Thursday, September 24, 2009

More Christmas swaps

Here are some more . . .





Christmas Shoebox swaps

Here are the Christmas swaps from last Saturday's shoebox swap. I love 'em. And most are easy to demonstrate and use for make-n-takes.






Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Shoebox swap cards

I participated in a shoebox swap at my upline's on Saturday. As always there were some great WOW demonstrations. Our shoebox swaps were suppose to be Fall or Christmas cards. I didn't do any of the Halloween ones. So today I will share the Fall/Thanksgiving ones. Tomorrow I'll add the Christmas ones.










And here is my shoebox swap with the directions.
• Crushed Curry cardstock 5 ½ x 2” – wheeled with Bright Blessings jumbo wheel in Old Olive
• Mounted on 5 ½ x 2 ¼” Soft Suede cardstock
• Tie a knot in a 7” piece of Dusty Durango ribbon – attach to finished piece tucking the ends under the edges (may skip the knot)
• Mount onto Pumpkin Pie cardstock

 Punch across the top (2 ¼ end) of the 3 x 2 ¼” Soft Suede cardstock with the spiral punch
 Punch out two leaves from the vellum cardstock that has been sponged with Crushed Curry, Soft Suede, and Dusty Durango ink – leaving off the top piece on the ornament
 Use stylus to emboss veins in the leaves
 Punch hole in top of leaf using the 1/16 punch
 Thread an 8” piece of linen thread – thread thru top of each leaf (front to back – knotting in back)
 Attach leaves to cardstock with one glue dot at the knot. Loosely loop the thread to the back of the cardstock.
 Attach this piece to the finished card with dimensionals

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Cincinnati Regional

No, I was not able to go to this regional - BUT I do have pictures of the swaps that my friend, Elaine Morris of Millstadt, IL took with her.



















Didn't she do a great job?!!

Hubby's birthday card


I wanted to show you the birthday card I made for my husband. Each tool that is in a drawer has a birthday message written on it. The drawers were made from Brushed Silver cardstock that was embossed with diamond texture plate from Backgrounds #1. He mentioned that he was surprised that I always come up with a new idea for each birthday.