New Scraproom!

YAY!!! It's ALLLLLL done! Well... the bulk of it's done. Now I get to the decorating, adding stuff to the walls, etc. Here are pictures of all our hard work... I am SO happy! The green is such an inviting, invigorating color. I have always wanted a green room. I chose the color from fabric that I have for the curtains and other accessories. I need to find some more before that part is all done. I am going to put up a valance over the windows and then cafe curtains along the bottom. I have it already done for the other window.
Here you can see the craft table that was picked out. I wanted to get wood saw horses to paint white (or maybe even pink :)), but that didn't prove to be easy so we got these for now. This is a 30x80 door that I painted white - it's such great working space! Note how easily the new Cricut and my big cutter fit....
In the corner and on some close-ups below you can see the shelves and drawers that I ordered from Target. They are simply fabulous! And very easy to put together. I have the cardstock organized by color (what else would I do?!) and then in the drawers I was able to fit punches, ink pads and all kinds of other miscellaneous stuff that can look messy. On top of the corner shelf you see my 'clip-it-up' organizer that was again just a marvelous purchase! I also had some shelves that I brought in - the one hanging on the wall with all my glitter (important), embossing and acrylic paints. The dark pink one that was a shelf from my room growing up that is storing the 8.5 x 11 cardstock for card-making, and then one that my brother built for my first apt that has other 'supplies.' There was a shelving unit that I found while cleaning out the house that I painted white and is a perfect home for all my stamps.
A few other items around the room: I found small and large canvas boxes that you see on the floor. We are going to build a shelf to fit those on. They are perfect for my scrapbook kits and other supplies like chipboard, acrylic, other alphabets...you don't see my ribbon ring that is on order. I can't wait to get that and get all the ribbon organized b/c it's taking over! In the closet we are going to set up a shelving system for more 'office' supplies and a gift-wrapping station that is semi set-up.

Needless to say... I am a VERY happy girl! Due to the very rainy day we are experiencing here (yes, finally my flowers will be happy) I get to play in my new room ALL day long!

Flower Bouquets

OK... I am pretty sure these are my favorite things I have EVER made... a few months ago there was a kit from Scrapologie, the St Patty's Day kit, that included a cone. Of course Ranjini designed the most precious little cone with vintage treats tucked in it. I had to order the kit and thought that the cone would be precious hanging in my new scrap room, whenever that would be done! Recently I found a set of the little cones and bought them in order to make a few treats. The other day I was inspired to make something for Julia & Natalie for our upcoming visit to NY for the 4th.
{Julia & Natalie are Tracy & Frank's little girls... Keith's best friends from college. Frank's birthday is also on the 4th so we go down there every year to celebrate. I love making little gifts to bring down - Julia just loves anything we bring down for her.}

I started by cutting paper to fit on each side. For Natalie's I used the Animal Crackers line from Making Memories (yes, the same thing used in a previous post - do you think I love it?!) The colors and designs are just perfect for baby girls - she is 1. Then for Julia's I used the Katlin line from Crate Paper. Julia's favorite color is pink but she also loves purple and this line is just so fun and whimsical for a 4 yr old girl.

Back to the creating part.... the idea was that I could cover the outside with paper and then fill it with, I hoped, paper flowers. I cut paper from different sheets of each line so everything was different, then I also covered the top inside of the cones with paper b/c they fold out. Heather clued me in that you can go to Michael's and search out fibers by bulk in the knitting section. There was a 20% off your whole order last week so what is more perfect to buy??? I bought fuzzy fibers and used them on the creases of the cones to add some dimension. Then I decorated each side with their name, one side had their age in a chipboard number all glittered up and then some fun words on the extra sides.

THEN... the flowers... I bought smaller dowels - 3/16 - and cut them at different lengths to act as the stems - side note: I would paint them the next time, but didn't have time. I went to my stash of flowers and started digging! I started by gluing them, but then figured out glue dots and double sided tape did the trick and was much easier to do! I figured out how to put them on using some dimension, layering them, using my flower punch to use the coordinating papers... but flowers need glitter... in comes the stickles! Stickles is possibly one of the greatest inventions ever... it's glue with glitter - but once it dries it doesn't stick to anything. You can literally use it on anything to add a glitter feel! I have tons of glitter to use with a glue pen, but this tends to be easier. Continuing on I realized that the centers of the flowers needed something too... Kate has these fabulous rhinestones at the shop - each package has 100 total in 3 different sizes for $2. Who wouldn't have every color?! I needed something to hold the flowers up inside the cone... searching through all my stuff I realized that tulle would not only look so fun, it would hold them up in different sizes, etc...

So here they are.... I finished with large eyelets on 2 of the sides that fold down and strung a ribbon through so that they could hang. The girls have a new playroom that Tracy has been putting together so I figured they could hang them in there. I made 8 flowers for each cone... they come out so precious.

(Note the green room in the background! Pictures to follow on that soon. I have to start loading it up and then I'll post... my creative juices are going to go NUTS when it's all done!!!)