Stardust Warehouse

This is my first tutorial, so I'm starting with an easy one.

Step 1

For this project you will need two tags and scissors. A pencil and ruler are optional, necessary only if you want perfect measurements. I cut these two tags from magazine pages using my Sizzix, but you could trace your tags and cut them by hand if you like.

Notice I have chosen one patterned paper and one that is mostly solid in color.











Step 2

Overlap the tags as shown. Use a pencil to place a mark as shown.

Or, if you don't like marking and measuring, you can skip this step.



Step 3

Use the ruler to lightly draw a line marking how deep your cuts need to be.


Or not. If you skipped the last step, you can skip this one too.








Step 4

Draw lines from the bottom edge of the tag up to the line you drew in Step 3. You need to do this on only one of the tags. First, draw the center line of the tag. Then, draw the center lines of those two halves. (You will draw three lines which divide the tag into four parts.)

Align the two tags, one atop the other. Cut on the three lines just drawn.
Or, if you didn't draw the lines, just cut freehand.








Step 5

Weave the strips of the two tags together using a simple over-under-over-under technique.








Step 6

Ta Dah!

Your woven tag heart is now ready to glue into your next project. See my ATCs in a post below.

I hope you enjoyed the tutorial. Please leave your comments below. And, be sure to send me a link of your own woven hearts!

Over at Ten Two Studios, Lisa Vollrath has free Valentine images as linkware. All she asks is a linkback from your blog or website or a mention in one of your groups.

The link to the images is here. Thanks, Lisa!

Hearts, Love, Romance! Valentine's Day is less than a month away, and with that in mind, I joined a 3 for 3 Hearts ATC swap over at Go Make Something.

These were fun to make even though I had problems. I was trying to do an image transfer of Princess Di, but the transfers kept smudging and looked more like those alien heads with big dark eyes. Finally, I gave up and simply printed them out on plain paper, then cut and pasted them onto the cards. The "Open Your Heart" phrase is a stamp, which sounds deceptively simple, doesn't it? Ink, Stamp, Repeat. Right? But leave it to me to make something simple....difficult. The problem was the stamp is one of the wood mounted ones, and the words were in a straight, rigid line. I wanted the phrase to follow the curves of the heart. So, even with practice, the taping, inking, removing tape, then stamping thing didn't work so well.

Several people have asked how I made the hearts, so I'm working on a mini-tutorial to explain. Thanks for looking. Please leave a comment if you like.

These are my 4 in x 6 in background images for the Round Robin #4 at Gluebots. Each person makes nine backgrounds and adds one image to begin. Then the set is passed on throughout the group with each member adding only one image to each. Once the cards cycle back to me, they will be cool collaborative collages ready to display or to be bound into a book. How cool is that!

Hi Everyone, Someone.....Anyone.


Greetings from Crockett, Virginia. Not metropolitan Crockett (meaning I don't live beside the Post Office,) but from the Edge of Crockett (not to be confused with the long-running soap opera, though every evening we get The Edge of Night @ The Edge of Crockett.)




This postcard is one I made for the November swap at one of my Yahoo groups called BookArtz. It's a fun group. Check it out.

The postcard started out as a map of Firenze, Italy that I photocopied from a travel guide. I glued the map to a 6 in x 4 in piece of Bristol board. Following the instructions given, I glued rolled-up strips of paper towels for the main roads, then smaller string for other roads. After the string dried, I glued on a layer of tissue paper. Then I used Pearl Ex paints mixed in with a bit of gel medium to paint the card. After the paint dried, I finished off the postcard by wiping on some dark antiquing liquid, then quickly wiping it off. The hardest part of the project was waiting for the various layers to dry so that I could proceed to the next step!

Welcome, and I hope to see you back often.

If you care to check out my scrapbooking layouts, they can be found at my

gallery at thedigichick.com.

Any comments and/or constructive criticism would be appreciated. You may post your comments here or leave them on the gallery pages if you like. Thanks for looking.

At least one astrophysicist says planets are formed in the same manner as dust bunnies that form underneath your bed. Check out this quote from a space.com article by Robert Roy Britt.

Rocky planets like Earth are thought to form when dust motes around a nascent star gather to form rocks. Rocks collide, and some stick and grow.

"The dust bunnies under your bed grow in a similar way," said Scott Kenyon, a planet-formation theorist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. "And after a million years, a dust bunny can get pretty big."

So if the dust particles beneath your bed have collided, stuck together and started to grow, don't worry about it. You're not a bad housekeeper. You're conducting a scientific experiment. Just a suggestion: Don't wait a million years before you clean. Asteroids tend to clog the vacuum hose.