Getting Ready for the Craft Fair

This afternoon, from 1 pm until 6 pm, I will be hanging out at the George Pringle Elementary gym for my first and only craft shoe this year. I've been working steadily for two or three weeks to get some things ready to sell, and I thought I'd show you some of the items I have for sale. If you live in my area, perhaps you'll drop by and visit with me!

Here is the Facebook Event page:  George Pringle Winter Craft Fair

Some of the things are originals:

These candles are easy to make. Let me know if you'd like a quick tutorial on how to do it!

I tried making a burlap banner using a die to cut out the pieces and it worked fairly well! These are simple but effective, with the Large Letter Framelit Dies.

I decided to use the acrylic boxes Stampin' Up was selling for the first time this year to package 5 of the same type of cards and sell the package instead of individual cards. This is a 5 pack of Christmas cards, decorated with the 7/8" Striped Ribbon.

This project was copied from Heather Forgan, who posted it on Pootles Craft Forum on Facebook, along with some instructions! It was so much fun to do and I got to make use of that Foil Frenzy DSP in a spectacular way! Each of the colours matches one of the colours of the Vaseline Lip Therapy types.

This project was copied from a free project tutorial from Lissa Zwolanek. It was a lot of fun, as well, and allowed me to use my new Merry Cafe stamp set!

Come and visit me tomorrow if you're in the area and check out all the other things I have to offer as well!

This is the last weekend of the Online Extravaganza Sale, a good opportunity to stock up on craft supplies for the holidays ahead! The last day will be Sunday, November 26th for all the deals you see here!  But, SU is having a surprise Flash Sale on Monday, Nov. 27th for 24 hrs only. Not even the demonstrators know what the deals will be on that day!! Stay with me here and I will let you know as soon as I find out. In the meantime, here are the regular sale items from now until Sunday night. Let me know if you want anything and I will put in an order on Sunday. Have a great weekend!

A Banner Day!

Did you know that banners have been around since the Old Testament times?  Moses used them to keep the Israelites in line during their trek through the wilderness.

Ancient Romans would decorate them with a coat of arms and hang them at their doors to identify their house.

 Ancient Japanese warriors would wear them on their armour.








Banners were everywhere during Medieval times, on castles, in battles, at feasts!

Trade unions in Britain brought them back into use with symbols identifying their trade in popular May Day parades.

So banners aren't new, but they are a beautiful way to enhance your home decor during special seasons or to decorate for events such as Halloween.  Stampin' Up has come out with a series of banner kits in the new Holiday Mini Catalogue.  The basic set is the Build a Banner Simply Created Kit which includes 18 blank canvas pennants, some jute twine and alphabet and image stencils.  

Then Stampin' Up created a Halloween Banner Simply Created Accessory Kit and a Christmas Banner Simply Created Accessory Kit.  These are loads of fun to work with.  Today I'd like to share with you the Halloween Banner I created and will be offering as a class on Wednesday, September 18, along with an Autumn Banner that I designed myself.  I will show you the Autumn Banner in the next post.

The lighting and background colouring leave a lot to be desired, but you get the idea!  Oh, my goodness!  So much fun to make, and not difficult with most of the pieces cut for you.  You have many choices you can make so as to make it your creation.

• You can see the three shapes of pennants in the kit, six of each shape!  
• There are precut and scored paper strips to make two of the three rosettes pictured here.  I used the Simply Scored Scoring Tool to make the third one of paper in the Witches' Brew Design Series Paper.
• I used a sponge dauber along with the background and letter stencils to create the patterns on the pennants.
• The circles for the top of the rosettes are included along with the cutouts embossed in glittery black.
• Ribbon and accessories are part of the kit as well, but I added a few of my own.

If you are interested in making one of these super cute banners, you can register here.

Products:  Build a Banner Simply Created Kit (133507); Halloween Banner Simply Created Accessory Kit (132698)

Extra Products:  Jumbo Sticky Rounds (127852); Sticky Strip (104294); Witches' Brew DSP (132185);  Sponge Daubers (102892); Summer Starfruit (126839) and Tangerine Tango (111349) cardstock; Classic Stampin' Pads in Early Espresso (126974), Summer Starfruit (126991) and Tangerine Tango (126946); Chevron Ribbon in Basic Black (130010); 2 3/8" Scallop Circle Punch (118874); Simply Scored Scoring Tool (122334)

Build a Banner Simply Created Kit

Halloween Banner Simply Created Accessory Kit

Jumbo Sticky Rounds

Simply Scored Scoring Tool