Spring Placemats

Hi all,

Today I am sharing the placemats we made for March. This time we chose a more general spring theme, rather that a specific holiday like St. Patty's Day, as we have some fabric shamrock print placemats my Mom made for us.

The girls really enjoy picking out the papers we use for the mats every month.

This months papers are from the DCWV Flower Shower Spring stack from last year. I have used this stack quite a bit, and still have plenty of papers left. That is what is so nice about those 180 pages stacks of paper. The cardstock stacks are not as big.

The font we used this time is from Robotz.

Maddie noticed that a tiny piece of "schmootz" ,as she called it, was inside the lamination when we fed it through the Your Story. (she was quite annoyed it was there, but I swear, its the size of a pin head.- Sheesh!)

Anyway...These are the last two Your Story 12x12 Laminating pouches I have. Seems like my Hobby Lobby isn't going to carry that product anymore. I picked up some Purple Cow ones there, but I have never used those in the Your Story machine. I think they are close enough to not matter much. I will be posting on that when we make the next set of Placemats.

Well off to craft some more!

Have a Great and Crafty Day!

Jan

February Placemats

Hi all,

I am making my daughter's placemats for every month this year. You can see the previous ones here.

Here are the February ones:

Maddie and Ellie each choose their own patterned paper from my stash.

I then cut their names using the Rock Princess Heart font and shadow. The names looked a little lost on the patterned paper, so I added a strip of white glitter paper under the names. I accented the names and corners of the white paper with some glittery heart stickers I bought a few years ago.
Here is Ellie's mat:

They are quite plain, as the Your Story Laminator works best on thinner and fewer layered items.

I also have decided that vinyl works best for the letters/layers as it is so much thinner. I need to up my vinyl stash so that future placemats can have more layers.

Thanks for visiting today

Have a Great ans Crafty Day!

Jan

Quick and Easy Placemats

Hi all!

I just wanted to share some quick placemats I made for my girls today.

Here is the un-laminated placemat:
I just printed a background paper using my Imagine and the Mr. Frosty cartridge. This is printed on regular cardstock.

Then I added a banner from Elegant Edges and a font from Wall Decor and More. Both were print and Cut using the Imagine and the flood fill colors from Mr. Frosty as well. I used printable vinyl as I was planning on Laminating the project and lamination works best on thinner materials.Here is my Your Story Machine. I bought this last Christmas time to make a books for gifts, and I have used it much more than I realized I would. I definitely would recommend adding this item to your crafting arsenal.
Here it is all laminated. It was hard to get a good pic without a glare on the lamination, even with my snazzy new light box. LOL
Anyway...I am planning on making the girls placemats for all the holidays/seasons this year.

Thanks for stopping by.

Have a Great and Crafty Day!

Jan

Birthday Princess Placemat

Here is todays second post...A placemat I made for my niece's upcoming 2nd birthday Party. I made teh mat 6 x 12 as it is going on her high chair.

I used twinkle toes for the "Princess" as well as her crown. I tried to make her as thin as possible as I am laminating this and too many layers buckles up the laminate.

I did add some tulle for a skirt to make her fanicier. Hopefully that will lameniate ok. All papers used were scraps from my stash. Probably Bazzil or Recollections cardstock. The patterned background paper, I think came from a Target dollar bin pack from last year or so.

Birthday Princess was cut from Birthday Cakes.

For the sparkle I used Turquoise Stickles. Let me say, that I have a love-hate relationship with my Stickles. Today it seemed like I had to stick a pin in the bottle after every little spot I put on the letters. I was cursing the stickles when I was done. LOL


I store them upside down, as it is...If anyone has a secret to keeping your Stickles from clogging up...please let me know!

Thanks and have a Great and Crafty Day!

Jan

Smiley Cards Birthday Placemat and Card

This is Week 5 of my Cartridge Challenge. It was also my daughter's Birthday this week, so I chose to use a Birthday Image and Phrase from Smiley Cards and make a placemat and matching card for her.

I cut the Birthday Cake image from page 41 in the Handbook. I also used the phrase from that page too. I cut Maddie from Pooh Font. All solid carstock was from my stash, most likely it was Smooth Cardstock from Archiver's. The plum floral paper is from DCWV Flower Shower Spring Stack from last year. The thin blue border is older stickers from Creative Memories. I then laminated the sheet using my Your Story Machine. Now we have a placemat that Maddie can use year after year.

Here is a matching card I made for her too.

the card base was from an older, card making kit. I cut a plum piece of paper to gon on the front and tied it with piece of white ribbon from Hobby Lobby. Inside the card I put a matching Ha-P B-Day cut.

Have a great week!