Friday, August 29, 2025
All occasion card featuring embellished bubble background, coloured transparency tulip and punched border
Thursday, August 28, 2025
GA - It's a Wrap!! - card wallets which will easily wrap a gift card

So to package a gift card it is a simple matter of adding a card to any of the pockets!!! A cute and very fun way to package a gift card and no waste!!! Great for any occasion!! Therese
Tuesday, August 26, 2025
All occasion card featuring a cool bicycle, pieced background, bubble paper layer with ribbon flags
GA - It's a Wrap - card holders in which you can insert a gift card
Sunday, August 24, 2025
GA - It's a Wrap - mug rugs with a pocket to hold a gift card
Monday, August 18, 2025
GA merchandise - a strip pieced table runner in coordinating ivory and maroon fabric scraps
GA merchandise - table runner
Therese
Saturday, August 16, 2025
A red, white and blue plaid tote bag

Friday, August 15, 2025
All occasion card featuring a beautiful decorative paper background and a gold embossed butterfly
All occasion card featuring a gold embossed fussy cut butterfly over grosgrain ribbon with brads
Thursday, August 14, 2025
Think of you cards featuring beautiful butterfly paper, embossed strips and layered oval greetings
I spent a few hours this afternoon making up the last 14 cards I have committed to making for IWIN for the fall. I found this wonderful butterfly decorative paper in my stash a few months ago I thought it would make such great cards for this program. I had printed the oval greetings a while back so I punched them out with the oval punch (SU). I trimmed the paper so I made the best use of the butterflies and allowed some to be prominent though it was fairly easy and there was very little waste!! I chose to have some be landscape and others portrait but in the end some pieces that worked both ways. I chose cardstock which highlighted the largest butterflies, then picked colours for the strips which I embossed to reflect other colours in the paper. Finally, I punched out the scallop ovals (SU) to coordinate with all the elements. I did a bit of paper piercing with my pattern tracing tool, punched holes in some of the scallops, used my clear gel pen to highlight some areas and generally just had a calm and relaxed afternoon making cards. I appreciate being able to make cards for this program which is so instrumental in helping people who are vulnerable find their way forward in the world.
Therese
GA - It's a Wrap!!! - Gift wrap bookmarks for gift cards
Climate Change Fashion Show
There will be environmentally friendly merchandise for sale and we will all enjoy refreshments as well.
Hope to see you there!!!
Therese
Denim tote bag with a raw edge applique of triangles embellished with vintage metal buttons

Tuesday, August 12, 2025
Denim tote bag with a patchwork border



Saturday, August 02, 2025
All occasion card featuring double embossed vellum, mettalic cardstock and watercoloured flowers
I am back at working on getting cards ready for my upcoming family special occasions.
For this card I started with a large lilac card and I chose the polka dot decorative paper for the background. I found the floral image in stash which I fussy cut. I then decided to frame it with silver metallic paper strips and then decided on double embossed triangular corner pieces. I laid my strips on my background, moved them a little and drew a very light pencil line. I positioned my vellum scrap with a square corner in place and trimmed it to the line. I did the same for the other three corners. I embossed them with a flourish embossing folder, brushed the high areas with a purple ink and embossed them with a pearl embossing powder. They turned out great!!!! I adhered them to my background with double sided tape and then added the silver metallic strips with double sided tape as well. I trimmed the strips to the edge of the background and then adhered this large element to my card front. I watercoloured the flowers to coordinate and added it in the middle using 3D foam tape. Therese
Monday, July 28, 2025
All occasion card featuring a watercoloured daisy, embossed strip and decorative paper background
Thursday, July 24, 2025
Another attempt at fire starters
Tuesday, July 22, 2025
All occasion card featuring inchies, decorative paper strips and faux stitching
Tuesday, July 08, 2025
A new line of prayer flags are now up!!
As previous I left about 5 feet at the leading edge at the house and then overlapped the top edge over the paracord and stitched each one into place with a wavy line leaving about 6" between them. I used line green polyester embroidery thread. The ones from 2021 were still well attached at the top though the covering on the paracord was completely gone leaving only the strands inside. They were still holding very well.
We put the new set up yesterday. They were pretty well as long as the last set.
We set out the new set, undid the old set at the house and I climbed the neighbour's tree (I did get permission) and cut down the old set. I was surprised that the tree had started growing over part of the cord in the four years since we put up the last set. After cutting the cord I removed as much as I could so the tree could go on growing as it needed to. So this time we secured the new set using a tie down straps with grommets on both ends instead of tying it directly to the tree. That will allow the tree to grow and still secure the flags sufficiently!!
The final adjustment was made on the house end setting the flags high enough not to be in the way and still with some slack so they would move nicely with the wind.
Love them!!! Therese
Wednesday, July 02, 2025
All occasion card featuring washi tape, ribbon, brad and embossed feather
Wednesday, June 25, 2025
All occasion card featuring a fun pennant background, embossed vellum and two watercoloured hearts
Friday, June 20, 2025
Crafting - repackaged the little fire starters
Sewing - little flannel handwarmers filled with white rice
They are two 4" squares of flannel stitched all they way around leaving an opening. Trim the corners and turn inside out, press and fill with a slight quarter cup of white rice and then stitched all they way around again which seals the opening as well as strengthened the integrity of the unit. I added a tag that indicates that they need 20 seconds in the microwave when used as a handwarmer. On the other side of the tag I put instructions for use as a cold pack - 3-4 hours in the freezer. As you can imagine they have many other uses. For example, they can be tossed into a container as a "Corn Hole" game or they can be placed in a saucer or small container and used as a pin cushion as well. It was a very good use of the flannel scraps!! Remember to store them in the pockets of your winter jacket and you will find them when you need them. Therese