Good news for you!

Well, the bad news for me is that the art show my pieces were accepted to was cancelled. I will work on posting the items I submitted over the next few weeks. The good news for you is that you get to hear about these books sooner, and they can now be seen at the Copper Country Community Arts Center in Hancock. I went there yesterday to update my works, and was pleasantly surprised to find that my last book there had sold!

I'm hoping the Einerlei opens up next week so I can drop some new books off there, too. I'm also seriously getting ready to take some nice pictures and upload some books to my Etsy shop.

This book was made using Club Scrap materials. The paper, beads and stamps are from an older collection - Wheel and Sprocket. I love the bright colors and technical aspects of the paper. It's great for an engineer! I was inspired by a technique I saw Tricia Morris demonstrate online in a webisode called "Foam Me to You". Instead of spare foam, I used foam core board from the Chapter 1 kit. This is also the same kind of foam core board you can pick up at an office supply store.

The other neat thing about this book is that I put in a few pocket pages. These are great for storing items like a CD (since this is a 6x6 book) or other pictures, notes, etc.

I hope you have a crafty day! I'm going to be doing some house chores, but also finishing up some projects later today.

Competitive Card-making!

Whew! I have been busy the last eight weeks or so - a little more each week! I have been thinking of my blog, but I've been participating in Club Scrap's Pro Scrapbookers League. We get randomly "drafted" to a team, and spend eight weeks making cards that fulfill challenges (or not - you can do what you like!). I'm anxiously awaiting the final results for the final challenge - my team has won the last three challenges, so we're definitely in the running.

In the end, it's not about winning, it's about being creative and using what we have. Everybody who scrapbooks has waaay too much paper on hand, and it's fun to have a whole team encouraging you to use your supplies and get creative. My new goal is to be creative every day.

I hope you have a creative day!

Memory Mists Workshop

Hi everyone!

It was a lot of fun teaching the class, and as promised, here are some links to videos since the URLS were too long to type:

Tricia Morris demonstrates several techniques with stencils
Tricia Morris demonstrates using mists and other media with a spin art machine
Elaine Barr has three youtube videos

Some cards I made:

• Smoosh technique


• Tiled card


• Multiple techniques in one!


• A tiled card with just a few pieces

Making lemonade out of lemons

I was trying a new technique with memory mists, and wasn't really too happy with it. I liked the colors I got from the sample, though, so I cut it up into a bunch of little squares, mixed them up, and ended up with several cards out of the deal. I love the card! It's so fun to be able to take something not to your liking and turn it into something beautiful.

Enjoy the day! Spring is on the way!

Busy meeting deadlines!

I've been busy crafting, but mostly more thank you notes and some projects on a deadline. One of those projects for a deadline was a book for my dear friend and mentor, Dr. L. He is having some health problems, and I decided to spend last weekend finding lots of photos of us together and send him a special package. Since he's received it now, I can share it with you. The pictures are from his retirement party (left hand page) and my wedding (right hand page).

My other projects for a deadline are submissions to the Great Lakes Art Showcase. After the show, I can share them with you. Suffice it to say, I'm pretty darn excited by them! I tried some new techniques and folks who have seen them in person have given me good feedback.