please, don't look at my "Work-In-Progress" section... the same 3 projects have been sitting there since i started this damn blog... the sadder thing is that those two scrapbook pages need a little embellishment and a title and they'd be complete... but since knitting and card making have caught my attention, scrapbooking has fallen by the wayside... my goal this week is to finish those two pages and at least finish one dishcloth... oh, and make a "Twisted & Demented" card for my second card challenge...
in other news, i'm busy, busy, busy today preparing food and cleaning before my son's first birthday party tomorrow... so much left to do, yet here i am... with the assistance of the fabulous Ms. M, i managed to put together his birthday cake yesterday... stay tuned for pictures... they'll follow after the party is done...
March 29, 2008
avert your eyes!
January 28, 2008
radio silence...
don't worry, my poor little crafting blog has not fallen by the wayside already... i've just not been crafting much as i'm getting ready to return to work and i'm trying to get my ducks in a row before i'm really and truly a working mum...
right now i've got a dishcloth on my needles and that's about it... i'm trying to get 4 rows a day done (to quote the movie Juno, "Whoa! Dream big!"), so i should wrap it up by Friday at the latest...
i have two upcoming projects:
1) a Birthday card exchange - once this cold snap breaks and i actually dare to venture outside, i have to pick out my colour scheme and decide what the heck i'm doing... i need to make 10 by early March... i'm hoping to either start cutting or stamping some stuff at my monthly craft night, next week...
2) some of these cute amigurumi patterns from Owlishly... i haven't picked up a crochet hook in years, so i'm probably going to be in over my head... they're just so damn cute... i bought the 3 patterns below...
January 9, 2008
'Tis the Season Scrapbook Page
Started: December 11, 2007
Finished: Work-In-Progress
Made For: J's scrapbook
Scraplifted From: Becky Higgins' Creative Sketches - Volume 2 - pg. 49 (very loosely based on this sketch)
Materials: 3 colours of cardstock, 1 patterned paper, silver eyelets, clear embossing powder, Christmas stickers
Tools: Cuttlebug, Red Tag Sale alphabet cutting die, Spots & Dots embossing folder, SU Christmas Mini stamps, heat embosser, MM Tool Kit, Mini Glue Dots, roller adhesive, Creative Memories Precision Point Adhesive, photo mounts, rotary cutter, silver gel pen
Cost: under $10
Would I Do It Again? no...
Notes / Comments: i did this layout very hastily and really just so i'd have a place to put these random Christmas pictures... i played a little with my Cuttlebug, which is why the red title letters are embossed... in hindsight, it might have been nice to tie in the embossed letters by embossing the red background matting for the photos as well...
the one element i really like about these pages is that i used the tag to label the pictures so i didn't have to journal (i didn't really have much to say)... not only did i get to heat emboss, but i got to set some eyelets... yay for embellishments!
there are two things that bug me, though... i love the patterned paper that i chose, but i don't really think it works with how i arranged it on the page or how i arranged the pictures on top of it... and i was left with the bottom left hand corner empty and i have no idea how to complete it without over-embellishing... Jes at Craft-O-Rama is sending me something that might work (little Christmas light die cuts) and i'm going to try using SU's Crystal Effects on them to tie them in with the stickers... my other thought is printing out J's first letter from Santa and putting it in an envelope there...
