Wire Crochet

Whew! I was pretty busy with my Passover company these past few days, but now I am ready to play some more. Here is something I've been tinkering with:



I bought some wire crochet necklaces a couple of years ago, and liked them so much, I thought I would try to make some myself. This is done with 28 gauge wire, and relatively small bead. I think I would like it a little better with 26 gauge wire, and more large beads. I might leave the seed beads off altogether, although I like the contrast that they add. I'm also very open to opinions - I plan to make a few more of these in different colors, and would love some more ideas about how to proceed.

Inchie ATCs

I have a zillion things I need to be doing right now, and nothing gets me in the mood for crafting like having a zillion things that are more important to do.

First on my time-wasting agenda is this rusted ATC.



You may remember the rusted inchies I made a couple of weeks ago. It turns out that I didn't read the swap instructions correctly - the swap is for a rusted ATC with at least one inchie on it, not rusted inchies. I compromised, and put a couple of my rusted inchies on the ATC, which picks up colors of ginger and copper to meet the current Gingersnap Creations color challenge.

I had another ATC with inchies challenge in that group, this time with a zetti theme. I like zetti, but the requirement is for 3 inchies - that's about half the surface of an ATC!



I didn't have room for much else. I barely had room for words! The images are from a Teesha Moore Collage sheet, and the backgrounds are painted scraps I had left over from another zetti project. Now, I really have to get to work on those zillion things...

Constant challenge

My buddy Chris is also my TAC demo, and she seems to have taken it as a personal challenge to try to find something to demo every month that I haven't done before. That is a big task, because with the Technique Junkies and Splitcoast Stampers tuts and all the blogs I read, I'm pretty well-informed about what is going on out there in the rubber stamping world. However, today we did something I've never done before, and it's on this card:


I'm sure you recognize the Depth of Field technique from Technique Junkies, that isn't special; organdy ribbon and punched borders are pretty common, too. The special thing is the button. We made them out of polymer clay. It's harder than it looks, or at least it was for me. It was fun, though - I might have to do this again!

Triple Play

This odd card is called a Triple Play, because you can make 3 of them out of a 12x12 sheet of cardstock. the small front flap is the right size to hold an ATC, and the inside, if you can call it an inside, holds about as much as a postcard, even though it is 9x4 inches. The card style is largely useless unless you are mailing something in a long business envelope and you want to add a card, and don't care about writing a lot on the card.

This is the perfect size for me to mail with ATCs. I would never mail it by itself, but with ATCs - I made three of them, and two are gone already. Since I had the images waiting in a little bin waiting to be finished into ATCs, it was easy to put them on these cards instead. the black border on the inside was made by cutting a strip of black cardstock with decorative scissors.

Birthstone Birthday

Captivated by another Sliekje digi, I decide to combine this image with the Saturday Spotlight challenge to use my birthstone color in a birthday card. Since opals can range from pink to a deep blue-green with an iridescent rainbow of colors within, I wasn't sure how to proceed, so I just followed the mouse.



Lots of pink, and a little of the blue-green, and although it doesn't show here, the background paper is spritzed with a mica spray giving it an iridescent sparkle. I have the Faux Stitching, Spritz and Shimmer, and Out of the Box Technique Junkie techniques going on in this card, too.

The Sunflowers and Dragonflies challenge this week is teal, artichoke, and pomegranite - I think I'm pretty close.

Now, here's the hard question - do you think I can give this card to anyone over 3 years old?

Birthday kittens

I had nearly given up on digital stamps, because I don't find images that inspire me very often, but when I found Sliekje's DigiStamps, they were just so charming that my cute muse came to visit. Angelique draws the most adorable kittens and mice I have ever seen! I as soon as I saw this image on her blog, I knew I had to make a card with it.



The paper is from The Angel Company, and the felt flowers and bling are dollar bin buys. I colored this in the very strange but effective technique of watercolor pencils blended with a Dove blender (I know how stupid that sounds, but it works). You can't see it, but there is a tiny bit of sparkle from a stardust pen. This is completed just in time for the Gingersnap Creations birthday challenge.

Glitter and Ink

Vicky knows how much I like glitter and ink and Paint Shop Pro, so she made me this sig tag:



Thanks, Vicky! If you ask nicely, she might make one for you, too!