Thursday, November 17, 2011

Finally back on blog....


I had a table at a craft show this weekend and was not successful at all, so please excuse the complaining. I wanted to show you some of the things I made, some with MTC & Cricut and some without.

I have been a couch potato and need to get off the couch and physically do things.

I sold quite a few of these they are simply cardboard coasters, covered with scrap paper, calendar glued on with a magnet on the back. I have been having a lot of trouble with glue, both with the paper and magnets. My daughter brought me some adhesive backed magnet tape that worked great. I guess you can get it at Menards. The small calendars are almost impossible to get but I found a source. Here it is:
http://www.vippies.com If anyone has another source please leave a comment.


Here is another item I had for sale. I divided the calendar into single pages with 6 on one side and 6 on the other. I had a base that was divided into 6 equal parts. Then I cut out 2 pieces of the same paper (one for front, one for back). Make sure they compliment each other and attach them to one of the 6 parts. The back side should have the same order as the front, then you add the calendar. I printed these of the computer and cut them out myself. The clips are for letting you see 2, 3 or 4 months at a time. Big seller, last year, none now.

 Here is a post it note holder. You can get instructions at craftsbybeth.blogspot.com. I made a template on MTC, which made things a lot easier.
Last year, a customer said she needed a calendar with the pad, so I bought calendars for them. I use the velcro dots for closures, putting the fuzzy one on the top. It comes apart alot better when installed that way. These items are a good way to get rid of scrap material.


This is a card I made a long time ago, it is very light pink so the background does not
show up very much.

I live in Cedar Rapids, IA, which is about 20 miles north of Iowa City, home of the Iowa Hawkeyes. I am not a fan of theirs, but I made these magnets to sell. If I had a dollar for
ever Hawkeye item that went by my table, I would be rich. They weren't interested in my magnets at all. I did sell a couple Iowa State (which I attended in the early 60s) and several of the Northern Iowa University. The footballs did't sell either..they are from a svg, it cuts out the middle of the ball and you add white paper on the back.


jThese are from Nativity svgs I saved. The other card is a simple snow flake, the paper is glitter.

Here are 2 more cards: the bottom border card is from a svg file I saved.
The upper one was 3 different svg trees. A lady commented about the 3 different styles being interesting....

Cards from craft show























Christmas cards from craft show. I made 13 or more of these cards and did not sell any.
I got the idea from someone else, sorry, can't remember who. She had hers like the red and green card. I wish I had used a tape gun, but no refill. You can also make a single bottom line for a border, guess I sold that one...you could use any simple image and repeat it in different forms...

Sunday, July 19, 2009

Birthday greeting




Made this card for G's daughter,
just cut purple stuff with Cricut and
printed the greeting on cardstock,
and used a corner punch on it.