A Little Jar of Mojo

Are any of you like me, sometimes I can craft like mad then all of a sudden my crafting mojo completely disappears, and not even a good mooch through Pinterest or You Tube helps. Well I think I have found the answer ..... a jar full of my favourite crafting mojo ideas.

All you will need is an empty jar ( I have used a large YC jar)
and some large ice lolly sticks (or tongue depressors - box of 100 for £1.49 at Boots) a few scraps of coordinating paper and some ribbon.

To make the jar label I used a couple of Spellbinders dies (Labels 25 and Fancy Tags 2) and a Memory Box alphabet die.

Label was simply matted/layered and attached to the jar with tacky glue.

I then set about covering the sticks in paper (the sticks were half an inch wide so it was easy to cut strips to fit with my paper trimmer) I then distressed all the edges with TH Victorian Velvet Distress ink.

I then chose a few of my favourite crafty pastimes and used the Memory Box alphabet die to cut out the letters for each stick. (If you wanted to make it a little easier on yourself - you could just print the words out and glue them onto your sticks)

I then used my Crop-a-dile to punch a hole in the end of each stick.

I threaded/tied pieces of co-ordinating ribbon through the holes in the sticks and added a couple of small Magnolia tags with more ribbon around the jar.

Hey presto ... I have a jar of mojo to choose from, when my mojo goes into hiding! 

Hope you like it as much as I do - Happy Crafting xx

Alphabet Challenge - Letter H

 Totally out of my comfort zone with this!  Not only did I play with my Dylusions, I also used a mask and some Perfect Pearl Mists (which are not that clear on the photo) ... am trying to be more adventurous with the Craft Barn challenge, but must say I am finding it really hard!

Little Surprise for the ATC Swap Group

I am looking after a small ATC Swap Group on Facebook, There are 13 members including myself  and the official swap begins in March. But as a little surprise for all the member I have made ATC's that I have sent out as a little welcome the group for this year.

I used some new crafty stash that I treated myself to from Stampin Up (my first ever  SU purchases) I used a heart embossing folder, a heart stamp, a heart die and the with love stamp that was a free gift with a magazine a while back. The backing paper was distressed with Victorian Velvet and everything was simply matted and layered onto the ATC.

 

My first venture into the world of SU!

As some of you may know I recently discovered Pinterest and a few weeks back I came across some stunning cards made with a hexagonal embossing folder by Stamping Up. I have resisted purchasing crafty items from SU until now, but I fell totally in love with this embossing folder. I placed an order through a lovely Face book friend and a few days later I received an envelope crammed with crafty goodness! Finally go around to playing with the embossing folder this evening and made this card.

 

I embossed some card stock in different shades of yellow and cut the hexagons out, and then stuck them to the white embossed card stock to resemble honey in a hive. I then stamped and coloured some bee images with a gold promarker and added a generous amount of glossy accents. While they were drying I used a memory box alphabet die to cut out the letters for the word "Believe" and hey presto a card was born xx

Alphabet Challenge - Letter E

Have had such a busy weekend craft-wise, that I didn't spend as much time as I would have liked on my alphabet challenge this time.

Simply found a lot of eye pictures, coloured them in and added glossy accents also added a photo of my eye. I will try harder next time Craft Barn ... I promise!!

Hey Mr DJ .....

My baby brother is 40 very soon and loves to DJ in his spare time and I was chuffed to bits to come across some paper with some headphones on it!

With the addition of a blank cd and some lovely wooden embellishments (bought from Pink Tulip, made by Candy Box Crafts) covered in stickles I have made a birthday card for  him. The spooky thing is that the silhouette head really does look like my brother!

 

Birthday Card for My Brother

Made an 8 x 8 birthday card for my brother this afternoon.

The backing paper is a sheet from the Papermania Bookprint collection. I chose the Italian paper as my brother's wife is Italian and he has lots of Italian connections. Originally the paper was black and white, but I distressed it with my trusty Vintage Photo distress ink - I don't know if you are like me but I use that one on everything! lol

I used a chipboard pocket watch from studio 490's art parts and gilded it with indigo blu gilding flakes. I then cut a watch face out from some Bo Bunny 12x12 paper and glued this behind the chipboard to make a watch.

I then added a couple of tickets (also distressed with Vintage photo), a brass embelishment and a sentiment.  Am quite pleased with it!

 

Aphabet Challenge - Letter C

My second page for the Alphabet challenge by The Craft Barn. Not so happy with these pages shouldn't have used brown ink around the words, think it has spoilt it  a bit  ... but hey , will know for next time !

If you want to have a go, click on the Craft Barn hoto on the tright anf it will take you to their page,

Perpetual Calendar

I bought a Tando Perpetual calendar kit a while back (before xmas!) and have finally got around to putting it all together.

The kit costs between £12 and £15 (depending on where you buy it from!) and comes with the straws, bamboo skewers and instructions. You will need to purchase a piece of florists foam though, as it is not included in the kit.

I used a selection of 12 x 12 papers from the Hot Off The Press "Serendipity" collection to decorate the pot, flowers and tags. LOve these papaers as they are so cheery. Then I used a memeory box die to cut out the letters for the days of the week and the month - and yes it took ages lol

I added a little bot of fake grass to the inside of the pot - this too was cut using a Memory Box die, and added paper flowers onto the chipbaord ones.

The pot is approx 6 inches wide x 4.5 inches tall, and the whole thing stands approx 12 inches tall once the flowers have been added.

I plan to keep this on my desk in my craft room as I can never remember what the date is - think it is a sign I am getting old!

 

 

No crafting tonight but had a huge tidy up!

Decided to have a huge sort out and tidy up this evening and boy have I worked hard!

 

 

nice clear desk

 

lower shelves

 

 

upper shelves

 

Promarker storage, ring binders for stamp storage and 12 x12 pads

 

magnetic sheets on a cork notice board for die storage

 

under desk storage (all free from off freecycle!)

 

back of the door storage

 

stickles and liquid pearls

buttons

 

 

more buttons

 



 

bits and bobs

 

more bits and bobs

my candi 

 

my promarkers

 

some of the empty containers left after my sort out!

 

Can't wait to do something crafty tomorrow night!!!