Scribble & Handwriting Notebook

Hi. This is a little notebook I made for TGF's Altered Notebook Challenge and Tamiko's Challenge. I didn't really have a notebook around so I made my own. It's mostly intended for my younger boys to scribble in or practice writing letters and words. I know it is a girly cover but hey, my youngest pulls around a Hello Kitty bag with wheels so I don't think he'll mind.

I used Cute Troop Anya's head and placed it on Annika's body. Paper is from Crate Paper's School Spirit.

For the inside, I printed out some handwriting paper from HERE. I cut a sheet into fours and trimmed some white off so it's about 4.25 x 5.25 inches. I used a serrated tracing wheel to make perforations on the top of each sheet so you can fold and tear it off. I had read a tutorial on the Clearly iStamp blog but can't remember the specific project.

You just place the sheet on your score board and use the tracing wheel.

After scoring all the sheets I cut a little piece of cardstock and scored it. I realized that if I took pictures while I was making my project I wouldn't need to write down the measurements. I can just look at the pictures. Plus usually I'm kind of lazy to write down specifics since lots of times I just make things by trial and error. I waste a lot of paper this way.

Punch holes in the sheets and the top of the cardstock. Not through the bottom of the cardstock. I printed out 5 sheets of paper and so 20 quarter sheets in all.

I used baker's twine to tie sheets to the cardstock.

I made a second set of papers. It is also 20 quarter sheets. I used papers that my kids bring home from school like all the flyers and stuff. I usually save the papers so my kids can use them as scratch paper. I thought the kids could just draw pictures on this side.

I cut PTI kraft cardstock for the cover and scored a quarter inch from the center on both sides. No picture of this so I'll probably forget.

Attached the bottom of the cardstock to the cover. I used string to hold the papers together so hopefully it won't be difficult to remove and add more paper later. You could probably fit more than 20 sheets at a time too. I just didn't want to cut so much paper. But it should be easy to adjust this project to make it larger or smaller.

Originally I was thinking brads to hold the papers. Maybe that would work too.

Tied some baker's twine on the cover too. Bought it from DCRU. I couldn't remember what color I had ordered. Isn't that bad? Good thing I bought red. Matches school themed things and Xmas too.

Thanks for reading. Have a great Wednesday!

Snowman gift card holder

Hi! I was planning to post this last night but I was just too tired to write or think of complete sentences. It's been a busy week with the boys on Fall break and still trying to finish up a bunch of crafts. I have been trying to make some crocheted crafts to put in my Etsy shop and finally I'm done with one. It's a crocheted snowman that can hold a gift card or anything actually that is small enough to fit in the pouch. The pattern is designed by ChiWei Ranck of One Dog Woof and can be found HERE . Here's the little snowman with his arms folded over in the front to look like he is hugging the card. I added this fun card that I stamped. You can definitely add in a gift card too behind this card. The gift card reaches under his nose. This is how the little opening of the pouch looks. I hope I can make more of these little guys. These would be so cute for teachers and I think it would be easy to put a little wire through the hat and then use it as

coffee cup shaped cards

Hi! I think after this post I may need a little nap! My right shoulder is actually feeling worn out from all the typing and photo editing I've been doing lately. And this cooler weather is making me drowsy. It's getting cold here already! I made a bunch of these coffee shaped cards using a die from Honey Bee Stamps . It's a cute coffee set but the die is extra long so it would probably help to have a longer platform to diecut. I just have the standard sized one so I would pass it through once in my Big Shot and then rotate the cardstock and die carefully to cut the other end. Manageable but the longer platform would be more convenient! I embossed the front of the card with some pretty snowflakes. I think this is a Sizzix embossing folder. And then stamped the coffee sleeve with some Lawn Fawn stamps. This is the inside. The gift card slot does not come with this coffee cup die set. I cut that opening with one of the dies from MFT's gift card dies.

Knuffle Bunny

Hi! The Greeting Farm had their Customer Challenge & Chit Chat Night "A Night at the Bookstore" and introduced a few challenges. I have to say chatting was too fast for me and I couldn't really keep up. It was still early here, and I had to pick up the kids from school and activities and make dinner and eat and so I guess the timing didn't really work out with our schedule. You can check out the challenge details on the SCS forum HERE . I made this card for Favorite Child's Book category. It is based on the Mo Willems book Knuffle Bunny . It's one of my kids' favorites and it's such a cute story. We actually love reading Mo Willems' books especially his Elephant and Piggie series. Those books are hilarious! This challenge also made me realize that I haven't read many books recently except kids' books. I used to love reading but just haven't given it much time lately. Anyway, here is my card. If you've read the story

crafting this and that

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