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compendium of curiosties 3 challenge #2 - Distress Glitter gift card holder

Follow the challenge here:  compendium of curiosities 3

And my pinterest board here:  craftcupboard under the stars CC3C

Finished Gift card box

Used Tim Holtz picked raspberry, mowed grass, peacock feathers and pumice stone disress glitter.  Picked raspberry and peacock feathers stain.  Peacock feathers distress ink and paint.

Cut paper rounds to fit top and bottom.  Run through Zyron and stick them on cheese box

Ink side of bottom

wrap bottom with ribbon (also ran through the Zyron)

Paint side of top with distress paint (I used 2 coats and used drying tool after both),  Decorate as per above

CC Challenge #1

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My Pinterest board her

Italy Summer 2014 - Travelling Light - The towel of choice - Vatican Dress Code and doing laundry

This is a Peshtemal - A turkish towel.  It absorbs at least as well as your bath towel or beach towel.  It's very soft (100% cotton) dries quickly, it's large (68" x 38") and takes up very little room. Unless something better comes along, this is what we are taking to Italy.

1.  Towel of course

2.  coverlet/throw for sleeping

3.  Beach cover up - fold length wise in fourths and pin the corners togther

Open it up and see 2 arm holes 

put it on with the opening in the front

belt is optional

4.  Shawl to cover my arms, or sarong to cover my knees in cathedrals, especially the vatican.  They take the dress code seriously. 

5.  Always handy when dining Al Fresco

I think if Douglas Adams were around today to write us another book, he would switch from towel to Peshtemal.

Further to no. 4 -  If you don't want to go on the tour wearing tyvek - plan ahead. Besides requiring arms to be covered, the vatican does not allow shorts.  The same could be true at other  churches.  Worse, you have to pay for the tyvek pants. The day we were there, they had run out and we had to wait for someone to come out who was wanting to sell theirs.  Yikes on many levels.

I usually tour in a crinkle gypsy type skirt. It rolls up into a nice small ball and is meant to be wrinkled - great traveller - Very cool, very comfortable and passes dress codes.    Last time I was in Italy, cargo pants that convert to shorts were very popular, too.  Just zip the legs back on and pass right through.  They do require an extra pat down at the airport, if you wear them on the plane.

Here's the advice I will be following for washing.  The powder is really highly concentrated and rinses out very easily.  AND it's available at McCaffreys in Newtown right down the road from YOBC rehearsals.

PLEASE share with extra tips and tricks that you have for travelling light in summer weather in the comments below!  Every idea, no matter how small is a big help!.  Bon Voyage!

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I mass produced these cards for our office Christmas party.  Since we are a designer-ish company, I thought these were fitting.  I remembered Tim Holtz (I just love that my Samsung galaxy note recommends Holtz as the next word after I Swype "Tim") talked about liking distress stain for quickly laying down color, so that's what I did.  The first part I cut was the holly so that I could get the Stickles berries drying.  I used mowed grass stainon white card stock and then stamped with black archival ink.  All the stamping was done with same archival by the way.  Then I got to cutting out 10.  I had stamped just the hat portion all aroud the sheet, so with the help of the magnetic platform it was a snap going back and forth through the vagabond.  Wash, rinse repeat, with the nose (spiced marmalade),  hat (used vintage photo and weathered wood - liked both), scarf (festive berries) and arms (well, gathered twigs of course)  Then, cut 10 tags from manila cardstock using the Tim Holtz sixxiz tag die and cut a bunch of grommets using same die and metal tape from the hardware store.  I stamped the entire image on the tag and then assembled, mostly using mounting tape.  The arms were glued on.  My only tip would be to keep an eye on all your bits, especially the noses.  If you craft like I do, you sometimes have a hard time finding little bits.  I kept a tin next to the vagabond while I was cutting.  Anyway, it,was fairly simple and easy enough to do quite a few