crafting this and that

Hi!  I made a little Halloween Treat House for my kids.  Actually, it's not so little.  It's a pretty good size especially with the roof.  Does it remind you of the house from Hansel and Gretel?  That is what my daughter had said.  I plan to put some small toys and candy in the house for Halloween.  I also made this in part for TGF's newsletter Trick-or-Treat-Tastic Contest. So the base of the house is made from 4 of the clear plastic cases that the PTI stamp sets come in.  I always wonder if I should just throw them away but then feel bad cause they could be made into something.  Then I saw a tutorial Nicole Heady did with these plastic cases.  See HERE .  After that I started saving these again. So I cut off the tops and taped them together like above.  Yeah, you can still see the tape and it annoyed me at first like should I cover it or what?  But in the end I decided to just let it go.  My kids won't mind as l...

Hi!  I was at Walmart the other day looking for Halloween candy.  Mostly for us to eat, not give out.  Hahaha.  Well, no one comes to our house anyway.  But while I was there, I found this super cute mini composition book and thought I'd try to alter it.  Thinking if I should enter this one in the TGF Altered Notebook challenge too.  I've seen other blogs alter composition books but this is my first one. The composition book measures 4.5 x 3.25 inches.  I cut 2 pieces of Doodlebug paper above to just fit the front and back.  I used TGF's Oh Boy! Ian.  He is such a cutie and such a versatile stamp.  Perfect for any project.  I wanted this one to be more boyish since I made the other notebook girly.  And both my boys love cars!  We must have a hundred at least. I cut a strip of yellow cardstock that wasn't too stiff and rubbed on the sentiment and car (from Imaginisce).  Then just glued it on.  This was a ...

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 l...

Hi!  After about 3 nights, I'm finally done with this project.  I made a little TGF counting board book for the Old Skool challenge.  The challenge calls for using TGF's older stamps.  I haven't made any books since having to make 19 mini books for my son's preschool class.  The mini book making was originally inspired by Sunghee .  I was brainstorming some ideas and finally came down to this. This book measures about 4.25 x 5 inches.  I used a rounded corner punch.  I glued 7 strips of 5 x 8.5 inches of PTI kraft cardstock together.  I wrapped another piece of kraft cardstock around it for the cover and glued the cute farm doodlebug paper over that.  It was a lot of gluing!  I used a make up sponge to spread the glue around.  I'm not a make up kind of girl so I have lots of make up sponges.  And it does help to look at a real board book to see how to put this together. I used the Hope and Grace set.  This is ...

Just wanted to share a quick post of the cards my daughter made.  We bought these cute taj stamps at a stamp expo.  My hubby used them as thank you cards.  They are really cute! These taj characters are rounder and fatter so my daughter just fell in love with them.  Hopefully we can find the other characters like the bear.  They didn't have any at the expo or the store. Thanks for reading and have a great weekend!

Hi, I made this card last night. I was lucky enough to win this cute digi from Karber Digital Images .  She reminds me of my daughter--the pink glasses, purple crocs and that look when she knows she can eat a cupcake!  That's what she looked like when we ate lunch (just the two of us) at Genki Sushi the other week.  We were surprised that they had cupcakes and curly fries along with sushi.  Interesting combo, huh? This digi is called Cupcake Leslie.  I put some stickles on her cupcake. The flower is made from PTI felt and dies.  Buttons and the note paper die are also from PTI. I'll be entering this card in 3 challenges this week.  That is a record for me. There is a recipe challenge over at ACLP .  I had to use one flower, 2 designer papers and 3 buttons.  That's part of the reason it took me so long last night to make this card.  I just couldn't decide where to put those elements on the card.  I knew I wanted to use the pa...

If we were a duck family, I want us to be just like the ducks on this Rachelle Anne Miller stamp. I used this stamp on a scrapbook layout about family.  I'm planning on entering it in Lollipop Crafts "All About Family" Challenge.  I love these ducks but I don't think they matched too well with my overall page.  But they are so us, so I had to fit them in somehow.  I used paper from My Little Shoebox.  I made a little house to frame our Disneyland picture.  I wanted it to match the little houses with the scallop rooftops on the paper.  I used PTI's largest scallop die and also the cloud dies.  I had a hard time deciding where to put the clouds to make them look "natural." I used PTI's Tabs stamp set for the scallop details.  The hearts I punched out and glued to the scallops and from the chimney.  The hearts from the chimney was inspired by one of PTI's stamp sets called Wonderfully Whimsical.  I had to blur out my hubby's pic....