Prairie Scraps

 Whenever I find one of these homemade cutting boards of a pig cutout at thrift stores, I snatch it up!  This one only cost $2!  The last one I did, I gave it to one of our pig buyers along with a plate of homemade cookies.  I thought it was a fun touch.  Here’s the supplies I used: Pig cutting board Storm Paste Country Kitchen Artist Tool Set Bright White Paste  - for the bottom half Placement Tape Small Squeegee If you have any questions, please message me.  If you purchase any of the above products, you will be supporting my small business.

  This was such a fast and easy project!  I got the hats at Hobby Lobby.  You can get the ink, transfers and sqeegee  HERE .  Literally, this took only a few minutes to make, but is so cute!!  I just love this project! Purchasing the materials from  My website  helps support my small business.  If you’d like me to make one for you, or would like to purchase one of these, please contact me at: doristowell@yahoo.com.  I’d love to hear what you think!

My family treated me to a girl’s trip this last weekend for my 50th birthday.  I decided that it would be fun for us to have matching t-shirts, so I made 4 of these this last weekend.  It was so fun to make, and also so much fun to wear them!  This is the  October Club Couture Transfer  and the Ink colors are bright white, papaya and candy apple.  The fact that I was able to make 4 t-shirts just the same, was amazing.  If you’d like to join my club and get a transfer with 3 chalks (won’t stay on a t-shirt - ink will need to be purchased) this is the best deal around - just $19.99 a month.

I’m going to be a grandma!  I found these onesies on Amazon for about $1.25 a piece in a 5 pack.  I decided to buy a bunch of them and ink them with some of the mini transfers I have on hand.   I think they turned out quite cute! This is a mask that my daughter made, so we decided to it it as well! Here’s where you can eat the supplies to ink on fabric:  My website

 I’ve been pondering using our 1953 Airstream Clipper for a craft she shed instead of using it as storage.  It’s too small right now for us to camp in, so we move it back and forth in the back yard to mow under it and everything that we can’t decide what to do with it, we put in there to store it!  Well, I decided to actually use it to make my crafts and hopefully get all my craft items stored in there too!   One of the issues I do have is that I have everything stored everywhere - in the house, in my laundry, in storage, you name it!  I’ve stashed craft projects everywhere!  It will be so nice to have a place to go and create and also be able to know where everything is and be inspired by all of that. I convinced my husband to bring it up to my driveway near the house and help me clean it out.  While it was cleaned out, I did a video tour of it so you could see what it looks like before I get my creating in there! My pipe dream is to have a pop craft ...

I was pretty excited to see the fall chipboard signs at Dollar Tree this week.  I went a little crazy, but at least I have a medium to use for all my fall transfers.    These leaves were so fun, we did a Facebook Live  while we made these. Here’s what we used to make these: Dollar Tree Chip Board Leaves Ink Waverly Chalkpaint Pumpkin Waverly Chalkpaint Waverly Clear Wax Oh My Gourd Transfer Autumn Sayings Transfer Shimmer Spruce Paste Shimmer Crimson Paste Papaya Paste Squeegees  I used the Waverly paints to cover the the chipboard leaves.  Before chalking the transfers on the leaves, I put a light coat of wax on it.  Then the fun part of chalking the transfers!  Check out the videos to see how we made these!

When this kit came out, I will say, I was so excited about how fun it was going to be for my customers!  Plus, I just had to have one for myself.  Little did I know that it would sell out so quickly!  It was quite a hit!  All of our kits are so well thought out and include everything to complete it from start to finish. I had a ton of extra chalk paste left when I finished the Hello Kit, so I made a couple of extra projects while I had the black chalk paste single open!   Here’s what the kit looked like when I opened it! This goes to show you that anyone can do this!  I accidentally put the “hello” on upside down!  See that whole in the bottoms?  Thankfully, everything is fixable with chalk!  I washed the entire white section off with a board eraser and water and started again! Here’s what it looked like after erasing the entire thing!       Whew!  I saved it and I love it!  Be sure to check out our newest kits...

  I’m so excited about the beautiful detail in this month’s  Club Couture .  It looks so beautiful in just a few minutes of spreading chalk paste on it.  This project, I made from a Dollar Tree Fourth of July tag (you can check it out in my live).  I didn’t even cover anything from that side of the tag. Here are the items that I used for this project: Dollar Tree Fourth of July Tag  Waverly White Chalk Paint - Walmart Paint brush Waverly Clear Paste - Walmart July  Club Couture   Life is a Bowl of Cherries Transfer Squeegee Cart Link  - this has the colors that I used, a squeegee, and a tag - everything you need to make this project along with the Club Couture  Transfer.   2 1/2 wide coordinating ribbon What do you think?  This project doesn’t take that long to make (I do a lot of chatting in the video). It really takes longer to wait for it to dry, than to do!  So much fun!

Receiving snail mail these days is a pretty amazing thing!  It seems lost by the wayside.  To receive an actual gift or package is even more exciting!!  I love getting mail, I love getting gifts!  I also love to craft - so this is the perfect mix:  Club Couture !  For just $19.95 each month, you can get a reusable transfer and three coordinating pastes in the mail to make any project you can dream of!  So fun!   Here’s what the transfer looks like in it’s fun envelop.  The things I used to make this project are: Cutting board (found at a thrift sale for $1) Club Couture Transfer - this one is the May, 2021 called Sweet Lemon Grove Chalk Paste - I used Sage & Bumblebee Chalk Couture scrapers Chalk Couture round mini Ribbon Scissors Baby wipes (for my messes) I made a little video on how I made it - I would love for you to check it out: This is such a fun and easy way to get a little crafting done each month!  For under $21, I was able...

 I’m going to be a Grandma!  So I’m throwing a shower to celebrate the new baby girl that my daughter is going to be having!  I picked the theme of llamas and cactus.  I’ve always been fascinated with making a diaper cake for a decoration and gift for the new mama!  Don’t ask me why, maybe it just embodies everything crafty with having a baby! My biggest thing about this project, is that I want it to look pretty and help with our theme of the shower and I want the Mama-to-be to be able to use all those diapers.  So - I resisted using a glue gun! Here are the things that I used in this project: 1/3 a Box of Kirkland Size 1 Diapers  - Costco $12 (it’s full price was $35, but I only used 1 of the 3  packages in the box) 14” Wilton Cake Tray -Walmart $4 for 4 (I used 1) 2” wide Burlap/lace ribbon - Walmart $4.63 Jute String - Dollar Tree $1 Cactus picks - Dollar Tree 3 for $1 each Pack of tiny rubber band hair ties - Dollar Tree $1 Toy for top - Walma...