I have gotten into crocheting again after many years. I crocheted a four leaf clover for 4-H for my sister as my niece and nephew and brother in law are in it. I tried to felt it and it didn’t quite felt all the way the way that I wanted it to. I made it using Peruvian wool and a wool/ alpaca blend.
I created three thank you cards for my son whom is 24 1/2 years old to write in and give for Christmas presents to his grandparents and aunt and uncles. He only needed three and was very late in writing them but better late than never… so here is the creations.
I Listen to this show and participate with their chat On Sunday nights at 7pm EST http://www.inspiredathome.com/. They have a giveaway usually toward the end of the show where you call in. Tonight I won! I won a Liquitex Surface Design Kit from C & T Publishing http://www.ctpub.com/ and Lisa Fulmer http://www.lisalizalou.com/ . The three colors were my choice.
Jane Dávila's Surface Design Essentials http://www.ctpub.com/productdetails.cfm?PC=1421
Ready-to-Go!® Blank Canvas Book 8 1/2” x 11” http://www.ctpub.com/productdetails.cfm?PC=1240
Liquitex® Iridescent Rich Copper Soft Body Acrylic Paint 2oz. Bottle http://www.ctpub.com/productdetails.cfm?SKU=70023
Liquitex® Brilliant Purple Soft Body Acrylic Paint 2oz. Bottle http://www.ctpub.com/productdetails.cfm?SKU=70016
Liquitex® Prism Violet Soft Body Acrylic Paint 2oz. Bottle http://www.ctpub.com/productdetails.cfm?SKU=70017
Today my boss had surgery on his right foot. We had been picking on him telling him that his left foot was stinky so this is what I came up with.I found some brads that I glittered and flocked. I found a bunch of stickers, some ribbon, A sheet of Vellum and foot stamp. All the brads and the stamping and the stickers were done with only the right foot. I also found a foot pumice stone in the shape of a foot with the help of my sister:)!
My nieces seem to like playing with my scrapbooking stuff! Now my other niece is into it.
I got up at 3am to go to black Friday Wal-mart! My sister went with me and she hadn't been to bed yet. We got there and the line was zigzag down the side of the building and up the side of the parking lot and around the front of the building too! We started just at the end of the building. They started letting people in a few at a time at about 4 am. You could get your items but nothing could be rung up til 5am. They then had all the registers open. I only went for my mother as she is in Lancaster PA to pick up my niece's Christmas present that she knows about. She wanted a CRICUT expression electronic cutting machine like I have. The deal was one that you didn't want to pass up. My niece and my other sister are in Canada visiting family there so they couldn't go either. I came back home and got about three hours of sleep maybe before waking back up then my niece calls me from Canada to see if I got it! She is all excited! She doesn't get it til Christmas though! Thank you Denise for keeping me company
I was informed today that I won another contest. I entered about five weeks ago with Cropped online scrapbooking show. http://www.virtueradionetwork.com/Cropped.htm . It is for a photo book! http://www.seehere.com/ .
SEEHERE.COM PHOTO BOOK WINNER!
Michele A. Michaud
The librarian that is in the school system where my mother works and that we have had in school is retiring in December. Someone is creating a memory type book for her and having everyone do a page or two to put in it. We have gone to NYC several times over the years with her as they have always planned bus trips for day trips every year. My mother, myself, my two sisters and my two nieces all wanted to do these pages so I created and everyone has signed. I used buttons from Jessie James, smooch ink in pumpkin, gold lame, and moonlight, Dusty concord distress ink, Bobbin brand ribbon, little jewel things, and a pattern for the lady liberty from scrappydew.com http://scrappydew.com/Store/ScrappyJuly4th/ that I cut with SCAL. The pictures that were used were taken in NYC also.My niece Tiffany helped me to write something up for it.
This past week and weekend my niece has been raiding my supplies again! She had another project for school on her poultry! This is what is going to school tomorrow morning.
When I placed and order from www.cutterscreek.com there was a code to enter to be placed in a drawing. Well my name was picked randomly!:) I am now the proud owner of a Making Memories tote bag! Thank you Kimberly Bush!
I so love freebies and am the freebie queen! I can talk a drug rep into giving all kinds of things!:) I did a scrapbooking survey about a month or so ago and they said that the first 100 people would get a prize package from Colorbok. They then sent an Email saying that their survey site messed up and could we fill it in all over again and they would give a layout packet also for our time! I did it again and never gave it another thought! Today my husband tells me while I am at work that I have a package so I start thinking if I ordered anything and thought NOPE! I came home to a surprise of a box with a complete scrapbook kit English Meadow theme with:1 12x12 postbound album, 1 idea guide, 24 12x12 patterned papers, 658 accent stickers, 318 punch out accents, 34 chipboard accents;Blue Skies Designer Layout package with: 4 12x12 grid papers, 18 square accents, 34 raw chipboard alphas, and 17 glitter punchouts including photo template! I am not sure the retail on this but I would guess approximately a $40.00 value and is a great freebie!:)
I decided to enter another card challenge. I used my copics to color the stamp, I embossed the border behind the picture with my cuttlebug snowflake and inked it with StazOn red, The hats on the horses I flocked with White, The forehead on the one horse I used Moonlight Smooch, I used buttons and glittered them, I used my EK success snowflake border punch, I cut out a snowflake on my cuttlebug, embossed it and glittered it for the envelope, used my enveloper to make the envelope.
My niece had a project to do again so I helped her with ideas and supplies for it. This is what she came up with using the Cricut Everyday Paper Dolls and My World Cartridges. She also used Smooch, EK Success Fleur De Lis border punch and jewels.
I created four thank you cards yesterday after work. My son needs to write thank you cards so I helped out on the creative end and gave me a reason to create!:) I think they came out pretty good. The inside is the same on all of them. I used my cuttlebug and embossing folders on it.
I made a mini album for my grandmother who turned 93 on Monday! She lives in CANADA which is where my dad is from. I used my Cricut Expression to cut the pages using SCAL and a svg file that I found and altered a bit for the maple leaf shape. I used 2 inch binder rings and colored them Lipstick Red with my copics marker. I used some stickers and buttons that I had purchased for this also.
