LaCueva Craft Show

We had a wonderful craft show this past weekend at La Cueva High School, had a huge turn out and almost doubled our sales from last year.  We have one more show this year and then we start restocking our inventory for next year.  I was sure I had fired enough bottles to last a few years but found myself having to fire 2 loads this week. lol
    

We are making journals this year and when I ran out of ideas I CASED my own cards. I found a few cards I really liked and made journals to match.

JournalCASED Card 

 JournalCASED Card 

Bookmarks Spring Is Here!!!

How cute are these!!!!!

What you need to make them:

12” black elastic
Rubber band hair tie
Silk Flower
Buttons
Needle and thread
These work well for the journal size books but can also go larger of smaller because of the elastic. They can be made with ribbon and will still have a bit of stretch because of the hair tie. I have seen these a few places so not sure who I CASEd them from but they are really cute and easy, I made all of these last night while I watched TV.

On the ones I Cased they used the flower to hold the hair tie (just looped around the flower), I found it easier to sew a button on the back so the hair tie just hooks around it.

Mother's Day Craft Show

I found these at Target yesterday for a dollar, and knew I needed to make something for our May craft show with them. Here is the 1st try (as Gina would say "my prototype") lol I learned what not to do so hope the next one will come out a little better. I am also going to make a SVG file for it soon.

Baby Journal

Ok so my niece is pregnant with her 1^st long awaited baby so I just had to make this one for her. I love the journal I kept when I was awaiting my kid’s to arrive. 

Wedding Journal

Ok well this is not a Mother’s Day gift but I got to thinking, June is a very popular wedding month so had to make one of these too.

Journal

This is a covered composition notebook turned into a journal. They sold well at Christmas so I thought I would make just a few for this show.

The flowers are from a lei I had laying around.

More little notebooks

More little notebooks, I am trying to make a few of a lot of different items for this next craft show. I think because I really don’t like to make the same thing over and over again.lol

Mini notebook covers

Still trying to think of fun little inexpensive gifts for kid’s to give mom for Mothers Day.  I think these will work well, and they sold very well at the Christmas craft show.

Fun little matchbook post it note holder

This one is to go with the post from yesterday. It also came from the $1.00 bin at Michael's. I will sale them for just a few dollars and think they will be great for little kid's to give mom.

Mother's Day gifts

The next craft show we will be doing is in May and has a Mother’s Day theme.  I thought these would be a cute little inexpensive gift for kiddo’s to give to mom. The little memo pad is from Michael’s $1.00 bin.  I removed the magnets from the back before I covered it and them put them back on so it could be placed on the refrigerator.

Kiln still running like crazy

Lemon and Lime tray

Spoon rest/cheese ball tray

Cheese ball tray

Just a few I finished today.

Halloween

 I had a little time to play today, these are all cased but I really don't remember where I got them all from but I love them! I was going to play for the rest of the day and track down where I CASED these from but, I just got a call, my oldest son has lost the only set of keys to his truck in the lake so I am driving 3-4 hours to pick him up and take him to the Dodge shop some place in Texas and hope they can make a key with the vin #. Wish me luck and I hope everyone has a great rest of the weekend

1st try at glass slumping

Ok well I am one of those people that have to just give things a try. When I was in Dallas a few weeks ago 2 of my cousins had told me about this wine bottle cheese trays their neighbors make. I had never heard of melting wine bottles into anything of use.lol When I got home I googled and found out it was called glass slumping and you can buy molds to make the glass into shapes. Now I didn’t want to invest much into this because I wasn’t even sure my kiln still worked. It’s been like 15 years that it has just sat in the garage. Well yesterday I dug it out and got really excited to see it is still in great shape and working. I tried the 1st bottle… too tall, 2nd.. again too tall now I was not thinking this was going well at all anymore. But here is my favorite wine made here in New Mexico and if I lay it just right it will fit. There are a few things I need to change and work out but for my first time ….. not a bad little cheese tray.
I will be back to paper craft soon…. Well I hope soon. I am fishing in my 1st pro bass tournament this weekend. My oldest son asked me to be his partner and how could I say no to that. Wish me luck and I pray I catch at least a few fish.
Have a great weekend.

Glass Bricks

Here is my first try at the glass bricks. I found the bricks at Hobby lobby after Christmas sale at 50% off so only paid $5.00 for it. The lights (20 lights per strand) are from Walmart for $.37 at the end of the season. I have a few new ideas for more of these so you will be seeing more of these for sure

More Baby Shower things

The longer the shower is put off the more I make for it! I hope all this stuff fits in the car so I can get it where ever the shower is going to be…. Or we could just have it here…. Now that is a good idea!!!
These are covers for candy bars I printed out. The back has some really cute stuff on it that I copied from a website so I won't show it here but trust me it is very cute.

Mini Notebook cover tutorial

I was asked over on SCS for the directions for this little notebook cover so I thought I'd post it here too. I am almost ready for balloon fiesta, doing the last of the food shopping today after Robin and I go to breakfast. I know this is our walking day but we are starting the party early.lol Have a great rest of your week.

4 ½” x 8 ½” Pumpkin Pie card stock score at 2 ½”, 2 ¾”, 5 ¾”and 6”
4 3/8” x 3” designer Paper (DP)
2” x 2” White card stock (CS)
2 ¼’ x 2 ½ “Pixie Pink card stock (CS)
2 ½” x 2 ¾” Old Olive Card Stock (CS)
DSP Tablet topper 3”x 2”
1. Fold on score lines, wrap around the notepad and sticky strip together adhere the 4 3/8 x 3 “ DSP on the side with the seam of the wrapper, this will be the front.
2. Stamp the image on the white CS. Adhere to the 2 2/2” x 2 ½” CS and adhere the 2 ½” x 2 ¾” piece of CS. Adhere this to front of notepad wrapper.
3. Adhesive the tablet topper DP to notepad. (I use any type of glue I have on hand).
4. Punch ½ of a Scallop Circle Punch in (DS) paper, attach to the center top of tablet.
5. Use the Crop a dile to put a whole through the top of the notepad, insert ribbon and tie.

Tic Tac Box

Tic Tac box holders for the craftshow.... Or my kids stockings.

CASEd

Well I have been on vacation all week and finely had time to play today. I only had a mammogram to do this morning. Glad to have that out of the way for another year. I cut a few trees and bushes in the front yard and pulled the weeds until it got a little warm then up stairs I went. I worked with my cricut and made these first two cards. They were fast and easy. I wanted another fast and easy project so I turned to this little journal purse. The original can be found HERE. The black and white one is not covered, that is the way it came. I just added a pocket to cover the logo on the front and back. I did cover the inside of the covers. These are fast and sooooooooooo cute. Thanks Becky.