One Scraptastic Grandma!: Clark County Women's Expo

Thursday, August 29, 2013

And yet another project!

I am so excited!!! This one, I think I will get a lot of use out of. It was pretty easy once I figured out what I wanted to do. I was on Facebook one evening and another consultant had posted one that she had made for Convention.( I will share the link and credits at the end of this post.)

Mine is a little different as I am not using a Cast Iron Cookbook Stand to hold mine upright.

I can tell you that I started with a white 22" round pressboard cake board and an 11" tan plastic Rubbermaid Lazy Susan, some Black acrylic paint and some unsanded grout.

Do you have any idea what this is?

I made my own chalkboard paint using 1 - 2 oz bottle of Black acrylic paint and about 1/4 cup unsanded grout Mixed it well and painted both the cake board and lazy susan. (3 Coats each) Once the paint was dry I took a piece of chalk and conditioned the boards, by rubbing the chalk all over them and then wiping off the dust.

Now do you have an idea what it might be?

Ok, here is another hint.

I then took CTMH's silver glitter tape and put 4 strips across it in different directions making the pattern on it. I used E6000 glue to adhere the lazy susan to the cake board, making sure to center it. The glitter tape divides the chalkboard into sections for me to write different things in for different events.

Ok, it is starting to remind you of anything yet?

Here is what I did to finish off the project.

I took CTMH's silver glitter paper and cut a large arrow

from the Artiste Cricut cartridge on the Cricut. And placed it in the center of the lazy susan. I also cut out some letters. T, S, W, I, I, i, i, n, n, p, t, t and o. I decided I wanted them to stay put, so I ran them through the Xyron 150 sticker maker with permanent adhesive in it. I then lined them up on the lazy susan part of the board to Spell out the name of our very own,

Wait for it!

"Spin It To Win It" Game board.

Ta da!

I'm always trying to come up with ways to entertain our guests at our Idea Book Kick-off parties and I think we can use this one at the Clark County Women's Expo in September too.

You should stop by and see what we put on the board for you to win.

Clark County Women's Expo September 14th and 15th.

Clark County Event Center

17402 NE Delfel Rd Ridgefield, WA 98642

(360) 397-6180

Here is a link to get there.

Please mark you calendars and come see us.

Here is the link to Wendy's Spin It to Win It Board http://www.stampingrules.com/2013/08/friday-favorite-things.html

Monday, August 26, 2013

Kumoricon is just around the Corner.

Jordan decided he wanted to go to Kumoricon this year and so do three of my Great Nieces. So my Sister and I are taking them. It will be fun to see our grandchildren interacting. Kumoricon is August 31 - Sept 2nd. in Vancouver Washington.

Two of the girls spent a week with me last month and I helped them with their costumes. One is going as Fluttershy and one as Rainbow Dash.

This is the Fluttershy costume I helped make during spring break and I didn't get any of the Rainbow Dash costume.

Jordan is going as Edward Elric and Ash Ketchum. We went a couple weeks ago to pick out the fabric for his red coat and we made it last week. I finished it late on Tuesday. Here is Jordan and Grandpa Steve.

I found the symbol that Edward has on his coat on google images and printed it out. Then I decided that it was a clear image so I made a cut file and tried to cut it out on the cricut but it didn't work so I cut it out of cardstock and used it as a pattern and traced around the cut out and negative. I then used wonder under to adhere the black symbol to the coat. It looks huge on him, but that is what Edward wears. He wanted to wear it to the movie yesterday, so I guess he likes it.

Edward wears a black outfit under the coat, which he already has, but didn't put it on for the pic.

Here Jordan is as Ash Ketchum, of course he will be wearing jeans and a black t-shirt under neath.

For this costume I took 2 shirts apart and made one, then added the yellow Duck Tape faux pockets and bottom band on the shirt. I bought a red baseball cap at Wal-Mart and painted the front part white and found the green emblem on google and again I made a cut file. This time I cut it out of Clear Contact paper to make it a stencil. I placed the stencil on the white part of the hat and painted it green. It wasn't perfect but it worked. I took a small detail brush and straitened the lines.

I am all finished with Jordan's costumes as of last night.

Before I started on Jordan's costumes for Kumoricon, I was busy making Construction worker vests for a friend. Dawn and Tarina helped me with those. We made 22 vests that fit an infant on up to a 5 yr old. We used orange Nylon that my friend purchased and Yellow, Chrome and Black Duck Tape. I put elastic on the sides and velcro closures. It ended up about $60.00 for all the vests and that works out to be about $2.73 per vest. But that doesn't compare to the fun they had at the Birthday party. My friend had a Large cardboard box for the boys to paint like a house. Complete with windows and a picket fence. They had someone bring a backhoe in and had a pile of sand and Tonka trucks for the boys to dig in. They even had hard hats that they picked up at the Dollar Tree I think. I wish I had a pic because the party looked awesome. My friend said the boys had a great time. The vest on top is the smallest and it was about 10" tall. So stinking cute.

Maybe one of these days I can get back to my paper crafting. I need to get some things done for the Clark County Women's Expo September 14th and 15th.