Project 7~ A Mini Album from a Recycled Starbucks Coffee Cup. Yes Really!

This has to be one of the neatest projects ever!

Recycle a Starbucks coffee cup  into a Scrapbook!

Genius!

However, I cannot take credit for this project...the inspiration came from this post on Ali Edwards site.

The coffee cup makes a great sturdy cover for a little book.

You begin by first rinsing out the used cup.

Take scissors and cut out the bottom of the cup.

Then fold like a book and carefully, with scissors, trip down one side so that your book opens.

Then you  use the coffee cup to make a template for the interior pages, making them about a half inch smaller then the cup itself. If you like, you can take the sewing maching and sew around your 'scrapbook cover'.

 In my project, I sewed down the middle of my book to hold the interior pages...but you could also simply staple the pages. I made about my book with 4 interior pages which give your 8 pages front & back.

 Here is the back of the coffee cup scrapbook:

 And I used a brown ink pad to ink around the edges for a fun look.

I love this little project because it costs almost next to nothing to make.....a recycled coffee cup, some scrapbook papers and a few embellishments.

A perfect gift for those coffee lovers on  your list maybe?

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Organizing for Christmas~Project 6: Plan A Project Day with Someone Special...

This week, I am writing a series about getting organized for Christmas. I am featuring a few little ideas to help make Christmas organized and pretty for the CEO of Santa's workshop.....Mom.

{To see Project 1: A Fun Clipboard, click here.}
{To see Project 2: An Idea Journal, click here.}

{To see Project 3: A Wallet for Christmas Receipts & Cash, click here.}

{To see Project 4: Looking for Inspiration?, click here.}

{To see Project 5: An Idea for Creative & Inexpensive Packaging for Goodies, click here.}

Welcome to Project 6!

One of my very favourite things to do when getting ready for Christmas is to plan time for some shared activities with loved ones and special friends. To me....that is a part of Christmas.

Over the years I have made cookies with friends, constructed gingerbread houses with family, hosted crafty parties for my daughter and her friends, and hosted a "Christmas Card Night" with wine and appies with girlfriends.

When my Mom comes to visit, we always try to find time to have a craft day where we create a project together. A few months ago when she was here, we made these.

When she was here a few weeks ago, we decided to do a Christmas project together.

After spending some time browsing around my favourite local craft store,

we decided to make Christmas mini-albums together.

We purchased inexpensive accordion albums along with a few sheets of paper and accents.

I love spending quality time with my Mom....she is such a fun girl!

{We forgot to get out the wine this time though!}

This is what our finished projects looked like~

 The cover of mine:

The interior pages:

We used assorted stickers, felt pieces, and ribbon to dress things up.

The last few interior pages:

Our albums were not exactly the same as we used different little pieces here and there.

The beauty of an accordion album is that it can be displayed on a mantle or tabletop.

This little project will hold photos for Christmas 2010 in few weeks.

And it is comforting to know that our mantle and my parent's mantle will share some love across the miles.

This post has been linked to these fun parties:

Organizing for Christmas~Project 5:An Idea for Creative & Inexpensive Packaging for Goodies

This week, I am writing a series about getting organized for Christmas. I am featuring a few little ideas to help make Christmas organized and pretty for the CEO of Santa's workshop.....Mom.

Welcome to Project 5!

{To see Project 1: A Fun Clipboard, click here.}

{To see Project 2: An Idea Journal, click here.}

{To see Project 3: A Wallet for Christmas Receipts & Cash, click here.}

{To see Project 4: Looking for Inspiration?, click here.}

I don't know about you, but I love pretty packages!

I am always on the lookout for things or ideas to make my packages pretty.

Last year, I used my computer & printer to make some easy & inexpensive labels for homemade goodies that we were giving as gifts to my daughter's skating team.

I made 2 batches of these double chocolate cookies....and decorated them with drizzled white chocolate & crushed candy canes.

Individual cookies were placed in decorative bags. {I have also used regular baggies too.}

Then I went to my computer and make these labels in a word processing program, and printed them out on white cardstock. When you make labels on your computer....the choices of fonts and colours are endless!

 I cut out squares of white cardstock to use as 'trays' to go hold the cookies to keep them from getting broken.

I placed the cookie and cardstock 'tray' inside each bag.

I then used a paper trimmer to trim the 'labels' to fit the bags, and folded and stapled the labels on the tops of the bags....

In no time, I had a nice looking pile of packaged cookies ready for gift-giving...

I was very pleased with how this packaging project turned out...and I used things that I already had at home to make them look pretty!

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