T-shirt Transformed into Jazzy Ruffled Purse

I've been seeing a lot of ruffles around lately.... ruffles on blouses.... ruffles on headbands.... even ruffles on greeting cards! While making a ton of upcycled t-shirt totes for the Farmer's Market and upcoming craft shows I found myself with a pile of strips left over. So what's a girl to do with all that great t-shirt fabric? Why.... ruffle it of course! Here's what I came up with:

It has been quite a struggle NOT to just pile all my stuff in it and carry it around, but I convinced myself that there was a future owner out there somewhere who just couldn't live without this fun purse. Maybe I'll have to make another one soon! This project is also linked at the Passionately Artistic linking party
where you can find a ton of really awesome projects from yummy recipes, to colored glass jars, hand-sewn quilts and well, you name it it's there!

I'll be a guest designer this month on Freshly Brewed Challenges!

Tomorrow the card below will be featured on Freshly Brewed Challenges which is run by the lovely Heather who creates these awesome and adorably cute digi and rubber stamps. You can find them in her shop Fresh Brewed Designs. I had so much fun with these two digi sets that I can't wait to make my next one! Hop over to see what her design team has made and join in her monthly challenge For the Guys.

Fresh Brewed Blog Hop please vote for my cards!

Please join the Fresh Brewed Designs Blog Hop today to see some awesome cards made with their newest rubber and digi stamps and while you're there please hop on over to Vote for card kit creation and vote for #3 (that's me!) There are some very talented designers and I completely understand if you want to vote for someone else, just have fun doing it. I made five cards using their new card kit and had a blast doing it!

Pot decorations for fundraiser at work

On Friday we're putting on a fundraiser at work called Spring Fling and will be selling, among other things, gift baskets. One of the themed baskets is gardening, so I immediately thought of that Cricut cartridge that came with my machine called Walk in my Garden. Here are some of the picks I made to stick in the basket and some of the plants we'll be selling. I think they're the cutest things and might just have to make some for around my house! I love how the faux stitching looks, especially the blanket stitch on that purple butterfly! I used bamboo skewers for the sticks and glued them with Diamond Glaze. What fun!