Winner and Week #3 Challenge

Whew, it has been a rough day. The USPS said they lost something very important. But it was found by the person who recieved it. Then I ordered a special book three days ago and paid for overnight delivery. Not here yet. Trying to pack for CHA, but not wanting to pack too much. Jacob sick and Tabitha very sick.

News: the group I formed Fellowship of Scrapbookers is growing. We usually meet once a month opening our crop/fellowship to the community. We are now reaching out to women with small children who can't get away during the week so now we will have a whole new crew meeting once a month on Saturday at our church. Pauline R. came to me with the idea and I was overwhelmed and excited. FOS was founded September 2007 and hosts about 20 women and 5 homeschooled children. We meet in a beautifully rustic bookstore and crop, play games, have classes, and most of all gloryify God through our fellowship. All this is grace from a loving God.

Here are two more Basic Grey layouts that were challenges from Fiskateers.

Okay, okay...........

The winner is "Flower I made and put it on a card." All these flowers are wonderful. Can you find the one made from a coke can? LOL All of them were so different and beautiful. Yeah! I'm proud of all you for making your flower. Some said they were "out of their comfort zone" making these. I hope you make many more. Send me your snail mail address at DeborahL591@yahoo.com. Since I will be leaving in the morning for CHA I will have to mail out the RAK either next Friday or Saturday. Thank you for your patience. If you don't hear back from me...it's okay. I will be in contact when I get back.

New Challenge
Okay I'm going to make this one a little, but not much, harder. The boxes are getting bigger and bigger. Remember the picture I post is what is in the RAK as of January 31...I've been cleaning and finding specials to put in the RAK box. But isn't it nice to get wonderful surprises. I'm going to have to take new pictures. This only about half of what is in the RAK box!

#3 Week Challenge:

I need to remind you that I can not mail outside of the continental US. If you have contacts in the states I will be glad to mail it to them and let you work it out between the two of you. Thank you for your understanding and our first winner was from Canada.

I want some sewing going on. Stitch a card, layout, paper craft...loads of stitching or a few stitches. This is one of my favorite things to do. I keep a sewing machine in my studio and I have tons of thread and embroidery floss. All size needles. I would like to give a recommendation or two.

Tim Holtz Ruler (YouTube demo)
It has measured holes so you can punch your holes before you sew and make sure they are exactly like you want it to be.

Chatterbox Doodle Genie
Whimsical
Twitterpated
Breezy (just ordered)
I love these products. They have swirls and hearts you can trace out and I fill my with glitter glue, paint, or doodle on the page directly, but all three have flourishes or hearts made with pre-punched holes. I punch out my shape with the pattern and a needle than I go back and stitch.

Some computers have a font called "stitch." I've actually printed out large words with this font and hand stitched following the stitching on the font. Several posts down there is a guide for different types of stitches.

Complete your challenge, then come back here Friday afternoon and I’ll have a slide show where you can upload your project.

If you have questions leave them on the comment section. I'm going to allow this challenge to go until Sunday, morning February 17th. Then I'll put up Challenge #4.

I hope everyone is having fun. I certainly am.

Gratitude List:
1. My children's health improvement
2. I've stayed well.
3. Nan, Penny, Sonja, Sharon, and Susan...my roomies at CHA.
4. For the kindness I know I'll find in California.
5. God's hand of protection on me both today and for the rest of the week.