Chipboard Alphabet Organization

Well I had some of my chipboard alphabet in a box with file like chipboard in there to seperate the letters. I didn't like it at all. So decided to look and see what I could come up with. I came up with this after searching. I looked at tool holders and such but they were too expensive and the drawers not big enough for me. So finally found these at Lowe's on sale. I bought all they had. I really want to find one more so it looks even and use the extra drawers for other embellishments. I do still have some of my bigger chipboard sets in their containers (especially Basic Grey ones) in a crate so I can just grab that for when I want all the same.

Ribbon Organization/Storage

Okay for the longest time I have not had my ribbon like I wanted. I always felt like I forgot what I had. I have tried a couple different ways of organizing but I finally found one that I love! I got the idea from the Clip it up Ribbon Organizer but I don't have rolls of ribbon so that would have been a waste for me. I mainly buy ribbon by the yard. So I went looking for a rod to hang on my wall. Now I knew that I wanted it to be silver b/c the clips from Clip It Up are silver and I like everything to match. Well the closest thing I could find was a 7/16" rod from Lowe's. It is a little wider then I would have liked. I would have liked a 5/16". The reason I would have liked a smaller one is b/c the clips would fit on it better. On the 7/16" one I had to widen the clips so they would fit on. The ribbon is "tied" onto rings that I got at the office store. They are the 1.5" rings. Now it is all done and looks great and I can see what I have at a glance!

Shimmer Card

I made this card for a swap I am in at my work. I got the original idea from Archiver's new watercolor class. I love this stamps set with the animals. It is so cute and can do many different things with it. The stamp for the bird is from a Hero Arts stamp set called Sending Happy Thoughts. The swirls on the background are from the Autumn Leaves Swirls stamp set.

Baby Burp Cloths - Easy to make!

These are my favorite things to make for new moms. I had these as a new mom and loved them. You just buy cloth diapers and then sew whatever ribbon you want on the end of them. This way the mom knows they are her's but also they are not so blah.

12 Month Baby Book

Our old neighbor was having a baby shower this last week. All I have to say is that this baby is a very special baby and had many prayers from around the world to help him get better before he was born. He is a miracle and I am sure he will be full of life for his mommy!

I thought I would post pictures of the album. This was all done from scratch. I had the page protectors and I just used my zutter to put it all together. The papers are from Cosmo Cricket's Jack's World Kit. It was perfect. Sorry the pictures have some lines going through them. Something was up with my camera that night. Plus I did not put all 12 months on here. I have them on my slide though.

Craziness

I have finally come to realize that I just can not work on projects in a totally clean area. :-) My dh made the comment the other day that he can't believe I can work on my desk and like it. Now you have to remember that he is a computer guy so most of everything he does is on the computer. You should see his desk (maybe sometime I will have to take a picture of it) there is nothing out of place or even on his desk that should not be there. Let's just say there isn't much on his desk. Now my desk as you can see from the picture is almost always like this. Now the funny thing is that I know where everything is too...well I say that but for some reason I can not find my favorite pencil. I am guessing that one of the kids put it somewhere. My point is that I know for awhile after we moved I kept thinking to myself that I wanted a room that was totally organized and looked great when you walked in to the room. Now I have to admit to myself that most stuff will be in it's place but there will be craziness on my desk when I am working on projects!

I was just counting and if I counted correctly I have 5 different projects there right now. One is all the way done and just needs to be mailed off, one has not been started and all the others are about half way through but by tomorrow night all except for one should be done.

Shimmer!

Tonight I am going to post pictures of projects that I used shimmer on. It was fun to do some different things.

LOVE!

This project was done with a heart grungeboard. I mixed the Shimmerz with red ink and painted the heart. Then I took rub ons that I had laying around to decorate it. Now it is ready to use on a layout.

Tinkerbell Layout
I did this layout using a picture of the kids from Disney World. I am not sure if you can see it in the picture but in their hands is Tinkerbell. The kids love this picture! Sorry to say the paper piecing of tinkerbell is not one that I did. I have saved it from a swap I did over a year ago. Now it works perfectly on this layout. I added some Shimmerz to the ribbon edges, on top of the words, and also on the grunge board flourish.

Christmas Card
This is a sample of the Christmas card. As you can see I used lots of shimmer on the angel. Just made the angel stand out more.
Dance Layout

All the lettering in this layout has black glitter on it! My daughter loves this layout just because it is about her dancing and also because it has glitter on it. Don't all little girls love anything that sparkles!?







Angel Cards

I made a bunch of cards for my aunt who loves handmade cards. Now the angle in these were bought with the glitter and everything on them. The only "extra" glitter that I added was on the paper ribbon. I first inked the paper ribbon then added Shimmerz on top of it. It's subtle but works wonderful with the glitter already on the angels.