Sewing Cards

The last couple of days I have felt like making cards instead of sewing.  It is just fun to play with the paper, inks, stamps, etc.

Three of my cards have a sewing theme and turned out pretty cute.

Then some of the rest:

I used my silhouette for several of the cards and a great new magazine for inspiration.  These are only part of the 25 cards I have made the last couple of days.

The magazine is  Card Ideas for Paper Crafters:

and here is a link to purchase the magazine

Craft Room ReDo

As our girls grow up and move out of the house for their own homes and careers, we are finding ourselves with more room.  My second oldest daughter has moved out and will graduate in May and has a job as a secondary math teacher in the fall.  She will be living in our town, which means her room did not have to remain a guest room.  I changed it into a craft room (mainly a scrapbooking room with hopes of the sewing area moving into this room someday).

I set it up temporarily and it was a mess in these pictures

The wall across from desk

bookcase wall

window

from door

The changes:

1. New paint - Valspar Silver Leaf
2. I made curtains from  quilting fabric
3. wall art made from Silhouette, frames and old anitque piece
4. Purchased a drop leaf table to expand my work area
5. Updated a lamp shade
6. Removed the carpeting, parquet floor underneath
7. Added jars, baskets and more for storage

Here is the bookcase, this is my daughter's piece of furniture and will be moving to her classroom in the summer.  I plan on finding a bookcase to replace it, something a bit taller.

Bookcase wall

 The parquet floor isn't in the best shape but so much better than the old carpet.  I used mop-n-glo floor wax (2 coats) and the floor looks much better.



View from the doorway

The glass L-shape desk was in Meredith's room but we moved it to this room and now we can both scrapbook and make cards with all the desk area.  One drop-leaf of the table is up and I can lift the other side for even more area. 



Wider shot from the door

 I used some yellow quilting cotton and this tutorial from Dear Lillie to add some color to the room



Corner of L-shape desk.  Vintage items for storage and updated lampshade.

 This storage piece was found at Sam's Club, I added vinyl so I would know the colors in each drawer. 



Scrapbook storage

 My mom had this embroidered picture.  I made it for my Grandfather when I wasy 12 years old.  It is myself, my brother and my 5 other boy cousins, yes I was the only girl that generation. I erased the birthdates to protect our ages!!  I thought it a perfect addition to my craft room and so happy my mom kept it all the years, my grandfather has been gone 24 years.



Picture I stitched many years ago

I need to look at the flea markets for a few more jars for the ribbons but this is much better than all of them in one big basket.  Plus it looks nicer.



Ribbon jars

 I bought this at a flea market and the yellow is just right for the room.



vintage scale

 Used a vintage wooden piece (it was in the before picture) painted it yellow, added Dollar General frames with scrapbook paper, then the wording made from my Silhouette.  I plan on making a yellow and white quilt to hang on the ladder.



wall opposite of the desk

I am so pleased with the transformation.  I find I am a much neater crafter since the room looks so much better and I have improved the storage.

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Silhouette Cards and More

It is snowing again and I can't seem to get motivated to sew the spring dress for Meredith.   Instead I did some things with my Silhouette Machine.

A card:

Then a crock my mom had in a closet (from her cow phase)

Using the Silhouette and some vinyl it became a cookie jar:

More Valentine Cards

I am so enjoying this cardmaking and made a list for Valentine's Day.  I am upto 13 cards made and I need a few more.

Here are the latest, most of the elements are cut with my Silhouette machine

Valentine's Cards

I spent part of the afternoon making some Valentine Cards.  Most of the elements for each card were made using my Silhouette.

Well, this one isn't a valentine card but made it Saturday morning and wanted to share it

Here is the inside:

Another one -using a paper package from bo Bunny called Crush for many of these cards

The Silhouette has the ability in put in sketch pens and you can draw different shapes or words with the pens.  This is how I did the wording on the cards.

The topiary design was the free weekly design,

This one might be my favorite

Tomorrow plans are to start on my jacket from Cabi inspiration

Card Making

A few months ago I purchased a Silhouette Machine and have been enjoying it.  My use of this machine has increased the last couple of weeks, as the twins and I have set up an extra bedroom for scrapbooking and crafting.  I am able to leave my Silhouette out and I really have been able to learn more about this machine.  I am amazed how much you can do with the Silhouette and the software.  Each Monday, on the Silhouette Blog, there is a tutorial.  I try to work through each tutorial, just to learn the software a bit better.  Another great feature, is a weekly free design and the blog always has a cute way to use the free design.

In the evenings, I have been making some cards.

From the weekly design this week - I used all the bits and pieces to make these three cards:

Here is one more - just cut using some punches