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Green Week: Day 2

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Here are a couple of photos of green from my papercraft supplies:

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I have most of my ribbon organized by color in these floss boxes. It's been a great system.

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My buttons are sorted by color as well, but the little drawer doesn't show them off well so I spilled them onto the dining room table. I still need to take a photo of the green markers and pencils. Tomorrow, perhaps, although I am substitute teaching all day for my friend.

On a happy note, I got my sewing machine back–repaired for less than $100. Seeing that any new machine that is considered reliable and has the few features I want cost at least $300, I considered it a bargain. The repairman assured me it was well worth fixing, given the quality of many new machines. After all the research I did, I find I'm somewhat interested in doing some sewing. I think I have enough fabric left over from the curtains to make a couple placemats. Like I need another project . . .

I'm trying once again to get my digital scrapbooking supplies organized in Shoebox. I've tried this a couple of times and never seem to get the project going. I'm using the supplies more often now, so it seems like a good idea–again. I am not intuitive when it comes to new software programs, and I have never gotten so I understand Shoebox well enough to be proficient in using it. It continues to "feel" confusing.

I'm also working my way through Jessica Sprague's new Photo Editing Course. I learned a few new tricks in just the first lesson. I love her teaching style, and her information is so well presented.

Green Week: Day 1

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There's another color challenge and like two weeks ago, I need some inspiration for Project 365. Green is definitely easier to find here than yellow:

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Wore this to church yesterday. It's actually a prettier green than seems to show up here. The photo looked fine. Sigh.

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A close-up of the scarf which was knit with a yarn and a ribbon at the same time. It's a pretty heavy scarf, but a great one for March when it's still very cold (below zero wind chill today), but I'm ready for spring!

card*a*licious–15

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Here's my take on this week's challenge–a card with no sentiment. I actually make quite a few cards without sentiments on the front, but I was anxious to try this vine from my new Papertrey stamps. The ribbon came from a kit, I think, as I don't recall buying it.

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Papertrey Ink Stamps: Beyond Basic Borders; Landscape Ink

New Card Challenge

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CPS has Challenge 104 up sponsored by PaperTrey Ink. Since I'm loving my new PaperTrey stamps, it was a fun challenge to try.

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Paper, stamps, and ribbon all from PaperTrey.

Sarah brought me a set of tags from Paper Source at Christmas time. I wanted to use them to create a tag book for the year. Cathy Z designed the journaling cards specifically for these tags. I finally got around to getting the cover and the January tag done. Just a few more days and I can start the February page!

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Scenic Route paper and tag; Ali E stamp from Technique Tuesday; ribbon from my stash.

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The photo side of the tag.

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Journaling for January.

Yellow Day 5

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My search for yellow extended to the grocery store today. Although there were many more things to photograph, here are three:

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Good for the soul on a cold, winter, very windy day.

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I brought three of these babies home with me.

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And none of these came home. Cheery though they may be, squash is not a favorite of Tracy's.

And a final one from the bulletin board over my desk.

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I finished making the new kitchen curtains today, but not without a bit of excitement. About 2/3 of the way through the project, I was standing at the ironing board when, all of a sudden, I heard a strange sound coming from my sewing machine. I looked over and smoke was pouring out of it! The smell was awful; clearly there was a short of some kind. When we took it to the repair shop this afternoon, the man said he rarely see a Viking machine with this kind of issue. Not heartening. He'll have an estimate on Wednesday, but I am going to be pricing new machines before then. I love my Viking, but it will soon be 29 years old, and probably needs to be replaced. Thanks to my friend, Debbie, the curtains were finished at her house on her machine.

Yellow Day 4 & A New Project

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I've been wanting new kitchen curtains for several years but haven't found anything I like. Recently I found a plaid curtain at Country Curtains I liked very much and ordered them. Unfortunately, when they came they weren't quite right. The fabric was great, but the header was too big and the valences too long. So I returned them and ordered the fabric. I can't remember the last time I made curtains–over 20 years! But it came back quickly. The first valence is finished, and all the panels are cut and ready to sew. I realized my handy tape measure is a bright yellow color so here's #4:

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Yellow

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I found this photo project yesterday morning before we left for Ithaca. I thought it might give me a new focus for the week. Actually there isn't a lot of yellow in this house–lots of red and blue, but not much yellow. Anyway here are photos for Days 1-3:

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Happy Valentine’s Day

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This was my father's favorite holiday. I know lots of folks who think it's so commercialized, and they are right. Nonetheless, it remains a favorite holiday of mine as well. We exchanged cards, chocolates and flowers today, but our big Valentine gift to each other is two tickets to see Jersey Boys on the 26th. We're playing bridge tonight.

Here are some of the valentines I made this year. Everyone but Matt has theirs. He'll get his on Tuesday when we go to Ithaca to spend the afternoon and take him out to dinner.

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Card-a-licious Challenge 13

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I had a lot of fun making the challenge cards recently so here's another one from card-a-licious. I didn't have room for "Thanks" on the outside, so I left the inside blank so I could write a thank you note.

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This weeks challenge–make a thank you card using something
felt, some sort of stitching and use the color pink.

Card-A-Licious

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Another card challenge:  three patterned papers and orange letter stickers. Not my usual, but I'm pretty happy with it.

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Project 365: Week 6

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I wasn't planning to do another all digital page, and I certainly didn't expect to do a landscape layout, but that's what I did. I got into it and decided to finish it. Like all digital layouts, I have mixed feelings about it. Next week will be another two-pager! All this digital practice, however, is paying off as I didn't have much difficulty with it.

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Photogenic papers (A Neal), the template was downloaded without identifying information. If you recognize the creator, please email me so I can give them credit.

Introducing Bitty Dots

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Every day Papertrey Ink introduces a new product prior to their monthly release. Because this is their second anniversary, there have been all kinds of special announcements and new releases. Today was the introduction of polka dot papers and ribbons. I love polka dots, especially the itty bitty ones. So here's a card for today's challenge which was based on a dot-to-dot sketch.

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Products: Papertrey raspberry fizz paper and ink. A flower from their Floral Frenzy set, and a patterned paper from the Black and White Basics collection. The "love" stamp which I've had for ages has no company identification on it.

Cards and a Challenge

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Although I have a long list of layouts I want to do, I don't seem to have had much motivation for scrapping recently. I have been keeping up with the card-a-day project I hoped to do this year. Some days I make several; most days I make at least one. Today's card is for a challenge at Papertrey Ink, my favorite stamp company.

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Since I had all but one of the cardstock colors I decided to join in. Here's my "entry."

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And a few others I've made recently. (All my valentines are made, but they can't be posted until after Valentine's Day.)

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I'm not so happy with the sharpness of this photo, but the card is already in an envelope for my niece's birthday. This is another Papertrey Ink card–new stamp set (so versatile), raspberry fizz cardstock, and
Black & White Basics patterned paper.

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Three cards with the same recipe.

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A birthday card for a friend.

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And, finally, another card with the Round And About stamp set from PaperTrey.