TGF Heart Journal--week 6

Hi! Wow, it's time for week 6 of TGF's Heart Journal! This week is Text Me!--using lots of text and the tip is to cut up pages from old books or children's books. Now I can't bring myself to cut up books even if it may be an old one cause it's a book! So we used stamps for this assignment instead.

My daughter's fun and colorful page! She used Crayola paints and I love the color combo even though she didn't really know what she wanted to do. She actually did some finger painting too after she saw me do that on my layout. She waited for the paint to dry and then stamped some sentiments from Paper Smooches.

My layout. Truthfully, I never know what I'm doing when I start doing the assignment each week. I kind of just wing it, I suppose. I used watercolors and didn't want to use blue or green so started with red then some yellow and orange and added white too. I had the bubble wrap still on my table so added that too. Then used my much neglected PTI stamp sets for the rest. It looks kind of Asian inspired though that's not what I had set out to do. But it seems to work. Oh, and I stamped one of the text scripts on the right upside down but I guess it's not that noticeable.

We're having fun doing these assignments, and every week we look forward to finding out what our next assignment is.

Thanks for reading and hope you're having a great weekend!

Comments

Lorraine said…

Wow, these are both so pretty. Love your daughter's gorgeous/vivid color combo - she's got an eye for art! And love your bright yet calming artwork!

August 28, 2011 at 11:26 AM

Cheryl said…

Man, you made a lot of things this past week! I missed commenting on this post during the crazy crazy weekend. I need another vacation! Anyhow, beautiful backgrounds! Love the painting your daughter did! Awww, your pages are so sweet, you'll have a great family art journal!

August 30, 2011 at 6:48 PM

Snowman gift card holder

Hi! I was planning to post this last night but I was just too tired to write or think of complete sentences. It's been a busy week with the boys on Fall break and still trying to finish up a bunch of crafts. I have been trying to make some crocheted crafts to put in my Etsy shop and finally I'm done with one. It's a crocheted snowman that can hold a gift card or anything actually that is small enough to fit in the pouch. The pattern is designed by ChiWei Ranck of One Dog Woof and can be found HERE . Here's the little snowman with his arms folded over in the front to look like he is hugging the card. I added this fun card that I stamped. You can definitely add in a gift card too behind this card. The gift card reaches under his nose. This is how the little opening of the pouch looks. I hope I can make more of these little guys. These would be so cute for teachers and I think it would be easy to put a little wire through the hat and then use it as

coffee cup shaped cards

Hi! I think after this post I may need a little nap! My right shoulder is actually feeling worn out from all the typing and photo editing I've been doing lately. And this cooler weather is making me drowsy. It's getting cold here already! I made a bunch of these coffee shaped cards using a die from Honey Bee Stamps . It's a cute coffee set but the die is extra long so it would probably help to have a longer platform to diecut. I just have the standard sized one so I would pass it through once in my Big Shot and then rotate the cardstock and die carefully to cut the other end. Manageable but the longer platform would be more convenient! I embossed the front of the card with some pretty snowflakes. I think this is a Sizzix embossing folder. And then stamped the coffee sleeve with some Lawn Fawn stamps. This is the inside. The gift card slot does not come with this coffee cup die set. I cut that opening with one of the dies from MFT's gift card dies.

Knuffle Bunny

Hi! The Greeting Farm had their Customer Challenge & Chit Chat Night "A Night at the Bookstore" and introduced a few challenges. I have to say chatting was too fast for me and I couldn't really keep up. It was still early here, and I had to pick up the kids from school and activities and make dinner and eat and so I guess the timing didn't really work out with our schedule. You can check out the challenge details on the SCS forum HERE . I made this card for Favorite Child's Book category. It is based on the Mo Willems book Knuffle Bunny . It's one of my kids' favorites and it's such a cute story. We actually love reading Mo Willems' books especially his Elephant and Piggie series. Those books are hilarious! This challenge also made me realize that I haven't read many books recently except kids' books. I used to love reading but just haven't given it much time lately. Anyway, here is my card. If you've read the story

crafting this and that

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