Unik By Liz

Hello friends! Welcome and Happy Friday!!! I am so excited to share with you both of my entries for this month's Challenge over at May Arts Ribbon . This month the other lucky participants and I got to play with the gorgeous Wrinkled Ribbons. The first one is an easel card created using the Cricut Explore -I skipped a few layers to make the wreath the focal point ;) - The wreath was created using a paper ring pierced every 1/4" to secure the gathered ribbon. First fold ribbon in half on the short end and gather with basting stitch. Secure it to the ring using thread and a needle. Embellish with a bow. For the second one I made a 12" x 8" Screen Divider card. The tree was embroider whit Wrinkle ribbon using Japanese Stitching. First I traced my pattern onto pearlescent paper and pierced before starting embroidering. I stitched by "rows" and used about 1 yd of the green ribbon. to avoid excessive bulkiness on the back, use a "soft" knot....

 Happy Monday and welcome to another Monday challenge! Challenge #240 Anything But a Card This Weeks Sponsor $15.00 Gift Certificate ~This Weeks Challenge~ Create any project, that is not a card! To qualify for the prize, be sure to use at least 1 Cricut cut on your project and if it's not obvious, let us know what cartridge you used. I cut the box using the Make it now project for DS, but you can recreate the same look using the square box from  "Box it Up!" ( page 15 ) and add a design to the center of your lid using CCR  or using one of the designs available. The tiny bow is from pretty packages.  Quick an easy ;) As always thanks for stopping by! Have a wonderful day!

Hello friends!  I hope your day is going well. Tuesday is here and with it another fun linky party with PDE: This week's theme: Today I wanted to share with you a super quick "envelope" style throw pillow cover. This was made out of a rectangle of fabric folded and sewn together, follow this directions . For the pumpkin I used my Cricut  E2, Create a Critter, deep cut blade, cotton fabric and LITE heat bond. I know most tutorials call for STRONG hold, heat and bond, but I wanted to add blanket stitching to the edge of my pumpkin, that is why  I chose the lite version. For a tutorial go here .  I hope you find some inspiration and time this week to craft and share with us!   Thank you for taking time to stop by.  Happy Thanksgiving to all my U.S friends and happy rest of your week to all!

 Happy Monday and welcome to another Monday challenge! Challenge #238 Give Thanks Thank You or Thanksgiving Card or Thanksgiving projects. This Weeks Sponsor I am so excited to share with you part of my Thanksgiving decorations. I created this pumpkin out of cardstock, wire and a few floral stems left over from another project and some floral tape. It looks more intimidating than it really is. I used doily-2 from Cricut Aplhabet Cartridge,  welded several times and weaved the wire throw it to shape it and give it stability. I looks really pretty as a decoration during daytime and when night arrives, turn on the little flame-less tea light for a pretty luminary.  As a way to thank all of you that take the time to visit and over the time had become my blogging friends.  I am offering the cutting file in CCR, and DS to all followers interested. All I ask in return is for you to be a follower. Leave me a message and a way to contact yo...

Happy Halloween and Welcome to the "Fantabulous Cricut Challenge Design team card swap Blog Hop"  That is a mouthful isn't it? Not everyone on the team swapped cards, but those of us that did decided to do a blog hop sharing our cards with you. The first card is the card we made and the second card is the card we received. I had so much fun creating this card. I am very pleased how it turned out. For the front of the card I used Miss Kate Cuttables' Web Alphabet, Core'dinations Pearl paper and Cuttlebug embossing folder. For the inside I used cuts from  Simply Charmed  for the Ghost and Bat;  Disney's Pooh and Friends  for the pop up pumpkins. I created stencils using pumpkin cuts from Create a Critter to create the shadows.  PKS stamps and MCT ticket metal die. For the little pumpkin on the ticket I used a homemade "enamel" dot. I altered the shadow of the pumpkins and the lower body of the ghost to create the pop ups. Inte...

Hello friends!  I hope your day is going well. Just wanted to pop in quickly to share with you my way to fix the "Nose Flattening Costume Mask problem". If you got little ones dressing up for Halloween and got the uncomfortable face mask they would LOVE to wear but dislike when wearing it, here is a super quick and effective way to solve it and you probably have these materials at home already: Super glue that dries quick and does not have a lingering smell. please make sure it is completely dry before allowing your child to wear the mask. I used Loctite and hold pretty well. Heavy duty scissors, Thread, needle, muslin fabric, high density foam or densified batting ( such as the one used on chair pads). I am crazy about washing everything before my kiddos wear it, so I washed and dried the foam thoroughly ;) I hope this tip is helpful. Please note that the foam might pose a choking  hazard for little ones so is best to cover it with some sort of cotton fabri...

Hello crafty friends! It is time for another fun linky Party over at PDE . This weeks theme: Easel cards.  Here is my CAS card. This will be part of a set I will be giving my dear friend Tonya for her upcoming BD. What do you think? For this card I used a square cut using MCT 4" square stitched die and an 8" x 4" rectangle out of kraft stock.  The sentiment is from Inspired By Stamping: Big Notes II, stamped using red memento ink.  The adhesive bling squares are from Darice.  The tree is debossed from a Darice folder and colored it in with markers.  This is a 10 minute card easy to mass produce. I hope you like it! Thanks for stopping by, I cannot wait to see what you create! Please visit the rest of the team's blogs for more inspiration! Have a wonderful day!