OWH Memorial Weekend BlogHop

Welcome to the Operation Write Home Memorial Weekend BlogHop, you can click on the picture at the top to start from the beginning.
My take on Red, White & Blue

Paper= Stampin up Pacific Point & American cardstock white
Ink= Stampin up Pacific Point, Real Red & Always Artichoke
Stamp sets= Gina K Garden Silhouettes and Branching Out (totally loving Gina K) & unknown missing you stamp
Ribbon from Michaels

Same card just in different colors and a different stamp from the Gina K Garden Silhouettes set

Colors are Stampin up So Saffron & Elegant Eggplant

Now go see what Sudie has to show you....
http://www.unkit.com/2011/05/28/operation-write-home-blog-hop

Very simple teenage boy birthday invites

Ok so this is what I hear from my soon to be 13 year old son, no frills mom no bling no fancy stuff just a simple invite, now the card maker I am was totally crushed, but this is what I came up with and he is happy, thats what counts (right).

This Years Coach Cards

The top card is for my sons coaches and the other two are for my neighbors kids coaches. I'm super happy with how they turned out this year.

CardzTV challenge and Teacher Appreciation Card

This is a card for my sons teacher and also for Cardztv challenge. All files were cut out on my pazzles inspiration, this is a large 6.5 x 5 card. The butterfly punch is Martha Stewart. Pearls from the dollar store

Blogaversary

ok I took Paula's suggestion and too the day off and celebrated with William & Kathrine, but now I'm back in my real world and I must craft so today I'm going to look back and see what I've done the last year and set some new goals for my blog.



Last years goals

1. get my craftyness out there for people to see (I think I did that I now have 157 followers and over 5000 visits to my blog).

2. get a video camers and teach my self how to make tutorials (done)

3. this wasn't a goal but I did participate in 2 blog hops.


This years goals

1. Become more profecient in my video making (ie learn to edit them)

2. Make and show more cards for Operation Write Home (very dear to my heart)

3.Teach my self how to add sharing links so I can share files I make.

4. and last but not least get more followers...LOL


Now for a few cards for Operation Write Home, tha deadline for Fathers day is May 21st so thats what I'm working on.

Dying Fibers Tutorial

I like to dye my fibers and lace trim to match my projects and it it very easy to do so......

all my fibers were bought at garage sales I payed 4 dollars for all the fibers and lace trip

you see.

I use stampin up reinkers to dye my fibers..
first I cut all my fibers and lace about 2 to 3 feet in lengh


Next I use this muffin pan and add about half a cup of water to each section..

then I add about 6 or 8 or 10 drops of reinker depending on how dark I want my color.
then I start with the largest in size piece of lace and put 1 2 to 3 foot piece in each color
and let it to sit for about half hour to and hour again depending on how dark you want your color.


then I move on te the next biggest piece of fiber and do the same thing

and so on.......now remember different fibers soak up the dye differently so you time may not alawys be the same.

I have found that drying your fibers on papertowels pulls out some of your color, so dont do it like I did here I have since started letting them dry on my craftmat

for storage I made a file on my pazzles for ribbon cards


then cut them out on my pazzles

I cut them out of file folders which are stiffer.
punched a hole in the corner and put them on a ring added my dry fibers and here is the final project. I did a bunch of different colors so I would have colors to mach all my stampin up papers and ink. I now have 2 large rings full.

How to Celebrate

ok my blogaversary is Friday the 29th and I was wondering how I should celebrate any ideas....
I hear they are having a big party in London... (LOL William & Kates wedding), so leave me a comment on how I should celebrate.