Recycled Projects

I wanted to share a little recycling project I did a few weeks back.  One of my favorite types of coffee drinks are the Starbucks Frappachino that come in the little glass bottles. I always save the bottles and the container they come in because I figured there must be something crafty I can do with them. Well lo and behold, two projects came to mind. For the first one, I took the bottles and cleaned them out really well and removed the stickers from the front and back of the bottles. Then I took the caps and spray painted them white. Added a few decorations and viola...
Instant (well sort of instant with a little work) Valentine Teacher gifts.  They were a hit with all my son's teachers.

The second project was to make something from the carrier that the bottles come in. So I took some gesso and covered the entire thing.

Then I covered it in different types of cardstock paper and added embellishments to make....a craft caddy to hold all my markers, pens and important crafting tools.

This one I did in an English/British theme.

And this one in a pink and girly theme. I love how both of them turned out. So before you throw out those bottles and boxes, give them a new purpose. Thanks for stopping by!!

I Love Fall

This is my favorite time of year. The leaves have all changed colors and the air is so crisp. Well except for this week, this week we are having an Indian Summer so the weather has been very summer like. It's back to Fall this weekend though, when the temperatures dip back down into the 40's.

I worked on two different cards to help get me into the season. For the first one I used a Whimsie Doodle digital image called Lizzie's Pumpkins which can be found here. I used Prismacolor pencils to color her in and various scrapbook papers and embellishments.

The second card I once again used a Whimsie Doodle stamp called Turkey Split and colored him in with Prismacolors. I just love him!

Next up on my project to do list...Christmas cards. =) Thanks for stopping by!

Halloween Card and Shadowboxes

Wow! Where does the time go? Hard to believe it is already October. I've been working on some Halloween projects and thought I would share them. First up is a Halloween card. The digital image is from Whimsie Doodles and can be found here along with lots of other adorable stamps. I colored her in using Prismacolor colored pencils and just love how her hair turned out.

Next up, I made a Halloween shadowbox for my youngest son's teacher. The shadowboxes were originally from Dollar Tree but I found mine at a Goodwill for .49 cents. I liked the one I made for her so much that I decided to make one for myself as well. The top picture is for the teacher and the bottom one is mine.

Thanks for stopping by! I'm going to attempt to do a better job posting on here. :D

Coffee Love

Here is my latest smash page. All about my love of coffee. I included pictures of my favorite coffee mugs and used brown paint chips as background paper. The digital stamp image of the girl is from Whimsie Doodles.

Smashing My Life

Wow, can't believe I've let so much time go by on my little blog. I have been so busy with lots of projects and working on Etsy shop orders. Not to mention, my son has started travel ball so we have been down at the fields a lot! My newest crafting obsession is the Smash book. I currently have 6 of the books and they come in a variety of styles and colors. I have a pink one that is all about me. A black one that is about family events, a large purple one that is all things Titanic, a blue one that is all about our summer travels and a teal one that I'm not sure yet what I will do with. LOL. My newest one is the yellow one or International as it is called. I recently joined a Smash group on Facebook and they have a postcard swap where everyone sends each other a post card from their state or country. Very cool! So this book will be used for all the ones I receive. In this group they also have page challenges. You are given so much time and you have to create a page using various embellishments that are listed. I participated in the first challenge, which you had to use one or all of the following, twine, lace or ribbon. Here is how my page turned out. I really like it!

Here are more images of some of the pages I've made.

New Cricut Carts I Must Have

I received an email from Memory Miser today and there are two new Cricut carts that are definitely going to the top of my wish list.

The first one is the Elegant Edges.








I was going to start buying the nestabilities dies but with this cartridge I don't think I will need to. Just look at all those designs.


The second cart which this is the first time I've seen it, but it may have already been out for awhile, is Baby Steps.








Aren't those little babies sooo cute??!! I can see lots of cards being made. I'll just need more friends to have more babies. LOL.

I may have to wait awhile until they come down in price though. I just can't seem to justify spending over $50 on a cart regardless of how adorable they are. Although I do have an Anniversary and Birthday coming up. :)

My Very First ATC

Well I finally got over my fear and I joined my first ATC swap over at A Lil Scrap of Heaven .

The theme was Easter/Spring and you had to use glitter or stickles or glitter glue on it as well. This is what I came up with.



To make my card, I cut out a piece of thin chipboard to the standard measurement of an ATC which is 2.5 x 3.5. Then attached a piece of patterned paper from K&Co. Then I outlined the entire card in frost stickles. Next I ran off the image of the girl that I found online. Cut her out as well as the Easter Wishes sentiment and inked the edges using tea dye distress ink. I also used the tea dye color around the edge of the card. I then attached the ribbon and Recollections flowers with hot glue and then applied frost stickles to both.
Last step was to attach a glitter ribbon and butterfly charm.

Not to bad for my very first time, don't you think?

Welcome To My Blog

Hey everyone! I decided to start this blog to share things that I create. I love to scrapbook and make mini albums. I also have two shops on Etsy. One is for my felt dessert play food and the other is bakery inspired miniature food jewelry. I will be posting pictures and information for all three of these on here. Hopefully I can keep this updated as much as possible. Thanks for stopping by!