Thinkin Spot Info!

Morning Everyone!
I received a very nice comment asking me to list the sizes I cut my elephant creation and although I am not on a design team I did make the spread sheet for ya. I am warning you though you will get an insight as to how my brain works and let me tell ya it is scary in here! Your  forewarned!!!lol. I tried to link the spread sheet but it didn't work so just send me your email and I will email you the spread sheet.

I started by cutting the base, then I embossed the accent panels with a zebra folder. Then before putting them on I added some glue in various places and used my favorite glitter. Art glitter and the color I used was a small sample they were kind enough to send me, called Sahara. I love their glitter it is soooooo pretty! Then I glued the straws onto the base with my hot glue gun. I use the imaginisce battery operated glue gun. I like the small nozzle and added feature of a light at the end of it. When I purchased this gun someone told me about eneloop rechargeable batteries and I apologize now to that dear lady but I thought ,Whoa what it this are they trying to sell me something???? Well she was just sharing with me a great product. So I am sorry. Although the glue gun is awesome it chews through reg batteries like crazy. So I do suggest you try these batteries for it. My only complaint is I don't have enough charged sometimes to get me through all the gluing I do. So I think I need a bigger charger and another pkg. I bought two but I am thinking I could use another two. Ok enough of that.
I inked the edges of my leaves first then ran them through my Big Shot with the Zebra folder as well. Then I used my Flower shaping tools from EK Success to curve them a bit and started gluing them to the straw.. use your creative eye for how you want them to look and don't be afraid to cut the leave in two (I did) where ever you want. I added the last tree with the large leaves after I had glued my elephant on the the top to make sure I had enough room.
Start with your elephant next and cut the small pumpkin. I did remove one panel on the pumpkin to have the right shape for me but you can leave it  on and have a  more plump elephant. I didn't glue the ends shut just yet and on the top of the pumpkin did not add the octagon shape to close the end. I figured no one would see it so that is how I went with it. Next glue your stems the legs and trunk pieces together and then cut the acorn for the head. Once you have your pieces glued together your ready to start putting your elephant together. I inked my elephant with basic grey ink from Stampin up. On the trunk pieces glue them together arranging them so it looks like a trunk end to end. Glue the End of your trunk to your Acorn (head) opps! (I forgot to tell you to smash the end of the acorn in so the trunk will fit. Sorry!!!)then cut your ears and ink them as well and I glued the head first to the body so I could see how I wanted to arrange the ears. I also shaped the ears with my flower shaping tools. Then I added the front legs and one of the back legs. I poked a hole in his backside to add a braided bunch of embroidery floss with loose pieces at then end for his fluff. Then I hot glued that in place to hold it and I did not glue the back piece to close it. I plopped a bunch of glue on the base and glued his backside in place. Then afterward added his other leg to make sure he didn't look like he was falling off. Adhere his eyes, they are black pearls that I got from Michaels. I glued leaves and grass but I think leaves would have been just fine so I didn't include the grass part to the spread sheet.
Now add the final tree behind your elephant and cut the straw at a angle at the top to give the tree a bent look then use a smaller piece and put hot glue on it and insert inside your tree base. cover your angle with leaves and add your leaves to the top I did bend the leaves in half so it had kind of a point then glued and held till it was staying.
I put beans in the base of the apple and glued the lid to the top. Do me a favor and yourself and do this before you start putting your elephant creation together. So there you have it how I put this creation together now go get yourself a strong drink or a cup of chamomile tea to calm down because looking into my "creative mind" is scary for anyone!
  Thank you for asking for this I really do appreciate all of you and hope you understand that writing these takes time.  Below is a link that will take you to SVG cuts page and you can shop for the kits and collections I used there.  Remember to email me with your email so I can send you the spread sheet. Or if you see me on SVG cuts then just message me and I will attach it to the message. Thanks again.
Blessings, Sharalyn

Note: All Kits and Collections you might need are on the spreadsheet. Contact me via my Shara's Paper Creations Facebook page and I will send you the spreadsheet. :)

The Thinkin Spot!

Happy Spring Everyone!!!

A while back I posted a picture of some paper straws I had seen. I was intrigued by them and had to have some. My mind starting shooting in many directions! Well they came and I couldn't wait to get started, my computer was doing that scroll through all my photo's thing and I spied my grandson Danny, that mischief smile and those beautiful blue eyes. I was thinking about how he can be a wild one and then it it me a jungle themed project. I thought about the Wild Child SVG Collection and it went from there. Danny is the best one liner kids I know and funny as all get out but he can be wild too and ends up in a "thinkin" spot a lot. That is how I came up with the name for this new project.

I cut the apple from Miss Bakers Classroom kit and embossed the accents with a zebra embossing folder I had just gotten at Hobby Lobby. Then I cut leaves from the Wild Child SVG Collection and inked the edges and glued them in various places to make the trees. I had glued some of the straws in place to make the trees. I used one of my most used tools the flower shaping tools from EK Success. The elephant was made by using the small pumpkin from Pick a Pumpkin SVG kit and the legs and trunk were the stems from that kit as well. The head is the acorn from Autumn Acorn SVG Kit . I poked a hole in his behind and braided some grey embroidery floss together and stuck that through the hole then glued it shut as well. The ears were from Garden Nouveau SVG Kit and were the flat poppy petals. The eyes are just black pearls from Michaels, and thats how my Thinkin Spot Elephant is born.
 Thanks for stopping by and reading my blog. If you love paper crafting you really need to check out SVG Cuts awesome files that allow you to let your creativity go wild! Below is a link that will take you right to their site.. Good people too! Go wild and get your creativity on! Happy crafting everyone! Thanks again for stopping by.
Blessings, Sharalyn

SVG Kits and Collections Used:
Miss Baker's Classroom SVG Kit 
Pick a Pumpkin SVG Kit 
 Autumn Acorn SVG Kit
 Garden Nouveau SVG Kit
 Wild Child SVG Collection

High Skies!

It is late afternoon so I will say Good afternoon to y'all!

I made a balloon from Mary's High Skies kit.. oh my!
Y'all you so need to check this kit out!!!! It is amazing and girlie and all so fun! 
I cut the balloon out at the size it imports and then I decided I wanted to dry emboss the basket which I did with a chevron folder I purchased from Sizzix and it comes with another folder I can see myself using a lot. I had cut two baskets because I noticed that some of the baskets had tilted a bit from to much weight and since I had added a lot to mine I dry embossed the second basket then glued it onto the first and let it dry. I took the banner  and shrunk it down so it would fit on my basket instead of the balloon as I was sure it wouldn't fit over the lace I added opps,LOL. This was the first time I used the enamel dots and I gotta tell ya I am loving them! Of course you know me I have to add flowers or butterflies to things and I resisted the butterfly for now but one may appear on the side of the balloon in a day or so. I am thinking with that beautiful butterfly she made in this kit some vellum and oh yeah for sure that butterfly is going to appear. I have a habit of making things and then I give them away, but I love this one so much I am going to keep it and put it over my craft area to look at when I want to get away and we just can't. I will look at my balloon and imagine myself gliding over a peaceful grassy area... with flowers or something like that. 
In reality I am scared to death of heights so No way would I be in a balloon ever!!! 

Thanks for stopping by and if you feel the need to fly away but just can't get away take a ride on your very own balloon you made from SVG Cuts and fly away you wont regret it. Thanks for stopping by and reading down below is a link to take you to their site. Hugs everyone! Sharalyn

SVG Cuts Kits Used:
High Skies SVG Kit 




 
Ok I caved and here is a photo of my balloon with the butterfly. ;)

A Little Whimsy!

Mornin All,

It is a really pretty day here today but it isn't supposed to last. The Joshua Trees are starting to bloom and that means I will be too. Rudolph look here I come, LOL. Any hoo I wanted to share my Mushroom with Y'all that I  posted yesterday. Loved that in the new kit and the egg house but have been fascinated  with the mushrooms.
I made the Mushroom box the way your instructed on Mary's wonderful tutorials. I bet you didn't know she does one for each kit. Bless her for that cuz when I first started and she would say it was pretty easy I would say yes for your little fingers and of course my hubby would walk by about that time and say are you talking to the computer??? YES! Yes I am. So I cut and put together the mushroom and guess what there was a tiny hole in the top and yeppers that bothered me. but I am not a perfectionist.. nope ahem. anyway I cut the butterflies from the Garden Nouveau in three very small sizes then cut the fairy from twilight fairies, and yes I did have to buy the kit I didn't have it.. go figure.. I glued them onto the wires I had wrapped around a paint brush or pencil whatever is closest. I used hot glue as it seemed to hold better, and stuck the wires down into the hole. The fairy's wings were cut from Card stock vellum and colored with pigment ink. Then I wanted climbing vines so I had found those too In Celeste's Cutesy Corners and sized to the scale of my whatever it is I made... I used Cheryl's Bugs and after three tries for sizes I finally found one that would work but had to use tweezers to put it together. I did ink the edges on the vines and grass as it does help give it some dimention. The grass was cut from Easter Egg Hunt and the snail which seems to be a big hit, was made gluing a smaller button inside a larger button and taking the body from an extra butterfly and cutting off the wings then gluing that onto the button. I use hot glue for stuff like that. Let's see, the off white lace was a closeout from Michaels and the teal lace I glued on with my Score-Tape and was from Pinkpaislee Nantucket set. I got that from ScrapbookSteals.com.Honestly if they didn't have such great deals I couldn't afford some of the stuff I get. That's it the pearls are from Michaels too. OH and I put tiny white pearls on the lady bug and then used a black Copic Marker to make black dots. Thanks for stopping by and reading my blog I hope I didn't bore you to death.. have a super day and and Happy Crafting! Blessings, Sharalyn
Kits and Collections Used:
Cotton Tail Village SVG Kit
 Garden Nouveau SVG Kit
 Cheryl's Cute Bugs SVG Kit
Twilight Fairies SVG Collection

Celeste's Cutesy Corner Elements SVG Collection

Easter Morning Egg Hunt SVG Collection

I Spy Spring

Hi everyone,  

SVG cuts Facebook page has yet another challenge going on and the winner wins a Sizzix Eclips bundle. I really like the way the new challenges are as it makes me think hard. You can only use the designated kits and shapes. That makes it even more of a challenge and guess, what I like it.
Before we could use any of the kits and enter as many times as we wanted. Guess that was too much for me. I remember when my kids were little and they're rooms were trashed and I would tell them concentrate only on one part of the  room, before you know it you'll have the whole room clean. Don't look at the whole picture. I think God does that with me. He only lets me see a tiny speck of what is up ahead.  Just as my children, I will see the whole picture and become overwhelmed. I can't tell you how many times I went back into the room and the kids were playing in the mess because they became overwhelmed. That is the way it was for me with being able to choose from all the kits and shapes. I couldn't concentrate on one thing. That is why it took me so long to post the picture of what I had entered. Here is my entry and no sorry, I  won't tell you what I did to make it. I'm challenging you figure it out!  Be sure and check out SVG cuts, it's a fun group of people and you will find very crafty men and women there. Thank you so much for stopping by and reading my blog and Happy Craftin' Y'all!

A Message of Love

Morning everyone!
A huge thank you to all the people who liked my card! I have to say I have never had 297 Likes and 96 comments on something I made before. My neighbor of 20 yrs is celebrating her 93rd birthday this year. She has not been "home for the last two years and I am so aware that this may be the last card I ever make for her that I wanted it to be special. I was sort of stuck so I looked on pinterest which is what I do when I am stuck for ideas. One of my favorite card makers had posted a very pretty card and I thought it would be perfect for Ellen. The only problem was I didn't have those memory box  die cuts she used. So I did what ever creative person would do I improvised. I have been very blessed to find the Sure Cuts A Lot program and SVG Cuts. So when I find something I like or want to make I go to my files from SVG Cuts and use my knowledge all be it not vast on Sure Cuts A Lot and make it using Mary's amazing files. So here it is.
First I took the picture and put it on my desktop so I could refer to it as I "designed" (i use that very loosly) the cut out for the card. I imported two ovals from the shapes menu and set one inside the other. Here is the cut sizes on that. Oval 1 is W 3.138 x H 4.918 Oval 2 is W 2.720 x H 4.840  I did not weld these shapes nor did I click keep proportions, on either side of the top of the oval I added Wheatfield Swirls from Mary's Swirlies SVG Collection. The wheat field Swirls are cut at  W 1.569 x H 2.723 copy and paste another then flip it and weld to the outer oval where you want it. I used Swirl sm 4 from the shapes menu imported at W0.942 x H 0.791 copy and paste another then flip it as well and weld where it looks good to you also only to the outer oval. Select all and group all the shapes together so it is easy to move if necessary.
 The vines we made by using Flourish Sm number4 from the shapes menu as well, from the Sure cuts a lot program.  I used the Azalea leaves from 3D Flowers SVG Kit that Mary designed and broke them apart to set the sizes at lrg leaf W.0492 H.0.895  Sm leaf W .0641 x H.0.712 I moved these to where I thought they would like nice and welded them to the vine. Here is where I had trouble with my computer or the program not sure which. Every time I tired to preview it the program shut down. Just keep opening it back up but make sure you save every now and then so your not in danger of loosing all the work you had done. The flower is the Impatient from 3D Flowers SVG Kit Part II cut at two sizes and on these I did click keep proportions. Lrg. is W 1.389  sm is W 1.150 . The centers are from the 3d flowers one in the extras file I cut number 4 at W 0.686 x  H 0.677 I cut the white "square" from Simon's Simple Square Cuts another of Mary's useful files at W 4.539 x H 6.322.
 I used my McGill flower shaping tools to shape the flowers, then glued them together.  I glued the cut oval shape to the white background and glued the vines in cross fashion. I did glue only the outer edges of the oval at first to see if I wanted to curl any of the swirls which I did.
 I used tiny white pearls from Michaels and perfect pearls was spritzed on the whole card once it was all glued and flowers shaped and such to give it a extra glitz to it. Then I glued the bow on the top and the extra from the ties in various places as it appealed to me. I did use my hot glue gun for that but I think it would hold better if I had used Glossy accents or Crystal affects. The card base was a piece of Cherry Cobbler card stock from Stampin up.
 That is how this card came about, that and a desire to make something special one more time for her. We have fought like cats and dogs at times but through this I have learned to let it go that life is fragile and people act and react because of things in their past that may have caused them to be wounded. In the grand scheme of things, it really doesn't matter. What matters is that we learn to forgive let it go and love that person anyway. Thanks for stopping by and reading this. Please stop by SVG Cuts Facebook page and show Mary and Leo the love they deserve. They have made some amazing files for us to design with and it just keeps getting better and better. Thank you again for all the "likes". Happy Craftin' Y'all!
 Blessings, Sharalyn

SVG Kits and Collections Used:
Swirlies SVG Collection
 3D Flowers SVG Kit 3D Flowers SVG Kit Part II  
Simon's Simple Square Cuts      

Note: As of September 24th 2015 she is still with us. Another lesson, don't count anyone out till they are out. :)

Info on Lamp posts

Morning all!
I have had several people ask how I made the Charles Dickens type lamp posts and really I cannot take credit for that. It was a very own Thienly from SVG cuts Design team who came up with that awesome idea last Christmas. This year she made another awesome design I am itching to get to. It is a sled. AWESOME!!!! Anyhoo I told someone I would try to put in some of the specks of the embellishments I used for the 7 I have made so far. I currently have two more cut and ready to put together.. Seriously in need of a paper order right now I have made so many...
Many of you know I got the machine I was hoping for the silhouette Cameo a few months back so some of the things I used on these were cuts from silhouette. The sticks and berries, the star berry wreath. The rest is from our very special Mary who makes these awesome cuts for us to design with! Bless you for that Mary!
First the How to's to make the Lamp post are on the SVG cuts Blog just type in lamp post on the search part of the blog and it should take you right to the instructions. The rest I used the ferny greens and the spindly poinsettia from 3d winter greens the cardinal on some was a freebie from svg cuts and I used my copic markers to color some of the pearls to match my colors and smooch in the nail polish bottles to color some of the berries others I used glitter and a pen type glue to add the glitter. Some of you already know I adore my flower shaping tools from EK Success. I use those a lot when I make my stuff and in fact need to order some more as I made the mistake of using them to hold things in place when hot gluing... don't do that it ruins the tips.. The snowflakes I have used on all of them were from Michael's and are from their recollections stuff.. very hard to find so next year grab them up quick cuz I am buying a ton next year!!!. Buttons from Buttons Galore is another fav of mine but I have yet to try Tamara's pretty buttons from paper play. Dying to but well you know how it is .. I stamped the card stock vellum with a snowflake stamp and Versa Mark then used Stampendous Kaleidoscope transparent embossing powder and embossed the snowflakes on the "glass". I used Stampin ups heat and stick and Art glitters ultra fine transparent crystal glitter( another fave of mine) to make the snow glittery. On the berries I used a red glitter I had from Martha Stewart but I would love to get some from Art glitter as in my opinion that is the best glitter  I have ever seen. I used copper ink for inking on the brown lamp post and silver on the charcoal colored ones. I think that is all I did, but just did what  I do other wise to decorate them I don't know. If I forgot something just ask..My hubby says I get in a zone.. LOL well if that means I don't hear him when he talks to me then I guess that is true. Hope this helps, Seriously have fun with these they are a blast to make and as soon as I get the last two done I am trying that sled.. AWESOME!!!! Thanks for stopping by and thank you for asking how I did that. Always fun to share ideas! Have a great day and Happy Crafting.. and YES DO check out svgcuts.com! SUPER creating opportunities.