~ Halloween Candy Cube

  
Alrighty, back to crafting for me.  No rest for the truly excited!  (hee hee).  I’m still in disbelief that I actually made the BIA DT.  So–here is my first attempt at making a cube using the Bind-it-All.  Hmmm…you know what I learned yesterday?  Don’t craft and watch Heroes at the same time.  My ribbon job wasn’t perfect [...]

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~ First ever BIA Design Team! And I’m on it! Woo-hoo!

Hooray!  I made it!  I was chosen for the Zutter Zisters Bind-it-All Design Team!  I’ve been holding this secret for a couple of days and feel so relieved that I can share it with you now.  I can’t even start to tell you how excited I am that I am among the 10 ladies on the first-ever [...]

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~ Lisa Falduto’s Cosmo Cricket Haunted House Project

Just finished Lisa’s project.  I admit, I’m a bad student–hee hee!  I didn’t follow her class instructions to the letter.  I kinda eyeballed the instructions and photos and did my own thing for a portion of the project.  Overall, it was fun and I’d love to do another one of her classes (hint hint, Lisa!)  If you want [...]

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~ You’re So Corny!

Guess what I got today in the mail from Fiskateer Nikki — a brand new Halloween squeeze punch that I named way back at the beginning of the summer.  I totally forgot about it and didn’t know until today that the name I submitted was chosen for the punch.  So, if you’re out there at [...]

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~ Claude Moore Colonial Farm

Yesterday we got to experience (in a very small part) what it was like to live in 1771 in young America.  We visited the Claude Moore Colonial Farm, a living history farm where volunteers dress in period costume and perform the chores of that day as if they lived there.  That was some hard living!  Little [...]

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~ Clipboard Craft Class

I had a great time doing the “Fiskars demo thing” at the office at lunchtime today.  I put together “therapy sessions” a few lunchtimes a month/every two months to teach different papercrafting projects to my co-workers.  Today’s class was a clipboard class with heavy use of Fiskars Fingertip Craft Knife, border and squeeze punches.  I [...]

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~ The trio is complete – K&Co Halloween Minibook #3

 
Sorry about the poor lighting.  I took these pictures when I got home from work today–Lots of shadows from the tall trees in my backyard.  So, here it is–the third and last book of the trio that I set out to make this week with the Jen Yanok K & Company Halloween collection.  It was fun!  [...]

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~ K&Co Halloween Minibook #2 and cake!

Here is book #2 in my series of 3.  This one is a little different inside — a couple of different patterned papers and large pockets for 5″x5″ tags (instead of the mostly clear acrylic pages I made in the first book).  There are also two of the other tags in this project where I [...]

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~ K&Co Halloween Minibook #1

I am going to do a series of Bind-it-All Halloween minibooks using the Jen Yanok K & Company line.  This K&CO line is totally cute!  I plan on making at least three 6″x6″ books to give away to my three sis-in-laws to scrap their little ones’ pictures this year.  Oh, I’ll make myself one, too, [...]

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~ The day after Hanna (another minibook)

Today was a really pretty day.  You can’t even tell from looking outside that there was even a bad storm yesterday.  So, here is my “Day After Hanna Minibook”.  It is roughly a little less than 8″ x 8″ with tabs on the inside pages.  I finally broke out my Fiskars Craft Drill (I’ve had it unopened [...]

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~ My new toy – Epson Stylus Photo RX680!

What a good hubby I have!  My hubby ventured out in “Storm Hanna”, through pouring rain and dangerous driving conditions, multiple store locations, and bought a new printer today.  It was on a really good sale, too (just $90 at Staples, normally $169.99).  I’ve been eyeballing this printer since February!  I can’t wait to play with it [...]

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~ The good thing about Storm Hanna…

Being that it is raining cats and dogs and the winds are whipping the trees into a frenzy, stormy Hanna allows me to stay inside and craft!  (So much for my hubby and daughter, though, I sent them out to brave the weather to buy a new printer since ours went kaput this morning!)
So, here [...]

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~ Hooray, another project posted on Zutter/BIA!

I’m on a roll!  My very first Bind-it-All project was posted in the Zutter Inspiration Station for August and now my second is posted for September as well!  Hooray!  Go check it out.  There are some outstanding BIA projects posted for September. =)
Click here to go to the Zutter Zisters site:  http://www.zutterzisters.com/InspirationStationSept08.html
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~ New life for obsolete plastic cards

Before – boring, obsolete plastic cards / After – super cute and tiny mini books
    
{Click on each picture for a closer look.}
My co-worker, Maureen, had boxes of old plastic copier key cards.  She was going to throw them out but I rescued and repurposed them into these cute little mini books.  They’re perfect to keep all those [...]

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