Domino Serving Tray

This is a beautiful tray, makes a great gift item. You can also put a hanger on it, and hang it on the wall. The tray you get at Walmart is not real large, so nice size for the wall. Depending on your tray, you may need to cut one of your dominos in half to make it all work perfectly. I had my hubby cut it with the bandsaw, but he said you could use a handsaw or stroll saw as well. Also if your particular tray has a small gap along the edge, you could run a small piece of dowel along each edge of the tray to eliminate the gap. Mine had a tiny gap, too small for a dowel, so I just centered all my dominoes and left the tiny gap. Most all rubberstamps in project shown are from Club Scrap.

Supply List:
Unfinished serving tray
Dominoes, Jumbo size (1.5 in x 2 in)
Crafter’s Pick glue or other permanent glue
Black spray paint
Cotton Balls
Various Rubberstamps
Stazon ink (or you can use Brilliance inks)

Instructions

1. Spray paint wooden tray. I recommend painting several light coats, letting each coat dry before apply additional coats, until tray is solid black on all edges, front, and back.
2. Use Stazon ink and ink all four edges of the dominoes. I just took the domino and slide it right over the ink pad to ink up the edges. Set aside to dry for a few hours or overnight.
3. Place dominoes into tray however you find attractive to the eye, I usually do two horizontal and then two vertical across the whole tray. If I have a large stamp, then I would use three dominoes in a row and then a single in another spot with a small rubber stamp.
4. Chose your rubberstamps and pull out which ever set of dominoes you prefer to use. If you use mounted rubberstamps you can stamp directly onto the set of dominoes. With unmounted rubberstamps, I find flipping the rubberstamp upside down and pressing the dominoes onto the stamp gives you a better image. When using the Stazon ink, clean your stamps immediately after using them. Stazon makes a special ink remover as well. Once image is on dominoes, place back into tray, being careful not to touch image (otherwise you might smear it). Let all images dry for a few hours or overnight before proceeding.
5. Now that the images are dry, take a cotton ball and dab into the Stazon ink and dab the edges of the front of each domino around the image. This gives the dominoes a more muted edge versus the sharp edge from step 2’s inking edge. Let this dry for a few hours.
6. Now at this point, if you want to seal your dominoes with a spray sealer, go ahead and do that. Let dry.
7. You will want to work fairly quickly on this step, so that the glue doesn’t dry completely before you get all your dominoes into place and properly centered. So once all the ink is dry, then remove a few of the dominoes at a time and apply glue to the tray and set your dominoes into the glue. By doing just a few at a time you won’t mess up your pattern and layout. Use a glue that dry clears, just in case any glue creeps up through the cracks. Let this dry.
8. Now I did not seal this myself, if the tray is to be used as a tray, you may want to apply a sealer of some sort, I am guessing a brush on sealer would be best.

Good luck and have fun!
Debbie Weller
a.k.a. DebDuzScrappin

Merry Christmas and Necklace Holder project!

This is another one of Club Stamp’s fabulous monthly kits. Kind of hard to see it in the photo, but there is 5 hooks at the lower bottom of this hanging piece of art. This can be a necklace or even a great key holder.

Supplies needed:

* Club Stamp kit – includes board, hooks, paper clay.
* Rubberstamps
* Inks
* fibers
* Crafters Pick adhesive
* Eyelets
* Eyelet setting tools

1. The Club Stamp kit provides instructions for putting the main project together.
2. I embellished the hooks with flower beads.
3. I rubberstamped the “Let me count the ways” HAND rubberstamp into the paper clay, inked edges and adhered using crafter’s pick
4. I used frilly fibers to wrap around the paper clay image, to wrap around the base at the top of the hooks, and as the piece strung through the eyelets, to hang the holder from a hook on the wall.

Used the Let Me Count The Ways Kit from Club Scrap for papers and rubberstamps in this project.

Hand stitched Mini Book

Here is a quick quick quick little mini book project that came in my Club Scrap kit - it is a handstitched binding them inserted into this plastic cover. Added the woven ribbon and stitched the clasp onto the cover, added some charms and vola' - done!!

Private Eye Steno Book

I finished this fun Steno Book project up on Sunday whilst my kiddos messed around doing spin art. This project is from Club Stamp's Private Eye (October's kit).

This is a very fun kit - as all of the pages are pre-cut and punched with the spiral binding. The pages are all different sizes and shapes and gives lots of depth and variation to this fun book. When the time is right I will toss a few photos in, do a touch of journaling and perhaps give as a gift to one of the grandparents. Hard to tell in the photos but I tied a bunch of charms and doo-dads onto the spiral binding as well.

Ok I am off to bed!!

Kalediscope project!!

Here is the super fun and really cool project from Club Stamp's November "Mirror Mirror" kit.

This is a Kalediscope - one of the easiest projects I have done in a while with a way fun outcome and boy oh boy did my kids LOVE it!! It works just like a real Kalediscope just using beads and papers and such - all in the kit from Club Scrap! Too fun.

This is a great project to do with your kids!!

Christmas Card 2008

Merry Christmas from us to you!!

This is a digital scrapbook page that I am using as our Christmas card this year.

I used the red and purple digital scrapbook papers from Club Scrap's Wheels and Sprockets Digi-kit.

Christmas - Ornamants - Paper "Star"

Supply List:

Scrapbook paper or cardstock
Rubberstamps/Ink
Scoring blade or bone folder/ruler
Stapler/staples
Red Line tape
Scissors

Instructions:

1. If you are using single sided pattern paper, cut a piece that is 12in x 6in, fold in half and adhere them together, creating a 6in square. If you are using double sided pattern paper or card stock, cut into 6in x 6in squares.
2. If you intend on rubber stamping, do that now.
3. Using a scoring blade, score 5 lines each at 1 inch intervals.
4. Accordion fold the paper together at the score lines.
5. Staple in the center of the accordion fold at 3 inch mark.
6. Looking at your accordion fold, you are going to determine which side to trim. You want to trim starting at the 2 inch mark on the side that has the two loose flaps rather than all folds. Cut down from the 2 inch mark to the tip of the outer edge, this will create the point on the star.
7. Open up each of the 'arms' of the star and adhere the upper and bottom ones with some strong adhesive, like red line tape. You will use approximate 1/2-3/4 inch of red line tape at the very center of the star
8. Add ribbon at top, add embellishment on front, if desired.

Good luck and have fun!!
Debbie Weller
DebDuzScrappin.com