MY SHOE STORY

One thing you must know about me is that I love shoes always have always will.  When I became a working young woman my passion became shoes and to this day I can't get passed QVC when they are selling Clark shoes.  Of course now that I am older my feet can only comfortably handle certain styles of shoes.  Gone are the days of high heels and sexy shoes but  hey- I still love shoes. So on one of my many trips to Artco to buy paper, browse, return a printer's tray for the second time because I decided not to use it I saw a beautifully crafted paper shoe. I held it in my hand and felt this euphoria, I heard angels singing and I knew I had to have this shoe or one like it.  Quickly  I ran to the decorative paper aisle and choosing my papers I ran back (ok, walked fast) to the die cut machine and proceeded to cut MY SHOE.  Sped home (36 MPH! on a 35 zone) and ever so lovingly made my little shoe.

So that is my shoe story for today and in case you can't get to Artco here is the pattern.  May your shoe give you as much joy as mine gives me.

Can you tell it's a rainy day and I had nothing better to do than play online and update this blog?

COMING SOON - HALLOWEEN FUN AT CHRISTINE'S HOUSE.  

Something wicked this way comes.....

Last Sunday some of the Inky Fingers met at Angela's house for a fun and creative afternoon.  Using the Cricut, Angela cut out coffins and we all brought Halloween themed embellishments to share.  I think the results are fabulous but I will let you be the judge.

Cari

Christine

Christine decorated the inside.

Jerome

Angela

Shake, shake, shake....shake, shake, shake

Oh yeah, Marcia and I were shaking it all over the place today, cards that is.  Took a class at Art N Soul where we made 4 shaker cards.  Now the trick to these cards is to keep the darn micro beads inside the card...tape, tape, tape.  We were  8 crafty ladies all talking at the same time, asking questions and having so much fun that we went over the class time.  All of this commotion prompted Suzanne, our instructor, to thank her lucky stars she doesn't have 8 kids.   Suzanne started us off with an easy little card.

Using alcohol inks on glossy paper we colored the background of this card.

 Moving right along... keeping the micro beads to stay inside each panel on this card proved a little tough. One lady ended up with all the beads seeping out and sticking to the foam tape.  We all learned that if the foam tape and background paper is not sealed the beads just magically disappear reason why the top left square looks a little empty on my card.

Then came the RAINMAN !!!.  I said before how much I like this stamp and using it on a shaker card it's fabulous.  Again we used glossy paper and after stamping the image we sprayed it with water, every card turned out different.  Figuring out the amount of micro beads to use can be tricky too, my rainman was standing in a flood until I carefully took out some beads. The close up photo of the umbrella from the Art N Soul blog clearly shows the shaker bead effect as they roll off the umbrella.

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As usual Marcia and I walked away wishing for more and planning to return for other classes.  Lunch at the Thai Restaurant next door was yummy we even had a cup of Coconut ice cream for dessert.

BOOO!!!

Marcia is in a Halloween kind of mood.   During one of those moments when only retail therapy shopping will do she visited Michael's and found a wooden pumpkin cut out and, carried along by the Halloween mood, decorated it in a most adorable fashion.  I love it!!!

WHERE IS THE RAIN?

We are having a long dry Summer here in the Northwest and I haven't seen my umbrella in months.  I know the rains will return so an umbrella search will take place very shortly but in the meantime I found my umbrella die cut and made a few cards.

To make the cards I used the following items:

A LITTLE PUMPKIN

Taking a sanity break from a hard day's work Marcia took a little blog trip and found a cute pumpkin idea which she sent me.  This little pumpkin is made using a very small terracotta pot, decorative paper strips cut  4 inches x 1/2 inch, this will vary depending on the size of the pot.  Attach  the paper strips to the bottom and top (inside) of pot with a glue dot, I put leaves on mine and Hershey kisses.  How cute would several of these look decorating a table?

Bookmarks from Pinterest

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In case you missed it...Pinterest is like having a bulletin board on your computer, this social sharing site allows users to share images of recipes, crafts and other interests.  Linking the users to other sites showing the recipe, the craft tutorial, the resource for whatever interest you.  You can "pin" a new image or "repin" one you found on the site.

The bookmarks I just made I found on Pinterest along with the site that has the instructions.  Here is the link but in case it doesn't work I will post the instructions and photos following the link.  It worked for me when I tried it.

http://www.ctbakerintheacres.com/search?updated-max=2012-02-15T14:12:00-05:00&max-results=5&start=35&by-date=false

Anyway here is what you will find on the site.

• Start with a 6x6 square of cardstock
• Fold into a triangle
• Fold the left corner to the center point
• Fold the right corner to the center point
• Open up the triangle again and fold one flap of the center point to the bottom
• Re-fold the left corner toward the center point and tuck into the "pocket"
• Re-fold the right corner toward the center point and tuck into the "pocket"
• Cut a contrasting square slightly smaller than the 3x3 pocket
• Glue to inside of pocket
• Cut embellishments - teeth, nose, tongue, etc.  Glue inside of fold
• Slide into the page corner of your favorite book.
• Fun and EASY!