Altered Typeset Tray - Family Edition

Yet another project I finished over a year ago and didn't take pictures of. I bought this Typeset Tray Kit at Archiver's 4+ years ago and it sat in my craft room waiting for the perfect time to be used.

After we got home from an amazing family reunion trip to the Oregon Coast, I knew just what I wanted to do with it. I lost the instructions that came with the kit, so I winged it.

I think it turned out pretty great, if I do say do myself.  Hubby even liked (really  liked) it and let me put a whole in the wall to hang it in the front dining room!

 

Bright Summer Banners

I decide to brighten up the house for summer and made a few quick buntings, banners and burlap wreath.

 

I had seen similar wreaths on Pinterest and other blogs  and figured I could make one. I used a thin styroform ring and wrapped it in wide burlap ribbon. I used Doodlebug Fruit Stand paper and stickers to create the mini flag bunting and medallion.

For the FUN and SUMMER banners, I also used Doodlebug Fruit Stand papers and stickers. I cut all the banner shapes using the Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge and spelled out  FUN and SUMMER with Thickers.

Father's Day Frame

 

I made this frame for Hubby for Fathers Day. It was such a quick and cute gift that I made a similar one for my dad for his birthday

I took and unfinished hinged frame from Craft Warehouse and painted the edges a dark brown and covered the front with cute striped paper from Echo Park Note to Self.

I added some stickers and embellishments from the same line. I used the 5 button and 2 card because that is the age of my sweet kiddos in the picture.

Spring Banner

I finally put together this little spring banner kit I picked up last year at an after Easter sale at one of my FAVE stores, Craft Warehouse. It is Dilly Dally by Making Memories and it took me all of 30 minutes (with kid interruptions) to finish. I added a few on my own touches and omitted a few of the provided supplies and I couldn't be happier how it turned out. It is hanging on the mirror in our formal dining room. I hoping to add a post showing off all my spring decorations, including this.

Design Team - Not This Year

This year I submitted some projects in hopes of being selected as part of the Craft Warehouse (one of my fave places to by scrapbook supplies) 2011 Design Team. I also submitted in 2009, and I wasn't selected either year, but this year I was given Honorable Mention! YEOW!

It's not as good as being picked, but I am still pretty excited about it. i told my self that if I didn't get selected this year that I would probably not do it next year, but the Honorable Mention is making me rethink that decision. I will just have to see how I am feeling about my scrapping next year.

Anyway, the submission requirements were 2 page layouts, 2 cards and 1 altered project. I had my 2 layouts almost done in preparation for the submission and I had an idea for my altered project and I figured the cards wouldn't be that hard. Well, I re-did my layouts, and in doing that almost ran out of time for submitting, so I threw together 2 cards and used a project I finished in February as my altered project. Here is what I submitted:

 

My altered project was a Christmas countdown calendar made from 2 sheets of 12' x 12"  paper, i sheet of epoxy stickers, glitter glue and few random embellishments.

 

And here are the cards. I think this is my weakest entry because I spent an hour at 2 am finishing these so I could get my packet together and mailed before the cutoff date. My goal for next year is to not wait until the last minute and maybe spend a little more time on all of the pieces.

Anyway, It was really nice to see my name on the website as Honorable Mention and maybe next year....

Advent Calendar

I made this cute little advent calendar for Christmas next year. (I didn’t finish it in time for this year.)


The 3D Countdown Calendar is from Karen Foster and measures approximately 8 1/2" x 8" and each individual drawer is approximately 1 1/2" x 1 1/2". The calendar comes with a template for the drawer fronts and clear number stickers 1-25.

I covered the box and drawers with My Minds Eye “Be Merry” paper. They are decorated with sparkles, brads, ribbon, cut-outs from scrap paper, stickers, Stickles and other embellishments.

The little drawers all pull out and can be filled with candies, trinkets, toys or other fun rewards. I am really look forward to using this next yer with The Peanut ~ I think she will love opening the drawers and finding a different treasure every day!