Craft Storage Ideas ~

Hi everyone!!! Today my scrappy space is being featured over on Craft Storage Ideas so I thought I would show you close up pictures of how I store and display some of my scrappy supplies. My markers, pens, paint pens are stored in old enamel ware coffee pots.  I have many of these types of enamel ware pots that hold wild flowers in the Spring:):)

Old salt & pepper shakers ( missing a pair) are great for storing glitter in, and it looks pretty ( fancy) too!!!

I love storing and displaying items in old large metal bowls, so for now this is where my mini albums go.

This is my button center, an old muffin tin.  The metal stand in the back, with the bank name on it, used to hold the deposit slips at the bank desk~I use it for my Glubers.

This old soda bottle holds my Dew Drops.

This is a chest of drawers made from a fruit crate.  It is one of my favorite finds.  It holds my Jenni Bowlin, Tim Holtz and 7Gypsies supplies.

A peek inside~

This is an old card file~I store my Epiphany Crafts supplies and extra small pieces of trim in these drawers.

Old lunch pail that I dolled up to hold my mini alpha's.

A peek inside~

This is an old lazy Susan ( I have had it 10 years or more). Great for paints and mists that I use often.

This is some kind of old carpenter's box~I use it for mists, paint dabblers, H2O's water colors and alcohol inks.  It really is nice to have it all together, right at my finger tips.

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Thanks for stopping in today and I hope you will hop on over to Craft Storage Ideas and see the rest of my room.  This site has so many ideas for storing your scrappy supplies. What ever your style is I'm sure you will find inspiration here.

See ya soon!!!

JBS/Haven ~

This is another layout done for the Jenni Bowlin Crop a few weeks ago.  The challenge was to scrapbook a place.  I used Haven for this~one of my favorite lines by JBS.  This is an old bridge that crosses the San Marcos River, that is about 20 miles from my home.  We went to check it out in January of this year.  What a great find~

In one of the pictures you can see a tree at the edge of the photograph, that tree has a metal sign in it , that the tree as grown into.  That tells you how long the tree has been there.  Love this kind of stuff.  We found out there is about five more bridges in our area so we are on a mission to go see them. 

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Tomorrow my crafty space will be featured on Craft Storage Ideas, I will be featuring more pictures on my blog~hope you will stop by!!!! If you love junk you won't want to miss this!!!!

Have a great weekend and I'll see ya soon!!!! 

JBS and junkin finds~

Hi blogger friends~this past weekend Jenni Bowlin Studio had an online crop.  It was really fun,!!! I love getting in the zone and getting so much done.  In the next few days I'll be sharing with you some of the layouts I did for the crop.  This one is using the Haven line and white space.  I usually don't scrap like this but it is fun to try new ways!!!

Some fussy cutting and misting and I called it good!!!

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I also have a few junkin' finds that are really unique (to me anyway)~that i wanted to share.  If you have any info on these items, I would love to hear it!

This is a date book set (by months) put out by Singer (the sewing machine company) for the year 1955.  Very cool!!!

This is a very small font stamp set of months and numbers only.  I think some of it is missing but it has little wooden handles on the rubber stamp part.  I almost missed out on this find but a girl friend was with me and picked up two of them ( yes two different ones) and shared with me~thank goodness for good buddies!!!

I'm not sure but kinda of sure this is how photo's were printed in the newspaper at sometime(not sure of time line).  The back of the wooden block has the woman's name and that it is her engagement photo.

Have a great Friday and I'll see ya soon!!!

The Ribbon Carousel and Skipping Stones Design Blog Hop~

The Skipping Stones Design Team is thrilled to be teaming up with the fabulous designers from The Ribbon Carousel to bring you a blog hop that is sure to impress!

Hi everyone and welcome to the blog hop!!! Happy 4th of July!!!! Lots of great inspiration coming your way~so enjoy!!!!!

For my tag card I used the gorgeous ribbons from The Ribbon Carousel and the Breathtaking Butterflies stamps by Skipping Stones Design~love these {btw!!!}

Next up~we still need to talk about prizes!!!!

Hop along and leave some blog love for our designers for a chance to win one of 2 great prizes! The Ribbon Carousel will be giving away a ribbon carousel and Skipping Stones Design will be giving away a stamp set of the winner's choice! Winners will be announced on Saturday at 8:00 PM EST!

Ok so let's do this!!!!!!

Try it Tuesday~Hotel Key Holder/JBS!

Hi everyone!!!Today is Try it Tuesday~if you didn't see this on Jenni Bowlin's site then here is your chance to take a really good look.  Her new reproduction Hotel Key Holder is her latest product.  I had such a good time working this up and I had so many different ideas on how to use this piece.  This is one way I used it~

These are special items that have been hidden in a drawer and I thought this board would make a great place to showcase them, so others can enjoy them too.

 

The earrings were my grandmothers, the lock my great-great grandfather, just to name a few.

This board has so many other uses.  You could use it exactly like it is, for keys.  You could use it as a celebration board { like for a birthday, wedding ~you hold the key to my heart}.  You could use it as a calendar ~ to count down a holiday.  So many ideas~

What are your ideas?  What would use this for? 

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July 4th Skipping Stones Design is partnering with Ribbon Carousel for a blog hop.  You can pick it up right here on the 4th. Hope to see you!!  Have a great Tuesday and thanks for stopping by!!! See ya soon!!!

ScrapStreet summer Issue~

Hi everyone~ScrapStreet's summer issue is ready to be viewed.  It is one of my favorite issue's. It is full of inspiration!!!  Tons of beautiful layouts and cards!!!!

This was the layout I did for my call "Beautiful to You", page 6 of the magazine. I used Jillibean Soup, Basically Bare, buttons, two different trims and cardstock.

The free digital kit is available for digi scrappers also.  Each month ScrapStreet offers a free digital kit as a gift to our  readers.  I hope you will check out the magazine, like I said, it is full of great stuff!!!!

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Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!!! See ya soon!!!!

Magazine time~

Hey, I have something to show you:):):)  If are a Hobby Lobby fan, you may have seen it.

I had two layouts published in the 2nd quater issue of Stamping*Stationery*And Scrapbooking.  This layout is on page 60.  So fun seeing your work in print!!!

I used Paper Studio, American Crafts, Prima, buttons, twine and cardstock.

And the other one for Mother's Day~

I used The Paper Studio, Prima, Epiphany Crafts, American Crafts, Spellbinder scallop die and twine.  This one is on page 11.

The 3rd quater magazine is out July 1st and I have two more in that one.  The magazine is full of layouts, cards and crafty party ideas.  And it also has a {40% coupon }on the back cover~sweet!!!!

Thanks for stopping by and enjoy your Sunday!! See ya soon!!

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ScrapStreet is out today!!  My article is on page 6. You will be able to link to the magazine from the blog~enjoy!!!!