Scrap N Craft Weekend

Last weekend the women at our church had our 3rd annual Scrap N Craft Weekend. There were scrapbookers, knitters, quilters, a rug maker, and me - a craftaholic. I brought several different craft projects along, with the goal being to finish some projects I'd started. My first project for the weekend was a fleece blanket. I had bought the fabric months ago, and just kept moving it around the house.
I am happy to say that I finished the blanket, and here it is...

I can't wait to cuddle up with this blanket!

My second project was to use my new Silhouette to cut a mat for a pencil sketch that our son-in-law drew of the view from our dining room window. The Silhouette did a great job, and I love how the picture looks in the frame.

For the weekend I planned several Make-and-Take projects. Whenever someone needed a break from their projects, they could come over to my table and make a project. The first was the flowers on the candy sticks.

The second make and take was a "Design a Dress" card. It was so much fun to watch people pick out patterned paper and embellishments. No two dresses were alike. The cards were made with a Stampin; Up die-cut for the dress, stand, and the oval behind it.

The third project was a refrigerator magnet. We used washi tape to cover a clothespin. Then we used circle punches and stamps to make the design on top.

The weekend was great - mostly because of the fellowship and conversation with other women from the church.

Give A Flower

In Minnesota it's Para Professional Appreciation Week.  I made a little treat for each of the paras in my school district. I printed the messages for each side from my computer, and used a circle punch to make the centers. Then I founds scraps of card stock and used my Big Shot and a die from Jim Holz Alterations called "Tattered Florals" to cut out the flowers.
I layered the flowers and used glue dots to stick the layers together. Then I stuck the flowers to a candy stick - one on each side, and my gift was done!
A little bit of spring in the middle of January.

Holy Scrap, part 2

At the scrap booking retreat I was at last weekend, we had 3 challenges in addition to working on our own scrapbooks. The challenges were:

1. Create a page and use baker's twine somewhere on the page.
2. Since this was the 10th anniversary of Holy Scrap, we needed to create a page with exactly 10 elements.
3. Pick a black and white picture from a pile, and create a page and story using the picture. Pretend that the person/people in the picture is someone you know.

The challenges were spread out throughout the weekend. Participation was not mandatory, but those who did had their names put in a bag and three were drawn to win prizes.

Here are my three challenge pages:

  I used the baker's twine to "hang"  the pendants on this page.

My 10 elements were: sticker letters, black paper, purple paper, 2 pictures, a journaling die cut, 2 snowflakes and 2 puff balls for the snowflake centers.

 I chose this picture of a boy playing a trumpet and his mom playing the piano.

I think everyone had the most fun with this third challenge, having fun and laughing at all the stories made up about the pictures. 

Here are some of the pages I finished this weekend  for my cabin scrapbook:

(The owls were made with a Stampin' Up punch.)

(The banners and the flower-shaped picture were cut out with Stampin' Up die cuts)

(The leaves were made with a die cut from Sizzix)

(I used a 2" circle punch from Marvy)

I'm still a couple of years behind in my scrapbook - but I'm 18 pages closer to being caught up. My first scrap booking retreat was wonderful.

Stampin' Crazy

Here's another card I made - just last weekend, with some of the new products I got from Stampin' Up.

I used two die cuts and my Big Shot - the first is the Labels Collection Framelit Dies which I used to cut the orange paper and the white paper inside of the orange.  The piece with the words "thank you" on it was cut with Stampin' Up's Word Window Punch. The butterflies were cut with the Beautiful Wings Embosslits Die. The ribbon is Stampin' Up's Baha Breeze Pleated Satin Ribbon - so cool! I know the patterned paper is from Stampin' Up too, but I don't know the name of it.

I am looking forward to making lots of cards with this Labels Collection. It comes with about 6 sizes of frames, all of which fit inside one another, and they're easy to use with the Big Shot.

Have you made any cards lately?