OWH Virtual Cardmaking Party Round 3

OWH is having a Virtual Card Making Party this weekend.  There are ten challenges and the linkys will stay open until Sunday September 8th.  So there is lots of time to play along.  I got started a little late myselft on this but hope to catch up before the deadline! Challenge 3 is by Seongsook at Seongsook's Creations.  She demonstrated her Triple Time Die Cutting Technique.  A different way make this card and it saves paper.  

I moved my dies up on the card and saved room at the bottom for the sentiment.  This paper is Echo Park Winter Park by Lori Whitlock. Sentiment is Hero Arts.   I'll be back later with some more challenges.

Happy Crafting!
Donna

The Last Christmas Card

It has been a while since I posted.  Christmas preparations and my daughters's graduation from college on Saturday have kept me hopping.  I finished my last Christmas card last night and finally had time to post a card on my blog. This card is for our mailman (see the postage stamp).  I usually give my mailman a gift card for McD's.  He has his work cut out for him with all the online shopping I do!

Most of the ingredients came from the Apron Strings All Year Cheer Card Kit for November.  Apron Strings is a monthly kit club and I do love Lori's choices in her kits.  I added the postage stamp and the small circle in the left corner from an Authentique Festive icon sheet.  The Christmas Ad and plaid papers are from Echo Park's Seasons Greetings.  The red twine is from Maya Road.

I hope your Christmas preparations are going well.  Now I can get back to crafting Valentine Cards for Operation Write Home.  (Yes we are always months ahead on seasons because of the shipping time overseas).

Happy Crafting
Donna
You can visit my Creative Memories website HERE.

Scrapfest at the Mall Of America

My dear Sister-in-Law talked me into going to Scrapfest at the Mall Of America this year.  She had attended last year and had so much fun she wanted to do it again.  I had an absolute ball!  It is a fantastic way for crafters to see vendors and learn about their products.  The have many booths with "make and takes" that are free (you must buy a Scrapfest badge to do the make and takes).  My absolute favorite booth was the Graphic 45 booth.  Each day of Scrapfest we made a different tag from their Lady's Diary line.  Here are the tags (each one measures 41/2 by 9 inches)

There were 27 booths and we hit each one of them at least once.  Many booths had different projects each day.  The Carta Bella and Echo Park booth did two projects a day!  Here is a sample of most of the make and takes I made.

We also attended two crops at the Archiver's store in Apple Valley MN.  The Friday night crop was sponsored by Maya Road and we made a darling card and got a goodie package of chipboard, a canvas mini album and a Vintage Embellishment Super Pack.  Maya Road has several grand prizes also but we didn't win.  On Saturday night the sponsor was Graphic 45.  We made a vintage card with real metal hinges and received a goodie pack that included Hampton Art stamps and a 12x12 pad of Graphic 45 Cirque paper.  I won one of the grand prizes that included an alphabet stamp set, Graphic 45 hardware, Little Darling Stamp sets and a Nutcracker 8x8 pad.  Plus the Archiver's store provided a goodie bag each night also.  I barely had enough suitcase room to cart all the goodies from Scrapfest home!

Last and best of all was the one hour and a half class with the Rock Star of crafting TIM HOLTZ!  (scream!)  He is one of the best instructors on video and even better in person.  The project taught us a lot of techniques.  After the class he was available for picture taking and autographing.  I had him autograph the top of my instruction sheet.  Here it is framed on my wall in my craft room next to my completed project.

 We enjoyed talking to women from all over the country while we were standing in line for the make and takes.  And of course the shopping, there were some amazing stores.  I hope you might consider attending a Scrapfest.  You will not be disappointed.  

Happy Crafting!

You can visit my Creative Memories website HERE.

OWH Rebel Challenge #4

The Operation Write Home Rebel Challenge #4 was to make a card using bright colors.  I won this digi stamp on a Hambo Hoedown bloghop.  The dog is so cute (Hambo Stamps Cool Dog #4904)!  I colored it with Prismacolor markers.  I used OWH sketch #26 as a starting point.  The paper is Summer Days from Echo Park.

Happy Crafting!  I'll be back for the next challenge.
Donna
You can visit my Creative Memories Website HERE.