Crafty Brown Eyes

HAPPY 239th BIRTHDAY MARINE CORPS

2014-11-21T10:00:00.002-05:00

Hello Crafty friends! I meant to post this last week....but I totally forgot. My husband Keith retired from the Marine Corps in 2000 after serving 20 years!! WOW!! He has been retired 14 years! I am so proud of him and all of his accomplishments! I enjoyed going to the various Marine Corps balls throughout the years! This was our first ball together in 1985 in Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina! Boy, we were so young then! LOL

I made this letter holder for Keith to place on his desk. This was my first mod podge project.

I do hope you like my project! I love how it turned out and I see more mod podge projects in my near future!
Thanks for stopping by......I do hope you will come back again really soon!

Sticky Notes Holder

2014-11-20T12:08:00.002-05:00

Hi Crafty friends! I have seen a lot of people creating sticky notes holders so I decided to give it a try. I have 2 different takes on it. One version is a plastic holder and the other is a stand up card.

I do hope you like my projects! Thanks for stopping by! Hope to see you soon.

Guest designer on MCT!!

2014-09-01T03:01:00.000-04:00

Hello Crafty friends! I am so excited to be a guest designer on Miss Emma's blog! I have loved her line of stamps and dies on My Creative Time for the past 2 years! Miss Emma and her design team members are so very talented and AWESOME!! So this really means a lot to me! Now on to my projects for today. I used items from her 34th July Release. I really like the Fun Speech Bubble stamps and die set. I also used her surprise pop out card die. I used pop dots to add dimension to the speech bubbles and to the heart.

The picture below is the inside of the card where I used the stitched gift card pocket die. On the outside of the pocket I used stitched sweetheart & xoxo dies.

I put a Zoo Atlanta membership card in the pocket...I love to go to the zoo!

This is the card opened up. I really love how it flips out.

I also made a keychain with the same dies and stamps on shrinky dinks! I love to use strinky dinks!

I added the same paper on the card to the back of the keychain. The pic does NOT do it justice...it really did come out great!

Thank you so much for stopping by! And thank you again Miss Emma for the opportunity to be a guest designer! I do hope you will come back to visit my blog!

Brandi Nicole's video

2014-08-19T11:27:00.001-04:00

Hello fellow crafters! My post today is not about crafting.....I have been telling you all that my youngest daughter was into the arts. She loves to sing, dance and act. Well today, we released her original song and video!! Please show her some love and support! It means a lot! The song will be on iTunes later this week! It is a great song and video for all ages, especially pre-teens and up! I hope you enjoy it!

Brandi Nicole, Ask Me To Dance

My Mom's 71st birthday!!

2014-07-23T12:17:00.001-04:00

Good morning Crafty Friends! On July 18th, was my Mom's 71st birthday!! So, my 3 kids and I each sent her a card. She LOVES pictures, so I made her 2 photo albums filled with lots of pics! Let me warn you, this one is kinda long......so bare with me.

This is a YourStory album with Tim Holtz corners, some ribbon and a layered label from Anna Griffin.

This is also a YourStory album with a MCT label die, embossed with an Anna Griffin folder and a Pin It flower embellishment from Purple Cows. I heat embossed the sentiment from CTMH on the label with black embossing powder from Stampin Up.

This card has an embossed layer and an Anna Griffin flower die layered and colored with chalk and spritzed with Tattered Angels glimmer mist and a bow. I really LOVED how the die cut came out. The picture does NOT do it justice. The inside of the card is a Martha Stewart loop die and CTMH stamp.

This is my 1st box card!! I didn't use a machine to cut this out...I did it by hand. I had so much fun making this!! I added some wooden embellishments by Claudine Hellmuth, MCT heart dies, and Anna Griffin embellishments.

This next card is made with die cuts and papers from Kanban. I love Kanban's foil papers and designs. The last card I used a Spellbinders birdcage and bird die and MCT flowers and label die.

I love easel cards. It's so much you can do with them. I do hope this post wasn't too long. Thanks for stopping by. I do hope to see you again really soon.

My Creative Time Designer's Challenge

2014-07-21T22:07:00.001-04:00

Hello my Crafty friends! My Creative Time was having a designer challenge using the 5 colors on the photo below and you had to come up with a project using those 5 colors. Here is the photo and the colors.

...and here is my take on that photo.....

and the photo below is the inside of the card.

This is my first time doing a color challenge. I waited until the last minute to do this.....the deadline is tomorrow, July 22nd at midnight PST! I do hope you like my card I made for this challenge.

Thank you so much for coming by. Please come back again real soon!

Etching on metal!

2014-07-13T15:23:00.001-04:00

Hello my Crafty friends! A friend of mine contacted me and asked me to etch a metal item she had. I had not etched on metal before....so I was a little hesitant. I tried it on a tin that I had at home.

It's a little hard to see on this....but I like how it looks.

Lighting is really bad.

Here it is on the finished project. I covered some of the info because it was personal stuff. LOL I will be doing more etching on metal now! Can't wait!

I do hope you like my project. Please come by again.....soon! Thanks!

Card, new tool and a video!

2014-07-08T11:49:00.002-04:00

Hello Crafty friends! I made a card and used a new tool! My card today is a summer vacation card. I love the ocean and can't wait to get back for a visit!

Front of my scalloped card.

...soooo....I thought it needed some bling on the outside!

Inside of my card.

this is the Spellbinders Tool'n One.

.....and a short video!!

I hope you like my project today and my short video clip! Any questions, please leave them and I will get back with you!

Thanks for stopping by...hope to see you again soon!

Vinyl on my walls!

2014-07-05T17:13:00.000-04:00

Good morning my Crafty friends! I would like to share the vinyls I put on my walls in my home. I am so happy with how they came out! Can't wait to do more!

The weeding was fun to do!! I added the emblem on the bottom and on the top to look like a frame.

The family one is at the bottom of the staircase and the bathroom one is in the kids bathroom above the toilet. Even though the youngest is 16, they may still need a reminder from time to time! LOL

This one is at the top landing on the staircase..to be seen by all!

I do hope you like my wall art! Thanks for stopping by! Hope to see you again real soon!

Crafty Brown Eyes: A fun card to make!

2014-07-03T08:59:00.001-04:00

Crafty Brown Eyes: A fun card to make!: GOOD MORNING my crafty friends! It has been a while since my last post. I have been crafting quite a bit, I just haven't been posti...

A fun card to make!

2014-07-03T08:47:00.001-04:00

GOOD MORNING my crafty friends! It has been a while since my last post. I have been crafting quite a bit, I just haven't been posting my creations. So I will try and play catch up! I ran across a youtube video showing how to make this double slider card. I fell in love with it and just had to make one! If you want to see the video, you can click HERE to see it. Her name is Sari Hanninen. So here is my take on her video....

This card is soooo cute! You can also write something inside the card too because it still opens like a regular card. It's a little heavy, so extra postage will be needed. You can use any stamp sets, so the possibilities are endless!!
Thanks for stopping by! I do hope you like my card! Come back again real soon!

My Explore bag decorated!

2014-03-24T16:51:00.002-04:00

Hello my Crafty friends! Today I want to share with you how I decorated my Explore bag. Since I decorated the machine, I just had to decorate the bag too.

Well, this is my bag with all sides of it decorated with iron on vinyl. I do hope you like it! Thanks for stopping by. Come back again really soon!

Loving my new Explore....

2014-03-22T14:29:00.002-04:00

Hello my Crafty friends! I hope you are enjoying this beautiful weather!! Spring has really sprung! LOL I saw a few videos on how people decorated their new Explore machines, so I decided to decorate mine!!

I love love love butterflies!!! The Explore cut the lace butterflies so easily!

My name is in my handwriting!! Yep, that's right, my handwriting!! I LOVE how you can do that!! I saw another video where someone showed how to do that.

I love the girl Cricut! She is so happy just like ME!

This little doggie is just like my little doggie Wolfgang! Had to have him on there!

WolfGang!!

I may change the color of the gray letters...it blends in too much with the words already on the machine.

Here is my new toy, all dressed up!! I love how it came out!! I hope you do too. Thanks for stopping by. Hope to see you again really soon!

More iron on's with Explore and my Cameo!

2014-03-19T12:43:00.004-04:00

Hi Crafty friends! I am so happy that the first day of Spring is tomorrow! It is my favorite time of the year!! New growth, new beginnings, new life and new adventures! Love it! Too bad the weather doesn't act like it's spring! LOL I have really been enjoying my new Cricut Explore! My daughters wanted me to do some sweatshirts for them, so naturally I didn't hesitate. My oldest daughter is 24 and LOVES all things pink and skulls, so I incorporated both in her sweatshirt. I couldn't find the "right" skull she wanted on Design Space, so the first sweatshirt was done on my Silouette. She came up with the phrase. The vinyl is Cricut brand vinyl and cut so easily on both machines. User error the first time so I had to redo it. I forgot which side to place down when I cut, but live and learn! LOL

My youngest daughter, who is 16, LOVES Chris Brown. She is so sad about all he is going through, so she came up with the next sweatshirt design phrases. We both pray that he gets his life together really soon!! These next cuts were done in Design Space with my Explore. I love how you can set your canvas and see placement of the things you are going to cut! AWESOME idea!!

That's all for me today. I do hope you like my projects and feel inspired by something you've seen. Thanks for coming by and I hope you enjoy your first day of Spring tomorrow!! Come back soon!

my new LOVE....Explore!!

2014-03-14T15:49:00.001-04:00

Hello my Crafty friends! Okay, so I bit the bullet and bought the new Cricut Explore. And, boy am I glad I did!! So far I am liking so much about this machine! The quietness of it while it's cutting, the ease of the cuts, the look of the machine and all the endless amounts of ideas and projects at my fingertips!! I got it from HSN along with 3 months of all the projects in the Design Space, and with the Anna Griffin exclusive projects and fonts! Her fonts are so cute!!

So, I made 4 of these thank you cards in 15 minutes, and the items on my daughter's iphone case in less than 10. Lining up the white part on the panda was hard! LOL

So far I do like this machine. It has a few software issues I think could be better and hopefully they will change. But I can live with it for now.

Thanks for stopping by. Hope to see you here again soon. Enjoy your beautiful weekend!

My first 2 shaker cards!

2014-03-12T00:51:00.001-04:00

Hello my Crafty friends!! I am back and I am very excited about my latest creations! On my blogger emails that I get, I saw a shaker card that Miss Cindy made. Click on her name and go to her blog and see her card. I loved it and wanted to do one since I had never made a shaker card before. So I tried it and LOVED it. Here is mine below.

...close up with the glass beads inside.

I think the arrows give it a great masculine touch for a male teen.

This is the inside of the card to match the outside of the card.

I loved this one so much I decided to step it up a notch....My first clear card!!

I used the acetate card to make this shaker card!!

...the 3rd flower is on the inside!

I will definitely make more of these cards! All of the dies and stamps I used are from MCT. You can click and go look around her shoppe. I made it a little easy to cut out the centers of the dollies. I used the 3 inch Fiskars circle lever punch to cut out the acetate for the window and the 2 inch Fiskars everywhere punch to cut out the center of the dollies on the stitched line.

Well, that's it for my craftiness today. Thanks so much for coming by!! Please let me know if you liked my cards. I would really love to hear from you. I will see you again soon....right here!

Birthday charger......

2014-02-14T18:41:00.001-05:00

Hello my Crafty friends! It seems like it has been forever since I posted. I told you all that my daughter is getting into the entertainment business, so last week we went to LA!!! OMGee!!! I loved it there! I didn't want to leave. She did all sorts of acting workshops and even went on the set of Kickin' It!! She got to go behind the scenes with the cast and interact with them! Everyone was so nice! That was an awesome experience! I can't wait until she is on set acting! :D
Okay, so while in LA we went to one of her friends birthday party. I didn't have a chance to make a gift before we left, so I made it yesterday and I will mail it to her next week.

With a tip from my crafty friend Sharondalyn, I added white stickles to the star and the music notes. I added a sequin to her hair as well.

Well, that's my post for today! I do hope you like it.

Thanks for stopping by and I do hope to see you again very soon!

Box covers and cups!!

2014-01-28T20:22:00.001-05:00

Hello my Crafty friends! I hope everyone is enjoying this cold snow day!! I know I am! Today's post is 2 box covers and cups that I made for two sweet little girls. I got 2 puzzles and 2 cups from the Dollar Tree. I used MCT's 29th release for most of these projects.

I made the covers for these puzzles using mittens on the tops. Tied either sheer ribbon or twisty twine on them to look like ponytails. I hot glued 2 sets of hearts on the twisty twine to later be used as a book mark. I pop dotted the biggest snowflakes on both covers and turned up the other snowflakes to add dimension.

I added googly eyes on the penguin.

..and a cute little sentiment on the heart for the other cover.

Just a close up of the hearts on both covers.

On both cups I used the MCT's lowercase fun dies for their names.

...and also the xo's and stars and hearts from the lastest release. An added bonus is that the bottom of the cups are snack cups! And the straws are attached!

The covers can be slipped on and off very easily. And I was told they used the mittens today!! Good timing!

Well, these are my projects for today. I do hope you like what I have done! I hope to see you back here again soon! Thanks so much for stopping by!

Stay warm and be safe!!

50 and Fab!!

2014-01-23T16:26:00.001-05:00

Hello my Crafty friends! We moved to Georgia about 13 years ago when my hubby retired from the Marine Corps. Well, one of my first friends that I met shortly after we moved here turned 50 back in December. Her friends celebrated her birthday today. She just ran a half marathon in Miami over the weekend!!! How awesome is that!! So for my dear friend Juliet, I etched her a wine glass.

This is the front and the back of a blue wine glass. I love the font, makes it look a little shaky as if too much sipping was done.

This fun flip card is from MCT 's latest release and is called Surprise Pop out die card. And the cute little airplane die is also part of that release. I also stamped Happy Birthday in red ink all around the card, but it is hard to see in the pics.

The xoxo die is so cute and was part of the release as well. I have included the links to those items and to MCT's website, if you just click on the die's names.

The tags on the wine bag above were cut out on my Silhouette Cameo. I used the negative parts of the cuts and layered them with red paper. The tags on the bags are the exact size and font that I etched on the glass.

This picture above is the entire set. I even used the negative part of the xoxo die on the outside of the envelope.

My dear friend loved her gift!! I really enjoyed making it for her!

Thanks for stopping by! I do hope you will come back again.

I learned a new technique......

2014-01-22T15:59:00.001-05:00

Hello my Crafty friends!! During a blog hop last week over at MCT, I ran across a technique that I fell in love with. It was on Kate's blog. In the technique she used some heart dies and instead of cutting them, she embossed them. So, while I was waiting for my new set of dies that she used, I used the set I had on hand already. And it was so easy to do!!

I really really like how it turned out!! I hope you do too!

Thanks for stopping by! I will see you here again very soon!!

Silhouette Cameo decor......

2014-01-17T12:21:00.001-05:00

Good afternoon my Crafty friends! I have been looking at lots of people decorating their Silhouette Cameo machines. They have done amazing jobs!! I also wanted to decorate mine. I chose to put my blog's name on my machine. I really wanted to use a different font called "Maratre" but the lines are very thin. I don't know how to make them thicker. Maybe I will play around with it some more.

So I went with this font.

I really like how the eyes came out! :-) I do hope you like my design. Thanks again for stopping by! Hope to see you here again soon! Enjoy your long weekend!

Wine me up......and Don't even ask! LOL

2014-01-16T15:14:00.001-05:00

Hello my Crafty friends! I hope you all are keeping warm on this brisk winter day. Today I etched 2 wine glasses for my sister. I really love my air eraser and I think I have gotten my money's worth out of this tool! We all have had days like these! I know that I have!!! LOL Let's call them "do over days"! So on your next unbearable day....think about filling one of these glasses with your liquid of choice! :-)

So that's all I have for today! Thanks for coming by.....I hope you will come back again soon!! If you have any comments, please leave them. I would love to read them. Enjoy the rest of your day!

redo of my hubby's glass.....

2014-01-13T19:42:00.001-05:00

Hello my Crafty friends! A few weeks ago I did a glass for my hubby. It was one of my first steins that I did. I just put a "K" on it.

I do love the "K"....but thought it looked kinda lonesome. So I decided to add the rest of his name. And because he retired from the marine corps after 20 years, I added the marine corps emblem on the other side of the glass.

So, there goes my updated glass for my hubby. I hope you can see the design in spite of the lighting. Thanks for stopping by. I do hope you leave a comment. I do love to read them. Enjoy the rest of your week.....and I hope we bump into each other again....right here! See you soon!!

More chargers...

2014-01-10T12:12:00.002-05:00

Hello my Crafty friends! The other day I posted my first charger that I made. I enjoyed it so much that I made 2 more! I do really like the end product of these 2. It was a little interesting doing the 2 colors on one phrases. It has been so much easier using the contact paper as the transfer tape. I can see exactly where to place the designs!!

Thinking they may need something else on the top and/or sides. Not sure yet. I may put a ribbon on them and see how that looks? If I do, I will add the pictures later.

I do hope you like my post today. Thanks for stopping by. Hope to see you here again really soon!!

Entry for a design team call....

2014-01-07T08:00:00.000-05:00

Hello my Crafty friends! Today my post is the project that I entered for a chance to be on the Design Team for My Creative Time. I didn't make the DT, as I knew I wouldn't because my projects are no where near the talent that the ladies on her DT display!! Which is okay, but it sure was fun to apply and be considered! But the bright side....I was asked to be a Guest Designer in August!! I am over the moon about that one!! So exciting!! I will continue to do my crafts...get better and better...and who knows, one day I may make her DT!! Okay..so on to my entries. We had to use her amazing products for our entries. Since I am in love with etching glass right now, of course one of my designs is an etched glass! :-)

I used MCT's Classy Girl die complete with purse and shopping bag! So perfect for my daughter Bri who loves to shop! Her name is on the bottom with MCT's letter dies.

This card is for my Bri's birthday! These are more of MCT's dies, the bow, little black dress, the shoes and the balloons!

My daughter's friends threw her a surprise Masquerade party for her 21st!! She was so surprised and they had a blast! The layout is done using the Project Life set. The wine glasses, her name, the "Party" banner, the cards, the banner, her age and the balloons are all dies from MCT!! I told you all I love her products!!

So these were my entries! I do hope you enjoyed them! Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope you come back again really soon!! Until next time.....see ya!