Day 44

Today's craft is pretty funny.  Well the outcome is anyway. 

I have this picture of a field of sunflowers that I enjoy and decided to make it into a Shrinky Dink magnet.  I printed it onto the Shrinky Dink paper with no problem.  It started going down hill when I cut it out.  The cutter I used skipped on the edges, so I had to use regular scissors to trim it.  Apparently while I was cutting I must have had a seizure or something because I went all over the place and though it didn't look to bad at first, I then baked it!  ugh  And on top of the not so straight cutting job, while it was baking, the Shrinky Dink curled and got stuck in a sausage like roll.  I had to use two steak knifes to pry it apart!  Steak knifes and Shrinky Dinks, not a good mix.

So the good news, I got it to lay flat.  Bad news, it looks a mess!  I still slapped some magnet tape on the back and called it a day because the picture is still pretty, and it's currently holding up a picture, so hey, mission accomplished!

Printed on Shrinky Dink paper:

After baking - cringe worthy edges:

 

Another cringe worthy edge picture:

 

And here is the back:

Day 43

I was having a serious case of "NeedToGetOutOfTheHouse-itis", so I dragged mom up to Yankee Candle in Deerfield.  There is nothing like visiting the flasgship store to get me out of a funk.  You can not leave there sad.  We had a lot of fun, enjoyed looking at all the new spring stuff and picking up some votive candles.

After Yankee Candle we went to a store across the street called The Final Markdown (which always puts the song "It's the final countdownnnnn" in my head, and I will now be singing it for days!).  The store basically sells the scraps from bigger name stores.  I picked up a few kitchen supplies, like a new cutting board, an ice cream scoop and a pizza cutter all for like $2.00 each!  Then I saw in the kids section this craft and I just knew it had to be done.  I was considering skipping today's crafts all together, but I haven't done that yet, and I don't want to start now.

This craft is Spongebob Foam Mosaics.  It comes with two pictures, one of Spongebob and one of Patrick, and a few sheets of various colored foam stickers.  There are little squares all over the pictures and you just basically match the foam squares to the colored squares on the picture.  I'm learning though that crafts for children are not easy!  For me anyway!  This one is for 4 and older, and I almost gave up!  Of course most 4 year old's don't have fake nails, on which all the little mosaic tiles can stick too.  So needless to say, most if not all of the mosaic tiles do not line up and I got to the point where I was just sticking them wherever.  It's cute though, and Patrick is awesome, so can't complain too much!

Day 42

I'm a bit bummed today so I did today's craft with the hopes that it would be 1. easy and 2. cheer me up.  Succeeded at both!

I think it's well known that I love fairies so I went with the woodland fairy theme.  I was going to do a greeting card but it turned into a collage picture that I can hang up and smile at when needed.  All I did was cut out designs that were on scrapbook paper.  The flowers and the butterfly were each on their own page and the fairy I had from a collage sheet. The 3D yellow sticker reminded me of a sun so threw that on too.  Just cut and pasted accordingly and got this...

Day 41

A while back I saw a craft in one of my books for a charm similar to this one.  It's pretty versatile.  You can make so many different designs, so I chose to do one that is like a little secret.  Every time I look at it,open it and check it out, I'll think of Stan.  Some days I just need a smile, and opening this will trigger one in no time.

I used a "Memory Frame", card stock, letter stamps, yellow ink, waterslide transfers, stickers, glue stick and Mod Podge decoupage.  I cut out a long piece of card stock, put two waterslide transfer pages on pink card stock using decoupage and then used the glue stick to stick them onto the black card stock.  I then used stickers and then letter stamps with yellow ink to spell out our names.  It came out quite cute.  I need to pick up the glass for the Memory Frame though because the little book keeps popping out of the frame, but other then that, it's adorable.

The Memory Frame and black card stock:

 

Front side unfolded:

The back side unfolded:

Front folded and tucked away:

 

Back side folded and tucked away:

Day 40

I would like to point out that it's almost Day 41...this was a long day and a long craft.  Mostly because I was watching American Idol, then Bones and then just random shows after that.  TV can be evil.

I'm off work tomorrow though, so I can sleep in, get my beauty rest for tomorrow's (actually now today's!) craft.

As it's past my bedtime, here is what I did today...Oh, one more thing, have I mentioned I LOVE SHRINKY DINKS!!!!!!  I might change this challenge to one Shrinky Dink project a day for a year!! 

I decided to make a Tarot Card Charm Bracelet.  The other day at Michael's I picked up a package of 32" antique silver chain, toggle clasps and O rings (all on sale I might add, bonus!!).  Then yesterday I bought a collage set of vintage Tarot cards on Etsy (for $1.00!!  woo hoo)  Stan took apart the chain for me to make the bracelet size, and put the toggle clasps on it.  I printed the Tarot cards on the Shrinky Dink paper, cut them out, punched holes in the top, baked them, had Stan put the O rings in each Tarot card and I put them on the bracelet.  And it only took FOREVER!  Okay, okay, a few hours, but if I had turned off the TV it would have been sooner I'm sure! 

Without further adoooo, here are the pictures!

Printed on Shrinky Dink paper:

Close up of printed Shrinky Dink:

 

Here they are after they were cut and baked - so small and cute:

Finished bracelet on my hairy arm (geeze I'm really really hairy!):

 

Close up of the finished bracelet:

Day 39

Tomorrow is St. Patrick's Day!  And I realized I have nothing green, again...!  I own NOTHING that is even a slight shade of green!  Not even a hint of green!  Actually I do have a gray sweater that if you hit the light juuuusst right, it "could" be green, a puke green maybe.  Well I didn't want to wear my, in certain light puke green sweater for the holiday, so I decided to make something to wear.  After all I don't want to get pinched!

Since I have the Shrinky Dink paper I printed a shamrock on it.  I cut it out and shrunk it (cause that's what you do with Shrinky Dinks!) and glued a pin to the back and there you go, an Irish pin so I don't get pinched!  I have a feeling I'll still get pinched, but I tried, and really....that's all you can do!

Pin before shrinkage:

Pin after the shrinkage:

Back of pin, after I took this picture I turned the pin the other way, so it's now the "long" way (glue needs to dry):

Day 38

I'm going to be honest, I tried to draw something, but I'm just exhausted today and could not concentrate, so ended up coloring a mandala instead.  Nothing crazy or super inspiring, but fun all the same.