August 26th, 2010 -- Posted in blinkies & other cuteness, life as a mom, pain / disability |
I’ve added some cute new badges to my Badges section of the KStar Freebies: some are added to previously-existing pages, such as the Baby Badges & Proud Mommy, but others are completely new and have their own new sections:
Hoping to add lots more to the collections, since these ones are all created using mostly the same design. Although I did add this extra funny one:
It’s funny because it’s so true! 
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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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July 13th, 2010 -- Posted in blinkies & other cuteness |
Here’s another set of big blinkies that make use of digital scrapbooking elements to enhance their look. This set goes from age 1 to age 9, and there are 3 different styles per age. The colours are similar to the original set of Cute Kiddos Big Blinkies, but the green is a different kind of green.
The felt numbers are from the same digital scrapbooking site used for the first Cute Kiddos blinkies set, and the flowers were made by me… I had a lot of fun with those and will definitely do some more digital scrapbooking flowers in the future for my own layouts!
The entire collection can be found here and you can copy and paste the codes to use the blinkies wherever you’d like!
While I was playing around with digital scrapbooking elements and styles, I also figured it was time to start a new section of Freebies that I had been dreaming up for a while: Make Your Own Siggies!
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