Sale-a-Bration Altered Notebook

One of the easiest projects to make is an altered notebook. Simply buy a notebook, any kind, any size, any price and cover it with DSP or cardstock and decorate it to your liking.

I did just that for a notebook that I took to Leadership to jot down ideas and take notes in. I am loving this Everyday Enchament DSP from the Sale-a-Bration brochure, aren't you?

Hostess with the Mostess

I had a new stamp club that started a couple of months ago, and I wanted to do something special for each of the hostesses when it is her month as "hostess." This month I used one of the clear stamp containers, decorated it, then filled it with homemade cards/envelopes.

Altered Notebook

This is an altered notebook that I made for my December club hostess. Yeah, I know...I'm a little late in posting this, but it's better late than never, right? :)

I used Night of Navy for the base and used Elegant Soiree Designer Series Paper for the accents. Some of the ribbon I used is retired, but it matched the color scheme, so I used it.

Altered Notebooks

You may remember this altered notebook that I gave to my downline a couple of month's ago...here are three more of the same layout using different DSP color schemes that I made for the hostesses in my club.

Trick-or-Treat Candy Jars

I hope you aren't too tired of Halloween projects yet, I told you I had a bunch! :) One final project inspired by Brent Steele's presentation at convention with the Halloween products from the Holiday Mini: Trick or treat jars!

When Brent created a project using the "trick-or-treat" portion of the Spooky Things Decor Elements, he adhered the words and Designer Jewels onto white pumpkins. When I went to our local craft store and saw that they wanted $22 for an artificial pumpkin (!!!) I nearly had a heart attack and decided there must be something less expensive that I could use that would still have the same cute, creative effect...then I thought, "what better project to represent Halloween than candy jars?" so I went back to the glass jar section and picked up 3 glass jars (which were half-off, for a total of $2.50!!).

I went home and adhered the "trick-or-treat" words onto the glass and then transferred portions of the Black Flourish Designer Jewels onto the jars. Putting some colorful Halloween candy into the jars will give them the perfect finish, although our store didn't have Halloween candy out on the shelves yet, when these pictures were taken, but you get the idea. ;)

Halloween Frame

This project was inspired by a project in the Holiday mini catalog featuring the Spooky Things Decor Elements. I simply applied the "Happy Halloween 31" decor element onto the glass portion of the frame, and then decorated a piece of Whisper White card stock to place behind the glass. I applied a few punches bats to the front of the glass and tied a piece of retired Rich Razzleberry ribbon around the glass before inserting it back into the frame.

Spooky door post

Halloween is one of my favorite holidays to decorate for! Get ready because the next few posts are going to revolve around just that--Halloween home decor. Most of the ideas are CASEs (Copy And Share Everything) but I have tweaked them some.

Today's project was inspired by my friend Nikki. I used some extra chipboard to cut down the door hangar to the right size and then used some of the "Wicked Fun Specialty DSP" to spruce it up. The chipboard letters that spell out "SPOOKY" are retired, but you can always use our current chipboard letters for the same project. The "Wicked Cool" stamp set is easily one of my new favorite holiday stamp sets and is my Go-To stamp set for all things Halloween! The new luscious raven 1/2" lace from the Holiday Mini Catalog adds a nice touch to my trim and is also used to hang the door post onto the door.

May hostess gift

This is an altered notebook that I made for my May club hostess.

Hostess Notebook-Altered

I altered a spiral notebook and added a little bit of flair to it for my monthly club hostess gift this month. I used paper from the Sweet Pea Designer Series Paper Stack and added a couple Pumpkin Circle Fire Rhinestone Brads for a classy, but fun look. I used the Whisper White Craft Ink to sponge some color on the "R" chipboard letter.