I made this bag to hold cards. My measurements were slightly off so the cards have to stand upright inside of it. But I do like the way that it turned out. I was trying to make a bag that was a little more masculine looking, even though most of my cards are not very masculine:)



Thanks for looking.

Tags!!

I have an upcoming tags class for my church these are what I have come up with.




I used the oval punches, circle punches made some small gift cards and bigger tags.



They will also make a cello bag topper.



We are only going to make one card and it is a tag card. The tag part is a matchbook card.



I am happy with the way that they turned out but I think that I am going to change the brilliant blue to brocade blue before they go on display this Sunday. I also have three posters to make and the handouts so I think I better get busy. If anyone has any suggestions for posters I would love the suggestions. Thanks for looking.

Halloween card

I made this card out of the just fiends stamp set from stampin up it retired a couple of years ago. It is similar to a card that I did a couple of years ago with the cat set. I just changed the colors and added the ribbon.



The second card is also with the just fiends set but a new card.



Both of the cards open from the bottom and are folded at the top. Thanks for looking.

Another pop-up card.



I made it in three different color combos regal rose/pale pink, tempting turqoise/taken with teal and lovely lilac and almost amethyst. I also paper pierced a stem on each that comes down from the flower to the base of the card. It doesn't show up so well on the picture though.



I also found (when making the table cloth) that in the bridal section of the craft stores they carry boxes of white flowers. There were 110 for 5.00 and 300 for 10.00 which is a great buy compared to the dozen or so that you normally get for 5-10 in the scrapbook section. They are all white so you do have to die your own. For me that works best since that is normally what I like to do anyway but if you have never done it there are a couple of different ways to do so and it is so easy even my kids can do it. Thanks for looking.

Tick Warning !!




TICK WARNING!

I hate it when people forward bogus warnings, and I have even done it myself a couple times unintentionally but this one is real, and it's important.

Please send this warning to everyone on your e- mail list.

If someone comes to your front door saying they are checking for ticks due to the warm weather and asks you to take your clothes off and dance around with your arms up,

DO NOT DO IT!! THIS IS A SCAM!!
They only want to see you naked.

I wish I'd gotten this yesterday. I feel so stupid.

No stamp picture today I have been busy making a table cloth and wanted to share. My mom asked me to make this for the cake table for Jenny's upcoming wedding. I really like the way that it turned out. It is a layer of tulle fabric batting and another layer of fabric. The flowers are sewn on by machine with monofilament thread. I had never worked on my machine with this type of thread before, and I can't say that I have any real interest in working with it in the near future. Haha actually it could've been worse but it wasn't great to sew with. It doesn't break though but got kind of messy at times. I hand finished the edges and used the same thread, I decided that it is very hard to thread a little needle with clear thread that did turn out to be the very worst part of it. It was a fun project though and I really like the way that it turned out. I think that a bed spread would be pretty although not practical and with the tulle it also wouldn't hold up very well. Wouldn't work around my house since every time there is a clean bed spread on our bed it is just an invitation for someone to spill or get sick on it. But then that it was makes life so unpredictable and exciting. After all the fun doesn't really start until someone throws up right? Thanks for looking.

Another quick post this is a purse card that I made up real simple pattern I started with a regular card and just started cutting with my cutter till I got the shape that I wanted. I think that it turned out pretty cute and am thinking that I am going to make some more this weekend in different colors. The strap is made with the sequins that are strung together. You can get them in the notion section at the fabric store. I got mine from Hobby Lobby my favorite craft store. They come in all sorts of colors and were a lot of fun to work with. It is also a lot easier to just glue them to paper rather then try and hand sew them on to material:) Thanks for looking and hope that everyone has a great weekend.