Author: Ann Butler

  • Sizzix Scoreboard Blog Hop Checkbook Notebook Cover

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    This week’s Blog Hop Features the Checkbook Cover ScoreBoard Die which I made into a Notebook.  This is  another great Die created by my friend designer Eileen Hull.  When I saw this great design I thought of so many uses for it besides a checkbook cover…which is why I decided to go with a vintage…

  • Sizzix ScoreBoard Blog Hop #2- Cupcake Holder Pin Cushion

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    Thanks for stopping by the Sizzix Blog Hop!  ScoreBoards are a brand new kind of die designed for Sizzix by my friend, designer Eileen Hull.  ScoreBoards cut and score matboard to create boxes, totes and folders.  As the ship date for the dies gets closer, Eileen realized that the best way to show them off…

  • Sizzix ScoreBoard Blog Hop #1- BOO Box with Flap

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    Thanks for stopping by the Sizzix Blog Hop!  Just a little intro here… ScoreBoards are a brand new kind of die designed for Sizzix by my friend designer Eileen Hull.  ScoreBoards cut and score matboard to create boxes, totes and folders.  As the ship date for the dies gets closer, Eileen realized that the best…

  • EMOTIONS run wild at John’s USAF Graduation from Boot Camp

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    I have been gone for the past week and just returned from San Antonio, TX, where my son John graduated from the US Air Force Basic Training.  My husband, Mark, and I went along with our youngest daughter Callie, to see John’s USAF graduation ceremony   I have never been around the military, my husband…

  • Mixed Emotions

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    It was about 4 years ago when we were doing some remodeling to our 1905 home that I gave up my approximately 18′ x 12′ studio/family room so that the kids could have bigger bedrooms.  While the 2 older kids were already out of the house and would have loved to have had bigger rooms…

  • Where has the ART gone?

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    This past weekend I went to the largest Craft Fair in Midwestern MN, The Little Falls Art & Craft Festival. This is a show where tour buses of people from all around come to see what is new and exciting. A friend & I used to sell our handcrafted items at this show. We stopped…

  • DIY: Quick and Easy Easter DYE Tags

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    Quick and Easy Easter DYE Tags to DYE for Supplies: Easter egg coloring kit, tags, bowls, water, vinegar (for some kits not all require it), wax paper. Follow the instructions on the kit package to make dye in the colors of your choice, using a separate bowl for each color. Place tags into dye, the…