Punched Tags

These are some cute hand punched gift tags that I do myself. I add them to my gifts, they are great for scrapbooking as well as adding that nice added touch to any gift bag. I do a lot of tags that are requested by people who see them and want a few for their crafts or scrapbooking stuff.  when I'm not crafting or have a few minutes to myself, these are what I work on. I enjoy being creative.  hope you enjoy these wonderful tags. Any questions, you can contact me anytime by sending me email. Watch for more of my tags to be posted soon:) Thanks for looking!

Movie Fun Time

Friday  evening 5-3-13, kids are  bored after a few hours of shopping and eating dinner early, so we decide to go to the movies and what does everyone want to see? well  of course Iron Man 3 is on the top of the list. so we head off and get our tickets early and go find seats. as it already getting crowded with the the first 5-10 minutes of being there.lol we sit and watch preview after preview after preview, I'm thinking" what in the world is all of this" well  previews put together are as long as the  movie itself it seems.lol be we finally get to see the movie and during the whole movie, I'm finding myself somewhat lost and confused. not knowing who these fire people are and why they are after Iron Man himself. well Tony Stark. not sure if I'm the only one who is not following this the right way or is it just me not knowing what in the world is going on! much to my knowledge. all I can figure out is this man does not like Mr Stark. and well of course not sure what is the purpose of this fighting is that they are doing. so as I sit and watch trying to stay focused, I just cannot seem to get excited and thrilled as I was with the last movie. so needless to say somewhat confused as to what I saw and watched and still debating if I need to see it again to figure it out or just let it be and move on with the next movie I'm looking forward to seeing.  so it is for me to decide, I need to move on and not give this another thought and watch for the next movie to come out and see. Fast and Furious.lol yes I know but it does look good and kids want to see it as well. so that is our plan. I did enjoy being with my kids and granddaughter at the movies. always something good comes out of it. gotta love being with the family every chance I get. now it's late and I must shut myself down and head to sleep. Hope you all have a wonderful weekend.  tomorrow is my crafty day.:)

Beads

I love to play with sculpey clay from time to time. and when I feel creative, I enjoy making some beads for a  bracelet, and I ws feeling the yellow and red ffor awhile. so I made these cute beads. I will be making a bracelet and adding a cute handmade charm a friend of mine made for me. she loves to create with clay as well.(pics will be posted soon)I put them onto a toothpick to be varnished and dried and ready to bead them on my bracelet. Enjoy the beads and get out your clay and be creative!!!!

                

Bottle Buddy

Late night crafting is my sane thing to do here and there, and as usual I have a few empty bottle's from lotions that I buy in the dollar bins, and once they are empty, I try to come up with something cute and and easy craft project. here is one of my bottle buddies I made from a dollar bottle lotion. just wrapping yarn around using aleene's tacky glue for good hold, let dry over night, add some cute funky fun yarn and wiggly eyes. maybe a small flower and you have this cute bottle buddy girl. very cute and fun. Enjoy and Happy recycling!(please give credit where credit is due, if making/using/sharing this craft project) Thank You:)

Feather Charms

We all have something cute to add to bracelets, or even put on our cell phones,  why not add something that's feather and has pretty colors, these charms are made with some cute polka dot feathers. veery easy,fast and fun to make for gifts, give to friends. everyone will love them:)  Enjoy and happy crafting!

Jellybean Bracelet

We all have those leftover jellybeans, and if your like me and love the jelly-belly's jellybeans, then this is something you can make today and munch on as well. this one I made for my daughter, I love the jellybean bracelet, it's fun and easy to  make. your items you will need for making this cute  crafty bracelet is, dental floss, or use the stretch jewelry string. either or is fine. I used dental floss, little more sturdier and alot easier to thread your needle through. use a brand new needle when making, since kids are going eat the jelly beans it needs to be new, you can sterilize in hot water, but I like new. you will need a small bag of jelly-bellies jellybeans. once you thread your needle, start stringing on your jellybeans. measure your childs wrist first and go from there, mine was 20 jellybeans, once strung onto your floss/string, tie a knot several times, and cut off ends, and your done. let kids wear and munch and enjoy. once kids are done, throw floss/string sway. and you can also make a necklace as well if your willing to spend the time to do it. Enjoy and as always, Happy Creative Crafting!!!!

Cardboard Creations

We all have some sort of cardboard around the house, whether it's from a shoe box, or pizza box, either way whatever kind of caardboard box you have, you can always put it to another use. if you have cookie cutter, or you ca get online patterns for making some cute ornaments, magnets or package toppers, whatever you choose to do, these cute cardboard creations will be fun,fast, and easy for even kids to do with mom or friends, or even host a party and make several, get your paints out and decorate away. these were  made with cookie cuters, traced onto the cardboard, cut out and painted  using acrylic paint(non toxic) add some wiggly eye's for the snowman, and use clear sealer to seal, and your creation is done.great for holidays.

Next here is another cardboard craft I thought was fun, if your a crafty person like me, then this will be fun to make few or several, you can also write names,animals,decoupage a picture or something cute on it. this is a maneet, but would work great for bag toppers,ornaments as well. same way done as the top ones, make them big or small and have fun with it!

Ceramic Coaster

Looking through all of our treasure we have in our storage trailer, I stumbled upon some tiles that I used for making some cute items for friends, gave as gifts, and trying to find things around the house so I don't have to go out and buy extra items that I don't need, I found stashed in my cabinets some cute napkins that I forgot I had. and putting the tile with the napkins and using decoupage, here is my cute coaster I made using my on hand items. Enjoy and as always Happy Crafting!

St.Patricks Day Shamrock

It's almost time for St.Patrick's day, so why not create a cute shamrock magnet with googly eyes for kids to wear to school, easy fast and fun for kids to make. all you need is either find a picture online to print out onto green construction or cardstock or use a cookie cutter like I did and trace and cut out, use wiggly eyes, a wavy border and cut off a section that will be used for the mouth, and a light green ribbon to make a cute bow. add a flat magnet to the back or use a shirt pin and let the kids wear them on St.Patricks day so they don't get pinched! you can also use felt and attach it to your childs back pack. enjoy making lots or just a few. Happy crafting!!!

Brown bag bow

Using up those brown bags for anything and everything you could possibly imagine is just another way of being creative and crafty!, you always get some sort of brown bag wherever you go, whether it's from fast food,maybe an organic store or just buying it on a roll, either way using brown paper for crafting is a great way to craft, keeping pictures off any brown bag come in handy for crafting. like this cute little bow, can be used for putting in your hair, maybe on a gift bag or package or to use to decorate a journal. either way it's fast and cute and easy to make in seconds. this one is from a burger king brown bag and I cut the picture off the front and made this cute bow. Enjoy and Happy Crafting with brown bags.

Items needed: brown bag pic from a brown bag,scissors(decorative) glue(aleenes tacky glue) fan fold your cut out picture from your bag, cut a strip big enough to wrap around the middle and glue to secure. and your done. Enjoy!!!!

Sachet Bags

I love the smell of lavendar and vanilla and cinnamon, I not only like my house to smell good, but love my car to smel good as well, nothing like getting into my car and smelling something nice. so I made this cute Tinkerbell sachet bag,  along with other ones of different materials, added some potpourri and added some oil to enhance the smell,  tied it off with a yellow ribbon and put it in my car, you can hang them or sit them on the dash board and when it's hot outside, the heat will heat up the potpourri inside the bag and your car will smell wonderful!!! I made these because any and all scents I have bought from stores and off other websites just didn't do anything for me. and to make my own and it work the way I want it to, was just great!!! these make great gifts, you can add them to your dresser draws and use the blow dryer on them to heat them and rerlease the scent if you like, and if the scent runs out within several uses you can add oil right back to it just taking the potpourri out and adding your oil and put it back in the bag, and your ready to freshen up any room you like. cheap to make and fun to smell! :) hope you enjoy.

Bottle Cap Magnets

Here's another recycled craft project, I have seen these cute magnets around the stores and really see how much they cost, you can make them for yourself at half the cost. I'm sure we all enjoy a drink in a bottle like soda(coke) that still comes in the glass bottle, actually any glass bottlecap will do. once your cap is off your bottle, clean the metal cap really good, warm water and dish soap, I use dawn, scrub clean, dry and your ready to go. once you find some cute stickers like I found here, or you could find someone who has precut images ready to use, using aleene's tacky glue(gold bottle) works really well, ad a little of the glue into your lid, this will help adhere your pic or sticker inside. let dry good enough to where it won't just fall out, you can use clear spray to cover and coat inside, or leave as is. you can also use puffy paint to make an edging aroudn the inside of your picture, it will also help keeping image inside. once complete, add your magnet to the back and your done, you can go faarther and paint the cap using metal paint and cover with clear vanish and then add your magnet, but to make it fast, I just use the magnet strips or round magnets you can find at michaels or wal-mart and adhere to the back of your cap, and your done. here is the items you can use to make your own. everything in the picture has been found really cheap and can be put together to make several bottle cap magnets in no time. Enjoy and Happy Crafting!!!!

Wine glass charms

These are some of my wine charms I made, they can also be used as markers for those who knit or crochet,easy on and easy off. beads are some of my left over's that I had known as odd's and ends. I didn't want to throw them away so I added them to these cute wine/glass charms. very inexpensive to make and creat in 5 minutes. all items you can find at any Michaels' or JoAnn's craft stores. I spent about 4-5 dollars to make these. I also make them with angels and other charms as well. I use plastic shrink to make my charms also. cute and fun for kids to make. I will add the charms I made using shrink plastic. Enjoy and as always Happy Crafting:)

Scrappy T-Shirt key chain

Another easy cute craft project, when cutting of the sleeves from T-shirts, keep them for a cute easy craft, my son cuts his t-shirt sleeves of to make a tank top for wearing at basketball practice, and while doing so, I had to come up with and a reason for him to not throw them away, so grabbing them up, I decided to make this cute key chain using pieces of the shirt sleeve,and some pony beads, and of course a key chain clasp. and here is what I got, if you can make friendship bracelets, then you can make this. materials are shown above. strips of shirt after cut are about 1/2 inch, you can make them 1 inch or more. stretch and thread your beads on.tie off at ends and your ready to go.

Halloween Fun Photo

Out and about, as usual me and my daughter take a trip the the halloween store as we d every year, of course several times, lol but as we go inside some stores do not decorate the outside of their store, but this one did and this is what we see, it's really cute and if I had a yard I would definately get one and put in my yard for everyone to see, but I guess this is better than nothing. Enjoy!! more to come soon:) Bottom one is of my 16 yr old with a skelly friend at one of the hotels. really fun and cute!!!

Pencil Box Upgrade

Kid love having these cute pencil boxes, but if you look at them, they are just so very plain, and if your a crafter you of course get idea's of how to make it more fancy and out comes stickers,paints and more, me and my daughter decided to do one for me to keep my glue sticks in and to keep it mine and make sure my other kids don't run off with it we decided to initial it and add a cute butterfly sticker, and this is the finished product.

you can decorate these anyway you like, puffy paint,stickers,acrylic paint and more, try adding ribbon maybe some cute mini florals. do one for the holidays, make for gifts, or make one for Teacher Appreciation day, anyway you make it, it will be a great gift for someone special.  lots of people ae decorating these cute boxes. gott love crafty people!!!!

 Happy Crafting!!!!

Crepe Paper Ribbons

After seeing so many things that are out there that  are for the pink ribbon's for breast cancer, I have a roll of pink crepe paper streamer roll, and after sitting here and trying to figure out what to do with it or what I could use it for besides storing it away and re-using it again for something exciting, I thought why not make ribbons, after seeing my oldest son walk in and being excited because he bought a pack of pink tic tacs from the store, I thought why not do some cute ribbons. and well here they are, with a small pin back you can use for a shirt pin, or put them into a scrapbook for decoration or safe keeping or decorate a card or envelope, you can use these for many things in crafting. try making others in different colors. I will be making yellow,red,black,green,white,purple white and more. so grab some rolls and get to making a few.

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Measurements depend on your desired length and width. Ends can also be trimed anyway you like, use decorated scissors for a fancy look. Enjoy!

Painted Roses

I love this painted rose decor, this was made by my mom(R.I.P) who loved roses as I do. she was always making and drawing them on her t-shirts,white sneakers,paper and other things, like her bedroom wall. I gave her this book that had a pattern inside it to draw these roses and transfer them to whatever you like, in this case it was this medium plastic board, she drew the roses with a black sharpie marker, and she pinted in the roses with red paint(acrylic) and once dried, she would use this as her clipboard when she would write out her grocery list, she had made smaller ones but had given them to a friend of hers who lived around the corner of her apartment. she even made ones for coasters, my dad would cut them the size she wanted and she drew the roses on them as well. After her paaing away I kept this because t was something of hers she made with her hands and it was very important to me. so it now hangs in my kitchen window and every now and then I take it down to use as my clipboard when I can't find something hard to write on. I hope you enjoy this. This can also be painted with puffy paint, as this had some of that on it to keep the roses from fading away when washed.
                                                                          In Memory of my Mother
                                                                             L.Dotson Oct 6, 2008

Halloween Wooden Pic Frame

It's that time again! yes Halloween is just around the corner and what  acute way for kids to start this fun spoky night off than sit and paint a cute mini wooden pic frame, all you need is the wooden pic frame itself, I got this one from a pack of 3 at Michaels craft store, they come with the small wooden dowel stand that goes in the hole in the back of the frame, you will also need some orange acrylic or orange tempera paint(non toxic) paint brush and some cute fun fom stickers of halloween ghosts,cats, bats,and pumpkins, you can add either or of the stickers you choose. once painted peel your stickers backing off and stick to your frame. I added a little bit of Aleene's tacky glue(in gold bottle) to give it a more secure stick. once your done you can give as a gift or put around yourhome and write ghostly sayings on the little picture sheet inside or add some of your own pictures. either way these are fun and very cute to make on halloween! Enjoy and Happy crafting.

Paperclip Buddies

ok, well here's somethng I had to find in our craft goodies, these were actually made in our girlscout swaps, they're called paperclip buddies, I seen a post on a paperclip craft that I use to use a few years ago, and remembered we had these, so I thought I would share with you all on using those paperclips that are not being used for holding papers together, they are really easy and fast to put together,  so get your paper clips out and craft some fun buddies!! the decorated clips would really be cute. Enjoy!

use different colored wiggly eyes for a more fun look:) Have fun crafting with things around your home. these are made with the fun yarn(multicolored) add your (aleene's) tacky glue in gold bottle after you have added your fun yarn for hair.using the loopand pull ends through yarn you do the same on the end of paperclips. try something new and make a cute paperclip buddy necklace by adding a jump ring and run some yarn or leather strip  and you hane a cute necklace:)