crafting this and that

Hi!  So I spent most of this long weekend working on one project to enter in TGF's Farm Fresh Friday--By the Numbers challenge .  I wasn't sure what to make until I saw my calendar and was inspired to make a countdown calendar.  My kids love counting down to Xmas. It took me a while to make this because I had to figure out the dimensions and what not, and I had a couple different layouts in mind but finally went with the simplest one.  This stamp is from TGF's Xmas Sweeties.  The numbers are die cut with PTI's numbers die set and the sentiment was made with PTI's Simple Alphabet set.  My kids love counting down to other occasions too so I included New Year's Day, Easter (digis are hard for me to color.  They don't dry well even when I heat set them so there are some smudges here and there), my son's birthday, my son's birthday, my daughter's birthday, first day back to school, and Halloween! I used my Cinch to bind it all togeth...

Hello.  Hope everyone is enjoying the long weekend.  I don't usually make birthday cards for my son's friends since I'm usually so last minute I don't even have time before the parties.  But today I actually had time, plus I needed one.  I was going to choose a ready made one from the Basic Grey Oliver card kit but it seemed to be more for babies or other occasions.  And I already used the birthday one from the card kit last week for another birthday boy.  I followed the sketch at Card Positioning Systems .  The dog with presents is from It's My Birthday from CC Designs Rubber Stamps.  I think I got a little impatient with the coloring plus used too big of a blending stump.  Oh well, I hope the birthday boy won't notice.  I actually used an older Papertrey Ink set, the Borders and Corners Circles stamps.  My son actually stamped the little stars in the corners.  I used the same Tim Holtz paper pack that I've used on previ...

Hi!  I made a little something for TGF's Which One Wednesday Sketch #10 , Ribbon Carousel's Challenge 18 All Tied Up (use more than 1 spool item) , and Some Odd Girl Challenge Paper Piecing . When I saw the sketch, it reminded me of a Double Pocket Card.  See HERE for a tutorial.  But I didn't follow the tutorial.  I made the bottom boxes in the sketch into pockets.  One to hold a gift card and the other to hold a little card for a message. I used TGF's Vivi.  She is popped up a bit on the first pocket. Vivi is paper pieced and I found my stash of bells after searching all my crafting bins.  I tied one on to the end of her cap with some twine and added some flower soft too. This is what the inserts look like.  The smaller one will hold the gift card.  I just used some removable tape and an old gift card I found for reference.  The larger one has a label (from PTI) so my son can scribble his name on it.  Both the inserts hav...

Hi!  Grrr!--is that what Frankenstein says?  I'm not too sure.  Anyway, I made a second card for Lily Pad Cards sketch challenge sponsored by The Greeting Farm .  My first entry is HERE if you're interested.  Remember the sketch?  When I first saw this sketch I totally saw a face.  Those knobby things on the side look like ears to me.  But I didn't really think drawing a huge face on a card would look that cute until I thought of Halloween.  And that brings me to my card for today. Hehehe.  Is he not cute?!  I mean for a monster, he's kind of cute.  But I'm really proud of myself cause I made him with my dies and a couple of punches.  No stamps except for that scar above his eye which is from the mouth of a skeleton face in PTI's Halloween Treats and Sweets set.  His face uses Spellbinders reverse wonky rectangles, and I used my corner punch to round the bottom of his face.  His hair (PTI felt) is made with ...

Hi!  I decided at the last minute to make something for TGF's Farm Fashionista Challenge .  I wasn't really planning to participate because I'm not really the fashionable person.  I'd much rather buy $100 worth of stamps than designer clothes or shoes.  And I pretty much wear the same style of clothing everyday!  Anyway, I made a little closet.    The closet is empty except for some paper clip hangers.  I tried to make hangers out of thin jewelry wire but that was too malleable and wasn't looking so pretty.  So I looked at some paper clips on my desk and turned them into hangers with my jewelry pliers.  The closet rod is a skewer I cut to size and wrapped in washi tape.  I didn't even glue the ends.  Here is Miss Anya standing in horror at her empty closet.  What is a fashionista's worst nightmare?  An empty closet.  Hahaha.  'Kay, only I might find this humorous.  The sentiment is half of th...

Hi!  I made a card to enter into a couple of challenges-- Lily Pad Cards and the first challenge over at Young Crafters Unite !   It's the first time I'm entering their challenges.  So YCU's first challenge is to color a stamped image.  I used my Copics to color in my image.  It's a month long challenge so still lots of time to enter. Lily Pad Cards has a sketch challenge sponsored by The Greeting Farm so I had to participate since I love TGF stamps. My card features TGF's Blush Babette.  I love her long, flowy hair.  Though if I had hair like that I'd probably wanna chop it off.  I haven't had long hair since I had my daughter and sometimes I miss it but I don't have the patience to grow it out.  The sentiment comes with the stamp though the banner is from Lawn Fawn.  I also used TGF's Blush Hello for the background on the lacey oval behind Babette.  I love the paper from Authentique.  I kind of splurged and got a whole...

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....