Organizing Tips for Your Craft Room!
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We are sharing lots of tips from our followers in this episode. Hear how others organize their craft spaces including their patterned papers and stamp sets. What ideas do you have to share? Join the conversation over in our facebook group - the
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Craft House Tour - Reactions!
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On the last episode we toured our craft house with its many "make-do" items for our cardmaking supplies .... such as a spice rack on the wall for our ink refills and a small shelf laid sideways on the floor to hold our 12 x 12 papers. Today its fun to share many responses we got from our listeners as we continue this conversation about repurposing and using what we have. To see the actual tour visually - go here
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The Craft House Reveal
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We don't have a craft room - we live in a craft house. Today we will share how we have repurposed many items to use for storage for our many craft supplies. If you want to actually see the tour - this is the video tour: https://youtu.be/Dk7nc7_GFBo
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Chaos in the Craft Room - act 2!
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Lots of great comments to share from all of you as we work together to try to take control of our craft room clutter. Join us the ideas and the laughs and then join the conversation over in the Back Porch Stampers group on Facebook. We would love to hear about your ideas for organizing your papers, stamp sets and supplies and how you keep it organized!
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Chaos in the Craft Room?
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Time for spring cleaning your craft space? Join us as we talk decluttering and more! We all need space for all the new stuff! I share ideas on how to declutter your craft space - and a fun idea about what to do with all of that stuff! Then join us in the Back Porch Stampers group on facebook and share your tips and your stories with us. Lets work on this together.
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A-tisket, A-tasket, Let's Make An Easter Basket
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Lets share Easter fun with simple ideas for paper baskets. Did you know you can make paper baskets with no measuring - or with not cutting and gluing? Watch us make these three baskets Come share your baskets with us in the group on Facebook.
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40 Cards for Lent
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Many of us think of giving something up for Lent. How about using Lent also as a time to focus on giving? Lets get creative in who we sent cards to this month. I like the idea of making a list of 40 people during the 40 days of Lent because it will take us beyond the obvious. In this episode we talk about different ideas for making those 40 cards meaningful.
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Project Pocket Quilt Cards!
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On a Facebook live I made eight quick and easy pocket cards and challenged my viewers to make and post one over in my Facebook group - the Back Porch Stampers. Over 200 pocket cards. Have been posted - how amazing is that!!! Then Jjlie Heitz, a team member and friend, called with an idea. "The moment I stamped “sending healing hugs” my heart felt something. A quilt, a hug and I thought “this quilt could be the hug someone needs during these Times”. Then my mind started racing and I had to contact Karen with an idea that was put on my heart. “Would you be interested in...
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Celebrating Galentine's Day!
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We had no idea what Galentine's Day was when we received a Galentine's Day card. I actually thought it was a misspelling - and Tim won this argument. There is a funny story about how this became a holiday - dating back to 2010 and an episode of Parks & Recreation - but what a great reminder to celebrate those platonic friendships! Those friendships we can count on though all of life's ups and downs - we are so grateful to have those. This is a reminder to thank those special people in our lives - and to share a story with them about how they have impacted our lives. We would love to hear...
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Celebrating Galentine's Day!
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We had no idea what Galentine's Day was when we received a Galentine's Day card. I actually thought it was a misspelling - and Tim won this argument. There is a funny story about how this became a holiday - dating back to 2010 and an episode of Parks & Recreation - but what a great reminder to celebrate those platonic friendships! Those friendships we can count on though all of life's ups and downs - we are so grateful to have those. This is a reminder to thank those special people in our lives - and to share a story with them about how they have impacted our lives. We would love to hear...
info_outlineI took five very special quilts in my life and used them to inspire my cardmaking!
From copying the quilt block pattern, or the color, or something else in the quilt, these were the results.
The first quilt I ever made was in 1974 for my boyfriend Tim (now my husband of 44 years) was a Log Cabin Quilt. What a fun and easy quilt design to use in making cards. Cut your Designer Series in strips just like you did your fabric and create from the center square outwards.
The second quilt was a quilt I made with my then 8 year old son. I showed him how to create his own nine square designs using grid paper and markers, cutting square in half where desired. He chose the fabrics for his quilt and after I made it, I stitched his names for each block on the quilt as well.
I chose four of the squares and made a card for each of them - this will be a fun gift to give him in memory of childhood.
For the third, I took a quilt that was one of my favorite garage sale finds. The complete story of this quilt is shared in this podcast - and I loved how this card turned out. It used more masculine plaids and prints in earth tone colors.
Quilt Card #4 was a study in blues, from a gorgeous quilt I received during my breast cancer journey. I have never met these women. They get together to make a quilt just knowing that sometime during the creation of this quilt, someone will come to mind that need it --- and I was the lucky person chosen for this. I will treasure it forever. It is made from 1940's reproduction prints in blue and white - just stunning. I gathered blue and white Designer Series Papers to make this.
The fifth quilt I chose is a quilted wall hanging that I received from my friend and downline Lori Borntreger. She used tiny squares in shades of blue to make this stunning small quilt. All of those tiny square on paper made a lovely, very detailed card.
What quilts will inspire you?