Because Ali asked me....

I have found you LOTS of St. Patrick's Day activities and projects!  I have yet to decide what I am going to do for the day but when I have it done...you guys will be the first to know:)  


The Toymaker does some awesome stuff with paper!  You can print off the design..preferably in cardstock, cut, score, and get creative.  Check out the rest of her site for more ideas, the paper dolls are very cute.

A Fanciful Twist is another card stock craft that any teacher would love to receive.  You will need some good card stock, glue, and some glitter.  Turns ordinary card stock into a beautiful brooch!


Looking for something to put on your mantle or a shelf, check out Lindseys Craft List...she has created a Lucky sign out of a block of wood and it is CUTE!

and for the scrappers, Miss Crafty Pants offered this digital scrapbooking download last year.  It is a great layout, cute, and the best part...it's FREE!!! After you download the scrapbook page, check out her chunky clovers...paper, wood, and mod podge!  To top it all off, her cupcake wrapper and  topper printables are some of the cutest I have found for St. Patrick's Day, plus she includes the recipe for her Mint Cookie Cupcakes.


Hope this post gives all of you some ideas and thanks for stopping by to take a look!!!!

Trash to Treasure

My husband and I eat almonds like there is no tomorrow, needless to say we are left with these empty containers after all the almonds are gone.  I have kept wondering what I could use the empty containers for and thought...what about my craft supplies!  After scraping off all of the label that would come off with just my fingernails, the goo gone came out and it came off with ease! 

The lid was a green color....I knew this would bug me so I painted the lid with a spray paint meant to cover and stay on plastic, this was used as a primer. Later painted a cream color with regular spray paint and sprayed with spray glitter.  

I measured the area where I wanted paper placement and began cutting paper to fit the area.  The paper used is from Canvas Corp  After cutting the paper, I rounded the edges with the Creative Memories corner rounder, lightly sanded each piece, then antiqued with a Tim Holtz distressing pad(tea dye).  

The Canvas Corp glue works great for stacking the papers, this glue makes it stick....and stick well:)  It also will not wrinkle the paper when it is drying.  Normally I like to let each layer dry just a bit before placing another layer on top. The middle of the layer is two round circles that were cut out with the Creative Memories circle punch.  The top circle was stamped with a circle stamp that reads "from the heart".

To finish off the top of the project, I found ribbon that was used in my tassel project, and hemp cord from Canvas Corp.  A chipboard embellishment that I found in my supplies was dyed to match the ribbon with a stamp pad.  Letting the chipboard dry, I tied the ribbon around the top and heated up the glue gun!  Then attached the chipboard with hot glue.  

Below is the entire finished project!

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Gift Card Holder

While digging through some of my scrapbooking supplies, I came across this template to make a card/holder/envelope.  I started with pink paper, traced the template and cut out the shape. 

 

I measured the inside to cut a square, used double sided sticky tape to attach the paper to the inside of the card.  This is the inside of the card and can be used for the personal message.  

On the outside of the card, I stamped a smaller card with a stamp that reads "always loved", it resembles a postage stamp and I love this entire stamp set.....I threw away the packaging but I'm sure it was a cheap set from Michaels.  After stamping, spray glitter was applied, punched a hole in the top of the small card and tied a ribbon to the top.  The small card was attached with double sided sticky tape to the larger card.  It is the perfect size for a gift card, throw it in, and send off to your Valentine:)  This one is going to my mother!

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Obsession with the letter "R"

My decoupaging madness is still raging on....another letter R has hit my bookshelves.  My friend Tina over at Oh, the places you'll go needed a few art supplies sent to her in Germany. So, I ran my happy little self straight to the local Hobby Lobby picked her up a few supplies and one letter "R" for myself:)  If you remember I created  letters for gifts a few months ago.  This letter was created in the same way.  My first step is cutting out the paper to fit the letter.  Paint the letter,  I usually use a base coat of white.  Rough up with sand paper afterward.  Attach the paper with mod podge and let dry...with paper attached, air bubbles out of paper,  rough off the edges of the paper in case of any over hang.Use a distressing pad or antiquing gel around the edges of your letter. Brush on another coat of mod podge over the letter.  Let dry and sand paper again to rough out any ridges.  Spray with a clear coat sealant, let dry and attach embellishments!  On this letter I used spray glitter(if using spray glitter, spray on before sealant)...lately I have sprayed it on everything:)

This first picture is before the last coat of mod podge and before, I still had over hang on the letter and used sand paper to take it off. 

 The finished project is below!

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Holiday Memories

Now that I have successfully taken and downloaded all my photographs...yes, I still need to get them printed out..but two out of three definitely is not a bad start!  I decided I needed a mini holiday scrapbook to put all those photos in.  Over our Christmas vacation Jon and I made a deal...if we take the hour and a half trip from my parents to Fayetteville, AR to buy Razorback gear, he can take me to a Signed, Sealed, Delivered in Rogers, AR:)))  I believe it was a fair trade...trust me both parties involved suffered dearly!  This was so fun to make...here is what I started with:  Canvas Corp paper, and I bought LOTS, they have some of the best paper I have ever used!  Chipboard album that I picked up on clearance at Michaels for $2.00.  

I cut my paper to match the chipboard then used Canvas Corp paper and mounting glue, awesome glue that when you put on pretty much anything...makes it STICK!

 After sticking the paper I used a sandpaper block to rough up every page, then distressed with a distressing stamp pad...around the edges.  

 The first page I set up with a Merry Christmas stamp that I have had for a few years, cut out, stacked on a patterned piece of the same paper, then used spray glitter, and finished it off with a ribbon.

The bird stamp that I had never used was another in this same set.  I would tell you the name but the package was thrown away and I have no idea...Im fairly certain it was a cheap set I picked up at Michaels.  Below is the first page on the inside of the album.  Used ribbon I bought at Target for a dollar.

 Hit a mental block when I got to the third page, I layered ribbon and that was it:)

 Finally by the fourth page.....I was back on track. The letter stamps worked great, and I used the circle cutter from creative memories to make these perfect circles on the bottom on this page!

I stacked ribbon again on this page then used the circle cutter, snowflake stamp, and my favorite...the spray glitter!

 For some reason I always have one page in my scrapbooks that just look like....wow, what was she thinking!LOL  Well this is that page:)  Going through my stack of stuff, I saw these rub-ons and decided to use them!  Personally I love the page...Im hoping you have the same reaction!

The "tis the season" page turned out so cute.  I love the coordinating papers with the stripes and dots.  I layered ribbon and stacked the cardstock.  To stamp the "tis the season"  I used the opposite side of the cardstock.  Normally I would not waste precious printed cardstock but I wanted it to match.  Also, I should have mentioned earlier that on all the cut outs of the cardstock that I stamped, I used the sandpaper and distressing pad on those as well.  To distress the paper, I only go around the edge...I feel like that gives it more of an antiqued look.   Spray glitter was also used on this stamped cut out. 

 This stamp, I LOVED!  Found it in the stamp box and had to use it with the "I believe" ribbon.  

The back of the album is ribboned, stamped, and spray glittered!  Used another stamp from my found Christmas collection!  Around the ring of my album, I cut different strands, and various lengths of the ribbon used throughout the album.

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Classy Gifts

Andy decided he would like to give everyone in his class an ornament this year.  We went to the Caffco floral outlet and found these cute ornaments for under a dollar!  We used the cellophane bag that the ornament came in, cut card stock to fit the top of the bag.  I only guessimated the size of the paper....no exact measurements:)  I printed off the label using a piece of scrapbooking paper, with "Merry Christmas, (name)!"  "From, Andy" and used the girls are weird font from Kevin and Amanda. Again, this was a project done on the fly so I had no exact measurements for the labels.  Double sided sticky tape was used to mount the paper and colored staples to attach the base paper to the cellophane bag.  I have had the Santa add on for some time hanging around the house and attached it for some extra flair to the  package!  Andy was very excited about the package and how it turned out! 

Teachers Pet

Andy's teacher is a wonderful lady....but she has been keeping me SO busy! To not be working...I am working ALOT!!!!  So she wanted bookmarks made for the parents with their child's picture.  She gave me blue paper for a background, I painted silver and white snowflakes all over it with spray paint.  Then we hung it up, put a snowman by the kids and started snapping away!  I edited the pictures with Picnik by creating a border around the picture.  I ordered the generic white cards from Sam's Club.  

Picked up the cards, then mounted them to card stock, laminated each with heavy duty lamination.  Added a grommet to the top of the card and attached a tassel.  This little project seemed to take forever but the kids loved them and wrapping them for their parents made them super happy:)

Spray Glitter!

is the coolest thing EVER invented!!!!!  I absolutely love it, love it, love it!!!!!!  Only bought one can and going back for several more....very soon.   The cards below, I made for the boys teachers.  I have been creeping around The Graphics Fairy for several months now, let me tell ya.....she has some awesome talent!  Check out her page, tons of vintage graphics.  The pics below I printed out to attach to teachers gifts.

I printed these out in black and white....as luck would have it, my color cartridge happened to run out the day I decided to print. I think the black and white looks great!  Using the paper cutter I cut out each card,  and attached a background card.  

On  the opposite side of the card, I printed out another card with a message for the teacher from the boys.  I used the Girls are Weird font from Kevin and Amanda, where you can find fonts galore.  

After attaching everything, I  sprayed with spray glitter from Michaels. Hopefully you can see the glitter in this picture, it was very difficult to photograph.  I used ribbon from another project and finished the card up with a bow on top.

Letter Project

Before Halloween I worked on this little project.  It is very similar to the blocks I made at the beginning of the year.  The letters were crafted the same way, the same materials were also used.  I did use chipboard letters, but I will tell you that I prefer the wood letters. The wood is easier to use, it doesn't fall apart when you paint, decoupage, and sand!  My apologies for the pictures, I was forced to take a few of these on my phone.

The Q looks a little mod podgy still in this picture, it was not quite dry and in a bright light in this shot but has a more antiqued look now.  


Thanks for stopping by to take a look:)