Happy Monday! Well I did okay at the fair. I got first place for my needlepoint, first place for my card, and honorable mention for my scrapbook. I would have preferred some feedback on my scrapbook but there wasn’t any. I am headed to the Calvert County Fair to enter my things there. They have more categories so I will enter more. I will know how I did there next week. At Late Night Stampers…
Last week I tried to do the faux plaid technique with Paisley Prints and could not get it to work. Those of you who know me that when something work like I think it should work, I will continue to work at it until I can get it. I was also the one growing up when told I couldn’t do something would work at it to prove them wrong. Well that was the case…
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. …
