Bren's Blog

EEEEK!! MScraps GRAND Opening and BLOGTRAIN BLOGTRAIN!!!!

I'm super stoked guys!  MScraps opens on the 30th and we're having one heckuva majorly huge blog train!  When I say HUGE I mean HUGE dude!!  I can even begin to tell ya all the goodies that are included.  The designers AND the ct over at MScraps have put together some beautiful products to play with!  And all for FREE!! 

Many of the QP's you'll find in the blog train were made using the freebies on the blogtrain and the MScraps Grand Opening Collab, New Beginnings!!  This is one Gorgeously HUGE kit guys!  And it's FREE with any $10.00 purchase!!

Ok so back to the blog train.  I should be stop number 4 on your blog train voyage.  If you've missed the previous stops, then your voyage starts at MScraps Forum.  You'll make your way back to me!  You'll want to be patient with us as we all come from many different places and the time zones are way different for everyone! 

And now on to my contribution to the fun!  I made a shabby little number for you all!  And omg I love the little vintage camera!  I might be making a full kit from this one soon!  Be on the look-out! 

Download A Shabby Moment:  Approx 60 mb

And your next stop on the blog train is BRENDA'S BLOG.  And make sure to stop by MScraps' forum and say hi to us!  We're a chatty bunch, you'll have a lot of fun!

Also check out the MScraps Blog for the latest goings on with our crew!

Thanks for stopping by and good luck on your hunt!

For all the crafty goddesses out there...

Ok ladies, I pulled another goodie off the shelf for you all!  This kit is near and dear to my heart as you all know I love me some crafts.  It's funkie and full of fun crafty goodness.  I hope you all enjoy it and please don't forget about the contest to win Sam The Snoman!!  Take a look below to see what that's all about!!

Sorry!!  No Longer Available  :)

Do you YuDu??

I happened upon a way cool gadget while channel surfing one day.  It's called a Yudu by Provocraft.  I thought this was just so cool!  It's basically an all in one silk screen/ screen printing machine.  It's not huge and costly like something you'd see in a professional screen printing business, those machines run on average about $1200.00 plus.  You can get this one for about $300.00. 

You can print on just about anything you can think of, even glass if you wanted to.  I was just so excited and decided to order myself one.  I got a few bonus things (extra screens, extra inks and such).  It also came with one ready-made design and a free t-shirt so you can practice.  It comes with all kinds of other goodies like a couple palette knives and a palette plate so you can mix colors, it comes with a color chart as well. 

Now what's cool about this machine is that you print (or draw with something like a sharpie marker) your design onto transparency paper.  Then you burn your image directly into this emulsion paper that's directly on the screen and then rinse the image and it's just magically there!!  

So I get all this good stuff and I'm like so scared that I'm gonna screw something up!  So I decided to be safe and try the ready-made screen and the free t-shirt just to see if I could do it without messing it up.  And you can see my results!!  Presto!  I rinse off the screen with plain warm water and a sponge.  The residual paint I just put right back in the bottle of ink with my small palette knife and I'm not wasting my money!

I let the shirt dry for about 20 minutes then heat-set it with an iron for a couple minutes and I'm done!   A screen printed t-shirt the same quality I'd get at the store.  And I'm such a horrible t-shirt junkie!  I even found a great site to order cute trendy baby-t's for wholesale prices!!  TrendyBlanks.

Now I can make whatever I want with as many colors as I want ON whatever I want.  I can't wait to make some throw pillows with like some pretty damask patterns on it for my chair!

You can do multi colored projects.  You just have to pull each color one at a time and mask out (with handy dandy mask or painter's tape) the area's that you don't want pulled on that round.  It's super easy!  Can't you just imagine the possibilities?  I urge you digi girls to do some research and check it out!  It's really cool!

 

Lookie at what I made...

Well I have every intention of making all kinds of fabulous goodies and getting them onto by poor abandoned esty store.  Knitted/ crochet stuff, some screen printed stuff I've put together (pillows and t-shirts mostly), some of my poly clay goodies... you know... stuff.  

So I make this cute little knitted hat with a pom pom on top.  I say to my trendy and oh so fashion conscious 12 year old daughter "Hey Breauna, try this hat on so I can take a picture of it."  So she throws it over her curly tendrils that she just "HAD to have" at the salon and of course looks absolutely adorable in it. 

And this is what ALWAYS happens and why I NEVER have anything on etsy.  She decides that she really has to have it and, well, Mom is such a colossal sappy sucker and can't tell her NO.  So there you go.  I have for your viewing pleasure yet another etsy project that's not actually on etsy per say.

I got a comment from a blog reader asking (and I really do appreciate you asking) if I would share some of my knitting project.  So I will from now on!!  Along with whatever else I happen to be working on (which is always something).

Shrugging shoulders...sigh...oh well.  LOL