Nice to See You Project

 WOODEN TRINKET BOX

Hi and welcome to my Blog today!  Today I am making a wooden trinket box with clay tiles.  Ok when I say today - today is the post, this actually took a number of days with the various steps that required drying...


Supply list:
1/8th x 4in x 36in Balsa wood (from craft store)
Acrylic paints
Gesso paint
Liquid pearls
Wood glue
Clay (I used air dry clay)
Beaded Trim/Fringe
Wooden spools/balls (for legs of box)
Ink pads
Rubberstamps
Removable painter's tape (for masking)
Paint brushes
Sand paper or block
Xacto knife
hot glue gun

Instructions:
Cut (4) pieces from the balsa wood that are 4x4 (2 sides, top, bottom), cut (2) 3 3/4x4 (other 2 sides) using Xacto knife to cut.  Balsa wood is very soft and cuts quite easily with the Xacto knife and a straight edge of a ruler.  Sand edges to make smooth.

Paint wood pieces with gesso.  Let dry.

Using removable painter's tape and mask off an area where you would like your stamped images to be placed, repeat process on all 4 box sides:

 Remove tape:

Take clay and roll out to about 1/8th inch thick.  Cut into various shapes that will cover the 4x4 wooden lid.  Using rubber stamps, stamp into some of the clay pieces.  Let these pieces dry according to clay instructions.

 While clay is drying, we will glue the box together.  Use wood glue - it will work the best.  This may take some patience and time to get it all done.

 Once your box is together and dry.  Paint the stamped area with yellow acrylic paint. Let dry.

 Paint the rest of the area metallic purple, and any other colors as you see fit.  You can also paint the lid and bottom of the box.  Let dry.

 While box is drying and now that clay is dry, start painting the clay pieces and spools/balls.  Let dry in between different colors.

 After the feet parts are painted, using the wood glue, glue the balls to the spools.  Let dry.

Adhere the spools/balls to the bottom of the box.

 Adhere the clay pieces to the lid using hot glue gun.

 Using liquid pearls - add decorative spots as desired.  I added some to lid and sides of box along with the feet.

I used black ink and rubberstamps to add a few additional stamped images to the tiles on the lid.

Add some beaded trim to the bottom edge of the box just for a final touch. and vola you have a great little trinket box to hold whatever you'd like.

The majority of the materials used in this project are from ClubScrap. TFL DebDuzScrappin

50s Kitchen Blog Hop

Club Scrap "50s Kitchen" Blog Hop

Welcome to my blog today!!  So glad to have you here.  Well it looks like Spring has shown up in Montana a wee bit early this year, course our weather can change its mind and drop a truckload of snow any day...crossing my fingers for a pleasant spring and not too much rain!

Supplies:
Metal cookie sheet
50s Kitchen kit (Clubscrap)
Mini wooden clothes pins
Modge Podge
Embellishments (bottle caps, buttons, flowers, brads, ribbon)

Instructions:

Cut blue patterned cardstock to fit cookie sheet and adhere using modge podge:

 Add some strips of red patterned paper:

 Add some checkered ribbon (comes in the kit):

 Cover the clothes pin with patterned paper and ink edges with red ink:

 Print out a sheet of your menu options, cut and ink edges.  Adhere red buttons to the clothes pins and add some cardboard letters for the days of the week.  I used the ones you can color with ink and colored them yellow.

Here is the final clothes pins with menu choices:

Create a pocket using envelope maker to hold your future menu choices.  Adhere to cookie sheet.  Print out labels and attach to cookie sheet.  Attach the clothes pins to the cookie sheet, add embellishments as shown:

 Last, using cropodile, punch two holes in top lip of cookie sheet and attach a ribbon for hanging on the wall:

Thanks for stopping by, hope you enjoy my project and find it inspiring!!

Now would you like to see some more great creative ideas using this month's kit from ClubScrap???  Just check out the next participant in the Blog Hop, please visit Jill's Blog for more!  You can also visit ClubScrap's Blog for the full list of participants.

The majority of the materials used in this project are from ClubScrap. TFL DebDuzScrappin

Oopsie Daisy Card

Created this card for the March Technique challenge HERE.   I used Club Scrap's OOPSY DAISY rubber stamps which are just fabulous, along with some gelatos, and big brush watercolor markers to color in the images.  I used one of the card sets from ClubScrap's 50's Kitchen Greetings to Go kit to create the card.

The majority of the materials used in this project are from ClubScrap. TFL DebDuzScrappin

Neon Doodles card

Created this card for the March Technique challenge HERE.   I used Club Scrap's NEON DOODLES rubber stamps which are sooo stinkin' cute, India ink and big brush watercolor markers to color in the images.  I used one of the card sets from ClubScrap's 50's Kitchen Greetings to Go kit to create the card. The majority of the materials used in this project are from ClubScrap. TFL DebDuzScrappin

March card sketch

Created this quick card for the March Card sketch challenge over at ClubScrap forum.

The majority of the materials used in this project are from ClubScrap. TFL DebDuzScrappin