Archives for February 2011

Fresh Baked! 2/4

February 4, 2011 by GingerScraps

It is that time again! Time for another snow or ice storm….well that and time for our new releases. Can I tell you how glad I am that Punxsutawney Phil didn’t see his shadow? I’m so ready for spring! How has your winter been? Hopefully you are living somewhere warm. Let me know if you want some company, I really need to escape this snow. Enough about me and this snow. I’m sure you are all sick of hearing about it just as I am living it.

Would you like to see what we have new for you this week? Well let me show you! First though, don’t forget you can save 10% at Persnickety Prints just by using the special Gingerscraps coupon code!

Now time for new goodies!

Romantic Dreams {the kit} by Cari Cruse

Reminisce your favorite times together, letting these papers & elements help you tell the story and create enchanting layouts. Contains 16 papers + 42 elements + 1 alpha

https://store.gingerscraps.net/Romantic-Dreams-the-kit-by-Cari-Cruse.html

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Marshmella Designs created this Day by Day collection. Perfect for all your project 365/52 layouts and versitile enough for all your everyday layouts too. Everything is 25% for a week. Except the bundle which will be 39% off for a week!!

The kit inlcudes 10 pattern papers, 5 solid recolored papers and 51 elements.

https://store.gingerscraps.net/Day-by-Day-Kit.html

Coordinating alphas – a-z & 0-9

https://store.gingerscraps.net/Day-by-Date-Alphas.html

Dates include: 7 calanders, 60 months, 28 weekdays and 36 highlighters. Versitile colors to match any kit.

https://store.gingerscraps.net/Day-by-Day-Dates.html

4 psd file templates

https://store.gingerscraps.net/Day-by-Day-Templates.html

And the bundle for a HUGE 39% off savings. Includes everything!

https://store.gingerscraps.net/Day-by-Day-Bundle.html

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It’s the perfect kit for Valentine’s Day, but Everything You Are by Scrappy Cocoa is more of a grown up love kit. A little vintage and all romance, Everything You Are is packed full of Love with 13 Papers and 53 Elements. Made with lots of X’s and O’s Everything You Are is great to capture the ones you love.

https://store.gingerscraps.net/Everything-You-Are.html

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Tweet Heart by Julie Marie Designs

https://store.gingerscraps.net/Tweet-Heart-by-Julie-Marie.html

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Is there a little ballerina in your life? Wyld Web Designs has the perfect kit to make her photos shine!

https://store.gingerscraps.net/Tiny-Dancer-by-Wyld-Web-Designs.html

And there is of course a coordinating alpha pack!

https://store.gingerscraps.net/Tiny-Dancer-Alpha-Pack-by-Wyld-Web-Designs.html

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Pretty in Green has the perfect set of number buttons for your project 365, Thirty One is 3 sets of 31 numbers in 3 styles with days of the week buttons, great for dating and embellishing a project 365 layout. doodles, plastic, and metal each in individual .png and as a sheet.

https://store.gingerscraps.net/Thirty-One-project-356.html

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Psychozoe has a CU Puppy Pack, including a background paper! These adorable puppies come in 7 poses and can be added to any layout and kit! So adogable! $5.00

https://store.gingerscraps.net/CU-Puppy-Pack.html

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A fun filled pack of doodles from Pixels By Jen. Customize these brackets for a special look on any layout or project. Layered PSD and PNG format, including white filled digi stamp. You can easily clip/mask any paper from any kit to these, or add a layer style for fun looks.

https://store.gingerscraps.net/Brackets-1.html

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Our newest designer, Pixie Keepsakes, has added a couple of new goodies to her store!

It’s My Party

https://store.gingerscraps.net/It-s-My-Party.html

Travel Album

https://store.gingerscraps.net/Travel-Album.html

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There you have it!

Do you like Ginger Scraps on facebook? Have you won any coupons? No? Keep watching then! We have TONS we are giving away!

Have a great week!!

Filed Under: Fresh Baked

Let’s Get Crafty: Cutest Pedestal Goodie Stand

February 2, 2011 by GingerScraps

Have you missed me? It’s time to get crafty! Yea! I have missed doing these posts…it gives me an excuse to get crafty. Today is a fun one, and totally cheap..oh does that sound bad…how about inexpensive. That’s better. This whole project was my Mom’s idea, she is THE QUEEN of crafting. She does it all! She is amazing. I could do years worth of Crafty Thursdays with all the stuff she makes. This is where my sister Ginger and I get our artsy genes from. My Mom LOVES to make beautiful items that look like they came from one of those cute little boutiques, out of stuff she has around the house or finds at yard sales and thrift stores. She was the Queen of Up-Cycling before it became cool 🙂

So, this is what we are playing with today. Plates and candle holders. We probably all have one of those plates laying around that looks so cute but you never use it. And a mismatched candle holder. You just don’t want to throw away. Heck if you don’t just go to any Thrift Store. There are tons of super cute plates and candle holders you can pick up for next to nothing! My Mom took a bunch of her plates and candle holders she had gathered over the years and made them into the Cutest Pedestal goodie stand. Perfect to serve you yummy cookies, muffins, fruit, gosh everything looks great on these Pedestals! Let me share with you some of the one’s my lovely Mother has created. Then I will show you step by step how we made mine 🙂

Here are my Mom’s creations…

Now aren’t those adorable! I just had to make one and I had the perfect plate. When my husband was in the Army we were stationed at Fort Bragg, in Fayetteville NC, lot’s of great memories there. One day I was looking around in my local Thrift Store..by the way, I’m in CA now. No where near Fayetteville, NC. I found this plate that said Fayetteville NC on it! Can you believe that. All those years I lived there and I find the Fayetteville plate in CA. LOL. Of course I had to have it, and the price of .75 cents was just right! Now I have had this plate sitting in my cupboard for a while and when I saw my Mom’s Pedestals, I knew I wanted to do that with my special plate. Oh course my Mom had the perfect cream colored candle holder for me to use 🙂 Thanks Mom. Of course she got the candle holder at the Thrift Store too. So let’s get started.

First step (after you choose the perfect candle holder and plate that is) is to clean any dust off of your candle holder and plate. Then take some sandpaper or a sanding block and sand the bottom of the plate and the top of the candle holder. I used a sanding block.

Next, take some nail polish remover and clean it again real good removing any dust from the sanding.

Next you will want to lay your plate down with the front of the plate towards the table then lay your candle right in the middle of your plate. Get it nice and centered. Take a sharpie and draw a circle all the way around the candle holder.

It will look like this.

Take your glue, I used gorilla glue, it is super strong super glue. Don’t use the cheapo super glue. Get the good stuff. You an also use epoxy, but I didn’t want to deal with the mixing and mess, so I just used Gorilla Super Glue.

Put your glue on your plate right on the inside of the circle that you just drew. Like this. Be quick, it dries fast. And don’t use too much. Just enough.

Now, stick your candle holder right on top of the glue. Press it down and hold for like 20 seconds. You can wipe off the ink now too if you want.

Now to seal it even more for a nice smooth tight hold. We took some Aleene’s Jewel it glue and went all around the edges where the plate and candle holder meet. You could also use clear caulk. It works too. Just make a nice smooth bead all around the edge and smooth it with your finger.