We had record breaking temperatures in Boston yesterday and it feels like spring is coming early. I'm hoping to carve out some time to spend in my garden today - want to get the peas planted this week and finish my fall cleanup. ☺
Thought it was a good day to share a layout I created for Me & My BIG Ideas using their Spring MAMBI Kit.
Hope your week is off to a great start!
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Do you know a little boy or girl who is crazy for robots? I have the perfect gift idea... how about creating one of these sets of drawers for their room? Kids love to collect "stuff" and these 3 1/2" square drawers are the ideal size for all kinds of things.
Scrapbooking & Beyond has detailed instructions available on their website that you can download for free: Robot Design It Drawer Instructions. You can find more photos of this project on this Robot projects blog post.
Hope you are having a wonderful week!
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Wanted to wish you a happy Friday! Another quick card to share today using the latest St. Patrick's Day collection from Karen Foster Design.
I'm kind of hoping some leprechauns show up here to help clean up the disaster that is my studio... desperately need to carve out a big chunk of time to deal with this soon... but right now I need to get ready as I'm off to meet some girlfriends for lunch! :)
Have a great weekend!
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Top of the morning to you! Sorry I haven't been around much - if you've been looking for the miserable cold that is going around, I have it.☺ I'm finding it hard to muster the energy to do much except for the bare minimum. March is passing by quickly though, so I wanted to share a few St. Patrick's Day themed projects this week before the holiday is upon us. Today I have a travel layout created using the latest St. Patrick's Day collection from Karen Foster Design.
I added images from the World Traveler clear stamp set to help make the papers a bit more suitable for a travel themed page.
Thought some of the new stickers were perfect embellishments. The suitcase is a stamped image from the Road Signs 1 clear stamp set.
and I find it almost physically impossible these days not to add Therm O Web's 3D Foam Squares somewhere on a project.
To create the faux postage, I stamped and cut out frames to place over some of the smaller stickers.
That's it for today... feel like I need a nap.
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Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss! Thought I would post a few quick and easy projects today in honor of Read Across America day... with so many themed products available, putting together a handmade bookmark takes no time at all.
(project published in Paper Crafting with Kids)
Or this is another fun idea... stack up your kid's favorite books and take a photo, then use that to create a bookmark. (This would also work well with any kind of book collections... gardening books for a gardener, baby books for a new mom, cook books for someone who enjoys cooking, etc.)
(project published in Paper Crafting with Photos)
Whenever I give someone a book as a gift, I like to include a handmade bookmark. Here are a few more themed ideas...
Here's to taking time out of our busy schedules today to settle in with a good book!
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Can you believe it's March already? (feel like I wrote the exact same thing on the first of the last few months... time flies!)
I posting over at the Therm O Web blog today with a tip for creating your own pot of gold as I did on this St. Patrick's Day card.
Stamps by Papertrey Ink, papers and stickers by Karen Foster Design.
Thanks for stopping by!
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Well, maybe not gardening themed exactly, but perfect for someone who is a gardening enthusiast.
Sometimes it's fun to make cards with older supplies... things that might not be the latest and greatest, or uber-trendy... but are products I still like but haven't used for one reason or another. Do you have anything like that in your stash?
Here are three cards I made using the same basic supplies and were inspired by a sentiment from Papertrey's Inside Out: Thank You stamp set.
Version 1
Version 2
Version 3
Afterall, if you are going to take the time to pick out some supplies that go together, might as well make up a bunch of cards rather than just one.
Using up your old supplies is a good thing... think of it as a form of spring cleaning! :)
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Anyone else starting to get spring fever? If so, this is a fun home decor piece you could make while waiting for the weather to warm up. You can find complete instructions and a detailed supply list in the current issue of the Crafts n things newsletter. If you haven't subscribed to it yet, what are you waiting for? It's always packed with great ideas and it's FREE! You can sign up here.
Here are some of the gorgeous photos taken by the Crafts 'n things photographer -
and here are a few of the photos I took in less than stellar lighting in a rush to get this to the post office...
Front:
Right side:
Left side:
Back:
Details:
Thanks for stopping by - hope you have a wonderful weekend!
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More than half-way through February and still no winter in sight... I'm not complaining one bit!
This Birthday Explosion Book is a mini class I created for Karen Foster Design and we are happy to share it with all of you today! This could be used for so many different things - as an elaborate party invitation, as a birthday card (lots of places to tuck in a gift card or other small treat), as a fun group craft project, or souvenir mini album from the party.
When the book is all tied up you would never guess what is waiting inside!
But once it starts to unfold...
all kinds of fun nooks & crannies to decorate!
You can download a detailed supply list and instructions - including diagrams of how to score and fold the pages to create the base of the book - for free here: Download Birthday Explosion Book
Enjoy!
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Recently I found myself in need of almost two dozen thank you notes and I wanted something that had a winter theme, but was easy to recreate and not too bulky as to cause problems if mailed in a regular envelope.
This is the card I came up with -
I found some old snowflake vellum in my stash and adhered it to the front of the card using the Sticky Tape Runner which is virtually invisible under vellum. I die cut white cardstock and blue metallic cardstock using the Mat Stack 1 dies from Papertrey Ink along with one of their new stamps - this was included as a thank you from them in a recent order - can see this set quickly becoming a new favorite. Rhinestones are flat enough that they shouldn't cause a problem in the mail (and as extra insurance I took them to the post office and requested that they be hand cancelled). Once I settled on the design, these came together pretty quickly. I used leftover scraps of vellum to dress up the envelopes.
Now I'm off to the grocery store to get the ingredients for a special Valentine's dinner for all my guys... this is one of their all-time favorite recipes... it was on the cover of Bon Appetit a few years ago and looked so good, I bought the issue... the recipe did not disappoint.
Here is a link to the recipe in case you'd like to try it for yourself - Mario Batali's Chicken Parmesan.
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