The Kane Five: Crafts

Keeping with the theme of the dollar section at Michael's this week, I wanted to share a quick art project I did a while back. I found this brass gem after a little digging in the dollar section. It was mixed in with a jumble of different letters and I prayed that they had one of our letters - K (Kane), M (Megan), Z (Zachary), B (Buster). Jackpot! We got ourselves a K (Go Team Kane!).

I'm not sure what the purpose of the little guy actually is (maybe a metal luggage tag? or to spell out your name on the outside of your house?), but I wanted to frame it and put it up somewhere. All it needed was a little color. Cue my trusty collection of scrapbook paper. I loved the pattern of the dark blue and jade paper (can you tell those are my favorite colors right now?:), but it was a little too busy behind the brass letter. So, I settled on just the solid jade to go with my IKEA frame. I love the way it turned out.

Simple and interesting. I love it when you can find inexpensive and unique ways to create beautiful things!

Happy Monday! I hope you all had a great weekend! We are back in business this week with a fun project or two, a recap of our San Juan trip and maybe some baking... if you're lucky! :) With all this free time I have on my hands nowadays (and by free time, I mean normal weekday after work free time), I am getting back in to the swing of things and it is glorious.

One of my favorite places to get a good deal is at Michael's. The dollar section there is amazing! You can find some pretty sweet stuff if you dig around. One of my best finds was these alphabet stamps in all different fonts. For a dollar each, I got probably about 8 different sets of alphabets, each with its own font. Perfect for making note cards, scrapbooking, etc.

I've always just kept the different sets in separate sandwich bags, but my new jade dresser motivated me to make things look a little nicer. It's just so purty! :)

I found these cute little short and stout mason jars at Target. It was about $4 for a set of four. I only got one set at the time to make sure the whole alphabet would fit inside each jar. It turns out they were the perfect fit! The mason jar glass slipper to my Cinderella of stamps!

In order to keep the different alphabets easily recognizable when they are in the drawer, I stamped out each alphabet on a cute piece of scrapbook paper and attached to the top of the jar lid with a little Elmer's.