Etsy

I have seven items listed on Etsy up for sale.  Two of them are custom orders that I can do, and they are note cards.   I believe I posted them on this blog around August 2009.   The rest are cards that I recently made within the last month.  

Please look to the right-side panel to take a look.   you can also get to them through by clicking here.  

Take care.  I have a longaberger event to go to.   If you are local, the Spring preview event is Saturday, May 1, 2010 and will feature new Longaberger products.   The event is from 10am-12nn.  is localed at the Doubletree Worthington, 175 Hutchinson Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43235. I will post further details on my other blog, and you may access it here.

Take care, and I hope and pray your weekend will go well.   God bless you, and take care.

New cards

Hello, this is a short and sweet post.   I just updated my other blog, and a new facebook page for my Longaberger business, and I am busy making cards and other things.   OK, on with business.

My first card

This is the first thank you card in a series of thank you cards I made for my father to give to the trustee women at the church I beling to and attend.   it is really simple.  no Cricut was used. general cardstock paper made into a blank card, single matted.  the wooden hearts I purchased at a thrift store for only .50.  Well, whoever gave to the thrift store, their lost, my gain.   I sponged Memento black ink on the grey cardstock.   1/4 red ribbon by offray.   One of the hearts, I colored with a copic marker, R59-Cardinal.  


Second card

I love this card, and I will have to make another one (which is one of the reasons why I take photos of my projects).
the ingredients for this card are generic blank cardstock (standard size) in a teal.   The darker blue was embossed in swirls (cuttlebug).   The red circle was cut with the plantin Schoolbook cart, and sponged in Mementos black ink.    The ribbons are bazill and a fabric lace I purchased from the thrift store, again for .50.   I am finding out that the thrift store is your friend, but you do have to watch it.   I do not know where I got the black letters from.  

Third Card..

This card is also 50% Cricut.   The pattern paper is from a discontinued Daisy D's paper exclusively made for Archiver's (I purchased it 3 years ago).  It is the Moda Collection.   The circle is cut out from the Plantin Schoolbook, the pattern paper is also discontinued, but it is by Heidi Grace.    The thanks is cut out of the wild card cartridge.    Generic cardstock for both the blank card and the mat.



Well, I have typed long enough.   so I will show you the rest tomorrow.   God bless you, and see you later.

Kind of sad news...

I did not make the design team.   That's OK, everything happens for a reason, so I am over it.

How can I keep up with two blogs...

I am posting wonderfully on this blog, and not enough on the other one.  in fact I only have one entry.  here is are the reasons:

1) I only have one person join to view it, and 2)  I have heard rumor that Longaberger may not like it, but if so, I will be notified.  for this week only, I am posting the same announcement on both blogs, so if you are not a fan of Longaberger products, skip this next part, but I urge you to at least take a look, PLEASE!!

This Wednesday's online-only offer is a great deal -- you can purchase our retired Mug Rack which holds six mugs for just $15 -- a 50% savings! Since our Mugs and Soft Square Mugs are on sale for 20% off the entire month of April -- just $22 for a set of 2 Mugs and $25 for a set of 2 Soft Square Mugs -- you can really add up the savings this month! The offer for the Mug Rack begins at noon on Wednesday, April 7 through midnight that day -- quantities are limited, so order beginning at noon through my website www.longaberger.com/patricialogan or call 614-236-4970 or e-mail me at plogan@columbus.rr.com and I'll place the order for you! See the photo below for details!

As noted above, ALL Woven Traditions Pottery in ALL colors is on sale throughout the entire month of April -- it's our yearly pottery sale! Now is the time to add to your collection, or begin purchasing the pottery you have always wanted.


Plus, during April, you can get a free lidded protector set with the purchase of any color Buffet Basket or Buffet Buddy Basket!



AND, with every $50 in guest sales, you'll earn a $10 coupon to spend on another $50 purchase in June! It's like creating your own 20% off sale in June on ANYTHING in our collection! See the photo below for more details!



Thank you for your support of my business and The Longaberger Company!

I will post something in regards to scrapbooking later.  Take care.

I am joining a design team

Finally, I am free to do whatever I want in the paper industry.   I asked a couple weeks ago about getting Copic Marker Certified.   Oh, did I tell you that these certifications, including getting MS Office certified, which I also want to be, cost a lot of money.   Look, with me trying new things, which also makes me busy, not to mention that I have two businesses to run, and to make my father happy, get signed up with a staffing agency (he still does not know that I left Archivers, but my mom knows, and they live in the same house), I do not have the kind of money they require.   Plus, the certification class for Copic Markers in Columbus is the same weekend as my church's anniversary, and my mom's birthday.  so I have to wait for the next class.  It is also the same weekend as the Scrapbook Expo on the Ohio State Fairgrounds, and I want to go that Friday (yikes, it is next weekend, where did the time go?).

So I am thinking, "what do I need to get my name out there, besides word of mouth, Etsy, and Ebay to name a few?  Enter being on a design team.   I know it is a stretch, but besides having a video here and there about scrapbooking and card making (oops, excuse me, papercrafting) on You Tube, which I do, but not about papercrafting, yet.   I am submitting a card on Cutter's Creek, an online company, which I am very familiar with, since I buy there, and on a couple of Yahoogroups owned by the  owner of Cutter's Creek, Kim Bush.  So I do not join just any old design team.  not me.   even though I have not met Kim in person, I trust her, and she tells the truth of what she has availble, and what is not availble.   so you want to see my entry?   Here it is

(ok, I really hate the way Blogspot have you make your entries after add a photo.)   Anyway, the minimum requirements are, and what I did are: 1 die cut from a machine.  of course, I have the Cricut, and I used the Home decor Cartridge, Cupcake.   I now know there are other Cricut carts with the cupcake on the cart, so I cannot wait to get them.  I am into cupcakes these days, both making them, cutting them out, and of course eating them, LOL.  the next element is a ribbon.  I chose a thin ribbon in a sort of poppy red by Offray.  the next is ink somewhere on the card either stamped or as an edger.  I actually have ink three places on the card.  Around the edge, stamped on the circle,   also centered point cut on the stamped cupcake with the Cricut Storybook cart, which is edge in Chestnut Brown by VersaMagic, then I crumbled the circle to make it even more distressed.  the cupcake was colored by Copic Markers: Cadium Yellow (Y15), Pure Pink (RV23), Forest Green (G17), and Cardinal (R59).  The pattered paper is by a now retired Archivers exclusive by Daisy D's.  the collection is called Moda. It is no longer availble, and I finally used it.  I cannot remember what project I originally bought it for.  I just know that I did a lot of impulse buying back then.  It was Archivers first collection done by a major company, and today, if you happen to go into their stores, they have a lot of collections by major companies like K and Co.  The circle piece of cardstock in from Archivers.  The ribbon I bought at Frank's Nursery and Crafts when they went out of business. the little bit of bling by the Happy Birthday?  That is by Hero Arts, part of their Sparkle Clear Collection, Coffee.   It is a set of clear stamps, and small gems. the feux stitching was made by a thin Sharpie marker.  Well, that is that.   I had mentioned in my last post, that all my Longaberger entries have been switched to a new blog (oh, that I forgot to ask my leader last night in a meeting if I was really allowed to have).   Well, I will post later if I am on or not.  I must say that I missed one important part of the card:  The Small Cupcake.   I did not just design that one out of the air (I wish I could draw).   the stamp is by Stampin UP! and it is part of a stamp collection, called Two Step Stamping, from their 2004 book.

ok, now I am finished.   God Bless You.

...and I am on a roll

Made 8 more cards.   This method uses no electricity whatsoever (unless you count the lights used to see, LOL).   Yes, folks, I made 8 (count them) non-Cricut cards.   Meaning I did not use the cricut at all.  I could have used the cuttlebug on this, but that is for the next set of cards I do that way.  

First of all, the method I used (but not in the manner it is suposed to be), is called the one sheet Wonder cards.   What is the One sheet wonder card method?   This method, invented by someone on Split Coast Stampers (website: http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/), is where you take a sheet of 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of cardstock, and by following a set template for cutting, can produce 8-10 cards.  You can find the real instructions and template on that site or I found it on http://www.gingerstamp.com/inspire/onesheetwonder.pdf .   Ok, so here is where I went wrong:

Although I am pleased with the results (made 8 cards), I did not use a sheet of 8 1/2 sheet of cardstock.   I used a sheet of 12 x12 patterned paper.  Even though I personally do not think it matters to what size you use, it is important that I now know that you do not have wasted paper at the end of your little project.  I did have wasted paper.   Rot Roh.   So when the instructions say a sheet of 8 1/2 x 11, use that size sheet.  the rest of it can go into my scrap paper box.   Next, I did not do the second set of instructions either, which was to take preferrably a white sheet of cardstock and three color inks with three different sizes of rubber stamps.   OK, if you are in a hurry,love a favorite paper company , do 2-page layouts, and you have one sheet left, because you bought 3 sheets, save the energy, and cut up that sheet.   Other than that, I followed the rest of the instructions, which was to make any type of card from those pieces you cut from.   So without further ado, here are the cards, they are mostly love and Thank You cards:

So this these are the cards.   Like I said, I love them, I just did not follow the exact instructions for a "green-friendly" card making time, which I do not know if that was the original intention on the original creator's part, but I will follow her instructions from now on, LOL.

Good night, and,God Bless You.  thanks for reading.

Name change

Just a quick little note that I have changed this blog's name from Tricia's Treasure to MDN Creates, which is my card business name.    I am also getting ready to create a blog just for my Longaberger business just to not confuse the two.  I feel it is time to get serious about this business.

Correction:   I made one tiny little boo-boo in my last post.   I forgot to list the link to my Etsy account.   I it listed to the side.   I only have one item, with four more ready to make their debut, as soon as I take a picture.

Last quick note about Longaberger.

This is my last entry in this blog about Longaberger, except that I will announce the new name of the blog.   In the meantime, if you want to order, you have 3 days before February and Fall/winter items are gone.   I invite you to visit my website,  www.longaberger.com/patricialogan to order, or if you want to join my team.

Take care and God Bless You

A stall, and a lack of concentration but I will make it.

Well, on February 9, if you all have been following my posts, I have my first card set on Etsy. they cannot promise that these cards will sell right away. In case you have ever been interested in selling you artwork or whatever you make on Etsy, they will hold it for 4 months, longer than Ebay, but in the next few days, I am going to list something on Ebay to compair the two. Now I am stalling with my next set. I have the idea, it is going to be two male cards, juvenile. I need a business plan, I need organization, and I know it. When I was just doing it, making things, I felt good. Iam not saying that do not enjoy it. I think that this weather is getting to me. There is snow, snow, and more snow, and the next storm system is next Monday, and I have a class on Tuesday. They canceled it from the 9th, and it is at Archivers. My week looks like this: My nephew Mike's 14th birthday is Monday; Class on Tuesday; networking event, to which I have a table at in on wednesday; then the rest as far as going out in finished after that.



These are the cards that I am submitting for the next swap I am on, and I will be making more for the store. Story: I was looking for a male card to make. I was thinking of my youngest nephew, Deonte, who will be 3 in May, so I was looking for something super simple that he would be able to recognize. So, I pulled out the My Community Cartridge, and I never really played with it before. I got this cart free in 2008, when Provocraft had a rebate. when you purchase the Cricut E from, I believe it was from November 17-December 31, 2008, and send in the receipt, you got Printing 101 and My Community cartridges. OK, enough of the chit-chat.

From the My comm Cart, I cut out the car, sign post and road, and adhere them to a piece of generic yellow cardstock card blank. the card blank itself is a standard A2 size (or 4.25 x 5.5) card. I went to MS word this time to print out the Happy Birthday on plain printer paper. I left the inside of the card blank so that the receiver can put in their own personal note to the child. You cannot see it through the photo, but I do have a sun, and the sun came by way of George and shape cart. I do not use this foundation cart much, as I do not use my baby cricut much. I know it does not have all the cool features that the Espression and the Create has, but I still like it. the sun was made from my scraps, Kind of a silky piece of paper from Reminence and the other side has an easter saying on it. would you believe it is from the end piece from the stack of paper, and I nabbed it when I was putting away paper at Archivers, two years ago. well, the paper companies got wise, and no longer send a dud piece (the one that says"time to reorder") with their packs of paper.

So my total lack of concentration was not a total lost. I just need to organize. Oh, and I am working on my double scraproom. Double, you say? Yes, I said double. When you are single, it is good to be selfish, because I do not get to hear the words, "where is my space?" from a hubby or children. The main scraproom is on the second floor, but I do most of my work downstairs in my office, so that is how I am preping for that. I also need a place to plop my baskets, and have a space upstairs for that. hopfully I get to plop it all in one space in a few months.

February specials in Longaberger Land.

Check here for all Longaberger specials going on my website. You have one more week to get fall/Winter Products. If you are new to Longaberger products, I think you wil like what you see, and as always, i you have any questions, please email, or comment to this post. Well it is time to turn in, I hope I will have more cards or other paper products to show next time. God Bless you.