Thursday, July 30, 2009
more altering
Friday, July 24, 2009
Some Home Decor
Some of you might recognize the brown box set of albums that was sold on QVC forever ago. I had always planned to decorate it. So, since I've been decorating my room, I thought I would finally get to it. I adhered some chipboard, ribbons, flowers, and a picture to it after finding out that rub-ons didn't work. There are four miscellaneous 8x8 albums inside of it. Here's where it sits on my dresser with a few things that I got this past weekend...not to mention my jewelry box that's almost as old as me! (Oh, and of course, everything was bought at 40%-90% off. You know me!)
I bought this picture frame for $6 at Hobby Lobby. I originally was gonna put Eric's Father's Day present in there.....a collage of firework pictures, but then I changed my mind. I added these pics of the kids, and then decorated the mat that came with it with rub-ons that I had had FOREVER! I like how it turned out.
And here's some more more altered letters that I did for the new baby and also for our dining room wall. The new baby's are embellished while the ones in the dining room are simply covered with paper.
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Altered Letters
My friend Terani and I just did these for her son's room. We kept them simple, plus we couldn't really figure out how to embellish them since it was a for a boy. Couldn't use flowers now, could we?
All you need is to do them are:
- cutting mat
- exacto knife
- mod podge
- patterned paper of your choice
- embellishments of your choice.
- Glue to apply embellishments. (glue dot, liquid glue)
- some type of roller/brayer to help get the bubbles out. (you could use a small cup)
- letters from craft store (I got mine at Hobby Lobby...for once again....50% off.)
DIRECTIONS:
1. Trace the letter on the back side of the paper (front of the letter face down on the back side of the paper)
2. Cut letter out.
3. Apply Mod Podge glue EVENLY to your letter.
4. Lay cut out paper carefully on top.
5. Roll Brayer over it.
6. Wait till it dries, and then use exacto knife to cut off any edges left on.
7. Here's where you have the option of sanding and inking the edges if you want like we did with the Jayden letters.
8. Apply Mod Podge on top again for sealant now.
9. Embellish with Ribbons and flowers or whatever.
10. Repeat for the rest of the letters.
Seriously, if I made this sound hard...it's not. And stick with my motto: "You can always fix a mistake!"
Friday, April 10, 2009
Cuttlebug ideas
You can get the Cuttlebug kit for about $35-$40 online plus shipping, but it's uses are limitless. I bought mine here last year, and I know you can get them here also for a good price. So it's well worth the money. Or use a 40% coupon in stores in town although it's still more expensive this way.
Oh, and I just found out that you can use the folders on acrylic shapes in these. Check out this website here and here to get a few more ideas. Pretty cool, huh? Oh, and did I mention that they have sets of dies that will be embossed and cut out too.
new organizer
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Letter sticker organizer
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
My room
another corner of the room where I keep my paints and foam stamps
Up close of the storage wall
Can't forget the movies to watch while scrapbooking. I'm a ALIAS, Gilmore Girl, Remington Steele, and I Love Lucy fan. Can you tell?
Wooden Stamp Storage
Fiber storage - I used to have my ribbons on the spools, but I used them too much and they would always get too messy, so I put my loved, but less-used fibers on them instead.
Clip-It-Up - This has also been revamped. It's not so crowded. I put all my alphabet stickers in another place and just kept the clip-it-up for themed stickers and titles.
Miscellaneous tags and frames
Cricut and accessories My printer is no longer down there. It's been moved to my computer table to keep little hands from playing with it.
book storage and layout storage along with unused albums and a few other miscellaneous things.
Ribbon Storage