Altered Can

I altered this can for a swap on the Cricut Messageboard. I had signed up for it because I made one during my 25 Days of {homemade} Christmas Gifts. I had a lot of fun making it, and filling it with all kinds of little goodies. I used some scraps of Making Memories spring line. And that gave me a lot of color choices for the flowers. For the flower centers, I used some bling and a clear epoxy circle. The punch is from Martha Stewart. I added ribbon the pull tab on the top. If you would like to see the instructions on how I made this, click here! I hope that my swap partner enjoyed it! And this fun little project may show up again on this year's 25 Days of Christmas! Happy crafting!

Charm packaging

You may remember my vintage and rock princess chunky charms a couple of weeks ago. Well, they are packaged up and heading to the swap hostess. One of the requirements of the swap, was to make a cute presentation of the charms. Pretty packaging. I wasn't sure how to do that, but this is what I came up with.




My Rock Princess charms are on some DCWV Rockstar paper that I have had forever and wasn't sure what to do with. It has hot pink foil lips on it!. I added a skull from Indie Art. I used an Inkadinkadoo stamp and stapled it over the charm to help hold it in place. To finish it, I added some black, shimmery ribbon.





The vintage charms are on paper by Karen Foster. I hand cut paper flowers out of some old book pages and added a Prima flower to the top of it. The brads were gold, but I scratched them up with some sandpaper and used brown Staz-On ink to make them fit in with the vintage theme. Brown velvet ribbon is stapled across the charm.

I had just as much fun making the packaging, as I did the charms. I hope you will try some too! Happy crafting!

Rock Princess Chunky Charms!

I told you I was in love with these little things! This is the charms that I made for the Creator's Choice group in my swap. I decided on a "rock princess" theme, kind of girlie and funky. I had alot of black and pink beads, (and this is one of my favorite color combos!) so I went with what I had! I added a button and a rose shaped bead. I made bottlecap charms with Pink Paislee rub-ons and added them. It makes a very cool sound when it's dangling! Now I need to make something to package them in, so for now it's back to my paper stash! Tomorrow I have a new layout to share with you. Happy crafting!

Oh my, I'm in love!-Vintage Chunky Charms

I am not sure why I joined a chunky charm swap on the Cricut message boards. I have never made one before. But now I must say that I am in love with these charms! I have thought about adding one of these to my purse, my keychain, and of course my scrapbooks. Maybe even just letting them hang around my craft room!

The theme for this group was vintage. I used some charms with a antiqued brass finish and some things that make me think old; A skeleton key, fancy bird, filigree heart, a reproduction of a vintage button, pink, green, and milk glass. I may add some ribbon to them, just to dress up the top a bit. Now on to the next group, which was creator's choice. I can't wait to see how those turn out! Happy crafting!