24. February 2008 by Kathy.

Another kit - I think I have a lot of these!  Anyway this is from Jenni Bowlin.  Alot of times I like the kits for general supplies but this one is too cute as she designed it for me not to complete it now.

Kit:

note: the key was from another item I ordered from her this month…

So it took all of a half hour to do this kit.  Got to love the speed of it all!  Jenni sprayed hers with blackboard paint - I think I will do that also, but for now here it is:

I got chalkboard spraypaint!  Found at Joanns etc and used a coupon for it.  They only had black, but I think its also available in green.  And at Walmart, while I found no chalkboard spraypaint, I did see spraypaint to make something magnetic.  Go figure!

Here it is painted:

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24. February 2008 by Kathy.

This is a kit from paperbella.com.   I bought one and loved the concept/result that I made three (had to go out and buy a few roses to make the other two, otherwise I had the supplies, scary!).   

I did have to buy bookbinding tape though for the first one - something not in my collection!  Liked the concept so much that I ordered it in a set of colors from http://www.vernonlibrarysupplies.com .

Here are the three holders awaiting their bookbinding tape:

And finally - here is a photo of two of them completed - the other is also, just didn’t hang it up!

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24. February 2008 by Kathy.

Another kit from French General!   Not sure they provided everything I needed in this kit - I borrowed headpins from another kit.  But I got this kit so long ago that they might have been outside the kit (although I have never seen that before with a French General kit).

One thing I am learning WYSIWYG - not true here.  FG seems to cut back on the supplies in the kit - it does not quite look like/contain all the QUANTITIES that are in the photo and instructions in the book.

Here is mine and I used everything in the kit!

Total time for this: 2 to 3 hours

Lessons learned - LOVE how they make the simple loops for attaching!  I am going to use this technique again.  Just goes to prove to myself that I need to MAKE THINGS from the books I have to really LEARN.  Just reading doesn’t always get the message across.

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24. February 2008 by Kathy.

Another kit from French General.  (What can I say - I love the jewelry and love kits!)

They don’t sell this one anymore - probably because the blue drops are vintage (and come with the loop already done - YEA!!!  Very FAST project.)  But if you look at the Blood Red Necklace on their website its similar and they just buy regular drilled drops now and make the necklace that way.

So anyway - on this one everything was in the kit - including TONS of the blue drops.  I am going to have to make some earrings out of some of the drops to match this necklace.

Here is the photo:

And here is a better photo with this great egg and related easterish stuff !

 Time it took: 30 to 50 minutes!  (Love this idea!)

I have managed to buy some crystals (not swarvorskis though) that come prewired - just need to find the chain so I can make some more of these.  Simple and very effective!

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