The Gentleman Crafter

New Years Eve Pattern DONE!!

Happy New Year Gang!  Looking forward to seeing everybody at the New Years Eve Scrap Bash on Ustream!  Yahooo!

As promised, here is the pattern for my Treasure Box!  This Box is just like the one posted yesterday just "manned" up a bit.  Once again, be gentle with your critique!  I'm learning.  LOL!  Please email me with any questions. 

So.... The Gentleman Crafter Presents....The Tresure Box Mini.  And I mean mini!

Please click on the link below to get a copy in PDF format:

Download Treasure Box Mini

Once again, Here's to a Wonderul Healthy Happy New Year to you all!!!

Thanks for the interest in my pattern!  Y'all Rock!

Jim

The Gentleman Crafter

You asked for it and it's coming!

Ok, here is one of mine...A quick and easy Treasure Box!  I will be doing a little pattern for this tomorrow so if your interested, check back.

When I was a kid, I had a match box that I kept all my found treasures in.  I can almost tell you what was in it.  Foriegn coins, sparkly rocks, rhinestones that fell out of Mom's earrings, tiny cars and of course the prizes you found in Cracker Jacks.  The good ones before they went the way of plastic and paper!  So when I saw this paper it brought me back to childhood.  I immediately thought of making a small treasures box.

Remember to check back tomorrow and I will upload the pattern in PDF this time!  LoL!

Happy New Years to you and yours!

Jim

The Gentleman Crafter

Still Playing Catch Up!

I'm still having fun in the studio playing catch up.  It's one of those crazy things for me that I can not go forward until I catch up with the things I left behind first!  This is sometimes a very bad thing!  But when it involves creating anything, you know I'm into it!

I love this little photo box that Laura designed!  So cute.  What a great thing to put on your coffee table to flip through or have your company flip through while they are waiting for you to burn something in the kitchen!  And believe me friends, you dont want me in the kitchen!  Grease Fire! LOL!

Here is my take of this quick little project that could be done in a few hours! 

Thanks for Looking!

Jim

The Gentleman Crafter

Last One For The Day!

Hahaha!  Didn't I tell you that I was in a crafting/posting kinda mood?  Well, I just finished my last project for today!  Just in time to actually get in bed at a decent time!  Hope I'm not boring y'all!  :)

This was from Laura's Ustream class today.  She made this clock/calender for the Graphic 45 Blog Hop.  You can see pictures of her clock here...on the Graphic 45 Blog.  Scroll down and you will see the Clock.   You can also see Laura Denison's Ustream class to make this here.

Here's my take on the clock.  I steampunked it up a bit and added a place for notes or a picture.

Thanks For Looking and Good Night!

Jim

The Gentleman Crafter

Ahhhh, Finally Craft Time!!

Yep, it's me again!  Posting and crafting! LOL!  I finally have some time off to really get in the studio and play!  Oh what fun it is to craft..la la la la la la la!  I've been trying to catch up with the patterns and tutorials I missed out on during Christmas.  Y'all I'm in heaven!  Really Heaven!  It's hysterical...How many project can you have going on all at once?  I literally am working on my own designs, stop, work on one of Laura or Kathy's then back to mine!  LOL!  This may not be the best way to get things accomplished but I sure am having fun!

Here are a few of the things I completed so far this week...More to come! 

This is from Laura's Incredible Stack The Deck Pattern that can be found over at Following The Paper Trail.  This pattern has basically four patterns within the one!  I chose to do the box/paperbag version.  Make sure you check out the Stack The Deck Spine!  It's clean and has a low profile.  So Cool!

Here's mine all dressed up for Valentines!

 

 

Here is another project that I completed from Kathy Orta's Tutorial.  It's from her Secretary Pattern that you can find over at PaperPhenomenon.  Of course I had to Man It Up a bit.  I was going for an antique writing box.  So obviously I pulled out the grunge paper and Tim's Distress ink! Hahah!

Thanks For Looking!

Jim

The Gentleman Crafter

Ahhhh, Family Time!

What a wonderful Christmas I had with my family!  It was so good to see everyone in the same room!  After my Father's passing in December of 1995, Mom and I load up our stuff like the Beverly Hillbillies and head to Brownwood to my Sister's house to enjoy being with the all the kiddos!

Now, in this age of technology, where was the beeper that is supposed to go off that alarms you to grab the camera bag that you placed on the handle of the door so you wouldn't forget it?  Can you tell me how incredibly impossible it is to literally struggle to open a door with a bag attached to it and simply overlook that to get out the door?  Is this called Christmas overload?  Who knows!  It's as though I wasn't supposed to take pictures!  On Christmas morning when the kids were screaming (at the top of their lungs!) behind closed doors waiting to see what Santa had left them, I grabbed my phone to get these once in a lifetime photos as the emerge.  Yep, phone was dead!  I then hastily made a mad dash...No, it was a pure all out run to grab my next option...My Ipad.  Unfortunately, the lighting wasn't bright enough but I did capture some grainy shots.  Oh well, next year I will place the camera bag in my car!  What a concept!  Bag In Car!  Ok, got it!

Here are some of those very pictures!

Happy Holiday Y'all!

Jim

The Gentleman Crafter

 

Uncle Bubba's Babies!

Run Everybody....Unle Bubba is pulling out the family pictures! 

Since this is a time for family, I thought that the next few days I would share my precious family with you.

We've had two new additions to my family in the past three years.  My sister and brother-in-law adopted two of the most awesome kiddos you have ever laid eyes on from Ethiopia!  My Sister Kim just sent these to me yesterday and I had to share! 

Here is Finny, who Kim and Truett were blessed with three years ago...Are you ready for the cutest picture???

Love this guy!  By the way he was the recipient of Mr. Roboto....

And here is Liya!  The most beautiful little girl!  Liya is our newest addition.  God knew that my sister and brother-in-law were the family that she needed to be with.  We are so glad to have her!

Liya Katherine....

Here they are together....By The Way, Liya just lost her two front teeth just in time for Christmas..

Here's the rest of the gang.  The triplets all grown up!  Man time flies!  This was the Trip's last game in Highschool.  They have all gone off to college and will soon be doing their second year in college!

Handsome group huh? LOL!

 

Jim

The Gentleman Crafter

 

 

Thanks!

Thank you all for helping me with the pattern.  I so appreciate your input.  You Guys are the best!

Christmas in the Country

Well now that Christmas is almost here, I finally placed the last ornament on my tree about an hour ago!  Boy, I've been late this year getting all this stuff done!  Can anyone relate?   This is usually all done by mid November!  I take down Christmas the 26th so I like to enjoy it as much as I can.

I thought I would share some pics of my little house in the country decked out in Christmas...

 

 

Thanks for Looking!  A Very Merry Christmas To You All!

 

Jim

The Gentleman Crafter

Men Do Scrap Too!

A Box For Miss Marta!

Ok, so it was a late night last night! ... again...

I had been asked by one of my volunteers to make a small explosion box for her son and new daughter-in-law for a Christmas present.  They recently got married, and she wanted something to give them that would remind them of their special day.  So, the stars came into alignment and last night was FINALLY the day I could do it!  Sorry Marta for the delay!  Here is what I came up with...

Ok, looking at this picture, maybe I need to move the bow away from the seam side!  Lord help me!  I told you it was a late night!

Here it is open...

And a close up....

Beautiful couple aren't they!  CONGRATS TO THEM!

Jim

The Gentleman Crafter