Featured Artwork

I found out that The Angel Company is featuring one of my cards in their 'Featured Artwork' Isection. I had submitted three birthday cards that used the 'Uptown Girl' Wing It Collection patterned paper. I love the Wing It Collection because you get three pieces of each design. For just $6.95 you get 36, 8x8 pieces of patterned paper. An awesome deal if you ask me!

Here are the other two cards that I made. I used two stamp sets- Birthday Wishes and Blooming Builders. Thanks for looking!!

Willoughby Mini Album

I designed this mini album for an upcoming FunShop. I used one of TAC's new paper collections - Willoughby . I just love the greens and browns!!

This is a three page coaster album and it was bound with 1/2 inch wire. The pages above show my sister, Samantha, and my brother, Scott, and his wife, Melissa. I placed a handmade pocket under Scott and Melissa's picture. It's a fun way to tuck away a little journaling.

(Chris and I) (my mom and dad)

Supplies-

Willoghby SWIC
Willoghby cardstock
Pewter Hardware
Mega Scalloped Oval
Oval Coluzzle

Super Jumbo Flower
Burnt Umber Palette Ink
Bind It All
1/2" wire
Family Is Forever stamp set
My Life stamp set

New Product

As most of you know, TAC recently released their Fall/Winter 2008 Catalog. One of the new products they are carrying are embellishment jars. I bought the Ava Embellishment Jar and I'm loving it! These embellishment jars contain 100 (beautiful) buttons, 40 blossoms and 20 felt flowers. I had never used the felt flowers before and now I think I'm hooked!

I'm beginning a Technique Club in August and this is the little book that I made for myself. There are 14 members in my club and I've used this book to record club members, what month they'll be hostess, and what technique I'll be teaching. I may even have to take some pictures at our club meetings and add them in later.

I purchased a papercraft magazine awhile back entitled 'Home and Heart' (by CK Media). The magazine is full of simple gifts for each season. One that really caught my eye was the Floral Thanks Gift Box found on page 27. I recently purchased some flowers and had so much fun using them for this project!

I wrapped a strip of TAC's Uptown Girl paper around my gift and used the 'Sweet Goodies' stamp set for my tag. I ran my ribbon up through all three flowers and the tag and then tied a simple knot. What a fun and quick way to wrap a gift!!

Christmas in July

Nicole and I hosted our Christmas in July party yesterday. It was a lot of fun! We each provided three Christmas themed projects for a total of 6 projects for our guests to make. Two of the projects that I did were this ornament and a tag.

The tag uses paper from the Reece collections and the Simply Christmas and Christmas Circles stamp sets. The ornament also uses paper from the Reece collection and the Christmas Circles stamp set. For the ornament, I used the metal lid off the end of a frozen juice container. The Mega Circle 2-1/2" punch punches the perfect sized circle to fit inside the juice lid! And it also coordinates with the Christmas Circles stamp set. It made the project really easy to make. I used the Crop-a-Dile to punch my hole for my ribbon. The crop-a-dile punches through the metal like butter! I may have to use this project with my kindergarten students at Christmas.

Sewing Machine Fun

I love to quilt and sew almost as much as I love to work with paper and rubberstamps. I decided to combine all of this and these are the three projects I came up with. I plan to offer them as a class in September or October. I want to give credit for the circle card idea to a friend named Denise that I met on a forum that I use to be a part of. She sent me the most amazing card and I've hung on to it forever because I knew that I wanted to try and make a similar one someday.

Denise's card said this on the outside, "When I count my blessings I count..." and the inside had a letter 'U'. How cute! She also used a patterned paper that had numbers all over it- very cool concept.

I'd like to share a quick tip with you about using your sewing machine. Try to think ahead when gluing your pieces in place. You want to try and not put glue where the needle will be entering. This will keep your needle from gumming up. For example- on the full size card (the first photo) I ran glue along the top and side of my green piece of paper, only down the middle and very edges of the striped paper and along the bottom and sides of the pink paper.

If you haven't tried sewing on paper yet, I challenge you to give it a try!!

Supplies-
Lilly Anna Soar With It Collection, white thread, zig-zag stitch and sewing machine used on all three projects.

Full size card
Bold Flourishes
Level A Hostess set for sentiment
Bella Rose Palette Ink

3 x 3 card
Build a Buggie
Tag Tidbits
green Bazzill cardstock (actual name unknown)
misc. tag and eyelet
black ink

Circle Card
Coluzzle Circle Template
silver brad
misc. flower

I'm preparing for a 'booth' event and I've been busy making items to sell. I thought I'd share a couple of the cards with you.

Both cards use TAC's Miss Moxie paper. This paper is bright and fun! The first card uses a stamp from 'Birthday Wishes' and the second card uses a stamp from one of the new Level A hostess sets called 'Feel Better'.

I hope you've had a great 4th of July. My husband and I got to spend the evening with our new nephew. He's just four days old and so, so sweet!