http://www.pinkdilla.com Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:58:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Martha Stewart craft We have lots of sparkly things going on here at my home, inside and out. For starters I thought I would share some of the crafts I’ve been working on the past few months. We also got a surprise snow storm here in Texas! What a thrill. Hope ... http://www.pinkdilla.com/news/glitter-and-glisten I weeded through my colossal stash of artchix goodies and was inspired to make some cards in traditional red and green for Christmas, but with a non-traditional twist! Like the bathing beauty and the girl with the Easter sheep. I just went with the flow and the Pearl Ex salmon ... http://www.pinkdilla.com/news/red-green-and-blue-christmas I was so excited to find out that the International Quilt Festival in Houston Texas Oct 30th-Nov 2nd 2008 will be host to a Make It University with Cloth Paper Scissors magazine! Make it U is an open studio area for collage arts and crafts with demonstrations and participation in ... http://www.pinkdilla.com/news/make-it-university-and-the-intl-quilt-festival-houston After playing around with all of my alice in wonderland images and stickers I turned them into some cute cards. I had the most fun with my Stampington’s Angel of music stamp, I just cut the wings out of the image and dabbed some alice blue ink on her gown. ... http://www.pinkdilla.com/news/alice-tea-party-in-the-woods-cards I was so honored and delighted to be asked to add a page for the Somerset Studio Thank you collaborative book as a thank you to the editor of Holidays and Celebrations 2008 for including our artwork in that issue. The theme was "you as a child" and so I ... http://www.pinkdilla.com/news/somerset-studio-thank-you-collaborative Arches in the sky Little Band of Refugees sitting around the campfire Well, I just don’t know what to say other than our lives will never be the same and everything is changed. We evacuated from the coast area 30 miles from Galveston, Texas and came home on Sunday night. There ... http://www.pinkdilla.com/news/hurricane-ike-2008-and-the-aftermath I thought I would share this Birthday card I made for my sweet friend Renee, it was very therapeutic to have a creative outlet for my stress and sadness. I called this one "Looking Up, not Back". I am always looking up. Looking up in admiration of nature. Looking up ... http://www.pinkdilla.com/news/looking-up-card Ted Dekker is my literary Hero! And his thriller, action, fantasy style writing is in your face, fresh and so enthralling. It started as a Love story for me, my husband was going out of town for several weeks and he knew the circle trilogy books, Black, Red and White ... http://www.pinkdilla.com/news/ted-dekkers-new-book-sinner-i-am-the-3000 My daughter was turning 8 and loves music, Hannah Montana, and the Jonas Brothers so we decided at the last minute do have a rock star birthday party! First we made the invitations using the blue, pink and purple color scheme we were using for the decorations. Next we looked ... http://www.pinkdilla.com/news/girls-rock-star-birthday-party Last week here at Pinkdilla I spent my time Hatching up new ideas, making cards and spending time with family. The first card I made is a Wizard of Oz Birthday card using a Breygent Collector card on the front, and the second one is a just hatched New Baby ... http://www.pinkdilla.com/news/just-hatched-birthday-cards