2012 Christmas in July Card Gallery

Turbo Thomas' New Afghan

The pattern for this granny square afghan is probably a hundred years old. I began by making 120 eight-inch squares, then joining them in ten rows of twelve. The finished size is 80 inches by 96 inches which he can use on his twin-size bed. The whole project took about two months as I worked some of the squares while on the last road trip with the two oldest granddaughters.

This card was in a free brochure I found at Hobby Lobby, called "Creating Cards with Punches". On the back of the brochure were these links: www.hobbylobby.com and www.gettinspiredbyhl.com and this 'product #' Scrapbooking - 266106 I'll probably be copying some of the other fifteen card ideas shown.

I found this card online some months ago and thought it would be a great card for children in the hospital. I found the image of the paper plane online as free clip art which would download to my computer but I couldn't use it as I don't run Microsoft Word. I was able to print it so I used the Microsoft Photo program to make 24 photos which I then cut out. I then traced one on a separate piece of paper so the image was 'flipped' and it printed out slightly smaller. The white cardstock is dabbed with a piece of sponge on a medium blue ink pad to create the background 'sky'. I then mounted the planes on Pop Dots to give the card some dimension; the 'flight trail' is made using a black gel pen.

New DMC Color Infusions Products

While in Michael's yesterday, I ran across a new product from DMC called "Color Infusions".  The only items from this new product line, unfortunately, carried by Michael's is the "Memory Thread".  Picking up the free craft brochure, which was also the only one available, showed several cards using the Memory Thread and Cotton Cord (which Michael's doesn't carry) so I substituted #5 DMC Perle Cotton.  The instructions are clear and easy to follow.  Handling the perle cotton was a little tricky as the one-inch circle with the punched holes was so small.  Hopefully, some day I'll run across the "Sparklers" from DMC.

Stampin' Up Large Card Gallery for 2012

Today's Stampin' Up card gallery created by Donna and Emily featured large 5"x7" cards.

Wonder who the lucky little guy is who will get this card on his next birthday???

The big guy who will be celebrating his 71st birthday in two weeks will get this card!

Smart Art Card

This is the card featured on the Smart Art blog for this week. I made several different versions. Seems to be a great way to use up some of those scraps we always seem to save from other projects. The background cards were dark gray and light gray although the photo here seems to be a bluesh hue and the other is pinkish.