Loved the rain this weekend! Isn't crazy to have last Sunday near 100 degrees and just yesterday nearly get to 60? Although I'm not much for sun, I am glad it's coming right back tomorrow. I wasn't quite ready for our usual 5 months of rain and drizzle.
So this is what I made this weekend:
This card is bright..almost spring-like, but the colors complemented the other two cards so well...and I really wanted to use it. So I did!
The three images are stamped and embossed with clear embossing powder.
This card is RSVP sized (5 x 3.5) and has the cutest little clip!
Next up: Halloween and fall cards...and maybe a little Christmas treat!
It's time for freshly sharpened pencils and clean, new spiral notebooks...and boxes of unused crayons and bottles of glossy white Elmer's glue! While we adjust, here are the few items I put together for the next class:
"Hell-Owl" Card
Owl Coffee gift
Owl coffee gift: side view
Medallion Card
Hope you are enjoying our last few weeks of summer. I'm glad it waited for the 90s until September!
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A good friend is celebrating her birthday tomorrow, so I made a card for her.
And I liked it so much I made another! I used Basic Grey paper called "Indian Summer".
Then...I watched the Portlandia clip: "Put a Bird On It"
...and was inspired to go forth and do so.
I'm not as satisfied with the bird card as I am with the Basic Grey card, but that might be due to my low expectation of the BG card and the vision in my head not coming out quite as well as I wanted.
The "hello-birdie" has the bird raised up with foam. The "celebrate-birdie" is flat. I scored the heavy linen paper with my Martha Stewart scoring thing. I like that the lines are spaced 1/8 " apart, but the grooves are so deep I have pressed throguh my paper on several occasions. It's good to have both (more toys!)
12 days until school starts! Not that I'm counting.
Hello! I've been makin' plans and lists! I have been making lists of all the items I'm making for a Christmas Bazaar and here's one of the items I'm making. No, it's not too early for Christmas...not 'round here! Only 18 weeks left 'til Christmas!
One of the things I've noticed from the years I've done a Bazaar, is that people will buy paper crafts if they are affordable or if they don't have time to make the item (or they aren't the type to copy).
This is a fairly simple decorated bag, with a glazed clothes pin to close it up. I think it's too sweet, and I've got 10 more ready to be glued/assembled.
I have more crafty-items on deck waiting to be photographed and posted...I can't wait to share!
Howdy, folks! It was a wet, wet weekend here in Portland...so I was able to get quite a bit done in my craft room! How about you? What did you do this last weekend?I was able to pull out some great purple paper and match it up with these treat boxes made by Basic Grey. They have a different pattern on the inside, so feel free to fold 'em the other way if you'd like.
These boxes are super easy to assemble and are the size of a large take-out box. Also included in this class is a small matching 3" gift card with a 3-D butterfly and lots of glitter:
And finally, a matching 3.5" x 6" card with glitter paper and felt daisy with gems:
I'll also have a small thank you appreciation gift for everyone in class for being the best glue-stick therapy class around. Hope to see you Tuesday!
It's finally summer here (this week) and I was inspired by all the outdoor activities we did, to make up these cards. I chose a variety of coordinated papers that to me, represent summer colors. The first card is Made with Scenic Route - "Sentimental Diamonds" and Quick Quotes paper "Joker's Wild" and "My Michelle":
The second card reminds me of water. It's made with Gin-X "Scientifically Weird" and "Desperately Seeking Summer"; Scenic Route's "Hampton-Turner Street" and "Bellville Snow Drift". There are 19 different sentiment squares that I will bring to class: And finally the 3rd card is a silly little summer beach card. I loved the bikini on the front so much I didn't cover it up with the blue water strips I have. It's made with Imaginisce "A Shore Thing" and Flair Design's "Summer Daze":Enjoy!
The second card reminds me of water. It's made with Gin-X "Scientifically Weird" and "Desperately Seeking Summer"; Scenic Route's "Hampton-Turner Street" and "Bellville Snow Drift". There are 19 different sentiment squares that I will bring to class:
And finally the 3rd card is a silly little summer beach card. I loved the bikini on the front so much I didn't cover it up with the blue water strips I have. It's made with Imaginisce "A Shore Thing" and Flair Design's "Summer Daze":
Enjoy! 
