St. Patty's Day Cards

This Irish girl LOVES St. Patty's Day. I always send cards to my grandparents to celebrate.  These are the cards I made this year:

I kept the outsides and the insides simple this year. I was a bit sick when I made them, so I wasn't really big on the idea of taking hours to create them. I kept the insides simple too. Instead of stamping I used stickers from Reminisce Shamrock Collection.

To add a little pizazz to the cards, I decided to add a little shimmer. For the Salante card (similar to saying "Cheers") I ran the background paper through my Big Shot with a honeycomb embossing folder.

 Then I rubbed a little Versamark ink over it and dusted it with copper and green Perfect Pearls.

 For my second card I added shimmer by cutting a background from American Craft Pow! Glitter Paper with my Silhouette.

 I love how easy it is to cut Pow! paper with my Silhouette. Even the intricate details of this background!

Thanks for stopping by, and have a great St. Patty's Day!

Glue Dots® Slap It

I have a lot of Glue Dots® sitting around the house. We often grab them for non-crafty endeavors. Recently we found a fun way to use Removable Glue Dots® with flash cards. Any flashcards will work. We are currently working on letters and sight words, so those are the flash cards you see in my photos.However, the sky is the limit...math flash cards, foreign language, numbers, colors...anything will work!

Supplies:

Removable Glue Dots®

1 Spatula Per Child

Flashcards

How to PlayYou can play this with 1 child or multiple children. I set up a different set of flashcards per child.
You will want to play this game on the floor. Kids seem to really love the slapping part of this game, and you'll want to be on a surface that can take some abuse.
 

Place a removable Glue Dot® on the back of a spatula.
 

Place about 8 - 10 flashcards from your stack onto the floor in front of the child.
Call out an item from one of the flashcards on the floor.
 

The child needs to find the flashcard with that item (word, color, number, etc.) and slap it. The card will stick to the Glue Dot®

The child shows the card to the adult for verification. The "used" flashcard is then moved to a completed pile, and a flashcard from the unused pile can be placed into the empty space left by the "used" flashcard.
Repeat until all the flashcards are gone.
You may need to occasionally replace the Glue Dot® on the spatula.

The best part is Removable Glue Dots® are on sale right now. Available at your local Walgreens in the arts and crafts section next to the poster board. On sale Buy One, Get One 50% off with card. Offer ends 3/31. Equal or lesser value.

I wrote this post while participating on the Glue Dots® Design Team

AWDML's 10th Anniversary

As many of you know, I work at, teach classes at, and design for A Walk Down Memory Lane. I feel blessed every time I pick up a piece of scrapbook paper to have met Lisa, the owner, and that I have been given the opportunity to work with such wonderful people at such an amazing scrapbook store. This month, AWDML is celebrating it's 10th year in business, and I can't wait to see what the next 10 will bring. While I have the extra blessing of being able to shop in store, AWDML began on-line long before there was a physical Brick & Mortar store. Everything in store can be found on-line, and wouldn't you know, for the entire month of March Lisa is offering 10 fabulous deals (and she not only ships everywhere in the US, but internationally as well!).  Happy shopping!

10th Birthday Specials

Buy 10 Copic Markers
get 1 FREE (we will manually adjust your total)

ALL Magnolia Stamps are
50% OFF

ALL Just Rite Stamps are
75% OFF

ALL Slim Steel Dies are
25% OFF

  ALL Mists are
40% OFF 

  Buy 1 Unity Stamp

get 1 FREE(we will manually adjust your total) 

 
ALL Punches are
25% OFF

Alphabet Stickers are
30% OFF

ALL CC Designs Stamps
are 50% OFF

Everything else in the store
is 10% OFF  

Easter Frame

Believe it or not, Easter is not that far off. I'm trying to add a little more seasonal decor to my home, so  I made this:

My favorite details are these little lilies made from Maya Road zipper trim.  

My original goal was to create an Easter lily from sipper trim, but I just couldn't get it to look quite right, so I created this Lily which, I think, looks a bit more like a calla lily.

If you'd like to try making the zipper lily for yourself, here's a little photo tutorial on how I did it.

Cut a 3" strip of zipper trim. Work with the zipper part facing up. 

Place a craft Glue Dot® about 1/4" from the middle on both the left and right sides.

With the zipper lying horizontally, fold both edges down from the center, so the ends are now pointed vertically. Cut the right hand tail of the zipper at an angle.

Wrap the right hand tail up into the left hand tail. Add another Craft Glue Dot® to the left hand tail as you wrap it up and around the right hand tail. Tack the end of the left hand tail down on the back side of the lily with another Craft Glue Dot®.
 

Create the center of the lily by wrapping a Craft Glue Dot® around a stick pin. then wrap about a 3/4" piece of yellow ribbon around the pin. Stick the ribbon wrapped pin into the center of your flower.

Once you get started, these zipper lilies are really easy and fun to make. In fact, I made 4 before deciding I was just going to use 2 on my frame. 

Easter Frame Supplies

Supplies:

Craft Glue Dots®

Mini Glue Dots®

Micro Glue Dots®

Glitz Design Yours Truly Patterned Paper

Navy Card Stock

Maya Road Pleated Trim

Maya Road Zipper Trim

Fiskars Upper Crest Border Punch
Silhouette Machine

Picture Frame (My frame measures 13" x 6")

Thanks for stopping by! 

I wrote this white participating on the Glue Dots® Design Team.

Powder Mountain

Just a quick winter layout today using Bo Bunny's Powder Mountain. It's a really fun, bright winter line.

It's just a simple layout, done to fit as many photos on as possible. I had so many great ones from this fun fort building and snow fight we had.

 I punched out some Pow! Glitter Paper with my Martha Stewart Snowflake Punch to create the glittery falling snowflakes.

I decided the layout needed a pit more pizzazz, so I added rhinestones to the centers of all of the snowflakes in the background paper.

Thanks for stopping by!

Ric Rac Rib Cowl

Craftsy has these mystery boxes they sell every few months. I'm a sucker for a good deal when it comes to yarn, so once in a while I pick one up. In the last box I received there were 2 skeins of Cascade Covington Yarn. I'm not a big fan of yarns that are acrylic blends (this one is 53% Wool/ 47% Acrylic), but this yarn was really quite lovely. It's a nice thick yarn, and I decided it was just the right yarn to try out a new stitch I've been meaning to learn. With 2 skeins (146.5 yards each) I decided that I had enough to make large cowl.

This is what the front side of the ric rac rib looks like:

The ric rac rib gives the garment a thick, springy feel. 

This is what the back side looks like. Still lovely enough to bee seen...just not as lovely as the front side:

I made the pattern up (not so tough with a scarf), but just in case you want to make one of your own I'm writing it down here. Be kind...I don't really write patterns.

The Ric Rac Rib Cowl

Materials
2 Skeins Cascase Covington Yarn
U.S. Size 10 1/2 needles
Waste Yarn (optional needed if using provisional cast-on)
Yarn Needle

Begin
Cast on 40 stitches.
Beginners can use a long tail cast on.
More advanced knitters can use a provisional method.  

Row 1 (right side): P1, *skip first stitch, knit into back loop of second stitch (leaving stitch on left needle), knit into front of first stitch (removing both stitches from left needle), p1, repeat from * to end of row.

Row 2 (wrong side): K1, *purl into second stitch (leaving stitch on left needle), purl into first stitch (removing both stitches from left needle), k1, repeat from * to end of row.

Repeat rows 1 and 2 until your cowl reaches about 45" - 50" in length.

If you used a long tail cast on method -  bind off when your project reaches the desired length, sew the cast on and bound off edges together to form a circle. Weave in ends.

If you a provisional cast on - make sure to end with a wrong side row. Do not bind off. Join cast on and final WS row using a Kitchener stitch. Weave in ends. 

Notes
The Ric Rac Rib must be worked in multiples of 3 + 1. 
I steam blocked my scarf since the yarn was a blend of wool and acrylic.   


Like I said, I don't really write patterns, so if something is unclear, don't hesitate to ask.

Oh, and just in case you're wondering, this cowl is about to find a home with a friend of mine. Sometimes I start knitting things without a recipient in mind, but as the project takes form it starts to look like it would be perfect for someone. This was one of those times. As I started knitting, the colorway and pattern really felt like it would be perfect for my friend. 

Snow Days

Just a quick winter layout today.

This layout uses the beautiful Snow Days Line from Bo Bunny. I really love the soft colors in this winter line, and of course, the embellishments are so fun to work with (Bo Bunny always has fantastic embellishments!).

Thanks for stopping by!