Another Update

Yesterday I updated you on what I’ve been working on as part of my CKC design team life. Today I’m back with the other projects that have been keeping me busy in the craft room.

Community Project

Each year I create and donate Easter cards to a senior meal program. The cards go out to the seniors who are home bound and they accompany the Easter meal delivery. I’ve had such kind comments from the folks getting these cards that I’m glad to keep doing this project. I am happy to bring people a little joy through paper and ink!

Craft Shopping

I’ve been running low on certain supplies and needed a restock. Also, the February release from Concord & 9th had a few things in there that made me ooh and ahh. In fact, the Easter cards above were created from a new Turnabout stamp set. If you have never used a Turnabout, it is fun! After aligning the stamp, you ink, stamp and rotate it up to 4 times to get a background pattern. (Images from the C9 website.) This set is not an Easter set. However, with the right colors this background can mimic jelly beans or even Easter eggs. I love supplies that have this kind of flexibility!

If you want to see what else I got in my crafty shopping boxes, I do have a video.

Freckled Fawn^^

My latest FF subscription boxe reached my house and I dove into as soon as I could. Check out the unboxing and project video if you want all the details.

I played with the washi tape in the kit and made up a new washi technique. I plan on doing an small addendum to my popular 10 Ways to Use Washi video. I won’t have 10 new ways, but 3 or 4 to share!

Disaster in the Craft Room

The most recent event was the breaking of my Gemini II machine. I reviewed this machine back in March of 2023. Had I really understood then what I know now, I would have been more careful! Luckily my husband did a little surgery on it and it is now working. However, the issue lead me to create a video as a word of caution to any Gemini II owners–or potential owners. If you want to know more about what happened, check out that video.

Event Crafting

And finally, I’ve been doing some crafting inspired by the SBC Fest over at Scrapbook.com^^. They offer free online class events each year. While you don’t have to use their products, they do offer shopping lists and bundles should you want to. The bundles are even available after the event so you can take the class first and really see if you want to own those products later. I only bought a couple of small stamp sets and have worked on the projects largely from my own supplies. Here is what I’ve done so far.

That wraps things up for now. I have been doing some sewing this month as well, but I don’t have pictures of those projects yet. Maybe this will encourage me to document that process next!

I have just a couple more things coming to you for March, so until then, have an artful day!


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Freckled Fawn
They sell products individually, or in subscription kits. The kit subscriptions are a build-your-own bundle style. You pick and choose which of their standard items you’d like shipped to you each month. They carry items from wood veneer all the way up to 12×12 scrapbook papers. Take a look and see if there are any goodies you wan to add to your craft room! And… if you use the code craftysoup you’ll get 8% off your order!

Let’s Celebrate!

I’ve reached not just the 2000 subscriber mark on YouTube, but I’ve shot past it and landed at over 3000 subscribers in the past month. How friggin’ fun is that?!

To celebrate I invited 14 crafty friends to join me with a Social Hop on YouTube, Instagram and on blogs! And just a carrot to dangle: on my channel I will be giving away not three but FOUR prizes for the event.

Hope you’ll join all of us for the fun!

Until next time, have an artful day.

ScrapHappy with Water

I’m on the design team for the ScrapHappy Membership group. Each month our team has a theme to work with and then we offer up inspiration on the SH blog around that theme. I just want to highlight some of the things we’ve been talking about over there this month.

Danielle Leonetti talked about loving the beach despite not generally being an outdoorsy person. Along the way she offers a few tips to capture your stories this month.

What is watercoloring without water? Alison Day offers easy tips on this medium for those who think it may be too hard. Check out her post and then give her tips a try!

April Swingler shares another water inspired technique using a stencil that instantly made it onto my wish list! You’ve got to check out how she got that watery look.

Kathy McElfresh reminisces on a lifetime of watery fun. She also shows some of the filters she loves to use on her photos. See how this layout’s photo was altered for a artful look?

Finally, my post went live all about thinking about our past, present and future lives based on the theme of water. And of course there are story and technique ideas to read about. Here is just a teaser to get you curious!

I hope you go check out each blog post to find fun tips, tricks & inspiration all based on water!