Showing posts with label Scrapbooking and Papercrafts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Scrapbooking and Papercrafts. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Crafty Fathers Day Frames

Fathers day was Sunday so on Thursday the girls and I decided to make the dads some hand made gifts. B wanted to make picture frames for everyone so to Michael's we went.

We picked up the simple wooden frames. They are $1 each. Then I asked her how she wanted to decorate them. I asked if she wanted to decoupage, paper mache, paint, color? She wanted to use stickers.

So she and D found stickers for each of the dads. And by dads I mean my dad, my father in law and my step dad. B wanted to do golf for my dad since he loves to play, and for James' dad she picked bowling since they bowl all the time. For my step dad we found one that just said Father since they didn't have any racing stickers.

We covered the frames in cardstock, then I used an exacto blade to cut the paper. We used a file to smooth and distress the edges and the girls put the stickers on (with a little guidance from me) and viola! Three handmade frames. The dads ended up loving them almost as much as the girls loved making them. Best part was they were super cheap. They averaged about $6 per frame so we still got big old rib eye steaks and grilled them up for the dads for dinner instead of going out to eat.












Sunday, May 2, 2010

Spring Fling Scrapbooking Retreat 2010

Well I am back for a much needed getaway. My friend Mary Kelly and I went on a scrapbooking retreat from Friday to Sunday. It was a blast. 24 hour scrapbooking with some of the wackiest, zaniest, and kindest women I have ever met.


We stayed at the hotel to maximize or scrapping time and it was awesome. I packed sooo much stuff figuring 48 hours of scrapping would leave me without a project. After all is said and done I only got 4 mini books, 1 12x12 layout and 1 name tag done. I haven't even put pictures down yet!


But the most amazing thing is I was the Grand Prize Winner for both my 12x12 page design and my name tag! Here they are:



Another awesome thing happened. My cutting board sucks majorly. So I bought 15 raffle tickets. I put 14 in a bag for a new paper cutter and 1 in a bag for a $100 gift card to Michael's Craft Store. Well after going out for a Few margaritas with some girlfriends I came back to find out I won the raffle... For THE GIFT CARD! Not too shabby!

Now it's back to the real world. My scrapbooking supplies are piled up in the garage and are practically unreachable and I am just so pissed about that. I know I have a hobby that takes up a lot of space but it still gets me mad. I can never scrap because getting things out and working on them is such an event and putting them back is worse.

I am just hoping I can get to the next retreat in September!


Oh, and here are some of the other books I did. I am only posting the cover because I don't think anyone actually reads my blog but if you do and you want the recipe just leave me a comment and I will show the pictures of the inside or tell you what paper or any other details you want to know. Anyone is welcome to scraplift my ideas anytime. Just don't steal the pictures themselves.