Junkin it up

Tonite's post centers around $5.00 worth of junk that I bought last weekend at junk sales. We got a late start and headed out into the countryside for a yard sale that listed "antiques". By the time we got there, there had already been antique dealers buying up stuff left and right. BUT I STILL SCORED! The little muffin tin was .25, and the stamps were $1.00 each! I love the new Stampin Up bucking bronco set, but wasn't willing to invest in the set because I wasn't sure that I'd really get that much use out of it. So for a dollar at a yardsale, I got a great bronco image similar to SU that I can use for masculine cards. I LOVED the other stamp too, the New-Years Eve hats. They look so vintage to me, and since I was in Halloween mode, I thought I'd try to turn it into a halloween stamp by coloring in the hats orange, etc. Sometimes my out-of-the box thinking doesn't fly. Here are the cards I ended up doing with the New Year's stamp, trying to pass them off as vintage halloween party cards! I thought they turned out cute but then I brought them into work to see if anyone would notice that it's a new years stamp, and they did. So back to the drawing board. Tonite I pulled the main images off the party hat cards and substituted witchies instead. Some stuff flies, some doesn't~! Oh well. The important thing really is to experiment with what you have, and not be afraid to fail. Sometimes the best ideas come out of nowhere! So here are the witchies instead. The witchies are from Stampin Up sets, "Booglie Eyes" and "Spooktacular Greetings". Stampin Up always has the BEST Halloween sets. The black polka dot paper is Bo-Bunny Romance Dots and the orange patterned paper is Autumn Leaves, Orange Twist. The orange paper already has the scallopy edge, so I just cut the paper to fit my cards, leaving the edge intact. The swirls are Autumn Leaves Swirl Version 2.

The little pointy antique looking things are floral "frogs". They go in the bottom of a vase, and you stick your flower stems in them. I use them for card display, you can easily prop a card in between the points and display your cards on cake plates or shelves. I paid .50 cents for the small frog and a dollar for the larger one.

I ended up purchasing the Spellbinders Nestabilities Oval Dies from Ellen Hutson and am just starting to play around with them. I have some ideas brewing that I have started on that I'll show you tomorrow night. I have SO many projects going right now, I need a play day so I can complete everything! I still have some stuff to post from last week that I was using the soldering gun on. Soon, very soon! :)