Magical Christmas Ornament

Today’s craft room creation is a part of a You Tube advent hop, I am day five if you’ve missed days 1-4 you can join the Facebook group live art journaling and self development.

I altered a Dollar Tree bird house craft into a gingerbread bread house ornament using stamp sets by Kindred stamp and supplies for my craft horde. A few have asked about the hockey tape I used to put together this ornament, So here is the link to it on Amazon.

I used National gingerbread cookie day, wizard friends and arcade friends but use what you have. There is a full video tutorial here.

I used zig clean color real brush markers to color all of my images.

064, 071, 999, 050, 067, 024, 260, 062,065, 090, 091.

Please check out all the other wonderful artists and crafters that are part of this hop.

I hope you enjoyed this craft room creation I will be back very soon to share more holiday creations with you.

Brandi M.

The Craft Bean

Long Hair Don’t Care

I am in love with this new stamp set by Kindred. I had a blast creating a variety of projects with this adorable stamp set!

The entire Kindred Stamps February release will be available Friday, February 22nd at 8am PST/11am EST. Be sure to check out the Kindred Stamps blog on Friday for the full product release as well as the complete line up of all the Kindred Stamps Design Team projects from release week! If you visit and comment on all of the designers’ blogs this week, you could win $15 in Kindred Stamps shop credit! So join the Fan Club and release event, show the design team some love, and get ready to empty those wallets this Friday!

The first project I wanted to share with you is some shrinky dinks key chains.

The materials used:

– Long hair don’t care Kindred Stamp set

-Shrinky dinks sheets

-Alcohol ink (stays on) pad and makers (Copics)

-Jewlery findings

-Key chain rings

-Beads

A few things I learned while creating these, you want to stamp on one side and color in on the other because Alcohol markers smear alcohol based inks. When coloring on the shrinky dinks sheets use even long strokes to get smoother coloring.

The next project I created was a mini album.

The materials used:

– Long hair don’t care Kindred Stamp set

-Copic friendly ard stock

-Copic friendly Ink

-Copic markers

-Black card stock

– Double sided tape

– chipboard

-Scrapbook paper

This is a 6 page mini album there are 3 different page styles. Each base page measures 5 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches. The wrapped cover is 6 x 8 inches with a 2 inch spine. I bond this mini Album with a hinge binding system.

The last project I have to share today is a bullet journal spread

I used the Long Hair Don’t Care stickers, their stickers are perfect for planner spreads.

Materials used:

– Dot grid notebook

– Micron pen

– Tombow markers

– Long hair don’t care Kindred Stamps stickers

I hope you enjoyed all of projects. I will be back soon to share more projects with you
If you are interested in this stamp set or any by Kindred Stamps consider using my affiliate link, It cost you nothing but help support my blog. Kindred Stamps.

Brandi M

The Craft Bean

Winter Friends Valentines and planner spreads

This week I am sharing the Valentines I made for my daughter’s classmates and my February planner spreads using the frozen friends stamp set from Kindred stamps

I found some heart shaped mini notepads at the dollar store, I decided to alter them with my stamps and makers to make candy free valentines. The First step was to take apart the notebook and measure the notebook. The notebooks I found were about 3 inches x 3 inches, I cut my card stock to 3 ¼ inches x 6 ½ inches and scored at 3 ¼.

Fold and crease the score line. Using the notebook cover I removed as a temple I traced the heart and cut it out.

Whenever I am making multiples of a project I use my Misti because I can stamp everything all at once and its always perfectly aligned. For quick easy coloring I like to used my Zig clean color real Brush Makers.

Light blue 030

Gray 090

Mid Brown 065

Orange 070

Bright Yellow 052

Cobalt Blue 031

Light Blue 036

Shadow Mauve 303

Light Pink 026

Wine Red 024

Ochre 063

Flesh Color 071

Oatmeal 064

Lemon Yellow 051

Warm Gray 2 900

Pale Green 045

May Green 047

Persian Green 033

Dark Gray 095

Gray 090

Brown 060

Wine Red 024

Dark Oatmeal 066

Oatmeal 064

Ochre 063

Flesh Color 071

Flesh color 071

Oatmeal 064

Mid Brown 065

Warm Gray 2 900

Brown 060

Wine Red 024

Gray 090

For the background I used the ink smooshing technique I scribbled Cobalt blue, light blue and Persian blue onto my craft mat and sprayed it with a bit of water. Using the clear packaging form the stamp set and mushed it into the ink and then onto my covers. The last thing to do was to staple the notebook back together and add a crayon.

Bonus Projects!

I adore this set so much I Had to used it for my February monthly spread and my first weekly spread. I used my Zigs right in my bullet journal but its not the best paper for Zigs, I think Tombow markers would of been a better choice. My snow queen and Snowman (on calendar spread) were stamped onto card stock and fussy cut because I needed to cover some oops. I used the snowman to cover up where my little Peanut scribbled and the snow Queen to cover up the bad stamping job I did.

I hope you enjoyed all of my projects! if you recreate any of these tag me on social media @TheCraftBean I would love to see your creations.
If you are interested in this stamp set or any by Kindred Stamps consider using my affiliate link, It cost you nothing but help support my blog. Kindred Stamps.

Brandi M

The Craft Bean