I am SO thrilled. When I walked to my mailbox like any ordinary morning with three dogs in tow, I was breathing deeply and enjoying the warm sunshine and quiet breeze coming over the trees.
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I grabbed the Pekingese, Buttercup (she came to us with this name it is not one I would have necessarily chosen for her). The mail lady handed me our stack of usual bills, periodicals and tucked into the middle of this bundle was a three page note from Ms. Vivian. She had written the note on some of the paper I had stamped inside a previous notebook that I had given to her.
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I was thinking of her today, as you can see I was creating yet another beautiful notebook for her. For this project I used the generic mini legal pads purchased from the local office supply store. I measured the pad, trust me they are not 5 X 7″ they are usually a bit bigger or smaller.
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I cut my paper and printed the musical score onto transparency film, following the manufacturer’s instructions. I cut ghost shapes usingsizixflower #5 and plastic I recycled from my recycling bin. The project took a total of three hours to complete, it is not difficult. Just waiting around for paint to dry mostly.
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Have a super weekend, I am sure we will be working in the yard, putting our new grill together and cooking out. Craig will be coming home this weekend and I am very happy to have him for a couple of days.
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Take care, be safe and stamp Happy!
— blog candy April 28 to May 12. Pictures above + altered items for you. All you have to do is leave me a comment here on the blog!
When I showed my husband the finished notebook project, he remarked with surprise “just beautiful, Loretta”. That says alot.
The mini-legal pads are found at the office supply store. I printed sheet music onto a transparency, heat set with my heat tool and embellished. I used a stamp from Clear Dollar Stamps, the bird punch is stampin up. The shrink 3-D plastic butterfly uses a sizzix die colored with copic markers allowed to curl some what and adhered together using E6000 glue.
The flowers are also sizzix die cuts and are layered using pop dots and clear glue. The project is not entirely finished, I still need to stamp the individual pages before it goes to a new home.
I also made a beautiful student book for keeping track with my violin lessons. I will post pictures of that project tomorrow.
Wow who could have “thunk” it? Three post in one day just to try and get a few pictures uploaded. Ok, it was more than a few.
Today I altered a small chipboard box with handles. I have a friend in New Jersey who sent me one of every die cut she owns, so this little box is full of fun die cuts. Many of the dies (as you can see by the other two of today’s posts) I do own. Under the skirted table in the die cut area are the rest of my sizzix dies. They sit by type in alphabetical order under there. Easy to get to and use.
I purchased two spell binder cases for my nestabilities. It did not come with enough pages for what I owned so I used DVD Plastic sleeves from the office store and put magnets inside so the smaller dies would not come loose in the folder.
Today I am heading back to my doctor’s office. Yes folks, I’ve been sick over 3 weeks now. Just don’t seem to be able to get 100%, so please pray for my quick recovery.
On another note, I will be posting pictures of our yard soon, so stay tuned. It is so beautiful. This week we’ll be doing hanging baskets for the back deck and also planting more vegtables in our garden. So far we have tomatoes, beets, turnips,lettuce,tomatoes, pepers spinich, dill and two variatals of basil. Makes one hungry just thinking about all that produce!
Don’t forget blog candy until May 12, so far we have up for grabs an altered clip with your name (that is if I can get it to fit, other wise it will be initials). Added today, two stamp sets, pictures will come soon. Have a great day and may you all enjoy the blessings God intends for you.
This is Part two, apparently blogger is only allowing me to load about 10 pics at any one time, so onto Part Three we go….. Hopefully today’s project picture will be there!