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Friday, April 29, 2011

Celebrating MOM

Jeannie from PolkaCabana.wordpress.com 3:30 AM 11 Comments

Mother's Day is right around the corner, May 8, 2011.

Have you made your mom a card yet?

I have a cute card to share today. It celebrates all those trying dinners when your mom would tell you to EAT YOUR VEGETABLES.

This card is in remembrance of my mom.

When she was little, she hated peas! She called them those "squishy little green things."

I love to think of new things to doe with my VEGGIE TALES dies.

I sit and go through countless puns to use with them.

Here is what I came up with for Mother's Day.

Now before you get all excited, I do not think there are a mom and daughter duo on VEGGIE TALES. I just made this up with what I had.

I used paper from KAISERCRAFT called

Nan's Favourites

, it all came together perfectly.

Luckily Mama Pea wears about the same size clothes as MADAME BLUEBERRY, so we borrowed some things from her.

Now for my PUN! I ap"PEA"ciate you, get it? (I appreciate you)

Yes, I know I am so punny!

Here is the inside of my card.

I hope you have enjoyed my "SHOW & TELL" today. On a side note, it just hit me, my 1st grader always has Show & Tell on Friday's too! I will have to tell him we have that in common!

Until next time! Have a great day and EAT YOUR PEAS!!

This has been Jeannie from The Polka Cabana!!

Products used in today's project:

Jean Claude and Philippe Pea

Scalloped Rectangle

Madame Blueberry

Friday, April 1, 2011

Arts and Crafting with your Pet Frog

Jeannie from PolkaCabana.wordpress.com 3:30 AM 4 Comments

Now there is a TITLE!

Good thing it is APRIL FOOL'S DAY, right?

I am not about to craft with any reptile!

Today I have a fun project to share.

Hoping to really inspire you all to think BEYOND paper!

By now, you all know I love those Veggie Tale guys, right?

Today I am going to show you how simple it is to take a plain, ordinary outfit and turn it into something really EXTRA-ORDINARY!

Here is my starting items;

A plain white onsie & a $2.00 clearance skort from the neighborhood K-Mart.

With some bits and pieces of felt and material...

...and the Bob the Tomato metal die...

look what you can make!

My ever handy sewing machine does letters.

I just punched my title in and voilà, instant messaging!

Now, I have to admit, I am one of those people who have the greatest hopes to think of something that will make me millions on ETSY, or something like that.

Here is a close up of the onsie for this outfit.

Bare with me, my hopeful "self" got away with me and dreamt up a bunch of future scenarios.

If I find the time to mass produce these, here are some cute alternate messages I could put on the onsies, but these are "Photoshop-ed" shhhh! Don't tell anyone!

HOLD THE MAYO!

GOT BACON?

(for the non vegetarians:)

FUTURE VEGAN

For my surrounding counties.

VEGGIE PRINCESS

For my 4 year old!

So, there you have it, my future million dollar maker.

Think I have a chance? Let me know what your favorite sayings are!

If you want to special order...well I'll get back to you on that one!

This has been Jeannie showing you creative ways to use your CHEERY LYNN DESIGNS dies on more than just paper!

Dies used on today's project:

BOB THE TOMATO

# Jeannie DeGruccio # Veggie Tales

Friday, March 18, 2011

Peace, Love & Rock & Roll!

Jeannie from PolkaCabana.wordpress.com 3:30 AM 4 Comments

How is that for a title?

How is that for a theme?

I have no idea why I came up with this, it just happened.

Jean Claude and Philippe Pea happily volunteered to be my models today.

Let's go in order, shall we?

PEACE - Veggie Style

Pretty creative huh? What the world needs more of is Peas, right?

These guys are certainly 2 groovy little dudes!

LOVE - Veggie Style

I decided to do this one based on the news of Japan.

I thought about it today when I did not get some good news I had really hoped for.

Then I felt bad, being so selfish when Japan is in such a crisis.

All I can do is keep them in my thoughts and prayers and that is just what I will keep on doing.

ROCK & ROLL - Veggie Style

This is just a fun card! I thought that it was a good finish.

Those Peas are such good sports!

Hopefully you can see that having a set like these, you really can make anything you can dream up!

Products I have used: Cheery Lynn Pennant Die, Circle Large Nesting Dies, Stitch Plate, Pierce Plates, Eccentric Circle Embossing Plate, Optimistic Font, Buttons5, Baby Giraffe Frame and Jean Claude and Phillipe Pea.

# Dimensional Buttons # Embossing Plate

Saturday, March 5, 2011

Flowers, Cards and Peas!

Jeannie from PolkaCabana.wordpress.com 3:30 AM 6 Comments

Hello Everyone, it is me Jeannie on a Saturday! Hope you are all having a great weekend! Today I have such a treat for you! A little tutorial.

You might have seen these flowers in other places, maybe even made them yourself, but I am going to show you where Cheery Lynn Dies will come in and save you some time and sanity with these flowers.

I have no idea if these have a name, I feel like I sort of made my own version here, I am calling it a Cheery Bloom!

How is that for a name?

On with the tutorial.

Here is what I started out with. Some scrap pieces of paper and my Wittle Wicker 1/4" strips die.

Next, I cut a lot of Wittle Wickers. Remember these are 1/4 of an inch. You need a lot of strips to make my Cheery Bloom, do you know how hard it is to cut 1/4 of an inch on my HUGE paper cutter?

Running the paper and die through my Big Shot is a breeze and cuts LOTS of strips at one time. Here are 2 even (approx.) piles ready to go!

I trimmed one pile to be 3 1/2" long and the other pile to be 2 3/4" long.

At this point I make sure I have my new love, QUICK DRY Tacky Glue.

I start by getting a pile of glue in the center of a 2 inch circular piece of card stock. After the glue is in place, I start gluing my strips all around. you want to start with your strips RIGHT SIDE in glue and WRONG SIDE facing up.

Just keep gluing until no more strips will fit. Fan them all around like you are making a sunshine. Keep a napkin close by to daub and extra glue that is in your way.

At this point I had already started to fold over my strips and started to glue them all down, creating that nice open ribbon look.

Here I am almost done with the BASE layer.

Now I am creating a lot of loops to have so I can start building up the blossom. I have a small pool of glue on a scrap paper and some on my index finger for QUICK and FAST loop assembly.

Here you can see I have a lot of loops ready to go, and the BLOOM on the left ready for some fluff from those loops.

I once again, created a pool of glue in the center. Then I just kept grabbing those loops and gluing into that pool of glue.

Here is the BLOOM all completed.

Aerial view, you can see how full and colorful it is. It is about 3 1/2" to 4" across.

The CHEERY BLOOM is ready for a project.

Here is where the CHEERY BLOOM landed! Right on top of a gift box with my PEA duo.

This would be perfect for a newlywed or anniversary gift. Put some gift cards for some stores or restaurants in it for the happy couple.

For this gift box, I used one that I already had and added some CHEERY LYNN wow to it.

I ran the entire box through the Big Shot with my LARGE STITCHING PLATE to create a wonderful texture on the whole box.

BIG SECRET HERE!

By running it through the machine, it softened the paper up and made folding this intricate box a snap!

The grooves just bent easily into place, it was awesome!

On the side panels, I also ran them through the Big Shot, but this time I used the LARGE CIRCLE STITCH ER PLATE. It created a wonderful circular pattern on all the panels.

In this picture, I have really adjusted the coloring so you can see the pattern the plates leave.

I also zig-zagged the panels to the box, and I really feel the stitching plates cut down on the chore of running paper through my sewing machine.

So there you have it, my own version of this strip flower. I have created another type of this flower and I will share that tutorial next week on FRIDAY, my normal day. So check back with me then! You need a sneak peak?

OK!! I can do that!

Here you go!

Dies used in this project: Wittle Wicker 1/4" strips, LARGE STITCHING PLATE, LARGE CIRCLE STITCHER PLATE and JEAN CLAUDE AND PHILLIPE PEA.

This has been Jeannie from The Polka Cabana sharing the joy of Cheery Lynn Dies!

# Jeannie DeGruccio # Stitching Plates

Friday, February 25, 2011

Embossing, embellishing and appliqueing with Cheery Lynn

Jeannie from PolkaCabana.wordpress.com 3:30 AM 6 Comments

I sure do hope some have come by today to see the full project that I gave you all a teaser for last week. Remember that tiny picture I shared? Here it is again.

Well, before I share the rest of this project with you, let me share a card I have made with the little Veggies again. Do you know how versatile these dies are? With a little imagination, these dies can be use for really ANY occasion.

Here is one of the Peas decked out like a Cowboy or would that be a Cowpea?

We have been trying to WOW you with Cheery Lynn Designs Embossing Plates. I have used quite a few on this card. I started by cutting my card with Scalloped Circle from the Large Stackers. Then I embossed the circle with the RODEO embossing plate. Because I was using the Core d' nations cardstock, I was able to lightly sand the card front for the embossing pattern to appear.

Do you like all the dangling tags, they are all different branding iron images. They are from the embossing plate called RANCH BRANDS/COWBOY BOOTS & HAT. The boots and hat on the PEA are from the same plate, other side, it is a two sided plate. Also, the rope the tags are dangling from are from the same plate. A very versatile plate, if you ask me!

Other products used on this card are OPTIMISTIC 1/2 inch Font set, MOUNTAINS BORDER DIE, and the GALLOPING HORSE die.

I am not a horse person, but hey, I can make a horse person card, any ole' day!

Now, on to where my comfort zone is!

Cuteness, rhinestones and my kids!

The little teaser picture was a portion of this picture.

My little one LOVES Madame Blueberry! It was my little one's 4th birthday not too long ago. I was at Old Navy and found this very inexpensive skirt and clearance. It was purple and white stripped. I immediately saw Madame Blueberry on there and had to get it for my daughter.

I found a plain white shirt to go along with it, here is the Birthday girl modeling her outfit for you.

She just loves her new outfit! It is truly a one of a kind outfit!

Here is a close up of Madame Blueberry on the skirt.

Oh, yes, she is QUITE the princess!

I used a high grade felt for most of Madame Blueberry's pieces. I used individual rhinestones to write the word PRINCESS above Madame Blueberry's head.

My last tip is that I used a mixture of a high grade fabric glue and Heat n' Bond to attach things to the clothing. For my machine appliqueing, I used a clear nylon thread!

Hope you have enjoyed this project, imagine all the things you can make using your dies for fabric applique.

I am sure to have something fun to share next week, so come back and see! We all love to hear from you so please leave us comments, especially if there is something you'd like to see or know how to do that we have not covered!

TA TA FOR NOW!! This has been Jeannie from The Polka Cabana.

# Borders # Embossing Plate