Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Fun Flowers



This is a fun project for a girls room. I just made a flower out of foam core and cut it out. Then, we had some old pool noodles that we cut for the center of the flower and the stem. We cut the stem on an angle to be able to see the flower at a better angle. I just hot glued them together and placed them in a pot. EASY

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

ADD SOME FLAIR TO YOUR WALLS WITH PAINT!

This is a picture of my daughter's room that I painted this year. I got the idea from a comforter that I saw in a JC Penney ad. I cut out a 2 foot square with rounded edges from a poster board. I then traced the square onto the wall, making sure to rotate the square as I went along so that each square wouldn't be the same symmetrically. I chose two shades of pink, two shades of brown and a white. I then free-handed the inside squares to look all different. I just did one wall like this and the others are painted with the lighter brown. Fun project!












Another wall that I just free-handed the flowers on. The "laugh" is done in vinyl.









If you don't want to pay the price for vinyl, you can do what I did in my son's room and paint the words on using paint. I just chose a font from my computer, chose the size I needed, and printed a copy out. I then cut out the letters and arranged them on my wall. Then I traced around the letters, removed them, and painted the outline in. Quite easy (although red paint is hard to work with).

Sunday, July 20, 2008

Are you making a book?

I have been busy downloading my pictures to Winkflash and trying to get a book put together of our vacation, so I haven't posted anything very interesting yet. Be patient. I will be working on the book all week, when I can steal some time on the computer between when the kids are on it. At least I finally asked my sister Ruth to help contribute to the blog. You will see some wonderful things from her. She is very creative.

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Free Fonts

Who doesn't like FREE? Well, here is an email I received today for some free fonts. This website has cute fonts and every once in a while they have some free ones to give away. Try it out. http://www.scrapnfonts.com/searchprod.php?showingonly=Free

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Digital Scrapbooking Deal!!

This year I have been receiving emails from Winkflash inviting me to order a photo book. I just received another email today for a really great deal: you can make a photo book with up to 100 pages for $19.95. Every couple of months they have this promotion. I have made 3 books so far this year and they have turned out great. If you are interested;
1. You need to have an account with Winkflash (set up for free) http://www.winkflash.com/
2. You need to have your photo book submitted by July 29th
3. You need to use the code FLATRATE88 at checkout
I have found that they ship quite quickly. I usually have my book in a week to 10 days. If you have never done this before, they have easy templates to use. They are changing things all of the time and giving more options. This is a fun way to scrapbook. You only have 2 weeks so hurry!