Lot's and Lots of Video II

I'm back with Part 2 of my weekend post. This post will be Mona’s demo from Friday and Sharon’s video from Saturday morning. For Mona it's "The Most Wonderful Time of the Year!" Mona loves Halloween. In her Friday demo she shared a little project she has been working on. She ordered large paper clips in neon like colors with the intent to add Sizzix's vintage Halloween faces to the tops of them. Unfortunately, or fortunately they were the wrong size. I think they work just fine! Here is her process for affixing them.

First, are a few photos of her finished clips.

Here is one of the large clips.

First, take a large glue dot and fit it over the small loop end of your clip. 

Mona cut two of each image and laid the glue dot on the tip of the clip stretching it over the arc to each side.  She then added the clip to one of the images (the non stamped one). Then she adds a thin but generous line of glue to the exposed area of the image.

To help secure your glued images together, after the stamped image is added on top of the clip, Mona used these small clips to hold the two sides together until the glue dries.

Here are all those cute goblins. This makes a great kids party gift.

Mona's second Halloween craft used this Taylored Expressions die set. Mona cut her images out of felt and added googly eyes and a small, black clothespin. We have about three of these TE die sets in the store. Remember we cannot put TE in our on-line store, but you can always call the store to order.

Next for Mona is more of the turn-arounds from Concord & 9th. This is an easier turn-around to use because you rotate the stencil, not your paper.

Mona is using her Waffle Flower mat. It helps hold her paper as it tucks right into the top corner. But for extra stability, Mona has added a small piece of yellow tape in the bottom corner.

Here is her stencil. If you are going to use the matching die, it's important to use the top side of the stencil. The manufacturer helps by stamping which side is the top on bottom of the turn-around. (It's hard to see but 'TOP' is imprinted at the bottom of this stencil).

This turn-around has a matching die that she used to cut out a few of her leaves and popped them up. You can see the popped leaves in the next photo if you look carefully.

The second stencil Mona used was a wreath stencil. 

You can see her colors at the top of the stencil.

Using one color at a time, Mona works her way around the stencil, turning a total of four times for each color/image.

One of her final versions.

Mona added a sentiment and used last weeks stitched background (on the diagonal!) for this card.

Mona added a little brown shading at the bottom of this wreath,

Then Mona added one of the apple buckets from last week.

In a follow-up from last week's turn around, Mona added a layer of velum over her turn-around background and then the large apple and a banner.

Mona's last tip is she uses sanitizer to clean her Waffle Flower mat! It's hard to see but her sanitizer container but it has a wizened purple witches hand around it! I told you she loves Halloween!

Moving on to Sharon's Saturday video, she started out with a shout out to the Buffalo Bills and their impressive win over LA. 

A large overview of the days new product. We have IO mini cubes packaged in groups of three.

New product from Spellbinders, LDRS and more.

Starting with Spellbinders we have two new embossing folders. 

Here is a cute train die. Sharon points out that it's not just for Christmas. Switch up your colors, add pumpkins, flowers or whatever in the car and you can use it for many occasions.

A cute Christmas stamp and die set featuring holiday pups.

More cuteness from Spellbinders.

Cute puppy and kitten dies. The package on the left has the animal images the package on the right has the phrases. Remember to check the back of the packaging with Spellbinders to see what is actually inside!

Next up is LDRS. They have two great envelope die sets. The first is an envelope and liner in one package. 

They also have an envelope box. Sharon likes how they include instructions on the back with how many pieces of each die you need to cut and how to assemble.

LDRS has this cute stamp and die set. The die set comes with the words and the large shadow around them.

New papers from LDRS with non-traditional colors.

A cute sticker set that coordinates with the paper above.

New holiday phrases with matching dies.

Cute little animals with a Halloween theme and matching die.

Large holiday sentiments, word and matching shadows.

Samples using the dies above.

Some odds and ends, a stamp set that features the popular 'Post Card' sentiment and a postmark (at the bottom, hidden by glare, argh!)

Sharon breezed through this, but I wanted to let you know we have two pre-cut card kits available.

Lastly, I want to wish a Happy 30th Anniversary to my brother and sister-in-law who are celebrating by touring the great American west driving through Colorado, South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana and finishing in Nevada at Vegas. The timing of this die was perfect! Here is the card that will be waiting for them when they arrive home.

My funny for the day, grrrowl!

One more announcement, we are having a second GARAGE SALE! Sharon is finalizing the date. We are trying for the first weekend in October. We will update as soon as we have the final information. That's it for me for this past week,  I'll be back after Wednesday night's video so until then, get crafty and Stay Safe!