Leaves Tutorial

Hi Ladies,
I have a super quick and fun tutorial for you today.
Have you ever wanted to add some texture to your die cut leaves, well this video shows you how you quickly can.
Hope you enjoy it.



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Organizing Tip - Eyelets

I got this great deal on eyelets by WE R Memory Keepers from Jules over at http://www.thejulebox.com/ Look at the adorable tags she adds to each package!

I ordered several sets of colors. Each package comes with four colors. She lets you order up to three packages of each set of colors. I like to keep all my same colors together so here is what I decided to do to organize them. I Put each color in a separate small container. Them the packaging has this great insert that has a built in label for each of the colors.

I used my SU circle punch to punch out each of the labels.

The name is already printed along with a sample of the color.

I add the matching color label to each container of the matching color eyelets.

Then I transferred them to small zip lock baggies

And finally put them all in one large storage container so they are all together, easy to find, easy to choose a color and easy to see when I need to reorder and because I have the labels I know what the color is called.

Hope you enjoyed this tip,

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Cutest Valentine

This is a cute Valentine my daughter received at school amongst her valentine cards. She is in grade 5. I would guess that the parent helped make these or made them completely. They are adorable but you can't open it without destroying the valentine in some way. The string holding it closed is in a knot and is behind the matt embellishment.

Super cute anyways.


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Vacation Mini

This mini was a quick project made in an evening at the request of my daughter.

She wanted a gift for someone and needed it ASAP. My camera did not do a great job on the color for the pictures and the minis is gone before I could retake and photos, so although they don't look like the pages really do coordinate.

Since it was a travel themed mini, I made several Post Card style inserts that would be great for photos and journaling.

I also made some tickets that could be used for recording details about photos.

This is a pretty simple page, just tuck in a few photos.

Some tags...got to have tags!

A fun photo matt with a flower embellishment.

And the last page.

Hope you enjoyed this cute mini. The photos don't do it justice but they are all I have.

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Valetine for My Sweety

Here is the card I made for my Sweety for valentine's day. It is a viewmaster style card.

and here is the inside. I stamped the rose vine heart off several times before stamping on the background and then stamped the sentiment over the top. I them used the same red ink to stamp the SWAK and lips.

The front is quite dimensional. It is hard to see.

Here is the first of the sentiments in the window.

and the second....

and the third...

and the last. I stamped off the heart before stampin to paper and then added the sentiment over the top.

I hope you enjoyed this card. It was fun to make and my Sweety loved it!

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Look What I walked in On!

I walked into my craft room after realizing the boys-my son and my grandson-both three years old, were not playing in the bedroom. I went looking to find them here and doing what they thought was great fun, all over the craft room floor.
They had all sorts of my ink pads, permanent ink included, out and had rubbed them all over the carpet. Luckily I got to it while it was still semi wet. I was able to get most of it out, but not all of it.
I wanted to cry but didn't.

Changing Things Up!

Things are being changed around in my house. The plan is to sell the house this year and finally build a home.

We have been renovating, repairing, rearranging and recycling.

Renovating by updating some fixtures and flooring.

Repairing things that just had been left undone for too long and were looking really bad.

Rearranging the rooms. I now have an exercise room. The living room is going where my craft room was and my craft room is going where the living room was. This is the biggest switch as both room have too much stuff, so in the process

Recycling...I am recycling stuff. I have a tonne of books to give to a local second hand book store. I have funature to find new homes for. I am going to give my excess scrapbooking/ crafting stuff to my sister and niece, since they love to craft but rarely purchase anything for it. Clothes I donate as well. It is hard to find new homes for furniture for some reason.

The house is looking pretty good right now...well except for the craft and living rooms because I am still in the middle of switching them around.
Anyway, this is why I have not been posting anything lately. Work is also keeping me busy but not too bad.
I will post pictures of the room when it is finished and perhaps do another video.

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