Crafting & Grommets

 I've been on a crafting binge and recently received my Kreate-a-bag & Kreate-a-lope kits, thrown in the binge is a mix of cardstock and colorbox chalk ink, gel pens, craft magazines.  I am constantly in awe at the cards & scrapbooking projects on crafty blogs and took stock of the crafty paraphernalia they use to make beautiful items.

I am so behind on greeting cards with birthdays & graduations having came and long gone, I plan to send them anyway... I'm sure they don't mind that I'm a day late and a dollar short... snickering.   Cardmaking is truly time consuming, I think I spend more time staring at my supplies than making the project, however I am making every attempt to create cards that will be more appreciated than the store bought ones.  Also, I am finally using my cricut expression and enjoy making cards to my hearts content.

Although my  technique is still in infancy, I am determined to create beautiful cards. I have been stalking... well more like drooling over the beautiful cards created by these crafty bloggers...

Amazing Paper Grace, A Place for my Cards, Created from Paper, and of course YouTube.
Here are a few that I attempted... For friend who could use a pick-me upper...

Graduation...

Materials:  Can't remember...lol, but am always amazed at other craft blogs that meticulously list all the items they use... I made notes of the materials below though.

Materials:

DCWV Cardstock (@ Target)

Butterfly & Rose (@ SVG Cuts)

Fonts: (Cricut using SCAL)

Fiskars Border Punch (@ Tuesday Morning)

Also looking for baskets for my embroidered towel sets is a total pain.  So I decided gift bags would work better and loving the idea of making bags appropriate for my towel sets as well as for my body care sets.    Eventually, I will learn to make gift boxes too...lol

Materials:

- Floral Contact paper (@ .99 store)
- Bronze Brads (@ Tuesday Morning)
- Pink Ribbon  (@ Family Dollar)
- Colorbox Chalk Ink  (@ Dinglefoot's Scrapbooking)
- Inkadinkado Font Clear Rubber Stamps (@ Joanns)
- My all time favorite adhesive... hot glue.
      

Signing off with this pic... workings of another B5147 for the B5147 Dress Sew-Along