Crafty Halloween

It was a Crafty Halloween this year.  We made custom t-shirts, tootsie pop ghots and Mummy earrings out of Shrinkie Dinks!!  Loved those.

How Have You Bean?

A nice simple "How Have You Bean" card with brown ribbon, a brown ink pad, and a nice stamp set from HSN a few years back. (Probably 2013)  I hate when people tell me it was two years ago that they bought a cute dress that I really want to get today.  I am sorry about that, but this stamp set was a fun one and the coffee togo cup was the real reason I bought it.  I do have to cut it out by hand but it really isn't too bad.  The paper is a news print paper from Michael's, nothing special.  You could actually grab that off of a quick Pintrest search.  :)  #usingupscraps 

Enjoy, Jeanine @ Paper Craft or Prozac

Somewhere In Time: A Steampunk Prom

Somewhere In Time, A Steampunk Prom

 I know what you are think, a Steampunk Prom?  I thought the same thing before we started MONTHS before prom actually began.  I never, before working for a high school, knew how long it actually took to prepare for prom.  No, not getting your hair done choosing the right dress.  But the work to make the center pieces, the party favors, the decorations, the everything.  Oh it takes forever and the planning must start as soon as school starts.  

200 Party favors were made by our students using SVG files from SvgCuts.com , SAL2, Cricut Expressions, and a Cuttlebug.  The students love putting them all together.  These take about a week to complete with the center pieces.  What a great accomplishment to finish them all. 

The large decorations where cut out of Styrofoam board.  The students would draw out the desired shapes on the foam board then use a hot knife to cut the foam.  Once they had the desired shape the painting began.  Students would paint and then hot glue on beads and sequence to make the decorations sparkle under the twinkle lights.  The only part the students did not participate in was the actual set up.  The teachers and parents do this every year. We always wanted the students to be surprised.  Oh and how surprised they were.  They loved this prom.  There were so many hands that went into making our homemade proms so special.  We will miss them for years to come.  

Jeanine @ Paper Crafting or Prozac

Fun in 1st Grade Banner

Fun in 1st Grade Banner - 

I had so much fun making this banner for the Fall Festival at my daughter's school.  Her school has a festival every fall for the scholars and family to attend.  Each grade hosts a booth that needs to be decorated.  I was asked on Monday if I could help with some decorations.  My first thought was to go to my own classroom and grab some Halloween items that I have in the closet and drop them off.  My crafting bug started biting me and I decided to get back into my craft room.  (My craft room is not a room I can even walk in, that will be a later post.)  Sooo, I grabbed a few tools, some paper and started playing around at the kitchen table. This was the outcome....

I ran a length of orange ribbon through the pieces before sending it off to school.  The next step was to add a few other decorations.  I pulled out some more tools and I ended up with about 9 of these pumpkins....

The colors did actually match, the difference in the two pictures was the absence of a flash in the first one. The Recipe I used was as follows:

Fun in 1st Grade Banner

We R Memory Keepers Banner Punch

Base Paper cut at 5.5" x 8.5"

Cherry Lemonade Cricut Cartridge 

Font cut at 5"

Paper was scrap that I had

Pumpkins

Cricut Mini Monsters Cartridge

Pumpkins cut at 5.5"

Cuttle Bug and Folders various

Paper was scrap that I had

Adhesive: Scotch ATG and Aleen's Craft Glue.

I hope you enjoy, I loved the cute pumpkin faces and was happy to play with the new We R Memory Keepers Banner Punch Board.  I see a future of many banners, Birthday, Thanksgiving, Christmas, oh my!!

Jeanine @ Paper Crafting or Prozac!

Illustrator - I Love!

I might be in love with another program.  Illustrator!!  I took a mind blowing class last Saturday and learned so much that I can pass on to my students.  The funny thing was, while I was creating and playing around I found out I can create my own SVG files to cut with my SCAL.  How cool is that?  So my first flower in Illustrator.  I'll post a pic after I cut it!!

Almost looks like a fat gingerbread guy.  LOL

My First Attempt at Digital Scrap Booking

I have used Photoshop for years and just haven't gotten to actually pulling out my digital photos and putting something together.  So I stumbled upon Pixel Scrapper Digital Scrapbooking and downloaded this cute template, paper, and elements...  Love the site.  I'll list the items I used soon!

Robert repaired this little boat that someone was giving away for free.  He re-fiber-glassed it, painted it and then took it for it's maiden voyage in the pond at the sod farm.  He was so happy!!

Items Used were all from Pixel Scrapper Digital Scrapbooking
Template: marisaL-layout458
Anchor Paper: ps_marisa-lerin_35429_oceanside-anchor-paper_pu
Twine Bow: ps_marisa-lerin_22875_khaki-scouts-rope-bow_pu

I will be subscribing soon to pixelscrapper, I am in love with all the kits and bundles that I have seen on this site.  $10 per month, not bad!!

A Long TIME!

How Long Has It Been?? 

It has been awhile since I have been around.  I've been missing my crafting.  Well with Teacher Appreciation happening, I had to do something.  So since I teach Graphics and Web Design, I figured I would have a student create a Teacher App. Tag to attach to homemade cookies.  ;)

We chose to do it on an angle so we could print it out, cut it easily and hole punch it.  We printed them at 2"x2".  The culinary students cooked a boat load of cookies for all the teachers.  It was fun to work this the students from both programs.  :)  Use if you would like, just don't sell it (unless you send me the money.)

Enjoy!  Jeanine