Summer fun

Happy Sunday!!

Just sharing a project I did a couple of weeks ago. :)

I made this for my boyfriends' little brother, Jamez. It's summer and he's not in school, so he's bored. I decided to make him a "Summer Fun Jar".

Seen here:

I decorated the paintcan, and filled it with chocolate bars that I wrapped in PP. On each little chocolate bar, I attached a printout that had an activity that the 3 of us could do together. He loves it!!

So now I have a month of ice cream, minigolfing and swimming ahead of me! :)

TFL

Busy busy busyyyyy

It's been a crazy week and I have a pileup of little projects to blog :)

First is the card I made for my boyfriend's graduation.
   I have a really hard time making masculine scrapbook pages or cards...mainly because my go-to embellishment is flowers! But for this card I wanted a school, boyish theme....uhoh. I tried to use layering, calm patterns and stars to alter my usual girly style.


I used an actual strip of cork that was leftover from my bulletin board! I love it :) And the little bitty posty note with the date of his graduation on it!!

 Next up is the CD I made for my boyfriend for his birthday. (His grad and birthday were within a week of each other.)
I made up a CD of 18 songs (he turned 18) and printed a disk label with every name and artist on it.

I decided to just go with a shabby chic style on this one ;)

To make the Kraft CD sleeve, I followed THIS TUTORIAL over at the Splitcoast site.


I have a new craft desk so I'm hoping to get my scrap on a bit today!
Happy creating :)

I wish..

Wouldn't it be nice to have a pro photographer to take pics of you craft projects? I think so..but I'll make do with some great sunlight and a tablecloth ;)

first up:

A gift box. The green pillow box and doily were bought at Love is in the Details. I love their giftwrapping line!!

This flower is very large and dimensional. To make it I punched large flowers from a variety of papers, cardstock, tissue papers etc, dipped each flower in water, scrunched then, dried them in the microwave, uncrumpled them and then stapled them together. I love all the different textures!

More projects to come in the next few days :)

Style Dilemma

Hi :)
Today I was asked to define my "scrapbooking style". What? Put a name to all the crazy, crafty stuff I do? That could be difficult, but I would have to say...clean, shabby chic. How would you define YOUR style??

TFL :)

design x2

I like to re-use my designs. I know, crazy right?? But it's true and it saves me lots of time.

I made this card:

And I liked the design so much that I made bookmarks using the same basic colour scheme and layout. (see below)

9 bookmarks made for my co-workers at my old job. (library...librarians...books....bookmarks...you get it lol)

I stamped, cut out, inked and stickled the edges of each butterfly.

Each bookmark is personalized with the first letter of each person's name. 

TFL!! :)

Random Acts of Creativity.

Currently: Eating onion rings. Listening to John Mayer. Foot has fallen asleep.

This card was made for one of my friends for her 17th birthday.

Each edge of the little squares was individually inked and embellished with stickles.

This next project was made for my scrapbooking table because I needed a new place to store my ink pads. So I bought a plain white canister at a thrift store and altered it.

I stamped the butterfly with light green ink on kraft cardstock then cut it out.

This card was super quick and easy to make!

A close up of the flower. The technique I used was: First I cut a long strip of fabric about an inch wide, then I covered a punched out cardstock circle in double sided tape, then stuck one end of the fabric strip to the middle of the circle, began to twist the fabric strip slightly as I pressed it down on the tape in a circle form, continued pressing the fabric down until I had reached the edge of the cardstock circle, trimmed off the excess untwisted fabric and tucked the end underneath. Then I added 3 pearls to the center and voila! A quick handcrafted flower.

I hope that this post might have inspired you in SOME way :) TFL

Bulletin!!

A project that I finished over the weekend. :)

After looking in many home decor stores for a bulletin board, I finally decided that I would just need to make one. This is the result:

I purchased an old gold frame at my local thrift store, sanded the hideous paint off, painted it with aqua crackle paint and then sanded it for a distressed look.
The ruffle around the edges is strips of green, flower patterned fabric.
I bought a roll of cork and mounted it on the back with carpenter's glue.

Each flower was made using this pattern: FLOWER TUTORIAL

To decorate them, I inked the edges, misted them, and added glitter glue along the edges of the petals. Then added jewels/brads to the centers.

Very happy with the distressed look frame (which cost me $2.00!) and the overall look.

TFL :)