My mom requested some (masculine) birthday cards for some upcoming family birthdays, and luckily I had just bought some gorgeous paper. I had picked up some Simple Stories Elementary paper (Spelling Bee #1207 and Smarty Pants #1205) for a thank you card, but had enough for some birthday cards.
I chose a variation of Mojo Monday sketch and made two cards using this great paper. Both cards were made on Night of Navy cardstock, with Old Olive card stock as mats. Each edge was distressed with Crumb Cake ink.
I bought the little shipping tags last spring, and completely forgot about them. But it worked really well on this sketch.
The second card used the same paper, but flipped some of the paper (thank goodness for double sided paper), and this time I used a label and a button instead of a tag.
You probably thought the bit about ‘penguin sweaters’ in my title was a joke, but, sadly, it’s not. There was an oil spill off the coast of New Zealand and it has affected some Little Blue Penguins. A yarn store, Skeins, a yarn store in New Zealand is collecting Penguin PJs to be forwarded on to help the penguins. The penguin sweaters will prevent the penguins from preening their oily feathers and ingest the oil.
The pattern was posted on the Skeins newsletter. There was an update on the blog and the Wildlife centre doesn’t need any more sweaters, but you can still send them in as there is another rescue centre that has asked for the surplus.
I’ve started a sweater and I’ll send it down once it’s finished, here’s a snapshot (from my mobile, sorry for the bad lighting) of the first part.
I’ll have some more projects to share with you this week, and some new holiday items to add to the store- make sure you check out the A Paper Buffet’s Facebook page and grab a coupon to save 10% on any purchase until Oct 31st (limit one per customer).
Happy Monday!
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