Scrappy Links

Thickers by American Crafts

There are alphabets, and there are alphabets!  Thickers by American Crafts have to be one of the most popular alphabets available to scrappers and crafters today.

With so many styles available, what's the best way to find the font you're looking for?  Easy!  Just go to the Thickers section of the American Crafts website and you will find samples of all of the different alphabets they make such as puffy, glitter and felt.

For example, I clicked on "Jewlery Box" in the glitter section and found this:

Now I know that "Jewlery Box" is availabe in white, leaf and watermelon.  It makes it much easier to search my local stores and/or online for this particular font.  Pretty handy don't you think?  Enjoy!

Teri Hansen

 

A Miniature Memento

Ree Drumond is truly a Renaissance woman for the 21st century.  At her site The Pioneer Woman, she has all sorts of information about herself, photography, cooking and more.  This post about a miniature memento though is the cutest thing I've seen that's not a baby, a puppy or a kitten.

 

It's a miniature trunk a fan made and presented to her at a stop on her book signing tour.

Look at all of the miniature goodies inside!

 

Check out her post here as there are plenty of pictures of all of the miniature paper goodies.  Seeing this makes me want to make a minature scrap book.  Enjoy!

Teri Hansen  

Cricut Cake

While at CHA I was able to witness the absolute genius of the Cricut Cake, a totally new cake decorating machine.  Did I take any pictures?  No.  Why?  Because I was too busy saying ooh and aah watching it!  To look at it and what it can do click here.  What I can tell you is this:

• It looks just like a red Cricut machine, only it cuts a special rolled sugar you can use to decorate cakes.  Provo craft will sell the rolled sugar.
• It comes with a cart for cutting cake shapes.
• It works with your Cricut cartridges that you use for paper.
• It works with your Gypsy to create new images to cut.
• It makes super cute cakes and cupcakes!

To get additional information by email from Provo Craft regarding the Cricut Cake, click here.  It looks like a lot of fun!  Enjoy!

Teri Hansen 

Color Mixing Guide by Claudine Hellmuth

I found the coolest paint mixing guide by Claudine Hellmuth  for her paints by Ranger.  And I have been purchasing her acrylic paints as I run out of colors from my Making Memories collection. 

The best part?  Her 15 colors will give you 51 colors by using the guide and mixing equal parts.  I have much more than that now and have a hard time mixing.  It will be much easier to only have 15 colors to choose from.  Thanks Claudine!

Teri Hansen

Paper Wreath Tutorial by Second Sister

At the CHA show, I fell in love with this goregeous wreath at The Girl's Paperie booth.

It was created by the very talented April Meeker, a.k.a. "Second Sister."  She has been gracious enough to post a tutorial on how to make one for yourself on her blog.  April is also a talented jewlery designer and you can check out her work for sale at her Etsy shop.  Thanks April for the tutorial!

Teri Hansen  
 

Chip Art by Melody Ross

It's so good to see Melody Ross back in the scrapworld again.  The former head of Chatterbox has created a new line of products for GCD Studios.  It's called Chip Art and the combination of tools and chipboard allow you to make very unique, artsy looking projects.  This will take your scrapping to a whole new level.

Here's some photos from her booth at the CHA show.

My Chip Art photos did not turn out due to operator error (me).  To see actual Chip Art projects, check out Jenny Doh's blog.  Enjoy!

Teri Hansen