Wednesday What I know

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Happy Birthday Diana!

Welcome to Diana's Birthday Blog Hop!

one thing I didn't realized when I started my blog what that

I would make wonderful friends along the way

across the country and across the world

Diana is someone I am so happy to call friend

Happy birthday Diana I hope there will be many more to celebrate

now for the hop line up you will want to start at the beginning 

Lots of great projects along the way

 

Norma http://pinkblingcrafter.blogspot.com/

Carri http://doubleclickconnections.blogspot.com/

Lisa http://indymermaid.blogspot.com/

Amy http://amyscraftingspace.blogspot.com/

Sherri http://sherriescraps.blogspot.com/

Amy - http://redheadedcrafter.blogspot.com/

Georgiana http://www.carsonscricutcreations.blogspot.com/

You are Here Karen http://littlescrappieces.blogspot.com/

Next stop Jessica http://chick-n-scrap.blogspot.com/

Cely http://hawaiipaperparty.blogspot.com/

Katie http://katieoscreations.blogspot.com/

Jessica http://jessicascraftshaque.blogspot.com/

Diana http://dianamlarson.blogspot.com/

Here is what I made for Diana... 

 

the cupcake is a svg from SVG cuts Happy birthday to you

I used the card feature on Sentimental for the card base

Spellbinder leaf

Tim Holtz flower die

both sentiments are from

Cardz TV Stamps

"make a wish" 

What's a party with out some Candy?

be a follower leave a comment

 

Happy Birthday Hopping!

Karen

happy birthday

For the Fun Friday Birthday Challenge click   

Here

Last week I finally got the EK Success layer butterfly punch

and I LOVE IT! So much fun so many possibilities

 I also pick up this EK Success Braid edge punch

picked it up because it was on clearance at Joann's

and I love this too....yes it's true I am kind of easy to please :)

Linked this to

DL Art Happy Birthday Linky Party

Have a peaceful Sunday evening.

Karen

Thanks so Much and Challenge winner

Used some scrap strips of paper to make the 

background for this card

the other pieces were left from other project

feels so good when I use the leftovers...

This week's challenge winner is

#9 Rachel

Dragonfly Crafter

could just pick three again

here are the top FOUR

#7 Shawn B

Classic Creations By Shawn

#11 Janea

Recollection Alley

#14 Stacey

Stacey's Creative Corner 

#20 Cely

Hawaii Paper Party

Thanks for another great challenge week!

Karen

Fun Friday Happy Birthday Challenge

I am so lucky today to have a wonderful guest designer Pat 

from

 Pat's Scraps

the theme she chose is Birthday which is perfect is so many ways

one you can never have enough birthday cards and second my birthday is latter this month
don't you just love the bright color she chose?
I do!

This week's prize

Hello

For the CARDZ TV anything goes challenge click Here

For the Fun Friday use an animal click Here 

do you every read a challenge and an idea for a card

pops right into your head 

back in the day when I was a a pre-teen I longed for a 

pink princess phone 

oh they were so cool

entered this in 

Scrappy Moms Stamps Terrific Tuesday Challenge

Retro Fun

 Pattern paper from Basic Grey

all solid papers from Papertrey Ink

mat from Elegant Edges

Phone is the icon from Wild Card

Hello from

Scrappy Moms Stamps

Everyday greetings

some twine and some buttons....

Have a great night!

Wednesday what I know

what I know is that 

Necessity is the mother of invention
and a crafter with an idea and some supplies can do remarkable things

In my recent obsession to organize my craft room
I knew I had to come up with a better way to store my stamp pads
I have searched online and found a few but with shipping charges they were just more than
I wanted to spend.
So with a little though a few pre-cut boards and voilà

 

need one more board have room for one more shelf

and I am going to label the inks so I can see which one is where.

left little space for my reinkers 

I may section off the whole top shelf and put my stickles there 

I got boards 2' by 4" wide at Lowes  cut one of these in half for the sides 

used some wood glue and some small nails to form a box

at Ac Moore I got a piece of 2'x1" balsa wood and cut into 4 inch sections

and used these to space the shelves as I nailed them at the top and bottom

I also got a few 2' by 3" boards and put nailed them from the top down so 

the shelves are sort of staggered hope that makes sense

 

Really proud of myself on this one  :)

Karen