Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Easy Shmeazy Picture Frames:)
Materials needed:
  • Close To My Heart Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge
  • Cricut Personal Paper Machine 
  • Sponge
  • Your favorite glue pen I used the Martha Stewart glue pen because that's all I had:)
  • Close To My Heart Exclusive Stamp Pads - I used: Bamboo, Indian Corn Blue, Cocoa, Goldrush and Star Spangled Blue 
  • Hot glue gun
First Plug your cricut machine in and put your cartridge in. I chose the image on page 58 on the lower right hand corner and the rose image. I set the corner swirl image at 3 in and the rose at 2.5 in.

 After you have cut out your images grab your ink and sponge and get ready to dig and sweep the outer part of the rose.
Go ahead and grab the sponge, press it against the ink and brush the rose image. You want to have a sweeping motion going one way.
Now with the quilling tool or a pen, start to wrap the smallest part of the rose around and just roll.
Now pull the tool out of the flower, but go slow so that it doesn't rip apart. You should have your glue gun plugged in already so that you can go ahead and put some glue in the middle of that half moon part of the rose. Press the flower into the glue gently and hold for a few seconds. Be cautious of the heat!
Now you want to grab your frame, peel any protective covering it may have and use your glue pen to place glue on the back part of the swirl image. Place on the frame and put hot glue on the back part of the rose. Now place the rose in the corner of the swirl image. Not too hard right!

1 comment:

  1. Absolutely love this. You have a gift girl.

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