blogging from my phone.

So, I am attempting to do a blog post from my phone. I have no idea if it will work or not.
I'm also going to try to attach a photo, but that may be pushing it.

This is my current crafting room. It is an unfinished room that needs to be ripped down to the studs as there is 1 plug in and 1 light. The insulation has been shredded in areas by the original owners cat and is not up to code. It will hopefully be finished before Christmas, fingers crossed!

Scrapbook Rooms: Rip it Up for Ribbon Challenge

Scrapbook Rooms: Rip it Up for Ribbon Challenge

Check out this awesome prize and contest! It will be loads of fun to see what everyone comes up with!

So this is my homemade supply stand that my awesome hubby made for me! My good friend Jessica (you know who you are) dropped off the lamp shade frame one evening because she knew what I wanted done with it. Some ready rod, nuts and the base from our old light in our kitchen complete the project.

He spent part of the next day thinking of ways to improve on the design. Lol. I love my hubby, he is an awesome guy!

I went to an amazing scrapbook store owned and run by some awesome woman called Something to Scrap About in Red Deer Alberta to get some sort of clips, just my luck, they just got a few packages of the clip it up clips which work perfect!

You should check this store out by visiting their FaceBook page online or in person if you are lucky enough to live near by! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Something-to-Scrap-About/111927008832461

Altered Epicure Jars

So this little project was my first attempt at altering an object. I did this for a challenge from http://www.facebook.com/Scrapbookrooms
They were made using empty, clean Epicure jars and paper from a DCWV stack that I had bought over a year ago and never used. The "ribbon flower tops" were made using 2" glubbers. It was loads of fun to do and I am looking forward to altering many more items!

Gr. 2 Zoo Field Trip Name Tags

It has been awhile since I posted due to a small flood in our basement. Everything that was in the wet area was put into my craft room which is still unfinished and being used as half a storage area to begin with. So things are a wee bit cramped in there. Lol
My oldest son is in grade two this year and his class along with the other grade two class are going to the Calgary Zoo for their year end field trip. I asked the teacher if I could make name tags for the kids. I used Create a Critter cartridge from PC and my gypsy to make them. I did 3 layers with the second and third ones being drawn with my black cricut marker not cut. I then switched the marker out for the blade and cut out layer one.
I used the cricut white card stock from the 12x24 black and white paper pack. The kids will colour their name tags how they want and then they will be laminated. Once that is done, we will punch two holes to hang a string through to go around their necks.

Glubbers! Whats a Glubber you ask?.....

Do you know what a Glubber is? I didn't. Not until I went to a new scrapbooking and card making store called Something To Scrap About in Red Deer Alberta. The women showed me this cool little item and I am hooked! It is, essentially, a 2" glue dot that you wrap your ribbon around and around until you get to the edge. Voila! You have a flower made from the ribbon of your choice! I am pretty new at it so mine aren't fantastic but I did have fun making them. The gold coloured one was made with a ribbon that has this wire along both edges, I cut the ribbon in half down the center and used it with the wire facing out. The gold brad in the center was made with my iTop brad maker and gold glitter paper from Co'ordinations. the green one that has crappy folds (a skill I need to work on) is done from Close To My Heart ribbon and the button is from there as well. The blue and green ones were made with ribbon I picked up at Micheals 3 years ago.
Happy Scrappin!
Jos
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