There were a couple more crafty ideas in the Shoebox today, the first one coming from Leslie Corey of New Providence, N.J. Leslie sent in a very attractive note card she had made that featured a handsome photograph on the front (
figure A). It was small, about 1-1/2" x 2", and was attached to a black and white check background paper that I’m guessing was a piece of scrapbooking paper put to another use. But it was the use of the photograph that was such a good idea. It came from a calendar!
I’m sure that most of you are familiar with the many calendars that are on the market that have a back sheet featuring miniature copies of the various pictures featured throughout the calendar (figure B). Often they are copies of famous paintings, nature photographs or pictures of animals, etc. Not only do they make handsome note cards, but imagine what a lovely set of coordinated cards you could make as a gift...and be re-cycling as well!
Our second good idea came from Ruth NcNair of Lawrence, Kan. Over the past months we have received many ideas with patriotic themes, and the little pins that Ruth sent in seemed like a great project for anyone who needed or wanted to make many (Ruth said she has made hundreds!) or who wants something easy enough for the youngsters. The pins were made on the small adhesive-backed pins that you can get at your craft stores, so all you need do is to stick your decoration on the front. In this case, the decoration consisted of three stars punched from art foam in red, white and blue (figure C). A helpful tip that Ruth sent along was to say that you should always start by placing the center star on the pin first, and position it so that two indentations in the star were facing right and left so the outside stars would fit into the indentations.
Ruth also sent along samples of other pins made in the is same manner featuring either hand-cut or punched-out Christmas trees, pumpkins and stars (figure D).
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