With Halloween next week, the current Iron Craft challenge was to make something creepy, spooky, or scary. I channeled iron crafter Dr. Russ and made papercut haunted village and graveyard candle cove...
Oct 25, 2016
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For this Iron Craft challenge we were to make a project inspired by something we were fans of. I’m a fan of a lot of things, but struggled with something I wanted to make based on them. In the e...
Jun 23, 2015
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For this Iron Craft challenge we were asked to make something from paper. I’ve been itching to do another papercut project lately since it had been quite awhile. I had planned on doing something...
Jun 09, 2015
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For this first Iron Craft challenge of 2015, we were asked to make something related to 4th anniversary gifts, flowers, fruit or appliances. I originally thought I might try to do something with fruit...
Jan 20, 2015
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A week or so ago, I was walking by Paper Source and was blown away by this wreath in the window.
I kept thinking about it and decided to make my own version in colors to compliment my house in a slig...
May 14, 2014
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It has been a long crawl to spring here in Minnesota. I think the snow piles are mostly gone at this point, but the greening is taking a little while. I’m taking things into my own hands and mak...
May 13, 2014
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I love it when all the flowering trees are in bloom in the spring. All the gorgeous shades of pink and white, like this amazing grove at the University of Minnesota Arboretum.
We are about another mo...
Apr 01, 2014
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This weekend I finally had the opportunity to visit the Papercut! an exhibit of amazing psaligraphy (papercutting) at the American Swedish Institute here in Minneapolis.
The exhibits main focus was o...
Mar 03, 2014
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My sweet husband was out shopping the other day and stumbled across some Christmas decorations he couldn’t help but bring home to me. I’d never seen them before and they were so pretty I h...
Dec 16, 2013
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We are in the height of holiday madness for Iron Craft this challenge. I just happened to see the perfect idea in the latest issue of Martha Stewart Living, paper trees. The trees in the magazine were...
Dec 03, 2013
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