Carving

Getting back to my roots! I introduced carving to the kids last week. They did amazing jobs at cutting safely and making cool stamps. Kalin did two designs, a leaf and a flower. Cam did some crazy randomness, but also managed to trace a snake that I drew for him. I even got some carving in-- but no pictures of that of course. And I was motivated to rejoin the Carving Consortium. Hoping for some swaps in my future!

Rice Critter

A few weeks ago I made another rice-bag critter for the fourth birthday of one of our friends. Figuring out the fabrics:

The finished product:

Birthday card

Here's the quick and dirty card I did for my sister's birthday.  It looked better in person (I think).  The punch is Martha Stewart.  I am thinking I'm going to try making a few more cards with this punch but I may turn the gifts into skyscapers.

crafting again

I have a new craft space in the basement and finally got it usable enough that I could do some crafting! I went on a card making frenzy based on this sketch from Clean & Simple.

Same collage, version 2

First collage

Just playing and it needs more work, but I like it!

I won! I won!

I just won this on-line class for free!  Whoo Hoo!
http://www.reneepearson.com/classes/collage101.php