Scrappy Gals Challenges

I had my Scrappy Gals meeting Thurs. night and we had to share all our challenge creations. It was a lot of fun, and great to see all the items. My first challenge was to do a two page layout with my partner's least favorite colors, which were turquoise, orange and gray. So, I decided on an Easter egg theme, with the title Spring Bling. I also gave my partner a glittery egg decorating kit. Her girls will be happy. :-D

I'll post the other challenge in the am, Goodnight xoxox

Good Luck!

You know I always need good luck so it's fitting that this is the St. Pat's card I made for this year. My husband always says I'd have no luck if it wasn't for my bad luck. :-) Oh well....

I used only things purchased at Micheal's, in fact that Good Luck stamp is from their dollar bin! I am trying to be hired as an instructor at Michael's and anything I teach has to use items from Michael's so that was my challenge to myself.

This style card is called a windshield wiper card, because when you pull it, whatever you put on the inside swings up kind of like a wiper blade. So, I added a shamrock inside and then made it sparkly.

If you'd like directions for how to make it you can check out this:

http://stampspaperscissors.typepad.com/stamps_paper_scissors/2007/02/wiper_card_inst.html

Super easy and cute!

I've finished all my challenges for my scrappy gal club so I'll post those tomorrow when I can take photos in the sunlight.

Make me a Journal

These are pictures of the journal I made for the Make me a Journal Swap on Craftster. My partner wanted something with an Asian theme and loves the colors blue and green. The other cool thing is that my partner lives in Australia!! The journal itself is spiral bound 8 1/2 x 11 (or as the call it in Australia an A4 :-D ) and has nice heavy blank pages inside. I also made dividers and tabs on 3 pages in the journal and stamped a pretty dragonfly throughout on random pages. I really like it and hope she does too! She should get it in 10 days according to the post office.

The Scrappy Gal Tote

This tote was a test...A while ago (don't remember exactly) I decided to enter a bag in the Amy Butler Sew Inspiring Contest. So I bid on fabrics from Ebay and while waiting for them to arrive I made my design for a scrapbooking tote. I am in a couple of scrapping clubs etc and wanted a tote that could handle all my supplies. So once the fabrics were here I got busy. This was an intensive design, the 10 exterior pockets are all lined and pleated so they are expandable. After the exterior was done, I told my friend that this bag "kicked my booty!" I got all the other pieces ready and then took a break from it. A LOOONNNGGG break.

Well, last night at dinner I remembered the deadline for the contest was midnight last night! ACK! I locked myself in the sewing room and finished the bag by 10:00 pm. I came out to press it and decided to make a yo-yo and button flower to put on the front of it. I sat down on the couch to make the yo-yos and watch Numb3rs. Next thing I realized it was 12:30 AM! I had fallen asleep!!!! Totally defeated I turned off the computer and tv to head for bed. But then I remembered, Amy Butler doesn't live on the East Coast like I do. I checked on Flickr and the deadline was midnight but PST not EST!! YAY!!! So I hustled to finish and photograph and post on Flickr. I was the last entry.

There are 396 entries I think and MANY are really awesome, so my chances are pretty slim. But, at least I have a great tote I will put to good use and I have a funny story. Heck, I'm the girl that fell asleep during the SAT's, my Mom had to remind me about that....Goodnight xoxo

Fabric ATC's

I have 2 of my six fabric ATC's completed. I have never made these before and they are really fun!! It's nice to do embroidery etc. on a small scale, only 2 1/2 x 3 1/2. So the one on the left is for someone who loves science fiction. I got the idea of "2 Mars 4 summer vacation" from my son. Mars is his favorite planet (besides Earth) and he imagines going there. The one on the right is for someone who was open to any design, so I made her a yo-yo bouquet.

For the construction I made 2 "cards" out of fabric, the back is a light color so I could put my info on it. Then I used craft fuse on both pieces. I did my design on the front, info on back. I put a little dab of fabric glue in the middle when I sandwiched them together and then satin stitched around the edges. With the craft fuse, glue and stitching they are pretty stiff and will hold there shape well I think.