You KNOW I am sick when I didn't even manage to post a short blurb about my baby afghan making it to the FINAL weeks of voting.
But - it did! I am so thrilled to have made it to the finals - and this is the FINAL voting - this is it - this picks the winner! So...if y'all would go and vote for me one last time, I would be SO grateful!
Go to www.caron.com
Click on the green "VOTE" circle - and vote! My afghan this week is #4 - and I appreciate every single vote!!
And I truly hope to be healthy soon....
Monday, March 9, 2009
Saturday, February 28, 2009
What a Week!
It was not my intention to wait so long between posts - but last Tuesday, I was felled by a high fever/sore throat combo that I could not shake, so I spent most of the week in bed. The docs said it was viral - so antibiotics wouldn't touch it - got some pain spray for the throat, and went home to let it run its course. It pretty much has...and I don't care if it never comes back!
Anyway - BIG NEWS!!!
My baby afghan has made it through another round!!! YAY!!! Now, here I am - asking yet again for anyone/everyone to go to:
Anyway - BIG NEWS!!!
My baby afghan has made it through another round!!! YAY!!! Now, here I am - asking yet again for anyone/everyone to go to:
www.caron.com
Then click on the by now familiar green circle to go to the voting page....and please vote for mine!! You can refer to my Feb 20 post for a picture - I do SO appreciate it!!
Friday, February 20, 2009
Arty Girlz "Wire" Challenge
Wasn't quite as quick this week as last, but I did want to get in on the "Wire" challenge by the Arty Girlz over at the Arty Girlz Challenge Blog
Having lots of bits of colored wire around, the idea of music notes was right there....along with a stylized rainbow of different colored papers. I got to use my Gesso for the first time, to fade out the music on the background paper, then added musical notes I made from my colored copper wire.
What took me so long was to get the words on there! I have a laptop in my studio, but no printer - and in the house I have no crafting supplies...so it was a back and forth thing through the week....but finally....
here is my ATC for the "Wire" challenge:
I am really enjoying coming up with something for each of the challenges - making me 'think outside the box' - a good thing!
Having lots of bits of colored wire around, the idea of music notes was right there....along with a stylized rainbow of different colored papers. I got to use my Gesso for the first time, to fade out the music on the background paper, then added musical notes I made from my colored copper wire.
What took me so long was to get the words on there! I have a laptop in my studio, but no printer - and in the house I have no crafting supplies...so it was a back and forth thing through the week....but finally....
here is my ATC for the "Wire" challenge:
I am really enjoying coming up with something for each of the challenges - making me 'think outside the box' - a good thing!
Baby Afghan Contest Update...News - Again!!
I am SO excited! I have survived the first round of voting - and now there are only 10 entries.
I am asking that everyone go again to www.caron.com
and vote! I don't know how long they are going to do this elimination thing - not too much longer, hopefully!
This time I think I am #6 - and would truly appreciate your vote - again!
Just in case, here is the afghan again
Thanks to everyone who voted last week - and in advance for everyone who votes this week!
I am asking that everyone go again to www.caron.com
and vote! I don't know how long they are going to do this elimination thing - not too much longer, hopefully!
This time I think I am #6 - and would truly appreciate your vote - again!
Just in case, here is the afghan again
Thanks to everyone who voted last week - and in advance for everyone who votes this week!
Monday, February 16, 2009
Baby Afghan Contest Update...News!!
At long last - it has happened - the final entries are up for voting!!
Instead of the 6 I read about originally, they have 12 finalists - and will be eliminating them one by one, based on votes.
I was astonished and so thrilled to learn that my afghan is one of the 12!!! Believe me, that was worth the wait!! So...now a little shameless self-promotion....I would love it if you would go over to the Caron site and vote for me!!
Here's a picture of my afghan:
To vote....go to www.caron.com
On the front page there is a green circle - saying to click to vote for the baby afghan contest - my afghan is # 7.
You will need to vote yes/no for each of the twelve entries - to either move them to the next week or not.
I truly would appreciate your support!!
Instead of the 6 I read about originally, they have 12 finalists - and will be eliminating them one by one, based on votes.
I was astonished and so thrilled to learn that my afghan is one of the 12!!! Believe me, that was worth the wait!! So...now a little shameless self-promotion....I would love it if you would go over to the Caron site and vote for me!!
Here's a picture of my afghan:
To vote....go to www.caron.com
On the front page there is a green circle - saying to click to vote for the baby afghan contest - my afghan is # 7.
You will need to vote yes/no for each of the twelve entries - to either move them to the next week or not.
I truly would appreciate your support!!
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
ArtyGirlz "Flowers" Challenge
Had so much fun with my very first challenge - I decided to give this one a try too.
This one is also an ATC - but is made of illustration board, so it is quite heavy and stiff. I used my watercolor crayons to make a background in black and pink. After that dried, I took some silvery bead caps and pounded them flat - they made quite nice little silvery flowers! I glued them to the ATC. Then I took a peyote stitch beadwoven panel I had made earlier, and had no idea what to do with it - to the top of the ATC.
I'm not fond of black at all - so am not so sure about this one - but I wanted to tie into the border on the beadweaving (have no memory of where I found the pattern for the pretty flower in it).
It was fun, and it was something I ordinarily wouldn't do, using colors I usually don't use....so was a bit 'outside the box' for me....be interested in hearing what you think!!
Here it is:
I'm getting quite addicted to these challenges, and to finding new uses for the materials I have on hand...
This one is also an ATC - but is made of illustration board, so it is quite heavy and stiff. I used my watercolor crayons to make a background in black and pink. After that dried, I took some silvery bead caps and pounded them flat - they made quite nice little silvery flowers! I glued them to the ATC. Then I took a peyote stitch beadwoven panel I had made earlier, and had no idea what to do with it - to the top of the ATC.
I'm not fond of black at all - so am not so sure about this one - but I wanted to tie into the border on the beadweaving (have no memory of where I found the pattern for the pretty flower in it).
It was fun, and it was something I ordinarily wouldn't do, using colors I usually don't use....so was a bit 'outside the box' for me....be interested in hearing what you think!!
Here it is:
I'm getting quite addicted to these challenges, and to finding new uses for the materials I have on hand...
Monday, February 9, 2009
Mixin' It Up!
February has become the month I am playing around with paper - using it in all kinds of forms, in all kinds of ways....had some rather nice failures already - but that's ok - learning what works and what doesn't...
Today I played around with melting was in the Melting Pot - coloring it with Dollar Store crayons (that worked!), and then applying it to a card....got a lot to learn here - this was a failure. But....I learning a bit about the Melting Pot and beeswax!
Moving on....I keep going back to the perforated paper and miniature petit-point. I have all these truly cool variegated threads/floss/cotton - Watercolours by Caron - had them for years. So today, I combined that with some other things - punched paper, layering metal punching....and came up with a card I really like. Now I have to find a lovely saying for the inside to print on vellum....and I'll be set to give this to my sweetie!
Here 'tis:
The card itself is just cardstock that I cut in half - the heart-shaped doily is from the grocery store (!), I cut the dark pink square from a wonderful book of huge paint samples that my brother in law gave me...what a find they are! I then punched out the heart shape, cut the perforated paper to fit behind it...colored it with my Prismacolor markers and did my petit-point with a variegated pink/blue/gold thread. When I put the layers together, I used sticky dots to raise the heart-cut-out above the petit-point. Then I punched out some cool little hearts from metal and glued them on in random spots on the dark pink. I'm quite happy with the result! What do you think?
Today I played around with melting was in the Melting Pot - coloring it with Dollar Store crayons (that worked!), and then applying it to a card....got a lot to learn here - this was a failure. But....I learning a bit about the Melting Pot and beeswax!
Moving on....I keep going back to the perforated paper and miniature petit-point. I have all these truly cool variegated threads/floss/cotton - Watercolours by Caron - had them for years. So today, I combined that with some other things - punched paper, layering metal punching....and came up with a card I really like. Now I have to find a lovely saying for the inside to print on vellum....and I'll be set to give this to my sweetie!
Here 'tis:
The card itself is just cardstock that I cut in half - the heart-shaped doily is from the grocery store (!), I cut the dark pink square from a wonderful book of huge paint samples that my brother in law gave me...what a find they are! I then punched out the heart shape, cut the perforated paper to fit behind it...colored it with my Prismacolor markers and did my petit-point with a variegated pink/blue/gold thread. When I put the layers together, I used sticky dots to raise the heart-cut-out above the petit-point. Then I punched out some cool little hearts from metal and glued them on in random spots on the dark pink. I'm quite happy with the result! What do you think?
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