Handmade Holidays Day 3

Even though I had originally signed up for this class to challenge myself, I had to do a gut check when Day 3 was revealed.  The project for that day was a homemade monogrammed wreath.  Eeek, was all I could think.  This is my problem.  Although I may seem creative, I'm really not all that much.  I recognize beauty when I see it, and can tweak it to personalize it to my own individual style, but coming up with something from nothing is almost always a challenge for me.  Also, working with paper, and working with flowers, are two completely different things to me.  However, as I said, I signed up for this class because I was looking to expand my creativity and push myself to work outside of the proverbial box.  Off to Michaels I ventured, coupons in hand.  Two hours later I had a bunch of supplies, a clean table and was ready to work.  Still nervous about the project, I put it all away, and worked on something else.  Typical me: a little denial, before complete and head on tackling.  On Sunday I pulled it all out again, and within an hour, what I consider to be a very pretty fall decor wreath was hanging on my front door.  I am so sad I didn't think to photograph the process, it would have been fun to share it with you.  I learned, in the end, that putting together a wreath is really very easy.  It took me longer to choose the flowers, berries, and foliage, than it actually did to put the whole thing together (well almost).

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Handmde Holidays Day 2

A sketch today:

Here's my take on it:

Papers are from the Crate Farmhouse line

I actually struggled with this one a bit.  It's a lot of pictures on one page.  Normally I would have spread this many photos onto two pages, and had room for journaling.  I just couldn't seem to make the page work with photos and journaling, so I opted to go for a couple less photos smaller pieces of paper, and nix the story all together, seeing as the photos are pretty self explanatory.

I have a feeling Day 3 is going to be a little tougher.  Looking forward to it though, and I'll be sure to share.

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Handmade Holidays

I thought you might be interested in this online class that I'm taking with the very sweet Latrice over at Handmade Holidays.  Class One was a nice, easy one to get things started.  We made cards based on this sketch.

Here's my take on it.  I diverted from the sketch just a bit, and added a little 'something,something' to it. 

I hand stitched the center circles.  Used two widths of ribbon, with an SRM stickers sentiment.  The flower is Crate.

It's been kind of quiet around here lately.  What's everyone up to?  It's crazy to think that we are in the last full week of October already.  Summer seems like so long ago.  I  miss the lazy, non-scheduled days when I could scrap all day long.  My product is beginning to pile up, I don't know how those of you who work full time, and are on several design teams, with school age kids do it.  I think I've come up with a solution for my product problem though.  How about a giveaway?  I realized today that I'm very close to 100 blog posts.  I was thinking that maybe for my 100th post I'd also do a giveaway.  What do you think?  Let me know your thoughts.  Would it be worth my while to put something together?

Thanks for popping by today.  I always appreciate the company.

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