TGF Heart Journal--week 7

Hi! It's week 7 of TGF's Heart Journaling. I'm almost late with this one since I was doing my countdown calendar, and I didn't have much time over the weekend to work on my layout. My daughter did hers early but I just finished mine last night. The concept for this week is to use clouds and the tip to use materials we can find around our home.

My daughter's layout. She always makes bright colored layouts. She used the piggy from TGF's Fly Away set and the butterflies from PTI's Butterfly Dreams. She painted the background with watercolors and used metallic pencils for the images.

My layout. Kept it kind of simple this week. I sponged my blue ink pad over the page for the background. I used chipboard that I taped with washi tape and then die cut the clouds out using PTI's clouds dies. I cut some clouds from doilies too and lay them over the washi tape ones. I made a mistake on one of the clouds in my rush to finish. I stamped the hot air balloon from the same set my daughter used and colored with metallic pencils also. Not sure I love this one. Definitely need to set aside more time to complete the layouts.

Thanks for reading!

Comments

Lorraine said…

Both entries are beautiful, Eva! And aw, I think it's so sweet that your daughter is actively involved in the journaling...and that she finished early! And a big CONGRATS for winning on TGF for your gorgeous calendar in the post below!

September 9, 2011 at 10:19 AM

Cheryl said…

Congrats! I'm so out of it this week, I don't even know what's going on in blog world. I was trying to comment yesterday morning on here, but internet explorer seems to mess up blogger, like it won't let you log on. Now I'm on Google chrome and it seems to work better. Anyhow, cute clouds! I like H's bright blue sky! Neat metallic pencil coloring! You mean the one lone lacey cloud facing the other way? I actually didn't notice it at first, now I can't stop looking at it! But so cute! Like the washi tape clouds.

September 9, 2011 at 12:44 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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