Fishing Tom Cat

Hi!

I loved working on this challenge.  MelJen's Designs had a challenge to use stars.  I thought it was a fun challenge.  The love this kitty fishing I think he is so cute, he minds me of the old tom cats from Tom and Jerry :)

I colored him with colored pencils and then blended with odorless mineral spirits.  I picked all striped paper in orange, green and blue.  I wound around the card with my homemade twine.  The stars were cut from a die at Archivers.  I added some stitching with some pens, added some bling to the stars, and then stamped Thanks on it with purple ink.  The thanks is from K Andrew Designs Winged Things set.

Happy Birthday

File of scraps

after I picked colors, my pile

Hi!  My daughter is having a playdate tomorrow, so I am betting that I will not have a chance to post a project.  So I got an extra one done today.  I used an Artful Delights Sketch.  I love her sketches, I have used them quite a bit. Over at Whimsical Wednesday there is a use your scratches challenge.  I always try and use scraps.  One of the requirements is to show your scrap pile that you use, so here they are.


For my card, i used a Studio G Base, and cut my scraps to 1.5 x 4 and inked the edges using white ink and aqua ink, both studio g.  I put a little adhesive on the back and started winding my twine around the bottom.  I then put them on my base.

I drew the circle with a colored pencil, and colored the image from Digital Delights By Louby Lu, his name is Celebration Charlie.

Recipe

Card
Studio G base
scraps

Embelishments
digital stamp
homemade twine
studio g ink
buttons

adhesive
dimentionals
glue glider pro

Tools
fiskars circle cutter
paper cutter

Challenges
Artful Delights
Whimsical Wednesday

Crochet Cotton Addiction




 

Big pile of colors

So, a few days ago I found this super cool tutorial on how to make your own bakers twine. Here is the link for Life Sweet Life blog. I love the look of the twine, but it gets so spendy to have all the colors that you want.  Basically the tutorial says to use crochet cotton and markers to make your own.  It is not exactly the same, but it is close and so easy.  I was INSPIRED!!!  My mom has tons of crochet cotton, and she is the best mommy ever and let me take as much as I wanted.  I took solid colors, variegated colors, and a big roll of white to make my own.  I now have about 100 different colors.  Not only do i have white and colored twine, I did some with more than one color.  Black and orange, red and pink, red and green, pink and yellow. The list goes on.

These I made myself.

The only thing I did differently than the tutorial is I used cardboard strips so I could wrap 6 or 7, instead of one at a time.  I am storing them on embroidery floss cards, so they stay nice and neat.


Predone crochet cotton



I will be linking this up to Made it Myself Mondays.