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Mini Sheet Music Envelopes

April 11, 2012 / BY Okio B Designs
The boys are off from school this week so I haven't had much time to blog, much less craft.  I managed to steal a little time earlier today to make these cute, mini sheet music envelopes: I found a great template here.  I just printed off the size I wanted (4x6) onto cardstock.  Then I traced the pattern onto my sheet music and cut each one out.  Glue along where a store-bought envelope would be...

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Not Your Mama's Lunch Bags

February 29, 2012 / BY Okio B Designs
My husband starts a new job on Friday and we're very excited over here about it.  Now that he'll be brown-bagging it again, I got to thinking about how I could make his lunch bags a little more exciting: First I looked up how to spell the days of the week in French on Yahoo (not Google because I don't agree with their new privacy policy).  Once I got the spelling, I created a word...

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Dollar Store Candle Trio

February 01, 2012 / BY Okio B Designs
This trio of Dollar Store prayer candles has been sitting on the shelf in my craft room since December.  I finally got around to giving them a French makeover today: Two of these great images are from The Graphics Fairy.  The third is one I purchased off of Etsy. Once I cut out each image, I distressed the edges of each one ever so slightly.  Then I used Mod Podge to glue them on and...

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