Graduation Centerpiece

Hello Everyone!

I wanted to share with you a Graduation centerpiece that I made for a friend. 

Her daughter is graduation college and these are her colors red, black,white and blue. 

I made the bottom of this centerpiece like a wreath making it out of a foam noodle. Then I decorated it with red deco mesh. I used a styrofoam square in the middle so that I could attach my pole and the sticks to hold my paper piecings. The paper piecings of the graduation girl and the title are from Designs by Cloud 9 "The Graduation Collection" and can be found HERE

Happy Creating everyone!

Father's Day Tool Box Gift

Hello Everyone!

Wanted to share with you the gift I made for my dad for Father's Day!

It's a mini toolbox with a mini Home Depot apron with a gift card inside. 

Teacher Appreciation Gift

Teacher Appreciation Gift

I just LOVE going through the 1.00 section at Target that they put right in front of the store. I find the cutest things for crafting and homeschooling in this section. Last week I found these pencil containers there and was so excited! They are too cute! I wrapped them with school papers from MAMBI and used 3D dimensional school stickers. Wrapped it up with raffia and ribbon. I wrote "You are mint to teach" thank you for being my teacher.

Inside the container I put mint candies. The teacher's loved them!!! 

Mother's Day Pin Cushion Gift

Happy Mother's Day! 

I found this Mother's idea over at Epiphany Crafts

right HERE 

I decided to make one for my Mother =D She loves to sew. 

I used Alpha letter stickers from K and Company. Flowers are Prima. I made the butterflies. Papers used are from Colorbok (Victorian Parlour collection pack)

13 Days of Halloween Blog Hop Oct.19th-31st

Welcome to the 13 Days of Halloween Blog Hop.  This hop is scheduled from Oct. 19 at 8:00 am through Oct.31 at 11:00 pm (central time).  It's that time of year when the nights are all spooky and creatures are known to wander the forests.  So sit for a spell with a nice cup of hot apple cider and check out all the great projects.

If you just happened to come to this blog, you are at the beginning with Lisa Peter's

We're so excited to be doing this hop and we have a fabulous lineup with some very talented ladies. There will be lots of fun projects, along with some great blog candy, and a great grand prize for this hop.

The hop is a 13 day hop with only 13 blogs to visit so you will have plenty of time to make it through the whole hop lineup 13 times.  Check out each blog and see what blog candy you can win at the individual stops.  Please come back all 13 days to see great projects.

Here is the complete lineup:

Lisa - http://handmadewithlove-lisa.blogspot.com/ 

Pam - http://pammejo-scrapbookflair.blogspot.com/ 

Janet - http://createatdreamscrapbooks.blogspot.com/ --> YOU ARE HERE

Doris - http://mybugandmecreate.blogspot.com

Kristen - http://huneebcreations.blogspot.com/

Nicolette -http:// www.beyondscrapin.blogspot.com

Jearise - http://lorbysworld.blogspot.com/

Tami - http://www.tamboscreations.blogspot.com/

Amy - http://lv2scrapandfibrofacts.blogspot.com/

Brynn - http://www.flairandfrillscreativity.blogspot.com

Scraps to Treasures - http://scraps2treasure.blogspot.com

CallyAnn - http://callyanncraftycreations.blogspot.com

Gill - http://creationsbygillm.blogspot.com

My project for today is a witch hat that I altered. I found the chipboard hat at Michael's and decorated with K and Company's "Ghostly Greetings" specialty paper. To make the cone shape on my pattern paper I used a party hat svg cutting file that I found free on line. 
 

Thank you so much for hopping by to see my Halloweeny project =D I will be giving away some blog candy at the end of this hop to a random lucky winner. All you need to do is be a follower of my blog and leave a comment along the hop. The more comments you enter each day helps you to win! I will be giving away this Halloween Making Memories Flocking and foiling kit:

and also remember to be eligible for the grand prize at Lisa's blog, you must visit each blog and leave a comment and become a follower of her blog.Now for the blog candy she is giving away,It will be a big treat bag full of goodies you don't want to miss! Lisa will also be posting an individual prize for each day of the hop also that everyone who hops that day will have a chance to win.

Your next stop is Doris  to see what creative spooktacular project she has in store for you. Have a great day and please stop back tomorrow for another great project.

Childhood Memory Box

We had a design team challenge that was to create a box and decorate it inside and out =D I made a box for Childhood Memories. I found this box for 2.00 at Target and decorated it with Wizard of Oz papers I found and lots of embellishments. It holds index cards that I am going to decorate of my memories. The bears are from the "Land of Oz" collection here:http://www.littlescrapsofh​eavendesigns.com/item_17/L​and-of-Oz-Paper-Piecing-Pa​ttern-Collection.htm 

Happily Ever After Blog Hop Day 3

Welcome to the Happily Ever After Blog Hop Day 3

 This blog hop runs from May 1st through May 4th. If you are coming from Scraps To Treasures you’re on the right track. If you just joined us, you can go back to the beginning HERE for Honeybearz Designs Blog and hop along with us.We’ve had so much fun creating this hop, and we have a wonderful line up of 15 blogs with some oh-so-talented creators. You will see some lovely projects having to do with a wedding or anniversarry theme and have a chance to win some blog candy along the way, including some grand prizes which are being sponsored by Lisa from Honeybearz Designs and she is the first blog on the hop. In order to be eligible for the grand prizes you must leave a comment on every blog in the hop and become followers to all the wonderful sponsors websites also.

Be sure to come back everyday between May 1st and May 4th because all blogs in this hop will post a new project each day. Lisa from Honeybearz Designs will be picking the grand prize winners from all the comments left throughout the 4 days.

Here is a list of the complete lineup for this hop:

Lisa : http://honeybearzdesigns2011.blogspot.com/

Emily: http://www.createserendipity.net/

Shawnee: http://quiverofangels.blogspot.com/

Lisa: http://handmadewithlove-lisa.blogspot.com/

Theresa: http://www.thescrapbookingqueen.com/

Inga: http://mommahobbit.blogspot.com/

Joy Joyslife: http://www.joyslife.com/

Deborah: http://www.scrappingmamma.net/

Corrine: http://celebratingordinarymoments.blogspot.com/

Tristan: http://tristans-time-4-craftin.blogspot.com/

Tricia: http://lshdesigns.blogspot.com/

April: http://www.curlsngrins.blogspot.com/

Kimi & Pamela: http://lovebugcreations3.blogspot.com/

Scraps To Treasures: http://www.scraps2treasure.blogspot.com/

Janet: http://www.createatdreamscrapbooks.blogspot.com/ --> U are HERE =D

Lisa: http://bitbythecricutbug.blogspot.com/

HoneyBearz Designs : http://honeybearzdesigns2011.blogspot.com/

DAY 3

For today's post I decided to make some bell favors out of my scrapbooking ribbons and flowers =D Here is a bell favor that would look sooo beautiful at everyone's place setting to ring the bell for the bride and groom to kiss!

Look forward to having you back for a visit tomorrow as we continue our "Happily Ever After" blog hop!  Below (pictured) is the blog candy that I am offering at the end of this hop. The hop runs until May 4th and to be eligible all you need to do is leave a comment each day of the hop on my blog and become a follower =D 

1. One sheet of Rusty Pickle's Princess Bride stickers

2. One package of Making Memories "Wedding Rub-Ons"

3. One sheet of 7 Gypsies A La Card Love Amour stickers

4.Basic Grey's I do...Me too Wedding Rub-ons

5. One package of Making Memories "De*fined Memories" stickers

6. One package of Karen Foster's Rub-its Wedding

7. Soft Spoken's Dimensional Stickers "Walter-Husband"

Winner for this blog candy will be chosen at the end of the hop through Random.org =D Happy Hopping! 

Now you are on your way to hop over to Lisa's amazing project over at "Bit by the Cricut bug" blog right HERE

Star Wars Little Jedi Birthday Paper pieced Centerpiece

My oldest baby boy is turning 6 next month...I can't believe it! What happened to my 7 pound baby burrito? =D He hasn't seen the Star Wars movie yet or the new Clone Wars movie however....we went to Disney World last year in June and they had the Star Wars event going on there and Jayden met Darth Vader and chewbacca and thought they were the COOLEST!! He couldn't stop talking about the Jedi's and their Light Sabers and that he wanted to be Darth Vader for Halloween lol! So now he wants Star Wars as his theme. I thought I would concentrate more on it being a Star Wars Jedi Academy birthday...I have already set up with an Entertainment company here in Seattle for a Jedi to come teach Jayden and his little brother and friends the "ways of the Jedi" I can't wait teehee! 

Well every Friday our Design team here at Little Scraps of Heaven that I am a proud member of do a challenge. This week our DT member Dawn challenged us to "Make it pop" so I used pop dots on this centerpiece to make it look more 3D on the piecings...I did this with the Star Wars title, the little Jedi and the star ship. The little Jedi I created from using the Little Scraps of Heaven's "Over the Hill Collection" found HERE I used the robe on the grim reaper bear to make my jedi boy. The boy face came from the "Spellbound Wizard's Collection" HERE and I used the little boy peeker. For the party piecings in this centerpiece I created them with the "Party Animal Collection" HERE

The box I found at Target in their party section and it was only 1.99...I used a square foam brick that I purchased at Michaels that fit perfectly inside this box =D

Close up of the Little Jedi paper Piecing 

Stay tuned! My son's party is next month and I will be making more decorations and sharing my party planning with all of you! Hope you will come by and take a peak...Happy Creating!

Altered Recipe Book

This is a design project I created for Little Scraps of Heaven Design team using the Mama Mia Pizzeria Collection HERE 

I was soo excited to find this brilliant recipe book at Costco this week only for $11.99 =D

I think decorated it with the paper piecings from this collection. My kitchen is a bistro theme and I thought

this would be a cute idea to put all our family favorite recipes in it. Wouldn't it make a cool gift idea to make these up?

Easter Baskets for Class Party with Jelly Bean Prayer

Here is the project that I posted over at Little Scraps of Heaven's Design Team blog for Wednesday...As room mom I help plan out my son Jayden's class parties and for the Easter/Resurrection party I got these adorable plastic container baskets and filled them with colored eggs with corresponding colored jelly beans inside. I used the paper piecing from the Jesus Loves Me...you can view it HERE and I found a really neat poem about the meaning of the color of jelly beans that are in the matching colored eggs and the poem reads:

Red is for the blood He gave.

Green is for the grass He made.

Yellow is for the sun so bright.

Orange is for the edge of night.

Black is for the sins we made.

White is for the grace He gave.

Purple is for His hour of sorrow.

Pink is for our new tomorrow.

An egg full of jelly beans, Colorful and Sweet

Is a prayer, a promise, A loved one's treat!!

Charlene Dickensen, 1997

All 22 baskets all in a row =D

Each basket also had a baggie of M&M's a baggie with candies to make an Easter candy bracelet and an attached name tag with a scripture on it. I used my Accent Essentials to make the tag and the mat for my poem card =D

Blessings to all of you this Easter!!!

Altered box into a Recipe Box

For this Monday's Design team project for Little Scraps of Heaven I made a recipe box =D I found this cute checked box at a Japanese dollar store in our local mall for only 1.50 and it fits 4x6 cards perfectly! 

Flower ribbon bow: Making Memories Rosettes

Cooking theme stickers: Recollections bought at Michael's

Recipe title was cut out from Printing Press Cricut Cartridge

Baking charms: Karen Foster Design

Paper piecing: Little Scraps of Heaven Designs Cooking up some Fun Collection and you can view it HERE

Dog Treat Bag Project- Little Scraps of Heaven

Welcome to your Friday and our Design Team at Little Scraps of Heaven's 

Friday Challenge!

This challenge was "Playful Paws" we were to chose a LSHD paper piecing that has paws such as a bear, bunny, kitty, dog etc. and there was to be embossing anywhere on your project...either dry or wet embossing. I decided to make a little Doggie Treat bag. I bought a treat bag at Michael's craft store with the circle window on it for around 1.50 and then I took a sheet of pattern paper from Imaginisce Just Imagine stripes to adhere as the background. I then used a 3 inch scallop circle punch on some blue cardstock paper. The blue cardstock paper I embossed with circles and adding a little glitter to the embossed dots. I used two other circle punches in two different sizes to create the red circle border around the window. For the stickers I used Recollections Dog stickers and Jolee's by you Doggie Treats dimensional stickers.

Paper piecing of the Doggie is from the Little Scraps of Heaven "Twitterpated Collection" HERE

Altered Project for Design Team

Wood Napkin holder

For my altered project...I purchased the top piece of wood at Joann's craft store and a 3/4 inch dowel wood rod. I purchased the bottom piece of wood at Home Depot and had them cut it to my size. I then used a drill to make the holes for my dowel rods and used ood glue to hold in place. I used tracing paper to make my pattern on the front and then used Delta acrylic paints to paint Trisha's bear design etc. on the front.

I made this as a napkin holder for when we go camping =D our napkins end up flying everywhere and we just put a pile of paper plates on top of them. 

Thought this would make a cute solution for them!

Altered Gift for Teacher

Last week I sadly missed Teacher Appreciation week with all thats

been going on and the putting our friends who had passed tragically, at rest.

Today I finally finished a little gift for the teacher =D I have a conference this Friday and thought I would give it to her then. I kept these really neat boxes from the Making Memories embellishment collections that I bought that came in these. This black box was from the Spellbound embellishment kit =D

Inside the box has four sections and I added little notes to each section with a little gift. The first one reads "You were mint to teach" and there is "Super Mints" tic tacs....the second reads "You really measure up" and there is a little tape measure tin with mints inside...the third one says " We are really stuck on you" and for this I made cute little band aid candies that I made from a candy mold....the last little box has a note that says "Just a note for the teacher" and the little note reads "The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book" =D