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Anyone know of a gallery/website/forum that has homemade projects ideas? I can find tons of card ideas, but not simple homemade projects! HELP. I am new to crafting and need some simple projects to get me started...
I don't know. That is the hard part. It needs to be simple.. Something I can go and buy for cheap and the dress up. For instance, I have a mini clipboard I would like to alter into a photo frame and a photo box I would like to decorate..... I have stamps, paper, punches, that kind of stuff. So now I just need crafts projects to do to utilize all the supplies I just bought! HA!
Funny thing. I have 4 issues of FamilyFun I have yet to read..... AND I just bought a custom made Mickey Mouse shirt for my son for our Disney trip yesterday.... So those are two sources I have right here at my finger tips and yet it didn't occuer to me to look at them! Sigh. Guess I will get on that. I definitely can NOT sew.. I can sew a button and I bought a paper piercer so I can sew an outline on my card with needle and thred, but that is about the extent of my sewing capabilities!!! THANKS for the links.
it would only let me upload three pictures - but here are three easy ideas that you can probably pull off with supplies you have around the house and in your craft room
One is a star bouquet for summer - I used a yeast jar and some star chipboard, ribbons,etc
One is my 'scrap holder' I keep it on my desk and put all my little bits in it so (in theory!) there is less mess when I am done. It is a dog food canister that I covered with paper, ribbon, glitter, flowers
The other is a mini scrapbook with an altoids tin. Paint it and then just add pictures in an accordian style.
I happen to have a bunch of projects on my desktop because I am working on a series for someones frugal website - projects made quickly out of not much - is kinda the theme!
Now see, you are so stinking creative! I could never just look at something like a dog food can and imagine it something OTHER than a dog food can! Do you post your projects on your blog?
Oh I have another idea! You can make a frame with some stamped or DP as the background and then do a letter with buttons. Like this only not on a pillow (or on a pillow since you said you can sew on buttons!)
I think an inital would make a great housewarming or Christmas gift. Very easy and inexpensive. You could pair it with some simple inital notecards.
Oh I have another idea! You can make a frame with some stamped or DP as the background and then do a letter with buttons. Like this only not on a pillow (or on a pillow since you said you can sew on buttons!)
I think an inital would make a great housewarming or Christmas gift. Very easy and inexpensive. You could pair it with some simple inital notecards.
Designer paper. You could just stamp a plain piece of paper, use designer paper, or even a solid color if you used multicolored buttons. Make sure you post pics of your craftiness!
Oh I have another idea! You can make a frame with some stamped or DP as the background and then do a letter with buttons. Like this only not on a pillow (or on a pillow since you said you can sew on buttons!)
I think an inital would make a great housewarming or Christmas gift. Very easy and inexpensive. You could pair it with some simple inital notecards.
No hijaking at all! I am from Jacksonville. Are you from Florida?
I'm from Davie (a 'burb of Fort Lauderdale). Everytime I see someone in Florida, I get excited because I don't have any stampin' buddies but they're always far away. lol :(
As for your creativity; I know that it's intimidating. I stayed away from stamping for YEARS even though I had a real interest in it because I was intimidated, didn't think i'd be able to create anything well, etc. I hope that you try that pic frame project and post your pictures because I bet that when you get started, you'll be on a roll and on your way to stampin' caused bankruptcy! lol (j/k by the way!)
I'm from Davie (a 'burb of Fort Lauderdale). Everytime I see someone in Florida, I get excited because I don't have any stampin' buddies but they're always far away. lol :(
As for your creativity; I know that it's intimidating. I stayed away from stamping for YEARS even though I had a real interest in it because I was intimidated, didn't think i'd be able to create anything well, etc. I hope that you try that pic frame project and post your pictures because I bet that when you get started, you'll be on a roll and on your way to stampin' caused bankruptcy! lol (j/k by the way!)
No joke at all. I hvae spent probably roughly $200 in supplies including punches, ink, stamps, paper, etc.... HA HA HA. I put up a few pictures in my gallery of the few projects I have done. I just need more Where have you gotten your inspiration from?
No joke at all. I hvae spent probably roughly $200 in supplies including punches, ink, stamps, paper, etc.... HA HA HA. I put up a few pictures in my gallery of the few projects I have done. I just need more Where have you gotten your inspiration from?
I went to your gallery but I think that your photos are still pending approval because nothing was there. But I'm going to check back again.
I get almost all of my inspiration from the galleries here on SCS. If you go to the gallery and look under the "Anything but a card", you'll find tons of non-card things that are gorgeous and totally easy to make. I like a lot of simpler (is that a word?) projects so I tend to disect my favorites and make them my own with less stuff or whatever. Proabably one of my favorite projects to do is the explosion box because it's so easy, litteraly cutting and folding and doesn't really require any embelishments. Yet it's a real "WOW" project.
Also, I like to alter things like tin cannisters and other little containers like that.
I went to your gallery but I think that your photos are still pending approval because nothing was there. But I'm going to check back again.
I get almost all of my inspiration from the galleries here on SCS. If you go to the gallery and look under the "Anything but a card", you'll find tons of non-card things that are gorgeous and totally easy to make. I like a lot of simpler (is that a word?) projects so I tend to disect my favorites and make them my own with less stuff or whatever. Proabably one of my favorite projects to do is the explosion box because it's so easy, litteraly cutting and folding and doesn't really require any embelishments. Yet it's a real "WOW" project.
Also, I like to alter things like tin cannisters and other little containers like that.
Do you have a gallery on here? Would love to see your work...
Hmm.. I got some email stating my pictures were approved. Oh well. Maybe it takes a while. It is nothing to get excited over, let me just tell you. Although I love the journal I did......
As well as the "Anything but a card" section of the gallery you could check out the Resources section (you'll find the link up top right of this screen) - there are quite a few non-card items in the projects section there and you'll find step by step instructions for those as well as a full supplies list.
We were just talking on another thread about jumbo paper clip book marks - here's a set I did as cook book markers {Cook's Bookmarks}. Supplies for those are cheap and you'll find a tutorial for making them in the Resources section.
How about fridge magnets? Easy to do just with chipboard shapes with a stamped layer stuck on there. Here's one I did with a faux soldered edge, too {Country Charm magnet}
Dressing up jars or boxes with handmade paper flowers is fun. Here's one of mine {Gift for Mum}, it's just on a preserving jar and there's a link there to the tutorial for making the flower. The only thing I did different from the tutorial was to roll the petals back over a paintbrush handle to give them a bit extra oomph!
Once you start looking at things with a different perspective, you'll be altering stuff in no time. I've made things out of lightbulb boxes (can't show you that one at the moment as it's out for publication), altered notebooks and journals, used tomato paste tube and soda can metal to make embellishments (embosses beautifully in Cuttlebug folders), made gift bags from envelopes (the bag-a-lope tutorial is a great starting point - just use your imagination for different finishes - here are two of mine that started life from the basic bag-a-lope tutorial and then became something slightly different - {Celebrate Spring} and {Cuteasaurous Onesies with Gift Tote}.
Hope something there helps to spark some ideas for you! It's great that you're already thinking about using your stamps for things other than cards, there's a lot of fun to be had out of branching out a little. Have fun!
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