A ribbon Box

Since I've been unpacking all my art supplies I decided that now is a good time to get my supplies organized. In my old studio place I had wooden dolls to thread thought the center of the rolls, but I've got a lot of smaller spools and they wouldn't fit on it so they wound up in a drawer rolling around and getting all tangled up. Yuck!
I decided to take a cue from Martha and make my own ribbon box. I used a photo storage box and large eyelets. I created a divider to hold the two levels of ribbon on the inside, threaded my ribbons through the holes and viola! So wonderfully organized.

The only other artwork I have to put up is this card that I made for a friend who recently came back from living overseas. I layered a bunch of different flower cut-outs with some fibers. I used one of those Rhonna Ferrar stamps and then added color with a gel pen. The turned down corners are actually a different pattern of paper: I used a square punch and attached it to the back and then folded down.

Have a happy weekend all!

Moving Day

Today is a very sad day for me. Today is the day the my good friend Kasia is moving. She is oh-so-brilliant that she got a teaching post at a university 3 hours north of here and is off to improve the minds of feckless youths.
While I am happy for her and her hard-won success, I am, on a completely selfish level, miserable. I would love nothing more than to fling myself down on the floor and throw a massive tantrum full of flailing arms and gnashing teeth complete with giant crocodile tears.
Sigh.
But I know I can't do that, so instead I made her a care package and mailed it off today so that in two days time it will arrive at her new home. Here is her package all trussed up and ready to go.

And here is the card and matching envelope I made for her. All the stamps are by Stampendous, as are the little glittery-things. I used a watermark stamp-pad to get the lighter colored stamps in the background. This was my first try using it for something other than pearl-ex powders and I have to say, I'm in love with how it looks.

And last but not least--a little music for Kasia, since I know in a week or so, when she's all settled she'll be reading this: Kasia darling, this song's for you, because "I guess on days like this, you know who your friends are."

New Cards

I took a card making class this last weekend and made a couple new cards. I especially like the birthday card which is the second one down--and the thank you card, which I am thinking about modifying the design and making another one that is similar.
Have a look!

Bed and a Thank You

You have to see these photos of our gorgeous new bed!

My Uncle Jim made it for us. He actually milled the oak himself from a neighbors tree that had come down. So this bed is really from scratch. (As a kid I used to go and spend time at my Aunt's house right next door--we spent most of our time playing outside. I like to think that I spent some of childhood playing near the tree that is now my bed.) Part of what I love about it, is its simplicity. He made his own bed and it's a lot fancier--but Eddy and I don't like our furniture too fussy. The pictures don't really do the craftsmanship justice--I keep saying he needs to go into business for himself.
Here is a close up shot of the wood.



And lastly, here is a card that I made him to say thanks for all of his hard work. The stamp is by Stampendeous.

Happy

Today is my wedding anniversary. I made this card for my hubby in celebration of our five years together. The adore stamp is by Hedi Swapp--sorry I don't have a good working link for it :(
Everything else is just made with a punch. Five flowers for five years. I am a lucky lady to have someone so wonderful for a husband.

Wednesday Stamper

I promised myself that I would be good this week and try to get the Wednesday stamper challenge done sooner rather than later. I've been bad about it the last couple of weeks. So Tonight, I sat down and made this. The theme this week is flowers. I don't really own any flower stamps, so I opted to make this instead. The center of the flower is a plastic optical lens that I tinted with alcohol inks. I then stamped the woman--by Oxford Impressions--on card stock and put it into the lens. I hand drew the flower and cut it out. The stamp is by Hero Arts, I think it's called Italian Text, but I'm not positive. I used some sequin waste to apply some ink to give the green paper some texture and made the little tag and viola, a card was born.