Saturday, February 7, 2009

My Jar From Kandy


Thank you so much for the jar Kandy. I love all the goodies. Charms are a personal fav of mine. Ribbons, bobbins, wood spools and so much more the large rose brad is beautiful. I have never used the beaded ribbon before and I can not wait to give it a try. The stamp with the horses is great. I have many photos of horses from around our land in the country. We went out to the store last night and picked up my jar. We had a really great time there. We did not have anything else going on so we just hung out for a few hours and shopped off and on. The jar swaps are so much fun. It is so neat seeing what others work with. The jar swaps are the most fun swaps I have done. I love making them and getting them.

Record Album Class


Last weekend we went to the Crafty Scrapper and took Brook's album scrapbook class. Not only did we really enjoy the class but me and Debbie really liked the results of the class. The cropped album itself is inside. I just really like the picture on the cover and did not want to cover it up. Before we left that day we bought one of the Bind it All's. I look forward to making more similar books in the future. Yay Brook.

Copper Photo Frame

This is my personal project from our last crop. It was made using a Ten Seconds embossing plate. Hand embossing is more work than running the metal through a machine but it also has a much different look. I chose not to ink, or paint it. I want it to develop a natural patina. The photo is from a trip we took to Las Vegas.

My Make and Take


At our last home group crop it was my turn to come up with a make and take. I tried doing an embossing project once before, but it did not go over too well. Embossing by hand can be more challenging. My make and takes usually turn into classes. Some of the ladies are not so fond of my more challenging projects. However I love to work with metal. That being said, thanks to the Cuttlebug embossing plates, I was able to come up with a metal project that everyone liked. Two pieces of metal run through the machine, a little adhesive onto some wood crosses I had cut out earlier that week, a little paint and this is what you get. I had been working on a personal project that day using copper so I used the leftovers from that and the leftovers from the crosses everyone else made to do the cross with the mixed metals.