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Guest Judge of the Week{My Sister’s Suitcase}

May 6, 2012 By
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2012 Coupons, Family Photographer, Wedding Photographer, Photographer, Shanna Simpson Photography, Senior Photographer, Newborn Photographer Welcome back to another exciting week here at The CSI Project! I am super excited to have two lovely ladies from  as guest judges this week. When I found this blog I fell in love with it. You can always find creative projects that are sure to inspire anyone! These two are sisters and they currently live 462 miles apart so My Sister’s Suitcase was created to keep them close and share their craft goodies with us. So it is a WIN, WIN for all of us. {…Read More…}

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Challenge of the Week{Accessories}

May 6, 2012 By
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I love accessories but what girl doesn’t? Especially a crafty girl who loves to create her own accessories. I love your typical necklace, bracelet, ring but want to know my best accessory. It is not a ring or necklace. It’s this guy!    And the his accessory was only approved because it was Cinco De Mayo! Since it is the end of the school year and you may be looking for a teacher’s gift. Why not make her an accessory that is teacher style! I made this cuff at the beginning of the school year as a teacher gift. It {…Read More…}

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Winners of the Flowers Challenge

May 5, 2012 By
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And the winners are………………… This was a fun week! I am so inspired by your creative ways to demonstrate that April showers bring May flowers with this fun Flowers challenge. Be sure to go through the links and find some inspriration for yourself. Our guest judges Meredith and Gwyenth from Meredith and the New Yorkie, had the most difficult job picking the winners. Here is what she said about her judging experience. This was so fun! Gwyneth and I had such a blast being guest judges! We were so inspired by the ways people repurposed supplies in new ways and {…Read More…}

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The CSI Chic Chronicles{Tips for Candle Making}

May 4, 2012 By
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Top 10 Tips for Home Candle Making   Candles can easily be made at home, and can be a great, inexpensive way to decorate and light a property. When beginning to make candles, it is important to understand issues such as the type of wax that needs to be used, as well as how to safely heat and melt wax, and how to ensure that the finished product does not contain any imperfections. Candlemakers should also make sure that they are following safety precautions, and that they know the best ways to correct any mistakes. Some of the top 10 {…Read More…}

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Time to link up for the Flowers Challenge

May 2, 2012 By
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Welcome back to the CSI Project! I am happy to say it is Party time! This week has been all about the dollar store. The tutorials have shown us and hopefully inspired you to make your own flower creation. So, have courage fellow crafters! You can create anything and come share it here. Alright, onto the party. Let’s recap the week before we party! First, we had a wonderful Felt Flower  tutorial from See Vanessa Craft. Then, we had a great Paper Flowers for cards from My Scrapbook Life.  Finally, this beautiful Book Page Wreath and Flowers from Our Big Adevntures in Big {…Read More…}

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Book Page Wreath with Flowers{Our Adventures in Big Ole Texas}

May 2, 2012 By

Well hello everyone! I’m Patty and I blog over at Our Adventures in Big Ole Texas I hope your week has been fabulous I am so happy to be back here at The CSI Project sharing a fun project involving flowers-paper flowers! For a good long while I have been keeping my eye out on these beautiful book page wreaths and wanting to try my hand at making one of them. So for this tutorial I decided to finally make one but add a fun  twist to it. So here’s what you’ll need: 18 inch straw wreath or foam (I find {…Read More…}

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Making Cards and Embellishing with Flowers{My Scrapbook Life}

May 1, 2012 By

I signed up at the CSI Project again this month to bring you projects with flowers. My blog is mainly scrapbooking, so those are the kinds of flowers that I have on hand. Here I just simply embellished a Chinese takeout gift box by wrapping some ribbon around it and adding a flower from Michaels and 2 leaf pins from Maya Road. Very easy peasy! Here’s a card I did with some Doodlebug flower stickers that I adhered with pop dots so they’d pop off the page and added some ribbon from American Crafts for their stems. I also used {…Read More…}

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Guest Judge of the Week{Meredith and the New Yorkie}

April 30, 2012 By
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This is going to be fun week and I have a fun guest judge for you. I love hearing the stories behind the blogs. The reasons we all started blogging in the first place and what inspired us to do so. This blogger has a great and inspiring story of living your dreams and having courage. Meet Meredith and her Yorkie, Gwenyth. You can find this cute blog here. I am going to let her to tell you her story in her own words. Meredith & Gwyneth, the New Yorkie is the story of how we make NYC feel like {…Read More…}

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Felt Flower Topiaries{See Vanessa Craft}

April 30, 2012 By
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Hey guys! I’m Vanessa and I blog about my love for glitter and glue guns at See Vanessa Craft. A huge thank you to the CSI Project for inviting me to participate in the flower project challenge, I’m so excited to be here! I created these felt flower topiaries to help decorate the dessert table at a craft party I recently hosted. They are easy to make, but require a bit of time and patience (you may not ever want to see felt again after this project is complete). The effort was totally worth the end result. Aside from a {…Read More…}

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Sponsor of the Week{Paper and Pigtails}

April 29, 2012 By
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For this flower week, I have a great sponsor for you. I am excited to introduce you to a cute shop that specializes in parties and printables that you need to create a cute one of a kind party. Paper and Pigtails is a one stop shop for all of your party printbles. The woman behind the shop and illustator/designer is Kori.

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Challenge of the Week{Flower Challenge}

April 28, 2012 By
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They say April showers  bring May flowers and as we go into May in just a few days, here at The CSI Project we wanted to celebrate flowers. All over blogland there are so many great flower tutorials. How great is this balloon Daisy tutorial! I love these and can’t wait to make some.   Recently, I needed a thank you gift for a friend and I needed it fast. So much for planning! So, I ransacked my craft room and grabbed a blank canvas and then I had an idea. I knew I wanted something with flowers but what kind? {…Read More…}

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Winners of the Recycle, Re-Use and Re-Purpose Challenge

April 28, 2012 By
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And the winners are………………… This was a fun week! I am so inspired by your creative ways to recycle, re-use and re-purpose. Be sure to go through the links and find some inspriration for yourself. Let’s do a 2011 flashback to see what we were re-purposing a year ago. This headband holder was from {Organized Made Fun}. She even made it with her daughter. So cute! Our guest judge Christa from Cohesive Pieces, had the most difficult job picking the winners.  Here is what she said about her judging experience. Thank you so much for sharing all these wonderful projects!I {…Read More…}

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