A re do....

I love looking though images of other peoples scrapbooking rooms....i am a nosy person! lol...

Anyway i re did mine a while ago when moving my supplies downstairs and changed a few things around. I decided to show more things, rather than hide them away, my reasoning is...if i can see it, i am more likely to use it...well that is the theory we will see if it works...

I pulled out all my paints and sprays ( yes i do own them) and places them in boxes so i can see them...

all my embossing powers, stickles, paints etc have gone in these boxes...now i know the boxes are not pretty, but i wanted to plastic see through so i could see what i have...
The next shelf down...

Starting from the left:


Threads, Papermaze workshop buttons, thicker threads ( string etc) and two jars of papermaze workshop flowers)

Starting from the left again...these two jars hold my very long length of ribbon ( too long for my new holders) the next two boxes, top one has white thread ( which i use all the time) and my needles. The bottom box holds all the pre made cards and big journaling cards from American Crafts. The next box holds my spell binders which i showed a little while ago...an idea from the blog paper in Bloom...

I adhered mine with double sided tape, but after a while that has become unsticky...so my scrappy friend Jo came up with the idea of magnetic strips, which i will be doing!
I have seen lots of people set up their Martha Steward punches in a line, i always thought that looked pretty, and as i had a spare shelf left over i did it...

i use the border punches more now than i did before!
Next up my sparkling shelf...

these two jars on the left are little clear see through stones...so pretty! i bought these from a florist wholesale place near me, the big tubs this size were only £2.50!!!!!!!
and my big tub of gems! some are mine and some are from the workshops for papermaze ( incase you thought there was an insane amount of gems!!!)

I have kept my buttons the same way...

I have changed the way that i store my ribbons, again i had them stored away all rolled up in jars, i couldnt see what i wanted so i didnt use them...so i decided to go with a different way, that i know lots of people do it...

The only thing with this was, the real hanging bits of plastic that you can buy already made to hang your ribbons on was going to mount up in money if i had bought enough for all my ribbons, so again with the help of my scrappy friend Jo ( who lent me the correct punch) i made my own and hung them all up...

i know that the real ones have three slots in, but doing two was easier!!!!! You dont even want to know how long it took me to iron all the creases out of my ribbon, make these cardboard bits and hang it all up! TO say i was a tad bored by the end would be an understatement!!!!
My embellishments are still stored the same...

the 6 boxes on the left there are different to the others...so starting from the left boxes and starting from the top they hold...
top left: the newest Margarita line from American Craft, all waiting for me to use for my projects next month.
middle left: all my inks, blocks etc
bottom left: one of the boxes holding my Jillibean Soup supplies

top right: holds all my xmas, and Halloween supplies, not by manufacturer just all put into a box
Middle right: a box full of birthday stuff, sticker, embellishments etc
Bottom Right: all my cards and tags i made, waiting to be used.

Someone asked me the other day how i store my pattern paper...i do it like this, every paper line i have, i put into one of these plastic 12 by 12 bags...

I am lucky to live near a LSS that has a good supply of these!!!!, they then go in my cropper hoppers, not in any particular order, i suppose they should go in manufacturer order but i never got around to doing that.

any single sheets i have, i put into a cropper hopper on its own...

well there you have it, any questions, leave them in the comments section and i will answer them, i was supposed to be scrapbooking all week but my dear son has come down with a horrible cold, so i am on mummy duties all week!

Bloom and grow...

Morning all...i am back today to show you something that i made for the Jillibean soup blog which you can find here...

I have a big package of little pegs that i love to use when making little presents for people...so i used them this time on the little project i made for my little cousin.

i started out with a little matchbox template and went from there...

and the inside...

Here is how i did the inside...

 to see a list of supplies visit the Jillibean blog! I have been shifting my scrapbooking room around the last few days, trying to jump start some mojo...so will share the different bits i have done later in the week!

I want to make...

Are they not just beautiful!!! i want to make some of these with some scrapbooking supplies, something that i can put on the shelf in my room? anyone done this?

 I want to make one of these!!!! gorgeous..here is the blog that it came from .....http://agnieszka-scrappassion.blogspot.com/

 THis gorgeous canvas.... i want to make one of these....here is the blog that it came from... http://youhadmeatbonjourblog.blogspot.com

I dont have a link for this one, but boy are those flowers gorgeous! i want to use this idea on a page!

same as these birds!!! You can find it here

and the last one today...you can find the link to it here

I have bought 4 little canvases because of this photo...not sure what i am going to do with them yet though.....I love pinterest!!!!!

cards etc....

It is my turn for cards up on the Jillibean soup blog today..here are mine...i did this with some small strips of paper that i have left over...

Here they are individually...

and the other one...

thanks for looking! xxx

Birthday reminder...

My post for my step by step re appeared in my dashboard the other day....so i have re posted it below....

For my project a few months ago, i had to make a project using the new Birthday line called Confetti from American Crafts...

I came up with this...

I had an old transparency laying around that i wanted to use and this was perfect! Here are some detailed shots...

I added some small stitching marks to the bottom of the white card....added detail!

I hate trying to photo transparency...it is really hard!!!! Thanks for looking!

New American crafts...step by step....

The new line from American Crafts turned up on my doorstep last week....and it is gorgeous! I am going to France for two weeks this summer ( including DisneyLand Paris) and i cannot wait to use this line on a mini album...it is called Margarita....

I decided to make something a bit bigger with this line......so i went to my local shop called 'The Range' and had a scout about it...there i found this...

pretty huh! and only £3.99.......i liked it as it is but i could see it could be changed to something a bit nicer....so i set about changing it...i have done a step by step of how i did it...

First off i wanted to make some magnets to use on it...so i grabbed some pegs...

I cut out a strip of pattern paper, the right size to cover one of the fronts of it...and it looks like this...

I then wanted to jazz it up a bit... i wanted to add something summery onto the top...this paper from the line was perfect....so i cut some out...

and adhered them to the pegs....

I then cut out a small flower from this paper...

this is what it looks like...

i then added some little gems...

i made four of these...here are three of these...

i then added a magnetic strip to the back...

I then turned my attention to the actual board...I covered the top part with the pattern on it with a piece of paper from this line...

I then wanted it to have a little pocket...so i cut out another strip of the same paper to make this pocket...folded over a strip...like so...

on the left handside fold i added some double sided tape...this is the bit that is going to be adhered to the board...

I then adhered this strip to the board and folded the edges around so it stuck fast...this is the view from the front..i added a border strip for decoration....

the edges were folded over and secured to the back...

I then wanted to make some notecards, something that the magnetic butterflies to hold...i cut out some pieces of paper...

i then added this border punch across the top of each of the squares...

I then added a stamp on the top...

i did lots, all of different sizes....

I then wanted to make some little butterfly magnets, these were easy, i took some smaller pegs..

I then added some more butteflies ( what else) using the Martha Steward classic butterfly punch...

they ended up looking like this...

then i had a brain wave! i wanted a few more magnets ( just incase ) so i grabbed these...

On the back they have little sticky pads...

so i took them off...
and added a magnetic strip...

and volia i had something new...something to keep my activities during the summer holidays in one place...

 and some close ups...

I hope you enjoyed this step by step...i had a blast making it....