Do you ever wish?

Hiya Claire here

So do you ever wish? I do usually as I'm drooling over stash in an online scrapbook store... Oooh I wish I had one of those... or in the case of Glimmer Mists.... Ooooh I wish I had all of those. So I vow to save for it, whilst still checking out various other items too, which I'm also saving for. The problem occurs when I have the saved up pennies & can't remember what I wanted, so I have a nose about & buy something else to then remember what I wanted & having no pennies so I came up with a plan... involving one of these...

 

this empty crateboard tin has been sat in my box of things to alter for ages, so its about time I used it.

I took the large C off the rope & sanded it down...

 
& sprayed it with Vintage Pink Glimmer Mist.

I covered the tin in some Bo Bunny paper...

And added some beaded edging ribbon from Dunelm Mill around the top...

Then I stamped my desired words onto some Blue Bo Bunny paper & attached it to the front of the tin.. 

 I stamped this little lady from Stampotique onto some canvas fabric...

then attached her to the tin...

finally I reattached the C..

And here it is my very own scrapbooking tools & stash wish jar...

The idea is that when I see something I want, I write it down on a piece of paper (with price & shop details) put it in the jar, then when I get the chance, I can pick one out & I can treat myself, not only that, come Christmas I'll be handing this around to the family, just so I don't get 14 bottles of bubble bath & some socks again (yep, that happened one year).

Thanks for stopping by & see you later on this month

Claire

xx

  

Comments

[Lynne V]

What a great idea.
I love the effect of stamping on the canvas fabric.

[Eleanor]

Love love love it, fab effect. Skinny lady works a treat on the canvas too.
E
xx

[Carmen]

Love this idea. Good tip to hand it round the family too ;)

[Mandy]

Very cute & practical too :)

[Anne]

What a great idea :)
Anne x

[Lorraine]

What a great idea. Love it and I'm going to do it, although I'll have to use an old gravy tub, lol.

[Debbie Roberts]

I need to make one of these and display it somewhere prominent

Debbie x