Dress Up Your Table!

With picnic and cookout season coming up I wanted something to hold napkins and silverware that I could use on my table and that could easily be passed around. I found this great little silver bucket in the paint department of my local hardware store. With a strip of the blue side of Toil and Till from the Yee Haw collection and a few little vellum flowers with red pearl centers, I am all set for a busy season of entertaining!I hope the you enjoyed this little project and that it inspires you to make a few of them for your picnic table! Wishing everyone a happy and safe Memorial Day weekend. Make sure to take a lot of fun pictures for your summer scrapbook!! Until next time…

Happy Scrappin’

Peggy

Luggage Tags

The time for summer travel is almost upon us. If you’ve ever had to pick out your suitcase from an endless array of black bags than you know that a luggage tag can be a very helpful item. These two were created quickly and easily and are perfect for the young (or not quite so young) sports enthusiast. Both utilized paper from the Jock Jams collection.

Terri Davenport

Get Ready For Summer!!

With summer fast approaching, I thought it would be a good time to share this little mini made with the awesome Sizzlin Summer collection from TaDa Creative Studios! On the front cover I couldn’t resist using the little hippo from the Snippets and Clippets.This little gem is bound on both sides and flips open from the middle to reveal the pages with lots of pockets and , of course, tags!!Once again I used coin envelopes for the pages so I would have built in pockets! I also did matching pages on each side so they would fold over on top of each other. Once again I have to say that these great papers are so beautiful you really don’t need to use much for bling! You just don’t need it!! I also made a lot of pockets using pieces from the Snippets and Clippets!

For my tags, I used plain cardstock and made the pockets out of a sheet of Sizzlin Summer Mini Mes and added small tags for journaling.I hope this inspires you to get out your Sizzlin Summer paper and get busy on a little mini to hold your summer memories! And until next time…

Happy Scrappin’

Peggy

Ribbon Bracelets

Ta Da Creative Studios’ stickers have some unique properties. Since they are vinyl, they’re both flexible and durable. So, I decided to add one of the BFF stickers to ribbon. I sewed a button to the end and created a simple and fun bracelet.

Terri Davenport

 

Tree of Life

Last weekend I had the honor of teaching classes at a benefit crop. Krop 4 Kids is held to raise funds to keep a scrapbooking program going for parents of babies in the NICU unit at St. Vincent Mercy Children’s Hospital here in Toledo and to help send children to asthma camp. I wanted to design a mini unique for the event. Since both of these wonderful programs are about life and living and a scrapbook should be full of pictures of life and living, I designed this little mini that I named the Tree Of Life!!I am crazy about the wonderful Whirly Gig paper from TaDa Creative Studios. And  the colors in this paper are full of life!! Most of my embellishments were simply done using the Tag-A-Ma-Jig and Pocket Notes pages. The angel wings on the cover are in loving memory of Dr. John Schaeufele who was the president and cheif executive of Mercy Children’s Hospital when he passed away in 2011. He was a wonderful pediatrician that was loved by all who knew him. As you can see from the photo below, there are double pages made with just one sheet of each of the lovely patterened papers with a single plain cardstock page in between.  Of course, there is a pocket in each of the pages because you can never have enough pockets!! Now looking at this I am sure you are asking yourself what on earth this has to do with a tree!! When the book is done it can be left laying flat or it can be opened and left standing to resemble an evergreen tree!Mary and Annette from TaDa were there vending to help contribute to the fundraising event! I had a great day seeing lots of familiar faces and meeting many more wonderful ladies!! To my friend Mary Schaeufele and to all the wonderful folks that organize and work at this event…you are a very special group of people with hearts of gold! Your hard work certainly showed in the spectacular event you put together! I am already planning my “special” project for next year’s Krop 4 Kids!! I hope that you enjoyed this project and that it inspires you!! My thoughts and prayers are with all the families and victims in Boston and in Texas. Do me a favor and let your loved ones know how you feel about them and do not take a single moment of life for granted! Until next time…

Happy Scrappin’

Peggy

Re-packaging

Re-purposed packaging is the key to this simple gift container.

Step one: Add new background paper.

Step two. Create a tag. (Bonus: This tag happens to be a pocket tag and is the perfect size for a gift card.)

Step three. Attach tag to package with chain.

That’s it. All that’s left is to fill the container with the items of your choice.

All papers and stickers from the Just Chillin’ collection. Thanks for stopping by!

Terri Davenport

 

Spring card

I think that Spring might finally be coming to Ohio!! So I thought this would be a good time to make a card that uses all of those great colors!! I used  a sheet of Flora and Fauna from the wonderful Bountiful Blooms collection. I cut the shape with the smallest of the Spellbinders Grand Big Scolloped Ovals. I also used Spellbinders Butterfly Circles and Fancy Tags One. Because the colors are so beautiful in this paper I didn’t think it needed much in the way of bling and wanted to let the flowers be the focus.I hope that this inspires you to create a pretty spring card to let someone know that you are thinking of them! Until next time…

Happy Spring and Happy Scrappin’!

Peggy