My five for October

 

I rarely am able to do a challenge when it's first presented.  Just a slow poke, I guess.  I need to savor the thought and think it thru a little, THEN I tackle it.  This is a Tuesday Tutorial from the Operation Write Home website from two weeks ago and it fits in with my challenge to make five Christmas cards a month.  I have no idea where the paper came from (it just appeared in my stash when I was unpacking) but it's delightful.  Ernie and his son Ben helped me fold some of the tree pieces.  As we were doing this I thought, "Wouldn't this be a great family project for our own Christmas cards?"  :)

Following a Tuesday Tutorial...

The Tuesday Tutorial over on the Stars and Stamps blog yesterday was a lesson on turning one 6" x 6" pad into several cards.  When I first saw this by Kristie a few months ago, I gave it a shot with a couple pages from an existing pad.  The couple I did came out great!  It was enlightening to learn that all the papers in such a pad are color coordinated... how great is that!  I always wanted to try to do a whole pad and I took the opportunity today to do just that.  This pad is called "World Traveler" by Teresa Collins.  I spent hours and hours doing these.  The final total was seventeen cards.  And if I wasn't so tired right now, I'm sure I could make a few more with the scraps that are left...

Scrappy Backgrounds...

I was just about to pack it in for the night when I saw the Tuesday Tutorial over on the Stars and Stamps blog.  As we say here in Boston, "That is wicked awesome!!"  I just had to try it.  I am IN LOVE with this technique.  Goodbye scrap pile!  Hello awesome background paper...

woo hoo!!