Apple pin cushion now finished!

So happy, this was the third one finished, many more of these sets to go though. This one I left the top open to fill with the sand and then stuffed. By the way you will need 1- long 3" needle to do the shaping and a curved needle (like for upholstery) I picked up a nice little set at joanns by Singer. By the way a question was asked where did I get the pattern. Heather bailey has an online store for her fabrics, patterns and yes even her scrapbook items. I get to it through her fun blog.

Handmade pin cushions: Pear and Tomato

I purchased the Heather Bailey pattern for these pin cushions. There is also an apple, but I am not done with it yet. I am making multiples of these in different fabrics.

As with anything pattern oriented, I did them like the pattern suggested, and added a lining even thought that was not suggested (filling partially with sandblasting sand).

I am now leaving the opening at the very top of the items, not the side like suggested, makes for filling whether sand or stuffing easier. I also am doing the linings seperately leaving the top area open as well, tucking into the outter cover and filling with a funnel- workes great now that I have done the first two the suggested way.

I will post more when I finish them. The sand blasting sand will actually keep pins sharpened, there are also strawberries I could add with the sand and fill the entire fruit with stuffing. However, I wanted them to stand well, so I put in about 1/2-3/4 of the way of the items with sand and then added stuffing. You will find that when using sand your items will NOT be as tight and filled out as when you use stuffing due to the shifting nature of sand.

I figured these would be cute as decorations, for storing sewing needles or for the scrapbooker to put those lovely stick pins (like Maya Road and Making memories) in for storage. Thanks for looking

Basic Grey Nook & Pantry Card kit

I really like this Nook and Pantry card kit. You can use your own alphas and rub ons for the sentiment you would like- however, I did this from the package. I used Stickles and Metallic dabbers. Thanks for looking.

Kaisercraft advent Calendar!!

This was fun to do: This Kaisercraft advent is 12 x12, the center is 8.5" x 8.5" and you can do a mini layout for it. I choose to use the Twisted Cherry Manger album for the center. I used the very back page of the album traced and trimmed to fit the area, and used all the other manger pieces. Below the images you can see some of the things I used and maybe a helpful tip.

**Painted with brown craft paint, brushed outside and front of rows with diamond stickles

** BG Figgy pudding papers, Gold dabber for the outside of the boxes (the part you dont see here)

**K & Co 3D Christmas Stickers, Prima poinsettia flowers, Kaisercraft pearls- BG opalines would work well too, Ruby stickles, Making Memory Mistleto collection stick pin, Elsie Christmas Chipboard buttons.

**Lots of sticky strip foam adhesive.

**The glitter for the numbers is all Martha Stewart, except the Red which is Art institute glitter damask red.

**Turq ink pad by Martha, Red Ruby cats eye, and dabber for the gold base coverage for the letters.

**glossy accents in a thin layer over the inked layers. Then sprinkled the glitter. They were laid on a spare chipboard sheet and sprayed them with a clear finishing spray to keep the glitter on.

**Raffia for in the manger, Chestnut ink for inking edges, and brown doodlebug flocking for the camel.

** quickie glue pen ised to draw radiating design on the "trough" for the radiant glitter that was sprinkled over it.

Many heights for the foam used.

Eskimo Kisses Card kit & Shimmerz

I got out the Basic Grey Eskimo Kisses Card kit out this weekend. The photos aren't perfect, lighting wasn't working for me today, but I wanted to share. Hopefully you can see a bit in the close ups the shimmerz.

My favorite Shimmerz spritz so far is Concrete- it gives an over all shine with little to no color. I did use the Hi Ho Silver Blingz ( the much shinier paint pot) for the edge area of the speaker bubble that says Merry Christmas.

I really saturated all the cards, then dabbed the blots with paper towels. I have to say the blots didn't stay and blended fabulously. They dried very fast, and as they dried I put something heavy on them to keep them from rippling too much. I could have let the weights on longer though.

Thanks for looking.

Two more Digi layouts with Jennifer Barrette kits

These are fun kits that Jennifer has done. The first one is a mini kit she did a collaboration with Bella Gypsy. The kit is the Sept. mini at Elemental Scraps. The second one titled I.M.O is from her Miss Mary Jane kit also at Elemental Scraps. To see the details of all supplies used click on the layouts. Thanks for looking

Basic Grey Lemonade card kit cards

Well a month has gone by, it was busy. Finishing up work to go on vacation to Hawaii with the family, back to catch up- take a breathe.

So I pulled out my Basic Grey lemonade Card kit. I really like these- although I can think of ones on my own it takes time. I have needed cards lately and these come pre cut with embellishments, rub ons etc and I just add ink, glitter, bling and pop up dots on occassion.

At first I didn't buy these because I didn't need the sentiments, but after I got them realize most are just die cut letters I can keep or throw out. I just use my own stickers/chipboard alphas etc to make these my own and can now use all the cards in the kit. So here they are many similar to the package suggestion and the rest my own sentiments and design.

Thanks for looking.

I used Jillibean Groovy Green alphas on this Thanks card

I used the Jillibean Graph Green on this Luv U card


"ty" I learned from my son is text for Thank you. also Groovy Green alpha