Fortune Cookie Tutorial

Today I am going to show you how I created these felt fortune cookies. They are so simple and adorable, not to mention they make the cutest gift for someone special! We made them for teacher's gifts for Valentines Day, but they would be great for any time of the year. First off I found the Chinese take out box pattern here. This is a small box that fits 2 cookies perfectly.

Supplies Needed:

*Felt of desired color

*Glue Gun

*Scissors

*Quotes 'fortunes'
First what we need to do is draw a 4" circle onto the felt. I used a sharpie because it works beautifully!
Cut out the circles. When doing this cut just inside your drawn circle. This eleviates any marker to show.
Lay your 'fortune' on the felt and using your glue gun add a thin line of glue leaving about half an inch on each side. This allows room for the fortune to be pulled out!
Then just fold over and let the glue set.

Next we need to flatten out the top of the felt. Using your finger just push it down to create a dent..lip..heck just flatten that baby ;)

Add a bead, ok a glob of hot glue onto one side of your 'dent'.

Then just fold it together and allow to dry. Warning from experience: Hot glue takes a little longer to dry on felt than it normally would. I don't know why, I am sure there is an awesome reason....I just know it's frusterating at times. (meaning I'm impatient)

And this is what they look like completed. And those fortunes just pull right out!

Wouldn't these make the cutest little gift?! I love how you can totally personalize your fortunes depending on the person. There are also many sites that have fortune cookie quotes if you would rather. Thanks so much for stopping in to visit me today. I hope to have a few more tutorials up soon!!!

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Candy Shoppe Designs Reveal - Cupids Arrow

The new Challenge is up at Candy Shoppe Designs. This challenge is for the single ladies ;) We were sent out on a mission by the lead Lollipop girl Lynnette to find some of Cupids arrows just for you and use them on a LO. Now that our mission is complete we are hoping you can use these arrows for inspiration!! The challenge is going on now through Feb 14th, so plenty of time to get your project in for a chance to win a fabulous piece of Blog Candy!

I found an arrow!!! This LO is all about my DD Kyrsten and her new found 'love' at school. Mind you she is only 5 years old, but seriously....how could you not love a boy when he tells you this:
"Tomax says I'm beautiful and he wants to marry me when we get all big and stuff like mommies and daddies. He's gonna be an Army man like daddies are and we are going to live happily ever after."
It just melted my mommy heart to hear that. All I could think about after her telling me this was the Reba Mcentire song 'She's in love with the boy' which I used as my title!

Oh, and I would like to introduce you to a wonderful new sketch artist I have recently discovered. She made this exclusive sketch just for me to use (although she did say that if anyone else wanted to use it that would be ok too) She is a wonderful person, about 50lbs, blonde hair, blue eyes...ok, ok, it's my daughter ;) She has decided that since I love sketches so much she would create some for me, and I think that is a brilliant idea!

So here you have it, Kayla's very first sketch:

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February Full reveal for JuJu Bee's!!

The day is here! I am so excited to share with you the full reveal of JuJu Bee's February kit. This kit is absolutely delicious and jam packed full of amazing product featuring Pink Paislee Cupid line! Check it out:

And here is what I have created with this kit so far and I have barely put a dent into it! Gotta love that :)

If you would like to get your pretty little hands on one of these fabulous kits then head on over to JuJu Bee's and rab one before they are sold out! This is seriously one kit that you do not want to miss!!

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JuJu Bee's FEB Kit sneaks & a Few LO's

Ohh, I am so excited to be sharing a few sneaks with you from the Amazing JuJu Bee's FEB Kit! This kit is absolutely beautiful and I just can not stop playing with it. If you look really close you can see tidbits of some Pink Paislee Cupid ;) I am totally loving this line and the kit is built around all those precious colors...just perfect to scrap those loved ones!

I also have some more LO's created with the DEC & JAN kits, which also feature some more delicious Pink Paislee! Can you tell I love Pink Paislee?! Hey, I have to support my fellow Missourians!!

This LO was created using the DEC kit. Isn't that Making Memories snowflake paper beautiful?! The minute I saw that paper and the wings from the Fancy Pants cut outs, I just knew what pictures I had to scrap! This LO is all about Kayla teaching her sister how to make Snow Angels in the first snow we have had since moving to WA!

This LO was also created with the DEC kit from JuJu Bee's. I had cut out all the journaling cards from the pp and later realized that I really wanted to use the reverse side of the paper. So what's a girl to do?! I patched them randomly back together and then sewed them down...with my new sewing machine!!! Whoo-hoo, thank you hubby for that little suprise! This was Koen first time EVER seeing snow. He didn't know what to think about that fluffy white stuff and lasted only about 5 minutes outside!

This LO is also about my little man Koen using the DEC kit. This year he became obsessed with Christmas!! It was the first time he acknowledged the holiday at all and really got into the spirit of things. Still over a month later he is walking around saying 'Ho, Ho, Ho". This is a typical picture I get of Koen...I call it his 'Happy say cheese for the camera' face. I think he has mastered the look!

This Simple LO was created using the JAN kit from JuJu Bee's. I kept it really simple from my typical LO's because I am totally in love with this picture of my DD. She looks so innocent and perfectly sweet and I wanted the focus of the LO to be the picture. Man, I love this little girl!!!

And my crazy LO from the JAN kit. Kyrsten broke her little arm on Jan 18th in 3 different places...and well, she's been feeling a little down lately. So one night after she went to bed I started working on this LO in hopes that it would cheer her up seeing how beautiful her cast really is. So I set out and tye dyed the lace using my homemade mist sprays....pulled apart all those pretty little prima flowers that come in the kit and misted them all....and used sharpie markers to color all the pearls. All to match her awesome Tye Dyed cast her amazing Doc. (went out of his way) to get her! She woke up the next morning and saw the LO and told me I was the Prettiest Princess Mommy in the entire world and she loved it with her heart. That right there made me feel like a scrapping hero (at least in her eyes) :)

Well, whew that was a long picture heavy post! Thanks for going along with me on my little LO journey! I just can't get enough of these kits...as you can probably tell :) If you would like to check out the kits for yourself please visit the JuJu Bee's store or blog... You really don't want to miss out on the FEB kit...seriously, I am ordering an extra myself!!


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Custom Pebble - Tutorial

Hello fellow beautiful scrappers! My beautiful friend Trisha from Sketch Inspiration has asked me to do some tutorials here and there for the site and how could I say no?! I love tutorials...I mean seriously love doing them!! So Today I have a tutorial on how to create your very own custom pebbles which is also posted over at Sketch Inspiration. I just love all those pretty little pebbles you can buy to add that special depth to your projects... I just hate to pay the prices for so few especially when I only end up liking and using a couple out of the package! So I got to looking at those bad boys and realized that they would be SO easy to make! I went to my local Michaels and picked up some clear glass flat backed pebbles - $2.49 for a bag of 20. Got on the computer and searched for images that I loved...printed those out onto white cardstock using my thumbnail option which is the perfect size. And then got busy making my pretty custom pebbles!

Here is how I did it:

Supplies needed:
Clear flat backed pebbles. (I used 1" and 1 1/4")
Your images/pictures
Glossy Accents
scissors

Then I simply layed my pebbles onto the pictures I printed to get the positioning I wanted.

Then traced around the pebble with a pencil for a guideline as to where to cut. I used pencil so I could go back in and erase the marks so they wouldn't show through the glass!

Then of course we just simply cut them out. And there we have it...the backs for our pebbles.

Next take some glossy accents and apply a glob to the center of your image. I used glossy accents because it dries completely clear and doesn't deflect from the glass effect we are going for. Plus that stuff can glue like no other!

Using your finger spread the glossy accents into a thin layer over your entire image. This is the only messy part of the entire process I promise :)

Then simply lay your pebble on top of the image. Using your fingers make sure to gently press out any air bubbles you see between the image and the glass. Start in the middle of the image and work out.

On this one I didn't use glossy accents for the glue. Rather I used Diamond Stickles and it sealed beautifully! I love the glittery effect that the glitter gives to the pebbles and you could use any color. Just one more way to create a custom pebble for your project!

I even used some vintage music sheet paper for one of the pebbles below. Love it! Turn rub ons into pebbles, pictures of your children, Or even just a sweet sentiment. The possibilities are endless!!! To create the 6 pebbles below it only took a matter of minutes. A quick, easy, and custom look for your projects at a VERY reasonable price!

If you are looking for some amazing sketches to play around with then Sketch Inspiration is a wonderful place to check out! There is a new sketch posted Sunday and Trisha has some Amazing sponsors lined up for each week! So head on over and check out the site. I promise you won't be disappointed!!

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Dirty Scraps - Challenge #2 reveal - Sister

How exciting is this?! My first DT reveal over at Dirty Scraps, I am beyond ecstatic!! This challenge blog is for real, and by that I mean it allows you to be real, scrap life - the good and bad, express yourself, be yourself!

The current challenge is simply this:

Dirty Challenge #2 - Scrap a pivotal point in your life. Scrap a page about that one changing moment that happened at some point in your life, whether it be a new baby, escape from abuse, a tragedy, a miracle....I don't care just get it on paper and remember it for what it is! It does not have to be a positive event, it can be anything that happened to you, by you or for you? Maybe it was an intervention, a breakthrough, someone, or something...just look deep and scrap it hard!
Now go get DIRTY!

Here is my take on the challenge:

I have to admit, this truly is the most difficult LO I have EVER created. The entire time I was working on it I was teared up and didn't think I would even finish, but I did! And that's what I love most about Dirty Scraps! It really is scrap therapy. I feel so much better now that I have actually taken the time to put my feelings onto paper. About 5 years ago I learned that I have another sister, one that my parents had given up for adoption on Nov. 19, 1987, the day she was born. This tore me up inside as my family is extreamly close. I know why my sister was given up for adoption (that's a completely different story for another time) But that doesn't stop the pain I feel for living the past 28 years of my life not knowing someone that is a HUGE part of myself. I wonder what she is like, does she look like myself and our other sisters, is she ok, does she even know that I exist?! I do know that she kept her name that my father had asked for, Crystal. I do know that she is now 22 years old, but that's ALL I know other than the fact that I love her and one day I hope to meet her.

Here is a close up of my little embellie cluster. I just love that zipper flower. I have seen them all over the place and just had to make one for myself. I am currently working on a tutorial on how to create several different styles of zipper flowers, so excited for that!

I encourage you to head over to Dirty Scraps and check it out. There is so much passion on this challenge blog, and the ladies are just wonderful and supportive! Also make sure to check out the other DT memebers LO's. They are remarkable!



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Sketch Inspiration - Sketch #8 - JuJu Bee's Sponsored

Trisha has posted a new sketch over at Sketch Inspiration and it's absolutely beautiful! This week JuJu Bee's is the sponsor so that meant that I got the priviledge of working with the Sketch right along with the Fabulous Jan Kit!

Here is my take on Sketch #108:

If you would like a chance to win a beautiful kit from JuJu Bee's then head on over to Sketch Inspiration and show your interpretation of this amazing sketch:
Why you are there why not check out my latest tutorial on creating your own Custom Pebbles! I will be posting the tutorial on my blog soon as well!

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