A Borrowed Idea...

OK, so the other day I was reading the SCS's newsletter and there was a question on "How do you organize your craft space" or something like that. I wasn't going to read it, but I was a little curious. My space is well beyond ever being "organized" in any way, shape or form, but I still had to check it out. One of the ladies had gone to Harbor Freight Tools and bought these little boxes. The rectangle one hold 12 small boxes and the square one hold 24 small ones. Well don't you know that Scrapin' Sister and I had to get to HFT right quick and check it out. And boy did we! We ended up going five times between the two of us. She used her's for brads and eyelets and I used mine for Fun Flock, Glitter and Embossing Powder. May have to go and get some more when they go on sale again!!

Sweet Little Book

When I find some really cool paper, I just have to cover something! Usually it's a book! This paper is from My Minds Eye called Simply Delightful. It is so pretty. I have a lot of cardstock, but paper is a different story. OK, not really. I have a lot of that too, but this paper pack yelled loudly at me in the store. So I had to obey and BUY IT!! You will be seeing it on a lot of "stuff" in the future.

Long Note Pads

These are so cute! What fun they were to put together! I gave these away to all the ladies who came to my birthday party-I thought about making some in camo for the men, but I chickened out...dh thought I should stick with the girls only theme. (Camo...that's a thought!)

No need for a title here

I have a few (OK, a lot) of these little note pads that I bought at Big Lots! a while back. When I bought them I just knew that I could do all kinds of fun stuff with them! However, it's been almost two years and the idea's just didn't come like I thought they would. I thought of covering the note pads in several different ways, but each way had a problem (too short, too long, how to attach the cover) You get the picture...this was fairly easy (31/2 " x 12") and just fold it around like a matchbook cover. Use the red tape (you know the one) to attach the cover at the top of the pad. Then just have fun trying to figure out where to go from there! Good luck...

Birds of a Feather-

I covered this little book with some cute paper with a green bird on it. The red chipboard heart has a velum background with tiny alpha letters "notes" on it. The letters are sprayed with the Glimmer Mist (Garden Party). I had a white feather and so I sprayed it with the Glimmer Mist as well so that the green feather matched the green bird. Cute, right?

A Different "Note Pad"

I made this notepad out of a 4" x 6" piece of scrap wood from my dh's wood pile. I covered it with paper, Cricut cut the words "Jot It Down", did a little quilling and then glued a post it note pad on the front. I painted the 1" balls a light turqouise to match the paper and then glazed them with a gold transparent finish. This makes the notepad holder sit up a bit, much easier to write on! The pen holder proved to be more of a challenge than I had expected! I bought a plastic pen holder at the office supply store, but after the pen was decorated, it was too fat (just like me...sigh) to fit in the holder. So after several attempts at figuring something out, I came up with the ribbon tube on the side. This is still a "work in progress", but I'll figure it out sooner or later...

A Little Tin Can...

This was a tin can that came with Hershey flavored lip gloss in it. One of my girls got this for Christmas last year and I just could not throw it away. I just knew a great idea would strike me one day and I would be looking for a can just like this to do this...