Calendar

Those snow days may have been a pain in the neck to deal with but for Caryl  they were a chance to craft.  She made a beautiful perpetual calendar for Christine's birthday.  I've asked Christine to post a picture of it.  And yesterday she gave me an early birthday gift (April is my birthday) and here it is....

 The supplies came from Artco with the exception of the stand.  The calendar grid is an overlay with a 12x12 decorative paper that Cooper chose for me (love it) and I can change it for each month if I want.  A metalic sheet stands in the back and all the items on the calendar have a magnet.  Caryl made the number beads and I can personalize special days with the bottle caps she made; birthdays, holidays and other special occasions.  I absolutely love it!   Thank you Caryl

A Barry Awesome Card

Christine received this card from Barry and to her surprise the skater started spinning when the card was opened.  The skater is suspended on a string in the center of the oval.  Caryl took pictures from different angles so we could see how Barry made it.  I love the color scheme and the cord detail, I just have one word for it.... BEAUTIFUL!

  

Christmas

We had a dinner get together in December and the challenge was to bring a decorated box for an exchange.  Christine, our hostess, had a number at each place setting and as the bags with the boxes came in she randomly put a number on each.  We matched our numbers to the bags and voila! we each had a beautiful item to take home. 

Caryl and I went to Value Village looking for a suitable box to decorate, she found this horrible  house shaped box  with colors from the 80's, funky flowers all over it, it was so bad I tried to discourage her from getting it.  Then who should get the box in the exchange?  Moi, but the transformation was amazing, I love it, she even made the bird, I used it to hold my Christmas cards and it looked great on my dinning room table. 

 Marcia's box has a sliding lid, she covered the inside with decorative paper adding cut out poinsettias to the glass lid.  Beautiful.

The flower covered lid is gorgeous, Angela decorated this charming box.

When I saw this box I really thought it was store bought and Dawn had just refinished the outside...Noooooooo - she colored the glass, added the stained glass details and antiqued the box.  I wanted this one too but Monique got it...LUCKY!!

Monique's  box has an "old Christmas" feel to it, I love the detail work. 

 Not a box but a tray, and a darn beautiful one too.  Barry decoupaged the center with festive holiday colors and painted the tray.  Love the colors and if it were mine (hint, hint) I would display it on my coffee table with a candle and some pretty holly.

 Christine, Santa called he wants his mailbox back! Whimsical, colorful and just plain FUN.

Lupine's box tells a  lot about her, no it's not that she drinks, it's the attention to color and detail.  It can hold a bottle of perfume, candy, a scarf or just about anything not necessarily alcoholic.

This is my box, Cari, I ended up making two boxes.  It all started with no inspiration to the point of wanting to drop out of the exchange, you know that feeling, and then creativity kicked in and I was unstoppable.  Each side of the box is different, I added wood buttons found at Michael's to raise it a little and a glass knob on the top for  a "classier" look.

Here is my second box which I kept.

We will be getting together at Angela's house next and the project will be calendars.....to be continued

A Thank You Card from Barry & Jerome

This was a thank you card I received this past summer.

The detail & layering is wonderful!

Nice work Barry.

no inky fingers for this project.

Do you crochet or knit?  Got leftover yarn you don't know what to do with.... here is your next project. 
Christine taught us how to make the felt flowers by cutting circles into spirals, rolling into a flower and gluing.  We covered straw wreaths (still wrapped in the cellophane) with yarn and used hot glue to put the flowers on.  Total cost about $5.00 and still have left over yarn and felt for more wreaths.

Christine

 Cari

 Caryl

Halloween Treats

In a couple of weeks the Book Club will be meeting at my place and I made some Halloween treat bags for the ladies.  I have  two more to make but I think I've had enough candy for today so perhaps tomorrow I will finish this project.  

September project-completed

Here is my finished Halloween project. I had so much fun putting this together. I put a couple drops of glow-in-the-dark nail polish on the cat's eyes, the window below has acrylic and the moon was inked and then I covered it with Glass Effects. The boards on the window are actually chipboard that I inked with three different browns, then used my bone folder to create groves. I put a little marker in the groves after everything dried to create a better shadow. The door knob and path are made with The Robin's Nest brand acrylic pebbles. Oh! One other little thing, I changed the owl that was resting on the tree branch in the background and initially had a shimmery, white paper for the eyes. I changed it to red - it looks a little creepier to me. Excellent project! Can't wait for the next get-together.