Red, White, and Blue Garland

Check out this red, white, and blue garland over at the Martha Stewart site. Easy and inexpensive to make it's the perfect little eye catcher for July decorating or for a 4th of July party....

Altered Trinket Boxes

I love trinket boxes. They are super easy to make, almost always turn out cute and can be given as gifts. Tuck in a gift card, ring or earrings for an extra special presentation! I bought these trinket boxes at the Target dollar spot. There were two boxes in a package for one dollar. These are ones I made for my great nieces for Christmas

Creating a List Folder

Here's one of those "Best of the Creative". Blue Moon Stamping has an adorable folder creation that is perfect for tucking in lists. What a fun colorful way to keep track of something as mundane as your "to do" list or your shopping list. Displayed on a desk or countertop, its decorative, as well as useful. It would also make a cute addition to your scrapping area, where you can use it to jot down scrapping thoughts, items needed on your next trip to the LSS, and other important notes.

To read more about creating this project visit Blue Moon's blog.

Spring Card Idea

Over at Angelosity you can get the complete directions for this lovely Spring Card. She used it with Congratulations but it would be equally beautiful as an Easter card with Happy Easter rubbed on! Make sure you scoll down a bit when you check out her site there's another adorable card down the page a bit.

 

Altered Paint Cans

I love the look of altered paint cans and they have so many uses. Here's just a few: 1. Spa Bucket: Fill with bath and shower stuff 2. Manicure Bucket: Fill with manicure set, polish, etc 3. Birthday in a Bucket: Fill with balloons, candles, card, hat, etc 4. Over the Hill Bucket: Fill with all sorts of over the hill goodies 5. Wedding Pail: Can be used for cards at the reception This picture shows several pails that were created in a class I took at a local scrapbook store.












This is a photo of the pail I made at the class!!

Lerpechaun House: Step Two and Three

Sorry, got a little off track and neglected to put up information on the little leprechaun house. Step one of course was to find a chip board house to your liking.
Step Two is to paint the house. I decided to paint mine a deep green but really any other would do. Since it was for St. Pat's though I decided shades of green and orange would be nice.

Step Three: Is to start decorating your house. I found a nice striped piece of scrapping paper to use as part of the roof and added some lace trim. I also created mini curtains and a door. This is only the beginning....still more to add.

Leprechaun House

Inspired by Vicki Chrisman's Valentine's house, I was on the lookout for a chipboard house. I found one at Hobby Lobby. It is not the same type that she used but I think I will give it a whirl. I am going to share with you the process along the way here at MCS. So here's Step One: Buy or make a house!