Travelers Journal - mixed media

I made my own mixed media travelers journal using bits and pieces of scrap paper and do digital stamp fussy cuts.

Knome hanging decorations

 This is a fun craft to do with your kids or even adults.  I took a cardboard wrapping paper roll after I used all the wrapping paper and cut it into inch size pieces.  I purchased off white / creme yarn at Michaels for 3.99 and used a coupon and paid half price.  I cut 100 pieces into 10 inches.  Each cardboard piece needs 10 pieces of yarn.  You have to fold the yarn in half and put the loop on the inside of the cardboard and wrap it around the cardboard.  Once you have all 10 pieces wrapped around take a piece of yarn and pull the 'crazy hair' together and tie a knot around it.  Next you will need to cut the yarn hair and make a nice hair cut so that the yarn is all even.  Next you need a hot glue gun and a puffy nose and glue it on the cardboard rim.  Inside the hat you need to stuff a few cotton balls in so it puffs up to look like a head. Once you have a few of these done you can use a longer piece of yarn and string it through the hat part of the Knome and hang them up around your house!  Enjoy!

A beach theme holiday gift for my bestie this year!

 This entire gift cost me less than 25.00.  I purchased the hanging board from Hobby Lobby for 10.00 - the most expensive item in this gift!  I went to the dollar store and purchased one bag of sea stone and I only needed 1 bag and had extra left over, along with the blue mini clothes pins. The burlap lace was purchased in Michael's at 50% off and paid $3.50 for a roll, the electric lights were also on clearance and I paid $1.99 for each one.  I used hot glue and burned my fingers a few times when putting the stones in place but this took about 1 hour to put together.  This is for her beach house, she wants to hang the yearly beach tags as a memory for each year they are in the new house.  Such a great memory over the years.

Miniature gifts

So every year we always do at least one prank gift fr my nieces and this year is a doosie!! I found miniature Amazon box, USPS box, a pizza box and small gift box printables.  I printed hm and the. Cut them all out by hand instead of using a machine - that was mistake number one! I couldn’t find my bone folder so help with folding on the lines so I used a butter knife and that worked great!