LOTW- 2/6/11

February 6, 2011 by

This weeks LOTW winner is Roxana. Congratulations!! Her Buzz and Me layout is so fun. I absolutely love the bright colors and the spacey elements. What an awesome LO and a wonderful memory for her little one!

Click on the image to leave her some love or click here to view her entire Gingerscraps Gallery.

Buzz and Me was created using Space Hero by Amy Peck of Unforgettable Moments available at the GingerScraps store.

You can pick outstanding gallery layouts which become the next LOTW nominee’s by posting in the “Baker’s Best” thread. Check out the rules here.

As always your vote counts so head over the the forum to vote for the next LOTW winner. You can be a LOTW winner too, all you have to do is scrap! Happy Scrapping.

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Let’s Get Crafty: Cutest Pedestal Goodie Stand

February 2, 2011 by

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.

Place a nice big book on the top for a while while the glue dries.

Now you have a beautiful Pedestal Plate Stand to place your yummy goodies on top of. Here is mine.

From the top. (Yes, I know my plate has a little chip, but it’s ok, it’s a special plate)

My kids ate all the cookies, but it looks great with fruit on it too 🙂

Now doesn’t that look easy and fun! Go out and make your own! Please share with us if you do! Have a happy Thursday and go get Crafty!

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LOTW

January 30, 2011 by

I’m so tired of snow. Is spring here yet?  Where I live, in Connecticut, we’re expecting more snow this week. The only good thing about snow is I get to work from home if I don’t want to travel in the snow. That’s great, but seriously there’s just way too much to go out there and play in. I may just lose my son in the snow piles! This is a picture of him standing in front of a snow pile.  We’ve had about 50″ of snow since December.

 On to the reason you’re here. This week’s LOTW winner is Lysithea with her stunning “Everything Grows With Love” LO.

Click on the image to leave her some love or click here to view her entire Gingerscraps Gallery.

 

Her beautiful layout was created with the Puppy Love Collection by Marshmella Designs

You can pick outstanding gallery layouts which become the next LOTW nominee’s by posting in the “Baker’s Best” thread. Check out the rules here.

As always your vote counts so head over the the forum to vote for the next LOTW winner. You can be a LOTW winner too, all you have to do is scrap! Happy Scrapping.

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January 23, 2011 by

Congratulations to Angela (aevans96)!  She is our LOTW winner this week with her layout titled So Lost in your Embrace. This LO displays a beatifully blended photo and fabulous clusters. Great job Angela.

Be sure to check out her Gingerscraps gallery. Her LO is linked to her winning LO… leave her some LOVE 🙂

You can pick outstanding gallery layouts which become the next LOTW nominee’s by posting in the “Baker’s Best” thread. Check out the guidelines here.

As always your vote counts so head over the the forum to vote for the next LOTW winner. You can be a LOTW winner too, all you have to do is scrap! Happy Scrapping.

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January 16, 2011 by

The holidays are finally winding down which means more scrapping time for me. I hope!! I certainly don’t want to be outside in this bitter cold winter weather. It’s way too cold for me here in Connecticut!

On to the good news! The LOTW winner for this week is Kimberkatt. Congratulations! I absolutely love her LO with all of the photos of the little guy reading his book. The journaling reads “At the age of 5, Dominic’s favorite books are his Iron Man books! Almost every night at bedtime he requests one of them, but this one, Iron Man: Friends & Foes, is the one he loves the most! We have read this book to him so many times he’s memorized not only the story, but the actual words in the book! We find him recognizing these words in other stories that we read and it is wonderful to see him learning to read so quickly!!”

Click on the image to leave Kimberly some love or click here to view her entire Gingerscraps Gallery.

 You can pick outstanding gallery layouts which become the next LOTW nominee’s by posting in the “Baker’s Best” thread. Check out the rules here.

As always your vote counts so head over the the forum to vote for the next LOTW winner. You can be a LOTW winner too, all you have to do is scrap! Happy Scrapping.

 

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Filed Under: Digital Scrapbooking
January 9, 2011 by

This weeks LOTW winner is FJChickie. Congratulations Lisa!! This is one of those LO’s that makes you wish you were there having fun too! This one screams “scraplift me!”. I just may listen and scraplift this one.

Click on the image to leave her some love or click here to view her entire Gingerscraps Gallery.

 Lisa’s awesome LO was created using Cozy Woodsy Winter Collab by Marshmella Designs & Daphadilly Art.

You can pick outstanding gallery layouts which become the next LOTW nominee’s by posting in the “Baker’s Best” thread. Check out the rules here.

As always your vote counts so head over the the forum to vote for the next LOTW winner. You can be a LOTW winner too, all you have to do is scrap! Happy Scrapping.

https://gingerscraps.net/gsblog/2011/01/2749/

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January 3, 2011 by

Congratulations kimmyscraps.  She is our LOTW winner this week with her Winter Wonderland LO.

Be sure to check out her Gingerscraps gallery. Her LO is linked to her winning LO… leave her some LOVE 🙂

 

 

 

You can pick outstanding gallery layouts which become the next LOTW nominee’s by posting in the “Baker’s Best” thread. Check out the guidelines here.

As always your vote counts so head over the the forum to vote for the next LOTW winner. You can be a LOTW winner too, all you have to do is scrap! Happy Scrapping.

https://gingerscraps.net/gsblog/2011/01/2730/

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December 26, 2010 by

This week’s LOTW winner is Angela. Her winning LO is titled Dreaming About You.  This LO is linked to Angela’s winning LO… leave her some LOVE 🙂
Check out Angela’s entire Gingerscraps gallery.

 

You can pick outstanding gallery layouts which become the next LOTW nominee’s by posting in the “Baker’s Best” thread. Check out the rules here.

As always your vote counts so head over the the forum to vote for the next LOTW winner. You can be a LOTW winner too, all you have to do is scrap! Happy Scrapping.

https://gingerscraps.net/gsblog/2010/12/2692/

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December 19, 2010 by

Are you aware Christmas is just 6 days away? This time of the year has it’s good and bad days. I love the season, but I despise going out into the stores even if it only to go to the grocery store. People are cRaZy!! I hope you are are not stressing too much.  I keep telling myself  the same!

On to the BIG news. This weeks LOTW winner is charlie_x. Congratulations!! I must warn you though, the jounaling is so heartfelt that you will get a tear in your eye reading it so make sure you have a tissue handy!

Click on the image to leave her some love or click here to view her entire Gingerscraps Gallery.

This beautiful LO was created using Holly Jolly by Marshmella Designs.

You can pick outstanding gallery layouts which become the next LOTW nominee’s by posting in the “Baker’s Best” thread. Check out the rules here.

As always your vote counts so head over the the forum to vote for the next LOTW winner. You can be a LOTW winner too, all you have to do is scrap! Happy Scrapping.

https://gingerscraps.net/gsblog/2010/12/2656/

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December 12, 2010 by

The LOTW winner for this week is FJChickie. Congratulations! Lisa was inspired to create this LO for one of the many fabulous challenges at GingerScraps. Playing along with the challanges at GingerScaps can help you win some prizes too!!

 Click on the image to leave Lisa some love or click here to view her entire Gingerscraps Gallery.

 
Lisa used Wyld Web Designs’ Elephants Never Forget-Me-Not kit.

You can pick outstanding gallery layouts which become the next LOTW nominee’s by posting in the “Baker’s Best” thread. Check out the rules here.

 As always your vote counts so head over the the forum to vote for the next LOTW winner. You can be a LOTW winner too, all you have to do is scrap! Happy Scrapping.

 

 

https://gingerscraps.net/gsblog/2010/12/2585/

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