Special Ops: Sugared Fruit

Beautiful decorations that glitter in the candlelight make the whole house feel like Christmas! Craft a tray of sugared fruit this year or individual pieces to decorate a wreath or the tree.

Although each piece of fruit has a variety of accordion sizes they are each made from a single circle of paper and follow these steps:

Instructions:
Step 1:Cut a 4 inch circle from cardstock.

Step 2:Score your circle into 16ths as shown in box 1 and box 2

Step 3:Cut a 1.5 inch circle out of the center.

Step 4:Bunch center of the circle together to create an accordion flower, secure to a paper circle base with adhesive. I use hot glue which looks a tad messy so I add a paper circle on top.

If you make accordion folds from circles 2.5inches or smaller you will need to cut a 1inch circle from the center.

Each piece of fruit is a stack of accordion folds (AF) glued to circles.

To get the assorted sizes of circles I used the

 Kreaxions Circle Cutter.

Check my blog, Scrappin' Chaos for a list of supplies.

Here are the dimensions:
Apple and Orange:
1 inch Circle Top with loop of twine threaded.
3.75" AF, 1.5" Circle
4.25" AF, 1.5" Circle
4.5" AF, 1.5" Circle
4.25" AF, 1.5" Circle
3.75" AF, 1.5 inch Circle Base

Lemon and Lime:
.5 inch Circle Top with loop of twine
2.75" AF, 1" Circle
3" AF, 1.5" Circle
3.25" AF, 1.5" Circle
3" AF, 1" Circle
2.75" AF, 1 inch Circle Base

Pear:
.5 inch Circle with loop of twine
2.5" AF, 1.5" Circle
3" AF, 1.5" Circle
3.5"AF, 1.5" Circle
3.75" AF, 1.5" Circle
4" AF, 1.5" Circle
4.5" AF, 1.5" Circle
4.5" AF, 1.5" Circle
4" AF, 1.5 inch Circle Base

Grapes and Cherries:
.5 inch Circle with loop of twine
2" AF, .5" Circle
2.5" AF, .5" Circle
2.25" AF, 1 inch Circle Base

Scrap On!

~charity~

Drill # 44 Turkey

The rules are simple you must create a project including items beginning with each of the letter of the word TURKEY. You must use a different item for each letter ( for example you CAN NOT use white cardstock to represent "w" and "c" as "w"hite & "c"ardstock).  Please note in your blog write up what items you used. And link back to us here :) Have fun!

This month we Have an amazing sponsor! And one lucky winner will win a $20 Gift Card to 
shop at......

Make sure you hop on over for amazing inspiration and lots of fabulous shopping!! 

But before you do here are some beautiful projects the S.W.A.T. TEAM has created for your inspiration!

Charity

T:texture U:umber cardstock R:rub-ons K:kissed E:embossing powder Y: yellow mist

Becci
 T:tickets & twine U:under layers R:rhinestones K:kernels E:eupherma Y: yellow strip

Michele

Thread, Uniball pen, Resin frame, Knotted twine, Embossing powder, Yellow splatter

Venetia 

T- Theresa Collins border U- Unmounyed Stamp R-Ribbon K- Kraft Paper Y- "Y u use so much glitter!" and of course yellow. 

Now it's your turn, just link up your project by November 30th for your chance to win a $20 Gift card to the My Scraps & More!

*** There is only one prize for the month of November so both Drills will be entered in the same random prize drawing.

Thank you so much for stopping by today! 

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November Basic Training-Stamping Through a Stencil

It is just starting to get cold here and we even had some snow...it is hard to believe it is already November.  Where. does. the TIME. go???

Michele here and today I am sharing a quick technique for stamping through a stencil.  I started with a tag that I already had a few layers of mixed media goodness on, I wanted lots of layers on this tag I made to remind me of the short summer we had.

For this technique you will need a stencil, a stamp, ink, gesso and a spatula (or your finger :) works too).

Lay your stencil down flat.

Apply some gesso.  I used heavy gesso but any type will work.

Carefully lift your stencil off.

Let dry or hurry along with your heat gun.

Lay your stencil back down in the same place.  Make sure the gesso is completely dry before you do.

Stamp over the stencil.

 Make sure you apply pressure to make sure the ink takes to the gesso.

Lift the stencil off and viola!

If you would like to see the complete tag pop over to my blog for details, stuffbybelle.

Thanks so much for sharing a part of your day with us!  We look forward to seeing your beautiful working linked up for our challenges.

Drill #43 Cozy Fall Mood Board

Drill #43
Cozy Fall Mood Board

The rules are simple just create a project inspired by our mood board. Feel free to interpret the mood board in any way you like, using one image, several of them, all of them or even just one aspect of an image, using ANY Products & Colors you like. 

This month we Have an amazing sponsor! And one lucky winner will win a $20 Gift Card to shop at......
                                   

Make sure you hop on over for amazing inspiration and lots of fabulous shopping!! 

But before you do here are some beautiful projects the S.W.A.T. TEAM has created for your inspiration!

Becci

Charity

Michele

Venetia 

Now it's your turn, just link up your project by November 3oth for your chance to win a $20 Gift card to the My scraps & More!

*** There is only one prize for the month of October so both Drills will be entered in the same random prize drawing.

Thank you so much for stopping by today! 

Remember to come join us on our Facebook Page!

October Winner

It's that time again!!   We have a winner to share...

For October we had two Drills that were combined for a chance to win a $20.00 gift certificate to the Flying Unicorn.  This month our sponsor was Stacks of Scraps.  We greatly appreciate our sponsors!!!

But before we announce the we wanted to say THANK YOU all so much for playing along this month! All of your projects were beautiful and we are truly thankful that you shared your ART with us!!

Now...our winner was randomly selected from all of the entries....drumroll please........ 

1. Buffy

Please contact us by e-mailimng: swatscrappygirl@gmail.com with your name and email by November 20th to claim your prize. 

Stop back in soon November's drills will be up soon!

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