Friday, January 21, 2011

Easy Birthday Present

Jadan came home yesterday and said it was his teachers birthday today....so as we were walking home from school I was thinking, what am I going to do? I didn't want to go anywhere, I didn't want to go spend $, I knew I would end of going to Target which only leads to a bad place for me, I LOVE that place! Then I remembered I have been making my crafts, and learning new ways to package things to sell at the shows etc. And wallah! April had a FANTASTIC b-day gift any girl would love!

The magnets are made out of glass bead things you get at the craft store to put in a vase with scrapbook paper mod podged on and then a magnet on the back. I then had Randy get me a box of washers from Home Depot which are glued on the back of the card stock and then the magnets sit on top not moving...CUTE!

The necklace is a scrabble game piece that is glued on the back side (so you can see the letter) once that is dry I use a glue called Diamond Glaze that I put on top of that. It dries clear but has the same texture/feel of glass. That takes about a day or two to dry. Then I went to Shipwreck Beads and bought the balls that go on the back to hold the chain and then you have a cute, one of a kind necklace!


I made the little flower too :) Which is on a hair clip with everything clipped together with Jadans little note!

2 comments:

Springer said...

I forgot to mention that I am going to call my little shop "baby CAKE" All the other crafty sellers have cute little names like Tiny Twig, Yellow Songbird etc. So I decided I wanted my name to have a meaning. Randy has called me baby cake since we were married and he is the one who is pushing me to do this because he knows I enjoy it, so I decided what a better name then one that has meaning and a story!

MMartin said...

...watch out Martha...no insider trading April!!