Cell Phone Charging Holder

Hello everyone! I have a fun recycling project to show you that I did for the Fantabulous Cricut's Save The Earth Crawl challenge. The challenge is to make a project using a recycled item.
I have just recently started an account with Pintrest! OMGosh! It is so addictive, but you find some of the coolest things. That is where I found the idea for my project. You can see the full tutorial HERE.
I made a super cute charging holder station for my cell phone. I started with an empty lotion bottle and cut it into the holder shape. I found it easiest to cut by first starting with an x-acto knife and then with scissors. In the original tutorial she used fabric to cover her holder, but I used paper to cover mine. I did this with glue and decoupaged it. The hedgehog was cut from Live Simply and I stamped the face with a Peachy Keen Wide Eyed and Bushy Tailed face. This was super fun to make and oh so simple! Now my cell phone has a place to rest and without cords hanging out all over the place.
I just love making things with recycled items, the possibilities are endless. I hope you liked my project and thanks for looking! Have a great night!
P.S., as a side note, you might have noticed that I changed my blog AGAIN. This is because I was getting warnings that Shabby Blogs was full of malware. Anyone else have this happen? So I changed it to the fist thing I saw and it will stay like this until I figure out what is going on! LOL!

Mother's Day Hat Card

If you are looking for the winner for my giveaway, please see post just below this one!
Hello everyone! I have a super sweet Mother's Day card to show you today! My mom LOVES frilly hats, so I thought this would be perfect for her. (MOM, if you see this, pretend like you didn't when I give this to you! LOL!) My mom is a follower of my blog so I'm sure she'll see this! LOL!
I welded 2 hats from Freshly Picked to create the card base and cut all the layers. I created the ruffle using crinkle ribbon, I pleated it and glued it to the backs of the cuts to get this look. If you want to see a wonderful tutorial on how to do this technique, check THIS video out at My Craft Spot.
I added the scallop strip to the top of the ribbon layers and added pearls using a Viva Decor Pearl Pen. I also cut a rose from Flower Shoppe and added that over the flat flower cut. To finish I hand cut the tag and stamped the sentiment.
I am going to enter this into the following challenges:
1. My Craft Spot- Mothers Day
2. RRRR- Mothers Day + ribbon
3. Go Fish

Thanks for looking and have a great night!

WINNER!!!

Hello everyone and Happy May Day! I have the winner for the Peachy Keen Clouds Background stamp!
Random.org chose #36

Sherrie K. said...

I have posted your awesome giveaway on my sidebar! Thanks again Gigi!
Sherrie K
http://sherriescraps.blogspot.com

APRIL 14, 2012 10:20

Congratulations sherrie! Please email me at booger1 at tds.net with your shipping address and I will get that in the mail! Thanks again to all my wonderful followers! You all are the best!

Thank You Dragonfly

Hello everyone! I am sorry that I have been MIA the last couple of days. I have been re-decorating my bathroom and getting things ready for my son's graduation party.
I am going to start "blogging" a little different. I have been using so many stamps that my posts get really long, so I am going to start adding a supply list at the bottom of my posts. I see so many others like this and it seems to be easier for me and for my faithful followers to understand.
I stamped the background clouds twice. One for the main background and the second so I could cut the clouds out and use them as a mask.( My little tip for this is to # the pieces and keep them in a plastic bag so you only have to do this once!) After the cloud pieces were cut out I glued them over the stamped background using re-positionable glue. I then stamped the hearts over the entire background. I then removed the cloud mask's and colored the hearts with a copic marker. I also added a white highlight to them and Glossy Accents.
The dragonfly was stamped and paper pieced. I changed up the face and used a Cornies face instead. I mounded her to mats that are from the Nestibilities Lacy Circles. I also added Glossy Accents to the eyes, tooth, and antenna. To finish I tied a bow and stamped the sentiment.
Supplies:
Peachy Keen stamps- Faceless Bugs, Cornies Faces, Clouds Background, Valentine Cupids, Vivienne and Friends
Nestabilies- Lacey Circles
Copic Marker- B00 Frost Blue
Glossy Accents

I am going to enter this into Peachy Keen's challenge this week which is Cards only and create your own stamped background.
Thanks for looking and don't forget that I will be picking the winner for the PK Clouds Background on Tuesday! Have a great day!

Ladybug

Happy Hello everyone! I have a super cute card to show you today! Here I am in my craft room when I REALLY need to be working on things for my son's graduation party which is now less than a month away!!! LOL! Gosh! I am such a procrastinator!
I really like how this card turned out! The papers just worked perfect! I cut the fancy frame from Elegant Edges with the matching mat and pop dotted it to the card. The ladybug was cut from Paisley and I pop dotted the wings just on the bottom edge, gluing the top down. I love the look it gives the ladybug, like she's going to take off. The background bottom was embossed with the Cuttlebug Seeing Spots folder and I punched a border strip to separate the 2 papers. I added a ribbon down the side with a sentiment banner. The banner is held down with a brad which I gathered the ribbon into the center with.
Have you all seen this trick? I hadn't and I LOVE IT!!! It makes it SO easy to create sentiment banners!

Just use a square punch to punch out the corners! Easy Peasy! LOL!
I am going to enter this card into the following challenges:
1. RRRR- Black, White, and 1 accent color + ribbon
2. BBTB2- Ladybug or Bee
Thanks for looking and have a wonderful day!

Hello Kitty Car Card

Hello everyone! I have a fun card to show you today that I did for a couple of challenges! I have a trick to share too!
I cut the car card shape from Hello Kitty Greetings and all the front layers. I cut 2 layers of the car front, wheels, light, Hello Kitty's arm, and bumper and pop dotted it to the original layers to get lots of dimension. I hand cut the sentiment banner and stamped the sentiment from My Pink Stamper's Boy Crazy stamp set.
My trick I want to share today is how the sentiment banner folds up! I love making cards like this but they're not very friendly when you try to put them into an envelope. Or you have to make custom envies for them. I made mine so it will fold up and fit into an A2 sized envelope.
I did this by mounting the sentiment banner to a brad that is sandwiched in between the layers. With the pop dots, it will move freely. So before I adhered the front car to the card base, I punched a hole under the back layer of the car and secured the banner to the car with a brad. Then I glued down the front to the card base, but not gluing around that side of the car or brad. This way it will move freely and you can fold it up!
I am going to enter this card into the following challenges:
1. My Craft Spot- Things That Go- Cars, planes, boats, etc.
2. Fantabulous Cricut- On The Go!- cars, planes, bikes, etc.
3. Little Scrap Pieces- Pink and or Purple
Thank for stopping in and taking a look! I hope you all understood my trick that I shared today. Have a great day!

Cruise Survival Kit

Hello everyone! I have a fun project to show you that I did for my Sister In Law...aka...my best friend. She is going on her first cruise next week for work. She gets PAID to go on a cruise! Lucky duck! LOL! This is a "just for fun" send off for her.
I made this Cruise Survival Kit for her. I cut the tote bag from TBBM and added some decorative paper and ribbon to it. The octopus was cut from Create A Critter and I stamped the face with a Peachy Keen Wide Eyed Kids face. The sentiment tag was printed off my computer and I used circle punches to get the tag. The inside is where I had lots of fun! I cut the sun and garbage can from Smiley Cards and stamped the faces with PK Happy Lashes and Happy New Year assortment. The bottle was cut from Slumber Party and I stamped the face with a PK Happy New Year face. The lip balm tag I cut by hand and stamped the lips and sentiment from PK's Kiss Me Leprechaun set. I hand wrote a little note on the back of each tag, all starting with " SO YOU DON'T..."
The sun/sunblock- "Get Scorched!"
The garbage can/pocket bac- "Catch Some Crazy Virus!"
The bottle/drink sticks- "Get Parched!"
I love how this turned out and I think it is so funny! I know she's going to love it and get a good laugh out of it too.
I am going to enter this into Peachy Keen's challenge this week which is a color inspiration from the following picture:

Have a great weekend and thanks for looking!