EKO's Crafty Life

Last post of valentine crafts... at least for this year!  I saw a tutorial over at craftster quite a while ago and was reminded of it recently and decided it would be fun to do with my 3 year old while the baby slept.  this craft is perfect for all kinds of paper crafts including scrap booking. The craft involves spraying some foam shaving cream in cookie sheet and then adding some food colouring and running a stick or tooth pick through the foam to mix up the colours. the next step is to lay your paper in the foam and pull up, let it sit for a few min and them off with a paper towel in one direction then finally let it dry for a few more min, and voila marbled paper. An envelope for dads valentine card here are our results.  there was minimal mess but i do suggest you clean it up quickly or you could have a bit of a stain on your work surface.  also I used gel food dies as that was all I had on hand next time I will be sure to  thin them out a bit with wat...

Well December and the first half of January has gone by in a whirlwind of activity, family, and a few small bouts of the flu around here, now that life is a little back to normal I will take some time updating you on projects I completed during this time and things I am currently working on. I did complete a second family frame for my husbands mother and it turned out very well, She loved it, in fact she actually cried when she saw it she liked it so much. I also finished the Christmas stockings for my second daughter (born 2 weeks before Christmas last year) and my mother in law that spends every other Christmas with us, I had been putting it off for too long! The stockings are the perfect place to hide the battery packs for the garland. about 4 years ago when I made my husband and my stockings I sewed about 8 feet of the striped Christmas material that way as people join our family I will be able to crate a new stocking for ...

I finished another Christmas gift last night for my grandma, a scrap book page family tree with pictures of all of her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. A family tree - the colours show up more in real light I found this idea on the Crafting a Green World Blog  I had been wanting to make one of these for a little while but it was not until I found some frames at my local dollar store that I finally got my act together to do this. To show how inexpensive this was here is a breakdown. Frame : 2 $ Scape paper : 2$ Circle cutter : already owned Leaf shapes : 3$ from ebay  (cheaper than buying a punch and I have tones left I could more than I would ever want with all the leaves I got) Photos : I printed from my own printer it only took 3 4x6 sheets and since my ink is inexpensive ( under 30 for colour and black) the total cost is probably way under 2$ my total out of pocket cost was 7$  and for 2$ each I could ma...