crafting this and that

Hi!   Remember Grease, the movie?  That is one of my favorite movies.  Love all the songs and it was on TV again last night as I was washing the dishes.  I thought it was a nice coincidence since my project I just completed was somewhat inspired by that Summer Nights song and just summer in general. Wouldn't it be nice if it wasn't so rainy here?  Storming again today and couldn't take nice pictures in the gloomy weather.  Anyway, I had mentioned I was into this 3D paper piecing technique as shown HERE .  This is the project that has been driving me a bit bonkers.  Maybe I was trying to do too much into one project and I kept changing my mind on what I should do.  So it took me much longer to finish this than I had planned.  It's not quite how I had envisioned it at first but I guess it's okay and I'm glad to be done with it and move on.  Oh, and this project is also for TGF's Retro-fresh challenge--a whole new dimension . ...

Hi!  I wasn't feeling much like creating anything too complicated for my kids' classmates/teachers for Valentine's Day.  We just bought some candy for the kids and cute heart shaped boxes of See's Candies for the teachers.  I don't know, I was just feeling a bit lazy.  But my older son wanted to pass out pencils so okay, I guess I could do something with these pencils I bought from Walmart.  Pretty inexpensive, I think they were 99 cents for a 12 pack.  So I remembered this post about making foam pencil toppers, see HERE .  (You should check out the post, she even used cookie cutters to make imprints on the foam to cut out.  She had lots of fun ideas).  Pretty easy and fast and quick, and I had some leftover foam from my Angry Birds. I used MFT's heart die to cut out hearts in different colored foam.  The foam is pretty thin. After cutting the hearts out, I just held them in half and cut 2 slits with my scissors that were just big en...

Hi!  What do Angry Birds have to do with Christmas??  I have no idea but they are everywhere, aren't they?  Just stick a Santa hat on them and they are perfect for the holiday season.  My kids and lots of other kids seem to like them a lot so I decided to make tons of Angry Birds!  I had first seen this post HERE on Jenny's blog about some Angry Birds she had made and she provides the link to the original source.  I just had to find my own way of making them with the dies/punches that I have. So here's a photo of 47 Angry Birds made from just thin cardstock.  I chose thin cardstock so I could cut more than one sheet at a time and so it would move faster.  I used Spellbinders circle nestabilities for the bodies.  The beak is a cat/bat ear from PTI's Halloween sweet treats dies set.  The feathers on the head is from My Favorite Things daisy die.  The eyes are punches and the eyebrows are hand cut.  Yes, that was the most painf...

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. ...

Hi!  PTI is having their Make It Monday challenge to use fun foam.  I thought I'd give fun foam a try.  I couldn't find any pretty colors of fun foam in my kids' stash and I told myself I wasn't going to buy it just to do this challenge but I so happened to be at Ben Franklin and bought just one sheet of pink fun foam.  I didn't even really know what I wanted to make.  Just wanted the pink one!  I had my doubts too about using fun foam.  Like it's good for kids' crafts but I couldn't really imagine it being sophisticated, you know?  The good thing is that it cuts so nicely.  You really could make a lot of cute die cuts for kids to craft with. Anyway, I used Delightful Dahlia stamp set and dies to create the card above.  The leaves are die cut with PTI felt and stamped too.  The dahlia is stamped in raspberry fizz and cardstock is hibiscus burst.  I really need to expand my color combo choices.  Just a close up photo....