Sandra Finn of Belleview, Fla., must be a true crafter at heart. Why else would she have purchased a bunch of little wooden shapes that resembled a half-egg with half of a ball at one end? Simply to see what she might make with them! What she ended up making was a series of clever little creatures which included a bumblebee, a ladybug, Santa Claus and a panda bear--all with magnets on the back which immediately made them whimsical refrigerator magnets! (
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But that wasn't all from Sandra. She also included several very cute and amusing characters made from inverted clay flower pots...the very small 2-inch size. By adding a wooden ball to the bottom (now the top), she had a head for a rather rotund body. With the addition of fun foam arms and a talent for painting, Sandra made a bride, a Carol Duvall (figure B), Raggedy Ann and Andy (figure C), AND a Sock Monkey flower pot figure! (figure D)
Alisa Harkless of Union, Ohio, proved to us with one pocketful of cards that she is indeed a talented card crafter. The group of cards she sent to the Shoebox included one made using a brass template and piercing tool with a polymer clay flower attached (figure E); another card had been made using a brass template, to which she had added a three-dimensional, three-layered pergamano flower (figure F). There was also a stamped paper tole card (figure G), and on and on and on...each card completely different from the one before it. One of the cards that had been made with several sheets of two-sided paper so entranced us that we decided that we all needed to see how it was made (figure H).
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