Mini Paint Can

This is a mini clear paint can I found at AC Moore. It was part of my nieces birthday gift. I am not real happy with how I decorated, but still think it is cute. It is a scrap piece of colored striped paper that is on the inside of the can. I used letter stickers for the name put on the outside. The flags at the top are a border sticker, also on the outside. And I wrapped the red ribbon around the outside and fixed it with double sided tape. I added 2 small flower charms to the handle. A bazzill white flower is attached to the lid with a self sticking red button in the center.

Oh and I filled it with bubble gum balls.

Kindergarten Treats

Thursday was the last day of school for my little kindergartner. I can not believe in a few short months she will be in first grade. Where has the time gone?? Anyhow, I have been busy since last weekend making up a treat bag for the kindy graduates.

These are 2x2 cards that are sealed in little clear envelopes that I posted about a while back. The stamp is a dollar stamp from Michael's. I used colored pens to outline the flower and trace the sentiment. The flash kind of drowns out the colors.

I saw these last year on a message board and had saved a pic of them to my computer. I had a different idea in mind, but was unable to find little blue grad cap stickers so I needed to come up with something else. These actually look so much cuter in person.

It is a Hershey chocolate nugget with a 1x3" blue strip of card stock wrapped around it. The squares were cut with my paper cutter because I didn't have the right size square punch. I can't recall off hand the size I cut them. I cut 2 and glued them together to make it a little more sturdier.

The tassels were the time consuming part as I made each one using embroidery floss. I tied it around a mini brad and attached it to the square. I then hot glued the square to the top of the nugget just to make sure it stuck good.

I put them in little zip lock type bags that you can get from Wal-Mart cheap and added a bag topper. I printed the text on my computer and then stamped and colored the little cap at the top.

Next are some friendship seeds. This is a template that folds up like a flower seed packet. I can not remember where the template came from, but I have several that say different things (pumpkin seeds, snowman seeds etc.). I had downloaded them from somewhere a while back.

The elephant is a stamped image from a SU valentine set (the name escapes me right now). There was some text on the template at the bottom where the elephants feet are so I had to do some altering of the seed packet image so that the stamped image would fit. I colored it with chalks.

I put a handful of orange tic tacs in a little zip baggie and put inside the envelope. I think these came out super cute!

This purple container is a kids plastic snack cup with lid that I bought 6 for $1 at the dollar store. I filled them with Whooper candies. I used my cricut (George and basic shapes cart) to cut a blue circle for the top of the lid and used a fine black pen to add a little border. The sun was cut with the cricut also (doodlecharms cart I think) and I outlined it. I printed the words on clear mini labels from my computer.

All of these were packed up in a clear cello bag and tied with some blue curly ribbon.

This was a little gift for the teacher. The class took up a collection for one gift, but I wanted to make a little something. This is another idea found on a message board. I stamped images from a retired SU set with white craft ink onto black cardstock. I stamped the letters of her name with some foam alpha stamps and my SU inks and matted them with matching SU cardstock. I found the red picture frame at the dollar store.

Card Making Day

It's a state holiday so I am off today!! I got in my scraproom this morning and was able to do 2 cards.

This is my Mothers Day card for my mom.
Cardstock: SU Pretty In Pink, Certainly Celery, Barely Banana
Stamp: Inky Antics colored with water color pencils and SU blender pens
Pattern Paper: Flowers-DCWV Spring, Pink Gingham is stuff I had in my scrap box
Embellishments: Bazzill White flower, MM Green mini brad, store bought green ribbon

This is a Birthday card for my dad. I never work with this colors, but was looking for something manly. I like how it turned out.

Cardstock: Cream

Pattern Paper: DCWV

Ink: SU Tempting Turquoise, Chocolate Chip

Stamp: SU So Many Scallops

SU Scallop punch

Great Find!

I found this book display case on the local craigslist and picked it up today. It was 7 bucks, can you believe it?! It is 48" high, 36" wide and 4" deep. I am going to do some alterations to it this week and then I will show you what I end up doing with it.

Clearing Out

I am cleaning out my stamp room and just getting started on this big task. Check back every couple of days if you are looking for something. I might have it for sale.

Price do not include shipping.

Stampin Around handle and retired watercolor joy wheel - Never been used

Price: $9.00

Stampin Up Retired Stamp Sets

Double Line Doodles - $18.00

A Tree For All Seasons- $8.00

Made From Scratch- $5.00

Mini Messages- $5.00

It's A Date- $13.00

Borders Mini- $10.00

Word By Word- $15.00

Stampin Up Current Sets

Word Search- $15.00

Polka Dots & Paisley- $16.00

Perennial Favorites- $10.00

All In A Row- $17.00

If you would like to see pictures of any of these drop a comment or email me

New Sizes

I finally got a chance to go back to the new Michael's store today and spent about an hour walking around. I have a little extra spending money and a 50% off coupon and I could find nothing that I really just had to have. It always happens like that. If I was broke with no coupon I would have found plenty I things I wanted.

Anyhow, I went down one last aisle and made an interesting find. Clear envelopes in about 8 different sizes ranging from 2x2 to 12x12. I love to put my cards in the clear envies that Stampin up sells and I have been wanting to try different size cards, but didn't know what kind of envie to put them in. So I chose a 3 5/16"X5 1/8" envie and a 5 7/8"X4 1/2" envie. Here are the cards I made tonight to fit those sizes.

All the envelopes are 2.99 a pack no matter what size you get. The difference is in the number of envelopes in each pack. The smaller envies I got had 50 to a pack and the larger size had 35 in a pack. I have a 20% off entire purchase coupon that I think I am going to go back and use to get a few more different sizes.

Tilda "So Grateful" Card

I picked up an unused Tilda stamp on ebay a couple weeks ago for a great price and finally got around to using it today. I have a coordinating green colored flower that I might put at the top left corner, but I am not sure yet. It looks like something is missing there.

Photo Pencils

This is a very cheap, quick and easy project. Make 3 copies on regular copy paper of a 5x6 photo. Cut each photo into 1.25" strips so that you end up with 4 stips per photo and 3 exact copies of each strip. Using a glue stick, glue the first 3 copied strips (they will all be the same part of the photo) onto the first 3 pencils. Glue the next three copies to the next 3 pencils and so on. Then put the pencils together and roll them until the picture lines up. I didn't do it to mine, but I would coat them with mod podge.

I did do a little boo boo on mine. I wrapped one of the pencils in the opposite direction that I had been rolling them and it makes it look like part of the photo is missing on the 7th pencil. Oops. I might go back and fix it, but for now I just wanted to try it out and see if it was as easy as it looked, and it is.

Easter Treats

I made these little baskets for the ladies at work and my daughters teacher. The baskets are made from 5 1/2 x 5 1/2 cardstock. The handle is 1/4 x 7. I used SU Yo Yo Yellow, Only Orange, Pixie Pink, Lovely Lilac. I added the white dots with a gel pen. The scallop punch is from SU and the circle that I stamped is a 1 1/4" circle I cut with my cricut. The bunny stamp is from inky antics and the little duck is a dollar stamp from Michaels. I added some green grass and filled them with chocolate eggs.



I made these for my daughters kindy class. Very simply done. The bunny is a cricut cut, the happy Easter is a dollar stamp from ACM.

Still Creating

I haven't posted in a while, but I have still been creating. I was able to get 3 more layouts done (no pictures right now) and 2 very quick cards. If I can get the house cleaned up and the grocery shopping done early tomorrow I hope to get back in my scrap room.

I don't know why this card looks slanted in the picture. It must have been the angle I took the picture.

Getting Organized

2 weeks ago I needed some better organization in my scrap room so I spent one weekend doing that. Here are some new elements I added for better storage/organization:

I needed some more storage area within reach of my work space, that didn't take up room on my table. So I bought these really cheap wooden CD crates from ACM, painted them and made shelves out of them.

I bought clear plastic containers at HL and took the lids off. They hold all my colored pencils nicely.

I bought a slightly bigger plastic container, put it on its side and put my SU markers in it. I used the lid from that container to hold my blending stumps (used for coloring with gamsol/mineral spirits). And a little tid bit about the plastic bottle on the end. If you do the magic colored pencil technique (coloring with pencils and blending with odorless mineral spirits) I highly recommend getting one of these bottles to hold your mineral spirits. It is a nail polish remover bottle that you see used at nail salons. You push the cap down and a little mineral spirits will puddle on the top to dip your blending stump in. After a few minutes of not using it the mineral spirits will drain back into the bottle. I have been using it for a while now and it is very handy.

I bought these buckets 3 for $1.00 at the dollar store. I stamped on them with stazon and mini alpha stamps. I plan to spruce them up a bit with ribbon and/or rub ons. They basically hold little metal embellishments. I have 8 on a shelf.

I moved my cricut machine to my other table and put up a wood shelf over the top that will hold my cricut carts and other tools. I thought it was the perfect spot to hang my little bug I made with the cricut machine.

This is how I have my smaller width ribbon stored. Each color is rolled up and put in the mini cropper hopper embellishment boxes and a little tail of the ribbon hangs out. The little boxes are stored in a cropper hopper embellishment case. Well I have wider ribbon that was just thrown in a box getting tangled that needed some better space.
So I cut come pieces of chip board to fit in this canvas pop up box that I got at the Dollar store and wrapped the ribbon around the chip board. I have a few more rolls but I got bored of wrapping the ribbon after spending 10 minutes untangling it all. The rolled ribbon on the right is all self adhesive ribbon on spools and stacked in a plastic basket (again from the dollar store).

Couldn't Resist

I had to exhange a couple things at Hobby Lobby today so I picked up 2 more of the House Mouse stamps on clearnace. I saved $6.38 buying these on clearance! I can't wait to use these!

Great Stamp Find!

Today I picked up 3 House Mouse stamps by Stampabilities . Retail price for the 3 $28.50. I got them on clearance for $10.05. Can't beat that!! And they are so cute!

Paper Basket

This was posted on a yahoo group I am on. I decided to give it a try tonight. It is made from 1 sheet of 12x12 paper, 11 inches of ribbon and 12 brads. Here is the blog with directions that was posted on the group - Basket Tutorial

Window Card

This is the one card I managed to do this past weekend. I saw it on someone's blog and if I can remember who I will post their name (sorry).

I cut a window out of whisper white and gable green cardstock. Then I stamped a window sheet using black StazOn and put it inbetween the white and green CS so that you could see the image through the window. Then I stamped the image again on whisper white and placed that on the inside of the card, lining it up with the image on the window sheet and then colored the image that I stamped on the white CS. I framed the window on the outside with basic black.Clear as mud?

It was a little tricky to take a picture of when it is closed. The image is crisp and clear if the card is shut right.