Jewelry Display

My MOPS group recently had a speaker who really inspired me. She wrote a book called Beautiful After Baby http://www.beautifulafterbabybook.com Part of her talk included how easily you could feel more beautiful with just a little jewelry. I already have a great system for my necklaces but needed something for my rings & earrings. I do have a plethora of beautiful scrapbook paper I'm afraid I will never get around to using so this is what I came up with... 

 I took a shoe box lid & a bunch of toilet paper & paper towel rolls. (I do have a stockpile closet where I save stuff like this because you just never know!)

 I cut the rolls all down to size to fit in the lid. 

Then I picked out some pretty pretty paper!

I believe that a woman can do anything with a hot glue gun & a drill so I pulled out my trusty glue gun and glued paper onto the lid. 

And then onto each of the rolls.

 Here's what they look like all cozied up together. 

And I know it's hard to see but here it is with my rings and earrings. LOVE!

Flower embellishment

Presentation is everything right? I think so. Anyway now that I mainly used the Project Life system to "scrapbook" http://www.beckyhiggins.com I have a lot of scrapbook paper that I just don't think I'll ever use. I have been using it as wrapping paper which is cool but I wanted to jazz is up a bit. 

This is what I came up with for a flower embellishment. 

So I took my trusty circle template & cut different size circles out of a few different plastic bags. I didn't have any  cool colors so I went with white. 

I held the circles over a candle to curl up the sides.  I found out you can hold them pretty far away...they melt fast! And the thicker the plastic bag the better the effect. The Target bags didn't turn out great so I didn't end up using them. 

My "melted" circles.

I took a bit of embroidery floss in a contrasting color and put it in the middle of my circles once I stacked them all together. 

I used a button behind the flower as an anchor to attach the floss and I knew I wanted to hot glue the flower to my present and didn't want it to melt so the button was ideal.  

 From the front. 

And my finished flower embellishment on my scrapbook wrapped present.