Quilled Snowflakes & Storage Box

A few years ago, my craft of choice was quilling.  At the time, they had classes at our local Michael's and my friend and I decided we would check it out - and we were hooked.  This took up most of my craft time until my Mom passed, and I started scrapbooking all her family pictures and labeling people so future generations would know who all these people were in the black and white pictures!!  I felt it was important to document our family's background.  This of course led me to cardmaking and this blog. 

I made a lot of quilled snowflakes for the family and the girls which they hang on their trees every year.  These are very delicate, and of course I end up gluing them when they take them out of their storage bags.  So I decided to make some pizza boxes to store them in to better protect them.  Here are examples of two different styles that I made. 

I always sprayed them with adhesive and them added some glitter to them.  Here is one of the boxes that I made for them.

There are a lot of videos on Youtube showing how to made these cute boxes.  I decided to make the one that PootlesPapercraft did which was 4" x 4".  I had to make a few of them but hopefully they will be more secure.

I am trying to finish a cute project that I started making for the kids before I got sick, so I can then make some Valentine projects.  I also want to thank everyone for their well wishes as well.  I so appreciate all your comments and emails.

Thanks for stopping by,

Nancy

Sympathy Cards

Wow, I can't believe that almost a month has gone by since my last post!!  Unfortunately, it has not been a very good month at that.  Before Christmas our little Jennifer got sick with pneumonia and then Joe got a sinus infection.  After Christmas my daughters and I all got bronchitis and then my son-in-law, Rachel and Sarah got the flu!  What a mess!  We haven't been that sick in a long time. 

Right before Christmas a close friend of mine passed away suddenly.  It was really a shock to her family and friends.  We grew up together, got pregnant together and had a lot of good memories with our kids and families.  She was a wonderful quilter and loved checking in on my blog to see what goodies I was doing.  She will be missed!  Then two weeks later her sister's husband passed away as well.  As I started feeling better, I decided to make some sympathy cards using my Heartfelt Burst of Spring Collection as she knew how much I loved pansies and made me a beautiful pansy pin years ago which I treasure. 

I also used Heartfelt Creations Royal Frame and Accent Dies for my base cards.  I used SU's Whisper White, Melon Mambo and Highland Heather CS for my base cards.

I colored these pansies in SU's Melon Mambo, Pretty and Pink inks and Old Olive and Lemon Lime Twist inks on my leaves.

For these pansies, I used SU's Highland Heather, Gorgeous Grape inks and the same colors as above for the leaves.  I also put some prills in the centers of all my pansies. 

I used SU's stamp set Heartfelt Blooms for my sentiment on the front of the cards and SU's stamp set Better Together for the inside sentiment.  I was really pleased how they turned out and I know she would have loved them as well.

Thanks for stopping by,

Nancy