Sharing Some Fun Projects

I wanted to share these projects with you- maybe you can store the idea away until next holiday season! ☺ Some fun things we did w/ the kids class over the holidays- we made these foam magnet frames and the kids had fun embellishing them and framing their own artwork! Made great gifts too!
Cute Reindeer Cookies:

And here's a great idea from our local bakery (and SO yummy too!)

Make it Merry Blog Hop

Thank you for visiting my blog! My name is Janelle and I live in Iowa (right near the South Dakota and Minnesota borders). I have two little girls ages 2 and 4 and my husband is a middle school band and art teacher and I'm a stay-at-home-mom! I love to scrapbook but my weakness is scrapp'n the holidays- so I'm so happy to have completed this special project! Oh, and I'm terrible at journaling so I hid it along the border! ☺


I wanted to use some new techniques I've seen lately like the paper pleating and the ruffle ribbon (thanks Georgana!) and I really enjoyed myself. Plus, I just had to use the glitter glue from one of the recent BWS kits- love those kits!! ♥♥ If you are just joining the blog hop click here to start from the beginning! I love the red snowflake paper and with my little girls I just had to add some flowers and some bling!

Thank you so much for Hopping by and Make it Merry! ♥ Your next stop on the hop is
Noreen Smith's Blog: Sharing Memories Scrapbooking

Have a Happy & Safe Halloween!

my daughters made these supercute pun-kins at their wonderful children's library programs last week! ps- I am glad I took the picture when I did because shortly after the scarecrow got a little man-handled by my 2yo! oops!

☺ Happy Halloween! Trick-or-Treat!

Kid's Project

My girls (ages 4 and 18 mos) made these frames in the craft room on our vacation awhile back, and I wanted to share the idea b/c I think it's fun and easy and turns out to be a great decoration or gift!

They used plain wood (some were varnished others were not) frames that you can pick up for around $1 a piece. They then used "tacky glue" (they poured some out on paper plates and let the smaller kids use paintbrushes to apply the glue!) to attach the clear flat-backed stones (the kind you buy in the mesh bags at the craft stores) all around the frame. It took awhile to dry but it dries clear and any excess glue can be washed away. The final results are so sparkly and pretty and I love that the craft ladies took pictures of the kids from that day for us to put in the frames!

I definately think we'll be doing this project again at home and maybe even for our next parent/child scrapbooking night too! (:

Adding an extra touch to your layouts...

I made this double-page Easter layout to add some family pictures and egg-hunt photos to. I wanted to show you how much a little extra touch can add to your layouts! I love using ribbons and dimension in my layouts-- so I added some aqua and brown twill ribbon from my shop to the layout and I love what ribbon adds to scrapbook layouts and projects! It's fun, inexpensive, quick and easy-- all my favorite things! ☺
Hoppy Scrapp'n! -- Janelle

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

For breakfast today to celebrate St. Patrick's Day we had gold coins (banana slices w/ yellow sprinkles), green yogurt (lime), and green scrambled eggs (kinda gross-looking I know). Oh, and my mom left a baggie of Lucky Charms so we ate those too (a first for my kiddos!). Here's some pictures...


We are teaching an after-school scrapbooking class today, so I'm off to dig for a bit of green clothing for the girls and I so we don't get PiNcHeD! (: Enjoy your day! --Janelle

Happy Valentine's Day!

I hope you have a fun valentine's day! My daughter has her valentine party tomorrow so we made some cute kiddy cards to pass around. I've had these animal papers forever and slowly but surely used them up (as birthday invites, thank you cards...etc) and we're kinda sick of them now so I'm happy to have finally used the last of them!

***we had fun coming up with cute valentine sentiments to go along w/ each animal theme & my daughter got some good name-writing practice in since we made 20 of them! She was a little tired of writing her name by the end of it and said she was glad her name only had 4 letters and not more! (:

STORE PROMOS:

Don't forget my online promo: enter "PAPER" in msg to seller @ checkout in my etsy shop and you'll get a free 12x12 paper 2pk w/ any $5.00+ purchase...and get free shipping on any order of $25.00+ this weekend only (friday through sunday)!

Happy Valentine's Day! (:
----Janelle

Vintage Christmas

Christmas Album Kits are here!! These make great gifts, but they are so fun and cute you might want to keep them for yourself!

Each kit includes one chipboard layer book (approx 4x12 inches), 4 12x12Christmas patterned cardstock Papers, Christmas ribbons, Heart and bell charms, and 2 magazine rings. Vintage Christmas kits are only $12.00 each (plus tax).
You may purchase a set of Christmas toppings for $8 with kit purchase (regularly $9.50) these look great with the vintage papers!

I had so much fun putting this book together and I love the snowflake papers and the cute christmas tree too! Email me to order your Vintage Christmas kit today!
jonesj@hickorytech.net
Happy Scrapp'n! --Janelle

Trick-or-Treats & Odds-n-Ends

Trick or Treats!
Email me for free project template for the Frankenstein candy containers. Happy Halloween!


Odd & Ends
Here are some little cards and gift-tags I made using some left-over rub-on sentiments and papers. Shae and I had made some cards for the Scrapping for Soldiers project (click link below to learn more) and I had a few left-overs...now, I'm not a card-maker at all (I made an exception for the Scrapp'n for Soldiers) so I was proud of myself to get a few mini-cards or gift-cards done for myself. Well, back to the books (scrapbooks!) for now.
Click here for more info on Scrapping for Soldiers and their Greeting Card project. Shae & I enjoyed spending a little time together and making a few cards for the soldiers!


Upcoming Events:
Thursday, Oct. 30th-- parent/child SB class- Sibley (see below for details)
Saturday, Nov. 1st-- Rock Rapids IA
Saturday, Nov. 8th-- Sibley IA
Tuesdays in November-- Youth SB Class, Sibley (see below for projects)
Friday, Nov. 21st-- Crop 'til you Drop-- Sibley 6pm-???
Happy Fall!! Or, as Shae loves to say: "Happy Fall Y'all!" (:
Janelle (:
my Email: jonesj@hickorytech.net