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A little art, a little craft
Listed: Dec 20, 2012
Lisa Liza Lou Designs ― My little dog Suzie always wants a piece of the act! As soon as I put the pillow on the sofa to snap a picture of it, she jumped right up and plopped herself right in front of me. She gets a little "what about ME?" when I spend too much time ...
Tags: Home Decor, Cool2craft, Sewing, Paint, Ranger, Stamp
Lisa Fulmer ― 5 days ago
Lisa Liza Lou Designs ― This month my ATC group's theme was metal. I used one of the Spellbinders texture plates to emboss some of their purple foil sheets, then sanded the surface to let the silver foil from underneath peek through. It's glued to cardstock and the vine ...
Tags: Atc, Spellbinders
Lisa Liza Lou Designs ― This weekend, I had a go with glass etching cream from Martha Stewart Crafts. I had this one stray tumbler, so I thought I'd personalize it with my mother's name, Scharlene. Her name has a unique spelling, so there has never been a mug or keychain ...
Tags: Home Decor, Stencil, Blueprint Social, Martha Stewart Crafts, Glass
Lisa Fulmer ― 1 week 5 days ago
Lisa Liza Lou Designs ― Claudine Hellmuth Studio is a product line from Ranger Ink full of scrumptious colors of acrylic paints, adorable foam and acrylic stamps, and sticky-back canvas. Claudine's doodly illustrations are really cute and easy to mix and match to create...
Tags: Home Decor, Cool2craft, Paint, Ranger, Organizing, Stamp
Lisa Fulmer ― 1 week 6 days ago
Lisa Liza Lou Designs ― A while back I had found these great wood plaques at a salvage store that were cast-offs from a clock manufacturer. ∙ I only bought a few at the time, but now I wish I had bought the whole box! They are perfect for collage and encaustic ...
Tags: Home Decor, Cool2craft, Encaustics, Wood, Ranger, Upcycled
Lisa Liza Lou Designs ― Bunting is a super cute way to enhance a group of pictures on the wall, add some fun to the edge of a bookshelf, or decorate for a party. Each of these banner flags was super quick and easy to make, with all those little squares perfectly lined ...
Tags: Home Decor, Cool2craft, Papercrafts, Buttons
Lisa Liza Lou Designs ― Don't toss out that old tee shirt just because it has a stain on the front. Cut it up and upcycle it into a fun art panel! ∙ This is a 12' square of Smoothfoam that I covered with the back of a black tee shirt, then created a cute little...
Tags: Home Decor, Cool2craft, Fabric, Spellbinders, Upcycled, Smoothfoam
Lisa Liza Lou Designs ― A group of wonderful designers (including yours truly) are celebrating the official launch of my friend Ann's new line of rubber stamps. Scroll down and get to hoppin' through all their blogs to see lots of great projects. ∙ There are four...
Tags: Blog Hop, Stamp
Lisa Fulmer ― 2 weeks ago
Lisa Liza Lou Designs ― Last night my local ATC group met for our monthly swap. The theme was glitter and lace - it's a technique we learned where you use lace to mask off a pattern on a sheet of double-stick adhesive. ∙ I started with a 1.5" Aleene's Tacky Dot,...
Tags: Glitter, Atc, Ranger, Aleene's Adhesives
Lisa Fulmer ― 5 weeks 1 day ago
Lisa Liza Lou Designs ― The folks at Cousin recently sent me a lovely selection of products from their new line of slide bracelets, now available in Jo-Ann stores. These bracelets are super easy to make - just slide a few mix and match accents on to finished leather ...
Tags: Jewelry, Giveaway, Beading
Lisa Fulmer ― 5 weeks 5 days ago
Lisa Liza Lou Designs ― This week on Cool2Craft, it's all about bowls. I decided to make a reversible fabric placemat accented with some embroidered "sprinkles." The vinyl-covered front has a cute bowl of ice cream with a ribbon border and the back side is plain black ...
Tags: Home Decor, Cool2craft, Embroidery, Sewing, Fabric
Lisa Fulmer ― 6 weeks 1 day ago
Lisa Liza Lou Designs ― It's the first Monday of the month, which means it's time for the Designer Crafts Connection blog hop! Our theme this month is handmade flowers using only materials we have on hand...with bonus points for upcycling. Well, I don't exactly qualify ...
Tags: Designer Crafts Connection, Fabric, Greeting Card, Buttons
Lisa Fulmer ― 6 weeks 5 days ago
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