National Craft Month - March 13 - Riley

Riley!!

Stamper's Ink had another $1 sale on Riley stamps. I called rather late so the selection was getting slim. Of course, I still managed to order a few!! I think that this is the last $1 sale that Stamper's Ink is having. Which is good and is bad!! Good so I don't get anymore. Bad because I can't purchase any more. Now I need to get to stamping and coloring!

National Craft Month -March 14 - Shopping for Supplies

I had to go to Joann's for some supplies on Thurs. after school. And I found these things.

 Hmmm, more stamps and, hmmm, more paper.

The little St. Pat sets by Studio G were 50% off and the other two were on clearance. The St. Pats sets are for nest year (got to remember to put them with the other St. Pat stamps). I got some for Sister M at Table 7 too. Yes, I know, the TPC Studios set has a camera in it but it has other fun items with punny sayings. The Fiskars set is smaller size stamps and they will be great for cards. They are just everyday sayings.

Since it is National Craft Month, Joann's still had the DCWV stacks on sale for 50% off. They are hanging the stacks on pegs now. I noticed that they are carrying more new ones.  I got the Juniper Berry stack - lots of blue!! It has butterflies, umbrellas, and clouds. It has foils, and chevrons. It is wonderful!!

The other stack is My Sunshine stack. It is bingo sheets, and toys, and graph paper. It is kinda a boy's stack but it will be fun for whatever I use it for.

I have about used all the Green Tea stack and I noticed that DCWV had a stack called White Ginger at Joann's. It looks just like the Green Tea stack. I wonder if they just changed the name or if they rename stacks when it is in different big box stores. 

I finally found some more owl stickers so now I can finish up my cards with the moons on them. I had made several of the design but had run out of small owl stickers. I found a booklet of sticker for $1.00.

National Craft Month - March 15 - New Punchs

New Punches!

Archivers on Friday night had a bunch of new EK Success punches and they are 40% off too. I could not resist these! Table 7 all bought at least one punch of different designs. I got the filmstrip punch, the balloon punch and the anchors one. There were a few new people at Archiver's ScrapMania. One of the new ladies at our table used the anchor punch. She punched it out and threaded twine through the little holes at the top. It was pretty cute on her baby page. I had punched the 12 x 12" edge of black paper with the filmstrip and cut a piece big enough for a picture to fit on it. I used a white pen to journal under the picture. I cut a piece of white paper to go behind the frames. You could journal there too. I saved the little rectangles for a future card. Another lady asked for a piece of the paper with the filmstrip as she was doing a page about her Girl Scouts earning a movie badge.

I used the balloon punch today to see what it looked like. It is very delicate and will definitely need to be run through the Xyron to adhere it to a page. I used the balloon bits for a card to make a flower. But the package the punch came in showed that you could pop-dot the balloons in place on the border to give some dimension.

I also punched the anchors out today too. I was afraid that the anchors would be very fragile but they punched wonderfully. No bits to save from this punch. I have a few projects in mind for this punch but none done yet.

The last punch in the photo is a Fiskars punch I found on clearance at Joann's. Little scissors! Not sure what I'll do with this one but it jumped in my cart.

National Craft Month - March 17 - Sketch #164

Sketch #164

Yeah! It's Sunday which means it is time for a new OWH Sketch for the week. I viewed the post on OWH's blog but didn't do it right away. I had to read the Sunday newspaper, pay a few bills, play a bit of Scrabble with my sister online, and finish up some laundry. While I did those things, I thought about the new sketch. I recently purchased some new paper stacks and decided on some papers from the stacks.

I used the new paper from the Dear Jane and the Everyday stacks by DCWV. This Sketch #164 used several pieces of paper in several different sizes. The sentiment is from Ai's Valentine set with the lady in the heart covered dress. I got the stamp set at Archiver's and haven't seen the set on Ai's online site. The flowers are made from bits punched from the new balloon punch and the black dots are from the filmstrip punch. 

The Sketch is done. With all the measuring, cutting, and matting, I got only a few cards almost done for this Sketch. I added these flowers on this card but. on the rest of the cards, I'll add some different ones.

National Craft Month - Riley card on Sketch #159

OK, I did this sketch # 159 already but I had to post another version of it that I made.

Sophia in pretty pink pj's. I used some love/Valentine papers for the base and mats. I added a sentiment from Paper Smooches across the top instead in the middle as in the sketch. I used a glittery ribbon with this card but a plain red ribbon for the OWH version. The few I made with the glittery ribbon would not have worked for OWH. The glitter flaked off too quickly and everywhere! I have colored a blue version of the fun little moose for a boy's card but they are not ready for posting yet.

National Craft Month - March 12 - Sketches #75 and #154

Two more Sketches done!! #75 and #154. I had puzzled over both of these 2 sketches for a while. But I finally completed them.

Sketch #154

I had purchased a package of polka-dotted 8 1/2 x 11" paper from Michael's Recollections paper while it was on sale. Then I was not sure I would use it. I cut orange paper with embossing on it for the small matte under the squares and then cut the squares. I cut the orange dots as a scalloped circle. At first I had just the big scallop cut in the orange but all the dots weren't playing together well. So I matted the orange dots on a slightly larger white scallop and I was happier. I had a bit of dotted ribbon and, when I ran out of that, I used dotted washi tape. The stamped sentiments had been in the birthday pile for a while so I placed it on the bottom. I had the shiny Happy Birthday stickers too and placed it across the cupcake, which I fussy-cut from a paper from a stack from Hobby Lobby.

Sketch #75

I had the tiger paper leftover from an album of a trip to the zoo. It was double-sided so I flipped some of the strips over. The sentiment was one stamp and I cut it into strips to fit the sketch. I added the sheer wired ribbon. I tried a bow but it was too big. I just tied a knot. I inked the edges of the strips to distress.

National Craft Month - March 10 - Sketch #163

Arrrgh, Maties! Tis Sunday and time for another Sketch!

I didn't totally follow Sketch #163 as I didn't use the little squares but I did put 3 little elements there. I had purchased a set of pirate stickers at Michael's last weekend for $1 and they have been sitting on my table to be put away. I had gotten a set of unicorns/flowers too but they will have to wait for another time/sketch. Then I saw this morning's Sketch #163 and thought they would work well for this.

The paper is DCWV from a boy's stack but I don't remember the name of it. I used most of a roll of the washi tape by My Mind's Eye 8 roll set from Archiver's. I inked the edges of the 2 pirate papers with brown ink. I cut the plain brown paper in the 4.5 x 2.25" rectangle and tore and inked the edges in black. I also crumpled the paper a bit and inked the folds. I matted it on paper I got at Tuesday Morning. It is called Uptown Gold and it is a metallic but you can't see it very well in the photo. The 2 word stamps are by Hero Arts Crafts' Pirate stamp set., which is a set of 18 tiny stamps (about 1" square). I could have used them but I had the colorful stickers and used them instead. I got about 24 cards done and could make a few more with the bits and pieces. The pirate stickers are almost gone and I have a lot of fish left. The little words probably should have been stamped and matted but I was done before I didn't like it as stamped. I didn't add any ribbon (shock) since the card is  for a kid/a guy. 

Wow, I have Sketch #163 done for the week already. Now what other trouble can I get myself into?  It is so spring-like here. I have my new windows open and the dog is enjoying woofing at everyone walking/biking/running by our house. Have a great Sunday!!

National Craft Month - March 10 - Sketch #162

Sketch #162

I forgot to complete last week's sketch. I do like this sketch. Easy to do. Scrap wrangling or not. Fun.

I do kinda wished I had matted the 4 1/4 x 2" and the 2 1/2 x 3 1/2" pieces but they still look good. 

The saying is from Pebbles' stack of journal blocks and I had to cut it a bit to fit the sketch and to fit the scrap blingy paper I had in the right color. I did a few more cards, using some other sayings from the same package and I trimmed some of those. I added the brads (Making Memories Chloe's Closet) to the cards. A simple card but bright and cheery! Most of the paper is from Michael's 8 1/2 x 11" patterned paper in the packs that are frequently on sale.