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Star Card Valentine!

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I really do spend way too much time watching crafting YouTube videos, and not enough time actually making crafty things. This weekend I decided to change the paradigm. Well, maybe not exactly. I saw an excellent video from Treasure Books on making a Christmas star card. It was beautiful! I thought I could use some of my junk journaling supplies and do a Valentine’s Day star card, so I did.

The front cover is layered paper with a felt heart I cut out of a little jewelry bag. I used seam binding for the closure and added a pink polka dot binder clip to use when it is opened up.

For the first section, I used a wildflower field guide page, a faux ticket and a letter pressed tag that says love. I added a thesaurus page with the word love and a glitter heart. The next section was made with scrapbook paper and a bunch of heart cut from scraps. I’ve had those hearts forever (and I still have a million more). The third page includes “The Song of the Red Clover Fairy” from the Flower Fairy collection. Section four is more scrapbook paper, a project life card and a small gold envelope with a matching card. The fifth page is red graph paper with a wooden heart and a handmade pocket. I added a magnetic heart page marker. The final page is various washi tapes and heart stickers.

This was a super fun project as I got to be creative with all the odds and ends I had in my craft room.

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Crafty Journaling

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Since the end of March, I have been working from home and basically never leaving the house. My husband has been working from home for 10 years or longer, so he thinks everything is normal. We all know everything is not normal. I have watched everything on Netflix and Amazon Prime, so I need to get back into doing other things. One of those other things is to get more active and watch what I eat. To go along with that, I decided to journal a bit with goal tracking. For me, I want a pretty journal, so I have been doing some art pages.

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Snow Day – Stash Day

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Today was a snow day, so in between work emails, I went upstairs and played with my stash. I have a huge stash of stuff. Card stock, patterned paper, and more. I am sure I have told you about my obsession with die cuts, Stampin’ Up, and Project Life cards. I love them all. I buy new and used Stampin’ Up, much to my husband’s consternation. I must have a couple of hundred stamp sets. Many of which I haven’t used yet.

So thinking about how to best use what I have, I got an idea. I could use my Project Life cards on the front greeting card. A while back I ordered a grab bag of envelopes from LCI paper (a great deal of 1000 assorted envelopes, for $40, you don’t know what you’ll get so it’s a surprise). Unfortunately, they sent a grab bag of card stock instead. When I called to let them know of the issue, they told me to keep the paper and sent me the envelopes. Yay for good customer service. So I found some A1 sized pieces in a moss green and looked through my gazillion Project Life cards and found a few I though would coordinate and got started. I used a Sizzix label die cut, pulled out a few random Stampin’ Up stamps and got to town:

I am pretty sure when my mini dachshund barks, she is saying “I hate the mailman!”

I used watercolor pencils for the car. I loved the little puff of smoke with this stamp set. It reminded me of my first car.

These little love birds are precious!

Now I need to find a few stamps and send them off to family and friends. Happy Tuesday to all!

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Happy Birdday!

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Portland has been snowed in for days.  We usually don’t get all that much snow here, but this last storm was a doozy!  I have been using my time off well.  I have read three books and took the bus to the movie theater and saw Hidden Figures (really good) and spent a lot of time crafting.  My rug is about 4″ bigger and I have a bunch of new cards.  

For Christmas my friend gave me a gift card to Joanne’s (she is a great friend, indeed). I promptly spent it 😜. I got a cool bird punch.  Now, what to do with little birds?  Birdday cards.  I used cute paper to make the birds and used a heart punch to make wings.  It was a co-worker’s birthday and we needed a card, so I made her a Birdday birthday card.  Turned out so cute I made some more!


The stamping was a bit tricky as I used stamps with longer sayings to get my happy and my day.  I used a Stampin Up! marker to ink up just the words I wanted. Worked like a charm.  

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Puppy!

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Totally not Craft related, but totally cute!


How could you not love this!

So what crafty thing have I done lately?  I played with my W R Memory Keepers Alphabet Punch Board and Banner Punch Board. I bought both of these a while ago, but really never used them. We needed a thank you banner at work, so I thought this was the perfect opportunity to use some of my stash.  

The Alphabet board is really easy to use and comes with a booklet with pictures of each step in making all the letters and numbers.  I still made a backwards S as I wasn’t paying close enough attention.  The letters a 5″ tall and looked great on the banner we made.

 

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Butterflies

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I think postage stamps are pretty cool.  I am not a collector by any means.  Before I went on my self imposed moratorium on buying craft supplies, I bought a few stamp lots on Etsy.  One included several beautiful butterfly stamps.  So I made some cards with them (I know that is a big surprise for those that know me).  


At least ten years ago I went to a scrapbooking convention in Mesa, Arizona.  There was a booth with a great deal on paper.  A bought about twenty packs of 8.5″ by 5.5″ paper.  Perfect for quick cards.  So, in line with my theme for the year of using what I have, I didn’t buy anything for these cards.  Yay me!

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My First Time

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After a stressful week at work that culminated in hosting our company retiree dinner with 170 attendees, I finally had time to try out my new paints.  I watched a few YouTube videos so I could see what I was supposed to.  I don’t usually do too much research, I usually jump right in.  So that’s what I did.  I am not so good at using different media and getting a really put together look, but I think I might get better with practice (a lot of practice).
I started with the dylusional paints I bought last week.  I wanted to start with a lighter color so I used the lemon zest yellow, tangerine dream and orange. 


I dug out a set of baby calendar stamps from Close to My Heart and stamped the month of May on the top right of the page with Tangerine Twist ink from Stampin Up!  Then I added a beautiful bee stamped with More than Mustard ink (I think that is the color) also from Stampin Up!, with the word yourself underneath, be yourself.  I added the words happy anniversary at the bottom because my husband and I are celebrating our 20th anniversary this month.  I know it really doesn’t go together that well, but it is my first try. 


I finished the layout with the year 2016 with die cuts from Stampin Up!  And a pretty flower with a button center.  

My first page of my first art journal
I had fun playing with my stash of stamps and embellishments an am looking forward to getting better at this craft.  I can see I need to work on this 😜..

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Pretty Paints

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I just went to Craft Warehouse and bought a ton of new, cool stuff!  That got me thinking that I already have a lot of cool stuff.  So I decided to give myself a challenge.  That challenge is to use only the things I have for the next year.  This will probably be impossible for me, as I have an addiction to crafting toys.  So I will need your support!  Here’s my pledge:

  • No new paper
  • No new die cuts
  • No new stickers
  • No new stamps (sorry to my Stampin’ Up demonstrator)
  • No new crafting toys
  • Make a project a week with my current stash

So my first project will be starting an art journal with the cool paints I bought today. 

Art Journal Supplies

I have no idea what I am doing here, so it’s off to YouTube to figure it out!

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Little Boxes, Made of Ticky Tacky

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I never rally watched the show Weeds, although I have seen a couple of episodes.  I never got into it like my former boss did.  She loved that show.  Something about selling weed in the suburbs didn’t resonate with me.  But, and there always is a but, I did like the theme song.  Little Boxes by Malvina Reynolds.  It is just a little song about the suburbs and the houses “they all look just the same.”  Maybe that is not great for houses, but it is great for treat boxes.

Last year a put up my pretty dress boxes. Last night I got a request to make some boxes in different colors.  So I did.  So just like the little boxes, there is a red one, a blue one and a silver one, the all look just the same.

Dress Boxes

Not really the best picture, but it gives you a good idea of what the boxes look like in different colors.  Kind of cute, right?

Hope you have a wonderful week!