Fall is in the air and its time for some fun stamping activities.
I must admitt, I spent most of the day doing my chores, I got alittle time in to do these great projects.
Before I show you what I stamped today, I had to post a picture of my son, Chad. He is 13 and will turn 14 on October 16th. If you want to send him a birthday card, please email me and I’ll be happy to send you our mailing information.
Buttercup as you may recall is our rescue puppy. She was in my sister’s home at the time of her dath in December. Buttercup was living in horrible conditions, and under weight. I wish we could say the same for her now. She is so dumb, but we love her. She was enjoying some one on one lap time with Chad!
Below are the cards/project that I worked on today:
The birthday angel is a whipper snapper design stamp. She is colored simply with copic markers and then is embellished more with stickles. I love the use of the orange and pink, it is different. The calendar is an altered coaster I made for a BRAK (Birthday Random act of kindness) gift, this was included with one of the 5 BRAK cards that I made and sent postal this morning. I really like how the card and altered coaster came out, they are both adorable!
This is the actual box I designed for my cell phone. I designed it to mach the outfit I wore to the SBS shoebox swap near Baltimore, Maryland. I am so glad I attended. Inspite of the ugly weather I really had a nice time. I felt very welcome and was excited to make 24 great cards. I even did my very own Mini Bind it All book using scraps I had in my recycle bin! (will post pictures at another time).
I need to check oh the kids and dinner. I hope everyone is enjoying there day!
Here are a few shots of the grave stones in the church yard where Edgar Allan Poe is burried. If you are ever in the Baltimore area, the cemetary is located exactly accross the street from the VA Hospital and Medical center. My husband had an appointment there today. I had decided since we where also going to visit Lexington Market, to take my camera with. I’m so glad that I did!
The day was beautiful. Not too cool, a little breezy and the cemetary is beautiful. Many markers are more than 200 years old. Just think about all those happy souls enjoying heaven now.
The markers are in wonderful condition considering their age. Some are now unreadable due to the forces of nature, but the church and cemetary are very beautiful and well kept. Please come and visit this great attraction if you ever come to Maryland.
After Mike’s appointment we visited the cememtary and then we went to the world famous Lexington Market. There are so many food vendors and other vendors there it is a pretty large and amazing place. We ate a huge crab cake, with calimary and onion rings, washed it down with a couple of beers and the lunch was so good.
I was feeling a bit tired after not sleeping well last night. (I live near Ft. meade and I hear there is something in the water). My sweet Mike struggled with his CPAP machine (continous positive airway pressure device) and got a little fed up with it and took it off around 2:00 am, I went down and slept on the coach until about 5:30, he was snoring so loudly I thought surely we’ll need to paint the ceiling. No seriously, it was that bad. Any whoo, I came home and took a nap. That sweet man of mine fixed a huge pot of wonderfully tastee smoked turkey soup with noodles. It was so good!
I think I’ve rambled enough! Stamp happpy, stay tuned for more blog candy items coming on this week!
Hello Everyone, I hope you are having a relaxing Sunday! My dear hubby is finally home after being gone most of the last two weeks. It is so good to have him home. I’m already getting a little spoiled! He made me breakfast and is taking me out tonight to one of my favorite places to eat dinner tonight! How sweet is that! I will add the pink box to the blog candy!
I made these simple little boxes based upon a friends little box she made for kleenex. I adapted it and changed it alot to accomidate a cell phone, camera and even a small GPS unit. I’m sure it can be adapted for what ever you would like to use it for.
Here is a picture of a small box that is capable of carrying your cell phone, a small digital camera or even a box of kleenex The box you see here has my cell phone in it.
It is a simple box.
I used an old cereal box to make my template which ultimately turned into the cell phone box.
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Onto the tutorial
There are alot of pictures to this one, but I hope it will help you successfully make your own!
You will need:
1. Scor Pal
2. Paper trimmer
3. Scissors
4. Pen
5. Patterned paper
6. Chip board
Instructions
Cut Chipboard and patterned paper to 11″ X 4″.
Score at 1″ and 2″ from top edge.
Score each side at 3/4″, the bottom flap of the box is scored at 4″ and 5″ and is cut on both sides toward the middle. It is important to use a scrap of chipboard to reinforce the bottom.
Note the scores and cut lines on the template, also note the red liner tape on the box bottom’s score lines. It is really important to reinfoce the bottom with a scrap of chipboard so it will be strudy enough to hold a camera, cell phone or even a GPS unit.
This is the bottom of the box reinforced.
bottom middle picture is the inside flap of the box that I covered with the flip side of the decorative paper I covered the chipboard with. This nicely finishes off the inside of the box that you will see when you open and close the box.
When cutting and scoring the box, I used my score pal and reinforced all the score lines with the bone folder. See the pink side of the box above.
I finished the box off with a scrap of the patterned paper, for a belly band, added ribbon and shrink plastic butterflies. The butterfly stamps are from Starving Artist Stamps. I stamped them onto Shrinky Dink, rough and ready shrink plastic using staz on ink. I then carefully cut them out with a pair of ery sharp scissors, I do alot of these when I’m waiting on laundry and pop them into my toaster oven (only used for crafts, never for food prep). The butterfly and box are detailed with the use of pink stickles. I am using my boxes for my new digital camera and my cell phone. They don’t add much extra weight and are plenty sturdy enough for the abuse of living in my purse! I know, I’m nuts. But, hey life is too short not to have a little fun!
I hope you will try these out for yourself. I think they will be nice gifts, easily ‘themable’ and very easy to make.
Today’s blog is going to have alot of pictures, I hope you will enjoy them all!
Here is what I am working on! I am in love with these boxes. I love the diversity you can achieve with them as well as the fact they are awesome gifts. I will be making some of these to sell as well!
I can hardly believe that it is fall already. I know I keep saying that but, dang where did the summer go?
I am also workiing on my housework. Loving the new steam cleaner I bought yesterday. It does quick work on my dirty carpet. I even managed to clean up a section of the basement he had cluttered up. I was thinking, for once I get to grip a bit about his mess — oops, not so much. I bet 75% of the crap that had accumulated belonged to me. Lesson learned! Too funny! I found stuff that I had totally forgotten I even owned. Including an origional still in the box set of Perry Como records!
For blog candy I’m adding one of these boxes to the mix! Yupper, your choice, so if you think you like one more than the rest, keep that in mind as we continue with blog candy!
Speaking of Candy, I got a really good deal on some mini bags of M&M’s the other day it was a 250 count (Sams) for like $7.00 not bad! I’m doing ore of the little mini designer bags! I’m going to be bad and have some chocolate myself tonight! I won’t go overboard but will be sure to take a walk so my blood sugar doesn’t spike.
Ok, back to the stationary boxes, I will be teaching this as a class at a local stamp store in the next few months, I am thinking of charging $40.00/each so I have enough to cover time and expenses. I’ll have everything cut and scored to make it easier. Does that sound like too high of a price? It is pretty much what other instructors get for smaller less complicated classes.
I need to feed the kids and take the dogs out for some ‘private time’, I will blog at you guys later!
Today’s post is brought to you by the letter “B” for Boo and the number 24, the number of card kits I have to prepare by Friday.
After getting very discusted with AW,TT,RH,K and a few other folks on Split coast stampers, I decided to join a shoebox swap in another part of Maryland. It is this Saturday the 27th. I’m pretty excited about it! Above is the card I have chosen to take with me. It is not quiet complete as I want to chalk the CB pumpkins on the bottom. It is a SU only swap, so that is why you see the booblie eyes stamp.
I will post pictures tomorrow of some more stationary boxes I have been working on. I will also post a pictures of the small glass jars with cork stoppers I purfhased from American Science glass. I plan to use these small bottles and fill them with glitter and include them in gifts or as Secret Sister goodies.
I’ve been tagged! Janet! Thanks, what an honor! Check out Jane’ts blog by clicking here.
Here is how you play:
1. Link your tagger and list these rules on your blog. Check!
2. Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird. Seven facts, this isn’t easy. 1. I love to play violin. 2. Stamping is more of an obsessioon than a hobby. 3. I got so bored the other day, I blinged my stapler. 4. I know sign language and would like one day to persue it as a career. 5. I love the color green. 6. My favorite food is mashed potatoes (with butter and salt, I’m a purist ).
7. I’m trying to loose some weight, not so easy these days!
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