Monday, November 28, 2011

Last Chance…

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Sale ends at 11:59 pm Eastern Tonight!!!
These products will never be in Farmer's Market again. If you've got your eye on something- grab it now while you can!

2012: Quickie Calendar by Krisi's Kreations
Print It: Snowman Soup by Krisi's Kreations
Print It: Santa Candy Bar Wrappers by Krisi's Kreations

And a re-release of these coupons. These coupons will ONLY be available for Farmer’s Market and will then be RETIRED for good – TONIGHT, so grab them now!

Print It: Coupons - Couples by Krisi's Kreations & Stolen Moments
Print It: Coupons - Friends by Krisi's Kreations & Stolen Moments
Print It: Coupons - Kids by Krisi's Kreations & Stolen Moments

  

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Saturday, November 26, 2011

December Advent is coming soon!

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Scrap Orchard has an amazing advent FREEBIE for everyone who is signed up for the newsletter. So if you are not signed up and you don't want to miss out, SIGN UP HERE! All the designers are having a 50% off sale for 24 hours only.  The mystery is who has what day!  Sign up and be sure to download each days freebies!

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Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Tabbed Ornament Tutorial

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Hey everyone! Karen here with a tutorial on how to make a beautiful Ornament with Krisi's Tabbed Ornament Template.



I love to use the circle template with the center triangle. You can put it together in several ways, the simplest version would need 4 circles. And that was the one I put together when I got the template first without any idea what could be made out of it. Then I got the tip that you would need 20 circles to put together a ball shaped ornament and I was intrigued...and had loads of fun seeing it grow for the first time. Don't feel intimidated by the number of parts you need to put it together. The part that always takes me longest is designing the little triangles in Photoshop, the rest is fairly easy.

Here are the supplies you'll need for the ornament that's shown in the product preview.



As you can see I intend to cut the circles with a circle punch since trying to cut 20perfect circles is not my idea of fun ;).

So, when designing your circles you should already have an idea which size you want them to be. The first ones I made for this project got discarded in the end, because they were simply too busy and did not look good on the small scale I printed them in. I then went back to the designing table, so to speak, and made a new, much simpler set.

To get circles that have exactly the size of the circle punch you have available is very easy.
For the first one I made I first figured out the zoom factor I had to have in my design software to see exactly the size the circle would print. I brought the ruler up on screen and held another ruler to the screen and zoomed in and out of my canvas until the ruler on my screen exactly matched the one in front of my screen. For my laptop that is 33.33%.

I then started to resize the template until I had a 2 inch circle which I verified again by holding a ruler against my screen at 33.33% zoom.

This year I have learned a little more about Photoshop and will show you another way to get the right size.

Go to View/New Guide


(if you click on the pictures you can see them a bit larger)

You can place this new vertical guide anywhere on your canvas. For my example I placed it at 1 inch.



I then went to View/ New Guide again and this time I placed it at 2.75 inch, because my 2 inch circle punch does not work properly anymore and I wanted to try the next biggest I have, the 1 3/4 inch punch.



And here is a picture of how I sized my circles to fit exactly between those two guides.



A plus of using a 1 3/4" punch is that you can fit all 20 circles on one sheet of printer paper.

We're now coming to the loudest part: the punching. :)) Hubby does not like the sound too much, especially when he just fell asleep on the couch. *lol



The next step is to score all the lines of the triangle. That's a bit tedious, but absolutely necessary. I have treated myself to a scoring board recently, because I found that was the tool I was longing for most when working on projects, but scoring with the back of a knife along a ruler on a not too hard surface (I used my cutting mat) works just as well and even gives crisper lines.



As you can see, I took a black marker down the center line of my board, because there are so many lines that I never was sure I I hat the top of my line and the back of my line still on the same notch. Now I can easily see it.

After scoring all 20 circles it is time to get out the glue. I think wet glue applied to the tabs created by the score lines with some kind of brush to get a thin and even coat works best for this project. I was so lucky to find just the perfect glue during our vacation in Hungary. It is wet glue with a sponge tip that only puts a very thin coat on the paper. I guess ModPodge would work pretty well, too. I found that using glue has a lot to do with preferences, so just try your favourite glue on scrap circles and see if it works.

The ornament is put together in three circles or rows. For my ornament I used directional designs and designed 10 'normal' triangles and 10 triangles that stand on their tip. The top is made up of 5 circles with 'normal' triangles.





The picture shows the first row of five circles glued together and how 5 triangles standing on their tip go right underneath those. The spaces between the triangles that are standing on the head are filled with 5 'normal' triangles again. The second row of the ball therefore uses 10 triangles (5 'normal', 5 'en pointe').



When all those triangles are glued together at their tabs it looks like this:



Now would be the last opportunity to get the hanger ribbon or twine in there. That's how I did it before remembering that it is easier before the second row is all glued together. This is one of the moments that I don't mind my small hands. ;)

I just stuffed a ribbon through the tiny hole at the top where the 5 triangle points meet and secured it with my hot glue gun from the inside.



I have also used twine on these that I tied to a small piece of wood from a tooth pick which I put inside the ornament and then I threaded the twine through the top hole again.

The 5 triangles for the final row are standing on their tip again:



Again, when putting together this example, I remembered too late that I usually kept 1 triangle at the side to put in last. Here I glued all their tops to the last row and then glued all the sides. Worked as well, but I found keeping 1 circle to put in last after glueing everything else together is slightly easier.

You're almost done now, just add a few embellishments to your liking - or none if you like that better...and VoilĂ  you're done.



The left ornament was done with 2" circles and measures approx. 4" diameter and the smaller one with 1.75" circles measures approx. 3.5" diameter and has the perfect size for a Christmas tree.



I hope you liked my tutorial and if you feel like you want to try and make an ornament yourself, I would love to see your pictures.

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend everyone!

Karen

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Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Farmer’s Market is starting SOON… 3 new items and 3 re-releases

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This week I have so much to be thankful for and YOU are one of those things.  Thank you for following my blog, even with the move to a new store – I promise it will be worth it! 


All sales, specials and promotions are based on Eastern Time Zone.  Coupons and sales cannot be combined.
It's almost time for Farmer's Market- where we will have over 350 products priced for only $1 each!!!!
You don't want to miss this sale!
This is the ONLY time these products will be in Farmer's Market - so grab them while you can!!

The Farmer’s Market is NOW OPEN… so go and add these items to your  cart!

Oh and if I haven’t been busy enough with the Farmer’s Market – Shelf Reliance is having a HUGE Thanksgiving Weekend sale as well.  I have included copies of the flyer down below if you are interested in ordering something – you can let me know now and I will process the order for you over the weekend or you can purchase right on our site – http://adamandkrisi.shelfreliance.com starting FRIDAY morning until Monday.

A few NEW items:

2012: Quickie Calendar by Krisi's Kreations

Print It: Snowman Soup by Krisi's Kreations

Print It: Santa Candy Bar Wrappers by Krisi's Kreations

And a re-release of these coupons. These coupons will ONLY be available for Farmer’s Market and will then be RETIRED for good, so grab them now!

Print It: Coupons - Couples by Krisi's Kreations & Stolen Moments

Print It: Coupons - Friends by Krisi's Kreations & Stolen Moments

Print It: Coupons - Kids by Krisi's Kreations & Stolen Moments

Are you a newsletter subscriber?  If so be sure to check your newsletter as I have a special gift for you this weekend!  If you are not a newsletter subscriber… go do it NOW so you can get the special gift as well as the free template too!

And here is a little freebie as well you can grab:

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Download Link (4Shared)

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Order at adamandkrisi at gmail dot com or via phone (number on the flyer). Feel free to share with friends/family/strangers etc! You can also follow me on that blog – http://thrivefoodhomestore.blogspot.com

Have a HAPPY THANKSGIVING if here in the United States!

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Thursday, November 17, 2011

New Releases and a CHAT today!

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This week I have two re-releases for you (20% off until Sunday):

I just love how the ornaments look, and they are actually really easy to put together.  Watch the blog for a tutorial next week!

Tamara

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Jennifer

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and another from Jennifer using the triangle one but less of them:

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{more on the detailed images in the store}

And I have this word art (20% off until Sunday):

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And don’t forget…

Join me and the other new Orchard Girls in the Treehouse Chatroom TODAY at 2pm PST / 5pm EST and get to know all of us! We'll play a game and give out some prizes!!!

See you there!

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Come CHAT with me!

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Sorry for the late notice on this – I thought it posted it earlier this week!

Join me and the other new Orchard Girls in the Treehouse Chatroom on Thursday and get to know all of us! We'll play a game and give out some prizes!!!

See you there!

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Saturday, November 12, 2011

Phew… What a week, but something new

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This week has been exhausting, thanks to this little girl…

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I remembered that puppies were lots of work but I didn’t remember it was THIS much work!  After having her here with us since Tuesday I can honestly say she is SUPER smart. She is an Australian Goldendoodle from Cutiedoodles and she really is amazing.  Already learning where she needs to “go hurry up” (what we say for go potty) – outside!, learning when we come in she has to sit on the mat to get her paws wiped off (wouldn’t you know it would rain this week), learning to love her crate and just have fun!

But she is a big part of the reason that this post is going out so late!

Well it is official I am an ORCHARD GIRL, I have left ScrapMatters and found a new home at Scrap Orchard. So with this move I will slowly be moving my previous products into my store, it will take me a little bit of time – I have new examples to create and repackaging to do!  If there is something you are wanting to see me move over soon, just let me know.  KrisisKreations at gmail dot com

I do have something new for this week though and I hope you like it!

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I have seen this type of item floating around the craft world for awhile and I knew I wanted to make this template digitally so I could easily give these little sanitizers to the people I work with and what a cute way to package them up!

Here are a couple examples from my team and the team at Scrap Orchard:

SHARON make this cute one with butterflies and bright colors.  (notice that she printed on both the inside and outside – by printing on the front and backside of the paper).

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And this one from AMBER that has both chap stick and antibacterial gel, and is all packaged and ready to give for Christmas!

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These can hold an assortment of items – use your imagination.  Be sure to show me. I promised a link to my designer gallery and here it is: http://scraporchard.com/gallery/showgallery.php?cat=1094

And two items that I am re-releasing are:

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and these envelopes. These envelopes fit the standard size card – a letter sized piece of paper, making them perfect for

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Both of which are perfect to grab now for the holidays.  A few examples:

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Hurry and grab it before 11:59 EST tomorrow (Sunday) to save 20% off all three templates, AND if you buy both the Gift Card: Greeting Cards and the Cover It: Invitation you will save 30%!!

See you during the week for some other inspiration and tips.   If you are not busy on the 16th – check out this Make it Snappy (a speed scrap).

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