Dollar Find Friday

Jenny here, with another installment of TSG's Dollar Find Friday, where Trendsetters showcase projects made with items you can find at your discount store!
I wanted to make a quick and easy preoject for my sons' to hand out to their friends as Valentines!

The pencils and chocolates were both bought at the dollar store.....I used some DP from my stash, cutting each piece 2.5 x 3" and punching a hole at the top and bottom (using my 1/2" circle punch) for the pencil to poke through. I cut circles and scalloped circle using my spellbinders dies and cut 1/2" white CS strips and free-cut the notched end. The Bots were stamped in turquoise and red ink and the senitment in black...I used the small, graphic bots from the sets Friendbots and Lovebots.

I am using the red bots for the girls Valentines and the turquoise for the boys, but they are pretty non-gender....minus the pink pencils;)

My boys are so excited to help me make the other 40+ Valentines (yikes!!!) and hand them out to their classmates!!

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Hi everyone, it's Jackie again, here to share my Dollar Find Project. It may seem like Valentine's Day is still far off but not when you want to create cards or specially packaged treats. I found these white favor boxes at the Dollar Store and thought they would work well as Valentine's Day treat boxes. The Lovebots stamp set by Torico is perfect for anything you might want to make for someone you LOVE!

I colored in the robot with my metallic Gelly Roll markers and then colored the hearts with Copics. I attached the sentiment to the box with some red embroidery floss. Filling the box with Hershey Kisses wrapped in pink, red, and silver added some texture and shine. Simple and easy to reproduce so that making multiple treat boxes can be made up quickly.

Thanks for joining me this week! Have a fantastic weekend!!!

Dollar Find Friday - Debby

Hi, Debby here with today's Dollar Find Friday. While wondering what project to do for today's post I browsed the stationary department of the local supermarket and came across some sticky notes. I've seen some great sticky note projects recently so thought I'd have a go myself and at 27p a pack they were a bargain!

I love to make fun party invites and I thought that I could incorporate these sticky notes into a play on words invitation.

Supplies: Stamps - There She Goes zoo-pendous; Inks - Memento tuxedo black; Card - Stampin' Up basic gray; Paper - Echo Park victoria gardens; Dies - Spellbinders squares, Papertrey Ink small scallop; Markers - Flex, Copic & Promarkers; Tesco sticky notes

I computer generated a punny speech bubble to pair up with the ostrich from one of my favourite sets, zoo-pendous.

Then I printed a party invite onto the first sticky note.

My thinking was the sticky note could be adhered to the family calendar/fridge door while leaving a cute sticky note pad to keep on using.

Well here's to the start of the weekend! Have a good one!

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Hello All - It's Theresa with a Dollar Friday Find! I have this wonderful friend and every year she goes up to the mountains and chops down herself a Christmas tree. Well this year she was kind enough to chop me one down too. I haven't set up a tree in more than 8-10 years. Finding my ornaments may be impossible. So when I thought about my project for tonight - I immediately thought ornaments.

As I was looking at clear ornaments at Michael's, I was so excited to see that they were 50% off. I bought 3 of them and spent less than $2.00. The one I selected for my project was an oval shaped bulb and it was .64 cents!! How's that for a buck? Only I forgot to photograph it before I decorated it - that's how excited I was. Here is a photo of a round one that I'll be decorating this weekend.

I selected the new Hohoho set to create my ornament. I colored Santa with Copics and then I adhered him to the ornament with a product called Liquid Glass. I also added snowflakes to the inside of the ornament. It's just so darling and it's my first ornament on my tree!

I hope you like my project. I'll be back tomorrow with a Stampbook Saturday.

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Hello everyone!  Melissa here and welcome to this week's installment of Dollar Find Friday.  I had a really hard time trying to decide what to show you all but thank goodness for friends who help you out and give you ideas!  :)  Thanks, friend!

Do you go to Christmas parties?  Do you set your wine glass down and forget which one was yours?  Well, fear no more - you can make your own charms to distinguish your glass from everyone else's.  I started with some purchased charms because I wanted to have the ring a bit more rigid but you could try using floral wire or elastic cord depending on what kid of glasses you have.  I also bought a package of little jingle bells:

First step - Remove the old charms from the rings.  I was lucky that the charms were something I could use again...perfect tiny Christmas Tree decorations.  :)

Second step - Stamp images on cardstock and color them.  I used the newly released Holiday Ribbons set for my charms:

Step Three - Use the die from the World's Best set (the one on the bottom) to cut out the images. You will also need to cut out the same number of shapes from a heavier cardboard to make the tags more durable.  I used a piece of the cardboard that comes with the SU! paper packs - it is strong but not too bulky for this application.

Step Four - Glue the colored images to the plain cardboard, punch a small hole in the top of the tag, and attach it to the wine charm rings.  I happened to have some metal jump rings in my stash so I attached my images to the jump rings first and then threaded it, along with some of the little jingle bells, onto the wine charm ring.

Step Five - I had originally bought some beads to "fancy up" the rings but once I got the beads on, the charms looked like a five-year old did them!  LOL  So instead I just found some coordinating ribbon and tied a small scrap to each ring:

Whew! There ya go - another fun and easy holiday project using items found in your local dollar store.  Have a great weekend!

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Hello again, it's Lynn here for today's Dollar Find Friday!  As a crafter stepping into a dollar store with creating a project in mind is exciting, it's like searching for that perfect object to be transformed and knowing that you'll be creating something from the heart that doesn't cost a fortune.  Well as I was at the dollar store searching I came across some unfinished wooden letters and an idea that I had come across on Pinterest popped into my head.  The idea was to create a personalized Christmas ornament using the first letter of the families last name.  So before I made one as a gift for someone I thought I'd make one for our family just to see how it went.  I was surprised at how fun and easy it was to dress up a wooden letter using a few tools, some designer paper and of course the adorable stamp sets No peeking!, Holly Jolly and Holly Jolly Die.

Below are the steps I used to create my personalized Christmas ornament -

Supplies: Wooden letter, designer paper, scissors, craft paint, foam paint brush, craft glue, metal file, sponge, No Peeking!, Holly Jolly stamp set and die, ribbon.

Here's a shot of the wooden letter before I started.

In order to create a pattern to cut out the designer paper that will go onto the front of the letter I placed a sheet of designer paper on top of the wooden letter, held it in place, applied light pressure and rubbed along all of the edges.  Once I flipped the designer paper over I could see my letter "P".

I used a pair of scissors to cut out my designer paper letter "P" leaving about 1/8" around on all edges.

Next I used some cream colored craft paint and painted around the edges of the letter.  Once the paint was dry I brushed on some craft glue along the top of the letter and added my designer paper.  I let the designer paper and glue set up for about 10 minutes and then took a metal file and filed along the edges of the designer paper to trim off the excess.   

I used a sponge to sponge on some green ink along the edges of the designer paper, die cut a piece of green cardstock using the Holly Jolly Die and stamped it with the snowflake image from the Holly Jolly stamp set.  I printed out our family name on vanilla cardstock from the computer then stamped the holly image, circle frame and the 2011 from the No Peeking! stamp set and used a circle punch to punch it out.

I layered the die and stamped pieces together after I colored the holly image, added some bows and a ribbon hanger on the back and I was done.

I hope you've enjoyed my Dollar Find Friday post!

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Hi- It's me, Jenny, again:) Today I have the FUNNEST PROJECT ON EARTH to share with you. Yeah- I know them's pretty big words, but I seriously had such a great time (just me, myself and I;) making this little scrapbook that I can't wait to make another! Hmmm....maybe a Christmas version?? Word has it, that TSG is coming out with some pretty nice stamps for the Holiday season *wink wink*! Not to mention that AMAZING No Peeking set that was just released!! Oh yeah- I can just see the possibilities!
Okay, enough with the rambling, as this is going to be a L-O-N-G post (better grab a cuppa and cop a squat;)
While perusing SCS lately, I came accross a project that is a long forgotten oldie, but a  goodie! The paper bag album! I found this wonderful tutorial in the SCS resources and I just HAD to try my hand at making one of my very own!

Disclaimer: Yes, I know that it is November and everyone is going Christmas-strong. Halloween is over, but who out there has their pictures developed yet?? Not me, that's for sure. So you can still whip this up, even if it is November! Take your pics in, come home, make album, go pick up pics, put pics in album.voila! You probably even bought a bunch of Halloween dp and embellies and stuff that you didn't even get around to using (not me of course, hehe;)

Got your coffee? Okay, let's get started!

First you need some paper lunch bags. I used three, and trust me, the album is plenty thick once it's all embellied-up. And guess what, my penny-pinching friends? I found mine at the dollar store. 40 bags for $1.25 (huh? It's supposed to be the DOLLAR store, not the buck and a quarter store!).
But really, it just doesn't get cheaper than that- well, maybe if they were a dollar;)

Lay your bags out as so (alternating which end the opening is on), then stack in the same order and fold them in half (together, in one fold). Then attach them in some way or another. I punched two holes and added large eyelets to mine, then threaded large ribbon through and tied at the 'spine'.
The bottoms of the bags will act as little half-pockets and the open ends will be your large pockets. So really, you can stack them any way that suits you. As you lay them out, think of what you want to put in your album. (If you need more specific instructions on folding the bags and such, refer to the SCS tutorial mentioned above, here)

Rather than a step-by-step of my whole process, I am just going to show you pics of each page. However you want to decorate your album is up to you, with whatever goodies and stamps you have on hand. This project has such a personal touch, that we will all put our own creative spin on the album:)

I made mine using the same paper and colours as I made my kids Halloween card with (you can see the deets here)!
Here are the finished products, together!

Cover: Use your neglected alphabet stamps to create titles. You'll notice that Hauntingly Delightful is used throughout the album.

Here is one of the journalling (or picture pages- whatever your choice) tags, pulled out of the large pocket (the open end of the bag). I stamped the haunted house from Bugs and Hisses on the page.

First and second pages (see the little verse from Hauntigly Delightful on the pull-out page?):

Each boy got a two-page spread of their very own, featuring their name and age, and elements related to their likes;) Here is my middle sons page, featuring images from Hauntingly Delightful and Bugs and Hisses. Remember not to adhere the top portion of your picture page, as you want to be able to slide the picture into the sleeve or pocket.

 
This is what the 1/2 pocket (made from the bottom of the bag) looks like. Just adhere the top and bottom, using score tape, and you can slide a little journalling card in, like I did here.

Here is the second pull-out tag with that spooky tree from Bugs and Hisses.

My oldest son's page, using the spider stamps from Bugs and Hisses.

Here is my youngest son's pages. I used the Spider Web Die, World's Best Die for the 'Boo' flag, and the friendly ghost andd Boo from Hauntingly Delightful.

And the final pages feature the Spider Web die again, and some fun spiderweb stamps and sentiments from Bugs and Hisses.

This album took me about 4 hrs to put together. Really not that long for what you get at the end:) All I bought were the bags! The rest was all supplies that I had on hand:) Check your scrapbooking stash, grab some TSG stamps and paper lunch bags, and you are ready to roll! You might just even have some bags lying around the house! I hope you have enjoyed my fun little-big project for today's Dollar Find Friday!

Supplies: Stamps- TSG, TCP (alphabets); Ink- memento, versamark, chalk ink; CS- SU; DP- MME 'mischevious'; twine- walmart, SU; Ribbon, twill- SU; number fabric brads- The Girls Paperie; flags/enamel brads- MME; Dies- TSG, Spellbinders, TCP circus label die (last page); glittery spider stickers- Martha Stewart; wood buttons- unknown; pewter jumbo eyelets- SU; Copics; dimensionals; sewing machine; black thread; distressing tool; staples

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Hi again, it's Jackie and I hope you enjoyed the TSG Wednesday Trends post. Today is my turn to post a project made from a dollar find. While searching out my dollar find item I saw some little snack size storage containers. I thought they would make a cute little Halloween treat holder. Below are the supplies I gathered:

I prepared my project by stamping and cutting out all of the components. I cut out circles of black burlap, circles of patterned paper, grass, a sign and a pumpkin. I used the Bugs and Hisses stamp set by TSG. I wanted my sign to say Happy Halloween. So I snipped the word Happy from the stamp, Happy Haunting and Halloween from the stamp, Have a frightfully spooky Halloween.That's one of the best features of using clear stamps, you can cut them apart to use them in new ways!

I found that Scotch Quick Dry Adhesive worked best to glue the burlap to the plastic lid. The burlap has such a great texture!

I glued the patterned paper circle to the burlap and then glued the sign and grass. I popped up the pumpkin with Scotch Mounting Tape.

These where inexpensive to make and I'm sure would be enjoyed by a classroom of children for a Halloween party. They could also be tucked inside a lunchbox as a sweet little surprise or just given out as a Halloween treat.

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Hello again, Debby here and it's time for my first go at a Dollar Find Friday post! Over the last wee while I've been keeping an eye out for an inexpensive something which can be made into something so much more using my stamping supplies. Finally I spied a simple pack of 12 pencils from the supermarket. I thought they'd be great dressed up as a little teacher thank you for the end of the year. Here are my supplies:

Pencils, 5cm strips of pool party card cut with scalloped scissors, 11.5 x7cm strips of white card, some berry sorbet ribbon and some teacher buttons and rosettes cut and stamped using the World's Best stamps and dies.

I attached the blue card to the white and scored at intervals down the length. The narrow scores are about 0.5cm wide and the wider pieces 2.3cm. This allows for a little box to hold 3 pencils. Finally I scored along the bottom and snipped the bottom flaps.

I made the open ended box, added the pencils and wrapped some berry sorbet ribbon around. I knotted the ribbon and held the top piece down with a glue dot.

  

Then I coloured the three rosettes and added them to the boxes with a very sticky dimensional glue dot. The teacher buttons were attached with dimensional adhesive too.

Finally here are my three pencil boxes - a simple gift but one I'm sure will be appreciated.

Supplies: Stamps - There She Goes world's best; Ink - Memento tuxedo black; Card - Stampin' Up pool party; Dies - There She Goes world's best, spellbinders circles; Ribbon - Papertrey Ink melon berry; Copics - 0 R20, R22, R24

I intend to make more projects to go with these over the coming weeks. Hopefully when the December craziness arrives I will already have a nice teacher gift set already completed.

Have a great weekend. Here in Scotland the children break up today for a weeks holiday! Yipee!

Debby