Cards

Sadly, I don't have as much time as I use to for working on crafts.  I did however get some time this weekend to work on some cards.  Here are a few of the ones I made.  In this first one, I used some small flowers Ria crocheted for me.  They were pretty fun to use.  I wish the pictures would have turned out better, but my better camera was out of batteries.  Oh well.

Pinteresting

I have found some really fun ideas on Pinterest. Here are a few that I've actually tried.

The ruffle lamp shade


Kyle was given an old ugly lamp that used to be in the clerk's office at our church. We dropped on our friends' doorstep. They gave it back to us for Christmas. It would have been fun to continue and find some clever way to return it to our friends. But I wanted a lamp on our piano anyway, so we kept it. I wish I had a before picture. It wasn't very attractive. I got the idea for the ruffle shade from a picture I saw on Pinterest. I think this is an improvement, although I'm not really sure how Kyle feels about it. His only comment about it has been, "I've never seen a lampshade like that before."


So the thing on the wall is supposed to be a "sunburst mirror". I saw a really awesome one on pinterest. I used a little oval mirror, put it in a frame that I painted black. The sunbursts or petals or whatever they are, are just black poster board. I am still not sure if I like this or not.
These topiaries look more frilly than I intended. But I still like them. I punched out a bunch of little flowers from some red paper and pinned them on a styrofoam ball with pearl tipped corsage pins.

Glass Etching

Last Summer, Tauna showed me how to use vinyl to do etching on glass. I had a lady drop off these two glass containers for etching (they are going to sit on the gift table to hold cards at her daughters wedding reception).
Fun to have something new I can do :)