Craft Room pictures #3

First, Happy St. Patty's Day! Did you remember to wear your green today?? Being Michigan State fans, we have TONS of green in our house! I have some more craft room pictures to show you. Here is the right side of the shelves I showed earlier. I originally had my stamps in dishpan bins from the dollar store stored on shelves/cubbies made from wire cubes. The closet is right next to my desk, so I was easy to pick out a bin, plop it on my lap and dig through to see what I wanted. Well, I ran out of space in my closet and needed a different place to house all my stamps. I'm not really sure I like this method of stamp storage yet....time will tell. They are 2 rows deep. They are labeled in different categories. In the picture below, you can see where I have the different categories....Sentiments, Backgrounds/Misc (wheels are stored in here), Flowers/Bugs/Animals, General, Holidays, Tags, and Alphabets/Numbers.
I am currently in the process of labeling all of my stamp sets with my trusty label maker. Now that I am starting to do workshops, I have to distinguish between my current and retired stamps, so I am marking the retired stamp sets with a red dot next to the name.

I'll post more details about my embellishments soon. I think I'm going to head to bed.....I've been fighting getting sick so I think I'll go and catch some shut-eye! Thanks for looking!

Burp Cloths - Part 1

We know SO many people having babies lately. Many live as far away as San Francisco, so I needed something that was easy to send in the mail. I made some burp cloths for my own girls, so figured why not do that for others. Our friends in SF recently had their first baby, a baby girl. I like to do colors other than pink because people tend to get lots of pink things when they are having their first baby girl. I hope they like these! I'll have some more to post for our other friends who are having a baby boy soon! Thanks for looking and enjoy your Saturday!

Emmybella

This is a card that I made for my 17-year old niece, Emily. Therefore, I thought that Emmybella stamp from Stamping Bella would be perfect! Some of the bella stamps are perfect for those people that aren't kids anymore, but not yet adults, ya know...those in-between years. I hope she likes the card as much as I had fun making it!

Supplies:

Stamps: emmybella-Stamping Bella, You Take the Cake-MFT (sentiment), Small Oval-Amuse

Paper: DCWV textured Robin #1, Making Memories Fashion Aqua Polka Dot, SU! Night of Navy, Old Olive, Whisper White

Ink: Black StazOn, Regal Rose, Old Olive, Night of Navy, Barely Banana, Blush Blossom

Accessories: Heidi Swapp Flower, Prima Flower, SU! Rhinestone brad, Corner rounder punch, American Crafts ribbon

Craft Room #2

I finally got some more shelves put up in my craft room. I was tired of having boxes and boxes of stuff all over my floor. I wasn't able to wheel around in my chair from table to table!! I still need to get a few more shelves, but these will have to do for now. I did post some pictures of my craft room a while back....you can see the label for it on the side of my blog or click HERE.

First, on the left side of the shelves......in the 3 baskets on the top of the shelves are my projects/alterables (paint cans, notebooks, etc.) On the next shelf down in the 2 small white boxes are my envelopes (whtie, cream & clear) In the yellow gift bag with the daisy on it are my nuggets and peppermint patties that I bought recently....I need to keep them accessible in case I need a chocolate fix while I'm stamping!!

In the 3 drawers below the envelopes are my 12x12 scraps, rub-ons, tag sheets from SU! and other misc. things that I don't know where to put. The the right of the 12x12 scraps in the white box is my acrylic and unmounted stamps. Some are in CD cases, but I don't like that one whole stamps set doesn't fit in the cases. I need to come up with another way to store them, but for now that are all just thrown in a box. Any suggestions on how to store them??

On top of my acrylic/unmounted stamps is my Xyron machine. Ya know....I just had to have this and used my 40% of coupon at JoAnn's to get it and I have NEVER used the machine!! I guess I'm just not sure what to use it for. I just use my regular 'ole Mono adhesive. If you have one of these, what do you use your's for?

In the 4 photo boxes with the pink lids, 2 are empty, one has spare ribbon and one has my keepsakes in it.....notes, cards, letters, ticketstubs, etc. The the right of the 2 photo storage boxes in my Cuttlebug machine and in the 3 drawers below the machine are my folders & dies. I like to have it at an arms reach because I use it all the time!

Below the shelf on the table is a carosel of junk...I mean stuff. I picked this up at Hobby Lobby, thinking it would be great to put things in for a craft show.....if I was to ever do one. It was supposed to be $30 or $40, but it was mismarked for $19.99 and then I got to use my 40% off coupon. I couldn't pass it up!! Eyelets and brads from a share that I did, along with ribbon on clothespins, embossing powders, misc. tools, sanding tools, and other glues/adhesives.....ModPodge, E6000, spray adhesive, sealants, Scotch Tacky adhesive, cleaner refill, etc. Behind the carosel is my heat gun hanging on the arm of the shelving. Next is obviously the sewing machine. I wanted to get it out on my table so that I actually use it. I have never sewn on cards before so I thought I would give it a try. Does anyone know if you have to have a special needle/certain size to sew on paper or not?

Well, that is post #1 of my craft room. I have plenty more to show you, but I'll save it for another day. I've asked a couple of questions in red. If you have any answers or suggestions, please email me or leave me a comment. I appreciate the feedback. Thanks for looking and enjoy your day!

Zoofari Rhino

Here is one of the cards I was able to make while hiding out in my craft room yesterday. This is for one of Emerson's friends who turns 3 in a couple of weeks. My mojo wasn't quite working when I first woke up yesterday, so I picked some paper, and then went from there. I wouldn't have thought these colors went together at all, but I just went with it! I think it's turned out pretty cute....nothing fancy (do I say that too much? I think that should be my blog title!!), but I figured it's just for a 3 year old boy, so he won't care if it's not all fancied up!

With having 2 girls, I struggle when I have to come up with something for a boy or doing a gender neutral baby card. The girly stuff just seems to flow. I figured boy = animals and pulled out my Zoofari set. I know some people don't really care for this set or even think the birds in the set look constipated, but I think the animals are cute :)

Supplies:
Stamps: Zoofari, Small Script
Paper: SU!-Old Olive, Apricot Appeal, Whisper White; DCWV-The Stack III
Ink: Black StazOn, Apricot Appeal
Accessories: Large & small oval punches, tag corner punch, watercolor pencils, gamsol & blending stump, diamond stickles (for teeth), silver brads

Ginger Blossom Mailbox

This is a mailbox that I recovered a little while ago. When I got my order of SU! goodies with the Ginger Blossom paper, I just had to rip it open and do something with it. I hadn't done a mailbox yet, so I thought "why not give it a try?" After I adhered the paper, I went to start to embellish it and realized that I didn't have any ribbon or anything else that matched the paper!! Poor planning on my part....I was just so excited to use the paper! I think the mailbox is a little plain without any ribbon, etc. I'll plan my project a little better next time :)

I have reserved ALL of Sunday to be in the craft room and get some things done. I can't wait!! I'll have some goodies to show you next week. Thanks for looking!

2nd Project from Workshop

I meant to post this a couple of days ago, but it's amazing how busy life gets and I don't even get a chance to get on the computer until the weekend!

Here is the second project that we did at the workshop....the 2-5-7-10 box. I used Charmaine's idea for doing a box. I used the tutorial from SCS to make the box. I used all solid color cardstock, along with the coordinating Print Designer Series papers. Pretty easy for everyone to have their own color of box since I am a paper addict, along with a punch addict, etc. I wish I would have brought my camera to show you how cool the boxes turned out. I wasn't sure if they would be "blah" since they would all be tone-on-tone, but they all turned out sooooo cute! On my box I used Apricot Appeal cardstock and DS paper, along with the Polka Dot & Paisley and Polka Dots & Petals stamp sets. I brought a few different stamp sets that people could use, but most used the same ones that I did.



I definitely liked the way that these turned out and will do more in the future. Thanks again for the idea to do these!