Twinchies & Tags

So here are my Twinchies(2 inch squares of art) and my Tag for the October Pic and Mix swap on Paperwishes Message Board. The dragonfly is a shaker with clear beads. First try at that for me. Sent them all the way to England. Going to try another shaker with snow soon. I am feeling very inspired. It's that time of year. Don't think the pics do them justice. I lost my scanner software and had to get a newer version and it seems to have less options. Anyway here they are and now back to work.

Vintage Images for You

These are some images From very vintage cards I have. Love the Sweet heart thanksgiving card. The lines in the scan are because the paper has that texture. Feel fre e to use the images any way you want.

New Cards

So I have joined a new card making list from Paperwishes.com and now I am making a lot of cards. I really want to make dolls too but it is hard to switch gears. Here is my card with one of my new women stamps and my fist fall card of the year.

New Stuff

Apparently blogging takes a lot of time and attention and I probably don't have the Stamina. have been making lots of cards lately but at the moment am stuck with the dreaded studio/craft room cleaning and organizing. I really believe that that the solution is to buy more storage containers but so far that hasn't worked. But as for creativity here are some of the cards I have made in the last week or so. my daughter gave me some great glittery paper from Paperwishes.com and I really love it. I made several of the cards with it. Back to the grindstone.

Bible School AGain

Yes it is time again. I am getting ready for bible school starting on Sunday. The theme is Boomerang Express and I am in charge of crafts. I waited to long to order boomerangs to paint and guess what? There are none left on the face of the earth!! I had given up on them till our music minister graciously offered to cut them out of wood for me so now we will have Boomerangs after all. I spent time today making the banner sign in the pic. I want to make one for my house that says Happy 4th but it will have lots of color glitter and ephemera with red glitter letters. Anyway back to making samples for the classes. Some of the oriental trading kits are great. The crocs are from their kits. Back to the grindstone!!

Hankerchief Purse

I saw a purse in a magzine made from a hankie and tried it myself. It is pretty but not very practical. I think i will try a round gathered one. The purse is just the hankies folded and sewed up the sides and then tacked to a felt lining. AT least I am making something!!

Shoes, Shoes, Shoes

Well I have certainly neglected writing on this but it is time. I volunteered to make shoes for a friend of my mother's and ended up making 50 pairs. They were a lot more time consuming than I thought and I had my friend Renee and her daughter Elizabeth helping me. It was a challenge but felt good to get it done. Now I have no fear of making doll shoes although mostly I have been making paperdolls instead of cloth.

Now its on to bible school crafts. For the younger ages I am doing prepackaged crafts but wanted to do something different with the middle school age children so one of the projects will be memory bible verse books out of brown paper lunch bags. Here are pics. You make the books out of stacks of paper lunch bags that you sew down the middle. The open ends of the bags give you pockets which i put tags with bible verses on. You can pull them out and read them. YOu can cover the pages in card stock and you can't tell that they are made from bags. I think the kids will have fun making them!! My next project I hope is a paper doll in a cigar box but probably not til bible school is over!!