So my local scrapbooking store has a contest once a month where they give you a bag of supplies and you have one week to make a project. It's been challenging because sometimes they are not the supplies that I would normally use. These were the supplies for the month: And here's what I made with it: … [Read more...]

Click here to download a PDF tutorial of how to make the project: Votive Holder Tutorial The finished project is about 5" Tall, but depending on the size of your lid, it can get larger or smaller. I promise it's really easy! Let me know if you make it! I'd love to see what everyone else does with this idea. Thanks! … [Read more...]

Ok so I've got a LED candlelight (which I love! You get the flickering of a candle without the heat or flame), the top to a can of alfredo sauce (yum), and a piece of spring green vellum. I'll post in 24 hours what the final product is, I'm just making sure the tutorial is easy to follow. While we're on the matter of tutorials, I'm sure you've noticed the new tabs at the top of the page. Bear with me as I'm still working on getting everything together. But here's a question for you. When I do the tutorials, would you rather have them as just another blog post, or as a downloadable PDF that you can print out and follow? Let me know as … [Read more...]

As I prepare my business website for my stamp line I'm transferring all posts of a more personal nature to a new blog:Edited to remove link to personal blogThis blog will continue to have lots of crafting projects, tutorials, and other features while the new one will have more personal family related stuff. Please make sure you add the new blog to your RSS Feed. Also, please excuse the dust as I renovate this blog. If you click on a link that doesn't work, please let me know as this is my first real attempt to make major changes to the html code! Thanks everyone!Erin … [Read more...]

I also finally figured out why in the world you couldn't click on any of my pictures to make them bigger. So now I've got that fixed. From now on you should be able to click on the pictures to get a larger picture. :) … [Read more...]

Ok, so this card was one I made a little while ago. The background for this card was made using a magazine page. This one was pulled out of a Pottery Barn Kids Catalog. I just found a page that had lots of red on it and cut it into little strips. (Don't worry about cutting the length of the strips to match the size just yet. Just cut them out and after you arrange them you can trim the edges.) Then I covered a piece of cardstock around the edges with some double sided tape and arranged the strips onto it. (Now trim the edges.) Once I did that, I printed the sentiment out. I used two different browns for the ribbon. To add a little … [Read more...]

This project that I did for Christian was inspired through the Sprite Stitch Blog which I found through Celia's website. Apparently he's a friend of her husband. Cool blog for those who like gaming and crafting!!!! I saw this pattern from his blog and decided to make Christian a little dice bag for Valentines day. I actually have never finished a cross stitch until this one! All the other ones I've started have been pretty big and I've lost interest before finishing so this one was just the right size! It took just about 1 hour to do the cross stitch and another hour to sew up the bag, complete with drawstring and lining. Anyway, here it … [Read more...]

3sweetboys1princessCongrats! I'll contact you to make arrangements to get the magazine to you! (This was picked by my personal random generator, Christian! We assigned everyone a number based on the order in which you commented, and then he rolled a dice)Thank you everyone so much for all the supportive comments that you've left me! I'm so excited to get the ball rolling on the stamps! I'm working on the final images now for the stamp sets. And trying to decide how many to release for the first round of releases... And working on the website. And putting together some way fun things to go along with the release! Thank you so much for … [Read more...]

I need your help! After months of research (about 9 months to be exact) I am really close to opening up a new business venture. I have been working with manufacturers and will soon have my own line of clearAcrylic Stampsto sell. I have designed all of the art (previews soon) and am now deciding what other things to offer in addition to my stamp line and trying to set my prices.I am so excited because I've always thought that everyone should have access to great design, regardless of your crafting budget. I will be selling everything at great prices. If I wouldn't buy it at that price, than I'm not going to sell it at that price. There's lots … [Read more...]

After seeing this image of a quilt it totally changed my perspective on quilting! Not that I ever had a bad impression of quilting, but after seeing this quilt, and others in this girl's gallery. I couldn't help but realize that you can have modern quilts too! If I read the gallery description right these are pictures from a quilting show in China. … [Read more...]