Sales and Shopping. . .

Spellbinders held their Warehouse Sale and I picked up a few things:

Invoice for my order:

Regular prices were approx $133.00 total but with their Warehouse Sale I only paid $50.00 so that was a good sale for me. They also had another sale and I picked up these three items:

Sad to see I-Crafter closing but I did buy some items for her closing sale:

 

Altho she is closing I-Crafter she said she will be working with Trinity Stamps so we will still get to enjoy her talents on their website.

Also -- ordered some things from Scrapbook.com at their sale and they enclosed this cute card in with the order:

Too cute and too true -- will keep that on the work table. I ordered two die sets from PrettyPinkPosh during their sale:

Two new releases from ScrapdivaDesigns.com:

Love the floral die that has all the flowers on one plate so with each pass through the machine you get lots of layers for the flowers.... easy to make lots of flowers with this plate.... Lots of new items to add to the craft room for projects ahead.... Happy to always be able to shop sale prices......

Spring Wreath

 A gal at work asked me to make her a Spring wreath for her door so here that is - used flowers from the Dollar Tree and my stash, with a wreath form from the stash to make this wreath. The birdhouse is from the Dollar Tree and I painted it white, sponged blue paint over that using plastic wrap. Once dried I sponged brown paint over that and I painted the roof peak brown as well. Happy she liked it as she has birdhouses on her tree in the front yard. 

(DH is home from surgery so I will craft and post when I can but I wanted to get a couple of projects posted on the blog -- )

Took a chance....

 Scrapbook.com recently had a sale and I shopped and found their exclusive tape holder for mint tape... I had a dispenser for my mint tape but the tape would not stick to the dispenser and it was a challenge to use it because I had to always search for the end of the tape to use it.... Here is the Scrapbook exclusive mint tape dispenser that was on sale for $8 something from their $18.00 price tag:

I waited awhile to put this in use to see if it really would work and it does -- the tape stays in place on the dispenser and is always ready for use:

The former dispenser now holds eyelash tape for die cutting and the yellow tape I always reach for:

The mint tape dispenser is weighted and where my other dispensers have the metal tear off piece the mint tape dispenser is plastic so happy that this new mint tape dispenser works as they say it does and even happier that it was on sale!

Anna Griffin Purse Card Die

 Last month I picked up the Anna Griffin Purse Card Die set at the Reconsidered Goods store in Greensboro -- this is a recycle store that is loaded with craft supplies and happy I went to shop there the day I did! This stamp set was priced for $2.00 and I brought it home -- 

Although I like the designs she has the Anna Griffin line of products is pricey and I did not own any of her die sets (I posted about all the die sets I bought at this stop to this store early in April). When I saw this die I knew I wanted to make it into a purse treat holder rather than use it for the card die set it was. Here is a photo of a couple of the purse treat holders I have made:

Here is a photo of the die set showing all the detailed dies in this set:

I die cut the side panels our of white card stock and then the prints I wanted to use. Used liquid glue to put those together. For my gold pieces I used gold poster board from the Dollar Tree and this has a brushed finish rather than a mirror finish that my gold card stock has. For the insert I used a piece of 3x11 white card stock and I scored it at 3 and 8 and then again at 1/2 on both long sides:

Used liquid glue to put the front and back purse panels on this. Added the gold die cut front pieces. Added a small flower to the one handle:

Pink purse in progress:

Fun treat holder for Mother's Day -- and a great find for $2.00 for an Anna Griffin die set!