Happy Birthday Tool Card - DCWV & Hobby Lobby

Here is a fun way to incorporate a gift card into a handmade card.

My favorite gift cards, are the ones from Home Depot, because they are so fun! They come in all shapes, events and ideas.

I am lucky my entire family loves Home Depot, so I get to make fun cards like this one.

I made this card for my Dad for his birthday last month. This awesome Saw gift card hung nicely next to the wrench and hammer I cut from the DCWV Embossed Foil Stack. I hung them off layers of paper from the DCWV Embossed Shimmer Stack and Double Sided Cardstock.

For the inside of the card, I used a couple paint chips where I would write my note, and decorated it with a paintbrush.

I hope you are inspired to craft your own gift card holder!

Colt Layout

Introducing the newest member of our family... 

Colt R Anderson

My baby nephew surprised everyone, about 10 weeks early. He is the cutest, tiniest thing ever! I am so excited to be able to craft his scrapbook now too! (I make his older brother's scrapbook also)

I used the DCWV Treasures and Good Wood Stacks for this layout. Both stacks had all of the perfect prints and embellishments I needed!

Like these fun Polaroid picture shapes.

And these tags with the perfect words!

I love the wood panel prints, so I made this 3D wood frame to 'frame' the layout. The wood alphabet blocks worked perfectly to spell out his name as well.

 [ Some products used on this project were provided to me for review by DCWV, but all comments, ideas and images are my own ]

DCWV Color & Create

'Adult Coloring Books' are so hot right now!
DCWV took this trend one step further, and made these incredible Color & Create Stacks. 

They are giant, 65 sheet books full of incredible prints to color. The best part is that these prints are on thick cardstock, so you can tear them out and craft with them, frame them and display them.

You can use pens, markers, colored pencils and even paint on them!

[ Some products used on this project were provided to me for review by DCWV, but all comments, ideas and images are my own ]

This is the ultimate stress reliever!

Fish Layout

Fish Layout

Starring:

Tayvin and his 2 'glow in black light' neon fish

Supported by:

DCWV products, and a bunch of fun techniques!

Want to recreate this layout with your favorite images?

Grab the following supplies:

DCWV The Birthday Wishes Stack

DCWV DIY Project Birthday Stack

DCWV DIY Project Banners Stack

Folk Art Paint in Light Blue

White Cardstock

Gel Medium

Pallet Knife

Stencil

Wax Paper

Distress Inks

Chipboard Letters

Bakers Twine

Transparent Bubble Dots

Double Sided Tape

Spray Bottle with Water

Find this incredible blue sheet from The Birthday Wishes Stack.

Tint some gel medium with the Light Blue Folk Art Paint.

Use a pallet knife to randomly spread the gel medium over your stencil of choice, onto the paper. Make sure it's in areas that will be visible after you layer your images on.

Pull some distress inks, in colors of your choosing.

On a sheet of wax paper, apply some distress ink in a pattern you like.

Spritz the ink with water.

Flip the wax paper over, quickly and carefully, onto a page of white cardstock. You can use your finger to smear the color around if needed. Take the wax paper off carefully, and throw away. Be careful not to let the ink drip.

While the page is wet, carefully tear out a circle shape.

Set aside to dry

Find this dot page in the DIY Birthday Stack from DCWV. Turn it over and draw a circle. With your finger and some water, trace the circle continually, until the paper is saturated.

Carefully tear the circle.

Your circle does not have to be perfectly round.

Print out 5 images. Both square and rectangle shapes and various sizes.

Mat them with a green sheet from the DIY Birthday Stack, using double sided tape.

In the DIY Banner stack, you will find some pre-printed mini banner flags. Cut out as many as you need. Punch some holes in the corners and string some Bakers Twine through them. Add your chipboard letters.

Start to secure the water color and dot paper to the layout. Add the images and make sure they are secured.

Using double sided tape, secure the banner in the lower right area of the layout. Then stick some cute transparent bubble stickers in the top left corner.

Here is the finished layout!

I would love to see your interpretation of this layout! You can post your images to my Jeri Vann Creations Facebook page, or tag me in your photo on Instagram!

[ Some products used on this project were provided to me for review by DCWV, but all comments, ideas and images are my own ]

DCWV Stateside - Utah State Pallet Wood Sign

New products from DCWV?

Yes, please!!

A hot ongoing trend is a bit of State-Love. Everyone loves to show a little State pride, and now DCWV has designed a full line of State themed products, called Stateside.

Yes, I live in California, but Utah is where I am from.

.... and yes making a Utah shape is quite a bit easier than making a California shape. My incredible husband rushed to cut me some reclaimed pallet wood when I text him the other day. He was also sweet enough to glue it together so it was ready for me when I got home from work, to craft with.

I gave it a quick stain spray and it was ready to add these cute heart prints from the DCWV Stateside 12x12 Stack.

I placed them over the general area of our hometown, but you get the point!

This cute little State decor matched perfectly with our reclaimed pallet/chicken wire frame, metal V, and some plants.

[ Some products used on this project were provided to me for review by DCWV, but all comments, ideas and images are my own ]

Confetti Card

Confetti Card

I have been spoiled this month with some incredibly amazing new DCWV products. You won't want to miss them! Many new paper stacks with unique prints, home decor DIY items, fun new shaped mini paper stacks and even storage boxes.

I love the new Confetti Stack! Not only does it have darling paper sheets, it has velum punch outs to make little boxes, tag shapes you can cut out, and some confetti in the back!

Shaker cards are so fun, so I decided to make one and take advantage of the pre-cut confetti in this stack. (saved my hands from cutting it myself!)

I used this incredible bright blue DCWV FlipSide Cardstock for the card base. You need to get your hands on this stack, the colors are intense and fabulous!

Make sure you keep checking back, I have boxes full of exciting new product to show you!

[ Some products used on this project were provided to me for review by DCWV, but all comments, ideas and images are my own ]

Deer Silhouette Home Decor

Have you wanted to create a home decor project, that seems a bit larger scale than normal? And you just can't find the right supplies to make it, without piecing together paper, and having seams in your project?

Well DCWV has heard your request and created larger stacks.

For my latest project I used the DCWV Project Basics: 24"x36" Silver Glitzy Glitter Sheet. Yes, that is 3 feet of amazing silver glitter!!

I have been in love with the 'deer silhouette' for a while now, but thought now is the perfect time to custom make some decor of my own. Now that I have larger scale paper to work with. Of course, I used some old pallet wood. I just love the look of it after staining it. I don't even sand it down or clean it up. This is raw, dirty, used pallet wood!!

In the DCWV DIY Project Wreath Stack, there are cardboard corrugate sheets. I used one of these as the backing for the deer. Just to give it a little more stability.

I found an image of the deer silhouette online, and printed it out. Traced it on to the corrugate, cut it out and sprayed it metallic silver.

I then traced it onto the DCWV Silver Sheet and cut that out.

I secured them together, and then to the wood.

The Deer Silhouette Decor fits perfectly into my new Winter Season home decor theme. It accents my handmade metallic silver Christmas Trees and my recent Faux Tin SNOW Blocks project, perfectly!

If you love these Wood Trees, head over to my Etsy to order!

[ Some products used on this project were provided to me for review by DCWV, but all comments, ideas and images are my own ]

Bring on Winter!

And... I mean it, please. We are still flooded with heat here in Southern California! We want Winter!