Handmade

  This year give a handmade gift to people and/or pets you love. By doing this you are helping small businesses like me and other crafters and artists on places like  Artfire.

  What got me started in this business adventure was my durable dog toys. Don't just take my word on how durable they are. Here is what one of my happy customers had to say. http://www.harmonyinmetal.com/blog/2010/09/11/meet-bella-and-her-new-best-friend/
I also have cards. and here is what another customer had to say. http://www.artfire.com/ext/shop/feedback/MJsKraze
Come check out my site to find about the other items I sell.
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A Clown and His Toy

Hi. I have been neglecting my blog and I had good intentions to post this cute costume I made for Buster for Halloween.

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Every year I make a new costume and enter him in costume contests at pet stores. This year was the first time he ever took a place. He got 2nd place,which consists of a free toy.
I made a layout of him and his new toy.

It is based on a Sketchy Thursday's 11.10 sketch, except instead of using 4 photos I used 3.

Here is what I came up with.

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Rejects and a Layout.

In the start of October I made ten cards for Paper Crafts Magazine WCMD (World Card Making Day) contest. They announced the winners last Friday and I was one of the unlucky participants who didn't win. I want to show you what I sent them

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On the bright side these cards went to a good cause. All the non winning entries went to Operation Write Home. More info here.
Now I want to show you this layout I made. It is something a little goofy but I love it. A layout to my stand mixer.

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This was based on the  10.27 sketch from Sketchy Thursday.

Leafing Memories Behind Blog Hop

Welcome to another great hop put together by the talented Amanda. This time she challenged us to do a layout with leaves in honor of Autumn.  I can up with this cute page, which was a lift from carkareokequeen.
Here is my page.

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The leaves on this page was made with some craft foil and ink.
Here two more projects I made using leaves as the theme
Here is the perfect bookmark to use in the fall. To make the sticker wreath a little more durable I add a layer of Glossy Accents.

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 Here is also napkin ring that is perfect for your table.

 

For these two extra projects I used cardstock, vellum, stamp ink, stamp ribbon and chalks.

If you didn't come to my blog from Heather's blog please go to Amanda's blog as start at the beginning.  If you get lost, go back to Amanda's and start over. 
Thanks for visiting me!  The next stop is  Eternoly Yours Linda

New Projects.

Sorry I have been neglecting my blog. Let's just say life here has been crazy busy.  My dad was making a extra room in our basement for his office and the family computer, now it is finished.
I am just popping in just to show you a card I made and two layouts.
The card is was made for Ericka's Issues challenge on Club CK and the recipe challenge over at Frosted Designs. It is also perfect for this week's Tuesday Trigger.

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I used:

The color yellow  

Ribbon or lace 

Flowers

Misting or inks

Buttons  

Stickers

Here is a layout I did using the sketch. The sketch is provided be Frosted Designs #25.

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The sketch for this layout is from the 10.6 Sketchy Thursday's.

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Crafting Mojo

I came back. I took about a two week break from scrapbooking because I couldn't come with anything I liked. Thanks to some sketches. I found my mojo again.
This first page is based on Sketchy Thursday's 9.22 sketch.

I came up with this cute page.

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The next sketch is from Frosted Designs sketch #24.

and here is what I came up with.

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Pink Christmas

This card I showed my dad after I made it and he said it didn't look like a Christmas card since it has pink.
I told him that the paper came from a Christmas collection from the Paper Company and that pink is showing up more and more on Christmas decor.
 I made this card based on the Frosted Design card sketch.

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So what do you think should pink be considered a color for Christmas?

Pinata

This layout was based on the Frosted Designs sketch.

 

Here is my page.

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This is my first page I did in the last 2 weeks. I think my scrappy mojo came back home.

Four Challenges.

I had four challenges to do on scrapbook pages but I only had time to do one page this weekend. Since one was due this afternoon and I have a lot of cooking to so today I combined all of them together. This page takes card of Frosted Designs sketch challenge and their Friday challenge, Creating Keepsakes gathered fabric border and Erica's Issue Challenge.
Here is the page.

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I used the Frosted Designs sketch
Frosted Designs Friday challenge: use flourishes
Creating Keepsakes: Gather fabric border
Erica's Issue Challenge: use a star.

Another School Theme

This is my last card I did for the Frosted Design Friday's challenge.
The card's school items are made from the "Teacher's Pet" stamps from Imaginisce.

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 Even though this card has the same theme as the one below they look completely different.

School Theme

I did the Friday's challenge over at Frosted Designs this week. It was to use school theme products to make a project. I made cards.
On the first card I used a collection called "White Out" by We R Memory Keepers.  I lines paper looks like notebook paper.

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I am just doing a quick post tonight to show off a quick layout I did within 1 hour.

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This was based on Sketchy Thursday's sketch 8.18.

Baby Bunny

I had to take a picture of this cute bunny before Buster scared it away.

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Since I had this adorable bunny I wanted to scrap it.
Here is what I came up with.

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The background paper is something I made out of white cardstock. I colored it with color pencil and used a stencil to make the pattern.  I used Artful Delight sketch #11.