Happy Birthday, David

Wow.... what a strange dream. I saw him and he looked.... Mmmm... That dream is puzzling until I saw one post about him. Oh, birthday? Is that why you are waiting for? Here's belated Happy Birthday to you!

Wish you the luck. Hugs. Ofc, I miss you.

I made my own Traveler's Notebook.

Hi. Sorry, I am away too long. Life is too short.

Anyway. I was doing some cleaning up. Find brand names for some of my stamps in which I bought from seller without package/info at all. This stamp set that I got is not a set but individual stamp. I looked for some answer on 4 individual stamps that are confused because of their appearances. Which is b, d, p or q (also n and u). Finally I found one website that had images that help. I decided to make this guide to reduce confusion. I copied each image to make whole alphabet. You can use them in any way you like. This is just a guideline for that monogram set. Hope that helps!

DIY Smash Calendar Pocket

Hi,

Here's my diy for Smash book lovers. Hope that help! Someone asked about it so I thought why not to figure it out.

Here's printable calendar. Hope you like it.

More Crotcheted Dresses

coat with bonnet

side view of bonnet

   

dress with headband and bottom (back view)

bottom (front view)

    

Thank for looking!

Any question, contact us! Thanks!

More Crocheted Dresses

My grandma made more... Take a look. If interested, we can take order. Ask us for price, size, etc...

Come and support her!

she will crochet a headband to go with this one.

about 15 inches length 11 inches wide

about 14 inches length 12 inches wide

about 13 inches length 11.5 inches wide

about 14 inches length 13 inches wide

about 12 inches length 12 inches wide

about 15 inches length 13 inches wide

Am not sure if it is sold or available... will have to ask her.

Crocheted Baby Dresses- We can take orders

My lovely grandma made many, many dresses for years. Now I offer her a chance to tell other people about her works. She was happy. I can show examples of her baby dresses so that you can get an idea of what they look like. She loves to crochet. Support her works please if you can. Many thanks. I do have Etsy. I can post some of them ready to go, otherwise if you are looking for specific, ask us!

14 in length 11 in wide

she said for that size the price will be 45 dollars

14 in length 13 in wide

would be $50

(SOLD)

14 in length 14 in wide

would be $50

 

If you are interested, let us know about size, colors and prices.

we also do blankets, shoes and hats.

contact me @ alcyone7s at hotmail dot com

 

Have a nice day !

 

 

My Layout for Meagan's Birthday Bash Challenge

Meagan had birthday and she gave away freebies and challenge. I like her She Rocks kit. I like the colors. Here' what I did so far. I added couple of digitals that is not part of She Rocks. What do you think?

Smash Travel Kit

Sometimes it is pain to carry what I need for my Smash book... scissor.. tape... glue... pen... etc, etc, etc. I went to the store Ocean State Job Lot and found this cute tote for make-up stuffs for good price. I like the cover so I bought it. It can carry small things and mini Smash book. Regular Smash book almost didn't fit. It just hold the book unzipped. I know some other type can hold regular one zipped.

Not only I have it, I also have carrying craft bag too from Walmart

This I carry pens, glues, ink pads, washi tapes, embellishments, double-sided tape, photos, scissor, phrase roller stamp and few other things.

Do I need another? Well, I bought different one and I use it to carry my watercolor paint set and few things that is not Smash-related.

Cute Little Sport Mini Album/Book

Hi, I have been busy a lot, not much to say but it didn't stop me from doing craft I like. This is my latest one. I have fun with it. I supposed to go to bed but part of me wanted to finish it at the night so late that I went to sleep in the morning ! I ordered a cute stamp and wanted to use one of it to stamp on a piece of paper to go inside the book. The stamp I used is from Vintage Collector by DCWV. The size of the book is 2.5 x 3.5.

DIY Little Heart Theme on PL cards

I decided to make another on another blank back of recollection. I sprayed some blue ink on it. I use cloud punch with grey paper. I also stamped on grey paper to cut out umberella. I also added little red hearts which was punched out. On second card is from Becky Higgins Seafoam kit. I put washi tape of hearts. I stamped camera and then colored it. I added dot enamel and couple of punched bursts to camera. What do you think? They are for my mini album.

DIY little Balloons on PL card

I decided to do something about the blank back of the Recollections card. I used watercolor to paint it. And then punched out balloons and cut some strings. I also make cute label with word Memories. I  used pencil first before ink it. Finally, make binder holes at the edge for my mini project life album.

My DIY Flairs

I posted in FB group about my handmade flairs. I want to show you what mine looks like. Yeah, I wish I have button maker but for now... I use clear circle epoxy sticker. I make few more on left for Disney PL... I'm sure you could see the right ones for Harry Potter...

I got excited to punch circles from little piece of old gift wrapping. I keep it for long time and am able to reuse. I love the look of wrapping because butterflies are "shining" (foil)

I use watercolor to color Princesses.

I know you can do it too. 

Another Couple of Project Life Card to Share...

Same as before... but with different quote....

Hope you like it... it's my fave.

4x6 card

 3x4 card

Couple of PL Cards to Share...

In the group, some people talked about the quote... and some of them like it and want it... Looks like a new card in the kit. I thought why not make one in two sizes. So here it is. Hope you like it... Enjoy!

4x6 card

3x4 card

My DIY cards for my Universal Studio trip

Since there is no Project Life cards for Universal Studios. So I thought I would make my own cards...

I printed some mini photos and then cut them out. I also punched out circular images so I can add epoxy circle stickers on them as flairs. I hand drew banners with names on it. So far I made three and I love it. I will make more later. I also used some washi tapes, enamel dots which was melt from perler beads and cut 3x4 cards from 12x12 sheet.

What do you think? Of course, I miss that place and will plan to visit again someday !

My DIY Enamel Dots

When I look at the photos in FB group, I wonder about DIY enamel Dots. I checked on Pinterest board for more information. I thought it is cool, fun and cheap way to do on your own. I tried my old perler and failed badly. I bought new set of perler beads and played with them in different temps. First try wasn't good. Paper got almost burned, perler beads got ruined by high temp. Surfaces are not smooth. I tried again with mid temp. Not bad but they become a little burned. I tried again for the third time. It succeed at temp 300 for about 20 minutes.

I baked some more and then tried to double them up. It is bit challenged to line them up with stripes on it. I melted them and they looked bit strange that they crooked a bit. I used some dots on my project life cards.

I tried again with old perler and they finally worked. I could said about 99% became dots-- it took a long time. At temp 300 for more than an hour! That's what you get for baking the old ones.

I also bought glow in the dark pony beads after heard about them being baked. It is bit big than perler dots. I tried them out for the first time at temp 400 for about 15 minutes. It worked perfectly.

I had fun with them and bought a big basket of perler beads so I can have more dots in other colors. 

Project Life 4x6 Monthly Cards

I thought I would make monthly pl cards. I made 3 set with 3 different fonts. Hope you like it. I will add few more later when I have free time. Voice your thoughts on my cards please. Thanks.

I Like to Document My Annual Winter Wonderland

Getting there... I like my Beanie Anya. I put her on my cover of 

Smash: Holiday book... My hometown decided to hold annual event at Webster lake called Winter Wonderland. They gave hot cocoa, popcorn, cookie, small craft, bonfire and horse wagon ride. They also have Santa for the kids to meet and have their picture taken for free. I enjoyed that. 

This year is 6th annual. I had a busy day on Friday and was not able to visit Winter Wonderland and then decided to go on the next day. It was snowing in late afternoon and I checked to make sure they are still open. I live near that- about 3 mins drive. I don't care. I must have my annual photo with Santa.

I put in all photos with Santa and other things like bonfire, horse, etc. It was nice way to record my "adventures" at Winter Wonderland. I use Christmas lights stickers from EK Sticko. Flourishes and Christmas Trees are from Jolee's. Only couple of thing left to add but I am trying to figure it out first before add to the front. I need to make hole for the part I have to install... so hope soon.

I Love Stamps! Rubber Stamps, Clear Stamps.... even Homemade Stamps...

I love stamps but over a year, I noticed one thing I hate. Yes. Kits. Kits that has stamps in it. I wanted those stamps but does not want the kit (papers, stickers, etc, etc) I have hard time finding the stamp I wanted out of kits. The companies who sell those kits won't sell stamp alone. I am very disappointed because I am not only person who wanted stamp. I found out more people wanted stamps more than kits from Calico Studio, Citrus Twist, Cocoa Daisy and few other subscriptions.


Come on! Why can't you start to sell the stamps and you will earn more money?!? Even you thought of it??? Please try to sell the stamps alone. Many of us did not want kits at all. It is not fair to us try to hunt it down from other people who bought the kits. Please think about it.

I am sure many of you agree with me about this. Sound off your thoughts here!

Adipose Plush Pattern

This is my adipose plush.

Someone just asked me where I got adipose pattern from so that she can make a present... It was long time ago... and apparently the website is gone. I was lucky enough to save them. Here's the pattern I used from online but I changed few thing which is not showing (top part and bottom of body corners I turned them into curve shape instead of "L" shape).

See photos of someone else at http://crafty-tardis.livejournal.com/89662.html

I found new one and you can try it also is at http://crafts.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-make-an-adipose-plush-from-doctor-who--craft-15586.

Good luck.