Paper Doll Hat Ladies

A quick little post tonight. Gotta get some
 rest for my sweet little people
 coming to see their Grammie tomorrow.

But,I'm so excited to introduce this new line of handmade embellishments to my Etsy store.
They are the cutest little paper doll faces mounted and ready for embellishing cards, scrapbook pages, invitations or just a make em into little tags.  

Hop on over there and meet these cute little ladies. They are right out of the pages of the 1950's! I didn't know that is what they would look like until I made them.  But those pill box hats, sweet print designs and all the little jewels remind me of Donna Reed and June Clever. So I gave them some the names from my long forgotten favorite TV shows .

Here is just a couple of the 15 I currently have in my store. But there will be more coming, I promise.

Have a Great Friday!

-Kim K.

Why are we Addicted to Paper Punches

Punches I love punches!

I am blessed to have a Cricut Machine and completely love it, like we all do. But I just can't give up my punches. When I made this, I only had a 3 or 4 punches. I own about 50 now. And even though my cricut will cut more things faster and sometimes neater, I love the immediate results I get with punches. When I just want a little flower or circle, I just punch it out quickly without setting up a cartridge in the cricut.

Problem is....storage!! I keep my punches in a set of plastic drawers right now, but how I would love a better solution. One where I can see what I have for what I need with a glance.

I would love to read some ideas on storage solutions for us punch addicts. So, if you have one please add it in your comments.

In the meantime, while I'm working on some new things for my Etsy store, I thought I would post some of my older creations made some time ago.

This is a borders and corners set I made for ebay years ago. It did well and I'm thinking of reviving the idea using my cricut AND punches.
Blessings to all,
-Kim K.

A New Spin on Scrapbooking

When you receive lovely "Thank You" note.

What do you do with it after you've read it?

THANK YOU NOTE SCRAPBOOK PAGE

This question is always presents itself, whenever I receive one. Then one day I received this one from one of my dear church family members and I couldn't bring myself to put it away in my keepsake trunk. So I began thinking of how to display it.  The envelope itself was so beautiful and the colors inspiring, that I immediately though "what a pretty scrapbook page it would make."

My problem here, was that the note was written on the other side of fold up envelope. So, I just made a copy of the text onto white archival cardstock and then I could separate the text from the beautiful envelope.

After that, I simply let the colors and textures guide me to make this page.

And now this gives me a great idea for a new poll. Keep checking back with me and

see what I have in store for next weeks Poll.

Have a marvelous Hump Day,

Blessings to all,

-Kim K.