Another Kleenex Card

While going through the piles of scraps on top of my work table today, I rediscovered the Kleenex 'paper'. This is one card I made using a light teal card with a dark brown strip with rounded corners, then rounding the corners of a 3x4.5" piece cut from the side of the small tissue box. The ribbon is from a spool I had purchased for $1 at Big Lots some time ago.

Hannah's Cathedral Windows Quilt

These photos are of the quilt I began working on in 2004 for my eldest granddaughter, Hannah. So far I have cut out about 1024 (I haven't really counted them!) 7-inch squares, turned 480 -so far- of them into 3-inch squares which were then sewn into 12 strips of 32 squares each. I only need 32 strips to make a queen size quilt. Then I have to sew 2-inch squares of various printed cotton squares (left over fabric from some of the many clothes I have made for her until a couple years ago) onto the 3-inch squares. I guesstamated that I would need about 1002 of those little 2-inch squares. A friend talked me into making this quilt as it is suppose to be very easy for a beginner and it involves no batting or backing; once the last square is stitched onto the quilt, it will be finished. At the rate I'm going, that will probably be in about 35 years as I only have 8 of the 63 rows of little squares done. I also have high hopes of making similar quilts for my other two granddaughters, Hope and Morgan. So I cannot die until 2114!

Seven Years, Five Months, One Week, Six Days Later

It's finally done! I've worked and worked on this tablecloth for my eldest granddaughter since October 1, 2001. She will be ten in April.

Two Variations from Topper to Cards

Yesterday at the Card Gallery, one of the work stations had a cellophone bag for candy and a Valentine's style 'topper' to make. As I have no one to give that sort of gift to, I cut out enough hearts for both sides and turned the 'topper' into two birthday cards after I got home. The orginal 'topper' without the bag is first, then my version turned into two different birthday cards for #10 envelopes::

Stampin' Up Card Gallery #1 for 2009

Today Patricia and I went to Donna's where she and Emily hosted their first Card Gallery of 2009. This one was in conjunction with Stampin' Up's annual Celebration event. We had 16 cards at different 'stations' to work on. I had taken my birthday, thinking of you, and anniversary stamps as those were the cards I really needed to make. I ended up making some Valentine's cards because they were so cute.

From the Scrap Drawer

Because it is so unseasonably cold (32 degrees!) today in my part of Florida, I spend this afternoon clearing out some of my pack rat stash of miscellaneous bits and pieces of card making and scrapbook projects leftovers. I have several other cards on the work table to finish.




Our local newspaper is seeking people who are 'shop-aholics' for a future feature about getting out of credit card debt. If they were looking for people who cannot pass up a sale or a 40% off coupon offer from the craft stores, I'd be #1 on their 'to be interviewed' list.

Perfect Plum Loop-de-loop

This card was made using Perfect Plum cardstock and ink pad from Stampin' Up, two sheets of paper from a Mat Stack which I've had for a few years, and the base and small and large loop-de-loop templates stacked from the Fold-it Ribbon Swirls template from Hot Off the Press (#HOTP 7332). I sponged the back of the paper with the Purple Plum ink pad as I don't have any two-sided paper. Then I used the sponge again to highlight the edges of the loops.