Five for Friday

It's been a good week!

1. On Tuesday, my best friend, Val, had the day off, so we spent the

day together in Winnipeg, shopping (something we haven't done since

the Women of Faith conference last fall!)

It was very fun -- and a nice break!

2. Sage and I have decided to make some fairy gardens.

We went shopping for plants on Monday after school and

saw some very fun little ceramic houses

-- which were also quite pricey!
I suggested that we get some clay & make our own.  

(I wondered if we'd need a kilm, but we called Sage's art teacher

and she said that air dry clay would work fine.)

So I picked some up on Tuesday in Winnipeg

and we started making the houses yesterday after school.

We made our house front and had no idea how to keep it upright....

so we leaned it up against my paper trimmer and stacked a few things on top.

And look! We made a little bird bath!
In Winnipeg, I also picked up two very pretty galvinized tubs.

Don't worry: I will share photos when we're done.

3. Tomorrow, Sage, Jonah & I are off to Winnipeg

to volunteer at the Ironfist Taekwondo tournament.

I'll be a judge for patterns and a referee for sparring and they're volunteering as runners.

Oh, and at Jonah's request, we'll be going to A&W afterwards for supper. ;)

4. As I've shared before, I've been taking

 Kelly Purkey's Sketchbook class at Studio Calico.

On Wednesday, I worked on some projects for Sketch 6.

Here's the layout I made, using some Reverse Confetti products:

So, when I did my craft room purge last month, I came across these

 Scenic Route chipboard letters, of which I have three packages.

I debated on getting rid of them, but didn't.

Instead, I'm challenging myself to use them.

With lots of letters missing (no a, e, r, t, g, etc.), it's been a little challenging.

I pulled them out for this layout and had a hard time coming up with a title,

since I couldn't do "cuddles", "cuddling", "kitten", etc.

I finally settled on "cloud 9."

Yes, that's a nine. ;)

On my Bazzill Basics Classic Smooth White cardstock base, I stamped

one of the stamped from Color Me Happy to create my splatter --

I love that I can stamp this and not leave it up to messy chance!

The patterned paper I used is American Crafts DIY.

Under the second photo, I stamped the sentiment from Fancy Words Coordinates.

5. The store where I sell my cards in my town has requested some sympathy cards.

I decided to make four sympathy cards using the sketch.

Now, during my craft room purge, I also came across lots of

embellishments that I loved the look of in the store when I bought them

but then didn't seem to use on any of my cards/layouts.

I'm pretty sure this is because I prefer to make my own

(you know, to justify my large stamp collection). ;)

But as I was getting rid of things, I decided to hold onto the ones I still

really liked and figured that now was a great time to use some of them.

So I made four sympathy cards, using the sketch,

some Bazzill Basics Classic Smooth White cardstock,

a rectangle of American Crafts' DIY patterned paper and

my favourite sympathy sentiment from Reverse Confetti's Lots to Say.

Here they are:

This chipboard shape is Crate Paper.

I matted this card on a piece of Bazzill Card Shoppe: Cotton Candy cardstock.

This card is also matted on Bazzill Card Shoppe: Cotton Candy cardstock.

The flower diecut is from Heidi Swapp and I added a couple of PTI buttons with twine.

This card is matted on Bazzill Card Shoppe: Rock Candy cardstock.

The chipboard is from Crate Paper and I added a PTI button with twine.

And lastly, this card is matted on Bazzill Basics Turquoise Mist cardstock

and the chipboard embellishment is from Echo Park.

 

Thanks for looking!