Glitter Ornaments

At the Crop in Orange, we learned about a process of creating beautiful ornaments with some very specialized items...

Then our organizer, Laurie, sent some links for some great ornaments using a similar, less expensive way to create ornaments a bit like them.

Here are the ones from the crop:


They Are SO Amazing!

Here are the links to the pages Laurie sent us...

http://cricutchristmas.blogspot.com/2009/11/week-18-crafty-gift-glitter-ornaments.html

http://stampersquest.com/2009/10/15/holilday-blizzard-project-glittery-glimmering-christmas-ornaments/

And our results...



I made these and I'm showing off various sides of them...



The first three turned in this video are kind of special. The first one has all microbeads (my friend Diana created that one!) the second has ultrafine pink glitter & Pearl X and the third has the ultrafin pink glitter, a few microbeads and Pearl X powder swirled around inside.


Spotlighting the one with the ultrafine glitter & Pearl X


This one has the microbeads in it too...

I know they aren't as beautiful as the ones in the first picture. I think they are pretty darn nice and very glittery.

Some pictures...

Diana did the one in the lower left, I did the other one


I did all but the microbeads one and the blue one in the corner I think...


Diana made all of these and I think they will be gifts this holiday!

Super easy, fun and darn nice results! Give it a try.

Pam Hoffman

Le Femme Bookmark Swap!

Been a bit busy lately. When I realized that Karen was doing her 'Brag Monday' and noticed that she is also offering a giveaway, I figured I'd better get back in the saddle here!




I was part of a very nice Bookmark swap recently that I used some of the "Graphics Fairy" images so what a perfect chance to share with you what I did!?!

The swap was thru swap-bot [love that site!] called Le Femme Bookmark.

Let's see if I can make sense of the pictures I just loaded up like crazy here...

OK, all sorted out.

I had two partners to send to and I read the profiles of each person carefully. Because of this, the two bookmarks turned out very differently.

The first likes fall type colors so I worked with the Victorian Lady with Fancy Dress from Karen's site.


Assembling the parts

I used the transfer technique I described in my first post to this blog.


I added a tag she could customize to the swap


Here's the whole package!

I had a couple of Karen's images on the next one. One set of images came from a collage of Ladies Shoes and the other from a page of butterfly wings.

The Ladies Shoes incorporate the transfer technique.


Ladies Shoes ready to be cut out from the paper and packing tape


Front of the bookmark, there is foam dot behind the butterfly wings for dimension


Back of the bookmark


The whole package, ready to ship

Enjoy,

Pam Hoffman

With my boyfriend Jeff, we're working thru Jessica Sprague's "Holidays in Hand" and this photo was for 'joy' we like being together!

I'm Sending a Card to Our Troops

The Crop in Orange

Today, I'm packing for a 12 hour crop on Saturday.


Wide View of the Crop Space!

I've been making lists to help me:
1) determine the projects I'll be working on that day,
2) remember to TAKE everything (i forgot my papercutter once! it sucks.)
3) all the Prep work that goes into the projects - do I need any printouts of anything? papers cut to size? items put together to help with the assembly at the crop? Stuff I need to track down...

And so on...

These events are once a month and this is such a friendly group of people! I can't tell you how much I LOVE going to The Crop in Orange.

We play BINGO, there are other prizes if your name gets called, Make-n-Takes, sometimes other special events, stuff for sell & for free (you may bring your freebies and for sale items to de-stash too!)

If you are anywhere in the Southern California area (or want to travel here!), and you want to join me, I usually nab an extra 'guest' spot so you could join me to test it out!

It's such a great way to get away, socialize with other crafty types and enjoy yummy potluck food!




I LOVE The Crop in Orange, hosted by the beautiful Laurie Rush.

Pam Hoffman

And Here I Am AT The Crop in Orange!

Online Resources

There really are some amazing online resources. I just picked up a wonderful background for my blog from Karen BKA The Graphics Fairy - on her Background Fairy site.

Isn't it marvelous? Stunningly easy too!

Enjoy,

Pam Hoffman

The Next 4 ATCs

After I started my first ATC, I actually started (and finished!) 4 others for a different swap so I wanted to showcase them too.

I'm really very green with all this although I really like the small format (ATCs are standard 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches).

This was another swap on swap-bot.com, the theme: "Personalized ATC" sent to one partner, so I was tasked with checking my partner's profile and creating an ATC based on what I learned there!

I know I said that I did 4 ATCs for a swap of 1 ATC... well, my partner has three children and she went into great detail about them and what they like too so, I created one for my partner and one each for her children as well.

You see, on swap-bot, you can get 'hearts' for sending an especially nice package to your partner. Since my partner was very involved with her children, I figured I would do one each for them all!

I really used mostly already created things [i did cut some paper & chipboard! ;] - bling, transfers, diecuts, etc. I assembled them in a pleasing fashion and kept true to the preferences I read about on my partners profile.

Here they are:


This is the one I made for my partner


These are the ones I made for my partners children!

They are kind of 'monogrammed' with a letter for their first names each...

I decided that I'd go with a little less work on each because there were 4 and I was a little shorter on time. Each swap is given a time limit by the swap creator.

I hope you enjoyed seeing my first 5 ATCs! I'm just getting my feet wet and I did a whole bunch of research to learn about this format so perhaps I'll go into some of the other techniques I learned about. These 5 are essentially one-offs.

You can do a series, create a large work then pull out particular detailed portions of that work, I may have missed one or two methods... I'm sure I'll be doing more so Stay Tuned!

Pam Hoffman

"These are a few of my favorite things..."

I've decided that one of my FAVORITE things in life is to win prizes!

What could be better? We KNOW the lottery is so fantastically popular because of a chance to WIN! And isn't it nice to feel like a winner?

I know I like this feeling.

That is why I actively seek out contest, giveaways, whatever-you-call-em!

I LOVE to win.

Periodically, I'll let you know about a site with a giveaway for you and you can try for it too.

Never won anything? Start by saying 'I win prizes' and guess what? You'll start winning, then you can move on to say 'I win a lot of great stuff' and you will!

Here's the first one I want to tell you about...

Sill Little Lady's Spot on the Web offers a weekly giveaway in conjunction with an etsy seller.

I recently won a prize from the site and it came to me in the mail so fast!

I win A LOT!

I go to crops and win, I sign up for online giveaways and win... I'm a winner!

You are too.

Go now and try for it.

If you REALLY want to win, spend a little time looking for

1) things you want to win
2) find places where the 'odds' are good - say 1 in 18 or so, not millions to 1!
3) follow the directions explicitly!!! you don't want to get disqualified because you didn't do something right

and you will probably start winning. Keep up the self-talk, it'll happen!

See you on the next giveaway,

Pam Hoffman