Cut it out!
Yesterday I went to the local craft store to get some Crackle Accents that I wanted to try out on an upcoming project. While I was there I looked at the stamps to see if there were any bargains and I found this stamp set for $5.99.
Hero Arts Classrom Owl Set
My first thought was cute owls but I would never want to use those sayings with them. My second thought was – cut the words off. And that is what I did when I got home. I haven’t made a card with them yet but this is what the stamps look like without the sayings.
Cute owls!
Next time you find a bargain stamp that you like but you don’t like the entire stamp don’t be afraid to cut it out. All you need is a sharp exacto knife and patience. Sometimes you can save the part you cut out to use with the original image if you decide you want the original image.
Garden people
Today I went to some garage sales with a couple of friends. At the first one we stopped at I saw these garden people and fell in love with them. They are holding a rectangle pan to put plant in. I’m not sure where they are going to go yet.
They were priced at $1 each. I picked them up and was carrying them around with the person holding the sale came to me and told me that this gentleman had already paid for them. I was disappointed to say the least. She told me that she was sorry. I told her I would have given her $2 each for them, no $5 each for them. Somehow the man that bought them talked to her again and she told him that I would have paid $5 for them. We were at a community were quite a few people were having garage sales. I was at one of the other houses looking at things and the man who had bought them came up to me and asked if I still wanted them. He said he had heard that I was willing to pay a high price for them.
So, that’s how they came home for me. And, I’m wondering, how much would you pay for these garden people?
Mellow Yellow
What do you do with your scraps of paper? I collected all of mine that were the same color. Then I randomly glued them down to a sheet of orange card stock. Stamped some swirls on the sheet, added some stickles and then cut the sheet into squares. The squares were then attached to a brown shimmery sheet of paper which was attached to orange cardstock. I then stamped a Hero Arts shadow stamp in the bottom and wrote mellow over it.
Birthday box
Have you seen those cool boxes at Michael’s in their dollar section? I purchased some awhile back and thought they would make a neat gift box to put earrings or a bracelet in.
Then I needed to make a birthday card and these boxes were sitting on my table and I had the idea to make a birthday car box. I cut a strip of paper to the width of the box and then folded it into an accordion fold.
I stamped happy birthday using Autumn Leaves Scribbles Alpha clear stamps.
I put some clear initial stamps on the bottom of the box as a little gift. 
The back seemed so boring so I added squares of my favorite papers.
This was one of those projects that was hard to give away… I need to make one for me now!
Florida Orange
Want to send your friends some Florida oranges to warm them up? Here is an orange card I made using the Sure Cuts A Lot software. This is one reason to have a wide variety of orange cardstock. This is an actual card not just an orange embellishment shape. The card measures 5 x 5.25″ 
Soccer Border
I got this great software for Christmas called Sure Cuts A Lot (SCAL). I’ve had great fun with it. I made this soccer border yesterday. 
Cupcake Card
Cupcake card