Newest Craft Fair Items / A little Hello

Hello everyone. So I have been a tad bit busy  lately. To the point that I have totally forgotten what day it is already. This is my first full week of not going into the office and I already don't know what day it is. I am not really sure how that is going to end up, but so far I am really enjoying myself. 

This is a VERY picture heavy post . I just thought I would share some of the things that I have been busy with. I have been so busy that I have gone with a roll and a half of ATG tape in a couple of hours. I don't think I have ever done that. CRAZY........



A dear friend of mind just had back surgery and I thought I would send a card. He is in a LOT of pain right now so it would be a good time to use the wonderful gift from ProvoCraft. I just LOVE this special download that Gypsy owners received. (even though I had difficulties with my virus software first, but got it all worked out) Smiley Cards has some of the CUTEST things.

This is an altered journal. I was very proud of myself on this one. This was the first time I did a full size altered journal and if I say so myself, I think it turned out very pretty. It didn't take me as long as I thought it would. That's a first. Normally it takes me forever to complete an idea. I think that now I am home (MAYBE) ideas will flow a little easier. That would be nice.



This is a toilet paper mini, I just love doing these. Some times it takes a little bit to come up with what I want to do, but these 2 seemed to come pretty easy also. This wintertime one is not 100% complete but I thought I would share what I had done. The very front blue snowflake page will have "make a " on it, so the complete book will say "make a wish"    

   

 

 Here is another toilet paper roll mini. This one is for fall. It would be great for photos of raking leaves or picking apples/pumpkins, anything done during the fall time. I would have to say Face is one of my favorite times of year - the colors, the smells, the feeling.

 Here are some of the Skinny Notebooks I have started working on. I still have a whole bunch I would like to complete before this weekend. I always feel like I don't have enough stuff. I would like to have a lot of Christmas and wintertime items for the next 2 craft shows but I WILL NOT stress myself out. I am doing this for fun, because I enjoy it and I love the fact that I can do this with what is in my head.

 I made the design on my Gypsy and instead of cutting out I attached my Cricut Markers and drew the design as my background cardstock. I love how this turned out.

 I then cut out some extra music notes and popped them up with pop dots to give it a little POP.

 This skinny notebook is all heat embossed. I stamped the front and back with a snowflake and boarder design then heat embossed it. I LOVE how it turned out. I then attached a snowflake button to the front, a piece of ric rac to the back and wrapped the ric rac around the button as a closure.

 I then stamped the bottom of each page with the same boarder stamp.

 I just stamped the entire piece of cardstock with white craft ink and made that the background. I just love how the white ink pops with the red.

Here are the mini altered journals. I got these at the Dollar Store. They come in packs of 3/$1.00.

 I was able to get these covered, but I have not completed them.

That's what I have for now. I have been busy and I LOVE IT. I have to get back to my craft desk there are still a ton of things that I would like to get done before this weekend and if I am at the computer, I am not working with craft paper. Hope I get to talk with everyone more often now and hope everyone is doing well. I will however be a little under the weather next week, I am having surgery a week from today.

Oh, I almost forgot to mention. This past Sunday was the first time I had attended an actual Stampin Up workshop. And I must say, I had a WONDERFUL time. I now am going to be addicted to going to them. Its a good thing she has them every month.

More to come soon, well as soon as I can pull myself away from my craft desk.

Blessings to everyone.

Bookmarks

I can't believe it. My mom took her bookmark to work in one of the books that she was reading and that day I had an order for 6 bookmarks. So I started working on those.

When I was working on the bookmarks that were ordered, I designed some for them and then I thought, Hey I'm making some that others would like too so why not make more when cutting them out.

I used the 50 States cartridge to cut out the state of Ohio at 3.5 and I used Old West to cut out the OSU and welded them together using my Gypsy.

On the Cheerleader that she ordered, I used Everyday Paperdolls.

One of the other girls at her work also ordered 2 cat book marks and I still have to finish the 2nd one but this is the first one that I came up with using the Meow Cartridge.

These bookmarks are just a few of the things that I have been working on lately. I can't wait until I am done working and I can dedicate more time to crafting. I am thinking of setting up an Etsy shop down the road since I am in 4 more craft shows this year.

I had a BLAST at my first one and can not wait for the next. I just find such enjoyment from crafting. I can't wait to do it all the time.

Blessing,

Mindy - The Determined Scrapper.

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Update and Craft Fair Items

Hello there!!!!!!

Thanks to those that have been checking on me. Yes, things have not been well around here, but hopefully they are on the mend. I will be leaving my office position of 8 1/2 years in the next couple of weeks, so that should give me a little more time to do some of the things that I truly enjoy.
This post is just to give you a little bit of an update, I know I have not post in some time and I will try to get better at posting more often. This Sunday I will be attending my first craft fair. But at the rate I am going I really do not have that much to sell. Hopefully I will be able to get more stuff made by the end of the week. I was hoping to have more done by now, but over the past couple of months, I have either been terribly sick, too depressed, or dealing with life.

Here are a couple of photos of some of the things that I do have done and some of the pictures that I took today.

See you soon. Blessings

Well hopefully things go well and I am able to get more done. I will post more as I am able. I will also post after the craft fair to let you know how that went.