WIP wednesday project and my Etsy shop open!!

I am working on this queen size quilt for us, it is a pattern from Modern Quilt Relish called Taffy twists. All solid colors in aqua and teals on a brown background.There are 3 rows of the twists surrounded by brown on each side. A very easy pattern to piece and then I'll have lots of fun with the quilting!  It is so nice to have all my craft shows done for the season and a little free time to decorate for the Holidays. I am looking forward to making more things for us this winter.
My other news is that I opened up my Etsy shop last week!!  I had an account and shop name for 2 years and never took the time to get items up for sale before. So as of now I have 8 items on there and hope to list a few more soon, so check back!  Here is a link to it  Vickiscraftden







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Star Spangled Christmas card

A Christmas card with stars for the DRS challenge this week. We could either make a red,white,and blue card or use stars.  In black Memento I stamped a DRS star and then used a jel sparkly gold pen to outline parts of it. In the center I used a glittery star brad and around the edge of the circle I used a gold foil ink pen. The circle is popped up on lime
green cardstock stamped with a star, added to a black for a little accent. All this attached to a white card.

DRS challenge #96

I made this Christmas card to enter into the DRS Rip Torn challenge this week. Starting with a white cardstock for the card and adding an olive green layer stamped with DRS Lines O' Plenty background stamp. Next comes the torn white paper stamped with their background dots stamp topped with a glitzy gold ribbon. And of course one more DRS stamp-the poinsettia colored with copic and bic markers with gold stickles in the center and I have one more Christmas card made!

Seasonal hangings

On a quilt forum I belong to we are discussing if we quilters have seasonal quilts we change out often. Yes I do! Thought you might enjoy seeing some of them. These are in our foyer where I have my antique sewing machine. I also have knick knacks for each season too.

Your turn-do you have seasonal quilts? If you do why not post them on your blog!

DRS challenge #93-Pumpkins a Plenty

I needed a teeny break from the busy day so I made this punpkin card to enter into the DRS challenge this week. I used a kraft cardstock, and an off white layer that I scored with my score pal to make the lines. The pumpkins are a Boss cut die, I fussy cut the wheelbarrow and added more pumpkin die cuts to it. To complete the card I used a tag die and printed the lettering on it, added a couple brads and there is my pumpkin card all done. Be sure to check out the DRS blog, they have wonderful stamps and great inspiraton from their designers!

I'm a quilter for sure!

Lily Pad Quilting is have a linky party to prove you are a quilter so that is what this post is all about. I think the following pictures prove I am a quilter for sure!!  These runners and quilts are all laid out ready to go to a craft sale which is going on this week. Yes I made all of them :-)  And yes I do have quilts and table runners about my house for my own decorating purposes too!

So if you have time hop on over to Lily Pad and check out the other quilters pic's that are proving they are quilters also.

Harvest moon challenge

DRS challenge this week is harvest moon and I am really late at getting this card entered! But here it is!

I used an ivory card, added a black cardstock embossed with swirls to represent wind, used my circle die for the harvest moon and stamped a black cat with white ink, cut him out and popped him up on a fence I made with strips of tan cardstock.  

Spooky, Scary

I will enter this 'All Things Scary' card I made into the DRS So Spooky It's Scary challenge for this week. I started with white cardstock, adding a layer of black and then orange which I used a background candycorn stamp for. For embellishments I cut a moon from a die, black spider web from a punch, 2 ghosts from Stampin Up owl punch, stamped a witch hat then cut it out. I added some green ribbon for more color, but the most fun one is the little spider hanging from the web-I used a glitter brad and drew in his legs.

DRS challenge #88-The Eyes Have It

What a fun DRS challenge this week-use googlie eyes!  One could make all kinds of things using those, but I chose a witch since it is going to be Halloween before we know it. I used  circle and scallop spellbinder dies to make the witch face and hair, then sponged a little distress ink around them. Cut a triangle for hat, a straight piece for the brim added a moon behind her and a little spooky bat ribbon and some embossing folders to give the backgrounds some dimension. A fun quick card. Check out the DRS challenge.

DRS challenge-that's unexpected

What is unexpected about this card, well how often do you see a pink snowman!!  I am entering this snowman card into the DRS challenge this week. Also using this card for a donation to Operation Write Home through DRS card drive. I have been away from stamping for several months and it feels good to make use of my stamps again!  This is a DRS snowman stamp, however I changed out his hat :-)  The ribbon snowflake slide is also a DRS stamp. I love their stamps!

Not wishing for snow but...

I am working on snowmen this week, while it is in the 80's here! Seems crazy I know to make snowmen in September but the craft shows start in less than a month. The pattern for these cutie's came from Country Friends, she has some great patterns! I just tweak them a bit by adding different hats and embellishments. I need lots for my fall/winter craft shows. So far I have 24 done and currently working on 16 more, with even more in the works!

Last week I finished up these doll outfits for those popular 18" dolls. Wish I would have remembered to get pix of the dolls modeling them. There are flannel nightgowns, sun dresses with hats and capris with ruffled top. Feels good to get more added to supply box. Sometimes people ask me what I charge for them so I decided this time to include the prices on the pic.

Working on these...

 We got back from a wonderful vacation in Western PA and Niagara Falls on Sunday night, played catch up on Monday and yesterday set my sights on getting bindings on a bunch of table runners and wall hangings, here are two in progress.

And here are four that are all bound!

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WIP Wednesday

I have really been busy again! First off DH and I were trying to cram summer all in within 3 days it seemed, LOL, between boating, biking, kayaking-well ya gotta do it all when the weather permits :-) Then I went into a table topper piecing mode and then straight to getting those toppers quilted and here is what I came up with.  The pattern is in Anka's Treasure new book called Angle Ease and you use her new ruler called The Triangler. It is such a fun and quick pattern to whip up-LOVE it!! So they are still WIP's as they don't have their bindings and probably won't get them for a week or so.

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A Fall finish

Here is the scarecrow I was stenciling the leaves on a couple weeks ago using the Tsukineko inks, I am pleased with how they came out. The picture doesn't do them justice, IMHO, they have a suttle sparkle to them. So the scarecrow is a preprinted panel that is kinda old, it is one of those door panels that you layer with batting and backing and sew around, cut out and slap on the door, LOL. I got it for $1 at a garage sale and thought I can spruce him up a bit by adding borders etc. 

His background was pure white with candycorns and I used a little tan Rit Dye and am much happier with that color background. Then you know how we all scold ourselves from time to time about our large stash of fabrics? Well in this case it was soooo nice to go in the stash and have just the right color of grey that matches his pants for the little border and not have to go out shopping. Plus I had the right tanish for the chekerboard border which I quilted Terry Twist in. His pants and shirt were the most fun to quilt, I added straight quilting lines to his pants, and followed the checks in his shirt, and gave the pumpkins some lines. Then came those leaf blocks-I stitched around them and then the echoing began. Did I mention how fun this was to create!!

Hope everyone is having a good summer! And squeezing in some time for quilting!!
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