My Second Craft Fair

So many have asked how my craft fair went last week, and I honestly was waiting until this Saturday's craft fair was over so I could report on both of them at the same time. This is the table of my premade scrapbooks -- what I was really hoping would sell.
This table held my cards, mini chipboard books, tags and other assorted odds and ends.

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The first week the craft fair was held in a large high school. Attendance was good. I thought at the time I did fairly well, selling two scrapbooks but a good number of mini albums and vintage greeting cards and ornaments.
The second craft fair which was yesterday was here in a smaller grammar school. I figured I wouldn't do so well as I did the previous week, but I was pleasantly surprised. I ended up selling nine scrapbooks. I also sold more mini albums and a lot of tags. I guess you never know.
One confession: At yesterday's fair I didn't sell anything for almost two hours. That is a very disconcerting feeling. You start to think the whole day may be like that. But then within the course of just one hour I sold seven scrapbooks. Like I said, you just never know.

Saturday's Workout

The challenge for Saturday's Workout is to use corrugated

cardboard. I used a scrap of it on this oddly shaped ATC.

Art Creations Friday

Art Creations Friday is celebrating its first birthday! And when it started a year ago, it premiered with this lovely vintage female image. This image
has become one of my absolute favorites and I've used it many times. It's hard to create anything you don't like with this image.


I created two submissions for this week's challenge -- which was to use the image from the challenge site's first week. I wanted to use some packaging I had aquired from Prima and from Making Memories. This project is totally green!

I bought this frame stamp recently online. It's from Stampers Anonymous and I love it.

I embossed it here in gold. I can think of a million ways to use this stamp.

Theme Thursday -- Colorful Skinny

My colorful skinny for Theme Thursday's challenge. It seems fitting with the sentiment I used to have a lot of color.

Stamps by Oxford Impressions and Studio G.

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I've had a lot of inquiries as to how the craft fair went on Saturday. I'm doing another one this Saturday, so I thought I would report on both at the same time. I'll have some pictures to share then too.

It's Tuesday -- Time for A Tag Challenge

Tag Challenge #26 -- Wow, that's almost half a year we've been making tags together! I'm not getting tired of it either -- hope you aren't. 'Cause Christmas is coming and I thought it might be a good idea to start making some tags we can use on our cards or as gifts or gift tags.

So begins our "Colors of Christmas" series.

Thanks for the ideas some of you left as to possible color combinations. You'll definitely be seeing some of those in the next few weeks.

So on to today's color scheme which comes from Jacqueline. I happen to know it's one of her personal favorites.

It is pink, brown and burgundy.

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Remember, this challenge runs all week. You can jump in at any time, even with more than one tag. Have fun!

Tag Sampler -- Challenge #25

Below is a sampler of our tag challenge using photos. I loved the photos (and stories behind them) that many of you shared. Great tags!

My First Craft Fair

I'm off today to participate in my first craft fair. It was a last minute thing -- at first they said they were full, and then called yesterday with an opening. Fortunately, I expected to be in one next weekend so I had everything pretty much ready including my account to take credit cards and a credit card machine.

I've spent most of the past year creating premade scrapbooks which is what I hope to sell.

The pictures above are what I'll be selling in addition to that -- vintage cards, some mini chipboard albums, etc.

Note to Tag Tuesday Participants: I'd like to do a "Colors of Christmas" challenge for a couple weeks. I'd appreciate your ideas for colors or color combinations.

Saturday's Workout -- Finally!

I'd been wanting to participate in Saturday's Workout all week. The challenge was to alter a bottle. I couldn't find a bottle initially and then when I did I was uninspired. It was also a very busy week getting ready for my first craft fair next weekend. But last night as I finished a Diet Snapple I noticed the unusual design on the bottle and thought how this was too pretty to just throw away. And that's how I arrived at this altered bottle. Which is just barely making it in time for the challenge, but that's okay.

Details: I altered this very easily by taping a portion of the bottle at the top and bottom that I didn't want to cover with alcohol ink. Then I applied some plum, blue and green alcohol ink which didn't turn out well. When I tried to take it off with the blending solution the glass just left a black color behind it. So I went with that and added some brown alcohol ink, creating a black and brown color scheme for the middle instead. I then removed the tape and added gold sticky-backed lace on the bottom and a gold rim around the top of the alcohol ink border. I had some gold stick-on embellishments from Prima which we got on the cruise, so I added four of them towards the top. Finally, I added a beaded embellishment which came with a ribbon on top that fit exactly around the opening at the top of the bottle. Added a gold ribbon and that was it!

Theme Thursday

I got the Winter edition of Take Ten in the mail yesterday and found a sheet of free artists quads contained in it. The pink patterns just jumped out at me, and I immediately set about making this Christmas card with the pink sheet music quad.. I love pink and brown ..... and it seems to work well for Christmas, too.

I've just put this up in my Etsy shop, but am submitting it for the patterned paper challenge this week at Theme Thursday.

You can see all the patterned paper submissions at http://themethursday.wordpress.com/.