Dear Ms Bartholomew,
I have to thank you again. I recently had the pleasure of purchasing your book "The Bauble Tree" in your Etsy shop. I have since written a short blog post about it at http://www.stxradley.blogspot.
Sincerely,
Chelsea Radley
Stx
I was so blown away by the blog post... and then a second post, that I begged for permission to re-post it here. I edited a little, so if you would like to see the complete posts, just click the titles for either and they will get you there.
Posted: 07 Nov 2014 09:06 AM PST
Hello
and welcome to another sporatic installment. I recently purchased the
printable book "The Bauble Tree" from Sandy Steen Bartholomew's Etsy
shop. It was an instant download so I was able to print right away.
Following her suggested directions I created a book out of the printout and even added a cardstock cover.
I folded the pages in half ...
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and glued the back edges together.
Look
at my little munchkin. No sooner did I print and glue than the book was
stolen from me! Yes, stolen I say! Because as soon as she got her hands
on it she proceeded to draw "bauble" to her heart's content.
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Copying the ideas in the book, Cali sat down and immediately drew her own tree and accompanying tangles.
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She
was very intent on her work. And who isn't? Honestly it was a joy to
watch her stretch her creative muscles. I fancy that Ms. Bartholomew's
daughter and mine would get along quite well when it comes to tangling.
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Cali
even cut it out and asked for a string to hang it up like an ornament.
Seeing as it is not yet Christmas, I headed outside for this shot on our
neighboring pine tree. I think her tangled ornament came out quite
well! Now if only I could get the chance to play with the book myself.
*sigh*
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Posted: 08 Nov 2014 03:32 PM PST
Ah,
yes. So I finally got hold of the book "The Bauble Tree" and was able
to try my hand at this tangle. What resulted was a lot of fun
experimentation.
My first attempt was this little card. I colored on with metallic colored pencil. But I thought to myself, can I do more?
Yes! I did! And I absolute love this little card!
So
how could I make this even better? Well, color it in of course.
Thankfully, my color printer did a fantastic job so I just had to cut
and fold my papers. I now have over 40 of these little cards to send out
this Christmas. I don't think I have ever had Christmas cards ready
this fast!
For the third installment in this series, in which Chelsea creates all of her Christmas cards, in November - and under the influence of the Lilah Beans... click this link to read all those details... More Ebooks and Tangle Cards |
OoooooWeeee! Just downloaded it! Wonderful! It will be great fun!
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