Corner Bookmark Toot (Tutorial)

Hey, HOT Mamas! Hope you all are having a MAGICAL MONDAY!
Did you all miss my FIRST Guest post and tutorial? Here it is! I hope you enjoy!

 LET'S GET OUR CRAFT ON!!!

I LOVE craft projects that are easy enough to finish while watching How to Train Your Dragon (which I watch daily btw) and that I can have my kids be involved. I had planned a really cool tutorial for you all but it was a total craft FAIL in my book so I must try it again and see what went wrong. So, I decided to show you all a SUPER EASY, super CUTE craft that you can make in literally a minute.

ENVELOPE BOOKMARKS

Supplies needed:
Square Envelopes (mine are 4 ¾ x 4 ¾ )
Stickers or Embellishments of your choice
A paper cutter or scissors
A Pencil
Seriously that is all you need!

Here are your supplies

Measure, using your book of choice, 

where you would like your book mark to fit 

over the corner of your page.   

See my mark on the right.

Line up your mark with your paper cutter or scissors

and CUT. 

If you would like a more precise corner measure

both side equally, I measured 10" on one side and ten

on the other.

Line up both marks and CUT. 

OR if you cannot find a pencil or pen or you

just don't want to, line up the envelope like a diamond

and cut from one corner to the other.

See how easy that is!!! And think about how you

can recycle or up-cycle all that junk mail you get!!

Okay, now here come the hard part!

Add your sticker and embellishment where you would

like and voila...

ALL DONE!

Aren't these little Robot Dudes soooo

cute??

I added a leftover flower to one as well!

A little to big for this book.

Fits just right! Now how stinking easy was that??

Check out these that my 6-year-old daughter made...

She used her favorite craft book:

water colors, some of her stickers, and a pen to make hers.

HAHA She made a frog! LOVE it! 

Her Stickers. She said she added the red ribbon

because she is a real princess. TOO CUTE! 

And a mermaid and her father with a fish.

Aren't they cute!!

Thanks for having me over to play, I hope all you loverly readers enjoyed my tiny little tutorial!

I hope you will stop by Kissed By a Frog when you have some time and check out some of my projects and tutorials. Here is just a little sampling of what you will find:

My most popular tutorial, a father's day gift:

Where Life Begins

Family friendly home decor-We are FINALLY

getting away frog BORING BROWN and adding

some fun COLOR to our lives!!

Every Monday- I blog about stuff for

Mamas, even educational stuff.

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tutu ever!

Father's Day Ideas

Just wanted to let everyone know that we reached 50 likes over on facebook!  We are half way to the FROG's first giveaway!! So, first thing Monday morning, as promised, I will announce the options for the fb giveaway and assign everyone a number. Hopefully, my followers widget/gadget will be fixed on here soon so that we can have a giveaway on the blog too! Are you all getting excited?

So you need some Father's Day ideas? Here are some of the things my kids and I made for my hubba hubba recently. I would tell you what we are making him for FD this year but it is still top secret business (he likes to follow the frog's blog). I will show you all after the day has come and gone and I know that he loves it (which of course he will).

He did tell me yesterday that he was going to buy himself a FD present and he was even nice enough to tell me what it is going to be...an ice maker. Geesh, I wish I could tell you how badly we need one of these now that the kids are out of school for the summer. It totally chaps my hide that we even need to buy one because a little over a year ago we completely remodeled the kitchen with new appliances and everything! We bought the biggest fridge you could buy at the time and wouldn't you know it; it has to have the smallest ice maker in the world! VERY FRUSTRATING when it is so hot and you would like a cold drink! So good for him for buying his own present!

However, we still have grand plans in the works for daddy! Let me just give you a run down on some of the cool gifts we have purchased over the years. Who knows maybe you all will like the idea and get one or make one for your hubs/daddy. Okay cool gifts-

1) on ebay I found a huge panoramic pic of the University of Missouri Campus from 1910 it is awesome

2) at a local craft show earlier this year I bought him an Alphabet Picture that spells out MIZZOU with actual objects from the MU campus - ABC Photography (a little pricey but it was framed)

3) at Micheal's when they were on SUPER sale I bought a display case for his autographed basketball

4) also at Micheal's and also on SUPER sale I bought a display case for his basketball jersey (he played college ball at MU which is pretty hard to swallow for a girl from KU country)

5) a tie - this only qualifies as a cool gift in our house because it means he does not have to go to the mall. He only has to wear a tie once a year!

6) we have also done finger print stationary- and the kids really get creative after they get stared! Possibilities are endless!

7) hmmmm, I am sure there are more cool gifts but I am at a loss

Now, that you all are good and bored here is the craft part and the best thing is that the kids and I did these projects together!

Hand print/Fingerprint Calendar- We actually made 4 of these and I bought a chipboard pkg to add some flair. This is not the best one we did but you get the idea and the important parts are there ~ the crafty part.

January-Footprint Penguins and Thumbprint Babies

February- Hand print Kissing Swans

March- Footprint Tractor

April- Hand print umbrella, fingerprint rain drops, and thumbprint baby chicks

May- Hand print butterfly

June-hand print sail boat

July- Hand print Flag(umm, it is backwards! That is what I

get for trying to work with 5 kids at one time)

August- hand/footprint lobster (the baby did this one

and he was a wiggle and giggle with the pain on his hand)

September-MY FAVORITE hand print fall leaves

October- I really like this one too! Hand print skulls

November- Hand print turkey

December- thumbprint Santa and tiny reindeer

Our Family Trees- this is a little time consuming but I love how they turned out! All I did was buy a canvas for each kid and wrapped them with burlap, cut leaf shapes from a quilt pack, and traced hands on scrap material I had here at the house. Then I modge podged everything together. And each tree has one leaf that is "falling" off- I wrote the name and year on that leaf. I saw a pic of one these on yahoo images and had to do it.

Our family trees are supposed to be hanging in the hall but we are painting again! Some day this house will be finished...I hope!

Please HOP over to my Linky Parties page aand see where I linked up today!

Mama Monday

I have a few friends that are preggers or just had new babies and who does not love babies? I certainly do but what I have come to love more is spoiling little bundles of love with my handmade goodies. So, for the next few Mondays I am going to showcase the items I make or have made for my friends. Plus, in a few months I (along with a few other amazing ladies) will be hosting a baby shower and believe me you will not want to miss out on all of the creations for that shower. I am hoping it will be the most amazing shower ever for one of the most amazing friends ever!

So crafty goodness for Mama Monday's No. 1- An Envelope Scrapbook/Journal

Have you ever seen one of these. I watched a craft show on TV a while back and they made one. I thought it was the neatest idea and so simple to make. All I did was buy square envelopes and glue them together. Then I bought a scrapbook page kit at Hobby Lobby for $3.99 (while it was on sale) and pieced it together to make pregnancy keepsake for my good friend. What do you all think?

(*Note:I would have added more pics but had trouble today with uploading. Ugh! There are a total of 12 envelopes and 24 "pages." I thought it really turned out well. Hmmm, going to have to try to figure out why it will not upload photos.)

There you have it (below)! I will try to link up to some of the Monday Linky Parties later today if I have time. Right now I am off to clean out the Castle that belongs to my little Princess. BLAH! This will be a serious chore!! Wish me luck.

**I could not bring myself to start cleaning before I linked up to all of the fabulous linky parties today! Now I have and am free to clean (but still do not want to)! Check out the new page I added for linky parties and where I will be partying every day of the week. Wooohoo!