Scrap Tower: Little Yellow Bicycle

WELCOME

Welcome to Scrap Tower, my little corner of the world, where I share my creativity with you.

I enjoy many forms of crafting, from paper crafting to sewing. I make custom greeting cards for family and friends. I've made unique custom cards commissioned by friends.

I am proud to have been a card maker for the organization Operation Write Home (OWH) for several years supplying 1,000+ handmade cards for our HEROES.

I continue to make cards as gifts or to sell and I am testing a few other sewing and crochet projects to sell.

My current charitable project is Sew Powerful Purse and I have sewn and donated 20+ purses in the past two years. I plan to donate 10+ purses in 2018.

I enjoy sharing my creative passion with others, including children in Sunday School and Bible School, etc.

Friday, July 5, 2013

RED, WHITE, BLUE & KRAFT Hugs & Kisses - OWH Sketch #179 & Midweek Throwdown Color Challenge

Hey every body!! From soggy upstate SC. I don't remember how long it has been since we had a day without some rain. Thankfully, we are no longer in a drought. And .... thankfully we have on again, off again periods of sunshine, but the ground is saturated. LOL - the grass is growing so fast you can almost see it grow, but mowing the lawn involves dodging showers and hoping the mower doesn't bog down or get stuck!

Today, I am sharing one of my latest cards. I used Operation Write Home Sketch #179 from Sunday, June 30, 2013. I also incorporated the Midweek Throwdown Color Challenge to make a card with red, white, blue and kraft.

I am pleased with the result.

Red, White, Blue and Kraft - Hugs & Kisses

Paper: Kraft cardstock
Kraft DP - My Mind's Eye Indie Chic - Nutmeg
Little Yellow Bicycle - Just Because 6 x 6 pad
Sentiment Stamp: Hero Arts Year Round Sentiment set (one of the OWH fundraiser sets - yay !!)
Ink: Memento Paris Dusk
Embellishments: Heart Brad - Spare Parts, the Paper Studio
Hemp Twine - Darice

Thursday, March 8, 2012

OWH Midweek Throwdown Challenge - Mother's Day

Hi all ! I have been so busy I have not had a chance to post many creations lately. I have been working on my box of Half Mother's Day Cards / Half General Cards to send to OWH very soon. Right now my total count is 50.

I have several Mother's Day cards to share with you today, in addition to the ones that I have posted in previous challenges.

#1) I have always liked yellow roses, so this is a favorite DCWV paper, from one of the 6x6 pads. The plaid yellow is from the same pad.

MOM - yellow roses

I used EK Border punches on yellow card stock and textured white card stock for the layers. The sheer yellow ribbon was purchased by the yard at our local variety store. I cut the word 'mom' with my Craft Robo.

I have used this design with pink roses and red roses and changed the sentiment for whatever occasion I needed.

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#2) Believe it or not, I designed this next card while riding in the car on the way to visit my husband's aunt in Marietta, GA!

I took my bag of basic scrapbook/card making tools. We stopped at a couple of craft and scrapbook stores between home in SC and Marietta, GA. I picked up a few interesting pieces of paper and could not wait to start making cards, even while winding through the mountains of NE GA.

MOTHER - Botanique

I purchased the ribbon from Michael's dollar bin first, just because I thought it was interesting. I had no idea that the next place I visited would have paper that matched so perfectly !!

The paper is American Crafts Botanique series - Elanor is the floral design and Greta is the smaller print. I used the solid colors on the reverse of each print too. I regret that I purchased only one sheet of each.

The sentiment is from Little Yellow Bicycle delight*ful collection D-232. I added three tiny gemstones on the sentiment banner.

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