Secret Sister Jewelry

My DD#6 made some very pretty jewelry for her Secret Sister at Camp...It turned out very nice so I asked her if I could post it here on my blog she said,"sure". I honestly think she could sell the stuff. this is just a short quick post to share it. The necklace didnt get justice laying on a flat table with no light behind it, but I was lucky I even got a chance to take a picture of it...

Until Later...Happy Stamping!

Faith Candles

I got up very early this morning because I forgot that yesterday I found this package of votives for 7.95 at Michaels in the wedding isle...I Saw them and thought I have white vinyl I could decorate these really easy and help my friend fill the box I posted earlier.

I used CDS(Cricut Design Studio) to LO and cut the objects quickly..I thought I was going to have to type "Faith" with a font and add the welded swirls myself, but the "Home Accent" cart had the word already for me..so I just sized it to fit and cut out twelve of them on a 6X12 mat. then on a second page I Used the "Indie Art" cart and cut out the 12 Butterflies.

I originally used one ot the Butterflies from home accents but my mat wasnt sticky enough...Oops and the cut out pieces kept balling up mostly cause the vinyl wasnt stuck down well enough and because it had a lot of little intricate swirls...

For Camp this year the theme is "Round Up of Values"..our wards value is Faith, and the color for Faith is White.. I would have definately use a contrasting color of vinyl if this wasnt the case. My friend was using a butterfly as a symbol of Faith. I put three candles together in the first picture so you can see what the whole image looks like...they were all cut at about 2" I sized it in CDS so I dont know the exact height it was cut at.

I would recommend doing something similar for a party favor they went together very quickly..I was able to put them together in about an hour and a half ,it took longer because I had to layout & recut the butterflies...I think 12 in an hour would be very doable!

Value RoundUp..Scrapbook Box

I have been very busy..I could probably make several post up if I took the time. My finger has been acting up the last few weeks makes it a little difficult to type adncraft..today we also worked on DD's Room..All I have to do now is pick up some longer braces for the valance rod the ones with the rod were only an inch deep and we need at least an 1.5"! I guess I'll pick that up on Monday. we did get all the outlet covers on and the mirror hung and the vent and heat duct and mini blinds hung.

A few weeks ago I was talking to my girlfriend who has taken my place at the girls camp I did the last few years. I asked her what seh was doing for handouts and she told me how she wasnt doing any becasue she couldnt make anything as nice as I have done in the past..quite the compliment but it made me a bit sad to think the girls werent getting a special momento from camp. I told her I could make these little 4" square boxes if she coudl come up with some thing to put in them..she got excited t the thought. I thought I would share the boxes and details with you. The theme is Value Round Up...a cowboy theme...the girls have an 8 value thing they work on for Church projects during there teen years. I pulled out my Cricut Paper Dolls Cart and went to town.

I picked up some double sided Bohemian Paper that used a "Baja Breeze Ridinghood Red" color. the one side was pretty much a solid blue and the other the Red with Small Blue Polka dots. I cant remeber the title of the paper I picked up at Michaels this week...I trimed the edge and DS emptied the garbage before I remebered to write it down. I stamped the paisley from the Polkadots and Paisleys SU set on the solid blue side and on some"Baja Breeze" squares cut to 6" for the lids of the box. I have posted this box before, but basically score the 6" square about an 1" on each side.. The 12" Dp is scored into 4" squares making 9 squares on a sheet.


I cut out the cowgirls figure and accessories using th efollowing SU colors..Very Vanilla, So Saffron, Night of Navy, Riding hood Red, really Rust , Chocolate Chip. Iused my pastels to dab some pink on the cheeps and some Dark Brown to the Boots and the Hair. I assembeled using tap runner and my Zyron "X". then mounted on the page with my ATG. I then printed the snetiment on a piece of Very Vanilla Card stock and punched it out with my SU scalloped Square Punch. I sponge the sentiment with some Ridinghood Red Ink.

For the outside of the Box I used my George Cartridge and cut the "Star" using the slotted tags feature, on to a Medium Weight coaster using the multicut 4times. I sitll had to use some scissors cause I havent bought a Deep Cut Blade yet!.. I then Sanded and finished the stars by wiping them on my Going Gray ink pad and then dabbing with my Silver Dew Drop...I used just the silver on one and decided I didnt have that much silver ink.. The gray got absorbed and made the silver ink go further. My friend is picking up rafia to tie the lids on, but I used some Twill so you could get he idea.

I cut a Whisper White cardstock piece and matted with Ridinghood Red for Journaling in the center... and 6 other horseshoes at 1 3/4" to use to dress up the page in the other value colors...the colors are blue, orange, green, purple, yellow, gold,..White and Red(used int he matting...these were cut and then ran throught the "X" to make stickers and left on the backing until the girls have puictures t o add and dress up the page... I hope you can see all the other details in the pictures I used scraps to cut the horseshoes ... some previously mentioned SU colors and some less expensive Michaels assort pack colors...Until Later...Happy Stamping!

Working on Thank Yous

I have been working on 32 thank you cards for some Young Women who helped me pull off a five mile First Aid Hike at camp in Aug. I am a little late but I have been waiting for my new stamps to come because I ordered SU "Under the Stars". (pg 111). It is a very cute camping set with darling images to color. I thought I would let you know I am still working on them feverishly(little DS is sick) so I can make a post..then I'll be back on a regular schedule of Posting and Creating, Until I start my Christmas Cards which I am way behind on also...

For a Sneak peek here is what I have so far.

I stamped all the images and "Grrreat" with Jet Black Stazon, and the "U" and "R" with the new in colors Kiwi Kiss and Tangerine Tango. I used my Watercolor Wonder Crayons to paint the images...The "Compass" with Pumpkin Pie and Green Galore and the "Bear" with Chocolate Chip and More Mustard. This morning I have been trimming the Sentiments and Using my new punches(Scallopped Circle and Scallopped Edge) to punch out cardstock. I am trying to decide if I want to cut the "Bears" out...so far they are trimmed to 2.5" x 3". I guess now I need to get back to work on my cards, or laundry.

Until later ...Happy Stamping!

Mini Composition Books

Every year one of the less expensive treats I do for camp is a little Journal to write memories and thoughts while the girls are at Camp...I buy them in a 3 pack for a dollar at my local dollar store...They go together relatively quickly and I individualize them with Initials...so everyones is unique..and even though they get one every year they look quite different. this year are color is Bright Pink Last year was Lime Green

I got some scrap pieces of DP from my SU Demo and cut them to 2 /12 by 4 1/2 and adhered them to the front. I used the pink side of the Flower stationary that I used for the coaster books to cover the back and wrapped around to the front..I stuck it on with Modge Podge...

I then punched Pixie Pink with the Scalloped circle punch same as for the coaster books. I cut the circles with the initials from Mellow Moss Card stock using my cricut and Mini Monograms Cartridge using the dotted selection. I bought a package of Mini Pink Flowers made by Making Memories they come with fifty flowers in assorted colors and the brads. The ribbon same as the Coaster books is 1/4" satin I got for 1$ at Michaels... thought for contrast I would bring back a blast from the past and include a picture of last years book so you can see the versatality...

Until Later ...Happy Stamping!

Camp Coaster Books

I have been very busy with Family and Camp stuff. I need to take a new Picture of the wood boxes now that they are complete the pink inside looks adorable..I will get that picture taken later today. I need to put another layer of finish on them...Okay well, I decided to just take a picture first..I posted it inthe Post with the other Wooden Box Picture!

The Coaster books I have been working on this week are finished...Though I do want to ask an opinion. My friend tells me I like to many embellishments and another friend agrees..so I am asking for more opinions on weather I need to redo them.

The finished books look like this...I thought it needed more ribbon and re did it to look like this. I thinkthe ribbon needs to thread between two sets of Wires but "what do you think" is it worth the extra work...

Okay I dont know if this is the new Camera or blogger, but I will put the other picture in a different post...Okay the picture upload is not working right now...I will post the other picture later today(done!)...or when I can...so Stay tuned.., If you want to voice your opinion I would appreciate it...

and Until Later .....Happy Stamping!!!!

Wooden Flower Boxes

I wanted you to know I have been doing something this week. Its just a big project and I didnt feel I was at a point I could share it yet. This morning I started putting a finish coat on the exterior. I thought,"I can share this!" Like Last year I am once again doing a Church Girls Camp in early August. I am working on several projects, 4 to be exact, for 14 girls, that I will be in charge of. Doing the math that equals(56)projects, well actually 70, because these little boxes wll have something inside them! I try to have a special theme each evening and hand out a momento. This wooden flower box will be one of my handouts. The boxes are sold at Michaels for 1$, a slightly larger one is available for 2$. They come in Heart, Star shapes also. The heart and floer are hinged with one magnetic closer the Star has two magnetic closure. I chose the flower because our color is pink and the theme has a lot of be(e)s in it. Our groups theme is Be Still...going with the scripture that states, "Be Still, and know that I am God!".
Edit 07/29/08 my youngest DD heelped me out and painted the inside of the flower boxes for me so I took a picture to insert here...Didnt she do a great job!


Until Later... Happy Stamping!

extra post today for a GREAT BUY

Well they are scheaduling an outage for tonight and I am very busy so I will not be posting tonight. I am working on a power point for my girls camp. I have two days left to finish, yeah!Ihave 13 slide's in all and about 250 pictures, I need to finish inserting the pictures(on the last 2 slides) and then add the music I need to get it finished and make 15-18 copies. I need to have it all finished by Wed evening. When I am through with this I dont have to worry about camp until March.

GREAT BUY

I also found a great Buy for stamps at Target today. They have small packages of Autumn Leaves clear stamps for 1.99$ I was going to post a picture but I cant find my Camera :0, I will try to post a picture tomorrow.

EDIT: Found It Today

They had either 2 large stamps or eight small stamps in them, they were so cute I bought 4 different sets. They had others but I had some of those stamps already in my larger sets. the three flower one I used during VSN is in a 2 set package. I bought 1 to split and send with some RAKs I am working on, since I know someone who loves Ladybugs!
I will make some cards to post tomorrow... Until Later Happy Stamping!

BIA Circle book

Today was a very busy day. I had to finish shopping for camp food. It sure takes a lot to feed hungry teenage girls for a week. I also spent the day finishing up organizing charts for organization and chores. But I am finally almost finished. I got home from all the errands and took a nap at 7 pm. I had too much to do and I was tired. I still need to make sure my girls have everything they need to go, but I have tomorrow for that.

One of the last things I had to do was decorate the circle books I made for camp. I had decided a few weeks ago that they were fine with decorative paper, and if I didnt have time to finish them that would be okay. After I finished up what I needed to do tonight. I dug them out and finished decorating them. Arent they cute? They are being used for everyone to write nice things about each other in.

I purchased the decorative paper at Michaels and talked about it in this earlier post. It talks about how I cut all the paper for the books with my cricut. The covers are circle Coasters I purchased from Starlit Studio. I bought the prima petites from All That Scraps. I used the heather colored ones. I used my computer to print the sentiment. I have found that if you set the paper to have 4 columns you can type sentiments that fit with in the small tag punch. You have to watch the height. I type five sentiments per column, and make sure I have a bout an inch between them. then I allignthem Horizontally so i can cut the apart and use the punch on them. I used my SU tag punches to cut the cardstock and sentiments out. I used my Cuttlebug and the Tiny Tags Dies to cut the tags out for the names. I've used these dies for a lot of little tags on cards. The rhinestones I purchased in a $ section at either Archivers or Target. I bought them awhile ago to use for camp,because I need to keep within the camp budget. They were a sentiment saying Cutie Pie. I cut the word to separate the rhinestones and use a pointer to lift them off and put them where needed.

The thin tan stitched ribbon I got at Michaels. the Gold ribbon is an after christmas clearance purchase and the other stitched ribbon is SU True Thyme and Cranberry Crisp from the 07 In Colors which are now retired. Here is a picture of my mess from making 18 of these, I even get one. I just wanted to show you the crystals stickers. Ignore the rest of the mess, I am, until the end of August. (wink, wink)

Just one more quick story, I had planned to tie both tags on the ribbon together, but I didnt like the look. I covered the holes I punched with my 1/8" circle punch with the primas. I noticed my punch was not working the best and was kind of sticking. Then I realized I hadn't emptied it out in ages. It literally rained tons of little colorful confetti into the garbage. I am relieved it wasn't a problem with the punch.

I am going to try an make some cards Saturday and Sunday for my DD to post while I am gone. I am just so busy I dont know if I'll get around to it. I will also be posting after mid-night Sunday, some Blog Candy. I'm not sure what, but I'll figure it out and post it Monday bright and early before I leave. This one will run from the 6th until the 27th, you will be able to comment more than once, but only once a day. I will use the Random Number picker online to choose a winner. Please come back Monday to see what it is.

Camp stuff and Flag

Well tonight I will be brief. I am posting three pictures. First is a triangle gift box. I stamped with Old Olive and the watercolor vine wheel, Pumpkin Pie ink, Summer Sun, Ruby Red and Chocolate Chip. I used an inexpensive GP cardstock for these in natural colors because of the quantity I made. I used SU retired set Paint Prints.

I need to finish some more. I found them on my desk, they were cut punched and scored , but amazingly got hidden in the mess of getting everything done. I am glad I found then iin time to finish them.

The second picture is of the infamous flag I have been painting. ugh I am glad it is done.

The third picture is for fun and info. I really want to stamp one of these skirt purses I found at Wal mart for less than 4 $. Don't they just go with our Lime green theme. My DD decorated hers. I couldn't convince her to let me stamp it. I guess when things settle down I am running to the Walmart to grab one to do for fun.

Until later ...Happy Stamping!

Baroque Stylized Flower & Large Clips for Camp

Well I stayed up to make this card for you. I used my Stylized Flower Embossing folder on a very vanilla card stock. I rounded the top two corners to make it look more like a window. I rubbed them with a Platnium Ink pad lightly and then bash Ful Blue stamp spot to add some color. I stamped "Kind" and the small star flower from the baroque motifs stamp set in Bashful blue also. I then added blue rhinestones to the star flowers using my sakura glue pen. The star flowers on the sentiment were stamped with bashful blue also but were stamped off first. Kind was stamped and a rhinestone added to dot the "i". I matted both images with a light blue cardstock. The circles were cut with the SU 1-3/8 & 1-1/4 circle punches. The light blue grosgrain ribbon added the finishing touch. This is a simple quick card because I promised a card.

I made 32 of these jumbo clips today and I just about backed out of making a card. It took longer to cut the petals decorative paper and the cereal boxes into the "flowers" with my Cuttlebug than I had planned. After being cut the decorative apper was stuck to the cereal boxes with Modge Podge. I used dimensionals to mount the large flowers on either side of the clip and then tied the double sided ribbon to help keep the flowers at the top of the clip. the larger flowers were sponged with Brilliance Sterling Silver and the small ones with Regal Rose. After being mounted in the center of the large flowers, the buttons were also mounted with Zots. These clips are one of the things I needed to finish for camp.

Until Later ...Happy Stamping!

More Camp Creations

By Now you should know if you see lime green it can only mean one thing. Camp projects!

I am just about through, but it increasingly getting hard to find the time to make a card and keep up with my kids. The four youngest 15,12,8,4, were home today alone for most of the day, I told them to pick up the house when I was gone. Usually a meger job of that is done but today my kids really stepped up to the plate and my house was just spotless after being gone for 5 hrs! It was really a blessing, that I wasn't expecting. Not only was the house clean but they were all happy and had no squabbles or complaints. It was wonderful.

I just posted the picture because I wanted you to know I have been busy, just not making cards for you. I hope to get more done this week since I just about have my projects completed. I have four girls that are all 16 that helped me out today stamping and coloring, and they did a wonderful job getting these kits together. We made 16 kits. I used some stamps and colored pencils and punches and stuff but I am not going to get into that kind of detail. These are gifts for the girls to share with other campers.

We made a candy bar cover, and made nugget handouts. None of these are complete becuase the girls are finishing them at camp. I just didn't want to haul all my stuff up there, just some tape markers and scissors. and tags ready to attach and write notes on. I was so proud of my DD#4. A few days ago I handed her the plastic straws and told her I needed a tag to attach to it to go with the can of pop/soda. She came up with, " I hope this is the only thing that sucks in your day". I found the straws on clearance at Target and couldn't refuse the lime green spots. I think the girls will be very pleased. The one tag says "'Chews' the right" its being attached to some gum. he fortune cookies tag has a quote on it that says something about good fortune or bad fortune just making us better preparing us for eternal things, DD#6 found that quote and picture.

Oh well today, I am thankful I have such sweet kids and that the Lord has blessed me so much.

Tomorrow I will definately have a card to share. Until then...Happy Stamping!

Camp Keychains

I had started an Extra card yesterday thinking I would finish it today but I ended up working on camp things tonight. I finished 16 key chains, with 2 shrink art charms. Nothing fancy just a keepsake from camp. It has their name in camp colors, and a picture for our Justice & Mercy League theme, Plus each of the bead colors represent different meanings, ie Faith, Good Works, Knowledge, etc.... I hope you'll come and check later. I will make a card in the morning and post around noon. I just finished my camp project too late. Until later ...Happy Stamping!

Boxes and Necklaces for Camp

I have been very busy the last week, working on crafty things for the girls camp I am in charge of in a few short weeks. I am trying to get all the handouts and gift type things done by the 16th. Because then I need to focus on Camping Supplies and Food.

Today I am finishing up 16 boxes I am making for the necklaces I finished up last week. I thought I would share the necklaces with you now that I have the paper stamped for the boxes and one of them made.

The hardest part for doing these boxes was finding bright or Lime Green cardstock that was affordable and individually packaged.I was only finding assortments and didnt want to buy 4 assortment packs just to get the green paper out. I love when things work out like that. This morning I was inspired to go to my local print shop. The place I get my vellum. They had This lovely green. Yeah! I made the bottom out of the green cardstock I was able to pick up at .10$ a sheet. I bought all 31 pieces he had on stock, for making tags and other stuff.

On white card stock I stamped using my Versa Color Lime spot, and my Versa magic Midnight Black dewdrop. I used the new SU Baroque Motif my demo loaned me. I am pretty sure I am ordering this set. I love it. I showed the paper before I folded it under the necklaces so you can see what it looks like when I stamped it. I have some nice lime ribbon and some Black & white Gingham i am using onthese boxes also.

This picture shows the lid and the inside of the box. These boxes are nice and sturdy because the paper is doubled up. I really like them. I got the directions for this box from Nicole's Blog, almost 2 months ago. She has a great tutorial there with pictures. Here's a link to the directions {capture the moment}.

Well I have a few more boxes to fold and fiddle with, and some stuff I need to get ready for tomorrow nights camp prep meeting with the girls. Until Later...Happy Stamping!

Psst... The aboundance of Lime Green Coloring is because the girls chose it for our group last march. You don't know how happy I have been to find all the lime green products in the stores. I think we will have the best decorated camp site in the area.

Camp Journal

Remember these Mini Composition Books I cut the paper out for the covers Memorial Day Weekend, Well I have been working on them again tonight. I cut out all the Monogram letters in a Darico Cardstock from Walmart in Lime Green from their Tropical Assortment pack. I used my Mickey Alphabet Cartridge and my Cricut. I love the this chunky little font. I cut out 18 letters for each girls Initial and then sponged the edges and front with SU Chocolate Chip ink so they would blend better with the green dots on the dotted background paper. Lime green is our Camp color also. After sponging I cut a strip of 1/4" wide white organza ribbon that I 'm sure I picked up at Walmart. I placed it in a ziplock bag with a few drops of water and a few drops of SU Pretty In Pink Re-Inker. I work the ribbon around making sure it all gets soaked in the reinker and let it set for about 5 min. Then I wiped it down witha paper towel and ironed it lightly to set the ink.

I thien tied it double wrapping it and knotting it on a portion of the letters. I also counted through my mini Heather primas and chose 18 Bigger pink ones and used my white brads for centers, and 18 med to large cream ones, and 18 small avacado colored ones. Then I adhered the green flowers to all of them. I did this now to insure the ribbon would not slip off the ends of all the letters since I still have books to cover and finish up. Once they were adhered to the book with small Zots dots, I dotted the cream and green ones with Clear Glitter paint, the kind you use on fabrics. The bottles are a little larger then Stickles. They take a little longer to dry but when I am trying to stick to a budget for a project this works well as an alternative to keep cost down. I like them also because the tips dont get clogged so easy and for finer pin dots I apply by dipping my broken paper peircer or a tooth pick in some of the paint. I cut the Corners for the book from the same paper I cut for binding during the Memorial Day Weekend. I used my Jasmine Cartridge to cut them out. I think the girls will be very pleased with their camp journals.

EDIT: I just noticed I forgot to sand the edges of this journal. oops...I'll have to fix that...

Until tomorrow... Happy Stamping.....

Cutting with my Cricut

I wanted to have a new blog to post today. I thought I would find some time to spend in my stamp room, and I did, but..... I didn't quite create something fun. I have a girls camp I am responsible for this summer, and I have a lot of little projects I am making for the 16 girls when we are at camp. There are a few things I wanted to do that have been nagging me to get them started. I have been putting these projects off because they are a little tedious. Kind of like weeding my flower pots and strawberry beds and planting my flowers.

Well today I got most of them done, plus I served a great a Bar-B-Que lunch in the afternoon. Then I found some free time, and I went into my craft room, and setting there was one of those projects I have been putting off.

So instead creating a fabulous card.

I started the project.


I did this --->



Well not exactly that. I did cover the one composition book, I still need to cut out something to cover the corners. The green Bind it All book is a sample of what I am making.




<----- This is what
I actually did.
I cut out the papers in order to make 16 each of the above projects.


For the Composition books, I cut 16 rounded squares with my George cartridge, at 4-1/2". I am so thankful that my Cricut made these projects easier. I also cut 16 rectangles of the striped paper to
3-3/8ths by 4-3/8ths.

I cut 64, 3 1/2" circles with the same cartridge, of the Terra Cotta Paisley, and 320 circles the same size in white copy paper. The white ones will be for pages. The Terra Cotta print ones for the inside and outside covers to go over the round coasters.


In order to get 6 circles from
one sheet of 8-1/2 x 11 " paper. I had to fool the cricut. It helps to be smarter than a machine sometimes. I had to offset the sheet of paper by about a 1/4th of an inch. so the cricket would think the paper was 6 x 12". ^^^
Sorry the picture is blurry.

<-------You can see how tight the tolerance was to get the 3 circles cut the circles rest on either end of the paper. All in all I had a very productive Memorial Day I got alot of projects off and running, and now I just have to complete them. And do the fun part...Decorating!!! Well at least after I punch them with the Bind it All.

I will do another post in the future when I get some of these projects finished, but I may not get all the binding done for a while. I still have some more things to cut out. I have some of the girls coming to help assemble things once school gets a few days a month. I have about 20 projects to get at least semi assembled, before the camp this summer. I hope you wont mind the ocassional posting of these projects, mingled with my others for the next few months.

The paper's I used, except the white copy paper, I purchased at Micheals. It is beautiful paper.
I needed something with a little hint of green in it since, Lime green is our camp color.

The striped one didn't have a name on it, but it was made by Amscan, Inc., and was kept in the same general area as the other two colors.

The other two were; "Brown,Pink and Green Polka Dot" by K & Company, LLC
and "Terra Cotta Paisley" by Creative Imagination, and Sonnets Studios.

Until tomorrow... Happy Stamping... (and cutting he,he)!