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I am so thrilled to share that I was selected to be on the Fabscraps design team this year. Fabscraps has been one of my favourite papercrafting companies for quite some time.
"Fabscraps is a family run business established in 2005 by sisters Brigitte Wimbush and Janine Smollan. What started as a small local business venture is now Africa’s largest craft manufacturing company with over 3000 product lines distributed around the world."
I am so excited to be part of this incredibly talented team.
The time is flying past as we countdown to the Craft and Hobby Assosciation's main event Creativation in Phoenix. One week from now manufacturers, designers, bloggers and store owners from around the world will converge in Arizona to feet a glimpse at all the new products being released in 2017. I have been following all the sneak Peeks and I am so excited about what we will have access to this year.
Today I received a sneak peek from Spellbinders. I fell in love with their adorable new create a house die. It will make the cutest Valentine or Easter treat packaging.
Isn't it Adorable?
If you are interested in purchasing this die set please email me mygrandmasteacups@Gmail.com and I will put in a pre-order so that we will be at the top of the que when it begins shipping.
If you would like to see more of this die set check out this post on the Spellbinders blog. Spellbinders Blog
Hello lovelies. Who let me sign up for all these craft shows! I was over at my dear friend Juanettes the other day enjoying a leisurely cup of tea and long overdue chat, when she said something to me about how soon the craft show was. Well somehow I had lost track of the month of September. It seems like it had just begun and the 21st seemed an eternity away. Well I have to tell you sister, I am working my butt off now. My poor cricut is going into convulsions as I have it whizzing out borders and flourishes by the stack full. I have piles of half finished projects perched precariously on every nearly flat surface. Lord help me if my husband wanders down here and sees the mess. I am so excited about taking this first step towards getting my business out there. I don't expect to make any money my first show but just being there is such a thrill. So I think all this panicky butterfly in the stomach feeling is doing me good. It is pushing me to achieve my goal of being a independent craft professional.
Once the kids are all settled in school I will start buckling down on my pre-Christmas planning. I always think that I still have lots of time to get things done and inevitably end up running around at the last minute trying to make something or pick something up. Not this year my friends. I am going to get organized. This will be the first time in 13 years that I have not had a wee one home every day. I am going to make my lists and check them twice. I have already purchased the Frosted card making workshop from Close to My Heart and I can't wait to get to started. The kit is absolutely lovely and jam packed with everything I will need. I will post some pictures when the cards are done. I have to run now though. Today is meet the teacher in my son's jk room. He is so excited he hardly slept last night. Check out this great video from Close to My Heart and let it inspire you to get a jumpstart on your Christmas To-Do.
As i told you earlier in the summer I have been whiling away the hours crafting up a storm. My poor trailer is filled to capacity with paper, ribbons and scrapbooking tools. Poor Hubby has gone from having half the bedroom cupboard space to being squished into the corner of one small cubby and his closet. I can't help it. I wanted to be sure that I had everything I might need to do my creative best. I have been making mini albums and Christmas Cards as well as keychains and charms. My focus has been on making enough ahead to be able to participate in my first craft show in November. Well, on a whim I decided to enter another craft show being held at the Royal Canadian Legion in Belleville. In September.....GULP! I am trying to balance crafting, blogging, business planning...and now I have to think about display design. What do you like to see at craft sales? What catches your eye? Are you more likely to stop at a display if it is adorned in a particular way? I have been scouring Pinterest for booth ideas and wanted to share some of my favourites.
I am home from the trailer for a day or two (I think the tornado warnings spooked me a bit...visions of Dorthy and all that). I have been just brimming with ideas for crafting all summer. Each nights after I tuck the kidlets into their bunks I have been cranking out die cuts and cutting ends off of envelopes. I have pretty much all of the storage areas in the trailer packed full of scrappy goodness. I am not going to tell you exactly what I have been creating as I want to surprise you when I come home in the fall with a tote full of completed works. I have had the children on alert to grab any soda tabs or beer caps from unsuspecting relatives and the collection has become extensive. My girlfriend gave me a large plastic pail full to the brim with wine corks (she works at a restaurant...lol) and I am just looking for suggestions on what to make with them. Do you have any ideas? Well, I should run as I need to head over to +Karen Watson site and print off some of her vintage Christmas loveliness. Have a wonderful summer and take time to be crafty.
Well usually when I hear that saying it is reference to Christmas or someone falling in love. If you were around here lately it would have a totally different meaning. I can never remember a year when the trees produced so much fluff. It started early last week and my little one was miserable. His nose started running then his asthma kicked in high gear and by the time Sunday night rolled around his eyes were leaching as much green mucous as his nose. One by one we were struck down with sore throats, migraines, itchy eyes and a hacking cough. We are all in misery. That my friends is my excuse for not posting sooner. We have a reprieve from the fluff today so everyone seems to be feeling a bit better. I thought I would just pop on quickly to share my new haul of trinkets. I am not sure what I am going to use them for but they are pretty just to look at for now.
Also, as summer is here and everyone seems to be partaking of canned beverages I have sent the word out around the camp that i want them to save pop tabs for me. If you have a chance check out these two youtube videos for great ideas for crafting with pop tabs.
I love all this chickie makes.These girls are so talented!
Hello Ladies;
My husband and I had our first daytime date in the last 10 years today. The bigger kidlets were at school and my little munchkin was at preschool so Hubby and I had a the chance to go out to a grown up restaurant and to shop without trying to stay in the centre of the aisles so little hands did not remove the shelf contents onto the floor. I forgot what it was like to just wander a store with no time constraints. To make matters better he took me to Michael's where they had all their paper collections on sale 47% off. Needless to say I had to grab two. I purchased The Primrose Stack and The Preppy Princess stack (DCWV)and I can hardly wait to crack these babies open and start creating. I will be sure to post pictures of what I make. I am thinking that they will make lovely mini albums. If you have used these stacks please send me a link so I can see your projects.
Do you remember as a kid how your older relatives...in my case my Great Grandma's and Grandmas always had that really cool jar filled with miscellaneous buttons. Do you remember spending hours sorting them into colours and sizes and textures. There is just something about other peoples button collection that always grabs my imagination. Who wore the coat that the military buttons came off.. What did the blouse look like that had this pretty floral button. Well, a few weeks ago I had mentioned to both my Mom and my Hubby's Mom that I would be interested in any old ribbons, buttons or broken jewelry they had laying around as I wanted to use it to do some hot glue crafts with the kiddies. Well both Momma's delivered! My Mom provided me with a bundle of old trinkets and gems that she no longer wears and Mama in Law gave us at least 300 buttons. Tiger and I spent a good hour going through the buttons today. Its funny how something like buttons can still captivate a child's attention in this fast paced electronic world. It was so fun. I can't wait to get crafting. I encourage you to send the word out to relatives as they are likely more than happy to unload some no longer needed treasure.
One of my goals for next year is to be on a design team for papercrafting. Today I took the plunge and submitted my work to an Australian company named Flourish with a Bling. I have spent the last few days trying to get my projects done in time for the cut off tomorrow. That may seem funny as many of you know I have made more cards and scrapbooks than I can even remember but I never take pictures of them. So they are all gone. The lifebooks, the cards the mini albums...all gone. Living is learning though so now I will try to remember to keep records of my creations for future reference. So everyone...fingers crossed for me! Its not very likely I will be selected as I have seen some of the work the design team from this year did and its really amazing...but I can hope. You never know if you don't try right.
The roses are an altered composition book from Dollarama with graphics from the Graphic Fairy Karen Watson and lots of Vintage Photo ink, the scrapbook layout is from the Victoria Day weekend and features the buzz and bumble collection from Close to My Heart and the card is a embossing folder and cut out sheet from Ecstasy Craft's Open house last week. Told you I just finished them!
The kids and I are off to the trailer for the weekend! You have to love three day school weeks!
Well if you are like me there was no opportunity for blogging yesterday. The children started off the day by presenting me with some lovely macaroon cookies that were prepared at school. I was so happy to hear that every student in the class had an opportunity to mix and handle the food. Mmmm mmm good. Blessed as I am to have two kidlets in the same grade I received not one but two bags of these tasty treats. Then after delivering flowers and a handmade card to my Mommy we headed off to Napanee Home Hardware...you know the one....the one where Avril Lavigne used to sport the red tee from. Anyway, Hubby bought me a super cute pink toolbox which I am going to glam up with some vintage graphics from Karen Watson "The Graphics Fairy" and a pile of Modge podge. He also bought me a kitchen scale so that I can weigh my paper treasures before attempting to guesstimate the right postage. The children are also buying me flowers for my flower beds but since it was actually snowing yesterday we decided it may be wise to wait a few weeks before purchasing them.
What did you do for Mother's Day? Leave a comment or a link so we can see how your day went!
It must be the sunshine, everyone is so happy they want to share it with the world!
I noticed this new giveaway on the close to my heart site today. Do you have someone you would like to give a shout out to? You could win an amazing gift package from Close to My Heart!
Good afternoon ladies. I made a quick tutorial for a card that I made for my Godson Cody. It is just a really quick video (again don't mind the messy backdrop, its on my to-do-list.) Tear Bears are allot of fun to make and my kids just love them. My husband even wants me to make him a panda bear. (I think he thinks they are cool ever since Jack Black voiced Kung Fu Panda,) Papercrafting is an excellent way to teach children the importance of measuring and being able to work with mixed fractions. My daughter hates math, but she will gladly sit and work out the dimensions she needs for a paper project she is working on. The idea is to find fun ways to engage the children in their learning. What can you make with your child today to reinforce math concepts? Post your ideas and links.
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