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I told you I love black spray paint...Idea #8

I really love the creative cafe bracelets....I just wish they were black(just to break it up a bit) So I went to my trusty Home Depot and bought plastic spray paint.This paint is specially formulated to cover plastic. It forms a bond, instead of laying on top of the plastic. The good thing about that is there is no peeling....now that is something to celebrate. The beauty of the Creative Cafe bracelets is that once they are taken apart you can create 8 pendants. Being the frugal momma that I am this is quite a nice deal. The last picture is a pendant I made with one of the bracelet discs, and an Art Chix image, Creative Imaginations Swarovski and a button from my grandmas collection.

Gotta love a quick project! IDEA #7

You need a package of Drawer Pulls by Creative Imaginations

A 1" hole punch

Pattern paper or 1" circle collages, mine came from Art Chix>

gel Matte Medium to use as adhesive



Choose your image, and punch it out. Using gel medium adhere it to your drawer pull. Let gell medium dry. Cover image with clear epoxy included in your drawer pull package. Thats it! soooooo simple and super cool!

Idea #6

How many of you own Ranger's Alcohol Ink? Do you use it...for me Alcohol ink is like a tool, as important to me as my trimmer, scissors, and hole punch. I could NOT craft with out it. For this holiday idea i want to you look at your stash, look at what you have that can be made new again. My example uses Alison Connors Metal flower brads...I love their shape, and the fact that they are made of metal, how ever summer is over and most of my projects right now are either holiday oriented or rich autumn colors. By taking the flowers apart and flipping them over, inking them and putting them back together, they have a whole new look. You can even take some pearl brads and inked them to match the flowers to create some amazing centers. How pretty would these flowers look on top of a small present instead of a bow? or perhaps glue a magnet to the back and create a bouquet of magnets on your fridge. These flowers were made by some of my student from my Monday night class.

Holiday Idea #5

Here is another quick and easy idea for a gift. Refrigerator magnets made from sculpted metal brads. The brads from my Heiress collection are a bit over sized so after you snip the brad "legs" off the back, a magnet can easily be glued to the back with out using a backing. For the smaller brads I put the "legs" through a black button splayed the legs as you would normally do and glued magnet to the back. Let the adhesive set for 24hrs before use/or gift wrapping. My girls will be giving these magnets as gifts for their friends to use in the school lockers.

Holiday idea #3

This time of year is filled with celebrations and gatherings of family and friends. Why not make your own place cards, I made a set here for an evening of wine and cheese. I am using them more as decor, but you could make them and add your menu or perhaps your wine list.

To make the place card I started with blank/raw chipboard and several bottles of superior ink tints, I sprayed the chipboard with inks first then spritzed the shimmer gold and silver over the top...until the chipboard glows.

Then i used my strusty AccuCut machine and my Table Tent die and cut out my tents. Finally I embellished the tents with my wine stickers from my new Tasting Room Collection...and added bling using Creative Cafe's self adhesive Gems. This project took less than 30min.

Easy Gift idea #1 & 2

We have 49 days until Christmas....So I thought i would challenge myself instead of challenging my readers to 49 holiday inspired ideas. They will be anything to do with the holidays, from cards to gifts, from recipes to decorating,from traditions passed down in my family to new ones i have up my sleeve. Todays gift idea is decorated candles. This is a great little project that can be completed within 20. perfect to do while the little ones sleep. All i did was take decorative cherry & pearl brads by Creative Imaginations and with a wire cutter nipped about 1/16" off the ends of the brad at a very sharp angle to make them sharp enough to stick into the side of the candle....

also (idea number two)...try using your favorite rub ons to dress up a candle...I used my Nostalgic Christmas rub ons on my green candle.