Red Star Roost: Organizing! The kitchen cupboards...find out what happens when you label...

Woot!!
You came back!!
Thank you!

I've been working on something special...something my husband likes to call a "is that really necessary?" project. ;p

Yep! It's one of them thangs!

Look at these pretty papers!
These scrapbook papers are from Echo Park's Country Drive collection (just in case you REALLY like them!).

The flowers are one side...
and the green zig zag is the other...
happy prints!

Look below at this kitchen cupboard:

This cupboard needs something...

LABELS!

When I'm organizing and cleaning an area in my home,

the best part is...

thinking up pretty and clever things to make it nice.

So while I sorted, scrubbed and organized...

my mind kept going back to those pretty, happy papers...

and how they would brighten up that cupboard...

it dearly needed labels on its containers.

And...

pretty labels...

just make my world go 'round!

First, I cut out some curvy squares using a 2 1/4" punch.

Next, I opened up my Word software and used it's 'shapes' feature

to make 2" circles...

knowing that I have a 2" circle punch....

I thought of having a white background with a colorful font...

I thought of having a colorful background (say...light green or something)...

but the papers are so beautiful on their own...

that those ideas would detract from them.

So....that's my explanation for the somber grey circles

with the white lettering...

I didn't want to detract from the vibrant papers...

and yet I needed something dark enough so

the words would not get lost in all of the busy patterns

and

a person could read the words...

(the purpose)

I used a text box to center my wording onto the grey circles....

Printed it out onto stiff paper

(for substance...but if you don't have any...I'm sure it will be just fine)

and then punched them out using my 2" circle punch

Next, I took my glue stick and lightly glued the circles onto the squares.

This step is necessary even if you are going to put these through a laminator...

you don't want anything to slide apart.

Then, I ran them all through the laminator machine.

My laminator is soooo much fun!

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Why use a laminator?

Well, kitchen items often get dirty and need to be wiped down...

when paper gets sticky or wet...it's all over...

all that nice work will be ruined.

If you don't have a laminator...

there are items out on the market to laminate without a machine...

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Next, I cut the squares out from the plastic...

I tried to round the corners to make them look finished.

Pulled out my adhesive Velcro circles... {I had never used velcro on my labels before...but I learned to use this cool trick from I Heart Organizing! That Jen is so clever!}