Valentine's Gifts

Well tomorrow is Valentine's Day and I have been working on the gifts for my hubby and my oldest daughter's boyfriend. The hubby loves to fish and the bf loves baseball. I wanted to do the candy bouquets so I bought some dollar glass bowls and painted the inside white. Next I used a red sharpie on both to make one into a baseball and the other into a bobber. I hot glued all the decorations to bamboo skewers and used floral foam inside the bowls to hold the goodies in place. Thanks for stopping by!

Repurpose

I'm sure lots of us have one of these Sizzix die towers sitting in a corner. I hated to just throw it out so I decided to put it to use. It works well for storing distress inks with the matching blender pad. You could also fit the re-inker in there too if you have it. With both sides you can store 26 distress ink pads! (You can also store regular ink pads if you don't use the distress inks.)

PL Title Page

I finally completed my PL Title Page. Leave a comment and let me know what you think. U can see these page protectors are going to take a little getting used to.

So Here It Is...

My Project Life all laid out ready to go. I am having trouble with the title page. Do you ever have that feeling that something just HAS to be perfect? I mean, this is the FIRST page after all. The thing that everyone will see first! Anyways, I am working on a more permanent home, a Project Life station if you will, in a different spot in my craft room where I can keep it out and things won't get piled on top of it. This island seems to be the catch-all in my space. When I get that all worked out I will post about it. For now I have my binder, planner, post-it's, Clementine core kit and I used the box lid to hold some stuff I dug up in my stash. I also put the wire basket out to hold all the "stuff" from daily life. Thanks for stopping by and stay tuned for more from my PL adventure!

A Little Art

A girl I work with loves my art so I made this this mixed media canvas for her birthday using decoupage, old pattern tissue, sheet music and ledger paper for the background. I added some of my dyed flower trim and twine alone with some chipboard and handwritten lettering. I splattered some India ink and I finished it off with some canvas butterflies colored with glimmer mist and sprinkled with glitter. Hope she likes it!

Project Life-Binder

So for my 2012 PL I chose a beautiful blue American Crafts 3-ring binder. These are my favorite albums. I did a little decorating on the front with foam number stamps and some Technique Tuesday stamps by Ali Edwards. I ordered 2 packs of style A page protectors and I finally did give in and order the Clementine Core Kit. Hopefully it will arrive this week. Looking forward to getting started putting it together. I downloaded the Photo 365 app for my iPhone to help me out and it has a daily reminder to keep me on track.

Project Life Update

Well...it's official. I am the proud owner of the Becky Higgins Project Life Clementine edition. I am excited and leery of the whole thing but I feel motivated to do it! Wish me luck!!!!

Stamped Metal Jewelry

For my daughter's friends for Christmas I made these cute necklaces out of washers from the hardware store. I saw some others on Pinterest and fell in love with them. They are surprisingly not hard to make and very inexpensive. I love personalized gifts. Hope the girls like them too!

Project Life

So...I really would love to take on the challenge of Project Life. The concept is great and the products are amazing. Now the problem with this is the commitment to actually DO IT! I doubt myself because I have been trying for 2 years to complete a December Daily album and have yet to finish. The only reason I am thinking about attempting it is because of the fact that for December Daily I feel like I have to plan 25 Christmas activities and for Project Life you simply capture things that "just happen". Are you thinking about taking the plunge?

Sent from Amanda's iPhone
Visit my blog:
www.amandascreativespace.blogspot.com

Christmas Wreath

Got this idea for turning a coat hanger and Christmas ornaments into a beautiful wreath. I got these plastic ornaments and the wired ribbon at the Just a Dollar store so this wreath cost me $7!