June Sharing, Commenting, Chatting

grammadee 'Challenge' - Oh, this is such a neat idea, both the physically distanced easter egg dying and the LO to bring you all together despite the physical distance. I love all the round-ish elements that bounce off each other: the eggs, the portrait shots of those smiling faces, the dotted pattern paper, the coronavirus die-cut. This feels so happy despite the pandemic! The vellum journaling is so neat and reminded me of the membrane you have to peel off a hard-boiled egg.    Ok, that came out far less appealing than I intended. I just thought it was a cool egg reference hidden in plain sight... Love this!

'Spring Selfie' - Gah, how adorable are you taking the centre stage of this page? Amazing! This looks like a beautiful self-portrait. Every element you've added to the page is a reflection of your identity: the pretty flowers, the soft colours, the classic pearl drops displaying movement of freedom and growth, the garden references. I love how you've added some torn edges at the bottom, too: it's such a visual statement on how we all come from a place of rawness, earthiness and spend life growing into our best, most achieved self. Lovely textures all around!

Just chatting here today! I have spent 4 hours today on the cleaning up/reorganizing project. I am seeing the light at the end of the tunnel! 

I have this storage piece in black from Hobby Lobby that I have had for several years. 

I cleaned out all of the drawers and found a ton of stuff I haven’t touched in years, so it’s all going to a friend’s daughter. I erased all of the labels and relabeled them. There are a couple still empty, I just need to figure out what to put in them.

I also bought this from Michael’s yesterday. Never thought I needed one!

It fits perfectly in between my bookcase and my paper storage boxes. I will be using it to store my most current large projects (which is most likely a vacation album). Since it has wheels, I can move it over by my desk when in use, and put it away when I’m done. That way, my stuff will not be all over the floor!

I repurposed a couple of old cards for my donation bin and stuck down this experiment with heat embossing, light ink blending, and sentiments from my scrap bin covering a spot that didn’t emboss well. The butterfly stamp is by The Ton. I need to experiment more with this stamp and gold embossing powder. I didn’t love the shade of white this embossing powder came out (does anyone have a good cool white fine detail powder to recommend?)

June sending love card by jo.blackford, on Flickr

azcrafty - Every time I see those sheetload cards I think I need ot go back and look at those. I love how these came out and the colors you used are just perfect for Father's Day!

joblackford - What a great card with that butterfly! That stamp is so pretty! And I love the ink blended colors!

"There ain't nothin' wrong with a little scrap crap." LOL[/quote]


I need to do this. Hubby always complains about my craft room. He says I'm trying to put 10lb stuff in a 5lb bag and doesn't matter how many times I organize my stuff.

I found some strips of paper in my die cut binder that needed to become cards, so I trimmed them a bit and stuck them down. These are the ends left over from cutting card fronts and 3 and a half cover the card pretty perfectly. I only had one half strip to toss in the trash when I was done. The die cut and stamped circles were leftover from last Christmas too. Good thing I was tidying up the binder yesterday, filing away more leftovers - I'd forgotten about them.

June Xmas donation cards by jo.blackford, on Flickr

That is great joblackford. Crafty tools come handy all the time.

Thank you grammadee and thank you for the love in Flickr.

T-shirts and a mask I made for grand-daughter's graduation

2020-06 - 2 PEAS by CLAUDIA LOVELESS, on Flickr

Those metallic water colors you have would be beautiful with the stamp and the golf embossed. I bought some metallic watercolors after seeing your and used them on a page last month (one I never got posted) but I loved the look! So thanks for that enabling!

Also, Jo, those cards are great! way to go using up scraps and making them look so good! I did get a bit nervious at your picture of your DH taking apart the iPad! That is very brave! But good you have the crafty tools to help him do it!

gramma - I love those shirts and mask!! Lucky family to have a talented person that can do those. They look professional! And I love your Tanksgiving layout! The auqa on there just makes it pop and seem much more modern than the traditional darker Thanksgiving colors. And all that paper piecing at the bottom is lovely!

Yes! omg, the sounds were horrible! It was my SIL's old iPad, already replaced. The screen had been broken last year so she figured it would be worth trying to DIY replace it so she could gift it to a kid who couldn't afford a new one. We're not sure that the disassembly worked - the pros were all closed, so hubby watched some YT videos and gave it a shot. It was interesting to see what was inside. The screens are seriously glued on btw!



Funny you should mention the metallic watercolors. Hubby was just trying to explain the SBA/Covid/Paycheck Protection loan forgiveness documentation to me, and as my brain started to melt I noticed a dark blue butterfly embossing experiment on my pinboard. I painted it with silver/white gold while he finished thinking aloud. I'll share how it came out when it dries but I think it's going to be really pretty.

So, I need to learn how to post my Flickr photo links here. I know there’s a thread on how to do it, I just need to do it. It’s just so much easier to use the attachments, until you have to go back and delete them. 🤪