Mystical Creations by Trina

Yep, its been awhile again since our last post.   It's not from lack of desire.....time seems to be the evil.

We've seen some great crafts done by our members on the Crazy Craft Buys Group members this year.    I have been trying to find some time to start posting again and figured.....Trina's blocks are beyond awesome, I want to show them off!

https://www.facebook.com/MysticalCreationsbyTrina

A large portion of our group does vinyl work.    We have done vinyl on glass blocks before and they are hot sellers. 

Then Trina posted these and we were blown away!  She has been selling tons of them to her customers.

So....a little about this super creative lady that hates talking about herself!

She has crafted since she was 13 years old (she won't give present age -giggle-).  She started as a passionate sewer.    Then she got herself a plotter a few years ago, dabbled in paper products then onto 3D work.     Then somewhere she made that step into the vinyl world.   

Her father did body work on cars which included adding racing stripes to cars.   Sounds similar to me growing up and adding stripes to cars!  

Vinyl was just natural for Trina.   But.....Trina doesn't want to make the same thing as everyone else.   She loved the blocks, but she wanted to make a statement with her glass blocks, she wanted bold colors, wanted them to stand out.  So after some thinking, some trials and errors.....she found the method that she wanted.   But......what stood out to me, is the fact, she wasn't done.   She goes a step further and adds to her blocks.   Her blocks aren't the standard ones....they have feet to them, gets them off the surface adding a great upscale look to them.

I know its a bit late for Christmas, but if you are looking for that perfect gift for someone, the one that has everything......this girl can hook you up with THE PERFECT gift.    

Stop.....I know some of you are thinking.....  these are for girls......

Nope......you can have that favorite team night light in the man cave, the boys room or wherever.   

Oh....did I forget to mention....she makes a lot of other things.   

Please stop by Trina's Mystical Creations, give her a like and you may just find that absolutely perfect gift...even for yourself!

If you are a crafter and enjoy crazy fun craft projects and want to join the club, just send us an email at crazycraftbuys@gmail.com   

If you just enjoy crafts and want to shop for these gorgeous blocks, visit Trina's page at 

Mystical Creations by Trina

If you need cups, always remember our folks at Save A Cup

Paper Insert Tumblers

I do apologize that there hasn't been a post in awhile.  My plan was at least every other week.

We have and have had some awesome buys in the Crazy Craft Buys Facebook group.   Currently one for Oracal patterned vinyl and one for E6000, ATG tape, Scor Tape and ATG gold and much more.  Remember, if you want to join, send an email to crazycraftbuys@gmail.com requesting membership.

Saveacup has a new flash sale (http://www.saveacup.com/flash-sale/)  up for the Awesome Pacific cups, kids tumblers and the Paper insert tumblers.     We get a lot of questions on the Paper insert ones.

Lisa from Kutz It Out made up a bunch of samples one day to show the versatility of these cups.   Since then, a lot of us have used them and tested them.   Some of us have even put them in the dishwasher (not recommended) to see what happened.  The papers have stayed completely dry.   Now if you have a precious photo in one, might be best to take it out prior to washing, but....I know I don't.  lol

The paper insert tumblers are a standard size tumbler.  Remove the lid, then unscrew the inner cup.   Insert a photo or awesome patterned paper or cardstock untilizing the included template and bang, you have an awesome personalized cup.     If you do vinyl work, add some vinyl letters on the outside and you just took it to another level.

Great gift idea for the Bridal party.  You could vinyl their names and match the paper to the wedding colors.

I think Lisa made this one for me. 

You know all the gorgeous Christmas patterns that come out every year.  You could make some great Christmas cups for the family get together!

This one can be for the guys or girls.  Put a Pink Browning buck on  there and......yep, think I need to go make one now for myself!

Layered Sugar Skull done in adhesive vinyl

A few weeks ago a cup with a sugar skull was shared on the Crazy Craft Buys group that one of our members made.   Layering is not unheard of in small vinyl work for cups, signs and other handmade items by our members.   But I go to looking at this cup and realized just how many colors and layers and detail were on this cup.   I wrote the artist and begged to share it and a little about her.  Thankfully, she said yes!

 

Michelle is originally from Southern California and moved to Arizona almost 7 years ago.   She's a busy lady raising two beautiful little girls, 7 months old and a 4 1/2 year old.   She is very lucky as she is married a to a wonderful  man that is very supportive.   She considers herself a very lucky lady. 

Michelle has been crafting for about 5 years.  She is like a lot of us as she sees a crafting item on sale, say like a Sizzix die.  She loves the die, but....doesn't have the Big Shot or other cutter, so she's off to buy the Big Shot.  

Michelle discovered the cricut while she was pregnant with her first daughter.  She wanted to make scrapbooks.  She found the Make-the-Cut forum and discovered vinyl shortly after.   There is a ton of talent in that group and she was able to get a lot of inspiration from it.   That wonderful supportive husband of hers, replaced her cricut with a Silhouette Cameo and she has never looked back.  She loves the Cameo!

Michelle loves crafts of all types including stamping, scrapbooking, sewing and many others like a lot of us.   She is finding out that weeding vinyl designs is relaxing to her.   (I have heard this from several of our members and it boggles my mind as I hate weeding.)     Her daughter asks for a cup, Michelle jumps online, finds a design, traces it, perfects it, then is cutting it out.  She is obviously a Disney fan which shows in this fabulous cup.

 Michelle loves Mexican Art, partly its her heritage and culture, the other is the bright bold colors seen commonly in Mexican Art.   Most of the cups she makes with vinyl have a lot of colors.   She found the sugar skull she liked, then started working on the tracing in MTC (Make-the-cut).  It took her almost a week just to trace and split the design.   The cutting, weeding and layering took 1 1/2 hours to do.    She used registration marks to get it to line up this beautifully.  She uses regular clear contact paper with no problems (very good to know tip!)    She is going to attempt the wet method for layering her next cup. 

Michelle isn't afraid to try something new.   This cup should be an inspiration to any of our vinyl crafters out there including me.  I have to admit, I have shied away at amounts of color.....  I don't know why.  I layer huge items on a regular basis, but something about this much detail is just scary.   Michelle has proven, it can be done, you just have to try.   She used Oracal 651 vinyl and clear contact paper for her transfer tape!  Her cups come from where else.......SAVE A CUP!  

Remember, if you want to join the CCB group, send an email to crazycraftbuys@gmail.com    If you have emailed in the last week and still aren't on there, send us an email again.  We get some glitches in Facebook sometimes.  

Cindi's Creations

Cindi Dickerson from Cindi's Creations has shared some wonderful items she makes in her "spare" time.  Cindi is a member of the Crazy Craft Buys group and has proven to be a true CRAZY member.  

We at Crazy Craft Buys wanted to share her work with you.

Cindi makes some gorgeous items using adhesive vinyl.   She is another great inspiration to any crafter.   Cindi works for the Federal Government helping farmers with farming.  She has been married to her wonderful husband, Don for 25 years.  Don also works full time with Dupont.  Don and Cindi both farm on the side.   I'm not really sure, but somehow Cindi manages to craft in her "spare" time.   I am thinking she doesn't sleep much!

Cindi is definitely inspiring me with this wall decal!

Cindi loves the outdoors, fishing, her pool in the warm summer months.   She loves her flower and vegetable gardening.  She adores the ocean as in her words "rejuvenates her and calms her soul".  I think any of us that love the ocean know exactly what she means there.   

Cindi mentioned to me while telling me about herself that she adores pink flamingos.   She says her yard and pool area are full of them.  I think this summer we may have to feature Cindi again and get some photos of her flock of pink flamingos!

Some of Cindi's awesome Monogrammed bracelets!   

Cindi is truely a fun and busy woman.  I dont know how she finds the time, but she somehow does as her crafts are gorgeous.  Stop by her Facebook page and give it a like and tell her hi!   

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Cindis-Creations/151521091539001

Cindi adds a lot of detail in the eggs and the grass for this Easter pail.   That little bit of detail can make a design just pop!  Perfect colors too!

Mason jars for a true country wedding!

She's got the perfect wedding gifts covered as well!

Thank you Cindi for letting use post some of your awesome work on here.   Hopefully some of our wonderful followers stop by to say hello and do some shopping!

If you want to become a member of Crazy Craft Buys and enjoy some great savings on craft supplies, jewelry and who knows what we will have a sale on, send an email to crazycraftbuys@gmail.com.  It is a facebook group.  We are working slowly on getting a yahoo group up and going as well.  

One of our upcoming buys is exclusive to Crazy Craft Buys adhesive vinyl and matching heat transfer vinyl. 

One of our recent buys has been Iphone cases.   The ones above and a different style.   We've had a lot of questions on applying vinyl to them, so we made a short tutorial on how to apply vinyl to them.   This is Oracal 651 adhesive vinyl.   

Feel free to post questions here.

If you would like to join the Crazy Craft Buys group, send an email to crazycraftbuys@gmail.com    Most recent buys besides the iphone cases have been guitar pics (great for necklaces and earrings), pillowcases, floating lockets, adhesive vinyl, flasks and......