Thursday, April 2, 2009

Is It As Hard For You...

Is it as hard for you as it is for me to come up with handcrafted items that a man would like and, perhaps, actually use?! That was my frame (he he he - no pun intended!) of thought when I made this item! I wanted to do something altered and when I recently saw these giant clothespins at a get together I thought "hey......potential"! Well this is what I came up with!



Here's what I used to create this manly gift - a giant clothespin, Basic Grey Marrakech paper pad, Making Memories dots (another sale bin rescue BTW!), 2 brass brads, random ribbon that coordinated, and a great stamp from The Rubber Cafe! The square is actually a coaster that I recovered using more of the Basic Grey paper and my glue stick to adhere it. I used my recently deceased Cuttlebug (I'm still in mourning!) on this to cut out the stamped image. I took a small scrap of the DP I used to redo the heart in the stamped image and just glue it on top of the other one! Could you tell?!
Well, did I get the "manly" part good enough? Now, the toss up - give it to my Dad...give it to my DH or....turn it in to Melissa as a sample....he he he I'm turning it like a good girl but I sure am tempted to keep it! LOL!

Well...

Until next time....

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wow girl, you have today's post up already?!? Cool idea, that would be great for hubby's desk with a photo of wife and kids!

Jaspere said...

What a great idea. TFS and I love that paper.

Jacquel said...

this is neat Michelle....very nice! tfs!!!

Vicki Burdick said...

cool!

Veronica Z said...

I agree, it is very difficult to create "man" paper crafts. Your paper clip turned out very well!

Mary G. said...

This is great!! Definitely 'manly'! TFS!

Michelle Forrest said...

Great guy gift! And this is oh so cute!