Sisters Hideaway

This was our second time to go stay with the sisters. It is a great place for a retreat. It is out in the country, just a beautiful area. The food is the best. Three days of heaven. I hope we are able to continue to go every year. Twelve of us from our church group went this year. We have all been scrapping together for so long it's just really great. They are my best friends. The sisters have this one wall that they hang up things that people make for them. I had made a page for them the first time we went and decided to make something new this year.It was woven embossed metal. I think it came out pretty well. I made some other projects but will post them later. Oh yes, the first day that we were there this dog showed up. It actually lived a few houses down the road but came and stayed the entire weekend with us. He was a really cool dog. We named him Cricut to go with our scrapbooking theme. We have such a great time at the retreats I wish I could go every weekend.

Awesome Classes

On June 26 I took the cert class at Ten Seconds Studio. Cheryl is so great, she takes time to make sure everyone is learning all she can teach in the time allowed, and just makes you feel so comfortable. I absolutely love working with metal. It was the best class I've ever taken. To make it the very best weekend ever I took the Tim Holtz class on Sunday the 28th. He is so great his classes move along so fast it leaves your head spinning. But when he says everyone will finish he means it. The project ws this cool looking shadow box frame. Tim did the inside and Cheryl taught the metal part on the out side. I have a picture of the one Cheryl did it's way more awesome than mine. The three of us(me, Deb, and Kalen) all took this class together and we all loved it. I now have almost all of the molds they sell!

Bi Tri Sometimes quarterly Update

It's my first update since June but I've discussed what a bad blogger I am before so I'll skip that and just do some catching up. GASC was a blast. Me, Deb and Kalen took several classes together the best of which was the Crafty Scrapper and Ten Seconds class. Of course. The crowds were a little smaller than in the past ( bad for shops good for shopping) that is not to say that there was not still a ton of people there.

Altered Gift Box

On Valentines a few years back Debbie got me this little mail box covered in hearts and stuffed with goodies for me. It was one of those things you really don't know what to do with but at the same time it was a special gift. So I kept it but it ended up getting stuck away someplace. I came across it a while back and decided to change it up a bit. I used a glossy black aluminum. The panels that make up the outside were run through cuttle bug embossing templates and adhered to the mailbox. Then I painted it with flat black paint and sanded. In the end you are able to see the glossy black, flat black and the bare aluminum. No disrespect to the original gift, but I like it better this way.

Love Cross

I really like this project. I don't mean that like I'm bragging or whatever. Every crafter or artist that creates things has certain things they like better than others. Anyway the canvas I used is this dense corrugated paper board. Where I work we sometimes get material shipped in with this under the incoming material. Our monthly crop was that weekend and it was my turn to come up with a make and take. So when I saw the cardboard I knew some how it was the project. Granted the cross is not the project the photo frame was the project. I precut pieces of aluminum for the matting to save time at the crop. I offered a choice of colors of paint for the "canvas" and the aluminum if desired. On the Love Cross I used Adirondack Inks to create the pattern on the aluminum. The cross was embossed with a Cuttle Bug embossing template. The letters for the L O V E were cut with a Sizzix over foam adhesive.

Scrap Paper Frame

Well the title says it all. I've been on a kick lately, and I've been trying to use up some scrap paper. We end up with these boxes of paper that get bigger and bigger. So I dug into it and started tearing and Mod Podgeing to the frame then repeat till covered. By the way, the horse in the picture belongs to a neighbor down the road from our place in Jacksonville in East Texas.

My little red barn

At our last church crop I spent the day playing with different things. The barn I built with plain chipboard and coverd with aluminum that had been put through a crimper. Then I added paint. I was planning a trip to our place in east Texas to start builing our barn there. I guess that was my inspiration.