About a month ago I went to Joann’s with my mom to shop for lining for curtains we made. We took a number to have it cut and I took a stroll down the scrapbook isle to kill time. I found an Amy Butler scrapbook line and almost screamed with glee when I found a beautiful 8×8 scrapbook on the shelf. Did my eyes deceive me? Could this be so? I knew that my scrapbook stash would soon be growing. I took a look at the $27- price tag and my list of scrapbook projects fluttered away. Needless to say, I left empty handed, went home, and took out my Amy Butler FABRIC STASH instead. As usual, I ended up folding it up and put it away. I still haven’t found the right projects for those yet.

Two weeks ago my sister and I went to Big Lots for God knows what and lo and behold, God does answer prayers. I saw it at a glance but knew in an instant what it was. The very Amy Butler scrapbook from Joann’s sat on the Big Lots shelf under a stack of off brand cardstock. I scooped it up and called for my sister, “Q!!!! DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS IS?????” I looked for any others sitting on the shelf to verify the price was right but it was the ONLY one. SIX DOLLARS!!!

I am a happy gal.This scrapbook is just for me and all about me & my craft projects. I’d like to have a place to archive my craft happiness.

I started the pages friday at scrapbook club. The pic on the left is the title page. Didn’t realize until I scanned it in that the letters in ‘amy’ are all wonky. The pic on the right is the second page. I need to take and print out the pic of the purse I made at STITCH LAB in my Sewing 1 class. I am so proud of that class and love that the motif of the printed paper matches the print of my purse. I’ve received a lot of compliments on the purse. The 2 I am most proud of are compliments from 2 fabric shop owners.

I am a newbie to scrapbooking. It is kind of theraputic…and addictive. Wish me luck!

I started a scrapbook for my cousin and his new wife. They had the cutest ‘Save The Date’ cards. I was inspired by this card. When I decided to start the book off with this page, I remembered I had this delicious paper. This is one of my 1st layouts. I had to scan in for my book. I cannot wait to see them and show them what I made for them with all my love.

I took an embroidery class a couple weeks ago at the Stitch Lab. Rachel of Average Jane Crafter taught the class. I took the class to fine tune my skills and battle the stem stitch. I had a blast and caught a glimpse of the super secret tea towel for Jenny Hart. That was almost as fun as taking the class. eeeek!

I really appreciated the class. This is what we made in class. I couldnt wait to take it home to frame it. I bought these cool shadow box style frames from Ikea. I decided to kinda scrapbook it. I did my first rub on on the glass with an Amy Butler trim rub on transfer. I love how it turned out. I even did the back and added a lil journaling too. Check it out in the next pic

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Tomorrow is the last day before one of my co-worker’s maternity leave. I made this banner for the baby out of scrapbook paper, stiff felt and ribbon. I zig zagged the edges with my sewing machine for a finishing touch, they are actually attached to the cicles with iron on adhesive.

the lighting was all funky when I took this pic. It is too late in the nite to mess with the lighting. View large On Black for a better look.

*Ignore the mess on the shelf. i am working on the studio and have not set up the shelf yet. he he he

mom had some really ripe bananas and we decided to make some banana nut muffins. We put on grandma’s old aprons and whipped up a batch. It was really nice cooking muffins with my mom like when I was a kid.

while the muffins were baking up, I thumbed through my new cookbook. It is a reproduction of the 1953 BHG Junior Cook book. EXACT replica. I think I found what I will be collecting next, vintage children’s cookbooks. I have the one from my childhood. It’s a great start.

The muffins turned out moist and the pecans are delicious. The recipe was missing a lil cinnamon though. It was the simplest recipe we could find online with the ingredients we had on hand. Next time we’ll add some secret ingredients.

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I was using Moo cards as my business cards. They are conversation startes because of their unique size and I could use pictures of my own work on the back. HOWEVER, I’ve joined a few Young Professional groups and facilitate a Craft Sellers meetup group so I wanted a lil something on the more professional side for when I am networking.

You will notice there is no email address that usually is found on business cards.

1. I use many emails for Sewcial Butterfly, it is easier for me to have people visit the website and click the email button from the homepage.
2. This design only allowed for my name and one other line so I chose my phone number
3. Due to the length of the domain, no email address could fit.

Yes, my full phone number is on there, this scan was edited for privacy

I suggest you visit Fabulous Stationary and order something. Or just go there to see the FABULOUS designs. They have a wide variety to choose from and the customer service people are sooo nice.

If you need a coupon code, message me and I can get a $10 off code for you. That saved me shipping and handling on my order.

Then I refolded and restored my stash not only by color, I also arranged by my favorites. I put the ones that I love the MOST in the armoir I keep my supplies in. THEN arranged the swatches in a binder after ironing them all.

The swatch binder is filled with baseball card sleeves I bought from the local hobby store. Then I filled the sheets with my swatches by color (ROYGBIV kids…ROYGBIV!). I used a playing card as a template to cut out a swatch from each piece of fabric but the card was too slippery. So I decided to cut the template out of stiff craft felt. It was flexible enough but stayed in place because it was felt.

Now I have a catalog of all my fabrics. It is a great reference and good place to go for inspriation. Don’t ask how many reds I have, they are so much alike but different enough to be justify so many…at least that is what I am telling myself to justify them all.

On my most recent trip, these milk glass jars called out to me. I had a vision of adding a velvet pincushion to them all. I wanted pink or light blue velvet but red was the best I could find. Over the past few nites I made them up and set them aside to dry.

I’ve been in a pin topper kick too. Found a whole bag of tiny doves for a DOLLAR! Rock On! SO I made up about a dozen or so of these dove pins and they look fabulous on these new pin cushions.

The only delimma is that they look unfinished. I’ve tried a few things to finish them up but none of those ideas look right. I’ll spend another day or 2 at most to figure it out. Otherwise, they are going up on the shop as is.

Any ideas?