Celia's Crochet Baby Afghans

Here is the baby afghan I made for Baby Celia 💗
This is my 5th baby afghan I have made in a year.

This is the first time I used this pattern....every other one I had made, the pattern was a shell pattern and I wanted to change it up this time.
I just love love love the scallop edge on this one with the grey trim on the pink scallops.

Just look at that edge!!!!
I just think it looks so pretty.

I saw this type of afghan on Pinterest and loved how it looked, but when I clicked on the link, it was for the completed afghan, not the pattern.
I really wanted to make this pattern, so I figured out the pattern by looking at the photo.
I can't say if this is exactly as the one on Pinterest, but it doesn't matter, I love how it turned out....so much so that I am making one for a baby boy now.

The pattern is a granny square in a row, so all double crochets.
I was jotting down on scraps of paper what I was doing for this pattern.... on many different pieces of paper, lol
I finally put them all together and wrote down the pattern.

I did a video showing the 2 different types of baby afghans I have made.
If you would like to watch it on my YouTube channel, just click the link "Tracy's Treasures24"
Thank you all so much for visiting me today :)

I started up a new FaceBook group 💗
I wanted a group where we all could share what we are creating.
So after a year or more of thinking about it...I finally did it!!!
Here is the link and I hope you all join me and share your projects and share your love to other on theirs💗
Here is the Link to my new group "Tracy's Treasures Shares"
I hope to see you there :)

Tracy 💗

Fauxbonichi journal flip for December 2015

A whole year documented in my journal.
Every day I wrote in this journal and played with stamps, inks, stickers and who can forget my much loved washi tape :)

Looking back on my goals for December, I did awesome on getting over 10,000 steps a day...but majorly failed on my 1 can of Coke a weekend...you win some, you lose some.

I did a video sharing each day of December.
How I decorated my pages, what me and my family were up to and some art as well :)

If you would like to watch my video from my YouTube channel, just click on the link "Tracy's Treasures24"
It is so fun to go back on and read some of my enteries and look at photos, drawings or doodles I did on those days.
I am so happy that I kept up with it....even on those days or weeks that I was behind and had to play catch up.
So if you are wondering....yup, I am doing it again this year.

I hope you all have a very Creative Day :)

Tracy :)

March Fauxbonichi Flip

I thought I would be more on the ball this month, and share my flip right away :)
Look at all of those Red hearts..those are my 10,000 steps a day :)
If you look closely, on the 25th I got over 20,000 steps in…..go me!
But then again I did drink over my quota of pop on the last weekend as well…oops.

Here is my video with the full flip for the whole month.
I was asked to share more of my daily life in my flips, but it sure made for a long video.
But it even made for a longer YouTube upload.
For a 1/2 hour video, it took over 7 hours to upload!!!

If you would rather watch my video on my YouTube channel, just click the link "Tracy's Treasures24"

I hope you all have a very Creative Day :)

Tracy :)

Come Learn with Me…Art Journaling…Glue

I wanted to find out what is the best glue to use in my Art Journal.

I had Matt Medium, Gloss medium/Varnish, glue with water (so it spreads more easily) and Mod Podge
First I used tissue paper to glue down, as it is light weight.
All of the glues, worked great for this.
When I used thick paper (it was water colour paper) all were okay, but when I started to pick at them, the best one was the glue with water. The rest of them peeled up, except the glue with water and the Gloss Medium/Varnish that I added a top coat to.
The reason I added colour to the paper, was to see if the colour would bleed. It did not bleed on any of the glues.

I have more detailed information in my video :)
If you would like to watch my video on my YouTube channel just click on the link "Tracy's Treasures24"
I hope you all had a Creative Tuesday :)

I am so close to completing my art journal page….so close ;)

Tracy :)

Altered Memo Board

I went down in my craft room today to clean up and organize.
My room is such a disaster, that I need to clean in order to move around to organize.

But instead of doing that, I decided to finally alter our Family memo board.
Yes it is was more enjoyable ;)

This memo board is a dry/erase board and it is attached to our fridge and it is gets a lot of use.
This is the Before photo
I had been meaning to alter this for a long time…like a year or so…yup full fledged procrastinator here.

First I used my label maker to re-do the headings on here.
I had used a sharpie marker, but even that faded over time.

I also used a Sharpie marker to draw in my lines, but those eventually got erased.
So I picked out a few pretty Washi tapes to take the place of the Sharpie lines.
I have had the "abs" photo on this memo board, my old memo board and even my fridge at one time.
I had to keep it ;)
I like that it just happen to fall under a need ;)

I really love the pop of colour that this rose washi tape gives.
I think this is one of my favourite washi tapes that I own, and believe me I have more than a few rolls, lol.
My daughter made this "I love my mom" sticker when I got my label maker many years ago.
It has been adhered to many surfaces in our kitchen along with the "abs" photo. So I had to keep it ;)

Here is the Memo board in its rightful place on our fridge.
It looks so much nicer now with a bit more order and colour to it.
I even picked up a few new markers to go along with it.

I also did a quick video on this.
If you would rather watch it on my YouTube channel just click the link "Tracy's Treasures24"
I hope you all had a Creative Thursday :)

Tracy :)

More Copic Combinations and a video

I thought I would share another page in my Copic Journal.

I have had a few requests for more colour combinations.
So here are two more brown combinations, a medium and a light brown.
I have posted and used 5 colours for their hair, but honestly I usually only use 3 colours.
I have also been asked to do some Copic colouring tutorials, but I'm still not sure on that one.
I honestly just wing it when I colour.
I don't really pay attention to where the light source is coming from.
And when I have watched other tutorials, I think to myself, "Man, I'm doing it all wrong", lol.
But I never say never, so we will see about that.

I did do a video today.
Just a short one sharing Blake's Birthday Card I had made on the weekend.
If you want to watch it on my Youtube channel click on my link "Tracy's Treasures24"
I hope you all had a very creative Thursday :)

Tracy :)

Halloween Cards and a Video

Here are the cards that Kristy has been making for the kids in the hospital.
They are so fun and colourful.
I love that she coloured a lot of the images :)

Heather made a nice little treat today.
She bought these chocolate molds for Oreo cookies.
They were yummy ;)

Wayne bought a clock when we went on our trip a few weeks ago.
When he took it out of the box, we had a chuckle at the label on the bubble wrap "Attention" Remove bubble wrap from box before displaying"
Wayne's response..."What idiot would hang the clock with the bubble wrap still on". LOL.
Sadly the glass front of his clock was cracked.
Because we bought it on our trip, he just took the glass out.

Onto My Day:

I actually posted a video today.

I had recorded it a while back but didn't upload it to my computer.

I edited on my old laptop, as I am scared of my Macbook Pro ;)

  I hope you all had a creative Sunday :)

Tracy :)