Shoebox Thursday by Darlene

For today's shoebox project Darlene had a nice 4th of July card for us to make. We used lots of supplies for it.

Everything Eleanor SU's set with night of navy (swirl) ink; Somebunny I love MFT's set with night of navy ink (stars); stars4you The Stamps of Life's set with night of navy (stars) & real red (message) inks. The circles were precut for us, one was a punch the other a die; the stars were all different punches. The solid blue & red stars were mounted with foam all others were mounted flat as well as the cirlces

4th of July

Happy 4th of July

My favorite brother-in-law is having a birthday on Tuesday and since my sister is off today we are celebrating his birthday. For the little treat I made this tic tac container the Uncle Sam's hat is by Stampendous colored with Copic Markers

I made this card a while back figure it was a good day to show it :0)

The message is by Savvy Stamps and used different embossing folders

Shoebox Thursday

For today's shoebox project Darlene had a 4th of July card. The idea came from Pinterest. She actually had two samples one was plain background and a ribbon across a top corner and bottom opposite side corner and the other had Darice fireworks background BUT when I stamped my image wasn't thinking that the folder seemed TO ME going the other way so decided to emboss with swiss dots, just to give it texture . Also her sample had glossy accent on all the stars but one of the ladies added a jewel on the stars I like her idea but I wanted to criss cross the colors so I added a blue rhinestone to the red stars and a red rhinestone to the blue star also I added the rhinestone to the length of the word which is a stamp from Stamps of Life. the hexagon and star punches are SU

Shoebox Thursday

For today's shoebox project Linda had a patriotic card. We used SU's Everything Eleanor stamp set and another set for the words that don't know :0( Unfortunately the ink pads that we were using were bad or something as it took forever to dry and we kept smearing. The banner and stars were done with SU punches. I think the twine was also SU

Frappucchino bottles

Today we got to see Santa. Since my hands weren't well enough I couldn't do my projects but got everything to work on them as soon as I can.

I had about 120 empty frappucchino bottles to give away but only got rid off 48 as the other ladies didn't know what they could do with them so I decided to post what I have done and a couple that were gifts. Maybe I can get people interested in these bottles otherwise they'll be going to the recycle :0)

This was the first time I have seen using this idea. Liz had a Stampin' Up  Retreat which I join just the last day. This was one of the projects

This one was a gift for the baby shower of a cousin-in-law

These two were gift. Candee had been the recipient of my bottles and she did these for a Christmas Bazaar

            

This one was for St Patrick's day, I know I should had taken pictures when they were full of candy or cookies :0) I got the hats at JoAnn Fabrics

For this Easter one  I bought the little box of eggs at JoAnn's it came with assortment of colored eggs so I gave my friends their favorite color and it was full of cookies, The egg is glued to moss

This one for 4th of July were used as a party favor. The hats are from Hobby Lobby and the ribbon from Michaels

These two were different years for Halloween. The mason jar is a die by either SU or Spellbinders

     

This one was for Día de Reyes or Epiphany. The embossing folder is by Cuttlebug

          

This one I was just playing around and wrapped twine around it. Thought it would make a nice manly gift

Last but not least since I had too many bottles when I redid my craft room I decided to use some as organizing containers. I label on top, the circle punched was with color (mostly the color of what was in)  and then I printed what was in and punched out with scallop circle this way I don't have to get the bottle out of the box to see what's inside. Also I label on the bottle itself with company's name and product with ID # so I know what to put on my recipe :0) It works great for candy dots, flower soft, paper flowers and any other embellishment. I love the fact they're clear and all the same color :0)

               

 

                

 

I also made one for my used blades. Since you can't just drop your dull blade on the garbage I decided to just keep in here and when it gets full I can safely dispose of the blades without problem that someone might cut themselves :0) 

      

I have done others but didn't keep a photo :0) normally these bottles are gifts specially as Thank you for my sister & Brother-in-law and just because for Bret