What I've been up to lately

Seems like I've been so busy making swap items that I haven't had time to update my blog or scrap. I'm going to be cutting back on the amount of swaps I'm participating in so that I can get back to making things for me and my books...LOL

Since I have a large file cabinet full of swap items just waiting to be put in books I figured I'd participate in more"recipe" card swaps...here are a few of them....

My 4x6 swap items...thought this would be convenient and quick, but they take me longer for some reason because I guess I can't think "small" when figuring out an embellishment scheme...LOL

Here are a few of my 6x6 cards...

And here are a couple of paper piecing items that I've managed to squeeze in...

Thanks for looking.....

Recipe Tin Finished Product

Just after I worked on the recipe tin my daughter called and asked me to write down some of my versions of recipes for her birthday....what a perfect way to package those recipes...LOL So I have finished decorating and have created dividers for the tin, there are also a couple of 4x6 recipes that I did for swaps in there...I'm working on my recipes this weekend...I hope she likes it.

Freda

Recipe Items

Here are a few samples of Recipe Cards that I have made for swaps recently....I'm wanting to join a recipe swap group that a friend of mine belongs to so I thought I'd post a few samples in case they stopped by for a look at my work...

While I'm at it...I went to a crop last night so I thought I'd include some pics of the Recipe Tin I'm working on for a Christmas Present...the way it's shaping up it may be for me!!! LOL

I will put a nameplate on the top when I decide who it is for and I'm out of Red Fun-Fur so I'll have to fuzzy up the handle later...

Halloween - Black Cat Girls

Bet you wish you had a head of hair like them...LOL These are the new releases from the MyScrapChick collection. Faces and hair are printed and handcut, body parts are cut on the Cricut.

Gingerbread House Paper Piecing

Just thought I would share my newest paper piecing...hot off the cutter this morning.

The gingerbread house from the MyScrapChick gingerbread collection...isn't it sweet with its' glittery snow on the roof and chimney, whispy smoke and microbeaded gumdrop bushes...makes them look like sugar coated...LOL

Got Frosting....

I bought these paper piecing files for SCAL and put these two together this morning...aren't they adorable? I'm going to do the pre-school's monthly reading bulletin board with these for the month of December...then each kid will get gingerbread diecuts and frosting splats to write their books on...should be a really interesting board....LOL

Sorry I can't share the file with you (copywrite laws) ...but here's the link to the website - she sells them for Scal & hand cutting

http://www.myscrapchick.com/

My First SCAL Cut

Here's my first cut out with the new SCAL Program....Can't wait to learn how to use Inkscape so that I can cut more than letters...

Download File: Happy Halloween Title
Download Free Font I used: SF Gushing Meadow SC