ALTERED BINDER CLIPS

Happy Saturday!  Today I  want to share with you an altered project which I finished last week.  These are binder clips to be used as place card holders for my churchmate's wedding next month.  The clips were covered with printed paper (Heidi Grace Vintage papers) and embellished with a single paper rose in their colour -- Midnight Blue.

Originally, I was planning to use a petal flower with a pearl at the center but then I had a hard time finding a 2.5mm flowers in Midnight Blue. So I decided to just use paper roses in Midnight Blue.  The beautiful paper roses which is 15mm in size were from Enthaily Australia.  They carry different colours and sizes of paper roses and other flowers and craft supplies, too. Plus their postage is very reasonable. I'm not in any way associated with them, I'm just one of their happy and satisifed customers that's why! :)

Thanks for looking and have a blessed day!

Jhet

ALTERED BINDER CLIPS

ALTERED NOTEBOOKS

Happy Monday everyone! Today my kids went back to school after a month-long school holiday. I can't believe that my eldest is now in his Year 7 and will be turning teen this March!! On the other hand, the youngest is now Year 2 and was very excited this morning while preparing for school. :)  Because of the "back-to-school" issue, I was busy preparing for their school needs weeks before and didn't get much time to play in any challenges or create any cards BUT I was able to alter notebooks last Saturday night for my sisters in Christ.

I bought a reporter's notebook (as it's being said on the label) and decided to dress them up with my patterned papers with stamped Bible verses from Our Daily Bread Designs and Unity Stamp.

Here's the before photo:

And the "after" photos:

I feel so blessed that I was able to bless them with these notebooks which they can use for different purposes but most of all, for jotting down notes during our Sunday Worship Service. :)

Thanks for looking and have a blessed day!

Jhet

ALTERED NOTEBOOKS

My Project Last Christmas

Hello fellow bloggers, stampers and crafters! I hope you had a wonderful Christmas Day with your family and friends.  Few days from now and we will be welcoming the New Year --- how fast the time flies!  I sometimes wish it will go slow a bit especially when you're having good times and creating lasting memories with family, relatives and friends.  :)  Anyways, been busy before Christmas and I failed to share this project that I made for the season.  It's a wreath --- a Christmas Balls Wreath.

The ornament balls (silver ones) were leftovers from what I've used on our Christmas tree and I just added few coloured balls to give it some pop.  The pine cones were from a gift that we received from a church friend and the tinsel was from the dollar shop.  The ribbon was from a previous sale and I'm so glad how it complemented my wreath. I made the bow myself. :)

This was just easy to make, so easy that my hubby got inspired and had a take on this. Here's his finished wreath:

I called his wreath "wintery wreath" because of its colours. :)  What do you think? (I also made the bow on this). As I've said, this project is so easy and you can find a lot of instructions on the web.

Thanks so much for looking and have a blessed Wednesday!


Jhet

My Project Last Christmas

ALTERED!

Happy Wednesday everyone!! Hope you're all doing very well despite of being busy for the much-awaited CHRISTmas day!  I just couldn't believe that there are only 4 days left before Christmas. Wow! Time seems to be flying so fast.  I just hope that we will always remember the real reason of the season ---- Jesus! :)

Moving on to my project, here's the other box that I altered (heart-shaped box this time).  I bought this box from a dollar shop near our place 2 years ago and it's only now that I decided to dress it up.  Honestly, I like buying stuffs with the plan of altering them but I'm so slack in doing the latter not unless my hubby will encourage me or when I see something on the web that will inspire me to alter it. :)

Here it is:

I painted the edges of the box with a Kaisercraft (Dusty Pink) paint then adhered this gorgeous paper from Heidi Grace (which is part of  the papers that I hoarded years ago).  I used a corrugated (white) board for the  heart (which I die cut using the Spellbinders Hearts), inked the edges, put a generous amount of glue and a generous amount of my Martha Stewart Crystal Fine glitter for some effects.  The rest is self-explanatory. :)

And before I forget, I also used a generous amount of Modge Podge on this project.

Thanks for looking and until next post.

Have  a blessed day!

Jhet

ALTERED!

FOR A CHANGE

Hi everyone! How are y'all doing? Yes, I'm still here!! Sorry for not being an active blogger the past few weeks.  Since we are heading towards school holiday, I was also busy attending to the kids and their respective parent-teacher meetings.  I may not be making cards BUT I was busy altering boxes! 

Have a look at the first box that I altered:

From here --------------- to here

to here!

I used my Heidi Grace designer paper pack for this project which has been left untouched for more than 2 years now. Imagine?! I really liked how it turned out with its vintage/shabby chic feel.

Will post more of the deets later and will also post the other box that I altered.

Thanks for the visit and have a blessed Tuesday!

Jhet

FOR A CHANGE

THANK YOU CARD AND AN ALTERED CAN

Happy Monday everyone! Now I can finally share with you this Thank You card I made the other night and the altered tin I've finished yesterday. I didn't post it not until the recipient receives and sees it IRL (so as not to spoil the suprise). I'm so glad she liked the stuffs when I handed those to her yesterday! :)

I made this "Thank You" card for her as she recently altered my 2 new jeans the past few weeks. Just a simple token of thanks for her time and effort. :)

And to thank her more, I altered this Cadbury Drinking Chocolate can for her to use as pen holder.

I really like this colour combo. It's so me (talking about brown!). The cute and glittery dp is from DCWV Sweet Stack, the yellowish one is Bazzill and the brown cs is...from my stash. :)

Actually these are mostly left-overs from a previous card but just can't post it because I still have yet to let the recipient receive it first! (again heheh) It's a birthday card for my sister so I have to wait 'til the postie delivers it to her.

This is all for now! Hope you'll have a blessed start of the week!

Hugs to all!

Jhet

Stamps: AmyR Thank You Sentiments
Paper: white cs, brown cs, DCWV cs, DCWV Sweet Stack
Ink: Versamagic Drew Drop Sahara Sand
Accessories: Spellbinders Labels 4, Prima flowers, Fiskars all a fleur embunch, corner punch, Prima flower, Kaisercraft flower. Kaiser pearl, brown satin ribbon, buttons, Cuttlebug Olivia Alphabet die, Cuttlebug Argyle embossing folder, Glimmer Mist Pearl (sprayed on

the flowers)

THANK YOU CARD AND AN ALTERED CAN

2nd Post for Today - ALTERED CADBURY CAN

Hello everyone! I'm here once again as I forgot to share with you an altered project I did a week ago. Yes, I altered a Cadbury Drinking Milk can. I was into organising my paper scraps when I found this Kaisercraft paper and decided to use it on this project.

I now used my Labels 4 die!! Yay!! I already have it!! I stamped my Darkroom Door (Melody Collection) sentiment onto Whisper White cs, then cut with Labels 4 die. I did some sponging on the edges using Versafine Vintage Sepia ink & then adhered the sentiment panel onto a Scalloped Oval die cut cs. Finished it off by stamping, cutting and adhering these two lovely butterflies from Darkroom Door (Wildflower Collection). Now I know that using a butterfly onto a project adds more beauty to it. No wonder I see a lot of cards using butterfly punches!! Hmmm.... =)

This is the before and after photo of my project:



You can use this as pens or markers holder/caddy or whatever you want to use it for. The possibilites are endless!! So, if you have cans or jars sitting there and just gathering dusts, it's time to get that creative juice flowing and convert those to lovely work of art. :)

Okay, as this is my 2nd post, try scrolling down so you can see my previous post for today.

Gotta eat lunch now!

Hugs to all!


Jhet

Stamps: Darkroom Door-Melody, Wildflower
Paper: Kaisercraft dp, Bazzill, whisper white
Ink: Old Olive, Versafine Vintage Sepia, Ballet Blue
Accessories: Labels 4, Oval Nestabilities (Scalloped), buttons

2nd Post for Today - ALTERED CADBURY CAN

ALTERED CADDIES

Hello everyone!! I missed you all! How's life keepin' you? Hope everything's doing well. I have been quite a busy bee altering caddies these past few days. And since I've done 2 so far (and still have quite few to finish), I want to share it with you.

First, I want you to see the caddy at its raw state:


And here are the altered ones:

The first was one was given to a churchmate/friend and I asked her for her colour preferences. She said she wanted earth colours so I went for brown (my fav!) and a teal/turqouise combo. The dp I used was really yummy (just like Basic Grey, LOL!), and these are from Chatterbox.

The 2nd caddy is for our wedding godmother who will be celebrating her birthday on the 28th of this month. The papers used here are from Heidi Grace and Basic Grey (where I stamped the bible verse on). I used ODBD Scripture Collection 1 & 2 for both caddies and I also heat-embossed them with clear ep. Flowers and buttons were added to jazz it up more.

OK...so what do you think? Any reaction? :D

Have to go for now...I'll be posting my finished cards later.

Thanks for the visit and have a blessed day!

Hugs to you all,

JHET

ALTERED CADDIES

Altered Caddy Take 3!

Good Morning! I've just finished this altered caddy for a churchmate who celebrated her birthday first week of January. This is my 3rd altered caddy and I did my best to finish it 'coz we will be seeing each other this afternoon during our Church service and I promised her last week about this. Her favourite colour is purple that's why I didn't have a hard time choosing a dp for her.

I painted the edges with Kaiser acrylic paint in Mauve. The paper is Basic Grey from their Euphoria collection (this one's name is Trance). Letters were die cut using Olivia alphabet and adhered to the Nestabilities die cut circle using my Xyron 5" Creative Station. Flowers were Primas with a button at the center and I added 3 dew drops on the left side. Oh, I forgot to take shots of the left side of the caddy...nothing special there though, just a purple cs punched with Martha Stewart Doily lace punch and adhered at the bottom part. Will take a photo tomorrow and add it here.

Gotta hit the bed now..I need to sleep. ;-)

Sweet dreams and may God bless you!

Altered Caddy Take 3!

Challenge Cards and an Altered CLOCK (quite long post)

Hi everyone! I missed you all! I missed the blogging world as I haven't posted for 3 days now. So, how are y'all doing? Hope everything's fine by the grace of our Lord Jesus. I feel so light because I have committed myself into reading the entire Bible for one year and, I've been up-to-date with that! And I believe, I couldn't have done it without God's help. Thank you, Lord!

OK, I have finished 2 cards for the past 3 days and these cards were made for the Ways to Use It and Limited Supply challenges over Splitcoast.

The first card below is for the WT200 wherein you will use "stars" on your card/s. I felt my Mojo went on a holiday for awhile and is slowly coming back that's why I'm able to create again. lol!! Here's the card before I go on with the deets:

I'm into using my Spellbinder Labels One and I really like it! I printed off the sentiment onto a DCWV Far East mat stack and ran it to my Cuttlebug along with the labels one die and then embossed the Choc Chip using my Swiss Dots embossing folder. My dp is Basic Grey from Archaic paper pad. I punched out stars using my Fiskars Twinkle Twinkle large squeeze punch which --would you believe - I bought from K-Mart for ------- $1!???!!!! Gotta love K-Mart for bargains! hahaha! Who can beat that??? It was on clearance and the last price on the shelf was $4. At that price it's already a bargain! But then, when I scanned them myself to check the price, it showed $1! And I was like...whoa! Great bargain! Actually, whenever I shop at K-Mart, more often than not, the price of the product when you scan it, is much lower than the price on the tag or the shelves. That's why, I don't normally lose hope when I see something that I like from there, not until I've scanned it myself. lol!! Back to the card - I punched 2 stars onto the Basic Grey dp and Choc Chip cs. I used Dimensional Magic (from Bizzy Becs) for the stars and I really like how it turned out! I finished it off by sponging Choc Chip onto the edges of the card and putting a brown satin ribbon (got heaps of these, they're left-overs from my wedding invites).


The next card is for the LSC202 wherein you have to use hearts on your card. Paper could be any colour but with shade of red. In my case, I used the Candy Apple cs by Bazzill and my dp is from Heidi Grace collection. It may not be red but it has hearts so I think it counts. ;-) I then used my Spellbinder Labels one again and ran it to my Cuttlebug using my Hearts embossing folder. I only have this stamp with a heart (fr Hero Arts) which I used recently for the Featured Stamper (you can see it on my previous post). I stamped it onto Whisper White, coloured it with Copic Markers then die cut it using Labels One again. The heart was finished off with the Copic Spica glitter pen (red). Oh, and I used my MS punch onto the dp. It's really gorgeous!





And on to my altered clock - this was made for our church guest speaker. Our church Pastor is on holiday overseas that's why for 5 weeks, we have guest speakers to share the word of God to us. This is actually a personal gift from our family as he's the same Pastor who officiated our wedding. I'm glad that he and his wife liked it as Rolly and I handed it to them this afternoon after our service.

The paper is from Deja Views which I adhered using Mod Podge. The middle cs is SU! Pumpkin Pie which was cut using my Nestabilities Petite Scallop circle. Instead of using numbers for the clock, I used Prima flowers and dew drops. I haven't used numbers on my altered clocks yet as I enjoy the uniqueness of using flowers instead of numbers for the hours. :) It's very cool to the eyes and I like the fresh look of it.

Thanks so much for visiting my blog every now and then. Hope I brought some inspiration to you.

Remember --God loves you---and so do I!

Hugs,

Challenge Cards and an Altered CLOCK (quite long post)

Individual Altered Mini-Notebooks Photos

As promised, here are the individual photos of my Altered Mini Notebooks for you to have a closer look at them. :) Enjoy!

Thanks for looking and I hope somehow you will get inspiration from these.

God bless us all!

Individual Altered Mini-Notebooks Photos

ALTERED NOTEBOOKS AND MINI JARS

Hello everyone! Whew! I feel so exhausted yesterday as I finished and gave away these mini-notebooks that I altered. I made these for my female churchmates as Christmas gifts and I'm so glad they liked them. I bought these notebooks from Big W and "jazzed" them up using my different Heidi Grace paper collection. It wasn't really that hard to make but since they're "mini", the measurements are small as well. :)

Here's the mini-notebook before it was altered. I made 11 of them:

And here are the altered ones:

I will be posting them in batches in a little while so you can take a closer look at the. For the meantime, here are my Christmas mini jars which I also altered:



I used different patterened papers here but mostly DCWV. I filled it up with M&M's minis..lol!

Oh, and by the way, I also altered 2 regular-sized memory books for the 2 young ladies in our church who happens to be BFF. :)

Ok, have to grab some lunch now. Will post more later.

Have a lovely day! God bless us all.

ALTERED NOTEBOOKS AND MINI JARS

The Other Desk Calendar

Hello once again! As promised, here are the detailed photos of the second calendar that I made. This time I just used my Studio G stamp on all calendars and just coloured it differently. All dp were from Heidi Grace Orchard Bouquet collection and cs were SU's! Wild Wasabi and DCWV Matchmakers. The black cs base was from Officeworks. It's a 210gsm cs and I bought it for around $11 I think, for a pack of 50. Not that bad and the quality is good as well.





And by the way, you can print this calendar for free on this link http://www.printfree.com/Calendar_files/Yearly/2009printable.htm

And before printing, please do these simple steps:

Right click on the calendar and print preview

Go to the “Shrink Down” drop down menu, select 80%

Print it onto your Whisper White cs or any cs that you may wish to use

Easy peasy! Now go ahead and try to make one of these desk calendars. You won't be sorry, it's a very useful project.

Keep smiling while stamping! ;-)

The Other Desk Calendar

Desk Calendars

Howdy everyone! We're havin' a bit of "wet summer" season here in Australia for 2 days now. Hope all is well with you. I've been seeing a lot of calendars being made as Christmas gifts lately and I told myself 'why not give it a try?' So, I came up with these desk calendars which I found the tutorial from Nancy Morgan here, and samples from Dawn Easton and Cambria Turnbow. These women make fab cards, really. Check out their blogs for you to see.

And here are my calendars. I was able to make 2:

And here are the photos per page of the first calendar. The samples you've seen on the above links used the SU! A Tree for All Seasons but I don't have that so I just used my Cupcake stamps by Inkadinkado and Hero Arts.





Well, it took awhile before I finished these, probably because it's my first time and the materials to be used weren't planned beforehand. But at least, I did it! lol! I'm looking forward to make more of these. They're good for Christmas gifts, don't you think so?

Oh, we're now on the 12days of Christmas countdown! Are you guys done shopping? Not me, I'll do it this coming week and I know it's a bit rush. :)

I will be posting the other calendar details later. Have a blessed day!

Desk Calendars