Showing posts with label paper crafts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label paper crafts. Show all posts

Sunday, September 22, 2013

Stylish Storage Drawers

Those ugly plastic storage drawers are great for holding craft supplies.  I use some for my fabric stash, scrapbook papers, stamping supplies and kid's craft stuff.  They hold a lot of items in drawers that are easy to keep organized.  The downside is that the see-through plastic drawers look full of clutter.


A few months ago, I saw how someone had made their drawers look better using fabric.  I loved the look, but didn't want to waste expensive fabric making the drawers look pretty.  Instead, I used scrap book paper.  The cost of the materials for 4 sets of stacking drawer sets was about $2.50 which made my frugal-self happy.  The papers were easy to cut with my long-arm cutter and the whole project only took about 30 minutes.

After measuring the height of each drawer, I cut the 12" scrapbook papers, then used tiny pieces of scotch tape to adhere the corners and center of each piece of paper to the drawer.  The tape was placed on the back of the paper and folded to the top edge of the drawer.  Now my craft area isn't such an eye sore!

  

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Easy Children's Paper Wall Art Project

My younger girls love to do crafts with me.  We've been so busy with the project house that our crafting time has disappeared.  I got an idea from pinterest for creating wall art for the younger girl's bedroom using paint chips.  We have a lot of paint chips right now and this seemed like a good use for the paint chips that we decided not to use in the project house. 

The younger girls want to have a blue bedroom with purple accents.  Actually, Allie wants a purple room and Paige wants a blue room.  This was our compromise.  We used purple and blue paint chips and a circle hole punch to create this spiral design.  I still need to make the frame, but the girls are happy to see some of their decorations coming together. 



We also used a leaf punch to make a fall design.  Fall colors make me happy, to this will get hung in the work-out room to help create a calm and happy environment.  I need as much incentive as possible to spend time working out each day!


Neither project took us very much time and the girls enjoyed spending some craft time with me on a rainy afternoon.  I enjoyed doing something relaxing with my youngest girls who are growing up much too quickly.