Back To School Book Worm Volunteer Notebook!

My girls have been in school for 5 weeks already! It may be September but here in Arizona we are still seeing temperatures of 108 so it still feels like summer! 

If all goes as planned, this will automatically post because we will be installing my Daughter's furniture today! We had a set back with the paint colors, which originally were watermelon green and pink. However, once on the wall the green was really cartoon looking so it was back to square one. After many paint samples she finally picked Mint Majesty! We are thinking yellow for accent but that will be decided after the furniture gets moved in!

My Daughter needed a way to track her volunteer hours, so I made her this altered mini notebook. Her requests was that it had lots of ribbon on the side and her name so no one would steal it.  (She never recovered from when someone stole the bookmark I made her in 1st grade!)

Here is her book:

Before:

After:

Book worm from April Showers Cricut Cartridge
Megan letters from Plantin Schoolbook
Papers from my School scrap pile
Icicle Stickles
All ribbons are from my ribbon scrap jug
The Twinery Twine: Peapod, Hand sewed X's
Red Brad

Entering into:
Amuse Studio: Back to School
The Sisterhood of Crafters: Back to School
Scrappy Moms: Gone Buggy
 Crafty Creations: Back to School
 Just B Creative: linky party 
Dl Art: linky party
Lil Red Wagon: Back to School
The Twinery: Put an X on it

Back to school notebook!

I altered this little notebook for my Daughter's Teacher. I love how cute it turned out!

 Before:

Misc school papers

Worm from Create A Critter

Notebook paper from Locker talk using Cricut markers

Paper Clip from Office Stash

Peachy Keen PK 754 Critter Faces

Stickles

Glossy Accents for the glasses

Entering into:

My Pink Stamper: Back to school (not a card)

Fantabulous: Back to school with letters and Numbers 

Cute Card Thursday: Office Supply

Cooking with Cricut: Back to school

Peachy Keen: LFIF Back to School

Quick Quotes: Back to school

Tim Holtz Inspired Picture Frame, and Blog Candy!!

Here is the recap!

I truly felt inspired after meeting Tim Holtz! Here is a photo I  had taken with him!

Of course I wanted to make an altered picture frame for this photo all Tim Holtz-ified!

I made sure every piece that I added to this frame meant something special to me!

All the words:
Live Life!
Journey!

Succeed!

Dream!

Just be yourself!

The pearls and skittles remind me of my cute-sie side
Buttons: to keep it all together

Lace: to use my old stash

The circle in the square glass: To try something new

Bee: I will always be abusybee

Key: Memory

Flower: Everything is beautiful
Clock: Time always moves forward, never back!

Change is good!

Mirror: To reflect

I really felt now was the perfect time to try something new! So with many many supplies in hand I went for it!

I'm not sure if I used them correct or not, some I read the directions some I just tried!

Decoupage, crackle accent, glossy accents, distress crackle paint, stickles, Tim Holtz embellishments, 

alcohol ink, perfect pearls, distress ink

And Now is the perfect time for my give-a-way!!!

It is a Tim Holtz idea-ology set of 96 tickets AND it is autogrpahed by Tim Holtz!! He was so nice to do this for me!! Want to see the videos of the meet and greet?? Click here!

All you have to do is leave a comment here, be a follower and post my candy on your sidebar or blog about it!! Yippee!!!

One comment per person please!

** I will ship this to Canada, but it may take me longer to ship and I can not be responsible for Custom Fees etc.****

I will pick the winner the week of March 7!!


And Getting Cricky with KAndrew is having a Tim Holtz challenge so of course I am entering this frame!!

Altered Item!

I have so many items that i have stuck in my closet to be altered one day so when Stephanie over at Always Crafting posted her challenge this week I was thrilled to be checking a thing to do off my list!

I had this neat container that came with nail polish and stuff inside, I loved the clear sides and pop off top so I saved it:

Now that I have all my Christmas supplies out I thought this would be perfect to store my Holiday ribbons, I  used strips of paper to cover the pink sides and top,  I punched a hole for the top ribbon and added some fun Holiday foam stickers. Now my Holiday ribbon will not get mixed in with my regular ribbon!

Blog Hop Day 5 !!

Welcome Blog Hop Day 5!!

My girls have to read tons of books for school! They have an advanced reader program and you have to stick with a strict schedule to complete the reading requirements and every book has a level, a quiz number and a point value. Because I am a control freak, I labeled all our books with post it notes and wrote out all the info and stuck it to the inside of the book. ( I know I know I have a problem!) Anyways~~ I noticed them using my post it note as a book mark, and my problem with that is by the time they get to the end of the book, the post it note is no longer sticky and is lost.... so I decided to make them special book marks to use instead!!

These were fun and easy to make! All you need is some jumbo paper clips, some liquid glue and about a cut about 1 1/2" cut both ways.

I used DoodleCharms for the Apple cut at 1 1/2".
I cut it once in green for the leaf, then in brown for the stem, and then again in red.
I then hit the flip button and re-cut all the cuts so that I could glue the apple together around the paper clip and have both sides covered.
I used Scotch Quick dry adhesive to keep it all together.

I also did the same thing using Paper Pups, since our school mascot is the tiger, but because we are an elementary school we use the tiger paw and our colors are orange and black so I made these for my girls, and the apples for the teachers.

If you are here for the blog hop for the first time, please click here to be directed to the original posting, The original posting is the only comments that will be entered for the blog candy! I am the last blog for the hop!

Our hop will soon be coming to an end! I hope you check back in!
In case you get lost along the way here is a list of blogs to hop along:
Just click on the names!

Georgiana at Carson's Cricut Creations

Dorcas at 4 Crafty Angels

Cheryl at Cards by CG

Jen at Purple Scrapbooker

Carri at abusybee (That's Me!)

Multi-tasking: My Creative time: Use Paisley with a back to school theme. I don't have paisley but the Apple from DoodleCharms should qualify!