Good Morning and welcome back to the craft room! Today we are going to Use What You Have and make two beautiful Love You cards. Occasionally I will go through my paper scraps and decide what is worth keeping and what should be tossed. Back in February 2022, I found this beautiful dark red pattern…
Month: January 2023
Flashback Friday – My Heart
Hello everyone and welcome back to another Flashback Friday post. Today I want to share My Heart with you. My sample was made with Perle Cotton size 8 and measures about 1 3/4″ square. A thicker thread will yield a larger heart. This heart would make a beautiful pair of earrings if you used a…
Sending Love
Good morning my friends and welcome back to the craft room! Today I am going to share a clean and simple Sending Love card with you. When I first started thinking about this card, I had a million ideas rolling around in my mind. To set things in place, and clear my head I grabbed…
Flashback Friday – Beaded Snowflake Earring
Hello and welcome back to another flashback Friday! Today we are going to take another trip back to December 2000. While working on the snowflake patter that transformed into a 3-D Flower, I also created an earring pattern which I would like to share with you today. This earring pattern uses seed beads and was…
Tea Dyed Paper
Hello my friends and welcome back to the craft room! Today we venture into something completely different and way out of my wheelhouse, tea dyed paper! My sister’s newest crafty fun has been creating junk journals. For Christmas she asked me to create some ephemera items for her to use in them. Since I don’t…
Flashback Friday 3D Flower
Good morning my friends and welcome to another addition of Flashback Friday. Today we are going back to December of 2000 and a cute little 3D flower. This flower was inspired by a snowflake that I was tatting for the holidays. I was attempting a different join for the center of the snowflake, but wasn’t…
Thank You and a Color Challenge
Hello my friends and welcome back to the craft room! Today I’m going to share with you the Thank You card I made for a very dear friend from work. She and her daughter made me a delicious cheese cake and this was the least I could do in thanks. The need for this card…
Gift Card Holders 2022
Good morning everyone and welcome back to the craft room! As the great-niece and great-nephews get older it is getting more difficult to buy Christmas gifts for them. So, we have been getting them each a gift card so they can purchase exactly what they want or need. Each year I do my best to…
Flashback Friday Blue Doily
It’s time for another Flashback Friday! Today I want to share with you my very first doily pattern. I created this back in May of 2000 and can still remember how proud I was of myself when it was finished. There has been a lot of very positive feedback over the years on this doily…
Notepad Holder
Happy New Year everyone and welcome back to the craft room!! Today we are going to create a holder for a 5″ x 8″ notepad. The pattern I’m sharing with you today is adapted from one I found on YouTube by Michelle Allen from A Creative Operation. Her design for the 5″ x 8″ notepad…