City Crafter Challenge Blog Week 212 ~ What's Cooking

This week at

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Our lovely host Anna said....

What's Cooking

My older daughter Clare is a vegan, she is constantly searching for healthy recipe, I thought I could alter this recipe box I picked up at the craft store for 0.50 to something she would enjoy.

Plus... when we ordered the best chocolate chip cookies from OVERLY, the package came with this tiny rolling pin

after a little bit of red paint, this cute rolling pin can be put into used

I also put in some quirky and fun quotes into the box

for the recipe cards, I just cover the index cards with a bit of pattern paper

and tiny bits of stamping

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LESSology Challenge #36 ~ Window Display

Today's project is for

LESSology Challenge # 36 ~ Window Display

My girlfriend Jean bought this for me from Taiwan when she came to Vegas.

it is Chinese tea bag kept in this tiny green box, I thought the deep green color is pretty nice so I am keeping it and making this a Christmas project, never too early to start your holiday project right?

It is going to be an accordion mini album

I want the photos to be more current, closer to Christmas time, so I use one photo to show you what it is going to be like...

now come the fun part..... I used the bits of pieces of chipboard (never throw anything away right?) to make a shaker window...

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City Crafter Challenge Blog Week 168 ~ Dress it up

This week at City Crafter Challenge Blog, Ros is our lovely host. She is challenging us to take any ordinary item and turn it into a beautiful project.

Dress it Up!

When Clare came back for summer break, we went thrifting together, she picked up this item and asked me to make her a beautiful jewelry box

the box cost only 1.50, in good condition and it is clean, just that we don't really like that Mr. Santa is delivering fish instead of presents... LOL!

as you can see, the fun started with paint, gesso, moulding gel....

and of course there were paper, printed images and masking involved in this project

I divided the inside into 3 section so Clare could organized her jewelry

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LESSology challenge 13 ~ Chest of drawers

I am sharing a project for

I started out by making match box, only it is bigger because what I want in there are yummy little M&M egg-shaped candies

next is to decorate the top 

I keep every bit of my trims, even they are just 1 inch in length, it is good to use them on small project like this one

to give some "body" to the robin egg, I back it with cardboard 

now cut a few more layers of cardstock, distressed it, add a brad, and there you go, a little Easter Treat Drawer

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