Altered Clipboard Winter Break Countdown

This is totally out of order, I still have Thanksgiving projects to finish, but I thought I'd post this anyway before I pack it away. I made two of these, one for each Kindergarten teacher. I started with a $0.97 clipboard from Walmart and painted the top part with blue, bottom with white. I stamped small snowflakes in white craft ink on the blue (can't really see them in the photo, but they are there) and I sprinkled glitter on the white while it was still wet to make the snow sparkly. The penguin is from Christmas Cheer, cut at 5 inches and the Winter Break is from Designers Calender at 4.5 inches. I just printed out the numbers with MS Word (200 pt for the numbers and 65 pt for words). I am going to make one for home for countdown to Christmas, but I think I better finish up my Thanksgiving projects first. Thanks for looking!

My first cooking scrappage

Every Sunday I make a list of what I'm cooking for dinner that week and do my shopping. I have so many cookbooks and so many loose recipies, yet every week I struggle to come up with 7 meals. I thought it would help if I put all my favorites in one book. The other great thing is that its a chance to do something quick each week besides a card ( they are 6x6 so instant gratification for my very short attention span). So here is my first one, I'm hoping to do one per week.

Christmas tree card topper svg for scal

I'm playing with my pen tool again and made a quick tree cutout for a card topper. I cut it out of kraft paper and layered over patterned paper, added some rhinestones and a couple quick stamps. The file is down below if you'd like it, thanks for looking!

http://www.mediafire.com/file/lnjzykyomim/PSI_treecutout.svg

Frosty Kisses Wall Canvas

This is a project I finished up yesterday. I wanted to try and make a project using only one cartridge (winter woodland) as a personal challenge. I started with an 11 x 14 blank canvas and painted it most of the way down with Making Memories Sky paint. Then I used Winter Woodland to cut the following:

snowman (10 inches)

Verse (5 inches)

trees (1.5 inches)

number 5 (2.5 inches)

Cents sign (1.75 inches)

and Snowflakes (1.25, 1.5, 1.75)

I used fun flock on the scarf and hat pieces. I used SU Dazzling Diamonds on the top edges of the snow, edges of the trees and completely covering the snowflakes. For the verse, I ran it through the xyron and then covered it in Diamond dust (I LOVE this stuff). The snow I just cut freehand and I also put a bit of blue chalking on the mounds before adding the dazzling diamonds. This snowman is supposed to have closed eyes, but I didn't like it that way, so I used one of the eyes for a mouth, then just used scrap dots for the eyes. Thanks for looking!

Oh and check this out....we had a bit of wind last night. We heard a crash during dinner and went out to find our large BBQ down, glass panel/deck rail shattered. And yet the plastic basket full of empty water guns remained unmoved. Ugh, what a mess!

New Files for the Holiday Organizer

I've had a bunch of emails the past couple weeks about the holiday organizer from last year (see old post HERE ). The file has been changed so I am posting the new one. For DS it now has 3 pages, one for George, one for Plantin schoolbook, and one with Plantin and storybook that has a more decorative edge flap. I've also made one as an svg. If you get started now, you can hand them out as gifts at Thanksgiving. Enjoy!

Revised DS file: http://www.mediafire.com/file/xyzzmjdqgdj/PSI_GiftBook.cut

SVG: http://www.mediafire.com/file/dyninfh1hnl/PSI_Orgnaizer.svg

Snowman SVG for SCAL

Here is a free snowman svg to cut with SCAL. If you are doing it very small, I'd suggest just drawing the dots for the face as they will be too small to cut. This was drawn in Photoshop for a project I'm working on. If you need some snowflakes to go with him, be sure to check out this free dingbat font: http://www.fontspace.com/windwalker64/wwflakes

Snowman File:

PSI_Snowman

Enjoy!

Glittered Leaf card

I love fall leaves and I can't help but pick them up as I walk down the sidewalk. They usually end up in the trash because I just don't know what to do with them, but when I saw these maple leaves on a neighbors tree I knew they had to be glittered. I have seen this done before but I had never tried it....couple of tips I learned the hard way: make sure your leaves are good and flat/dry, do not use modgepodge and do not try and run a dry leaf through a Xyron (that was a disaster). My next try was Aleenes regular tack glue - works perfect. Cover your dry leaf with glue then cover with glitter - soooo pretty and each one unique! For the card base I used an svg from Penny at http://www.pennyduncancreations.com/ . She has several of the lace card svgs. I used another one to do the card at the bottom, and I'm sure I will be doing many more (thanks Penny!). Thanks for looking!