Photos of the Ice Cream Party!

Use a jar with small rocks to hold a skewer with the designed paper tag on top!

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A Chance for Blog Candy!

I wanted to pop in today and tell you about a blog candy opportunity! Remember the Top 10 Tip from the post earlier today? This one is from Robyn. Check it out here. This is what she is offering!
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Leslie!

10 Tips to find FREEBIES!

No pics today. I know you love pictures… but maybe the tips will make up for it!

1. Are you a "hoarder"? I am guilty of being a supply hoarder. I will get different things that I love and want to put on a project, but the extras, I will "save" for that special project that for some reason never comes up. The next time you start to go to a craft store, stop! Check out the supplies you have at home! You may have forgotten about what you already have! Of course, adding a new Stampin' Up! product or two and using what you have is even better!! You get something new and get to use something you already have!
2. Get free tips from me! I blog every day. If you ever have a question about a product, technique, or organization need, just email me or leave a comment and I will research it and make a tutorial or video for you! It is my job! And I love it!
3. Take advantage of Sale-a-bration with Stampin' Up! You can get FREE stamp sets, paper, and punches just by ordering $50 or more! Time is running out for 2010; you must order by March 30th! Contact me today!!
4. Think about recycling items! Recycle card board boxes into magazine holders. Save magnets from the mail to add to the back of a small project. Use envelopes for a mini album! For more recycling ideas, check out my posts in te Being Green category in the right panel.
5. Check yard sales for items you can craft with. Can that sweater be turned into a handbag? Are there nice buttons on that shirt? Sometimes even stamps, paper, and other craft supplies are there.
6. Check Craigslist, FREEBIE papers, PennySaver papers, and other free publications. too! There are plenty of sources of craft products there, plus I have found some great deals on storage and organization products on Craigslist! Don't limit yourself to your city on Craigslist. If you find something you want in another city, you could work out a deal with the owner for shipping or possibly meeting you halfway!
7. Search for free layouts, card sketches, images, etc. online! I provided you with several FREE papers or transparencies that I found online. Again, click Being Green category in the right panel.
8. Use books from your library for inspiration! The library is full of art books, scrapbooking books, craft books, etc. And guess what? They are all FREE! Unless you return them late! LOL
9. Gather friends and have a SWAP. You can also find swaps online. In some swaps, you trade cards, scrapbook pages, or even supplies. Some supply swaps are based on color. For example, you trade your red items for another person's green items. If you are in a group swap, then you could end up with a rainbow of supplies! Mind that you will have to give up some of your own, but you can get so much too!
10. You can also check out Blog Candy for different blogs! Click blog candy in the right panel and see the things I have given away before, but you will also see a Blog Candy event that even you can win!

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Leslie Jones

email: CreativePzazz@gmail.com

contact. 334. 493. 2511

FREE Transparencies

I am still continuing with Freebies that help you Be Green! To learn more ways to Be Green, click on Being Green in the categories to the right. I don't list the traditional ways to conserve, because you already know those! I show you ways you can conserve, while still doing the creative things you love to do!

Well, so they are not actually a complete transparency, these are set up for you to print onto transparencies. For a transparency, I supposed you could use the window sheets from Stampin' Up!, but I can't find any information directly about that, so far. If you are interested, contact me and I will find out for sure if it is possible! These images would also be great just printed on cardstock or patterned paper! How awesome would that be?!?

For each image, right-click and click Save Image As to save the file for your use. These are royalty free images (no copyright!), so enjoy and share!

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Free Scrapbook and Craft Supplies

Today's post will bring you even more FREE ideas, which will help you be GREEN for Eco-Awareness month! I think you all are benefiting from my not feeling well for a few days! Well, I guess I am too! Today's freebies are in your house! These are things you can find laying around in your house. Alter them with ink, cut them, sand them, stamp over them… the sky is the limit!

Free Scrapbook Supplies around Your Home

Would you believe that you have FREE scrapbook supplies at your home? One of my readers even went to her Mom's and found tons of things! Take each item and either use it as is or alter it, stamp it, rip it, sand it, etc. For example:

• Stickers that come with your junk mail
• Use the envelopes that come with your junk mail! The patterns inside them work great as backgrounds or for embellishments **see note below
• Ribbon from gifts, etc. There was some great ribbon around some socks I bought that I used on a project! Try using your ribbon in a new way…run a bit of adhesive, such as Sticky Strip along the back of the ribbon. As you apply it to the project, scrunch it and bend it rather than attaching it in a straight line. Also, you can ink it to distress it or add depth to the color.
• Buttons- while I believe you should pass along clothes that don't fit, if it is in bad shape, such as torn or stained, you can clip off the buttons to save!
• Save the fabric for your fabric projects too! Vintage fabrics are all the rage!
• Lace trim from an old tablecloth or handkerchief that is unusable.
• Any metallic bits and bobbles that you see that are of appropriate size and suit your taste are great to use too. Add a piece of chain, ribbon, or twine to hang them from your project, or you can glue them on directly with strong adhesive. My glue of choice for metal or heavy objects is E6000. If it is not too heavy, Tombow Multipurpose Adhesive works great too! Don't forget your alcohol inks are great to alter metal.
• Charms or beads from a broken necklace
• Costume jewlery, especially brooches and pins.
• Clothing tags—many of these are unusually shaped or have unique graphics** see note below
• Old greeting cards with fun artwork or sayings** see note below
• Wrapping paper or wall paper scraps** see note below
• Tissue paper—there is a great technique where you stamp it then glue it in a scrunchy way over a colored project to make it more subtle and textured.
• Dictionary, sheet music, and novel pages are great to use **see note below
• Paper clips
• Paint chips** see note below. Paint chips are fantastic embellishments. Use your punches to punch out shapes that feature several colors from the card. All the great colors can accent a card or scrapbook page really well! Plus they would be awesome tags! Add a piece of plain cardstock to the back for journaling or use a journaling stamp on the colors. Add a bit of journaling, stamp a design onto one of the squares, or embellish the chip with some stickers to make a unique tag for your scrapbook layout. In some cases, you can even use the name of the paint color as a fun title for your page.
• Laminate chips** see note below. I discourage you from going to a home improvement store and just taking multiples of these, as they cost the store much more than a paint chip, I do believe it is proper to gather 4 or 5 once a year or so. You can stamp, sand, ink, and alter these tiles into great embellishments or tags.

IMPORTANT NOTE: While you can create many interesting and unusual scrapbooking projects using items from around your home, it’s important to realize that supplies not originally intended for scrapbooking may not be acid-free. If you’re worried about archival safety, test your supplies with a pH pen or use copies of photos that would be hard to replace. To protect your precious memories, don't add tags made from paint chips, greeting cards, or other non-traditional materials to scrapbook layouts containing irreplaceable photos. Unlike the scrapbook supplies you purchase in a craft store, these items are not acid-free and archival safe. Even if you're working with copies of photos, you should try to keep any non-traditional embellishments away from the pictures themselves in order to minimize the risk of damaging your prints.

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FREE Sheet Music

If it is something that you can print on your home computer and, thus, save your gas from going to the store, then it is helping you Be GREEN! April is Eco-awareness month!

So, today I am offering some FREE sheet music that I found online. Click on the photo to enlarge it. Then to save it for your use, right click on it, and click Save Image As.

I chose specific sheet music that suited my interests and needs. Some are wedding related songs and then some others that were lovely tunes or interesting looking. Use them for whatever you want, they are royalty free (no copyright).

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Interesting FREE Scrapbook supplies!

I have located some awesome FREEBIES over the past couple of days. I haven't felt really well—can I say Multiple Sclerosis SUCKS!—so I have spent most of the time on the Internet and watching TV, which I love to do. I don't have any projects to share with you, which is a bummer, but who doesn't love FREEBIES!! I think this is Being GREEN too, because you are saving the gas it would take to buy similar papers or photos at a store.

Today I will share with you some free JPEGS that will make great background papers or that you can use as a focal element. If you have My Digital Studio, you can even import these JPEGS and use them in a layout. You can order My Digital Studio from me and get a free stamp set, if you order before March 31, 2010!If the size is not something you prefer, you can use Paint.Net, which is a great FREE photo editing tool. I use it to put my name overlay on the photos you see, mainly because it is SUPER SIMPLE! I will show you how to do that soon.

These photos are royalty-free, which means there is no copyright for them, according to the site I got them from, which I can't seem to find right now. I can say that I found it through Life on the Scrap Beach, which is a community for those who love to scrapbook and create. Anyway, these are some random images that I liked, so I thought I would share them with you! Print them out and add them to your next project!

Click on each photo to make it larger. To save it for your own use, right click on the enlarged photo and click SAVE IMAGE AS.

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