Tree of Life necklaces

Now that they have opened them.

Materials Needed:
One 6.5" piece of 18g wire
Four ~6" pieces of 26g wire
3mm-5mm stone chips of your choice (2mm-3mm round beads also work well)
Flush cutters
Round nose pliers
Chain nose pliers
Cup burr or file
Round object

I ended up finding circle pendants so didn't need the 18g wire to make a circle.

Fold 26g wire in half and wrap around bottom of circle, bring them all together and twist to make trunk, split out into two strand groups and twist to make branches.  Add your beads or stone chips to create the leafs, wrap ends around top of circle and cut wire.

2013 Christmas Cards

Stamp set is On Angel Wings.

2012 Christmas Cards

Worked on our Christmas cards today. Stamp is Christmas Deer.

Gifts for the girls

Stretchy bracelets around magic gloves with tissues and candy.

Angel Jewelry Set

Christmas gift, 18" necklace, earrings and stretchy bracelet.

Craft Day 2012

Another craft day with Sue, Kaylyn, Crystal and Ayla.  Woooohoooooo!

We made some salt dough ornaments.  Ayla and I went with a Paris Sketches theme to give them to our band buddies.

 Then we also made our yearly tear off calendars to give to coworkers(me) and friends(Ayla)

72 Simply Scrappin' Kit Cards

This year's cards were made with the Razzleberry Party kit.

Trellis Yarn Necklaces

Made some necklaces tonight.  One is a gift for Christmas, the other two probably will be too.

Treat Holder Card

Made a few treat holder cards and turned them into gift card holders. (yes I forgot to punch windows in the pink one, darn it)

Little box has 3 chocolates in them.

Dimensions:

Start with a 6 1/2" x 11 3/4" piece of cardstock. Score your 6 1/2" side at 3/4" and 5 3/4". Score your 11 3/4" side at 3 1/2", 7", 8 1/2", 9 1/4", 10 3/4" and 11 1/2".

Two Gifts

First up is a baby memory box for my Niece, she's having her second baby. And we all now hard it is to make sure the baby book gets done when you have two little ones to keep an eye on.

Paper and stickers are from Hobby Lobby and the design of this was copied from Splitcoast.

Next I made a scrapbook page(and framed it) for DBF's new DIL. The pictures are of her new husband(who is currently serving in Afghanistan) and his Dad and Grandpa. We don't really know her, but hopefully she will like this.

Photo Album Card

Thanks Pam!  I love this paper you used.

The cover is 12x6, score at 5 3/4 from each end.  This will leave a little strip in the middle so the card can be thick.  Decorate cover, back cover and top flap.

The photo pages are one sheet of solid card stock 10x10.  Score in 5 inch squares,  cut up the bottom score mark.  Fold up to bottom pieces, than fold the right side over left.  Decorate all the flaps with print and solid pattern( 4.5x4.5).  You can attach photos at this time or leave it for the giftee to do.  Attach the photo panels to the base card with good sticky strip.  You can see which panel Pam attached here, the cut in half bottom portion is on the bottom.  Top left panel is attached to card.

Thanks so much again Pam.  Love the new craft idea! *smooch*

Another Christmas 2010

Another version of a Christmas card for this year. Loving this big collage stamp.

Theme Banks

DD and I made some "themed" banks for friends and family for Christmas.

Christmas 2010 Cards

Simple design, they're all made the same but no two cards will look the same.

Whimsical and Bright Calendars

The first batch of 2011 tear off calendars. Did some fun whimsical ones.


And a bright and sunny seasons one.

2 Minute Bridal Shower Card

Ack! Had to make a quick bridal shower card for tomorrow. Cute, quick and simply elegant. I like.

Invitation Samples

Sue's Wedding Colors

More chain than bead necklace

Another design for the Fight Like a Girl necklaces. This one is extremely simple.

Chain & Bead Necklace

First attempt at mixing chain and beading. I've ordered boxing glove charms to make "Fight Like a Girl" necklaces to sell for this year's walk. I'm working out the necklace design to hang them on and thought I would try mixing chain with beading.

This picture does not do it justice, I need to find my better camera. I will try to post another pic tomorrow.

The charm on this one is a bustierre(sp?).

The necklace ended up being longer than I like. But what length do most women wear? Advice needed please!