This week, I'm working on Christmas cards! Here's a peak: Why am I making Christmas cards, you ask? I am excited to be taking part in an event during New Hampshire Open Doors Weekend. Presented by the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen, Open Doors is a great time to check out some of the amazing artists of …
Tag Swap!
Every couple of months or so, my crafty friends and I get together to chat, eat, and share a little something we've been working on. Tonight we are sharing our new ideas with a tag swap. Everyone brings a bunch of tags that they have made (ideally, they are all the same), and at the …
Looking back
I'm working on restocking my garlands today. That's because the Orange Harvest Festival was great and I sold a lot of them pretty things. Here's why they're not just for Christmas anymore. Taking a break from all that die cutting (my wrist is getting sore), I looked back at some of my first items that …
Inventory Day
My first craft fair of the season is this Sunday. I'm gonna be pretty busy right up until then with work stuff, (and a super fun trip to visit a friend for lunch) so today was the day. I pulled all my boxes and crates out of storage, laid all the merch out on the …
Monochromatic Break
Maybe it's a reaction to all the color on the Gelli Prints. Maybe it's my brain crying out for some calm. Maybe it's that the Orange Harvest Festival is only ten days away. Well, whatever it is, I'm kind of digging this Basic Declaration Set (Look, my brain is so calm, I even came up …
Some times you have to make a mess
My big plan today was to make twenty birthday cards to boost up my craft fair stock. I had the blanks (the folded card with a basic colored card stock affixed to the front) already to go, and I thought I knew what I was going to do. That was my first mistake. Planning ahead …
Craft Fair Applications in? Check!
I am happy to report I will be participating in three craft fairs this fall. The Orange, NH Harvest Festival, October 16 The Cardigan Mountain Art Association Artisan Fair in Enfield, NH, November 5 & 6 The Christmas Craft Fair at Mascoma High School, Canaan, NH, November 26. Whew, there is a lot of preparation …
A light box helps?
I figured I would get the hang of taking good photos eventually, practice makes perfect, right? I felt like one out of every 20 snaps I took was good enough to use, and that was a little aggravating. To make my photos instantly professional (ha!), I picked up a light box. It's very fancy. It came with led lights, …
Clean up can also be art
One of the tools I take advantage of when using my Gelli plate is a brayer. Brayers make it easy to get a nice even coat of paint on your surface. After applying paint with a brayer, you need to clean it off before moving on to your next color. The easiest way to do …
Back to school means new notebooks!
Especially when you make them yourself! Here I've used my Zutter Bind-it-all to punch and bind these cute little notebooks. They are 4" x 5" and have 50 pages of heavy duty copier paper, perfect for note taking and doodling. The stamps I used are Tim Holtz and Dylusions, and again I have used some …
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