Random necklace

I'm not into beading, but here's a necklace out of the random things collected at home.

Shrink plastic jewelry

Inspired by a Klutz book. 

Battery-operated Tealight Cakes

We give these to friends celebrating birthdays.  It's a great way to use up the odds and ends of our sewing box and paper scraps.
We love those little LED tealight candles!

Matchbox Drawers

The worse part of this project is ending up with a million useless matches.  I googled "crafts with matches" and didn't find anything that I was willing to do.  I ended up leaving the matches in the "free box" at the garage sale. 

If you have a cricut, there are nice people who have made .svg files for matchboxes.  Save yourself the agony of  chucking matches.

I intend to use this one as a Jesse Tree advent countdown someday.  I just need to make ornaments small enough to fit in the little boxes.

Christmas Ornaments

Idea is from Splitcoaststampers.com

The verse is Isaiah 1:8 --
Though your sins are like scarlet,
They shall be made as white as snow

This one is filled with glitter.  I've made some other ones with sparkly "snow" confetti and snowflake confetti filled behind the transparency. 

Another suggestion:  glue the the ornament top to the ornament to avoid having glitter EVERYWHERE in your ornament storage box.

Diskette Notebook and CD holder

Found these while at Mom & Dad's Museum of the Past (their house).  I don't think anyone in the immediate family even has a computer that can take a 5.25" floppy disk. 

The disk envelope is incorporated inside as a pocket.

This one is a CD holder (oh the irony!) made from CD sleeves.

I am relieved that the younger cousins can identify that they're floppy disks! 

Wishing for SU Top Note Die

Since StampinUp introduced the Top Note Die, I have wanted it in an unforgivable coveting kind of way.  Sure it would be simple to shell out the $22+tax+shipping and suffer through the interminable waiting for delivery.  But wait, my trusty red sizzix can't use that size die.  If I buy a die, I'll have to buy a new machine to go with it. 

There's also the Spellbinders Die(s) of similar shape, and in MULTIPLE sizes with an option to emboss/deboss.  Again, if I buy the die(s), I need to buy a bunch of accessories to go with it. 

Hmm.. that other diecut machine I have under the table.  What's it called again?  Oh yeah, a cricut.  And looky there's this cartridge with a similar shape.  It's time to spend more time with the cricut...

Cards

When life gives you scraps...

 punch flowers out of paper scraps until you get a "bunch."



 ribbon scraps that were headed for the trash get

a new lfie.

The polka dot flower was die cut from a really cute box in

the recycle bin.



Cards made with felt scraps

I had a bunch of felt scraps (e.g. 1" x 2" pieces).  With my trusty old red sizzix, I die cut lots of flowers and here's what I did with them.