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Transformation Thursdays at The Shabby Chic Cottage

Friday, February 4, 2011

More Valentine cards

I can’t seem to stop making Valentine cards. I don’t know what it is about them right now but I’ve been making lots of them.

Cleaning off my crafting area I left out a piece of scrapbooking paper. It may be familiar, I’ve made and shown some other cards and crafts with pieces of this paper.

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One sheet of the 12 x 12 paper has 24 images so it can be used to create a lot of projects.

I gathered some other supplies that matched. Cardstock, journaling notes and cards.

100_5801 I started by cutting all the images apart and mounting them on some burgundy scraps I had.

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Look at all the loveliness.

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I’ve had this package of Lengthy Notes for a couple years so it’s about time I use them up. They are embossed and I ran a pink ink pad over them to bring out the embossing.

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I gathered a bunch of heart and Valentine stamps.

Some are foam, some wood mounted, some rubber on EZ Mount and some clear. I think I have enough types, don’t you?

Wow, I can’t believe that I have the many to pick from.

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The Lengthy Notes are really meant to be one sided so I tried a couple layouts to keep an open space to stamp and write on.

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I made a variety of cards, none of them the same.

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I did add a sheet of pink cardstock to use up the last of the papers.

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Have you ever seen so much red, white and pink in one place?

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I remembered I had some small wire heart clips.

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One I attached by punching a few holes and running scrappers floss through them,

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Another one I attached more like a paperclip with a little tape behind it.

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I stuck a flower pin in one of the cards.

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I inked up a small paper doily and folded it a bit for this card.

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The journaling spots made a great accent behind the patterned papers.

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Can you tell this was the last card? I didn’t want to cut up another sheet of cardstock so used three images on this card.

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Hmm, I really have way more Valentine cards than I need.

I think there is just over 50 in my container.

I hope that I really did use all of the Valentine themed paper that I have. (Well at least all of it that I know where it is and can find it…. Who knows what I might find as I keep on trying to get a bit more organized and use my ~~hoard,~~ no, my slowly dwindling stash.)

The Lengthy Notes and a few others don’t really fit in this box so I either have to send them all out or find another box to store them in.

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If I get a bigger box will I just make more cards to fill it up??

Hmm, maybe I better stick with this size box after all.

Do you send out many Valentine cards?

June

I usually link to these fabulous parties:

Feature Yourself Friday at Fingerprints on the Fridge

Transformation Thursdays at The Shabby Chic Cottage

Thursday, February 3, 2011

$3 Thursday – Memory frame necklace

I haven’t been feeling too creative lately.

Maybe this is why.

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Yep, that was my main crafting area.

Hmm, is there really a desk under there?

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To be fair I had started moving things around a bit before I took the pictures so it wasn’t quite this bad to begin with, pretty close but there was more work area showing.

I decided to just spend time cleaning up my crafting area.

Along the way I found these Memory Frames I bought a while ago.

I have seen lots of great things done with them and wanted to try them.

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Even the box of the glass pieces shows a great necklace with them.

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Last week I cut a floral scrap to the size of the frame.

I didn’t do anything else at the time beside put the paper. Could it be I stopped there because I couldn’t find the ball chain to make it into a necklace??? Hmm, maybe.

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Today I realized I needed another scrap for the other side of the frame.

I cut a striped piece of paper. It has a distressed, muted look that I love. 100_5789

I grabbed a few layers of flowers and a rhinestone brad for the center.

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I love the layered look of the flowers.

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The more neutral side.

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And the more colorful side.

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One of the best things about these frames is that all you need to do is cut paper to size if you want. There is a hinge closure, not glue or jewelry supplies needed.

Two great necklaces from one frame.

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I wear lots of green and I think I’ll have a hard time deciding what side to showcase.

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Besides a finished necklace I also have a clean work space.

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The only thing I’m not too happy with is the ‘in progress’ box that I made out of a painted clementine box. With the large piece of paper it is blocking easy access to my embellishments in the holder behind it.

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I think I have a solution. A tray on top of some plastic drawers might be a better spot for my ‘in progress’ projects. Then again, I’m usually a out of site, out of mind type of crafter and have been know on occasion, to have more than one project going at once.

Who am I kidding? I always have numerous projects going.

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Well, for now I’m going to enjoy by clean work space.

Maybe it will usher in lots of creative inspiration.

A clean workspace and

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a two in one necklace.

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Not a bad day crafting.

Supplies:

Memory Frame 3/$5.25…….. $1.75 each

Memory Glass 24/$6.50………..$.27 each, two need

Paper pieces………. scraps, free

Flowers………. craft supply

Rhinestone brads………craft supply

Ball Chain 10/$.50 at a garage sale this summer…. $.05 each

Clean workspace…………. Priceless

Total cost $2.07

June

I usually link to these fabulous parties:

Feature Yourself Friday at Fingerprints on the Fridge

Transformation Thursdays at The Shabby Chic Cottage

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

What would you do…… with these?

Going through my ~~hoard,~~ stash, yep stash sounds better.

I came across a box of round metal tins.

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Hey, I knew they were there, after all they are all together in one box with a label, nonetheless. See, I can be a bit organized at times.

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What was I thinking when I bought all of these?

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Who am I kidding?

I used some so really I bought a lot more than I have left.

24 of them in three different sizes. I don’t want to think of how many I actually bought. I’m really trying to stop buying stuff just because it is on sale and I ‘might’ have a use for it someday. I’m learning ‘somedays’ rarely come.

Now, what to do with the rest of them?

I decided they would be a ‘Use it or Loose it’ craft item. I couldn’t immediately think of something to do with them so I was going to put them in my giveaway box but I thought I would ask you crafty folks….. What would you do with them?

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Any ideas? Or should I just pass them on?

The labels show them as storage for beads but I wouldn’t recommend that.

I should tell you the covers are not very secure so I really think storing items in them is a good option. The last thing I want is to store some small items in them only to tip them over and the small pieces are all over the place. Not that it has ever happened to me. :)

I think I originally bought them to store items in them or to make them into mini ornaments so that is not something I would make with them. Been there, done that.

I guess if I don’t get any great idea it is time to pass them on.

I’m sure someone else might have the perfect use for them.

My current ‘Loose it’ box is getting pretty full. Just take a peek, scraps, stickers, 6 x 6 album with sample pages to name a few things.

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Hey, what is that???

Is that a tin already in the ‘Loose it’ box?

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Yep, it sure is.

Maybe I should let them have a quite goodbye,

and pass them on.

June

I usually link to these fabulous parties:

Feature Yourself Friday at Fingerprints on the Fridge