Wonderland Checkers

Hi, hi, hi! I'm kind of excited to share my project today. Hehe. I've been wanting to make something like this for a while now and finally completed it yesterday. I started the project but got kind of stuck and had to rethink some parts. Then got like an a-ha! moment yesterday which really pushed me through to finishing. But first let's mention the challenges that inspired this:

TGF's Farm Fresh Challenge Retro-Fresh Blue/berry Thank goodness this is a month long challenge cause I needed all that time since I got stuck in the process.

Wee Memories Challenge 78--Free for All

and Young Crafters Unite--use dies.

Here is my project.

I made a checkers board game using TGF's Wonderland digi set. Digital stamps are great for this kind of project. I thought the blue/berry colors would make a fun board game. The board itself measures 12 by 12 inches. I just cut the berry squares and glued them onto the blue cardstock.

I made a little pizza box (measures about 4 by 5.5 inches) to hold the checkers pieces. The letters were made with PTI's alphabet die set The digis are relatively small so I had to color carefully.

Inside of the box. There are 24 pieces, 12 blue and 12 berry. And yes, small rabbits to color as well. But with digis it was easy to shrink them down to the size I needed.

The pieces were made from the smallest Spellbinders lacey circles die. I had thought about what to make the pieces from and at first I had planned to cut out lots of chipboard and layer them. Yeah, sound crazy? I've done crazy kind of cutting before but this time I really just did not feel like cutting out a gazillion little pieces so that's where I got kind of stuck. So I pushed this project aside and thought I wouldn't get to finish it. But the other day after I had made my tree stamp out of thick fun foam, I thought, hey, I should use FUN FOAM! Yay, for FUN FOAM! Even though the fun foam is thick (6 mm) it is still really easy to cut through in the Big Shot. So I just had to cut 24 pieces out of fun foam. Doable, yes! And they are really light and still stackable if you want to king your pieces.

My game board was also glued on a piece of foam board that I had around the house. I just traced my cardstock and used a metal ruler and blade to cut through the board. It's light but sturdy. You could make this more durable with lamination and even magnetic! I thought about making the board and pieces magnetic--wouldn't that be fun? But in the end I went with simple and preserving my sanity.

Here are the pieces out on the board.

I even thought about making a chess set. Wouldn't that be neat too? Like a Twilight chess set using all the Twilight inspired digis from TGF. But who/what would all the pawns be? That would take some thinking.

Thanks so much for reading!

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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