Last week as Guest Designer at CRAFT

Hello all,
Here is my entry as Guest designer for week 109 at CRAFT challenge blog with the theme of gardening. Its been great and enjoyed the challenge and items from those that sponsored the weekly challenges.
This week we were asked to use a digi from one of our sponsors The Crafty Pad Stamp Designs. and you can also enter to win digis from the second sponsor Crimson Cloud,

I used a new Martha Stewart border punch I just picked up as a border for the cover as well as the inside.

For the cover I lined it with the border punch, a pattern paper from Provo Craft. Added a die cut (Spellbinders) music sheet and topped it off with a swirl from Tim Holtz. The Butterfly is the digi I colored cut out twice and glittered the top later. Added a Prima flower and a stickpin under a gem. This card was fun and quick to put together.
Entering this in Kaboodle Doodles round challenge

More Pin Swap shipped

Since people seem to miss out and couldn't ship pins for our stick pin swap - I stepped up and took an angel spot in the Valentine category. So I whipped these up Saturday morning and shipped them off to the hostess.

Stick Pin Swap with a handmade tag

Hi all, You may have seen these when I first posted them. Well I mailed them yesterday and included a butterfly tag.

The Tag was hand cut and the elements and layers were as follows.
Inked the edges with Colorbox brown ink
Stamped the Martha Stewart butterfly in blue Stazon
Glimmer misted the fabulous red/pink over the butterfly (waited for it to dry)
Use blue Stickles and highlighted certain portions of the butterfly (wait to dry)
Added little Recollection Pearls to the antennae.
To the top - I used my Crop-a-dile and punch the hole and added some fun yarn fibers.
Just a little something extra and glad to have mailed them on Friday.(click pic to view all the details)

Stick Pin swap

I entered into a stick pin swap at CDAC. I selected the 4th of July swap of Red white and blue. So last night while watching TV I made these up. There are 6 people to a swap and you make three pins for each member 18 in total.

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Stick pins

One night this week I sat with my beads and pins and created these little accent pieces.

I love each one as a little piece of art!
I have always been fascinated by the grouping of beads and not much of a jewelery maker but still manage to have a couple draws full!
I will be giving one of these sets (3 pins to a set) away to one of my dear followers who comments on this post!
I will pull the name Monday and that winner will have two days to get back to me or else I will pull another name.

Enjoy and good luck. Remember: followers only - comment and come back to see if you win!

Crafting with kids

Friday night I helped my neighbor's little girl create this banner. We used the Martha Stewart heart punch (my fav) and the solid SU heart punch, then tied them together with some fluffy yarn. Came out adorable and she hung it on her bedroom door.

Today, my niece and Iwent our for breakfast. We then went back to my house to make these three items.
An altered mini note pad

A FRIEND mini album

Two stick pins (I curled both ends so there is no blunt edges