Mini coaster albums

I have been so busy making photo tile coasters for my friends that I haven't had time to make much else. But I did make these mini scrapbooks from thin chipboard coasters for my BIL and SIL's for Christmas. I had printed the pictures a few weeks ago with every intention of getting these done early for Christmas but ended up making them late on Christmas Eve. I think they turned out fairly cute and my SIL's loved them. Anyone who doesn't scrapbook finds things like this great regardless of whether I think they are very good.

More Photo Coasters

I made three more sets of photo coasters on Friday night (I went to another crop). These are for my BIL and both SIL's families for Christmas. I am pretty sure they don't read this blog (I can barely get them to read my personal blog) so I think I am safe posting them. I think these turned out much better than the ones I posted the other day.

Photo coasters

I was so excited to try these yesterday when I got home. I followed this tutorial found on Splitcoast (where else?). I am somewhat happy with the way they turned out. I think my coasters are too dark (you know not white enough). For some reason when I was swiping the modge podge on them they seemed to get dirty. By the last one I did (the one on the bottom right in the first picture) there was black dirty stuff on my brush, and I did wipe off the coasters. Oh well, I was just too thrilled that the pictures actually printed on tissue paper through my printer. I am going to try and get some different coasters and make several of these as gifts for Christmas.



Here are a couple of close ups:
I think the one of just my daughter turned out the best.

Notepads

I made these mini notepads and post-it holders the other day. They are pretty simple and again easily done with the Scor-pal.





Supplies used: Rose Red, Regal Rose, white cardstock; Rose ribbon; Live Your Dream stamp set and I colored my images with the markers.

Decorating with dice

April was my month to hostess for bunco and I am always looking for cute decorating stuff to use. I found this dice stamp and immediately bought it, I don't even remember how much it was. I got white cups and napkins and stamped pink and purple dice on them (we have decided pink and purple are our official colors).





I also made these giant paper clip bookmarks for everyone.



And I made these little boxes that I got from dollar tree for us to use to keep score. We added a plain m&m for each bunco win and a peanut butter m&m for each big bunco.



I used Pink Passion and Lovely Liliac cardstock and ink for all these bunco creations.

If at first you don't succeed...

Those of you who read my blog often know that I am in love with the new rub-ons from Stampin' Up. I went to Dollar Tree and just wondered around looking for stuff I could use the rub-ons on. I found this picture frame and thought I could spice it up a little. I tried the black rub-ons on the white mat but when I pulled the film off part of the rub-on that I didn't want to come off did.

Here is the mistake:


So I took a piece of Certainly Celery and traced that mat to make a new mat for the frame. Then I used the brown rub-ons and tried again, this time I cut out the part I needed. I usually do that but for some reason didn't the first try. Here is the second attempt, I turned out better than the white anyway.

My Journal

A friend of mine at church, Jane, recently received a gift from a friend of hers. She showed me her gift which was the cutest journal someone had made for her. I took that idea and made 3 journals to be used for part of my bunco prizes last night. They were fairly easy to make but did take several sheets of paper. I put paper on 3 of the pages and used the round tab punch on the inside to make a divider of sorts. I also put a pocket on the middle divider and included a bookmark. I need to find a printable 2008 calendar because I would really like to include that on the inside cover in a similar way. Anyway here they are.

Somebody stop me

Or I will put a rub-on on everything. I bought these little pink buckets in the dollar spot at Target and used the white Stampin' Up rub-ons this time. The rub-ons didn't go on quite as smoothly as the glass and candles but it still worked.

Rub it on

I received a stamp order for my friend Kelley on Monday. I had ordered a couple of things with it but nothing too exciting (no stamp sets). However I did get a set of the rub-ons that were part of the sale-a-bration promotion. Below you will see the project that I made but Oh My Word! why did I not get any of those sooner. They are fantastic!! They are way better than any other rub-ons I have used. I had seen several people use them on some objects (as opposed to paper) and I loved the idea. So while at Dollar Tree today I picked up a couple of candles and candle holders. Here is how they turned out. (the picture is not real good of the glass, just imagine that it is better IRL)



I tried to get a close up of one of the candle holders, not sure if it helped though.



And here are the candles:

Calendar

This is a pocket calendar I got from the Target dollar spot. I gave it to my friend Cheryl tonight (she was the bunco hostess this month) along with the simple cards I recently posted.



I have made a New Year's goal to use up my stash of stuff that I have before I buy more. One reason that is so hard is that I thought this planner needed a purple flower in the corner and of course I never have the color I want. But I went with the green and white and I think it turned out okay. Plus I am sure Cheryl didn't care that the flower was green and not purple.