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August 23rd, 2010 -- Posted in scrappy / stampy |
I was so excited when a friend posted a link (on my Young Mommies site) to this really interesting craft : created using clear marbles with small strong magnets underneath, they create really awesome magnified tiny photo mementos for your fridge. Since I already have a 1/2″ circle punch, all I needed was clear marbles and some 1/2″ magnets to get started…
I decided to first try the craft at one of my Scrapbooking Crops, and it was very fun to create them! They turned out really well!
I created the ones with the family photos inside, and since my friend didn’t have photos with her, I came up with the idea of just stamping little images on scrapbook papers – so cute!
The only thing I was not too too happy with for these batches of magnets was that I used magnets (bought at Michaels) that were not all that strong. So they make great decorations on a fridge or board, but they can hardly hold anything up. So I bought a set of super-strong magnets (purchased online) to try again…
… and this batch was better able to hold lots of paper! I had to be very careful with the magnets actually because they were SO strong they could pull each other off the backs of newly-drying marble magnets (yep, learned that the hard way and wrecked one!). I gave this set (in the tin) to my son’s daycare on his last day there as a thank-you gift. It was a big hit! 
Here’s what all you need if you’d like to make these yourself:
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August 16th, 2010 -- Posted in family, pain / disability, scrappy / stampy |
Well I haven’t shared a scrapbook layout in a while but it’s mostly because I haven’t been scrapbooking as much these days! I’ve mostly been sticking with the smaller crafts like card-making because they are shorter to complete and therefore less painful. But I wanted to keep catching up with my kids’ albums, so I finally got to the layout with the photos from Harmony’s first day of grade 6 (so just about 1 year ago!).
First Day of Grade 6
Materials: Riding Hood Red card stock & ink, Chocolate Chip card stock & ink, Only Orange card stock, chocolate brown ribbon, white jumbo brads, Chocolate Chip felt flower, orange flower brad, yellow mini brads, red mini brad, fall multi-colour brad, red metal frame, white Creative Memories letter stickers, various-sizes circle punches, scallop circle punch, stamps from various Stampin’ Up sets, and several different patterned paper sheets in oranges and reds.
This is actually a good time of year to do these Back-to-School and School Album layouts because we are very much getting into the Back-to-School mood these days! With about 3 weeks left of summer, we’ve done some shopping for school supplies and I have done a lot of online shopping for the kids’ clothes. I’m glad my son doesn’t mind – too bad little miss preteen is a little fussier about that! She is far more used to getting to go shopping at the mall. It was a yearly tradition that I have really had to give up the past couple years. She says she doesn’t *mind* pushing me in a wheelchair at the mall but it’s just not the same and I just can’t go as far and as long as I used to, so we can’t get it all done in one shot like every other year. Thank goodness I have some fond memories still tucked away in my foggy brain of previous trips and also some pics in her album to show her!
Side Note:I’ve re-organized the albums in my Scrapbook Layouts Gallery to show the more current albums on Page 1 of the gallery. It also made me realize I have not yet uploaded the pictures of layouts from Avery’s First Year scrapbook (one of my fave albums!) so I’ll be sure to do that soon.
Back to this layout… I tried out a new technique for paper-piercing the “6″ on the layout and my trick worked pretty well so I wanted to share it…
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August 3rd, 2010 -- Posted in scrappy / stampy |
When thinking baby, it helps to think in miniature. Anything tiny is just that much cuter, right? For these baby birthday cards, I used tiny stamps and tiny tags to bring the theme of “Baby Wishes”.
Materials: blue and green cardstock (Ballet Blue, Garden Green & Gable Green, I believe), patterned paper with dots, bright white cardstock, small and large tag punches (Stampin’ Up), circle punches (also SU) and cutting templates (Custom Cutting System from Creative Memories), paper piercer, green and blue brads (this time the blue is Tempting Turquoise), green gingham ribbon, slot punch (SU), scallop edge punch (SU), note paper punch (SU), hole punch, stamps from the Tagger’s Dozen stamp set (SU), “happy birthday to you” stamp (single stamp from SU), blue and green inks (Gable Green and Tempting Turquoise).
Techniques: paper-piercing, inked edges, matted tags and circles, dimensional greeting, blended ink shading with blender pens.
The first of these cards was given out to a little boy just turning 1… what an adorable age! I love first birthday parties and was thrilled to be able to attend and have my own 2 munchkins along. My little dude even got to help blow out the candles with another boy there because the birthday baby of course was not quite about to figure out how to blow his own candles out! 
The other card I believe I still have, so it might be going up into the Hand-crafted Cards section of the KStar store!
Speaking of which, I do also have another new birthday card and another new Thank-you card that will be put up soon as available for sale. They may not necessarily get their own blog entry, but here’s a peek at the cards (as featured in my Scrappy & Stampy Gallery)…
That’s all for now and happy stamping!
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