In the Craft Room

A few posts back I wrote about my frustration with the Martha Stewart website. The short version is I found a pin on Pinterest that I wanted to craft, and the pin led me to a video, but the promised template was nowhere to be found.

I created my own card, and it was super fun, but the idea of that little triangle template kind of haunted me, and recently I suddenly needed to make a congratulatory banner for a coworker.

Because I like to make things harder than they need to be 🙂 I decided to make that little template myself, and then see if I could make a Congratulations cubicle banner in less than five minutes using very ordinary materials.

Fall is my very favorite season. I haven’t hidden the fact that I really don’t care for summer. I like Spring, too, but it tends to bring really severe weather to the Midwest, and it also means Summer is coming, so it isn’t as much fun for me as September, October and November.

I’ve been watercoloring again, and I really like to make abstract backgrounds – you never know what you are going to get, and they never really are duds. I saw several tutorials on using masking fluid to preserve the white space for more artwork (lettering, usually) and that sounded like something I’d like to try.

And it was, right up to the point where the masking fluid was $12 for a bottle about the size of nail polish. That’s out of my budget for a one-off craft tool, so I shelved the idea.

And then it occurred to me that I could just create a watercolor mask by basically cutting an inside out stencil on my Silhouette and accomplish the same effect.