Weekly crafty roundup

Happy Valentine's Day!

Well, this week I manage to do a little crafting, because that's all there is to do besides cooking and cleaning, ugh! I made more tags for my journals. I'm continuing to cross-stitch Frida, she's almost done and I found the DMC 503, I had it all the time. So I didn't have to substitute with another color. Anyway, I should have been done days ago, but I think I just lost my mojo with that piece.

I also printed and put together a junk journal kit from Vectoria Designs. I put it in a mini binder I have for recipes, but I plan to cover it. It's a recipe book that I can put in our favorites and then possibly hand it down to my daughter, if she's interested. It has some really cute, vintage pictures. It will be fun to put together.

Friday Freebie Hearts are from Gi Kerr's Happiness is Crafting on Facebook. I used Stampin' Up tag punch and Butterfly Duo punch and Butterfly Gala stamp set.

Vectoria Designs vintage journal is from Etsy. This is so cute! Here are a couple of pages from the junk journal kit. It has a retro look to it.

I love these butterflies from Butterfly Gala by Stampin' UP. Here is another page from the Recipe Junk Journal kit. Adorable!

Have a beautiful Valentine's Day and happy crafting!

I'm still here

I'm still here and crafting my brains out! A lot of cross-stitching, but not as much as I use to. I cross-stitch daily, mostly in the mornings. Now I have been hit with the paper crafting bug again.

First it's been with my Silhouette Portrait, just making all kinds of stuff with it. In December I made these two 3d paper projects.

Then January rolls around and I made a few Valentine box cards and candy treat bags. These are fun to make.

Here is my Aunt's birthday card. It was my first box card and it was a lot easier than I thought, so then I got hooked on those box cards. This is really an Easter card, but I changed it up to be a birthday card.

And now it's been all about junk journals. I've put one together, but it's random, more like an idea book. I have so much paper, I need to do something with it. So I've been making lots of tags and pockets. I just love it! Here are a couple of tags I made. The pattern is from Gi Kerr's Facebook group, but you can get them in her etsy shop. I scanned the pdf file and I was able to cut it on my Silhouette. Her Facebook group is Happiness in Crafting. I added the butterflies from Tim Holtz Botanical Layers. She also has mini fussy cut butterflies in her etsy shop.

Here's her youtube channel with the tutorial.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euh5BfgO4wU

Happy crafting!

February Cottage and Always finally finished

Okay, here are the other two February cross-stitch pieces that I can add to my February decorations, the February Cottage and Always.

For "Always", I pinned (and sticky taped) this over foam core and then attached it to a fabric covered foam core. I think I will take this apart and make a stuffed ornament for next year, but this is okay for now. Yeh, I still have my Valentine decorations out, plus candy, lol.

The "February Cottage" is framed in an 8x8 frame from Hobby Lobby. I'm starting to frame these projects simply, because it's taking me too long to figure out how to fully-finish or I'm just lazy. I just want to get started on my next cross-stitch project. I used Stampin' UP! paper for the background, Peaceful Poppies DSP. This is such pretty paper.

Hopefully, I'll be a little bit more creative next month. 

Happy stitiching!

Hello, I'm back

It's been crazy days and I haven't had the chance to blog. I'm still cross-stitching a lot and I've also been making cards and other paper crafts. I was discouraged last month with my Silhouette Portrait electronic cutter last month. It would not work due to a recent Windows 10 update, or something like that. So I ended up purchasing the Silhouette Portrait 2, so all is good, except I've only made a handful of things since then. Too many projects so little time. Anyway, this is a quick post to share a little of what I'm up to.

My finishes so far this year:

"January Cottage" from Country Cottage Needleworks.

"Be My Valentine" from Lizzie Kate Designs, a free chart.

"February Cottage" from Country Cottage Needleworks. I still haven't framed.

"Always" from Cecelia Turner, Heart in Hand. This is also a free chart. I love these quick, smalls to stitch. It only takes a couple of days, but framing is another thing.

Hopefully I'll have my "March Cottage" finished and framed before March rolls around!

I'll share my paper crafts and cards in another posts. I just wanted to get this out there and let you know I'm still here, just slow at posting.

Have a great day and make something fun!