ALTERED INITIALS

When I spotted these wooden initials, I knew I had to do something with them

so creating a gift for each of my 'stamping buds' was the perfect choice.

They are about 9" tall, 1" thick and are free standing.

I traced the DP around each letter, cut it out and then used spray

adhesive to adhere the DP to the letter.

In order to personalize each one, I decided on a theme for each girl

and chose DP that was appropriate.

CATHY loves butterflies.

          

                             

                                  KRISTY loves owls.

And CAROLYN loves sunflowers.

Thanks for stopping by.

~Bonnie~

WORKSHOP FRIDAY

We resumed our Workshop Friday's last night and Kristy was the

hostess this week.  She broke out all of her new SU products and we worked 

for a few hours on four different projects.

Kristy wanted to make sure that I gave credit to the creators where

her inspiration came from, so here they are:

Inking Iadho

LW Designs

Lady and the Stamp

It was nice to get back together again and even nicer to have friends

who share a common passion.  A big thanks to Kristy for these wonderful

projects and the surprise gift and card for each of us.

Thanks for stopping by.

~Bonnie~

HERE'S MY HEART

On a trip to Michael's in the summer, I found this dollar bin stamp

and immediately knew I wanted to use it for a Valentine's card

for my Hubby.  As with many of my purchases, I tucked it away and forgot 

about it.

Well, I accidentally came across it and inked it up right away, before 

I forgot it again.  We are not a Valentine-type couple but I really wanted

to make my sweetie a card this year (a Tim Horton's coffee card will be

tucked inside).

We have a mill outlet store in our area, that is chalked full of fabric, trims, 

yarns and all things sewing.  I found this black satin/velvet pleated ribbon 

there the other day and it worked out great on this card 

(hope they still have some left 'cause I would like more).

Thanks for stopping by.

~Bonnie~

A BIRTHDAY TRIO

Got a little carried away on this design ... had to make

one in each colour.  But with several upcoming birthday's, they will

be put to good use.

I am so loving this M/S deep edge punch.  I originally got it to use on

scrapbook layouts but really like using it as a card border.

The image stamp I used is from a set that is one of my originally stamps from

13 years ago.  Boy, we sure have come a long way

since then.  As I look around my craft room and see all of the

punches, embellishments, tools, machines and paper, it's hard to believe

that it all started so long ago with a stamp, stamp pad, embossing powder and

a heat gun.

Thanks for stopping by.

~Bonnie~

MAGICAL BIRTHDAY WISHES

With quite a few birthday's in the upcoming month, I've

been busy creating some cards for some

special people who will be celebrating

their birthday's.

Using Spellbinder's Fancy Tags Three, this card was created for 

a lady who will be celebrating her 80th.

Thanks for stopping by.

~Bonnie~

WHITE WEDDING and RUFFLED SCARF

After five hours of trial and error and many different ideas, 

Carolyn and I created this wedding card.  Creating with a friend is a great

way to spend a few hours, especially when the end results are positive.

The card was commissioned by a friend of Carolyn's and is being taken to

Texas for the wedding ... sure wish I could go with it!

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Since Carolyn is such a good enabler, she got me interested

in making these ruffled scarves. They have become quite popular and

consequently retailers have been selling out of the yarn very quickly.

This particular scarf was knitted.  It can be crocheted but the knitted

pattern is a little bit easier.  Anyway, I am pleased with the results and am off 

to try to find more yarn to make more scarves.

Thanks for stopping by.

~Bonnie~

WATERCOLOURED TULIPS

On a recent 'play day', one of my stamping friends came over to try her hand

at using different colouring mediums.  We hauled out the

watercolour crayons, watercolour pencils, Prismacolour pencils, distress inks,

and of course, Copics.

This image (a very old PSX stamp and one of my favourites)

was stamped on w/c paper and was coloured with distress inks.  

While I do love my Copics, I still have some difficulty using them on certain images

and realize that I am not confined to using only Copics as a 

colouring medium.

I am quite pleased with the results and found that the Distress Inks were much

easier to move and blend on the image, than other w/c products.

The yummy pink bow was made with my BPBS and I finally used 

some Spellbinder die sets that I have had for over a year and had

never used them once.  It's amazing what you might find when you start 

going through your craft supplies and realize that you really don't

"NEED" those new things you just found online.

Thanks for stopping by.

~Bonnie~ 

MORE BEAR HUGS

The other day, I posted a couple of cards that I made using

Fred Bear Gives Comfort by MFT.  I struggled for several days trying to

achieve some success colouring this image, but seemed to get nowhere and I actually

had decided not to use the stamp any more.  Then, I read a comment that

BEATE posted on my blog, about the difficulty in colouring open images that had no

shading to guide you.  I realized that it wasn't just me and decided to give it

another try.  

The first image was stamped onto dark c/s and shaded with a black

Prismacolour pencil.  And while it is acceptable, it still was not the success I was 

hoping for. 

The second image was coloured with Copics,

but only 2 shades.  And I am more pleased with these results.  While it's not perfect, I am not going to beat myself up over it.  Once I put everything together and made this little

tissue holder, I realized that it is perfectly acceptable to send to someone.

(the tissue holder was an idea that I found on

Curt's blog)

http://curtsplayhouse.blogspot.com/2011/03/wednesday-evening-post-for-march-16.html

Here is a close-up shot of FRED, coloured with Copics.

I guess the point I'm trying to make is don't get discouraged if you can't perfect a technique ... keep trying and eventually you will get to a spot where

you can live with the results.

And a BIG thanks to BEATE for her encouragement

and kind comments.

While I was wallowing in self-pity for not being able to succeed in my 

colouring attempts, I decided to break out my very under-used Cricut machine and

create a birthday card.

It's not possible to see in the photos, but the dog head is attached with 

an Action Wobble and wiggles side to side when touched.  The card was created

using 3 different Cricut cartridges and was cased from an idea 

that I found here:

http://liveloveandscrap.blogspot.com/2011/06/scrappy-moms-birthday-celebration-i-dig.html

Well, that's it for now. I have another run of ME days so I hope

to get a few more things crossed off my to-do list...craft things, of course!

Thanks for stopping by.

~Bonnie~