PIN IT FRIDAY FAVS: Purses and the Very Best of Pinterest Pins

I saw a wonderful purse tutorial on Pinterst using the Envelope Punch Board and knew I had to make one for my dear sister in her favorite color: Any shade of blue!

Original Pin HERE

My purse turned out like this:

...and I made a matching card

to go with it:

I finished everything and realize that the purse really needed the bow that was shown in the original pin and video tutorial. Those finishing touches can made a BIG difference!

It helped me quite a bit to mark all areas ahead of time for the sticky tape placement using a pencil and to fold the velcro flaps before the purse was assembled. For my own future reference, here are the areas with adhesive tape:

I also increased the handles length to 10 1/2".

This purse started with a 12" x 12" piece of DSP and resulted in a final purse size of 4 1/2" wide x 6 1/2" high without the handles. With the handles, it was 8 1/4" high. That resulted in a large purse for any gift-giving occasion!

Next, I made a small version from a 9" square of DSP punched at 1 7/8" to hold a candy treat:

Here are a few more purse pins that caught my eye:

Original Pin HERE

Original Pin HERE

Original Pin HERE

...and finally...some handcrafted Thanksgiving cards

from friends who made me do a

happy dance:

CARD DIVAS CARDS

Here are the cards we got to make at last Card Divas meeting:

Mel says the name of this die is

Butterfly Hearts by Memory Box.

Inside View:

The red centers of the flowers are actually paper!

This is a card made with my new mason jar

stamp from Paper Source. Here's another version:

Inside View:

The bee stamp is from a retired

Stampin' Up set called Botanicals.

Inside View:

Michele's wonderful card is made with

washi tape and nesties!

Christie wet embossed the flowers for us ahead of time

then we used daubers to rub on the color,

cut out the flower and popped it up

with dimensionals.

This card reminded me of my grandmother's

Singer sewing machine that she used to

make all of her quilts and clothes

for me and my sister!

Mel also sent along these cards for each of us that we had admired at a previous meeting:

What a nice surprise to get all three cards!

Here is Christie's awesome favor that she found on her last trip:

...and here are some food pics from Christie's kitchen:

  

 It was a fun fun day!

MARCH CARD DIVAS

Oh! How happy I am to be part of this talented group of Card Divas! Here are the March creations:

Hostess Gifts from Alice

(Alice actually made the lovely flower

on the bag from scratch!!)...PLUS she

included another bag containing a

See's St. Patty's Day Potato -

It was to die for!!!

We spent the day in San Francisco with lunch at Scoma's, a card exchange and a house tour!

What a View!

Alice's Sweet Treats for the Divas!

Artistic Chocolates and Favors from 

CHRISTOPHER ELBOW

and Our Hosts, Tommy and Jerry

Wonderful Moscato