Craft weekend: Day 4

The last day of craft weekend was about finishing things — leftovers and projects. I made 17 more cards with the Chilling with My Homies 6x6 paper pad and used it all up, except for some tiny scraps. I ended up with 34 cards total from that paper pad. So with the 24 cards I made with the Simple Vintage Flannel paper pad, I made a grand total of 58 cards this weekend. Yay! And here they are:

I’ll do separate posts with close-up pictures later this week. I’m excited that I have these cards done now, because I have plenty of time to write messages in them before I have to drop them off at the organization that will send them off to seniors.

And that’s a wrap on craft weekend 2025. I didn’t have time to make any Halloween cards this weekend, but that’s ok. Maybe I’ll challenge myself to use some Halloween stamps for another type of card. 

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Craft weekend: Day 3

Today was a cooler, dreary day — the perfect weather for staying in to craft! I’m still making winter cards. I finished up most of the paper pad I was using yesterday (minus a few scraps and pieces of ephemera, which I gave to Lisa because, honestly, I was getting tired of them) and then moved on to my next pack of patterned paper: Chilling with My Snowmies from Echo Park. 

I didn’t buy any coordinating ephemera for this paper, since I bought the dies and could make my own images. And I think they’re looking pretty cute on the cards! 

For dinner we had butternut squash ravioli and zucchini. Now we’re relaxing, watching a new Hallmark Christmas movie, and having popcorn. I might make a few more Christmas cards tonight, and I’ll finish them up tomorrow. If I have time I might make a couple Halloween cards, too, which I haven’t had a chance to do this fall.

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Craft weekend: Day 2

The second day of craft weekend started with an outing. It was a gorgeous fall day, with clear blue sky, colorful leaves, and plenty of sunshine. (I’m really enjoying the cooler weather after the summer-like heat and humidity we had a few weeks ago.)

We walked to a nearby vintage store to do some crafty treasure hunting. The store had a little of everything, and we probably could have browsed all day. I bought two vintage postcards, which I’ll probably turn into cards, some old piano music for cards/mixed media projects, and a vintage-inspired tulip poster. I’m not sure if I’ll keep the poster as is or cut out the different flowers for cards.

We stopped for lunch after shopping and then walked back to Lisa’s to get crafting. I worked on making winter cards for seniors with some paper and ephemera from the Simple Vintage Flannel Season line by Simple Stories. (All the die cuts from yesterday will be put to use tomorrow.) I’ve made almost twenty cards today, but I really want to finish up the paper pad so I’m going to keep going. But I figured I should do my blog post before it got too late.

I’ll do a post showing all the cards once everything is finished. For dinner tonight, Lisa made salad and gnocchi, and we had banana bread and tea for dessert. Yum!

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Craft weekend: Day 1

It’s time for the annual craft weekend at my friend Lisa’s, and I decided to do a little blog post at the end of each day. We started our weekend this afternoon, and I worked on die cutting pieces for some winter-themed cards for seniors. I had purchased a pack of paper and coordinating dies from Echo Park — the dies are adorable, but they have so many tiny pieces. I figured if I started with cutting and assembling a whole bunch of pieces, then I’d have a collection of images ready to go for cards.

I grouped the dies by color and taped them together so I didn’t lose any and they were a little easier to work with.

Penguin pieces are on the left, trees in the middle, and snowmen on the right. So many teeny, tiny pieces.

Here is everything finished: six penguins and eighteen trees and snowmen. I used card stock colors to coordinate with the patterned paper. Even though they were challenging — especially the penguins’ eyes, beaks, and feet — they went together faster than I thought they would.

That was all my crafting for the day. We had shrimp scampi for dinner and belated birthday treats for dessert (pumpkin cheesecake for Lisa and a Reese’s chocolate-peanut butter cupcake for me) while we watched Hallmark Christmas movies. 

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Andrea

I’m still here!

I can’t believe it’s been a month since I posted. And It’s been a crazy month. In September we had a contractor re-finish our basement. It was finished when we bought the house, but the following spring we started having issues with a lot of water in the basement and we had to tear out a bunch of stuff. We finally fixed those problems (we hope for good!) in August so we could redo the basement. I’m planning to move my craft room down there, and we’ll also have space for doing games and puzzles and hopefully a little storage. Of course we have to move furniture and things back downstairs, and I’m not exactly sure when that will happen because now we’re in the middle of our family birthday month. Whew.

All that to say I haven’t been doing much crafting lately, so I haven’t had anything to post. But this weekend is the annual craft weekend with my friend Lisa, so I hope to have some things to share next week. In the meantime, here are a few pictures of our “new” basement. I’ll share more photos when we have everything set up.

The area one the right is a hallway/storage area that goes to our utility room. It’s just a concrete floor, but when the painter added some flecks of color to the paint. It’s sparkly!

When we moved all the furniture upstairs, this chair didn’t fit through the back door unless we took off the door. (We had to move everything up the stairs, out the back door, around the house and then back in the front door.). So we decided this chair (covered to keep off the construction dust) will just live downstairs.

We do still need to finish the stairs. We have to choose carpet and get it installed. But since they’re usable as is, we didn’t worry about finishing that right away.

We’re really happy with how everything turned out. The basement is definitely the nicest room in our house now. :)

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Andrea