TKJ Watch Us Wednesday & Word Art Wednesday

Hello friends of The Kraft Journal!  I'm here to share with you all a super easy, fun, and pocket-friendly idea for our "My Special Idea" segment of today's Watch Us Wednesday at The Kraft Journal.  This week, I'm sharing another great gift-giving idea.  I had purchased some super yummy Pirouline cookies at the Dollar Store, and I saved the canisters because I just knew they would be fun to decorate.  Here's how I decorated them:

I took several sheets of Vintage Dictionary Pages and cut them into narrow strips at the correct height to cover my canisters.  I covered the back side of each strip with a thin layer of Mod Podge and adhered them to the sides of the canisters - overlapping just a bit as I covered them.  This entire process took just a couple minutes per can.

Once I had the canisters covered in the Vintage Dictionary Pages, I covered the lids in the same way.  Some have the Vintage Dictionary Pages showing, and some do not.  You can't go wrong with these - anything you use to decorate would be fine, and they could be made throughout the year with other styles of embellishments.  The lid below also has a Making Memories sticker on it - the size was a perfect fit!

I then decorated each canister with some stickers and other little Christmas embellishments I had on hand, including ribbon from Hobby Lobby, rusty jingle bells from Paper Sweeties, and I tied them with Natural Hemp Cord.

This photo shows the tops of all three cans.  Be creative, and use whatever you have on hand.  You can't go wrong!

Because I knew that I was going to use these canisters to fill with Christmas treats and give away as gifts, I added Round Metal-Edged Grungy Prim Tags to each canister so that I could write "To/From" on them.   It was the perfect finishing touch.  I LOVE these tags, and just ordered myself more of them.

The Kraft Outlet is full of great products to help make your gift-giving and holiday crafting projects a breeze, and the prices are always right!  We hope that this little project has inspired you all to head on over to the Kraft Outlet to get some great new supplies, and then join our fun "Something New" challenge this week. Happy crafting, everyone!

Before I run off, I wanted to share (above) my card for this week's challenge at Word Art Wednesday.  I used some of my new patterned papers (the ones I got on clearance in St. George this past weekend).  I ran off the word art/scripture file on a Cosmo Cricket journaling card through my printer, and machine stitched everything together.  Then, I just added a seam binding bow and some sweet paper flowers.  Other than lots of Tim Holtz ink, that's about it.  Please be sure to stop by and play along with us at The Word Art Wednesday Challenge Blog as well as at The Kraft Journal Challenge Blog.  It's always a blessing to have you all join us, and there are so many great prizes to be won.  Our sponsors this week at WAW are The Scrapping Center - a $15 Gift Certificate, and also Stamp Art by Kathryne - 5 digis of winner's choice.  We look forward to seeing you all! 

Have a blessed week,

Karen