Chenille blanket

I bought a new quilting book for myself for Christmas-this block pattern came from it (I adjusted the pattern a little-only making 9 blocks, no borders). The backing is a faux fur cream chenille. Very soft. I love the pink/brown/blue color combo on the fabric. Here is a link to Camille's blog, her book cover is on the right hand side.

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Funky Four

I made this little card today to send to my sister-her birthday is coming up in January. This is the first time I've used the mushrooms from the funky four set (stampin up). I think I'll make this again, but instead of coloring each mushroom a different color, just do them all in the espresso. I like that dark brown mushroom best!

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Thrum mittens

I've made these mittens off and on for around 15 years. Once I finished dental hygiene school and was working, I found I needed something to do in the night (since I didn't have to study anymore!!). Anyhow, I finished the red pair last night and thought I would be post some pics.

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Baby girl gift set

After making the previous basket, I really wanted to use some muslin, and felt shapes to see if the basket could be a little sturdier, without having to use interfacing. So I die-cut some felt shapes, then hand stitched them to the outside fabric, before sewing everything together. Then of course, I wanted to fill the basket! So I made 3 flannel burp cloths, a block, a ribbon lovey, and a bib. It's all flannel, except for terry cloth on the back of the bib, and chocolate chenille on the block and the back of the ribbon blankie. So any of you local girls out there are in need of a baby girl shower gift, leave me a comment-it's a unique gift that any Mom would love to have.

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Penguins

This is the first card I've made with these 3 cheery penguins this year. I might have to ink them again, they're so cute! I made this card for Charlotte's teacher. I used SU! patterned paper, and prismacolors and stickles for the coloring.

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More glitter ritz trees!

This card is for Claire's teacher. Claire wanted a card with lots of glitter on it, so I used gold, green, red and nutmeg glitter ritz.

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Fabric basket

I found an online tutorial on how to make this cute basket. I think next time, I'll use a stiffer outside fabric, maybe muslin with a decorative strip of cotton print. It stands well, but could be sturdier. I think my girls want to use this to store some polly pocket toys in. It's a great size for all those tiny items that pollys use.

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Composition Notebook cover

I've had this fabric in my stash for at least 10 years! And so I decided to make a little notebook cover that Mom could use for her grocery list or to write down the scores in all the card games she plays. There is a large pocket on the left, and 3 small pockets in the front. Also, a place to store a pen. I found this pattern in a book that I checked out of the library, but I forget the name of it! I found the pocket area hard to sew through, next time I won't interface each piece of fabric.

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Punch Art

I saw this card on Splitcoast, so I'm not taking credit for the idea. But it was so cute, I just had to make one too. The penguins are made with the owl punch, just snip off the ears, change the feet and put in a little beak. The trees are made with the word window punch for the stump, and hearts for the tree boughs. The moon is the 1 1/4 punch. I sponged the navy ink on top of the white for snow, then added some glitter ritz for sparkle.

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No Peeking Michelle!

This is a birthday card for Michelle. I'll be bringing it to work this morning, so hopefully she doesn't look at this blog in the next hour or so! I used a Magenta image, embossed in disco black, then used various shades of ink to sponge.

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Favorite card tonight

So this is my favorite card that I did tonight. Love the background harmonie paper, the glitter paper under the sentiment and all the sparkly goodness of the card. I embossed the greeting in a glitter/gold embossing powder. Used the northern flurry snowflake die cut by Stampin up. A quick card, but I think it's so beautiful.

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Peel off Ornaments and lots of glitter ritz!

This card is so sparkly it was hard to get my camera to focus!! Love this shade of glitter, it was a little tricky to get the ornament to lie in the exact shape it came in on the sheet, so I messed up a few places when adding the inside pieces! Still looks pretty in person though.

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SSSC96 sweetest thing

I used this ornament stamp from the new mini and the sketch from the Sweetest Thing blog. Lot's of glossy accents, and glitter on the ornaments.

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Hot chocolate card

Yet another Christmas card, I've been filling them out all afternoon. Now, there are none left and 14 still on my list. So the end is near, I can get those 14 done in the next couple of days. In the meantime, here is a stamp I bought 1 year ago and inked it for the first time last night. I used liquid applique on the marshmallows, and glossy accents on the heart.

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Taylored expressions coffee mug

Here is another little xmas card (again I made 4 at the same time!). This image is by Taylored Expressions, from the set Sprinkled with Love. I stamped the image on a piece of SU patterned paper and cut it out. I used liquid appliqué for the foam on the cocoa.

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