Save the Date: May 2011

I HAVE GREAT NEWS:
I have a project - it is a shadowbox - that was just accepted to be published in the Creating Keepsakes Special Issue: Creative Spaces Bookazine!
{It is slated to come out in May 2011.} Keep an eye out for it!

I am SO excited I can hardly stand it!

Two Great Projects

I have two projects that I would like to share with you today.

Here is the first:


Oh!
What's that?

That is all I can show you because my project is going to be featured in Paper Crafts magazine!

But that was just mean...I should at least show you SOMETHING, right?

Okay...here you go:

What?
Again?

That's right! I have TWO projects that will be in Paper Crafts magazine! Guess you'll just have to see them in there. :o)

They are scheduled to be in the Special Issue: 225 Cards & Gifts (it goes on sale March 15, 2011)!

I am SO excited!!!

Orange & Pink Go Together

With October being Breast Cancer Awareness Month, there was a challenge issued to the Fiskateers to join the famous Fiskars color of orange with the awareness color of pink. I decided to take on the challenge, and this is what I came up with.

I used a Kraft Outlet Large Lunch Bag Kraft Blank Note Card as my base and added some papers from Pink Paislee and Echo Park Paper Company. The stamps are all from The Girls' Paperie.


Supplies:
Kraft Outlet Large Lunch Bag Kraft Blank Note Card
Patterned Paper: Pink Paislee, Echo Park Paper Co.
White Cardstock: Georgia Pacific
Stamps: The Girls' Paperie
Ink: Tim Holtz Distress Ink (Orange Marmalade, Worn Lipstick, Vintage Photo)
Embellishments: Prima (flowers), Darice (corsage pins), Wrights (twill tape), Retail, Inc. (flat back pearls), Pink Paislee (Artisan Tape)
Tools: Paper Trimmer, Fiskars Scissors

Two Quick Cards

Here are two quick cards I made recently for some friends who are having babies. They aren't necessarily "baby" cards...but I thought they worked well.
(Sorry for the lack of staging for pretty pictures...I made these and used these in a rush, so I didn't have time to take pictures like I normally try to do.)

The first card has a place on the inside to insert a gift card.

For the second card I embellished a smaller envelope for a gift card.

I'm not feeling well today so I am just going to leave you with this quick post. Below are the supplies I used for these cards (most of which you can get at Kraft Outlet).


Supplies:
Kraft Outlet Lunch Bag Kraft Cardstock
Kraft Outlet Buff Ivory Cover Weight Cardstock
Kraft Outlet Large Lunch Bag Kraft Blank Note Card
Kraft Outlet Lunch Bag Kraft Card Sleeve Envelope
Kraft Outlet Mini Lunch Bag Kraft Envelope
Kraft Outlet Silver Bottle Caps
Kraft Outlet 1.0 Round Brown Kraft Labels
Pebbles Cardstock Stickers
Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher
Twine (brown & light blue from ARCreations on etsy and orange from The Twinery)
Odd Bird Planet Owl Stamp
Black Pigment Ink
Crop-A-Dile

I'm an aunt!

My brother-in-law and sister-in-law are adopting a precious little boy and I am finally an aunt! I am so excited.

While on my trip, we are having a little shower for my sister-in-law and I decided to make her a bag like the one I posted previously.


I've packed some small decorations for the shower including this jar that we can use to collect some spare change for the little one. I used Kraft Outlet Cardstock for the jar (a repurposed Trader Joe's Cranberry Jelly jar)


Have a great day!

Olivia Bag

My sister-in-law saw my purse that I had made and asked me to make one for our friend, Olivia.



She asked me to make something that would be big enough to hold all the normal purse "essentials" and a few diapers, and especially to make sure there was a good spot for sippy cups for Olivia's precious daughter.


I personally really love all the pockets in my purse, and I wanted to give Olivia plenty of pockets for anything she might want to carry with her. Here is a peek at some of the inside pockets:



I just couldn't make a bag for Olivia without making something for her daughter, Sydney - so I made a little matching bag to go along with it.


I hope they both enjoy their new bags!

Argyle Card

I am getting ready to head to the airport, but wanted to share the card I just created. I used the Kraft Outlet Note Cards, Kraft Outlet Cardstock, some designer paper and a white pen.

Gotta love argyle!

Stay tuned because while I am gone I have set a couple of blog posts to publish - keep checking back!

Bottle Cap Necklace Tutorial

Today I am going to show you how to make a necklace from some great supplies from Kraft Outlet (and a couple other things you most likely already have in your craft stash).


First, let's gather our supplies:
Kraft Outlet's Bottle Caps
Kraft Outlet's Twill Tying Tape
Kraft Outlet's Baker's Twine
Kraft Outlet's 1" Round Brown Kraft Labels

Using supplies from Kraft Outlet you can make these necklaces for under 50 cents each!

You will also want to have on hand:
Small Stamp (mine is from Odd Bird Planet)
Pigment Ink Pad (mine is from Rubber Stampede)

And a Fiskars Craft Drill makes this project so easy!


Using your Fiskars Craft Drill and the smallest drill bit, drill a hole in the side of the bottle cap. Be sure that you are drilling on something that is there solely to protect anything underneath it. It IS a drill and can (and will) go through whatever is under it if you aren't careful.


Stamp your image onto the round kraft labels. I recommend stamping a couple images so that you get a nice clean one and have multiple images to work with (just incase you smudge one with your finger...which I did).


Remove your preferred image from the label sheet and place on top of the bottle cap.




{Be sure to center the top of your image with the hole you drilled so that your image will be upright.}


Loop your ribbon through the drilled hole, and thread through. Try to keep the loose ends even (or trim to make them even).


Tip: I used ribbon embroidery needles to make it easy to thread the twill tying tape through the hole. To get the tying tape through the eye of the needle I wrapped one end with a piece of tape and cut it to have a nice clean end to insert into the needle.


Pull the loop tight and you can wear your necklace as it is...


...or you can add a fun twine accent to add a little flair.


Enjoy your new necklace!




I left the ends long so that I can tie it up as a shorter necklace or wear it longer, depending on how I feel that day.


Thanks for stopping by!

Please let me know what you think - and if you make a necklace of your own, please leave me a link to your picture in your comment.
I'd love to see what you create!

Because sometimes...

you just have to color ON the kitchen table.

Fiskateers Orange Blog Hop

Hi, come on in!
It's Fiskateer #5942 here for the:



If you've come here from Gretchen #51's blog, you are in the right place.

(If you regularly read my blog and haven't been following the blog hop, I encourage you to go to the Fiskateer Blog and hop along the trail with us!)


I created these cards using a Banana Frog stamp set that I won from Shimelle.com.

These cards can easily be created with any paper, stamp set, and a great Fiskars Paper Trimmer and Corner Rounder (available in Squeeze Punches, Lever Punches, and Twist n' Flip Punches).


The first is a black card with orange and white accents. I used some design elements from a card I saw on the Moxie Fab World blog and incorporated my own touches. The deer image is popped up, but it is hard to see in the picture.


For the next card I wanted to go with a grey background to match the charcoal ink I used for the detail on the deer. I did some basic matting and added a few accents with the Tiny Attacher and my card was done.


I hope you enjoyed your stop here on the blog hop. Please leave a comment and be sure to be a follower of my blog. I've got more great projects already lined up for the month, featuring great products from Kraft Outlet.

From here you can hop along to visit Peg Rounds #3675 and continue on the blog hop.

Thanks for stopping by!


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