Day 28: Wonderful Cardboard

It is Day 28 of this Advent blogging adventure...it is also 10:30 PM after a long day of working at the bead shop.

Needless to say, I am a bit tired. I have realized that trying to post a blog entry each and every day of a month can be exhausting!

Those of you who subscribe to my Newsletter know that this month I had a bit of a play date with cardboard. I barely scratched the surface (so to speak). I know I have many more hours of cardboard play within me.

As I was wasting a bit of time on Pinterest, the other day, I came across a How To tutorial on cardboard. This led me to a wonderful blog called Ikatbag. I've put it over on my Inspiring Blogs list. For those of you who have young children or grandchildren, I suggest you stop over and take a look. Lots of interesting tutorials and cute handmade toys. But what she does with cardboard is just simply a lot of fun. Even though, my focus is using cardboard for creating print blocks, I am so taken with the idea of making structures (and toys)...I might have to give a few of her ideas a try!

And the winners are...

Winners of the Roy G Biv fabrics

My husband pulled these winners of the Searching for Roy G Biv Challenge fabrics out of his JMU baseball cap...

Congratulations!

Lisa, please comment here to let me know whether you would like the red cats piece or the oranges piece.

Kathy you will get whichever piece Lisa doesn' t pick.

Yesterday, I started work on samples for some magazine articles I'll be proposing. I had some fun with brown paper and cardboard. Slathered on the Mod Podge to hold it all together.

This morning I took a look and they are ready for printing and rubbings.

I have some other sample ideas in the works. Want to get these proposals off soon.

I also hope to get over to Home Depot today to finally get a look at some of the possibilities in the gardening department. I especially want to check out anything that looks like a grid or could be made into a grid. I'd like some grids to go with my weeds!