Dream & Happy Mother's Day!

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Hello! It's my last day to share Sister Stamps projects. So sad! I had a lot of fun playing with these cute new stamps. Thanks again for the opportunity, Jenny! I made a few projects with Haruyo. Her costume reminds me of the ones worn by dancers during Okinawan performances. See HERE for a picture. My sister-in-law studies traditional Okinawan dancing and music so Haruyo reminded me of her and I also thought my in-laws would love this image.

I made this with 4 layers of thin cardboard I had lying around. I added washi tape around the edges and just decorated the front. I wanted the girls to look like they were dancing.

I also made a couple of simple Mother's Day cards. Hopefully they will like them. The sentiment and tags are from Papertrey Ink.

Close up of one of the girls.

My last project was kind of an experiment that I need to work on! I had seen this tutorial on SCS about stamping on air drying clay. Such a neat idea, isn't it? After seeing the tutorial I went out and bought some air drying clay. But I think I am too impatient for one thing to let the clay dry completely. And I should've rolled the clay a bit thinner so maybe that would let the clay dry faster. I think it took a few days to a week to completely dry and it's not a large piece of clay. And to get the right impression takes some practice but overall I thought this was such a fun idea. I used watercolors to paint it after. I think this would make a fun kids' project too!

Don't forget to stop over at the Sister Stamps blog and Debi's too! These stamps will be available May 1st!

Thanks so much for dropping by!

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Hello! Today I'll be sharing the last amigurumi I made during my crochet frenzy. I haven't been crocheting much recently except for this one little project I'm kind of procrastinating with. I really do love this last one because I think it came out really cute. This is a little crocheted robot designed by Bubblegum Belles . You can find the pattern HERE . Sometimes I purchase the patterns especially if they are really cute. But a lot of designers do list their patterns for free too on their blogs so I always check to see if they have a blog or not. It's also important to read their pattern listing too if you are purchasing to see whether they are for personal use or also for commercial use. Here is a different view of him. Happy that he is able to sit on his bottom. I actually cut out 2 felt hearts using a heart die, blanket stitched them together, and then hot glued the heart to the robot. I tried stitching one h...

My Mind's Eye and Perfect Paper Crafting Blog Hop!!

Hello! Welcome to another Perfect Paper Crafting blog hop ! Today, the Perfect Paper Crafting Design Team will be featuring projects with My Mind's Eye products. There is a $50 gift certificate to the Perfect Paper Crafting online store available to one lucky person who comments on all the blogs along the hop. My Mind's Eye is also giving away their Happy Haunting collection. You have until Friday, November 1st at 12:00 AM PST to leave your comments. Good Luck! It's a short hop list this time around! Perfect Paper Crafting & Laura My Mind's Eye Pam Jenny Eva (Me!) Roxie Recently, I saw these layering tags dies and thought I really wanted those. I love the look of layered tags so I used my Perfect Layers rulers to make some with My Mind's Eye Happy Haunting papers. I have a tag die from Papertrey Ink so I used that as my smaller tag. I glued that tag onto kraft cardstock and used my ruler to cut a 1/8th inch border aro...

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 throug...

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