Blog Swap with The Girl Creative

Hey Lucky Star Lane readers! It's Diana from The Girl Creative! I'm so excited to be swaping blogs with Heather and Erin today. They have a great blog, don't they? Don't forget to go support them over at my blog today. It always nice to see some familiar faces. :)

This is my first time doing a guest post so I hope you'll bear with me if I start to ramble and talk in circles!

Let me tell you a little bit about myself and then we'll get to the fun stuff. I'm a Christian by faith and happily married to my hunky police officer husband, Tim. We have 2 very, very busy little girls, Emilee, 6 and Gracie, 3 1/2 and an insane dog, Buster. I'm really blessed because I get to stay at home and raise my girls. While our life is pretty ordinary, I feel like I'm living my dream life. When I'm not doing housework (which I avoid on a pretty regular basis and my husband surely puts up with those shananigans!) I like to spend my time crafting and blogging.

I've been blogging for a few years but this is my most recent blogging adventure. I just wanted a place to blog about my little creations (and copy cat crafts) so in October of 2009, The Girl Creative made her appearance in blog land. Every Monday we have a link party called "Just Something I Whipped Up" so I hope you'll stop by and share your projects with us.

Alright, now that all that boring stuff is out of the way, let's have some fun. At my house we have this shelf above the sink that seems to be the dumping ground for anything kicking around the kitchen that does not have a permanent home. Since our kitchen is the main hub I often find myself taking my receipts from the grocery store (and Hobby Lobby!) and tossing them up on that shelf. As you can imagine it gets very cluttered especially since I'm somewhat of a shopaholic! I came across this little project the other day and thought it would be the perfect thing to store my receipts in. I made a few little changes to make it my own but it was really simple.
If you can't tell what it is, it's an accordion envelope that hangs on the side of your fridge. The perfect little out-of-the-way place for your receipts.

The Supplies:
12x12 Scrapbook Paper (I used Amy Butler double sided paper which worked great)
Paper Cutter with Scoring Blade
Double Sided Tape
Velcro
Magnet

The first thing I did was cut my paper down to 12x9. You will need the extra 3" inches so hold onto it.
Next I took my 3x12 piece of paper and cut it in half. This will become your "acordian".

Then I took my 2 halves of paper and folded them like a fan.

Next take your 9x12 sheet of paper and score it at 3", 5" and 8" and fold.

I then took my accordians and attached them to the envelope using double-sided tape.



I noticed that my cover flap (not really sure what to call it!) was a bit longer than I wanted it to be so I trimmed some of it off. I wound up using it on the front of the envelope (the opposite side of the paper so that there was a contrast) to break up the pattern a bit. I know, I'm rambling, but I did warn you! ;)

Next I added velcro inside the envelope so that it would stay closed.

Then lastly I put a magnet strip on the back and hung it up on the side of my fridge.

And there you have it. :)

Thank you so much, Erin and Heather, for having me at your little place on the web. I had a blast!!

Thanks Diana! It was great having you and thanks for sharing your readers with us! We hope you'll all come over to The Girl Creative and check us out...and we really hope you'll keep coming back!