For my Mom

My daughter loves strawberry milk.  She used to call it "Pink Milk".  Needless to say, we have A LOT of Nestle Quik containers kicking about the house.  So, one day, I glued some paper onto one, put some stickers on the top that spell "Markers" and that's what I keep my extra Copics, blender pens, journaling pens, etc in.  It's super basic!  My Mom liked this idea and asked if I could save her a container.  Sure, I've got enough, right?  So, I called her the other day to tell her that I had one for her, and she asked if I would alter it for her.  Her only request was that I use paper to match the yellow container, which is logical, I guess!  

Well, here it is - I sure hope she likes it!  It definitely looks a lot better than mine!

 

  

The paper had a wonderful glittery design, so I went out today to find some gold glittery letters to spell her name and the "pens" on the top.  I also added some ribbon, with those adorable little stick pins.  I dabbed a little bit of gold stickles onto the pins, to tie in the gold glitter everywhere else.

(pay no attention to my card reader... I couldn't get the top to stand up without bracing it with something!!)

So, we'll see how Mom likes it!

More Cozzees!

I've been busy at my sewing machine today!  Having so much fun!  Here's a few new Cozzees that I just finished up:

I made this one for my Brother

This one is for my Mom

This is another one for me (because I LOVE cupcakes! and Pink!)

And this one is for Emily - because her hands get cold when she holds her Strawberry Cream Frappucino!

I also made another one of the coffee bean/coffee cup ones like the one in my earlier post for my Dad.

Whew - 5 Cozzees in one sitting - not a bad afternoon!

Thanks for stopping by!

Just a (new) little project..

I've been working on these all month, and now that all the gifts have been opened (or most of them, at least!)  I can share them with everyone!  These are fun and different from what I usually do!  See, my Mom and Dad bought me a sewing machine for Christmas years (and years and years) ago and it has seen very little use!  This past year, I did get it out and start using it on cards... yes, sewing paper, not fabric.  Finally, I found a project that I liked, that looked simple enough, that was useful and I could share with friends and family.  So, I started making.....

Coffee Cozzees!

So, here are a few that I made, unfortunately I didn't get photos of them all, as they were getting wrapped up and given away almost as soon as they came off the sewing machine!

 

 

This last one, I added a touch of "bling" with this fancy, sparkly button that I found that matched the green fabric perfectly!  I LOVE it... (yes, this is MY Coffee Cozzee!)

I've been having fun with these, and I just bought a bunch of new fabric to make lots more!!  I know my Mom and Dad both want one, so I need to get those done!

Thanks for stopping by!  I hope you like my new little "obsession"!  Good thing there aren't many fabric stores in the area!!!

CGW 2009 Beach Projects

Hi there! CGW (Crafty Girlz Weekend) 2009 is all done... so sad! It was a blast!

I've got some time this afternoon, so I can finally upload some photos and share with you some of what we did!
Enjoy!

I'll start with my project: This is a Tri-Fold Shutter Card with the Fan Fold Flower. Directions and Tutorials from Splitcoast Stampers. This was my sample.

And this is the one that I made during the weekend. Everyone's cards were different colors, as I took an assortment of patterned paper and cardstock to use. They were all so pretty! We also discovered that the flower could be turned into a fan, which was fun!Charlene taught us how to make these adorable bottlecap magnets! Surprising how pretty a bottlecap can be!Louise shared this cute teabag flowerpot. So easy to do, and so much fun!
Paulette brought some fun felt and felting tools and we each made these adorable purses! I think I've found a new craft - this was so much fun! Here are all of our purses:This is one that I made for Emily:And this is mine:Liz had some wheat sent over from Germany and taught us how to do wheat weaved stars. I pasted mine onto a card front.Kim taught us how to make the Handmade soaps that she had given away at her wedding in August. Her wedding soaps were blue, I chose green and the pink one was one that Mom had made for Emily.Lynda brought some styrofoam ornaments and taught us how to created a faux-quilted christmas ornament. We each got to a small and a large ornament.I know there is one project missing.... I am saving the project that Cauleen (my Mommy) brought, as it is for my Stamptacular Sunday Challenge Blog Design Team post this Sunday. So check back on Sunday to see it!

Here we all are! In the back: Cauleen, Charlene, Lynda, Paulette, Louise, Liz & In the front: Me and my Bestest Friend, Kim!
It was a wonderful weekend! And I can't wait for CGW 2010, we already have the beach house reserved!

SSC #20 - Beary Special

Another hot week in the Tri-Cities! I could complain about the heat, but you know, I'll be complaining about the snow in just a few months, too!! I hope the weather is treating all of you nicely!
Anyways... our challenge for you this week is "Beary Special" so you can make anything you want! Anything at all.... as long as it has a BEAR on it somewhere! Our Stamptacular Design Team has some pretty adorable little bears to share with you! Line, Carly, Joanne, Kristin, Janneke, Liza, Jilly, Nikki, Paula and Priscilla
And... here's mine!


This is just a cute little milk bottle that I had saved. I covered it with some Stampin' Up! DSP. I don't know who the bear is or where he came from, he was in my image box, so whoever sent him to me - Thank You! I added some more patterned paper and some pearls along the bottom. Wrapped the ribbon around the top, added a little tag and filled her up with some yummy Lemon Heads! Hope it makes someone feel better... although I don't know anyone who's sick! Still cute, though.... at least I think so!

My Craft Room (This one's for you, Joanne!)

My fellow Design Team member, Joanne is giving away blog candy to celebrate her Blogoversary and 20,000 hits (WoW!) but... there's a catch! She wants to be nosey and see our crafty spaces! Be sure to visit her blog and enter to win her candy - I'd love to nose on over and see your crafty space, too! :)

So, here are pictures of my craft room - These are from a few months ago, when it was clean! Not much has changed.. a few dozen new stamps here and there, more stacks of paper, etc...! I'm sure some of you (my CafeMom friends!) have seen these photos, but I couldn't find a blog post, so this may be new to some of you.

I love my peg board! And my Ikea shadow boxes for all my loose stamps! I have an old cassette tape storage that holds all my ink pads perfectly! I have towel rods (also from Ikea) that hold all my punches neatly.

The color on this photo is bad (sorry!). Anywhoo.. In the corner I have a hand-me-down bookshelf that holds general stuff.. with an office paper storage on top (Sooooo happy when I found that at the goodwill store!!) that has all my Stampin' Up! paper nicely organized! I also have a tall, skinny bookcase hiding in the corner there, that holds my magazines, books, and some more paper. I've got a close up photo of the closet coming up, so I'll bypass that for now. The small wall is my "Brag Wall" These shelves are where I display the cards and projects that I have made and beautiful cards that I have recieved! These shelves are actually overflowing right now! Below that is a laundry cart that my Mom found at her goodwill store that holds bins full of asst stuff. My stickers and small embellishments. My Stampin' Around inks. Stuff like that. It now has bins to fill it up.

And the closet. This is where I have all of my Stampin' Up! stamp sets! They are organized basically by size of box! I have my word stamps separated into their own sections. I keep my Halloween stamps and accessories in orange totes and my Christmas stamps and accesories in red and green totes so that they are easy to find.
I have yet to find a good way to organize the sets other than by size. Any tips? Also, a new shadow box that my Mom just found for me that is perfect for my big stamps that used to live on the top of my smaller shadow boxes, but they were hard for me to reach up there! So, now they are here, and I really like it! Hiding in this picture is my sewing machine, but it has actually been pulled out and is on a table on the other side of the room, so that it can actually be used!

My in-laws painted the room for me and I am still thankful for it! It is exactly what I wanted! My Father-In-Law installed a light fixture in the closet and above the closet door. He also replaced the filtered light fixture in the center of the room with a "UFO Light" (as I call it!) It has 3 direct lights above my craft table, and 2 positional spot lights. The room is in the basement, and there is so much light that sometimes I never know when the sun has gone down!!

I LOVE my craft room! I'm so glad you stopped by for the tour! Feel free to come over and play sometime! :o)

Happy stamping!

New Beginnings - SSC#1

WooHoo! The Stamptacular Sunday Challenge Blog is up and running! With Challenge #1 posted, I am just bouncing off the walls with excitement! I can't wait to see all the wonderful submissions that you send in! Remember, there is a chance to win prizes and of course, the honor of winning a Guest Designer Spot with me and the rest of our amazing Design Team!

Our first challenge is New Beginnings - appropriate, don't you think?

When I thought of New Beginnings, I though of two things... New Baby and New House. When I got down to my craft room to work on this project, my baby blue cardstock was calling to me, so I went with New Baby. I hope you like this project and I hope that it and the other Design Team projects inspire you to participate in the challenge!

I have created a cute little gift bag for a new baby. This is such a simple project that turned out so cute, I will definitely remember it next time I need a gift! The bag is made from a white lunch sack, that I trimmed down just a bit and attached the decorated cardstock front and back to. Then I cut strips of cardstock and used glue dots to attach them to the inside of the bag to create handles. A touch of tissue paper and, Viola! Instant gift sack!
I used Stampin' Up! cardstock, designer series paper and Just B stamp set. I added some ribbon from my scrap box. I cut and embossed the sentiment with my Oval and Scallop Oval Nesties. The cute little Duckie was found at Michael's.

PuppyBella A2 Card Box

This one is for a challenge on CafeMom in the Addicted 2 Bellas group. We are to make an A2 card box to store cards in and if we want to, we can make matching cards. But I saw this dog bone paper and thought it would be cute with my PuppyBella stamp by Stamping Bella! So, I created a box to fill with doggie treats to give to someone.. I have no idea who yet, but I'm sure I'll figure it out!
I used Stampin' Up! Chocolate Chip and Confetti Cream cardstock, Stamping Bella's PuppyBella stamp and a Stampin' Up! alphabet. Stampin' Up! photo corner punch. Patterned paper is from DCWV, ribbon from my stash. Image colored with Copic Markers.

Nestabilities Storage

I am always on the lookout for good ways to store all my stamping stuff! I am so in love with my Nestabilities and am constantly looking for good deals to get some more! But, I was having a storage issue.. I looked around on blogs to see what other stampers had done and some had pretty great ideas! I especially like the one where she put magnetic strips on the insides of her cupboard doors to stick the Nesties on... but I wanted mine to be portable. So, I tried the metal CD cases.. I stuck a magnetic sheet to the inside of the case and my Nesties stuck to it! That was great! Well, until I ran out of metal CD cases.. hmm.. what next? So I was wandering through Target one day, checking out all the clearance stuffs on the end of the aisles when I found this.. another CD case:I thought it was pretty, but couldn't think what I would do with it... until my Nesties popped in my head! I thought, I could cut my magnetic sheet to fit in the little sleeves, then my Nesties would stick to the sheet, and slide into the sleeves! Brilliant! And now it's portable!My Mom says the only problem now, is if I lose the case, I lose ALL of my precious Nesties! Guess I better not lose the case, huh?

Our Christmas Project

Yes, I know that this is very late in posting, but I had to wait until my parents and brother recieved theirs before showing off photos. I didn't want to spoil the surprise!

So, Iain & I were flipping through a Lowe's Home Improvement magazine and found this great little project that we thought it would be fun to do! Iain was quite excited! Neither of us had tried anything like this before, so it was an experiment in the making!

We made one of these for both sets of parents, both sets of brothers and families, my best friend and her family and we had an extra that we gave to our new neighbors!

This is a wood-burned cheeseboard! So fun! We used a Stamping Bella stamp for the image, a Stampin' Up! stamp for the sentiment, a template for the corners and Iain hand drew our name and the year on the back side.

So, for your viewing pleasure, here are photos!

Birthday Box

My best friend, Kim's birthday was January 30th.. so I'm late, but it's all good, because we are going to see her tomorrow! Better to give a present in person than mail, right?
So, I wanted to make her a stationary box like the one I made in the class last week. I even picked up all the paper that I would need while I was there. But, she is always saying how she never has enough birthday cards, so I wanted to make her a birthday themed box! It is her birthday, after all!
You can find the post of the first one I made here.
This time, I made 6 of everything - cards, 3x3 cards, tags - just because they fit and I thought, why not? I also added a sheet of patterned paper to the front, instead of the plain front on the other one that I made. Makes it a little more "festive", I think!
I hope she likes it!

Stationary Box Class

Hi! I went to a class at my local scrapbook store, Scrap Happens last night! Yay, so fun! I thought I'd share photos of what I made!
This is a stationary box, made only of cardstock and patterned paper! Well, some ribbon, buttons and adhesives as well, of course!
Here's a photo of what it looks like when it's open and it's contents. It has 5 standard cards that say Joyful, 5 envelopes, 5 3x3inch cards, 5 tags a notepad, a pen and a book of stamps!

And, because I liked it so much, I bought more paper and cardstock so that I could try to make another one! I got birthday themed paper, so that I could make one for someone's birthday and it will have birthday cards in it!

On a side note, I used the Cricut (electronic die cutting system) last night for the very first time! I have been trying so hard to avoid it, because I didn't want to see how cool it really is! Well, it's really cool! So, yes, add that one to my wish list! The owner of my scrapbook store actually said that she is going to lower her price soon, too! Whoo Hoo! I think it will still have to wait... a long while! It was fun, though! At least I know that if I ever need to use it again, all I have to do is run down to the store and use theirs! :o)

I hope you enjoy my project as much as I did! Have a wonderful, creative day!