Make a Thing a Day for June!

Are you ready? I'm getting geared up by tidying up my scrap space which I left in a total wreck. I need to unpack and put away the stuff I took with me, as well as put away some new stuff that arrived while I was gone.

Here's how this will work:

1. Every day I will do a blog post either to talk about my crafty plan for that day, show what I made that day, or what I made the day before. I'll invite you to comment with a link to your project for that day
2. Every Tuesday for the month I will post one of my Tuesday To-Dos, and give everyone until the following Monday night to make and post a link to their version of my project. I'll draw a name to win a goodie each week.
3. Everyone who links me up to a daily project gets thrown into the monthly pool. I'll draw three names at the end of the month for goodie prizes.

And that's about it! I'm hoping this will be a month full of inspiration and craftiness. Remember you can do anything creative this month, be it taking a photo, or making a quilt. It's all about getting into the habit of making creativity part of our daily lives.

So as a pre-challenge, get those scrap spaces, studios and desks in order for Sunday!

February

Get ready for Francine's February Make-a-Thing a Day for a month! I arbitrarily decided this morning that I will create something everyday this month and follow in the footseps of people like AliE and Shimelle, both of whom have done this previously. It might be a scrapbook page, or a card, or something sewn in felt. I might even knit, crochet or sew. Some days it might just be a pretty photo I take because that might be all I can manage.

I think my success with keeping up with my Photo-a-Day project went to my head, but luckily I decided to do this during the shortest month of the year, so it seems achievable. And at the end of the month I'll have 29 lovelies to show for it.

Here's today's thing
The card I made to start off Wub Week at Scrapbook Takeout. I'll be hosting a card class every day for a week (so the first week of make a thing a day for a month, henceforth known as MATADFAM or FFMATADFAM is a done deal!)

Complete instructions to make this card can be found here

If you want to throw all caution to the wind and join in with MATADFAM leave a comment and a link to your blog so that I can drop by and nag, uh support you. :)

Christmas Pretties

Oh how I love Christmas! I've been working on these the last few days, and have ideas brewing for even more!

On the balls and teardrop I used Paper Salon rub-ons, and glitter, ribbon and beads from my stash. The snowflakes were plain felt, I added glitter and Heidi Swapp bling. The star and tree were made from chipboard and are covered in collage papers from Alpha Stamps and decorated with stickers and glitter from my stash.

To display them I found a dead dry branch outside and painted it with white acrylic paint.

Easy Magnets

Turn puffy stickers into cute magnets. I had this idea hit me a while back, and it's one of the few things that I managed to get done in the last week (I've been fighting off a cold since the day after Halloween; the cold is winning). I used a sheet of puffy stickers by SEI, raw chipboard and small magnets I bought at the craft store.



1. Peel stickers off sheet
2. Stick to chipboard
3. Cut out
4. Use strong adhesive to stick magnet to back (I used Ranger Glossy Accents, but plan to try my glue gun next time)

Voila! Easy peasy, mac & cheesy!


It's Friday so that means time for another Chit Chat Challenge. Check us out here, a prize box of vintage goodies is up for grabs. Here's my layout


Have a great weekend!!