Christmas Church Bazaar

Fortuna Methodist Church had their Craft Bazaar a couple weeks ago. I set up my stuff at home....just to make sure it went ok. 

Gift tags and Christmas cards... all piled into an old suitcase and some cheese boxes. 

And I gold leafed some pine ones into a garland. It didn't sell but I'm excited to decorate with it then year. 

I thought I had some pics from the Church but I must have deleted them.... Dang! 

Anyway, what have you made lately?

EDITED to add pictures from the Church...I didn't delete the, after all. :)

You can see the garland at the bottom. 

The little jars, to the right, are from my fav jalapeño peppers. :) I added Epsom salt, tea lights, some twine and jingle bells. They didn't sell either but I have a plan for here! :)

Here's some closer pics of the stuff in the suitcase and boxes:

There you go!

Thank you, birthday, etc

I have several cards that I have yet to show off. All of these I have made for one challenge or another over at CardSwaps. Have you evert been over there? I love that forum...great people, great talent, fun crops...just all around good!

Please allow me.

This thank you card, I made for our Uncle Brandon. He took me junking in far north Missouri. I had a BLAST and have several tasters to show off as well! ;)

Noww this box!!! In love this box. I made it for my Grandma's birthday. I am going to try to fit gift tags in there....like this.

I also made this card which will be for my Grandma's birthday later on this year.

If you have been reading here for long, you know that I always make her gift tags for her Christmas gifts for her birthday, which is December 7th. Here's a couple that I made this year:

You can see ones I have made in past years: Here,and Here

Have you made any gifts lately? I'd love to see them. Leave a link in the comments.

Happy Birthday Grandma!!

My Grandma's birthday was last week... She was born on Pearl Harbor Day before it was Pearl Harbor Day (I figure if I don't tell the truth about my real age, I shouldn't let hers out of the bag either!).

Anyway, this is my crafty Grandma and the one for which I make the Bazaar stuff.

She wasn't having must to do with me taking pictures; I think she just wanted to dig in her loot!! Yet another thing I get from my Grandma...feeling like a kid in a candy store anytime I am opening a gift.

I cut all these out using my Cricut and one of the Christmas Solution carts from 2009 (I am too tired to walk downstairs and look right now... I will check later and let you know.)

I sprayed the white on Rudolph with Glimmer mist and I added Stickles to the left edges of the Christmas tree...like the snow was really blowing! I also added Stickles to the white on the top of the stocking. I think my favorite is the red background snowflake with the tinsel top! My sister sent me the tinsel

Oooh-lala

This 6-pack was for a challenge at CardMaker as well; you were to use a bird or a bee on your card. This is what I came up with:I just got this stamp set, Elements of Style, from Stampin UP! last week and I must say... I love it already! After I embossed the background paper, I ran it over my ink pad... turned out well, I think.

It's hard to tell at this point but, I stamped the humming bird on cardstock (the same color as the background) using Versa mark. Then, I rubbed ink over the top, wiped off and cut out. It was a bit labor intensive but well worth it!

Happy Easter Inchies!!

For Easter, I gave my Grandma the charm pictured below; it holds 1"x1" pieces of paper or things or... whatever you want to add.

(NOTE: I didn't take this picture, I borrowed it from the SU website. I hope I don't get arrested!)

So, these are the inchies I made for her. (Sorry I forgot to flip this one.)

This is my Buuterflies and Birds stamp set again with that lovely Rich Razzleberry ink... Did you hear?? Rich Razzleberry made it into the "normal" color line of SU inks! *swoon* I also colored the back inchie with my new glitter pen from my friend Barbara... thanks BB!
Now, I made the top one... pretty basic but I love it because I got to glitter it with my new glitter pen. The bottom one was made by Jane; I got it from an inchie swap I did over at CardMaker. I gave it to my Grandma because I thougth she would love it... she did!! Thanks Jane!!



Now these... Grandma and I both LOVE LOVE Christmas and of course, glitter!! So I knew she would love these! I used my Delightful Decorations set for the first two, and an old Creative Memories punch for the third one. The last one is just my writting. I also sprayed those last two with Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist in Marshmellow... I love that stuff!!



*Sorry these photos are so horrible. I didn't realize until now and the inchies have been gifted.*
This is hands down, my favorite set!! They are really pretty purples with a Chocolate Chip, embossed "U". This was left over paper from my bucket reformation; love it!!
I just love this little owl from my Butterflies and Birds set (do I sound like a broken record??). This paper is super gorge too! It's 'That's Amore' from Close to my Heart. The word is just my handwritting (I have to say that I am not super impressed with my penmanship but others seem to enjoy it on occasion so...). Oh, and if you look close, there's more glitter pen on the owl!


Grandma loved them!! She also had this really cool, vintage necklace that had tons of layers of silver strands. It was perfect!! I am ashamed to say that I didn't snap a picture of her on Easter morning... I don't even take my camera--- Eek!! I will snag a picture soon. With this many inchies, I am sure she will sport it often AND-- I will make her some more as the ideas come to me.

Christmas Gift Tags

I must say, I love, LOVE chocolate chip and real red (ink from Stampin Up!) together; they are the perfect pair! In my opinion, of course.
Now that I have Stamp-a-ma-Jig, I won't have the off center image like above but... of course I meant to do it this way, this time! Of course I did!
And, don't forget Dasher!! He's so fancy!!
And that ribbon is left over from our wedding... mmm.
And, the Delightful Decorations Ornament punch!! Talk about making cool tags, fast!!

I made all these tags for my Grandma's birthday last year. I think I got alot of my love for crafts from her so I knew she would LOVE a tin o' tags for her birthday... And she did; she said she used them all!!! (I guess she knows what she's getting next year for her birthday!)

Pizza Box-Box

This is a box that I created for a challenge over at CardMaker. I am going to give this to my Grandma Uptergrove for Easter. She loves crafts!! I was thinking the other day... some of my earliest memories of Grandma and Nana are of us making crafts after church and dinner on Sunday afternoons.... so that's where I get this madness!!