Leftovers

Okay, so I know in a craft like this you can and will end up with a lot of leftovers of all kinds. I bit a paint here, a stray button there and I will not even get started on the paper. I try to use up as much of a product that I can before I put everything away. Sometimes my oldest daughter is lucky enough to add to her growing collection of scrap supplies.
Today I made up another ATC Bible verse. I said I wanted to fill my holder up! I also want to make sure I learn my verses, so right now it sits on my desk where I can stare at it all I want and study. I also used a lot of leftover rub-ons from my hoop project. I just love how bright it turned out! A beautiful verse deserves beautiful colors! Here is my new Verve stamp Philippians 4:4





As always thank you so much for stopping by!

The deets -
Rub-ons - K&Co. Sweet Berry
Ink - Colorbox

Yup. it is that simple when you are using things up.

A goal of mine

For years I have struggled to memorize my Bible verses. I try and try, but they never stick, bits and pieces stick, but never the whole thing. I have a wonderful friend at church who incourages everyone to really try, to try every and any method that might work for them. So I am trying something pretty that I will always see. Remember my sweet friend that a mentioned yesterday? Well, the last thing she sent me was a beautiful ATC holder. I have always wanted one! I never knew what I would do with one, but I always wanted one. So I have decided that I am going to fill it up with my Bible verses to learn. My dream is to someday have two of these, one for Old Testament and one for New Testament. For now they will mingle together. I am going start with my all time favorite Bible verse Joshua 24:15





So I hope you can watch this ATC fill up with me. I encourage you to try for that goal you have always had. You will never know if you can do it until you try.

Okay the deets -
Paper - green card stock, from my scraps; patterned paper Basic Grey
Stamp - Verve Stamps
Rub-Ons - American Crafts
ATC base - 7Gypsy
Rhinestones - Micheal's

Okay, now I am really ready to do this thing!

I knew it was a bad idea to start this before the holidays, but now I am ready to go. I was able to get a few things created the last couple of weeks, so I will be showing those the next couple of days. Plus it is going to be super cold here this week, the house should be back in order by tomorrow and there are a bunch of challenges I want to do, so hopefully I can hit the ground running now. To make up for lost time this post will be picture heavy. I will also post a tease at the end.
Small disclaimer, these pictures are not that great, sorry. My husband took the first pictures for me, but he was not home for these.



A great friend who I scraped with all the time moved away. To keep things fun we send kits to each other every other month and challenge each other to try something new. Sometimes we just challenge each other to actually scrap. Either which way it is a ton of fun. This project is from a kit I sent. We were to make something using embrodery hoops. I made a small journal album about the silly questions asked of me when I take the twins out in public. Here is the rest of it.











There is not much to the deets on this one, but here is the list -
Paper - K & Co Berry Sweet
Paint - Apple barrel - Green Apple, Plum Kiss; Folk Art - Parisian Pink
Rub-Ons _ K & Co Berry Sweet
Plastic Letters - Hobby Lobby Spare Parts
Stickers - K & Co butterflies (not sure of the line)
Misc. - buttons (Wal-Mart), dragonfly rhinestones (Wal-Mart), Ribbon, fabric, floss

Now for the sneak peak. This one is for my special friend. This month we will need to make one banner or pednant and then have fun with the rest. Add as much as we want from our own stuff and use as little or as much as we want from the kit. There is a lot of Valentine style stuff in the kit, but we do not have to go with a Valentine theme. As always the goal is to just have fun.



Thank you for stopping by today, I hope you come back. I have a lot planned for the up coming weeks!

You Rock!

You rock, became my oldest daughters catch phrase about a year ago. Her response to almost anything is YOU ROCK! So when I was trying to come up with her special gift from me this Christmas, you rock was a given. I decided that a journal the two of us could write back and forth to each other in would be perfect. It had to be bright, bold and blingy to match her personality, and of course it had to rock.



For the background papers I used a pink out of my stash for the top and a piece of the K&Co. Berry Sweet pad for the bottom. The boarder paper is from Paper Studio. I stamped the skull from Stampin Up Just Jawing in Color Box Rouge on a piece of scrap shinny card stock. The eyes and bow on the skull are filled in with Martha Stewart Rubellite glass glitter. I then placed the skull on top of a felt piece I found in the dollar spot at Micheal's a year or so ago. All of that was placed on top of a piece of ribbon across the middle. Spare Parts letters were used for the YOU ROCK.



Again thank you for stopping by.

I could totally copy that!

I could totally copy that, was almost the name of this little blog. That's right I steal ideas and I am not afraid to admit it. I am not afraid to admit it because I do a horrible job of copying people. Horrible! The good news is I make it my own, and I am not afraid to share.
So this project is a bunch of ideas I have copied over time. It is a Christmas gift for my daughter's teacher this year. Her teacher is a huge fan of Mary Engelbreit. HUGE! So my daughter came home from school one day last week and told me "I told Mrs. H that you will make her a Mary Engelbreit clip board for Christmas." Really? I was thinking a nice gift card would be nice, but okay I can do that.

Here is the front:



Here is the back:



I really hope she likes it. I had a ton of fun making it. Plus, I was able to use up a ton of scraps and did not have to leave the house for anything. Always a bonus this time of year!

Thanks for looking!