Core Cardstock is meant to take a serious beating.  The more you destroy it the better it looks.

STEP 6-  Color Craft sticks with Picket Fence Distress Stain, hot glue, snip off bottoms.

Picket Fence for a Picket Fence

I knew I’d have a white picket fence some day

A Garden needs a fence and the jumbo craft sticks were just what I needed to build it.  Naturally, when making a white picket fence out of popsicle sticks one must color them with “Picket Fence” Distress Stain….it’s the logical choice.

Despite my glue gun’s shabby appearance it is quite handy for mending Craft stick fences.

Creating Jars for Supplies

STEP 7-  Raid your recycling bin and rinse off those spaghetti sauce jars.  Grab some Krylon Glitterblast and spray away….don’t forget the clear sealer!

Recycled Jars and Krylon Glitterblast

To create the jars for the teacher supplies you need look no further than your recycling bin.  In order to give them a fresh look I called on another one of my favorite stash Supplies….Krylon Glitterblast.  Glitterblast is quite possibly the best thing ever.  The clear sealer pulls it all together and is definitely worth the extra ching since it can be used for sealing all your glittered projects.  I imagine I may have been a magpie in a past life due to my love of all things sparkly.

STEP 8-  Cut Tags with Tim Holtz Tabs and Tags die out of Core card Stock.  Sand bottoms and edges.

Tim Holtz Core Tags

I try to be as organized as  I can although organizing skills often elude me.  However, I love the look of a neatly labeled tag for organizing craft supplies.  I created tags for the teacher supplies jars to add some interest and show off my organizational skills.  We don’t want anyone mixing the colored pencils with the Sharpies now do we?

STEP 9-  Stamp and emboss bottom of tag.

Stampers Anonymous

To add a touch of color to the bottom of the tags I stamped a touch of Harlequin from Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous.  I was really impressed by the amount of Tim Stuff the Scribble Shop has.  They have that and everything else under the sun practically!  One stop shop is right…I may never have to leave my house again!

STEP 10- Add Ribbon to jars seal ends with clear nail polish.  Label tags with Zig Painty and tie with raffia.

Raffia Chalk Board Tags

Making Paper Flowers

STEP 11-  Get out your  Sizzix machine, grab a Tim Holtz Tattered Floral die and some core, school papers, book pages and get cutting.  *Tip Make a template the size of your die out of card stock to speed up cutting time and eliminate the need to measure (I HATE measuring!)

*If you don’t have a die cutting machine check out my tutorial for creating paper flowers with punches here.

Hard “Core” Paper Flowers

It’s no secret that I have an affinity for Core’dinations card stock.  It’s nice and sturdy and oh so alterable!  I used nearly every color in the Tim Holtz Ranger Distress collection to cut my flowers.  *Tip- when making paper flowers it is always better to cut more than you need.  Better to have more than not enough.  I also cut some of my son’s artwork and school papers to make it a little more personal.   I threw in a few pages of the Cat in the Hat for good measure.

*Don’t worry I have like 10 copies of it.  It’s one of those books I love to alter and buy it when I see it at the thrift.  You would think I’m waiting to find Kate Beckinsales number in it (a la “Serendipity”).

STEP 12- To prepare the flowers for curling you will need to put a snip between each petal so it has give.  Do this with all the flowers except the tiny ones and the daisies.  While you’re at it grab a piercing tool and poke a hole in the center of each.

Core Flowers

STEP 13- I like to give my flowers a nice hard edge so I brush them with Distress Ink.  You can use any color of Distress ink you like as an accent.  For this arrangement I used Black soot to really make the edges pop.

Distress Flowers

STEP 14-  Curl petals.  You can curl the petals any way you like.  Be creative and have fun.  Art happens!

Letter Bead Flower

STEP 15: Once your petals are curled thread  floral wire  through  buttons.  *I use 32 gauge wrapped floral wire and 26 gauge paddle wire. Grab the end of the button and twist wire together.  Remember the holes you punched in the centers?  Poke the wire through each layer making sure to add a dot of glue to secure them or your petals will spin.  I like to use Glossy Accents.  Once all of your petals are layered add one more glue drop to the back and thread on a bead to secure it all together.  Grab a floral pick and some floral tape and stretch wrap the two together.

Alcohol inked Leaves

Adding leaves to your flowers is easy.  Especially when using Stick it Felt Shapes.

STEP 16-  Take a piece of wrapped floral wire and a Stick it Felt shape.  Peel back a small part of the sticker and adhere wire to shape.  Fold protective covering back over to secure.  Repeat with other side.  Using recycled packaging plastic colored with alcohol inks cut out leaf shapes and secure to back with Glossy Accents.  Twist wire around flower.

Fini!!!

Now all you have to do is “Plant” your Garden and add Accent Glass Gems and you will have a beautiful and practical gift for a Teacher, Crafter or anyone in between!

Teacher Supplies Garden

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Have a Creative Day!!

Amy*

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