Father's Day Cards

Pop up gift card holder. The card outside.

Card inside (you can kinda see the gift card in the center).

Hokie Box explosion card inside. My FIL is a big fan.

Card outside front.

Card outside back.

Transferring old paint to new bottles

I've had a problem with my older paints drying out, and figured it was finally time to transfer them over to some new dropper style bottles. I'm still researching what I can use as agitators. I think I'll will purchase some ceramic beans used for blind baking

You can get these dropper bottles from container and packaging supply. I ordered black PP 15-415 dropper tip cap (item L506BL), natural-colored PP 15 mm controlled dropper tip (item L502C), and 1/2 oz natural-colored LDPE boston round bottle with 15-415 neck finish (item B443).

Today's Mini Haul

My Dark Angel banner bearer order came in at my local gaming store, and they also had the Sector Imperialis bases in stock. These will be perfect for some Sisters of Battle that I won in an ebay auction, but didn't include bases.

King of Tokyo Playmat

 I always have trouble keeping track of everyone's points when playing King of Tokyo. I scanned the game board and printed it out on some white cotton fabric. Then added two blue borders, and quilted around the squares. I made some templates for the heart health track and star victory point track out of freezer paper and painted those on by hand. Then I made some token sets out of hirst arts pieces in several colors.

Game Mat

Tokens in use

PotM June 2016: Senet Boardgame

The project of the month for June 2016 is my Senet boardgame. After running into a situation where I would have to sand down several side block I let this project languish.

Senet board side and the two ends. I ended up needing to cast more blocks to finish off the end pieces due to some misshapen blocks. I'm planning on making a box out of foamcore to hold the playing pieces. The left end piece has two indentations to pull to slide it out of the cavity.

 

   The Ur side of the game box. I'm going  to fix the little chip in the middle with some green stuff after I get the rest of the piece finished.

 

 I've painted the inside with black gesso and coated it with high gloss varnish so that the plaster doesn't rub off when the foamcore box gets pulled out.

Resolutions

This past new years, I resolved to complete some of the vast number of unfinished projects I've amassed. I've kept on track so far, but I restarted this blog in an effort to encourage myself to continue.

I gave myself two rules:
1) Finish two projects before starting a new one
2) Each month pick one project that I am exceptionally unmotivated to work on and finish it (no excuses).

Super Dungeon Explore Miniatures

Curtains

Materials: Cotton fabric and black out material
Notes: My husband and I bought our house a little over two years ago, and I've just finally gotten around to making curtains.

Craft room curtains. The walls are bright orange (the paint color is named tiggeriffic), which makes me very happy. I didn't have enough of the orange print, but I found the coordinating blue as one side of a pre-quilted fabric. Then I spent a very long time unquilting it. The other side has since become a purse.

 

 Man Cave curtains. I made these out of a sheer organza I found on clearance and some soft denim. After straightening the organza the curtains came up a bit short. That's okay because the sofa is parked directly in front of this window and you can't see the bottom of the curtain anyway.

 

  Bedroom curtains and blackout liners. The photo is really off for this . In the picture the two fabrics show a lot of contrast, but in person it's not as stark. I'm really pleased with how these turned out. So much hem tape for the liners. Sigh