Candice Windham Design Studio

Autumn is here in all its glory. It's time for football games, burning leaves, harvest celebrations and Thanksgiving will soon be upon us. Now is the time to get your table decor ready, and this quick and easy project will get your crafty holiday juices flowing Here's how I did it: Supplies Reusable-Non Stick Craft Sheet ( KoolTak™ ) Premium Extreme Adhesive, 1/2" width ( KoolTak™ ) Foam Adhesive Foam Pads, Clear, 1/4" x 1/4" x 1/32" ( KoolTak™ ) Layer Plus Tool ( KoolTak™ ) Little B Chipboard Pack, one sheet for every two place card holders ( LittleBllc.com ) Patterned paper 1/2 sheet per place card holder (Paper Studio) Kraft Paper, 8 1/2" x 11",  one sheet per eight name tags and 1 sheet per four napkin rings Mulberry paper, gold, one sheet per five napkin rings Gold card stock, one sheet per eight name tags Makin's Air Dry Clay, Brown, one pack ( Makin's A...

--> Summer’s here, and what better way to celebrate than with this sweet little surprise for your favorite gardener? This is a wonderful little happy to cheer someone up, tuck into a gift bag or offer an extra-special thank you, and this little pocket card is not only pretty, it contains a nice surprise. You can make this in 30 minutes or less so it’s a pleasure to give. Make several at one time to have on hand when you need a special little something at the last minute. Here’s how: Supplies Kool Tak™ Dimensional Foam Squares, 1/4” x 1/4” x 1/8 ″ Kool Tak™ Ultra Clear Adhesive, 1/4” Card stock, textured , 8 1/2” x 11” (Graphic 45 Coordinations), and cream, 3” x  4” (Stampin’Up®) Patterned paper or card stock scraps, 3 5/8” x 4 5/8” and 3 3/8” x 4 3/8” Colored pencil, green (Prismacolor) Ribbon, gold, 1/2” x 8” and green, 1/2” x 28” Flower Punch Circle Punch, 1” Cropadile or long reach hole punch, 1/8” Distress Ink, Peeled Paint and Tattered ...

Today begins another monthly edition of the Designer Crafts Connection Blog Hop. This month's theme is handmade gifts. Be sure to click on the Designer Crafts Connection button at left to hop forward or backward and see all the wonderful gift ideas from our talented designers. This little box began life as a chick feeder that I found on Decor Steals . (If you are not on their email list for daily bargains, you're missing out.) When I bought it, I didn't know what it would become, but knew that I loved it. Chick feeder base I have to admit that the idea to house the growing pile of charger cords into one container was not mine. I got the idea of containing all the cords from a website that I stumbled onto late one night. I wish I could remember where it was, but alas, my brain is not as good as it once was. (My theory: Our brains are like hard drives. You store a lot of information in there and the more you have, the longer it takes to sort through find wh...

Welcome to a middle-of-the-month blog challenge on the Designer Crafts Connection! This time, we're playing wi th Smoothfoam ™ , one of my new favorite surfaces. Smoothfoam™ is sturdy, resists chipping and crushing, paintable (no tedious prep work!), waxable, stampable - everything you want in a foam product. On top of that, it can be adhered with just about any adhesive, including glue guns. You can get out that dinosaur glue gun from the "olden days" when that was all that we had available, and not worry about whether you are using high heat or low. Both work fine on Smoothfoam™ (but you still need to keep it off your fingers). This stuff can be cut or carved as well. Be sure to click on the Designer Crafts Connection logo to the left to see what some great designers have done with Smoothfoam™. You can win the Smoothfoam™  Kit to make me! As you hop through the designer blogs, comment on your favorite projects. Each time you comment you'll be ent...

I am totally in love with Makin's Air Dry Clay. It's just like playing with clay when I was a little girl, but this one sets up and hardens without any baking or long wait periods. You can cut it, sand it or texturize it, and it always comes out looking fabulous! Be sure to scroll to the bottom to see how you can win some cool tools and supplies from Makin's Clay, and be sure to click on the Designer Crafts Connection Blog Hop button at left to hop to other blogs and see some more wonderful creations. Here's the side view showing the trim. This cool box began as a Goodwill find. I think my friend Nancy Kennedy actually found it and handed it to me. (Thanks, Nancy!) I knew it was going to be something special. The finished box is designed to holds precious memories: a child's small toy, pretty rocks from special places, travel souvenirs or just about anything you can think of. Here's how I made it: Supplies Makin's Clay , Black, white and...

Welcome to the All Things Altered Blog Hop! It's getting close to the bewitching time of year, and while I'm not a big Halloween fan, I am a fan of wonderful quotations. When I saw this quote by George Bernard Shaw: "If you can't get rid of the skeletons in your closet, you'd better make sure they can dance," I knew exactly what I wanted to do with it. I had been hoarding these little 6" skeletons for a couple of years and I think I bought them as a garland at Dollar Tree. They've been sitting in my Favorite Stash Drawer (yes, it's all caps because everything in there is just that important), waiting for me to take them out to dance (no pun intended). Larry and I are junk store junkies and a few weeks ago we went to a row of them in Memphis, just spending the day browsing. I went in one and immediately turned around and came back out. The proprietor laughed at me because he knew I was afraid of the 16' stack of junk on either si...