Holidays and Birthdays
As mentioned in my previous post, I have various old Christmas cards to reuse. This year I found another use for the various Christmas card fronts that I have been saving. I made a template as a guide for folding the cards. Though not all the cards are the same size I shifted the template […]
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I love snail mail! Receiving a card or letter in the mail lifts my day. I will read and reread the message and then I file it away and go back to it at a later date. It is fun to read again about what was happening in my friends’ lives through the years. The
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Felted Christmas decorations are lightweight, sturdy and easy to make. For these I used small cookie cutters for the basic shape. After filing the cookie cutter with wool roving I used the multi-needle tool to felt the shape and added more roving as needed to make the pieces thicker and dense. I do need to
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Last year I used this technique to decorate small gift pouches and cards. This year the coffee sleeve leaves are back to add a festive touch to the Thanksgiving table setting. Besides punching the leaf shapes from the painted coffee sleeves, I also punched leaves from old magazine pages and some leftover decorative paper that
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When this spider stamp is embossed on textured paper the pattern breaks up rather than remaining smooth. I like the effect, it reminds me of a “hairy” spider perfect for Halloween. For the eyes I tried both glitter and wiggle eyes. I decided to go with the wiggle eyes for my final card. The glitter
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I discovered a while ago that if I use my egg stamp upside down it very much resembles a mummy face. It is always exciting to find multiple ways to use one stamp.To make this one I used white embossing powder to make the “face” image stand out on the black background. I stamped a
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Scrap pack happiness. The pack I found included a sheet of eyes that worked great for my Halloween cards. The splattered black/white paper and the orange were also in the pack. It turned out to be a great find considering the contents are an unseen grab bag. My Xyron sticker maker holds the thicker card
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Birthday party time. The treat bags have homemade pumpkin spice cookies. The bubble wands were a hit with the kids and the adults!
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