear

embossing power to make the letter stand out. This page also has a tag that fits in side pocket.

See the next photo.

More digitally made paper. Oops I can see that the left side paper is upside down, gotta fix that. The flower

and tag are cut from the CTMH Art philosophy cartridge and then stamped.

I dried embossed the black paper. Place a couple of Rosette flowers . The large star has tiny

beads glued on it. I used stickles diamond glitter on the stars to help make them stand out more.

These are the tags that fit inside the openings of the paper bags. I have dried embossed them all.

The camera did not pick that up very well.

This is the last page of the book. I use book binder clips to hold the book together and then decorated

those with a lot of different styles of ribbon.

These boxes were made to hold different kinds of chocolate candy

These were items that I purchased from the bath and body store, I made

my own labels and glued them on.

I put a car air freshener inside this box that I also purchased from bath and body. The butterfly

on top is actually black with white stamping. Don't know why it looks blue.

I made this pillow by sewing 4 x 4 squares of fabric together, and then sewed black fabric to each strip and then

quilted all around the black stripes. I then made a ruffle by gathering the strips of the black fabric then attached

it around the pillow along with gold gathered ribbon. For not having a pattern to go by I think it turned

out pretty good.

This is what is on the back of the pillow. I also cut the fabric out on my cricut and then appliqued them to the
pillow. I put a heart on the pillow, because it is kinda my signature.

So there you have it. Now I just have to figure out how I am going to put all this stuff in side and make

it look pretty when Lisa opens it. :)

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Strawberry Valentine's Box

Robbin Gladhart 3:59 PM 0 Comments

It has been a while since I've posted. I have been very busy with putting together a rather big project which I hope to have done soon so I can post it. Mean while, I saw a really cute box that would be great to give as a gift for Valentine's day. I have always wanted to make the strawberry box but never took the time to put it together. Close to My Heart and Provo craft came out with and exclusive cartridge (Artiste) for the cricut that has just that box. So I used our Cranberry paper and cut out the strawberry and ran it through my sizzix using the dot embosser. Then use our Chocolate paper and cut another strawberry out and then used Clover meadow paper to make the leaves on top. I did not use the leaves that comes on the cartridge because I liked a different leaf instead and thought it looked closer to the real thing. I use Liquid Applique( by Marvy which you can also purchase through Close to My Heart) to make the drizzle affect. I really like how it turned out. The blog I was looking at is Stampinbygennys.blogspot.
Hope you give it try, you will become hooked. Happy crafting.