My Little Budding Musician

Our assignment this month for Mosaic Moments was to use 8 1/2 x 11 grid paper applied to a 12 x 12 page and then add stitching or felt. I chose stitching.  To bring out the gold and purple in the photo, I used Paper Wishes Color Me Paper and colored it with chalk inks. I then added stitching around the flourish in the print, and added music Dazzles, also from Paper Wishes. 

I'm so excited Leyda is taking band this year! Neither of Tony's kids got into music and now, once we move back to Virginia, I'll be able to go to concerts!  I just hope she sticks with it. So far she's loving it.

Winner of the Drawing for My Site - World Card Making Day

Here is the result of the random drawing!  Kim, I will send you your items from my Paper Wishes stash! Congratulations!

List Randomizer

There were 12 items in your list. Here they are in random order:

1. Kim
2. Fab
3. CarolJ
4. Kitty
5. MsPat
6. Precious Thoughts
7. Cheryl
8. rgcarr
9. Eomen Hisf
10. Crafty Patti
11. pennyd
12. Rhonda Lynn

Timestamp: 2012-10-07 20:04:57 UTC

Baseball AT LAST!

Just finished a challenge layout of my grandson, Gavin, playing baseball for the first time. He's been watching his brother and sister forever and has been dying to play - it's finally his turn.

This layout challenge was a scavenger hunt - we had a list of 33 things - we were to put as many things as we could on one layout! I got 24.....can you find 24 elements?

Paper Wishes Blog Hop

Welcome to the Paper Wishes*BLOG HOP - we are so glad you are here to help us celebrate World Card Making Day! This year's theme for the blog hop is gardening.

Below is my flower-themed card for the day. I used the new Ebony Color Me Card Toppers from Paper Wishes. I love these so much - you can coordinate them with any paper you may have! I colored this one with colored pencils, blending with Gamsol.  I popped up the sentiment in the middle with foam tape and added the small flower with a brad.

Some card making day trivia for you:
Today, card making is a worldwide hobby, especially popular in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
1 in 6 U.S. households participates in making cards
86% of scrapbookers also create handmade cards
92% of paper crafters create cards more than any other type of project

Be sure to check out all the blogs in this blog hop, as well as visit the Paper Wishes message board*as there are lots of things going on there today, all sponsored by Paper Wishes, with some great prize packages! You don’t want to miss a chance to win!

To win a prize package of Paper Wishes products: leave a comment on ALL THE BLOGS and a random drawing will be done to choose the winner. You also must be a registered user on the Paper Wishes Message Board. It's easy! It's free! Just go to www.paperwishes.com and look for the Message Board link on the bottom right corner of the screen and register. I will also be giving away some Paper Wishes goodies to one lucky commenter!

So on with the fun – it doesn’t matter where you start the blog hop, just see where you are on the list and make sure you visit them all and leave some sweetness behind!

Participants:
Penny at Penny's Page
Nancy at Nancy's Creative Space ----------you are here!
Michelle at Precious Thoughts
Patti Prince at Crafty Patti's Cards
Robin at Red Robin Lane
Jackie at Jackie's Cards & Stuff
Cheryl at Cher-ing Paper Memories
Sam at Never try to teach a pig to sing

Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to leave a comment on all the blogs for a chance to win!

Quilled Calendar Class

I'm taking a quilled calendar class on www.mycreativeclassroom.com.  Just finished my first page - this series is really beautiful - takes a lot of work but worth it! It's really a combination of quilling and punched flowers. My favorite month is March - lots of months to go before I get there, though!  :) The stamens in the flowers are starburst punches with brown Flower Soft on the ends!

Starting on Christmas Cards!

I went to a crop this past weekend and started making my Christmas cards.  I have two beautiful stamps I bought from Outlines Rubber Stamps before they went out of business.  This partridge in a pear tree was one of them. The other is a cute reindeer - when I make a few of those, I'll post them.

 

 Of the three this one (below) was my favorite:

 

I also made a card with the new snowflake template from Paper Wishes. While it takes a little tedious cutting, I love the effect! The snowflakes are made from a vellum with gold script, and I outlined them with gold Stickles, and put a Dazzle in the middle.

 

 



World Card Making Day Is Coming!

We are planning a great day on the Paper Wishes Message Board for World Card Making Day (October 6). If you have never visited the Message Board on the Paper Wishes website, you ought to plan to come visit!  It's easy and free to join.  Go to www.paperwishes.com and then click on the bottom right hand corner of the screen where it shows Message Board.  Then click on register!  We have all kinds of weekly challenges and fun exchanges all year round, but for World Card Making Day we turn up the heat!  Our theme this year is gardening. Here are the activities we have planned - and oh, did I mention - there will be prizes!!!!

1. Blog Hop - members of the Message Board will host a blog hop. Those who visit all the blogs and leave a message at all the blogs will be entered into a drawing for a prize.

2. Challenges - throughout the day we will post various challenges using our gardening theme for projects to be completed. Each challenge will last for 75 minutes with a new challenge every 90 minutes. Once each challenge has ended a random winner will be drawn - there will be lots of chances to win throughout the day.

3. Trivia - Every 30 minutes the swaps team will post a trivia question on the topic of gardening. The first correct response will earn 2 points, the second correct response 1 point. We will tally the totals and award 2 prizes, one larger than the other for the 2 top gardening "experts".

4. Container Gardening - this will be our "anything but a card" project and you will have from 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, October 6 until 12 midnight (EST) on Sunday October 7 to post a picture of your project.

5. Window Box - will be to make a card with the same time frame as container gardening.

6. Bouquet - this will be a scrapbook challenge with a twist.

 

7. Scavenger Hunt - will be a scrapbook project again with a deadline of midnight (EST) on Sunday 10/7. You will be given a list of things to "find" on a scrapbook page and the person who includes the most on their page will win a prize.

8. Garden Journal - this year our group project will be creating a journal for each participant. Similar to the cookie recipe exchange we did last year. Those participating will create the same journaling page for each person. I.e. if 10 people sign up, you will create 10 of the same page using a gardening theme. All the pages will be sent to me (Penny) and I will collate all the pages and mail them back out so each person will have their own copy of everyone's page. There will be a separate post with complete info and sign-up info later today. There will also be a prize for this activity - so check out the other post - this is the perfect project for anyone who can't participate on the actual day itself - although we want as many people to sign up as possible!

9. Bingo - We will be sending out a Bingo card. Each of the spots has an element such as a color, or an embellishment, or a technique to use. You will need to complete a project using all the elements in that bingo row. You can do more than one project, but you must use a different row for each project. Prizes are to be had!

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