Craft Show products

I'm busy working on Noah's life announcements and will show you what they look like when they're done. I have a few projects that I haven't posted about so I'll try to get those up so it's not so dull around here. Thank you for understanding this most recent break from blogging. I really appreciate it!

Here's some of the things that I've been making for craft shows. I still need to nail down the first show that I'm going to do but figured I should start working on my inventory.

Starbucks Notebooks - I am still looking for empty Starbucks cards, if anyone wants to donate. :)


Monopoly Notebooks - I have the traditional size (see picture) and I have some that are taller and narrower.


Gift Card Holders - They're all unique which makes them trickier to make because it take more creativity.

2012 Calendar

I made the decision to make my own calendar for this year. I found the templates for everything HERE through Pinterest. I love, love, love how this turned out!!! I ended up making it so big that I couldn't close it. So I had to take some extra pages out so that it would actually close. haha

The Cover - I decided to do something a little different and use Dictionary paper this time. The two sections here are the definitions if Life and Family.

The tab for the calendar pages. The definition for Calendar is highlighted

Daily to do lists - Daily is highlighted

A section for notes - Note is highlighted

Back Cover - Faith and Hope are the two overlaid sections

It's a Book of Books!

I'm a big reader. I love most books but I have my few favorites that I really like. Once I get a favorite, I tend to collect their books. One of those authors is Nora Roberts. I already have a bunch (my husband would say too many) of her books. When we go to Goodwill, yard sales or the book store, I tend to forget which books I have and will end up with duplicates. So I decided to make a list of all her books and check off whether I have them or not. Then I made a book out of them. That way I can put it in my purse where I'll always have it with me. :)

One of the pages.

Details:
Pink by Design "Banner"
Stampin Up! Chocolate Chip

Prayer Journal

My brother's girlfriend requested another journal. Since her birthday is on Monday, I decided to just make it her birthday present. The journal I gave her for Christmas had a travel theme since she had just returned from a couple months in Kenya. You can see that journal HERE. It's the 2nd journal pictured. It was hard to get an idea of what I wanted to do for this journal so I went through my stash of masks and stamps that I rarely used and here's what I came up with. I love how I distressed the tag and added a stamp to it.


Back cover

Inside the front cover - I added a tag and holder. The tag has a note from me. On all the prayer journals I make, I add Bible verses on random pages and I did the same here.

Details:
Zutter covers and O-wire
Wausau Paper white (cut at 4.75 x 7.25)
Script stamp - Inkadinkado
Tim Holtz Borderline masks (LOVE his masks!!!) & ticket
Coffee bean stamp - Fiskars 'Latte Love'
Doilie and flower corner stamps - KaiserCraft "Tea at Elsie's"
Sentiment stamp - Pink by Design 'Perk Up'
Tag - from my local scrapbook store


Link Parties:
Patches ofPink
Joyful Stamper
Just a Girl

Another Journal

Yesterday was my brother's girlfriend's birthday. So I put together a little care package to send her (they live in Colorado). Her favorite color is light yellow (think pastel/Easter) so I found a little candy dish and big coffee mug that were both yellow. I filled the bowl with Dove caramel chocolates (wrapped in yellow wrappers), mini York Pepp. Patties and of course Starbucks Via. I had my mom ship it from her work so she could add something too. Oh and I made this journal. haha

Back cover

Details:
'A' stamp - Inkadinkado
Masks, coffee stain stamp, 'Renew' stencil - Tim Holtz
Flower stamp - Kaisercraft
'I like you a latte' and coffee stamps - TPC Studio 'Coffee Cafe'
Ledger - Unity Stamp

I'm, possibly, considering making one of these to sell on Etsy. Just to see if they'd sell. What do you think???

Clearing the Clutter Challenge #1

If you remember back to THIS post, I accepted a challenge to make time to craft. Well I followed through! And a friend of mine is doing it with me. We'll be able to keep each other accountable and we'll link up to the other's blog. We'll be posting every other Friday.

Ok, enough lead up. Here's the project that I finished. I started it a couple months ago when I was inspired by THIS post by Creations By Christie. I thought it would be a great idea to keep track of everything and it feeds to my OCD. haha

The front. I used all Tim Holtz products for embellishing. The cover, book strap and o-wire are Zutter. I used Cuttlebug embossing folders and alcohol inks for the tabs.

The back. The only stamp that wasn't Tim Holtz is the script stamp.

I put the logo on each tab divider.

This is how I laid out the pages. I listed all of the current Cricut cartridges. There were some that came out after I printed the pages so I added those in. The ones in pink, and those highlighted pink, are ones I have. There's also 3 pages after this.

I couldn't get the Cuttlebug logo to look right. :(

This is the Sizzix and Tim Holtz embossing folders.

EK Success border punches.

I copied and saved the thumbnails from EK Success's website and pasted them on here. Again, I highlighed the ones I have.


I got all of these from the Ranger website.




This section just has the Changito monkey stamps. Since Carver's theme is monkeys, I have a bunch of these stamps.

The last tab is blank pages. This will have wishlists and additions that come out.

The reason why it took so long was that I did the covers and then punched with my Bind-it-All... except I put the metal spockets too close and it was too thick to fit in the Bind-it-All. And then to top it off, I punched the back cover on the wrong side. haha So I ordered more covers (5 to be exact!) and punched first! OH! I guess I should tell you how big it is. It's 7x5. The covers came at 7.5x5 so I had my husband cut it down with the chopsaw. It worked great! Good to know for future projects. I feel like I'm leaving something out. Feel free to ask questions.

Now, hop on over to Lorie's blog, www.live-love-laugh-create.blogspot.com

Want to join us? Just finish a project that has been sitting on your desk for awhile. Then send us a link in a comment! If there's enough people we'll add a Mr. Linky!!