Jaded Blossom Valentine Treats Sneak Peek!

Hi Everybody!
I am so ridiculously excited to be doing my first post for Jaded Blossom!  They are a new company that creates products for mostly party favors!  How awsome is that?!?!  With 4 kids, we always have party invites, decorations, class treats and more to make.  Then there are the thank gifts that are always in need!  With a larger family, making these things saves a ton of money (which is always good!).  And now onto the sneak peek:

I decided to make a Valentine's Day button. I know my husband will wear this proudly on Valentine's Day! (Only in the privacy of our own home, and where no one can see him, lol!)  While I made this one for my husband, I also plan to make other ones for my kids.  I thought these would be fun for them to wear to school.  These also might be the treat we hand out for their classes.  Fun and different!  Here are the details:

*Art Philosophy cartridge -  1 3/4" circle, scallop circle

*Martha Stewart scoreboard - rosettes

*EK Success - Border punch

*Timeless Twine - Valentine's Day Bakers Twine

*hot glue gun

*Jaded Blossom Sneak Peek!

*I hand drew the little white hearts for a little added touch :)

*This twine is soooo perfect for all your Valentine treats!

 Ugly picture warning!!

*I wanted to show how I did the back.  I just took a regular safety pin, opened it up, and then hot glued just the top portion.  I really wanted to use what I had and not go buy special pins, or clips!

*This was my test button, so the backs of the rest of them will be MUCH prettier!

I hope you liked my button, and will make some of your own.  If you'd like to use this same stamp set, you'll have to wait until Friday (plenty of time to make some for Valentine's Day!) for the Jaded Blossom Stamp Release Blog Hop! .  TFL, and hope everyone has a chance to craft today :O)

Acrylic Stamp Storage and a Sneak Peek

Hi Everybody! 
I have been thinking of how to store my rapidly increasing amount of acrylic stamps. Pink By Design has been putting out so many good ones, I need to make more room!  She will be releasing more this Friday!  You can watch that on the Ustream channel HERE.  I had been keeping them in drawers, but they were not fitting anymore. I wanted to find a way to store them, but not invest in a whole system since I tend to change my mind a lot. So I decided to alter a paper storage idea for stamps. Here's what I came up with:

• You start out with a medium size priority mailing box. These are free at the post office! But don't get greedy, just take what you'll use :o)
• Measure the height of the stamps that you'll be storing against the box.
• You want to cut a little below the height of the stamps so you can see the tops.

• Cut cardstock in your color of choice to match the height of the box. (I'm partial to Cricut green!)

• Some of my stamps sets had the names at the top of the package. For those that didn't, I just took a permanant marker and wrote the name at the top.
• (The newer sets from Pink By Design have the name directly on the stamp storage sheet at the bottom.)
• I also put them in alphabetical order.
• If this ends up working out for me, I will probably make divider tabs that have each letter of the alphabet on them.
• This design makes it easy to just flip through the sets to find the stamp I'm looking for.

• Here's how it turned out! (The list of supplies I used is at the end of the post.)

This is the front........

• This is the back.
• The Crop 'Til You Drop set from Pink By Design was perfect to decorate this crafty box!
• Do ya see my sneak peek?

• So true, so true.........

• Can't forget to decorate the sides!
• I also stamped with my personalized stamp from PSA Essentials.

Supplies

• mailing box
• 12" x 12" cardstock
• Pink by Design Crop Til You Drop set
• Pink By Design sneak peek of an upcoming set!
• Peachy Keen Stamps = Wide Eyed Kids Face Assortment, Laughy Taffy Face Assortment, Happy New Year Assortment, Happy Lashes Assortment
• Cosmo Cricket Pixie-licious line
  
  
  

  So there you go, I hope you like it! You can also cut the box a little lower, like for Peachy Keen Stamps. Depending on how long you take to decorate it, this can take as little as 10 minutes or 45 like I did! The best part is, if it doesn't work out, or you just don't like it, it doesn't cost anything! And if you do like it, you can make as many boxes as you need. TFL, and I hope everyone has a chance to craft today :o)