Goin' "green" with leftover tile and Decor Elements

I love my family.  I really do.  But sometimes things can start bothering me.  Little things.  Like drink glasses on the kitchen counter...what seems like hundreds of them.  When I ask whose glass is whose, no one knows.  Harumph!  So, with a piece of left over tile from the floor and some of SU's great Decor Elements, I made a very simple place holder for my counter top!  My kids really liked watching me adhere the "people" to the tile. (Squealing and laughing when an eye or piece of hair didn't make the first transfer! But that was easy to fix and we had a wonderful time.  Yes, we are easy to entertain!).  Now everyone knows where to place the glass/cup so it may be used again and I'm not running the dishwasher as often.  It cleans up easy too! I guess you could call this a "Green" project! lol.

Here is how each of  the Decor Elements came in my order. Directions are great.  I already had the applicator tool from a previous purchase.

I cleaned the tile and then put the Dad and the Mom and the Daughter and the Son onto it.  And waaa laaa!

I didn't adhere the decor elements directly to the kitchen counter since I wanted to have some flexibility.  I hope to someday have granite for the kitchen counter, and I didn't want to loose my nifty place holder. I know it isn't the prettiest project, but it's so ....so... functional! If I had put the people onto separate tiles, I could probably guarantee that one would get chipped, or get dropped, or find it's way to Mars...where I believe all my other items are that I cannot locate.  And best of all,  it works!  Lookie!

Yup, it took NO training to get my family to place a used glass in the correct spot.  I kid you not...NO training.  It's like it attracts the glasses/cups! Makes me smile every time I see just three to four classes on my counter.  A sigh of contentment escapes me and life is good. :-) 

Thanks for popping in today. 

Kristine

Love swap

This is going to be a short post.  How do I let myself get so overwhelmed!?  Huh!?  I have more tile being put into the house, and I hate, hate, hate the mess it makes.  Love the easy cleanup of tile once it's in, but the actual job of laying it is messy, messy, messy! 

This card was made for a swap of a group to which I belong.  The stamp set, Season of Friendship, is one of my favorites.  A person can do just so doggone much with it!  Is it a Christmas set, winter, spring, Valentine set?  Yup!  It can be all!  Gotta love a set that is that versatile.  I hope you like the card.

Supplies:
Stamps: Season of Friendship, Well Scripted (Occasions Mini)
Papers: Choc. chip, whisper white, real red, pretty in pink, Cottage Wall DSP
Inks: Choc chip, Real red, old olive, white gel pen
Accessories: Red gingham ribbon
Tools: Wide oval punch,  Three heart punch, 1" circle punch, 1/8" circle punch, dimensional, paper snips

Thanks for popping in today.
Kristine

New Stuff!

I think 2010 is going to be a great year. I can just feel it in my bones.  Can you feel it too!?

I have a swap to share with you today. This card uses the new DSP from the Occassions Mini that customers can start buying  beginning on Tuesday the 5th. (See the link on the left if you want to view the catalog from my website.) This paper is GORJUS baby! It sparkles! Yes, SU added the bling for us bling happy lassies. :-) I cut out some of the flowers on one sheet of the DSP for the sparkly lovlies in the top left corner.  The sentiment is also from the new mini.  The set is called Well Scripted.  It's flowy and curly and pretty, yes?  I bought mine in the new acrylic block form just to see what they are like. (SU is going to offer all new stamps sets in both the wood block or for use with the acrylic blocks.) They're pretty cool, I have to say. The stamp is still rubber, but SU designed a sticker that adheres to the part that would normally stick to the wood block. So you put the sticker on and then that sucks onto the clear block. Technically, you cannot see through the stamp---well, because it's rubber---but you can get a very good idea of where you're stamping because of the sticker. Ingenious I say! I really don't like acrylic stamps (Sorry for all you lovers out there) but they just don't clean up well and the image isn't as crisp. (The see through stamps just move too easy and smudge and then I'm upset and....well I just want to throw them across the room.) So you can understand why I love the compromise SU came up with. Yup...love it. Sign me up to be a demonstrator! Ooops, I already am...heheheheh. :-) 

Notes for the card.  It's hard to see in this picture, but the apricot paper is embossed and then I traced the emboss with a white gel pen to make the pattern pop.  There is also embossing on the main background piece of regal rose to match the curly forms of the sentiment stamp.  The sentiment was stamped in versa mark and then embossed with a mixture of black and irredescent ice embossing powders so it shimmers as well.  What looks like brads in the upper right corner are 1/4" punched circles.

Supplies:
Well Scripted, Texturz Plates Backgrounds 1 (floral and swirl images)
CS: Regal rose, apricot appeal, basic black, whisper white, Sending Love Specialty DSP
Inks: Versa mark and white gel pen
Accessories: Black gingham ribbon, black embossing powder, irredescent ice embossing powder, dimensionals.
Tools: Heat gun, 1/4" circle punch, Big Shot

Thanks for popping in today.  Leave a comment.  I so love reading them!
Kristine