I saw this great idea on Erica’s blog Pink Buckaroo. I thought this would be a fun project for this month so I used her directions to make this cute soap holder. I did use retired Halloween paper as I have a ton. I went to Bath & Body Works to buy the soap and they only had a few bottles of 1 scent left. I bought what I thought I might need as there…
It has been a while since I have played with Carole’ Anne and Sandi’s 10 Minute Challenge. This week there was a sketch challenge They also had the requirement that you had to use 2 different pieces of designer series paper. Since I have a lot of the paper we got free at convention I decided to use it. My original plan was to use the stamp set Peaceful Season and the sentiment “Season’s Greetings”…
I have a busy week again so I spent some time in my craft room on Sunday. I worked on my regional swaps but I also made a couple cards. It is fair time here and I have a few things to enter. Usually on the advertisements for our County Fair they have sunflowers. So I thought it would be fun to use the Daisy die to create a sunflower. I ran across a great…
Good Monday Morning to you! The challenge at Late Night Stampers this week is a fall theme. I have seen all kinds of pumpkins made out of punches. The ones I had liked used the wide oval punch which I don’t have. I saw a video made by Gwen Mangelson’s husband (great video so check it out) where he used other punches besides the wide oval so I decided to give it a try. …
I got sad news yesterday. My daughter sent me a message that her brother-in-law finally passed away. He was involved in a serious motorcycle accident over a year ago and has suffered quite a bit since then. I wanted to make a card for his parents so that was my motive for today’s card. Unfortunately I did not think I would have to participate in the sympathy theme challenge at Just Add Ink so I…
Stampin’ Up has regionals scheduled throughout the country. This year we are lucky that they are having a regional in Baltimore on October 1 and 2. Regionals are only 1 day so I am going on October 1. Regionals are very similar to convention so there is swapping involved. Since it is 2 weeks away I knew I needed to get busy with my swaps. I ran across some cards this week that were my…
