Apron Calendar - a Teacher's gift

For my craft sale the end of the month I am making some gifts that can be given to teachers that is not food related.  My daughter is a teacher and she tells me not to gift candy or chocolate and she has a lot of mugs already.
So, I came up with t he idea of making an apron calendar - one for the female, and one for the male teacher.

After making a template for both the basic structure of the apron and the DSP, I traced and cut out 2 pieces of thick whisper white card stock (one for the front and one for the back), two pieces of colour specific card stock, and 2 pieces of DSP.

Two holes were punched in the top and some ribbon was knotted through that. At the bottom I added to both front and back , a piece of thick whisper white card stock scored at 1/2" intervals and folded in accordion fashion to allow the calendar to stand up.

A mini calendar was added to the lower part of the apron, and a sentiment "To an A+ Teacher" above it and decorations/embellishments were added


Female Teacher:

Some frilly lace was added around the outside edges and some hand made roses decorated the apron front.

Male Teacher:

More neutral tones of card stock and DSP were used to make this apron.

As well as the calendar I included sentiments from "Guy Greetings" and "Harvest Blessings"

Both these projects fit into an A2 envelope.

An Altered Journal - a craft fair item

Another item for the Hand of Man craft show for which I am a vendor, is an altered journal.

The journal was first covered with card stock.  But because it is a spiral bound journal the card stock had to fit around the spirals.

Rather than measure the distance between the spirals, I tore a page out of the journal, and used  that  as a template.

Once the holes were punched I snipped an opening from the edge into the hole so the page could be inserted into the spirals of the journal.

A little bit of adhesive was added to keep the paper in place.

The journal was then decorated using various retired DSPs   as well as butterflies that were punched directly from one the DSP

Altered Glass Candle Holder - a craft show item

I altered these glass candle holders from the Dollar Store with the intent to sell at a craft show or use as Christmas presents. The candle holder is attached to the black lid ring so the candle is suspended in the middle of the jar.

When I saw these candle holders I knew exactly how I would alter them.

To start with, I removed the black ring lid with the candle holder attached and set aside.  Then using a paint brush, I applied Mod Podge all over the glass container.

Then I applied Dazzling Diamonds all over the container and set it aside to dry.

Once dry, I sprayed the glittered jar with a fixative, but if you don't have a fixative some inexpensive hair spray will work just as well. This prevents the glitter from coming off and making a mess.

Then I wrapped some thick twine around the neck of the glass container - about 4 times or so, and adhered it with hot glue. In one of the other jar, I attached the twine around the black lid instead.  I like them both.

The embellishments I scrounge from various sources.  The pine branches were snipped off  the ends of an 8' garland : the other items from various picks that I dismantled.  I arranged the elements the way I liked then hot glued it to the neck of the jar on the twine.  Then I made a bow from the twine, attached two red bells on a string and suspended this from the bow and hot glued the bow to the top of the decoration.  Then put the lid and candle holder back on the jar

To finish, on one of the jars I added some home made texture paste to the branches and sprinkled glitter on this to simulate snow.

Some battery operated tea lights from the Dollar store provided the finishing touch.

When lit, it looks really cool sitting on a mantle.

Estimated cost:  Under $4 each.
Estimated time:  Under an hour each.
Estimated value:  Priceless.

Cube Post it Note Holder with Calendar - a craft fair item

I have a plastic cube note holder by my phone and although I like it, it is very ordinary. Looking at it  inspired me to create my own cube note holder which holds post it notes, has a lid, and as a bonus, a mini calendar on the inside lid. This makes a great craft fair item.

This is one for a guy.  It is made with Basic Gray card stock and retired Basic Gray DSP.  The stamp is from "Lovely as a Tree"

It is held closed with a belly band which opens and closes with a velcro dot.  The belly band is decorated with leaves die cut from Rooted in Nature.

 Open the lid and the contents of the box are revealed, as well as the mini calendar on the inside of the lid.  The notch on the front was made using a 1 3/4" circle punch.

The box can hold 4 post it notes.

Here are the dimensions:
1 piece of card stock 9 1/8 by 7 5/8" (makes the box)
1 piece of card stock 8 1/8 by 3 1/2" (for wrap around)
2 pieces of card stock 3 1/2 by 3 3/8" - to reinforce wrap around

DSP
3 pieces 1 3/8 by 3" (for front and sides of box)
1 piece 3 1/4 by 1 3/8" (for back of box)
2 pieces 3 1/4 by 3 1/4" for outside and inside lid

Scoring:
9 1/ by 7 5/8" on the 9 1/8" side:  1 1/2, 3, 6 1/8"  Turn score 1 12/ , 3 , 6 1/8"
8 1/8 by 3 1/2" on the 8 1/8" side: 3 3/8, 4 7/8"

Here are some other cubes I made today:

Book marks for craftshows

These are some of the book marks I have made for my craft show on July 2

Each Basic Black book mark is 2 by 5 1/2" and is decorated as above.  I will do a post for each of the book marks.

Altered Journal - a Craft Fair Item

Yes, I was busy yesterday.  I covered the journal using Flowering Fields DSP.  I didn't have enough left to use the same DSP on both side, so I cut them in half, and used a half of each on both front and back.  A black die cut strip was used to cover the seam.

The spine was covered with Basic Black cardstock, and a piece of clear sticky ribbon was placed along the edge of it.

On the upper Basic Black piece, a small and medium die cut butterfly was adhered.  they were die cut using a piece of Flowering fields DSP.

On the lower half, The Apothecary framelits was used to die cut a piece of Basic Black cardstock.  Using the stamp set "Big News", the sentiment was stamped on Whisper White, die cut using an oval framelit (I cut the bottom and top off), and matted with Calypso Coral Cardstock.  This was added to the Apothecary die cut and then adhered to the bottom of the journal