Where I Create

I love my craft room a.k.a. The Command Center

Here's what it looks like...

This is my main work area.

to the left where I sit...see my cool banners?

My alphabet stamps and Cricut cartridges.  I bought that shelf from a garage sale for $6.  It was from Pottery Barn for a magazine holder.

At the lower left is Carly's work station.  It's a lot messier than my area!

This is the inside of my closet.  I use an old computer station to hold my papers and other misc. items.  Yes, that's Zac Efron.  Carly was obsessed with him a few years back and I just haven't taken him down yet. 

This is one of the favorite things in my room.  These are photos of my dad when he was a boy.  I bought this kit a long time ago and it is a family, memory, sort of thing and because of the old fashion feel to it, I thought these photos of my dad would work perfectly with it.

It isn't much of a room.  Most items were purchased at yard sales or thrift stores, but it works perfectly for me and Carly and fits the rest of my house with randomness. 

Cute as a Bug!

I've been busy making the cutest bugs for my friend and coworker, Stephanie.  She's hosting a Cute as a Bug baby shower for a friend and I'm helping her with the bug decorations.  I never thought I'd say bugs and cute in the same sentence, but aren't these bugs cute? 
She purchased cupcake holders that look like grass and she will make these cupcake toppers.  The cupcakes will be placed on a cake plate with a bow (she's a pro at making bows) and used for both the dessert/cake and table centerpieces.  Genius!
Here are some of the bugs.  I made 40 all together, plus some basic blackout shapes of the bugs to use as confetti on the tables.  It's hard to tell, but most of these bugs have glitter paper and the dragonflies have vellum wings.

Now here's what I did with an old frame that I have:

Another photo:

Cartridges I used:
Walk in my Garden (bees, snails, ladybugs, butterflies and the grass at the bottom of the frame)
Pooh and Friends (worm)
Doodlecharms (beetle and dragonflies)
Just Because Cards (the words cute and bug)
Plantin Schoolbook (the words as, a)
The yellow oval was cut with my Creative Memories Oval cutter and the hearts are from a punch

The Scrap Pile

I have way too many scraps.  I keep each color in their own ziploc baggies and I thought that was a pretty good way of organizing, but my scraps are getting too full.  I was internet surfing today and I found this link with a great idea for storing and using scraps.

I love the idea of cutting the bigger pieces down to 6x6 sheets and I plan on purchasing some of those bins for those sizes.  I make a lot of mini gift albums so this will be helpful for those and also for small cuts from the Cricut.

I honestly don't know if I'll toss scraps if I don't use them in a year, but I'll give it a thought.  Hopefully soon, I'll post photos of some cards done with these scraps.  HA HA HA!  That'll need to be my next challenge.

6x6 Baby Boy Page

Another challenge at Celle's Virtual Baby Shower was to create a 6x6 page so she can gather them and put in a little brag book album.

Here's my page:

I made these tags awhile back and I thought it would be cute on a page.  This is very simple, just a patterned paper block with a brown border and off-white photo mat.  I did ink the edges of the photo mat to match with the tag.

All it needs is a cute baby photo and she's all set :)

Celle's Virtual Baby Shower Challenge

Create a card based on a boy themed poem...

Here's my card:

I used some borders from a Border Punch Swap that I hosted awhile back on SCS.  I used some chalk pencils and a blending pen for the coloring of the boy/bug image.  I completely forgot I had them...  I tried to add some extra dirt on the knees and his face.

Wristlet (Is That What You Call It?)

I was messing around with some vellum flowers and glitter and one thing led to another and I came up with this little wristlet/bracelet.

I cut a 2" strip from a toilet paper roll and cut it in half.  Then I pulled some scrap paper to cover the top portion.  I used two strips of patterned paper for the top.  The top layer is from Pink Paisley.  After that, I attached a piece of ribbon to the back and then covered it over with the same blue scrap paper.  Then I just started adding flowers and then a glittered butterfly.  The green leafy thing was from a swap I had from last year.  In the middle of the vellum rolled flower is a silver bead.  It's simple, but very cute!

Zippers!

On the Trash to Treasure table, Karen brought a ton of other craft items that were her mother's.  She had one box filled with zippers.  I grabbed one of each color and thought I'd try to make those really cute zipper flowers/broaches that I've been seeing everywhere.  So...I looked through some UTube videos and then made some myself.

Thanks goodness for leftovers because I used some felt that my mother gave me awhile back and the trusty glue gun and came up with these two.

So easy!  I hope Karen didn't donate all those zippers because when the ladies in our Scrappin' in Patterson group see these, they are going to want to make some for themselves.

Here they are in blue:

Seriously took less than 5 minutes to make both.
1.  cut felt circle
2.  roll and hot glue the zipper a few times to create the flower center
3.  hot glue it down to the felt.
4.  squeeze a little hot glue around the center and glue down the zipper strip.  go slowly and hold down for a few seconds to make sure the zipper sticks.
5.  trim felt circle closely against the zipper

Easy Peasy...