My Favorite Thing

Out of all the projects I made for Christmas this year my favorite has been packaging. Out of all the packaging I’ve created; this one for my Mother-In-Law is my favorite.

It’s called a Secret Box. I learned how to make it on YouTube
from MsPaperCastle.

The reason for the name is that when you open it there are 3 shelves inside.


I used Paper Trey Ink paper for the base and layers and the designer paper was in my stash.
The snowflake die is from Impression Obsession.

Inside I put photo magnets of of her boys.

I created those with Little Windows resin and color laser photos. I fussy cut the pictures and poured resin over them. The resin is crystal clear and dries over night.

I love that this “package” becomes a keepsake and can be used as home décor for years to come.

What’s your favorite thing you have made for Christmas even in the past or this year?

Merry Christmas
In His Hands
QP

Thanksgiving Traditions

 

Do you have a favorite Thanksgiving Tradition? In my family we all hold hands and pray before the meal.  And love that there is always Turkey and Dressing and family from far and near. It would not be thanksgiving without my sister JoAnn’s Secret-To-A-Happy-Marriage yeast Rolls. We pour over the sale ads and plot our attack. We watch football, talk baseball and track (players in the family). We remember those we love who are no longer with us and give thanks for those who are.

But my favorite tradition is a crafty one. I try to mail out my Christmas cards on Black Friday. My friends tell me that my card is the first card they receive. Most years I make it. This year I have been working hard to meet my deadline. Here is what I have come up with so far.

I generally made multiples of each design but I won’t bore you with that.

close-up so many layers

This one is the tags I made:

And these are card components that I have not come up with the finished project for yet!

 

What crafty traditions do you have?

Wishing you a happy and safe Thanksgiving. I am thankful for you all!

 

In His Hands,

QP

Friends

Friends…everybody needs them or so the song says and I have to agree its true. I spent the weekend at the home of one friend and in the company of others. I could have stayed with family as I was in my home town, but this weekend was all about friends. When you live out of town and visit home everyone wants to see you; but you only have so much time. So this weekend I only saw my son cause he has the new Grand Guy and the rest of my time was spent with my crafting buddies.

Friday night we went to Ms. Vicky’s and I taught a bit of mixed media. We sprayed and applied gesso and modeling paste and matte medium and paint and on on mixed media goes. Our surface was a piece of mixed media paper and the completed panel is all well, pretty and good. But what do you do with it now?

You make a card to thank the home that received you, that feed you and chauffeured you around town.

I made a Center Step card. It is easy to do.

• Your card base measures 5.5” by 11.
• You cut a slit 1 inch in on the long side from 1’’ to 6.5” repeat on the other side.
• On both long sides score at 1”, 2”and 6.5” up to the slit (do not cross over).
• Beginning at the slit score at 5.5” in the center and end at the other slit.
• Mountain fold at the 1”score; Valley fold at the 2” score. Pinch a mountain fold in the center at the 5.5” score line and the 6.5 inch fold should fold itself. Burnish all your folds with a bone folder and your base is ready.

I cut up the mixed media panel to fit the card base both inside and out;

and also made 2 tags (Spellbinders labels ten) and a front pocket with a window cut in it for my sentiment. I added some stitching and my card only needed some personal words.

Its good to travel and its good to see Friends!

In His Hands,

QueenPam

It Beginning To Look

No matter when I start on my Christmas projects I seem never to get them all done. I’m starting now and hoping for a different outcome this year. Christmas time is stressful at work with end of the year projects, less time due to holidays and overdoing it in my personal life.

 

Paper Trey Ink is having a blog hop and the theme is tags. So I made these to top some packages. I’m ahead of the game by 2 Yay!

 

 

The Snowflake is Paper Trey Ink’s Stitched Snowflake as well as there

Tag Sale #8 die for the tag. The paper is from MemoryBox and the pearl was in my stash.

 

In His Hands,

 

QP

Featuring Poetspice

I came across a Digital Stamp from Poetspice on YouTube called Talula Girl Butterfly Belle. It was calling out to me to be colored. So I sized it up in Microsoft word and printer it out on some X-pressit paper (my personal favorite for coloring with my copics).

I printed a couple of sizes as I didn’t have a specific project in mind; I just wanted to color.

Coloring has always been one of my favorite things to do, it sort of centers me and I can lose myself in it for a time. I shot some pictures along the way but sorry I got lost in the process/fun of coloring.

This many copics later…

…all the stress of the day was gone. A bit of fussy cutting, some glitter nail polish

and white gel pen and she is ready for her closeup:

I bought her on Zibbet.

In His Hands,

QP

It’s a Match

Hey it’s your girl Queen Pam here for SOC with a copic tip.

I like to use die cuts and or fussy cuts and one of things that I don’t like most of time is that little bit of white that shows when you cut them.

Often times I will just ink the edges with a black ink pad. Today however I wanted the die cut to appear like it was cut precisely, so my white edge needed to be colored to match.

So I pulled out my copic swatch ring and tried to find a color that would give me the seamlessness I was looking for.

I choose B06 to do the job. I like to hold my marker from the back when doing this as it seems that should I slip, the marker slips toward the back of the image and not on top. And that way my image is not ruined or in need of an embellishment.

Here is how my images turned out. The ball jars look they were cut without a border.

 

And here is my final project a group of interactive ATCs for a swap.

In His Hands,

QP

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner

As you know last weekend I played along with PaperTreyInk’s Stamp-A-Faire challenges and I won one of them.

In the next couple of days I will do a wrap up post of the event. But for now I wanted to share my excitement! Glory to God!

 

Thanks God for your unmerited favor!

 

In His Hands,

 

QP