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Monday, January 9, 2012

Meet Upcycled Scrapbooking, Week 36

Hi Everyone! I'm Jen from Upcycled Scrapbooking. I am very excited to be a guest blogger for Tammy today. Please be patient with me as this is my very first "guest" post! YAY ME! (maybe scary for Tammy *wink* LOL)

I love Tammy's blog because its fun, real and "upcycled!!" just like I like it!
So a little about "me" or rather "Upcycled Scrapbooking..family".
I started blogging in 2007 (beachmonkeys.blogspot.com)when we were adopting our son from Guatemala (we have 17yr old biological daughter) and wanted a way to let our out-of-state family keep up with us. I am also a homeschool mom of 14years and now our son is 4yr old and is homeschooling, so I decided to start a "Scrapbook/paper crafting" blog called Upcycled Scrapbooking this past June 2011.
I cannot tell you how much fun I'm having and looking forward to 2012 with new projects, tutorials and ideas for families everywhere. I hope you will want to stop by, share your projects and maybe even do a guest post for me.

I grew up with frugal and very creative parents. Going to St.Vincent's, Goodwill and thrift stores was normal shopping or "treasure hunting" as we called it and now my 17yr old daughter loves to do on her own. I'd watch my parents stretch a dollar and decorate our home and not once did we feel we had any less than anyone else.
My other "love" is to organize.I LOVE to organize!! My husband and daughter say I'm OCD but I dont think so, I just think I love to organize. What do you thinK? LOL
We recently redid our pantry and cupboards and i've never been more happy!

My 2nd love is paper crafts! So I created Upcycled Scrapbooking blog to share and hopefully teach others through my love for creating paper crafts. I want to create things that fit any budget and re-use items we already have. So I save all my containers that things come in that are reusable chipboard. (oatmeal, cereal, snack boxes.. they all get saved) and i keep them in my craft room sterlite drawers.
One of my favorite projects was a Altered Book Mini Album.
I had some old 100 year old books that the pages were falling out, so i took them out and make a mini album of my son. It was really easy! I will be making more of these this coming months, so you might want to join me! Start collecting old books (pages are so brittle you can tear out and unreadable or stained, etc. Also purchase at garage sale, goodwill or thrift)

This christmas I had so much fun creating some project that anyone could make as christmas decor projects. Poinsettia ball from garage sale/goodwill flowers and whiffle ball.

These are two more I really loved having. My snowmen are still hanging around since winter is just getting started here in Georgia, LOL.

A 12 day advent using coin envelopes I made to count down to santa.
a fun snowman decor craft using ping pong balls and cotton balls and glitter.

This is using salt shaker from dollar store and i just used black fingernail polish for hat, ping pong ball for head and cotton balls and glitter and buttons.

I love making new things out of old.
I hope you will come by my blog and check out some of my projects. I sell tutorials for some of them so you can see step-by-step photos and instructions on how to make a project. I also have YouTube Channel with videos showing you how to make things.

One of my favorites I have in my purse right now is a WALLET MINI ALBUM made from 1 sheet of cardstock!! (and some clear contact paper to keep it clean in momma's purse)
I have 3 different ones I made. The first brown one looks like luggage so its my summer vacation photos. The blue one is of my 4yr old growing up and it hold 25 photos!! The pink one I made for my 17yr old daughter's purse to put her friend and youth group photos in.

You will find my designs tend to lean towards "clean and straight lined" not too much froo-froo, and that's just my TYPE-A personality and need for things to be organized but don't let that stop you from being who you are and designing and decorating to your style. I hope you will stop by and say HI!! I love meeting new people and becoming followers of their blogs so please come by and comment and leave your blog link to stop by and see ya!

Thank you so much tammy for allowing me to be a guest host!! I hope ya'll enjoy your week and stop by in 2012 to share with me your projects and ideas!!

Monday, October 31, 2011

Meet Saved by Suzy, Week 26

Hello friends! I am so pleased to be here. I'm Suzy and my blog is called Saved by Suzy. I like to find yard sale and thrift store junk and "save" it by giving it a little makeover. My blog also chronicles my never ending quest to change things around and beautify my home.

I have never been very crafty or good at doing projects around my house, mainly because I didn't have the confidence to try something new. All of the things I show on my blog are easy. If I can do it, I know you can too! It makes me sooo happy when people tell me they never thought they could paint/refinish furniture/stain/whatever, but they tried it after seeing it on my blog.

Today, I thought I would share some of my favorite things around my home. I recently got up the courage to paint my piano. I had been considering it for a while, but the thought of actually doing it was scary. I don't know what I was scared of...the whole process only took a few hours and the the piano looks sooo much better.

Here's the before - a hulking, dark beast:

Monday, August 8, 2011

Meet Meg and Mum's, Week 15

G'day to all my fellow Type A followers! My name is Megan from over at Meg and Mum's and I hail from Adelaide, South Australia. I was so chuffed when Tammy asked me to do a guest post for her blog. It's my first ever guest post and I'm a little nervous.

This is me

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Creating my way to Success!!!

So excited to be guest posting today at Creating my way to Success! Thanks so much Jill for the opportunity to hang out with you today and meet some new friends!

Thanks for stopping by and checking it out!!! xx Don't forget to stop by my PARTY today!

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Simply Christmas...

I recently was a guest blogger on Designer Garden if you missed it, here's what I did for her Twelve Days of Christmas Blog.

This is my entry way/stair area. My home is pretty average in size, so no grand entry, but fingers crossed for the next house! I recently just finished this tin door and hung it over the buffet. It'll stay here all year long, but lucky me it adds to the Christmas theme, and the door knob on it is the perfect place to hang my wreath.

Just a little close up of my new deer, I got them at Kohl's and I adore them.

I couldn't figure out the best way to display the cards this year, I'm pretty happy with how this worked out. One nice thing, you can see them upon entering my home. Next year I will hunt for a cool shutter, or maybe I'll finding something on another blog. :)

These great little wreaths where a happy little accident, I was rolling paper cones to make ornaments and discovered after assembling them they where HUGE! Instead of tossing all the cones I came up with my 'HO HO HO' wreaths, and couldn't be happier. The down side was rolling a few hundred smaller cones for ornaments. Live and learn!

Lovely close up.

....and closer yet. I think you get the idea.

This year I decided to go simple on the mantel, actually just simple. In years passed it's looked like a cluttered mess. Simple = good! I'm just learning to sew, so the stockings aren't perfect, so don't look to close! I was going to let the kids decorate them, but then decided NOPE. They are perfect as is, well to me.

This is my pride and Christmas joy, my Jim Shore nativity. Love all things Jim Shore.

Here is a glimpse of the tree cones I made and our new stocking holders. The elf is supposed to help the kids behave, but unless I beat them with him...not going to happen, thankfully he's cute.

The banner reads Merry Christmas, I'll do a few tutorials for all ya'll in the coming weeks, but so easy and cute. I should add, the little trees where a steal and Joann's, I have two more on the mantel. I just couldn't pass them up, I was really feeling SIMPLE this year.

A close up for you of the table, again, simple and affordable. I don't like to spend to much, but I wanted to make sure it was still lovely. I was going to decoupage these ornaments, and discovered I didn't have the patience, so they are naked in my glass container, and that's all I'm going to say about that.

I love this tree, don't get me wrong, but unless you are a glutton for punishment don't make one! I really don't know how my kids put up with my crafting, the crying and screaming has to scare them? 256 cones later it did produce this tree and the lamp shade wreath next to it. We all survived, so it could have been worse.

Love this music print ribbon, I think I bought 6 or 7 rolls of it...shhh don't tell the hubby.

Another of my lovely Jim Shore creations. Have I mentioned how much I love him? Hopefully I will get a new one this year, yes I would like that.

What's that next to Santa? Oh, my JIM SHORE Santa's Workshop. I may have to send Jim Shore a fan letter, or at least my first born. (Momma is kidding Connor, you're safe, for now!)

Last, but not least, the TREE! Notice the Santa and Reindeer refreshment area, got to make sure he has enough energy to travel the world.

I made the majority of the ornaments on here, it was fun, but I can't say if I will do a homemade Christmas every year. I may add to this one, but no starting over from scratch for a while. Well, maybe...

Cute Hobby Lobby find. Believe it or not, it's hard to find a topper for a small tree that isn't too "cute". I also added some gingham garland. It really makes the tree pop now.

Here's a close up of the garland. So easy to make, just cut or rip some fabric into stips and tie them together.

I made some paper wreaths and fans, Santa knows I rolled a ton of cones. Poinsettias on clips, red felt snowflakes.

Simple frames with music paper.

Scandinavian tart tins. Berry bunch with ribbon.

Glitter words.

This year I wanted to make Christmas very special for the little people in my live. Their Daddy, my Mr. Type A is working in Afghanistan until June, so I wanted to spoil them a little extra. Here is a sneak peak at their little trees and a few of their ornaments. All store bought, but very cute. I shopped mostly Kohl's, Hobby Lobby and the Hallmark Store.

This is my daughter Lauren's (Lo) tree, pink for a princess, and she is the resident Diva Princess for sure! I bought the tree topper from a great shop on etsy theStarcraft. She also made my son's tree topper and some gorgeous garland for his tree.

Every year I let the kids pick out one Hallmark ornament for their trees. This year Lo picked out the Little Mermaid. If you look closely you can see the beady garland I bought her at Kohl's, so cute and colorful, just like my little girl.

Lo is the younger of the two so I let her pick out a few extra ornaments this year, didn't want her tree to be bare. She loved the circus elephant, so TA DA!

Connor's black tree, yes black, we decided it was the perfect super hero color. He has been a super hero since he could walk/talk. We've gone from Spiderman, Batman, Ben10, Ironman to Luke Skywalker. Right now we love all things Star Wars! LOVE.

This year he picked out the Ironman ornament, but we ordered the Luke Skywalker one. The store was out, but never fear, we had one delivered from another store.

This is the gorgeous garland I was talking about earlier from theStarcraft, I told you it was gorgeous! Full of beads and hand made stars, about 9 feet long!