My Inner Martha: April 2007

Monday, April 23, 2007

Clutch

One of the things I taught the girls for Protocol was that you shouldn't carry a full-blown purse to a fancy event. The proper place for your purse at the dinner table is on your lap, under your napkin. Most purses are too bulky for that. Thus, the evening bag, or clutch. I realized sometime during my research for Protocol that I didn't own a clutch. I borrowed one from my mom to use as an example in class, but it didn't match my black dress. So... I dug around in my fabric scraps and found some stiff-back velvet, satin, and cording I had been given. I did a little playing on my sewing machine and... voila! A clutch. Since the material was given to me, it was basically free. It took about 30 min to make, start to finish (I probably would have spent more time than that shopping for one) and it matched my dress nicely. It's a trifold design, so it essentially has two compartments, which was sort of nice. I promised Robert I'd put up a picture, so here it is. My one-of-a-kind masterpiece.

Saturday, April 21, 2007

2 Peas Update

I updated my 2ps gallery with about 10 more LO today. Yippeee!
(go to my gallery to see the journaling for this LO.)

My Favorite Card

This is currently my favorite card. I scraplifted the idea from 2ps, but I really like it.

Michael's $1 Acrylic Stamps

I have a love for acrylic stamps. And though I can't say I'm terribly fond of Michael's, I do like that they have a WHOLE lot of acrylic stamp sets for $1. Yep. I like that. They had about 20 different sets, and I bought 16 of them. So last night I sat down and made a few cards with them and some of my scraps.

HS Mask Cards

A few weeks ago I bought a Heidi Swapp alphabet mask set. I haven't had much time lately for crafting, with Protocol and all, but I did get some cards made. And last night I managed to scan in a bunch of layouts I'd done earlier, plus a couple I did yesterday. So MIM is back at last.