Here is a fun and easy project to do.

I love to alter things and I also love to include my kids in some of my projects. We sat down a while back and created fridge magnets from coasters. You can purchase coasters in bulk and most LSS’s or online. You can collect them when you go out to supper or at the bars. You also have the option of making your own out of chipboard!!

Pick some patterned papers and a wallet size photo. Adhere the paper to your coaster/chipboard. The girls inked the edges of the coaster. We then added thier photos and some flowers and ribbon. They found these neat alpha brads in my stash and we added their names to it. We also applied some rub ons as well. Next we adhered a magnet to the back of the coaster.

Viola….. some fun and simple fridge magnets!

I plan on making some more this weekend with the girls.

If you create any magnets please email me at thynner5@yahoo.ca and put “CCAS Magnets” in the subject line. You may also link it here on the blog. You will earn a ballot for this month’s Blog Prize!!

~Tara~

This week’s word is BEAUTY.

Beauty is defined as…..

• the qualities that give pleasure to the senses
• smasher: a very attractive or seductive looking woman
• an outstanding example of its kind; “his roses were beauties”; “when I make a mistake it’s a beaut”
• Beauty is a characteristic of a person, place, object or idea that provides a perceptual experience of pleasure, meaning or satisfaction. Beauty is studied as part of aesthetics, sociology, social psychology and culture. As a cultural creation, beauty has been extremely commercialized.

Here is my page using the word BEAUTY.  The page is based on a sketch by Anam Stubbington.

Complete a page using the word BEAUTY, link us up or send Tara a picture at thynner5yahoo.ca and put “CCAS Word Wednesday” in the subject line.  Each page or creation gets you a ballot for this month’s prize draw.  Good luck!

I found these great Card Making Tips in the Resources section. They were submitted by Kate

Beginning Card Making Tips 

• It can save you a lot of time to buy pre-scored or folded cards (and yes, they do even make them in square sizes). This will obviously cost you more money than just making the card base out of cardstock yourself, but it can be a real time savings. AND you can buy packs of them that also come with envelopes, so you don’t have to worry about finding the right size of envelopes for them.

• When designing for quantities: keep things simple - don’t do things that require several steps. For instance, I tend to avoid heat embossing if I’m making more than 15 cards (unless it’s for something special like a wedding and I have lots of time to do it!), because of all the steps involved in the process. (If you do want to do heat embossing, do it in steps like in my first suggestion) I also avoid things like rub-ons and dry embossing, because they tend to take a lot of time to do.
• Things that work GREAT for making quantities of cards: punches, colored staples (glue can be annoying if you have to leave a lot of time to dry), stickers, decorative edged scissors or punches, and rubber stamps.

• Avoid tying bows with ribbon, because they can charge you extra for mailing something with a bump. Instead, consider just stapling ribbon down, or weaving it through slots.

If you have any tips or techniques you would like to share with us please email me at thynner5@yahoo.ca and put “CCAS Blog Tips” in the subject line. Everytime you do you will be entered into the monthly draw.

~Tara~

This week’s challenge is to complete a layout using the following list of items;

• 3 photos (any size, any colour)
• use the colour red somewhere on your page
• use a die cut image (any shape, colour, etc.)
• use a punch of any kind (shape, an edge punch, etc.)

Here’s the page I created using all of the things above…

Be Free

I used the Fiskar’s punch to punch the slots in the red paper and then backed the strip of paper with white cardstock.

Please send your page creations to Tara at: thynner5@yahoo.ca and put “CCAS Blog Challenge” in the subject line. You will earn a ballot for this month’s Blog Prize Draw!  Good luck!

I have a couple DT Calls I would like to share with you today. I have been privledged to work with both of these wonderful sites and I wanted to let you know that both The Scrapping Bug and Scrapdango have a Design Team Call right now.

You can find the info for The Scrapping Bug DT Call at their site here: DT Call

Scrapdango is combining thier call with a fun contest where you are issued challenges weekly. It is going to be alot of fun! You can find the info here: DT Contest

I also wanted to give you a peek at the new kits at Scrapdango. They are awesome!

Sugar Kit

Spice KIt

For more info on these great kits please check out Scrapdango!

Happy Scrapping!

~Tara~

I am a font-a-holic!! I can admit it. I love fonts!! All types of fonts. I am contantly looking through the web for new, fresh and funky fonts. I thought I would share my addiction with you gals.

I love a good font and this one is fontastic!

This week I have chosen a cute one called: Scrubble

If you would like it on your computer you can download it for free here: Dafont

If you require instructions on loading your new font, they can be found in the Resources section of the blog: Resources

I would love to see any creations you make using this font. You can send it to: thynner5@yahoo.ca and put “font friday” in the subject line. You can also link you creations here as well. Anyone who does this will have a ballot for this months draw!

Enjoy your new font!

~Tara~

Here at CCAS, we have a fabulous Resources section and I found this great tutorial today that I wanted to share.

Carrie Bolduc’s: “Altered Box”

To see how Carrie made this gorgeous little altered box, check her step by step tutorial here.

Enjoy!

This week’s word is: SWEET

1: pleasing to the taste

2: pleasing to the mind or feelings:

3 : marked by gentle good humor or kindliness

4 : delicately pleasing to the ear or eye

This word can be used in so many ways. It is such a sweet word I used it in the following layout of my niece Chloe in my title. I also used a rather sweet photo of her as well. This layout was based on a sketch that Ally designed for The Sisterhood of Scrap Blog. I used a wonderful collection of papers from The Scrapping Bug.

~Tara~

Since Tara’s challenge this week is all about stitching, I thought some tips about sewing on your pages would be appropriate.

• Don’t have a sewing machine, no problem! Poke holes evenly using a ruler as a guide and connect all the dots using a pen for faux stitching.
• When using your sewing machine, dial the tension down to zero so the thread doesn’t rip through the paper.
• Test your sewing machine BEFORE you use it on a scrap piece of cardstock.
• Tape the ends of your threads on the back of your page so they don’t pull through to the front of your page.
• Use a set of stamps or rub-ons that look like stitches to get that sewn look.
• Not enough adhesive in your stash, sew on your papers instead of gluing things down.
• Use you sewing machine without thread and make dotted patterns as a page design element.
• Do not reverse your sewing machine at the start or finish of your stitching. This will cause the thread to punch unnecessary holes that may cause your paper to tear more easily.
• Sew all your page elements before you put on any 3D elements like flowers and brads. You break your needle or worse, your machine if you were to run them over accidently.

Happy stitching!!!