Frugal Fridays: $1.00 Nutty Valentine, CDT projects, Stampin' Up tip, and sneak peek at a new file.

Do you have your Valentines done?  We'll here is your chance to pick up a nutty Valentine for only $1.00.  Click here to purchase my I'm Nuts About You Card.  Hurry though this price expires at midnight EST today 2/11/11.  Before you leave though I have some awesome projects done by my Creative Design Team.  Week after week my e-mail box fills with such wonderful projects!  I am soo lucky to have such a talented bunch of ladies on my side!

Isn't this Valentine by Shelly just terrifically whimsical?  I love how she combined my Birds of a Feather file with my Valentine Set to make this great card.  My favorite part of the card is the actual use of feathers...it's begging touch me!  I also love the white accents and the doodling on the branch.  Great job Shelly!  If you would like to "case" Shelly's card click on the words above the previews to buy the files needed.

Valentine Set

Birds of a Feather

Kelly also was busy making a wonderful Valentine too.  Laury...a fellow Paperthreads designer designed this huggable card.  You can see it here.  I just love it!  Kelly used some of the files from my Lovely Layout to design the front of her card.  Way to go Kelly thinking outside the box..seeing more than just a layout in that file.  I just love the shimmery paper she used also. If you would like to purchase this file click on the words above the preview

Lovely Layout

Well I don't know about you but I'm soo tired of putting on numerous layers of clothing and such just to be able to endure the bus stop without freezing!  I long for the days of heading out the door with just a pair of shoes!  I have thoughts of Spring in my head and I think Shelly did too check out her great butterfly card below.

Yep...I wish these butterflies could fly off this card and bring warm weather to my world!   Oh well I'm sure warmth will come soon enough and I'll be complaining it's too HOT! LOL!   Shelly got our her airbrush to make the butterflies wings come to life.  The stamps/dies she used were from Papertrey Ink.  The butterflies are from my 3-D butterflies file.  Click on the words above the preview to
purchase this file.    

3-D Butterflies

Now I promised you a little sneak peek at my newest file.  Here it is...it's the first installment in a fruit digi collection.  Let me know what you think and also pass along any "fruity" sentiments you can think of please.  I'm not sure I'll stick with that font.   I have seen where you can add Kool Aid to embossing powder to make a "smelly" card...I think these digis would be perfect for that!

Stampin' Up Tip

I am not an expert stamper by any means but I recently have gotten back into stamping.  I know there are many companies out there that sell stamps but Stampin Up is the only company in which I know the stamps will last a very long time.  I have some from 1994 that are still in like new condition!  So I decided to cash in on some of the deals and freebie during Sale-a-bration..knowing I was making a good investment.

I am loving the new clear mount stamps! Okay the tip is to save the sticker sheets once applying the cling sticker to your stamps.  You can use these scraps to turn your wood mounted stamps into cling mounted.  Remember you don't need the entire stamp to be covered with the cling sticker for it to stick.  The smaller stamps you can get away with a scrap in the middle.  The larger ones make sure you have your edges covered and one smaller scrap in the middle.  I ordered the Loads of Love stamp set.  It only came wood mount so instead of mounting it on the wood I placed the sticker directly onto the grey foam and cut off the excess then I applied the remnants from my clear mount sticker sheets on top of that sticker to make them stick to acrylic blocks.  I was able to use the remnants to make 4 SU wood mounted stamp sets into clear mount and I still have enough left to do one more set.  I am working on my stamp storage system so I will share that with you along with photos when I get it done.  Oh and here is a tut on how to unmount stamps for you to look at in case you don't understand the whole sticker on the foam thing I was talking about.

Okay time for lunch!  Have a great weekend and stay warm!

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Frugal Friday special: Today only $1.00 tags and CDT projects

Hi everyone,
Now that my sale is over that means Frugal Friday specials are back.  Today's special is perfect for Valentine's Day!

That little love tag is a perfect addition to cards and layouts.  The pieces all cut separately so you could easily add any die cut or stamps to these tags.  This makes them them very versatile and soo worth $1.00.  So hurry on over to my store and pick these up.  Click here.  The price magically disappears at midnight EST today (2/4/2011).  (Look Gina...I got the date right..tee hee!).  Before you leave please check out these great projects from my very talented CDT.

Take a look at the tag/card by Shelly M!  Wouldn't this be a very cute Valentine!  Let's see she used my Clothes Line Baby Girl Card.  I just love those mini clothes pins!  (Edited to add:  Shelly used a cut/emboss die from Stampin' Up for the butterfly) but you could easily shrink my 3-D Butterflies to baby size and added it to a heart.   Simply adorable!  I'm not sure what she used for the tab...but you could use my Hinged Tabs and not cut the window for the same effect.  I'm also not sure what Shelly used for the card base but you could use my Pocket Card file to make something similar. 
Click the words above the previews if you'd like to purchase any of these files.
Pocket Card

Clothes Line Baby Girl Card

Hinged Tabs

Next up we Caz helped my owl from my Loving Owl Tag file fly off the tag onto a card.  I love where Mr. Owl landed!  Her card is great...take a look for yourself!

See I told you it was a Hoot!  Sorry I couldn't resist!  I think the mixture of different patterns makes Mr. Owl look wonderfully whimsical.  Take a look at the card base...Caz created that herself!  It's it amazing!  Click on the words above the preview if you'd like Mr. Owl to come visit you!
Loving Owl Tag

 I do have a few more CDT projects to share with you but it's almost lunch time and I must get to some housework before that.  I did get some layouts done at a recent crop so I'll try and take some photos of those and share them with you too soon.   I am also looking at ways to organize my acrylic, unmounted, and wood stamps so if I figure things out I will post my system.  Meanwhile if you have any tips for me..please send them my way!  I could use all the help I can get!

Have a fabulous weekend!  Stay warm!

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Frugal Fridays: $1.00 candy bar wrapper today only and some great projects from Shelly M

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas! Well sort of! We got our tree up and decorated. I gave in and let the kids do the bottom. I patiently sat back while they put more than one ornament on a branch and left big empty spaces not saying a word! LOL! Actually it doesn't look tooo bad...I'll have to share a photo with you soon. Tyler wanted to replace all the lights with the bulb that made them flash even the top star (snowflake) and of course they flash at different times so it's quite distracting to hubby and I but Tyler loves it so we indulge him. He plugs in the lights every night and loves the flashing tree! My goal is to clean this house a little and get the rest of the decoration out today. I did manage to get quite a few packages wrapped and under the tree last night too! Next step gotta get the kids Christmas picture taken so we can send out Xmas cards before New Year is here! I hope you are enjoying all the holiday preparation!

Christmas Candy Bar Wrapper

Now on to my Frugal Friday special. For today only you get my Christmas Candy Bar Wrapper for $1.00. This makes an excellent stocking stuffer or small gift for teachers, hairdressers, postal workers, neighbors, etc. Hurry though this price magically disappears at midnight EST today 12/10/2010. Yikes are we really that far into December! Where has time gone! Better get working on those Christmas gifts! HUH! Need some inspiration? I have more wonderful projects from Shelly M. Oh and if you'd like to purchase the candy bar wrapper please click on the words above the photo to go directly to the store.

MMMM doesn't this set look yummy!  Not only did Shelly make the large candy bar wrapper but she incorporated some other files and smaller candy bar wrappers to make an entire set.  Who wouldn't love to get this as a gift!?!  Shelly used my Build a Wreath file to complete the set. 
Click here to see the file in the store. 

Isn't this box stunning?!  Wait a minute...is it a box or is it a card?  Actually it's both!  Here is what Shelly had to say about her gorgeous box.

"This was made for the Paperthread's 20 Challenge...to make an easel card and incorporate it into a gift box, gift bag or whatever else you can think of.  I used a cling mount stamp by Hero Arts and embossed it in gold.  To color the image I used Derwent Inktense Watercolor Pencils (they are my favorite watercolor pencils!!!) and then cut the sentiment from Christmas Word Charms from Shelly's Art (its on sale now!) from gold metallic paper.  I airbrushed the rhinestone to match, cut out the image and used pop dots to give it some dimension."

Christmas Word charms 

These charms are great for cards and scrapbook pages.  Click on the words above the photo to purchase.

Shelly is making such good use out of my build a wreath file.  She used the ornament in that file to make these elegant gift tags.  Aren't they just beautiful....I just love how versatile Shelly's style is...whimsical one moment then sophisticated the next!  Here is what Shelly has to say about her project. 

"I cut the ornaments out of dp (k&co) and then added Krylon gold to outline them. Sentiment is from PTI and the envelopes/tags are from QK"

Okay I'd better get us lunch then do the dishes so I can start decorating!  "We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year".  Thanks a million for stopping by!  Have a festive weekend!

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Frugal Friday: $1.00 Buttons Galore file today only!

Buttons Galore

For today only you can get this great collection of buttons for only $1.00!  With my Buttons Galore file you can have the perfect embellishment to match any paper crafting project since you'll be cutting it out of your favorite papers.  If you want to make your paper buttons look more realistic and 3-D...check out my blog for a great technique here.  Hurry don't miss out on this fantastic deal!  The $1.00 price magically disappears at midnight EST today 12/3/10.  Not sure you want to purchase this file?  Well Shelly M has some wonderful projects that might change your mind!  Check them out below!

First up Shelly combined 3 of my files to make this great fast card! 

How creative was it was it for Shelly to see trees when she look at my triangular buttons!   Yet another brilliant idea...I never would have thought of in a million years...is to use the flower petals from the flower included in the tea caddy file to make the trunk for the trees!  Amazing light bulb moment there!  Great job Shelly!  If you would like to purchase either the Christmas Sentiments or the Tea Caddy file...click on the highlighted words in this sentence. 

Okay take a look at this card!  Did you get a good look?!  What do you think Shelly used to make those flowers?  Give up....she used my Buttons Galore file to make them!  No I'm not kidding...really they are there!  The leaves are the triangle button with a few slits cut into them to turn them into leaves.  The roses are made by cutting many of the flower button and layering while shaping them to form the lovely rose.    Absolutely love it Shelly!

Isn't this card just adorable!  I love the doggie image Shelly used (not sure who makes that stamp..sorry) and the little dog bone buttons are the perfect embellishment to finish off the card!  She also used my Christmas Sentiments file for the greeting.

Here is one last great use of my Buttons Galore and Christmas Sentiments file.  I just love the embossing and the use of baker's twine.  I'm not positive but I think Shelly used Spellbinder's dies for the bracket box.  I do have a file that resembles that shape though in my Fancy Labels file.  Yeppers this is a great looking card that can be made in a matter of minutes!

Shelly is just amazing!  I don't know how she gets soo many projects completed but somehow she finds the time!  So...I'll have more projects to share with you by her in the near future.  Stay tuned!

Thanks for stopping by!  Have a fab weekend!

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Frugal Fridays: $1.00 birthday banner today only ! Happy b-day to the "men" in my life!

Hi everyone,
 
Once again I'm late posting this sorry!  I'll get right to the Frugal Friday special.  Oh in the future if you can't wait for me to post the special please check out the specials page at the Paperthreads store and you'll see which file of mine is $1.00 every Friday (except when I have my whole store on sale) along with the monthly specials from all the designers.  Click here to get directly to the specials.  In honor of my son's birthday on the 17th and my hubby's on the 21st I am featuring my Monkey Banner for $1.00 today only.  Hurry though this price expires at midnight today 11/19/2010 EST.  I designed this file for my daughter's birthday party last year.  However, you can easily just use the letters and add your own decorations instead of the monkey to suit your theme.  It's a great deal at 70% off!  Click on the words above the preview to purchase this bargain!

Monkey Banner

CDT member Lisa Lindesmith has been working hard at creating Xmas cards.  I have three beauties to share with you today.

I just love the non traditional color scheme of this card.  The metallic features make everything look sooo regal and elegant!  Simply stunning Lisa!  Lisa used my swirly ornaments file to make these gorgeous cards.  Click on the words above the preview to purchase at 30% off for the month of November. 

Swirly Ornaments

On the flip side Lisa also created a wonderfully whimsical Christmas card using my Build a Wreath file.   I love how she used patterned paper for the poinsettias and wrapped the cording around the wreath for extra dimension!  Those button centers are soo cute too!

Click on the words below to purchase my Build a Wreath file and make your own wreath.  This file is great because just by changing the papers you can make a whimsical wreath like Lisa's or an elegant or even a vintage one.  The choice is totally up to you!  This file is also a steal at 30% off the whole month of November.

Build a Wreath

Happy Birthday Tyler and Toby!  These two men in my life share birthdays this month!  No fair I have to wait until Jan for mine!  LOL!  Poor Adoree has to wait until May for hers!  That's okay we like to have her party outside...well at least we try so far every year it has rained and we all huddle onto our porch!

I don't think my hubby is as excited about his birthday as he is at graduating from college soon in December.  He is counting down the days and I must admit I'm excited too as it will be good to  have Daddy back full time!  It is very hard to hold a full time job and take college classes plus attend to the kids and day to day life all the time.  I am proud of him and can't wait to see that bachelor degree! 

I can't believe our "baby boy" is 7!  I find it hard to believe he is in 1st grade already too! He got his group photo taken today at school....he insisted on wearing a tie!    He is such a good boy and we are soo lucky to have him as a son!  We are having his party on Sat...I am seeing a lot of Legos in the future..he just loves these little pieces of plastic!  We let him pick out his own present this past weekend so on Wednesday after patiently waiting all those days he got to open and put together Lego City Fire Station.  He did very well putting most of it together himself.  I have to say it is pretty cool with working garage doors, ladder that swivels and extends etc.  Even hubby said Legos are soo much better than they were when he was a kid.  Tyler actually has all his old Legos and he sits for hours building with them!  He doesn't care that they are "old"!  I just found out they make a Lego remote for the Wii.  We are debating getting him it for Christmas since it's kinda expensive but I just know he would love it! 

Tyler wanted to take a treat to school for his birthday.  In the Taste of Home book we had they featured this recipe for "bacon and eggs candy".  The pretzel sticks are the bacon and the white chocolate with an M & M in the middle is the egg.  It did look pretty cool and tasted pretty good.  I think if we make this again though we will use little pretzel sticks as these rods took too much chocolate.  I found a website that shows you how to make these if you are interested click here. 

Okay past our lunch time again!  Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend!

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Frugal Fridays: Lollipop Bouquet $1.00 today only and post it note holder project

Hi everyone,
Well, Halloween is over..Thanksgiving is coming and Christmas will be here in a  blink of an eye!  With all the festivities that occur at the end of the year those months just fly by don't they!  I vow to get ready for Christmas early this year as I'm always making last minute gifts.  I plan on enjoying Christmas this year instead of frantically rushing around..who is with me?!

I have a file on special for $1.00 today that might be helpful with your holiday gift giving and/or decorating.  My Lollipop Bouquet file is only $1.00.  Hurry though the price will magically disappear at midnight EST today 11/12/2010.   You could easily make this Christmas looking by using Christmas colors.  I could see it with chocolate Santa shaped lollipops too.   You could even use pencils and eraser tops to give this to a special teacher for Christmas.  Scroll down to see Sue's awesome million kisses bouquet.  Click on the words above the preview to purchase the file.
Lollipop Bouquet

Check out Sue's wonderful million kisses bouquet below.

Wasn't it brilliant of Sue to use chocolate kisses on skewers instead of lollipops?  Who wouldn't want to receive a bouquet like this?!  Love it!

If you have been following my blog you have read about these post it note holders I made for the Baltimore retreat and also as hostess gifts for crops.  Well they are having a craft sale at church and I needed something to take in for them to sell tonight.  So I made a bunch up yesterday and figured it's about time I share this wonderful project with you all.

I found the tutorial for these post it note holders from Chic' n Scratch's creative blog.  Click here to see her video tut.  I didn't stray far from the tut when making my holders but I could not find any chipboard coasters.  I considered knocking on the doors of  local bars here begging them to have pity on me and sell me a few but then I thought of something!  Yeppers the light bulb turned on bright that day!  I headed to our Dollar Tree for materials to make these holders.  I found everything but the coasters.  I was looking at the children's board books.  They looked similiar in size and sturdiness to the coasters so I decided to cut the books apart into individual coasters.  A bargain for sure as you get 3 books for $1.00 and those probably make about 15 coasters depending on how many pages are in each book. I borrowed a Zutter Round it All to make round the corners on these pages.  I was amazed at how easily it worked.  If Michelle gets more back in stock...I will be buying one!  However, the first ones I made I didn't have the Zutter so I took the pre existing rounded corner and traced it then trimmed by hand.  Works just as well!  So below are a few photos for those of you who are visual learners (like me)!

Turn this

into this

I found these cute pens three to a pack at our Dollar Tree...I couldn't resist getting them.  You can also buy the pens with the clear barrels and cut a piece of paper to fit the barrel and slide it in...that way everything matches!

Oh and I noticed the board books were pretty glossy.  I was afraid the adhesive wouldn't stick to them so I sanded my pages down a bit to give them some tooth to apply the adhesive too.  Also keep in mind since you aren't using coasters you will have to cover both sides of your board book pages with paper.  I choose a cardstock for the back as I figured it would take more wear and tear then the thinner paper.

Oh and one more tip.  I found that the little zyron X sticker maker is great for that piece of paper that wraps around the binder clip.  It's very important you have lots of glue on every inch of that paper so it smoothly goes around the binder clip and the X does a great job with this!

Above are a few other ones I made for the craft sale.  Sorry the photo isn't very good.  I'm in a hurry as we promised to take Tyler out for his birthday.  Last year we took him to this Japanese restaurant where the chefs cook in front of you on this big grill..they do tricks and stuff.  Tyler just loved it and asked to go there again.  I think we are starting a tradition here!  So I must go!  I hope you enjoyed the post it note holders.  I'm sooo glad I stumbled across Chic' n Scratches video!  They are soo easy to make..a great way to use up paper and ribbon scraps and very inexpensive too!  I had a blast making them!  I hope they sell well at the craft show.

I do have some Christmas themed files in the works including sentiments, brother, sister ornaments, and tic tac holders so stay tuned you'll be seeing them soon!  Thanks for stopping by!  Have a fab weekend!

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Frugal Fridays: Only $1.00 your choice of cupcake card or hinged tabs today and getting girly!

Howdy,
     Since I'm sooo late posting this I figured I'd better get right to the Frugal Friday specials.  Today I have two specials for you.  Both my cupcake card and hinged tabs files are only $1.00 all day today.  Hurry though the price will magically disappear at midnight 11/5/2010 EST.    Click on the words above the previews to purchase them.

Cupcake Card

Hinged Tabs

Check out what CDT member Lisa did with the cupcake card.  I just love the glitter and the addition of the bow!  This card is soo versatile....by changing the paper picking the appropriate embellishments you can easily make it work for a girl, boy, man or woman!

I designed the hinged tabs to aid me in organizing my layout sketches.  Click here to read more info about that.  It is a rather long post but just scroll down to get to the organizing info...I promise it's there!

Adoree has been mistaken as a boy more times then we'd like.   So when we were at the hairdressers and Adoree decided she wanted her ears pierced we were thrilled!  She was such a trooper!  They only had one gun but she held very still for both ears.  I think she was kinda shocked though that it hurt as much as it did!  She said "Ouch that hurt!" after our hair dresser did the first ear.  I can just imagine was was going on in Adoree's head.  She looked like she was thinking "How could this lady who has been sooo nice to me in the past do this to me!"  LOL!  The earrings are soo tiny but sooo cute...little gold hearts with diamonds in the middle.  Below is a photo but it's hard to see the earrings.  I can't wait as she'll be able to take out those and get festive ones for Christmas!

Well that was just the beginning of "getting girly" for Adoree.  She isn't feeling well so I took her to Kmart to get prescriptions filled and took pity on her getting this little kit that had glitter nail polish, body glitter and lip gloss in it.  She absolutely loved painting her nails.  She even sat still while they dried.  This nail polish is a very faint clear type which is coming off already.  I just didn't want to get the "real" stuff until I knew she would sit still and not get nail polish everywhere!  She definitely wants pink glitter nail polish now so I guess we'll be on the hunt for that tonight!  I had a blast taking photos of her getting all dulled up.  Check them out below.

Okay it's way past our usual lunch time so I'd better go!  Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have an awesome weekend!

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