Well, if you noticed my blog is back up and running again. In good news, I didn’t lose the entire year’s worth of post, only those after April 1st. I guess I’m the fool for not backing up better.
I do have all the images/photos, so after I am done riding a tractor for 10+ hours a day, I will try and repost the missing blogs.
Upcoming events are current, and I do have a box of new goodies that is just shouting for me to open and come play with them.
Happy Crafting!
Here’s the photo of one of our crafting weekend projects. It’s an adhesive Tape Gun (ATG) holder. The funny thing is that after I had decorated my own (the red ATG with ladybugs), it took using it about 3x before I was completely lost without it. If you own an ATG, it’s a must have. Wow. I’m truly surprised with how much easier it is to use the adhesive gun with it standing up in the holder.
To color the base, I used about 30 drops of re-inker with 1/4 cup of rubbing alcohol to make a stain for mine. The holder on the left used a brown walnut stain and the pink one on the right used acrylic paint. The painted ones needed to dry overnight, but the stained ones could have paper applied and sealed with liquid glass right away. I recommend using non paper flowers as they will hold up better. The vertical part of the holder can be removed from the base for travel.
The purple gun in the above photo is a bit smaller and needed a custom vertical peice. Thankfully the owner of the purple gun is the wife of the gentleman that cut these all out for me, so it wasn’t a problem!
So, do you think I should do a give away for one of the extra’s I have. I’ll have to decorate a few of them so the winner would have a choice of colors. . . Let me know what you think.
Happy Crafting.
Here’s the group of us that enjoyed a wonderful crafting retreat in Wiloughby Lodge. From early twenty’s to pushing 70, all ages had fun. (All ages also had sore laughter muscles as we did a LOT of that this weekend.)
Here’s a glimpse of our lighter side. I’ll have more photos of our projects soon!
Happy Crafting!
Well, I should be working on the next scrapbooking workshop, but after I finished Timberline, I decided to play with the newly arrived Embossing folders. I have to say, I am loving them!
I don’t know about you, but I have a few (hundred) old paper packs laying around that have been opened and most of the papers used, but still too much left to allow me to discard them. So, I grabbed one, and decided I was going to use as much of the paper that was in it that I could.
I grabbed a couple punches, (I didn’t want to get my cricut out as my craft table is still half covered with other projects, and I know that would never happen at your house!) my ebosser and the new embossing folders. I also snagged my card stock scraps bag and went to town. I started by simply punching some flowers and vines and layered them on the card bases. I was just playing, so I dry fit several cards then glued down my designs and ran them through the ebosser. After they were embossed, I added the sentiment and some of my dry embossed flowers. ( how to dry emboss )
Would love to see your project if this inspires you!
Hopefully you can see more of the details 🙂 Also, I used up EVERY last piece of paper from my Dotty for You paper. How cool is that?!
Happy Crafting!
For the few of you that didn’t get to club night, but received the project I’ve finally managed to take photos AND get them to my computer. So, here they are.
I used IvyLane Paper, one sheet of the pink glitter paper, Art Philosophy to cut the butterfly.
The three cards were designed using the Frosted Card Workshop.
With the extra sets of pre-cut cards, I put some together using different stamps. I’m going to post them here for extra ideas for you.
I’ve been working on the Timberline Scrapbooking workshop and also have some embedded embossing cards to share. Hopefully I’ll carve some time to show them to you!
Happy Crafting.
