You readers are a creative bunch!
We’ve had a lot of fun viewing your submissions to the Spring into Crafting contest. If you haven’t submitted your project yet, there is still time! The deadline is tomorrow, April 1st, for an entry to win $100 in QuicKutz cash. For more details, click here.
Best of luck, crafters!
QuicKutz
Calling all QuicKutz fans!
The warehouse sale that brings scrapbookers from near and far will be underway April 1st and 2nd at our Utah QuicKutz headquarters. Your favorite QK products, including new and old dies, will be on sale up to 80% off the original retail price. We’re even selling some of our original Squeeze tools, just for kicks!
Bring this coupon for $5 off your purchase of $20 or more for additional savings.
See you soon!
The QuicKutz Team
QK Warehouse
7 S. 1550 W.
Thursday, April 1st
Friday, April 2nd
I-15 Southbound:
Take exit #273 toward Lindon
Turn right at 1600 N.
Take the 1st right onto Geneva Rd.
Take the 2nd left onto 200 S.
Take the 3rd right onto 1550 W.
Follow to the end of the road- the back of the QK building will be on your right.
I-15 Northbound:
Take exit 273 toward Pleasant Grove/Lindon
Turn left at 1600 N.
Take the 1st right onto Geneva Rd.
Take the 2nd left onto 200 S.
Take the 3rd right onto 1550 W.
Follow to the end of the road- the back of the QK building will be on your right.
First, I gathered my supplies. I knew I wanted to use fabric on my tree and I also had some thin wood veneer I thought would look cool.
My supply list:
I embellished with a button and punched a hole at the top of the egg for the ribbon.
When I cut the wood veneer egg, I knew I wanted to use twine and stamps with it. First, I stamped a pennant banner across the egg and then stamped a birdie sitting on the banner. (Banners are all the rage right now! I’m seeing them in all kinds of craft projects and they are so cute!)
I then finished it off with the twine wrapped around the egg. And again, punched a whole for ribbon at the top to hang my egg on the tree.
I decorated more fabric eggs with flowers using the Rev0016 flower die. I cut the flowers from cardstock and patterned paper, crumpled them for more dimension and then layered them.
Once again, I used my sewing machine to sew a circle pattern in the middle of the flower. (Remember how I said I wasn’t good with the sewing machine? Well, it’s not a great circle pattern—it’s just kind of a random circle.)
I then adhered my flower to the fabric egg and embellished it with a button.
The next egg is a birdie egg, which I feel like is so cute, and so easy!
I adhered the bird to my fabric egg and used a bead for the eye. On all the fabric eggs, I frayed the edges just a little to give them more texture.
The last egg I made has more traditional coloring. I spritzed the eggs with three different colors of Maya Mist. (I’ve also seen use of the Maya Mist a lot lately—I felt it was perfect for egg-decorating.) I used Cornflower, Cotton Candy and Cream mists and they gave a blue, pink and yellow color to my ivory cardstock egg. I always mist in a shallow box to keep the mist from getting all over the place. As you can tell, I’ve used that box for a lot of misting projects!
To decorate the misted eggs, I layered a bead border over a scalloped border (using QuicKutz Cookie Cutter Border Dies) and then embellished with beads.
I felt the eggs I created were great for my tree, but it needed something else, so I cut some butterflies from cardstock and layered them with patterned paper. I then sewed a zigzag stitch down the center of each butterfly.
I then embellished the butterflies with stickpins. The pins stick right in between the stitches on the butterfly and add a little bling to them.
Decorating the tree was fun and I had a little help from my 3-year old neighbor. She hung the eggs, and I rearranged them! I placed the butterflies on the tree and I still felt it needed a little something, so I tore strips of fabric and randomly tied them on the tree.
The tree now sits on my foyer table and adds a nice festive feel to the room. Now just to decorate it for the next holiday! 
The best part is that it’s so easy to create this look for your own home.
I will list the supplies I used as I demonstrate how to make each card below, but here’s a picture of the stash of fun stuff I used.
My first card, entitled “Turning 2”, is great to use for a young child's birthday. It could also be adapted for any other age. For this card, I used the following supplies:
The rest of the card is assembly. I used the round glitter domes to add a little more dimension to the project. They perfectly accompany the polka dot candle and background.
For my Sweet 16 card, I used the following supplies:
My last card is for the Young at Heart. My Mom will just oogle over this one! And it was so easy. 
I set the Placement Guides where I wanted them using my card as measurement. I then adhered the printing plate to the lid of the Letterpress and then gently rolled the ink onto the printing plate. After running it through the Epic tool, I let it dry. Then, I trimmed and inked the edges and assembled my card. To give the pink flower a little more dimension, I crumpled the paper. I stamped my greeting, and it was finished!
I used pink in my cards because I had a lot of female birthdays coming up, but the first and last card can easily be adapted to male birthdays by using more masculine colors. I’m going to get crackin’ on more quick and easy cards for my stash!
