Eclipse Technique

My sister's and I get together once a week to have fun with crafts!  This past week it was a new technique called Eclipse.  Such fun!  It is just using your alphabet dies and raising them up with, well I used foam tape.  

You can stamp your own scene but we used pictures that my sister, Rochelle took of Portland Head light. 

The picture above was one of mine of the lake  from our trip to Northern Maine.   The garden below

is Rochelle's garden.  So pretty! It's hard to see but it's the word LOVE. 

This coming weekend is a birthday party for Connie's grand baby's first birthday!  I love celebrating that first birthday!

I used Spellbinder's 3D die for this card.  For the inside, I used Memory Box dies to create

the tunnel.  

The animals are from Karen Burniston's dies. These are so cute to use!!

We are gearing up for a Christmas craft fair in December.  It's hard to shift your focus on Christmas projects but that is what I am going to attempt this week.  The non sewing Christmas balls will help.  Hope the humidity stays down!  Sweating while you work is not fun!!

August update

As hot as it has been and with all the fun family things going on- I have still managed to spend some time in my craft room!  While the family was here we had a craft day where we showed how to make no sewing quilted ornament balls!  That was really a lot of fun!  I used the same fold to make this Angel.  Well, the body of the Angel anyway- the head is the Kimikomi technique.  Check out this video on how to do Kimikomi-

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/48835977195133136/

I made just a few boo boos on the head.  But I am hoping to get better at it with practice!

I made this Christmas ornament using more basic Christmas colors.  On a previous post, I showed other balls I made with more country colors.   I am loving these things!

I have also been making cards using Spellbinder's die by Becca Feeken.  I love these guys!  The "Bundle of Joy" die is an add on but it works perfectly for Baby cards!

I used Vellum on the back of the Boy card so I could use a little light behind the card.  If you are displaying this card it really pops with the light behind it. 

Sorry for the long post but I wanted to end with some pictures of our weekend trip to Stockholm, Maine.  We traveled to my husband's home town to go to his brother and his wife's 50th wedding anniversary.  We really enjoyed the trip!  Just a few pictures of the sights around the lake where we stayed!

The sunflowers were a HUGE field of flowers that we saw in Westfield, outside Presque Isle.  They were awesome! 

Summer is flying by!!  I am getting together with Sister's this week to make no sew Pine Cone Ornaments!!  Can't wait!

Summer 2018

I think this picture says it all!  It has been a busy summer!!! We have family here visiting from away and it has been go go go! Nothing but parties and fun, fun!  No chance to work in my craft room ...except I am still having fun working on Quilted Christmas balls.  

All my sisters, except Adrianne who had to work, got together and went to Kennebunkport for some shopping!  Now I love shopping but with this hot weather it's almost a chore.  We did  have fun! Kennebunkport is so beautiful!

The photo below is of my sisters - Andrea and Phillis!  You can't tell from my photo but it is the back of a carved fish in front of a store!  Great photo op!!

Now I took the picture of the birds 'cause I thought they were hilarious! I think I could make one!

These looked like painted rocks in a gallery!!

We had lunch at Allisson's and it was fabulous... and air conditioned!  I could have stayed all day!

Shopping was great but the views were so breath taking!  Saw this just walking back to the car!

Hope my sister's don't kill me but here they are - minus one!  It was a fun day for sure!!

Quilted Christmas Ornaments

I don't sew or quilt.  I wanted to state that right from the get-go!  I wish I could but I have no talent in that area.  So when I sew these no-sew Quilted Christmas Ornaments- I was hooked.  

They are so much fun to make and NO sewing!!  Eureka!   I used fancy trim to cover the pins that are used to make them. 

Here is the link to the instructions by Jennifer. She does a fabulous job in her instructions and her ornament is beautiful!   She uses  Jingle Pops Jelly Rolls.  I can't seem to find that since it's July but I am hopeful that I will find it before Christmas.  The fabric is gorgeous.  In the meantime,  I will practice, practice and practice.  

https://www.benandme.com/2012/11/homemade-quilted-christmas-ornaments-5.html

Here is a quick shot of some of the things you will need.  I used Jelly Roll fabric from Joann's.  In fact, most everything you see  here - I got at Joann's with a coupon.   This is my Christmas in July project!  You should give it a try!

Sweet Storybook

I have been playing with the new stamp set from Stampin Up- Sweet Storybook!  This is such an adorable set.  I used Spellbinder's Grand Dome dies by Becca Feeken to make this card.  

I love the tunnel effect that these dies make.  Can you see the little mice- I used 4 of them.  The butterfly is from Lawn Fawn- one of my favorite. 

The picture above shows the stamp set.  I didn't use any of the sentiments but they are cute too! I wanted an anniversary card so I ended up typing a sentiment out.  

I did make a second card but this time I did a tri fold type card.  It still has the tunnel effect but it is not as 3D as the first card.  I don't know how I am going to use it so I have not added any sentiment. 

Just love these little mice!  The stamps and dies are so easy to use! This is a picture of the front of the cards. 

Below is the first inside picture. 

Here is the card fully opened.  I have plenty of space for the sentiment. I could even use the very back of the card too!

So glad I had time to make these cards.  It's going to be a busy week.  Our grandson, Ezra is here for the week.  He is attending a basketball camp at Bowdoin College.  We aren't  used to having a 10 year old living with us.  But it's been fun. I hope everyone has a fun day!!

Summer 2018

The craft fair is over and I can finally take a breather and enjoy our garden!  I had to share just a couple of pictures of some of the flowers that have finally opened up!  It is starting to feel like summer... a little bit! 

The craft fair was a lot of fun!  So much so that we are looking into doing another fair this fall.  The Spring fair we just did wasn't heavily attended so the organizers are going to do the next one in May of next year.  I think that is a great idea since it will be before Mother's Day.   We met a lot of nice people- customers and vendors!  That is what made this fair so much fun!

Here are a couple more cards that I made for the fair-  I am not sure why....but I seem to have a thing for castles and dinosaurs!  I just love making them!

This is the U fold card or Bridge card.  The dinosaur is Punch art but the little Princess is a Magnolia stamp.  

This card was a larger card but it still folded up for mailing.  

Here's another favorite card-

I made a Tower Card using Graphic 45's Fair Dust collection.  I love this collection!  You can't tell but I used a Wobble to attach the center fairy.  It means that she moves back and forth.  Love it!

This one closed for mailing too!

This card is a fun shaker card made with Spellbinder's new collection.  This die can be used with the Grand Dome die.  But I used it on its own for this shaker card. 

I will leave you with a picture of our set up at the Spring Fair!  Can't wait to do the next one!  Oh, the guy in the middle is my brother in law, Russ!  He was great in helping us to set up!  It took us 2 hours to get it set up the way we wanted it to look.  Thanks, Russ, for all your help!!

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