Preservation Arts

Asian Home Decor Box

This beautiful project was really a pleasure to put together. The jade and red colors give this box a real Chinese flair.

Materials included:

7Gypsies brads and paper

black magic mesh

Chatterbox ribbon

Amaco Rub N Buff: green and gold

Red Clearsnap Smooch

Robin’s Nest Dew Drops

3D Adhesives from 3L

For links to the Spellbinders dies and gold metal foil, visit this project on their site in the Inspiration Alley.

Thanks for looking!

As Seen on TV…

On Tuesday, Kim Hupke from Spellbinders presented the Wizard and Nestability Dies on the Home Shopping Network. This scrapbook page was displayed during the segment as an example. There are a total of five dies used on the page, as well as paper from My Mind’s Eye, rub ons from American Crafts, and the retired Indulgence Numbers dies from Spellbinders. Both the label and the bird were designed digitally, printed, then die cut using Spellbinders dies. This hybrid technique is fast becoming one of my favorites.The patterned paper is one that I featured earlier and have available for download here.

I’ve also recently become a huge fan of Dew Drops from Robin’s Nest. They add the perfect touch to projects. You can see them on this page surrounding the “1.”

Isn’t my baby Hannah just beautiful? It’s hard to believe she’s over a year old now.

Electric Digital Scrapbook Freebie Paper Pack

I’ve been playing with some digital designs and put together a paper pack with some of them. I love and appreciate comments, so feel free to let me know if you download these!

A Really Awesome Free Font

I have been so busy with house construction and I’m totally missing my blogging thing! I have several posts floating around in my head, but for now, I’ll just share a really cool free font that I found. I’m absolutely in love with it. It’s called Mimix, and the trial is a set of six beautiful, commercial-use-ok fonts. They’re trendy and cute and I can see myself using them on just about everything for a while.

Here’s a link to the Mimix Font Trial at Myfonts.com. Enjoy!

Punch Winner

Here are your random numbers:

7

Timestamp: 2009-05-22 11:43:25 UTC

So the winning post is:

{ Comment by Lynette on May 20, 2009 }

What I like about my house? It would have to be that my family makes it the perfect home. Without my girls and my husband, my house wouldn’t be a home!!!

Thanks for the RAK.

Thanks for stopping in Lynette and congratulations! I’ll get in contact with you for an address so I can send these out!

Edited to Add: I will be doing more RAKS because I have a lot of stuff to gift! I need to purge things before I move into my new house! Check back often!

From Zero to House in No Time!

The house has made some incredible progress since my last house post on April 28. I know it isn’t all that interesting to anyone else, but it’s just so cool to be building a home of our very own.

At the end of April, we had the foundation completed and we started the framing. By the end of the day tomorrow, we will have rough plumbing, electrical, hvac, siding and soffit completed. The next steps will be to get it insulated and ready to sheetrock. It’s utterly amazing to me how quickly this work has gone.

A Punch RAK

I’ve been purging my craft room lately, and I have several items that are very gently used and that I know I won’t give them the love they might deserve. What better thing to do than to give them to someone who will?

So… I know I don’t have very many regular visitors, so I’m going to give this RAK serveral days to gather comments.

Fiskars Pop-Up Punch 12 Piece Set

The way to be the winner of this RAK is to leave me a comment telling me the thing you love the most about the home you live in right now. (I have houses on the brain, since we’re building one.)

This coming Friday, May 22, I’ll do a random number generator to find the winner of the RAK.

Thanks for dropping by!

A Mother’s Day Card for Myself

So… last night I told my husband, “I’m going to go downstairs and work on some Mother’s Day cards. I can still send them to our mothers, even though they’d be late.” My smart-aleck husband said, “Oh good, make one for yourself too and I’ll put my name on the inside.”

…click here to read the full post with a card and video!

Scrapbook Page and a Hybrid Freebie

I created this page last night for today’s blog entry over at Spellbinders. The blog entry there focuses on the awesome set of 6″ borders that add such great detail to any project.

As I was coming up with a title for this page, I thought it would be cute to add a very simple brown stitched border to my Nestabilities Circle, so I created a fun digital template to do just that. For those of you who don’t mind printing things out on your computer, I’ve uploaded a template for you to do the same thing with your Nestabilities. There are three sets of brown stitches in this set of Printables (from now on, we’ll call them PA-Printables, just in case I make more of these). All the of them work with the same size circle, the largest die in the S4-116 Standard Circles, Small Nestabilities set.

Click the preview above to download the zip file containing the three shapes. Please leave me a comment if you download these. This concept has a ton of potential and I’d like to make more of these if there’s interest.