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scrap paper book and a silk box

This months sketchbook challenge theme is definitely one of my favorites of all the themes we’ve had so far and it inspired me to create this new scrap paper book and silk box to store it in.

Scrap paper book (5"x 5") and Silk box (6"x 6"x 4")

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Tote TuesdayTote Tuesday!

Have you heard about Tote Tuesday?

Logo by Jeanelle McCall

Tote Tuesday is a fund raiser for the American Cancer Society being organized by Virginia Spiegel. Each Tuesday beginning February 2nd through March 31,2010 from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm you’ll be able to [...]

Tea?

I've had this teapot shape in my sketchbook for a while…

9"x 3"x 3" 

Kitchen foil box a book update!

Every time I put the roll of kitchen foil away I think of something else I want to make with it so for now we're doing without a roll of foil in the kitchen. I decided that since it worked so well for books why not try it with my next favorite thing to make…

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postcards,presents and a new book…

The other day when I went to the mailbox look what I found inside:

 

This gorgeous marbled silk scarf made by my good friend Sandy. I absolutely love it! 

and more kitchen foil stuff,this time in the form of postcards instead of books:

 

 

 

and lastly I decided it was [...]

happy birthday to me!

Yesterday the UPS man carried a big box up the driveway and inside was a birthday present for me from my hubby:

 

a nice new Kutrimmer 1038 for cutting book board! I spent some time cutting bookboard with it today and it cuts so nice and accurately with very little effort on my part. [...]

it’s all Terri’s fault…

that I spent this afternoon in the studio making a box.  You see,Terri sent me a link to Martha Lever's blog . Martha does the coolest lettering and calligraphy work which is something that I've always wanted to learn but have not had a lot of luck teaching myself. Well I saw that Martha [...]

Playing with lutradur

In this post I had mentioned that I came across some lutradur in my studio and decided to actually do something with it. Well wouldn't you know that the very next day C&T posted that their May challenge was to work with Lutradur! So here are my entries for the challenge…

First I started with [...]

Boxes &bookmarks

I finished another textured tissue paper box:

and the other day when I saw Nikki post about her gorgeous bookmarks I knew I had to have one.

 So I popped right over to her Etsy shop and bought one for myself! I'm glad I did because it's truly the most beautiful [...]

boxes,atc’s and postcards…

The Danforth Museum asked me to make some boxes for the gift shop and I just happened to have a couple of tissue paper surfaces on hand so I thought I'd make some potpourri boxes from them:

For the windows in these I used some of that cool knitted metal mesh fabric from Joggles [...]