It's been a particularly productive week, but finding time to get to the computer to blog has been difficult. I broke down and decided to take Shimelle's class Something From Almost Nothing for two reasons. One, several of my blogging friends were taking it, and second, I have plenty of stash to work with even after cleaning out and giving away a LOT of my supplies since the holidays.
The first prompt involved using your metal stash. I have several little drawers filled with metal letters, words, and frames as well as a little box devoted to brads. One items I saw used in the prompts was bottle caps. Ever since I bought them (probably 3-4 years ago) I have wondered what I was thinking. So I pulled them out and this is what I came up with.
Matt thought this was a particularly cool card--"Wow, a card with beer bottle caps!" Well, not exactly, but it sure is the idea.
Three very similar cards, but all with a slightly different shape and size.
These cards will need to be hand delivered or put into a padded envelope, but I like the flowers.
And a card with brads. I saved this paper when I cleaned out earlier this year and cut it into little squares. But then didn't know quite what to do with it.
I have quite a bit of it left for another project or two or three.
When I was perusing my metal goodies, I found a set of Making Memories metal frames. Then I started going through the little square photos I have in a drawer (a tip from Stacy Julian's Photo Freedom). I found a set I have piled on my desk for a later layout, but these four fit the frames perfectly. Since the three of us were just talking about Kiawah the other night at dinner, the journaling came easily.
I have a lot of ideas for prompt #2 (patterned paper), and hope to get to some of them this week, but the days are pretty filled with appointments and errands that need to be done before we leave for California early Saturday morning. I knew when I signed up that I would never be able to keep up, so I'm pleased to have created a few things for the beginning of class.
