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   Aug 09

July and August creations

I have been busy making some cards over the last month pictures below. I have also been doing some knitting. I created 3 different small bags for Paul to hold his electronics and I am currently working on a large baby blanket for Noah (no pictures yet because it is not done).

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   May 04

More creations

Some more creations from April. I have been continuing to practice knitting and I am currently making a scarf which I will post when I’m done. I have also continued to make cards. My friend got me a kit from England on her trip this spring so I did some creative cards with some new […]

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   Mar 27

New cards

I made 12 teacup cards tonight as a gift set. I copies the pattern from Jenn at the crop this past weekend. I need to find a pattern to make a box for the gift pack. I guess I will have to go to Pinterest 🙂 I also made a baby shower card with a […]

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   Mar 27

Another completed knitting project

Next dishcloth in the knitting series. Wool is a little different and I knitted in two directions to learn a new techniques. Less holes in this piece. Just going to stick to dishcloths for now.

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   Mar 25

My first crop

I attended my first crop in Kemptville this weekend. A crop is a group that get together to do scrap booking and card making. It was a great event. I made lots of cards, 2 scrapbook pages, did 3 workshops and got a big shot (for embossing and die cutting) and a heat embosser tool […]

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   Mar 13

Knitting dish cloth complete

I have completed my dish cloth, learned to cast on and cast off, pearl and knit. Completed dish cloth below. Also made a little project to practice pearling.

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   Mar 06

Learning to knit

Today I joined the healthy workplace knitting group at work. The group will be meeting every Tuesday in March to learn to do basic knitting. Today we learned to cast- on and how to the knit stitch. We will be making a dish cloth. The pattern is 40 knit stitches by 80 rows. I have […]

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   Mar 03

Z fold

My first z fold card on an angle. Multiple pictures since it is hard to capture in photos.

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   Feb 10

Cupcake card

I have been finding many posts on Pinterest with interesting folds. Thought I would give some of them a try. Here I have tried the z fold and made the card a cupcake theme using the build a cupcake punch and stamp set from Stampin Up.

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   Feb 10

Humming bird card

Newest creation

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