non traditional sympathy cards

I needed a couple of sympathy cards so I went a little different route.
This one a for my cousins husband whom I really don't know so went with a masculine type.

The second one is for someone who loved to bake and found great happiness being in the kitchen.

No Cards Yet

I had the best of intentions of getting settled into our rental, getting all my crafting possessions set up in the basement, then I would get back in business with my Fun Stampers Journey card making again. Well, that's just not going to happen.  The basement is cold, dark, dreary and eeary so I have to force myself to go down there every time I sell something from my Etsy shop.  Needless to say, most of my card making supplies are still packed away. But I have not been totally unproductive, I have been crocheting in my spare time.

My model is such a good sport.  She did get a treat after this humiliation. I still need to make a flower or something to jazz it up a little.

This scarf isn't finished yet but is turning out pretty good considering I made up the pattern.

Whirl Wind

Well it's been a whirl wind of crazy madness since we sold our house and had less than a month to find a new place to live and move 24 years of treasures. I'm some what of a hoarder but I'm a hoarder with a purpose.  I save junky things thinking someday I will repurpose it into something really cool. Add that to all my good stuff and all I can say is Uff Dah!  I should be unpacking and organizing but I was suffering from crafting withdrawal.  And since one of our neighbors invited us over to meet some other neighbors I didn't want to show up empty handed so that gave me a perfect excuse to make something.

I've made these cute little guys before but this time I changed it up.  I brought the gloves at the dollar store and have always used the regular knit ones that come two pair for a dollar.  This time I thought I would try the fuzzy ones but didn't realize they were the kids size so after I cut the fingers off  it was a little more challenging to get them over the Hersey's nugget, then I had to add a glue dot to keep them on.

Sheep

While making sheep cards for my niece, I was inspired to make some new styles of sheep for the Etsy shop. These little guys have a primitive look to them.

 He comes in a tree ornament form and a pin/brooch form.

 

These guys are less primitive but equally adorable.

You can also get them in ornament or pin form.

 

Oh, then I thought I would post a pic to show my table isn't always as cluttered as my mind.

 Dining room table.

Three season porch table.

 

 

Card Buffet

I had my first ever card buffet last week and it was a hit so I think there will be another in the future.  I have a better feel for what the people want and can offer more options without a lot of extra work.
Here are the projects.

These were the tags I offered and they sold out.

The gift card holder sold out as well.  I even sold the sample one.

I used a bunch of different designer paper for these and the music one sold out immediately.

I made extra of these 'cause it seems I'm always out of sympathy cards, so I figured it they didn't sell I could use them.

I had a lot of these left over and I guess it's just to limited as to who it would be used for, as I took a couple of the left overs and stamped trees on the other side, now it's more versatile.  Clever, aren't I?

I did the same thing for this one.

These are kind of  wintery generic cards.

These two are my favorites.  I can't get enough of the window frame cards and I love the vintage fawn designer paper.