Phewww...

Did you just hear a big sigh of relief? The dies for CHAW 13 have been sent! Designing the dies is the fun part- it's the hours of drawing them in Illustrator that gets me crazy. The good news is my skills are definitely improving. The bad news is I feel like I am permanently attached to my computer chair. Now to catch up on everything else...

Remember the birds from a couple of weeks ago? They have appeared again, spotted on the blog of Madeline Arendt! Visit her blog to hear how she made it. She made the sweetest mobile for a baby shower gift using the birds and tree branches. Madeline has posted so many beautiful projects on our Sizzix blog hops and I am a huge fan of her work. She always uses interesting materials and finishes every project with just that special touch. Here are some pics I grabbed from her blog- hope she doesn't mind me sharing...

Sadly I was not able to make a project this weekend because today is our Designer Crafts Connection Blog Hop. :-( You can follow that to see some cool spring projects.  Just click on the blue button on the sidebar for some great inspiration. I have a fun project to do for an event tomorrow night and promise to take pictures and post them.

In other news, I had a lovely email from a lady who I was chatting with on Karen Burniston's Facebook page :-) Her name is Leslie and here are a couple pictures of an adorable Halloween project she made using my Box with Scallop Flap ScoreBoard die.

This is what she said:

Here are a couple of pictures of my treat boxes made with your Box w/Scallop Flap Die.  I  made a belly band and fabric yo-yo with googly eyes to close the box.  They were filled with mini M&M peanut packages, my grandson's favourite candy at the time. :-)

Love this- thanks so much for sending that to me Leslie! I love the look on the little yoyo's face- all nervous that the spider is going to get him :-)

Now on to the stack of work... wish me luck!