Craftgrrl

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Does anyone have any ideas for friendship bracelet themes?  Here's a pic of some of my latest bracelets, but I need some help with my next one :-)  Ideas appreciated!

~Whyknots

Hello all! I don't know if this post is appropriate for this particular forum but I honestly can't think of any other people I'd prefer input from :) I'm just looking for an opinion on a shirt I'm making..not a craft question per se, just wanted a humor opinion on a dull question for a shirt design. Mods, feel free to take this out if it doesn't belong.
ANYWAY..so I've been on this 90's TV show kick with my shirts, so I designed a "Nematode Watching" shirt in reference to Doug. I have two versions...one with simply a pair of binoculars..which I like bc it's subtle and it looks like a serious shirt unless you get the reference, and the other has a small picture of Porkchop dressed as a nematode as per the show..my boyfriend likes this one, but his sense of humor is different from mine..I like sarcastic and subtle and he likes cartoons and fart jokes hahaha but obviously I like them both..I would NEVER spend this much time deciding on a design but for some reason this is gnawing at me and I just want to put it in my damn catalog lol. SO.....WHICH DO YOU LIKE BETTER?

It's been awhile... so, new button design time!



HULK MAKE PUNY BUTTONS, BUTTONS WEAK.

I've been busy experimenting with new materials.

Here are some hair clips and barrette I've made~ I am rather pleased with the results ^__^~



PS> I'm sorry for the cut off on the photos D: You can visit my personal LJ for the same non-cut off photo. I didn't know craftgrrl chops off the extra bits off the sides ;__;

( This way for more of my Metal Flower Garden~~ )

Shortly after my sis had her baby, we all (mom, dad, me, sis, and baby) went out to a home & garden show. My sister went to the bicycle shop beforehand and bought one of those orange safety flags that bike riders use, and put it on the stroller so we could find her when we all got separated from each other. Then we all started joking about how she should have different flags to fly, like the pirates used to, and well, next thing I knew she and I were at the fabric store buying fat quarters.

( Hoist the colors! )

Someone at work asked me to make her a necklace and earrings!!  I don't know what to do with the stuff I make, so I am very pleased to have an excuse to work on something knowing it will have a home.  She sent me a link for a starting point, a necklace with gold and black round beads, but said she wanted something more interesting. 

( finished! )

Look, up in the sky! 

It's a bird?

It's a plane?

NO, it's. . .


( SUPER WORM!!! (3 pics) )

Got this little box at Goodwill and knew it would make a cute steampunk trinket box. I used my fave scrapbook papers and some cute embellishments.

I made this for a swap on Craftster and was really pleased with how it came out. :)





I used a combination of card stock and scrapbook paper. The card stock butterflies I folded to bring their wings up, as if in flight. Some of the scrapbook ones I doubled, putting one directly on top of another to give it a 3D effect. Because of the depth of the shadowbox frame, there’s plenty of room for them to “flutter” their wings.

It’s a fun take on a traditional specimen or botanical print. No butterflies are harmed in the making of this one!

(You can see larger versions of the pics here on my blog.)