Ways to Use your Sticker Stash - Sticker Filled Easter Eggs!!!

My kids have tons of Easter egg hunts to go to.  From pre-school, neighborhood, soccer, moms groups, our house, grandparents, and many many more I feel like I am having to fill at least 100 eggs each Easter for these egg hunts.  Now do not get me wrong, i love to do to them, but there is a bit of overkill on the candy that come into my house.  So as my way to solve the problem I am filling my eggs with stickers, but not just any stickers, sticker left in my scrapbook stash!!!

Watch this little video tutorial to learn all about it!!

Filling Easter Eggs with scrapbook stickers from your stash other than candy fills many purposes:

1) It will not melt if it is hot - on Texas it is HOT at Easter.

2) Ants will not get into the candy filled eggs and make it gross!!

3) My kids do not need that much sugar.  If they get eggs filled with toys, erasers, stickers, rings, etc then the better for me.  None of use need that much candy!!!

4) Parents with kids who have food allergies will be super happy.  Finally they do not need to swap the candy for something else, you have already given them something their kids can have!!!

5) You got to finally use your stickers from your sticker stash!!!

6) You saved money by using somehting your already had instead of buying extra "stuff".

Supplies Used

Various Plastic Eggs

Stickers - Creative Memories, Stickapotomus, Basic Grey, Paper House, Pebbles, Adorn It, Jolees, K& Co, Imaginisce, Recollections, Mrs. Grossmans's and Sandylion.

Enjoy!!

Gone Fishing **Paper House & Susan K. Weckesser**

This past summer we spend 2 weeks in Colorado, of course we just had to go fishing!!  We could not have picked a more perfect day, location, moment for the best pictures.  Both of my boys at different times walked over to the side bank and decided to fish there rather than the pier.  Morgan actually caught a little trout.  They were never there at the same time, but they both were in the exact same location, and wow they picked a great location.  The water was so still it acted like a mirror for the sky, just beautiful!! 

Both of the boys pictures were so beautiful, how do you decide which to use? Make two layouts to really show off the scenery, but then I would really have two layouts that are the same?  So instead I choose smaller pictures, lined them up next to each other and decided to showcase the larger pictures here!!

Brandon age 4

Morgan age 8

I used the wonderful paper "Gone Fishing" from Paper House as the backdrop to this layout, it just matched the pictures wonderfully!!

I just love these wonderful chalkboard stickers from Paper House, they have such dimension and go with so many different kinds of projects!!  here you can also see the top of one of the super cute 3D stickers from the "Grandpa" set, it has some really fun fishing stickers on it too!!  Here I also took the striped pennant stamp from Susan K. Weckesser, stamped with brown ink on cream cardstock, cut out each pennant and layered it under the layers of papers and picture, and tied it off with twine to look like a banner.

On top of the fabulous Paper House "Gone Fishing" paper I used various colors of cardstock in green, brown, white, tan, cream, and grey to match the colors of the stickers, pictures, and layered them vertically using border punches and Susan K. Weckesser Washi stamps to add dimension.  I even tucked a few little diecut stickers from the "Outdoor" pack from Paper House.  Here you can see a little fish.  I also used the brown space as journaling with the same chalk pencil I used on the chalkboard sticker to tie it all together.  Here is also a wonderful view of the "Hooked" 3D sticker from Paper House with a little fish poking out the side.

 

 

 

Here is another fishing pole I pulled from the "Gone Fishing" 3D stickers pack.  I pulled it and the other poles from the "A Reel Hobby" sticker and laid them vertically along the layers adding in a fly and lure to the ends of the polls.  Here is also another wonderful sticker from the "Grandpa" 3D sticker pack layered on top of a diecut leaf and some more washi tape stamps from Susan K. Weckesser.  You can also see some of the "splatter it" stamp in the background too.

I love these moments in life, where it all slows down and you just take in nature.  Those simple moments were you just breathe in the fresh air and take it all in.

Supplies used

Patterned Paper - Paper House

Cardstock - DCWV & Momenta

Stickers - Paper House

Chalkboard - Paper House

Stamps - Susan K. Weckesser

Ink - Prima

Punches - Martha Stewart & EK & Fiskars

Adhesive - Xyron & Beacon

Pencil - General's Pencils

Paper Trimmer - Fiskars

 Enjoy!!

Boo Boxes ** Paper House w/Plaid**

I found these cute little coffin boxes at Michaels a year or two ago on clearance after Halloween, I think I got all 4 for $0.25.  I know one day I would find a fun use for them, and low and behold I have!!  I am giving them as gifts for family members.

First I painted each of the boxes colors to match the goolish "Fright Night" paper from Paper House.  I painted the sides and bottoms of the boxes grey, light brown, purple, and orange with the wonderful paints from Plaid.   

I used the super wicked Fright Night paper as the backing for the tops of the boxes.  I traced the tops of the box and cut them out.  I inked the edges of the papers, and used the wonderful Plaid Modge Podge to adhere the paper to the box.  I also used the Silver Sparkle Modge Podge on a couple of the boxes to make them shine!!

 

Add a bit of glitter glue to the edges of the tops of the boxes in black or orange, and top them off with some of the wickedly spooky stickers from Paper House and you have yourself some super cute and wickedly evil gift boxes for candy, prizes, party favors, or anything your imagine can come up with!!

Supplies Used

Paper - Paper House

Stickers - Paper House

Medium/Paint - Plaid

Adhesive -Plaid & Beacon

Glitter - Ranger

Ink - Prima

Boxes - Recollections

Enjoy!!

Sugar **Paper House**

Here is a fun card to use for a thank you, a birthday, or just to say hi.  It is feminine but also very country chic.  I used it as a birthday card for my mother-in-law as she lives in the country and is super sweet!!  Happy Birthday Marty!!

I used tons of layers from all three sheets of the Country Girl Collection from Paper House Productions.  I fussy cut out the flowers, used strips and sections from the Country Girl tags paper (like the strip of lace) and layered them all with the "Country Floral" and "Giddy Up" papers. 

 

 

I topped the card off with the wonderful Garden Chalkboard sticker embellished using a chalk pencil and enhanced the green lines on the chalkboard with white lines and then placed a cute Country Girl Cardstock sticker into the middle.

 

Supplies Used
Patterned Paper - Paper House Productions
Stickers - Paper House Productions
Chalkboard Chipboard - Paper House Productions
Chalk Pencil - General's Pencils
Ink - Prima
Adhesive - 3M

Enjoy!!

Homegrown **Birds of a Feather & Just Imagine**

My boys in the Texas bluebonnets.  One I could not stop from running around and smashing them, the other was more interested in finding bugs and pulling the "weeds" that did not belong there.  I finally got some good shots, but I am afraid to say that the flowers did not fair so well after out little photo shoot.  Good thing we had a HUGE abundance of them this year with all the freezing days we had.

Can I say how much I love this June Kit from Birds of a Feather?!?  I just screams to be used with pictures that have some sort of grown flower or plant in them, and it never hurts to throw a kid or two into the pictures as well :)  I even pulled in the library cards from the May Birds of a Feather kit because they just worked so well with this kit too!!  Plus it just screamed to use the June "Tweet" Sketch from Birds of a Feather.

 
I used Kreaxions Punch 920 from Just Imagine with inserts A and C to create the border and also the edge punching along the burlap paper.   It added so much definition  to the layout among all my other layers.

Always stop to smell the roses, or in this case the Bluebonnets!!

Supplies Used
Patterned Paper - We R Memory Keepers/Fancy Pants - Birds of a Feather June Kit
Cardstock - We R Memory Keepers - Birds of a Feather June Kit

"Notes" Card -  We R Memory Keepers - Birds of a Feather June Kit
Buttons - Maya Road - Birds of a Feather June Kit

Stickers alpha - Fancy Pants - Birds of a Feather June Kit
Stickers Other -  We R Memory Keepers - Birds of a Feather June Kit
Library Cards -  Maya Road -  Birds of a Feather May Kit
Punch - Just Imagine
Twine - American Crafts
Pennants/Clip - Prima

Ink/Stain/Mist - Ranger/Heidi Swapp/Prima

Enjoy!!

Thank You **Paper House & Off the Rails Scrapbooking**

The end of the school year is coming up on us and I love to give a handmade card to my kids teachers.  Here is one of cards I am making for this end of school year for my son's pre-school teacher. 

Here I used the wonderful 12x12 Garden Paper Stack and cut out 3 squares, 1 large (4x4) and 2 small (2.5 x 2.5).  I inked the edges and added in faux stiching with a black pen and added them to my 6x6 card already matted with cardboard and orange cardstock.

I then took the gorgeous canvas stickers and placed them around the card for a geometric look and added int he words thank you hugging close to the large pink floral canvas sticker.  You can also see a peak of the glittered paper from the Garden papers here, so pretty!!

Join me over at Off the Rails Scrapbooking for a fun challenge of "Up, Up and Away" and use anything that flies on your project to enter.  Lots of fun goodies to be had!!

Don't forget to say a huge thanks to ALL the teachers as we are coming up on the end of the school year - they deserve it!!

Supplies Used
Patterned Paper - Paper House
Canvas Stickers - Paper House

Cardstock - DCWV
Cardboard - DCWV
Alpha Stickers - Momenta
Pen - Faber-Castell
Ink - Prima
Mists - Heidi Swapp

Enjoy!!