CLOSED - Nerd Games - Summer 2023

Your ‘scary’ magnets are too adorable!

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Awe. Thank you. I am working on another batch, but with different images. Its slow going because i have so much going on!

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@SewCrafty - thank you! :slight_smile:

@megwell - I really like those cards!

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Prompt: September Battle- Digital
Team: Sherlock
Project Name: digitally created address labels
Project Link: n/a
Brief Description: These were made for the fill a pouch swap. My partner has not yet received, so I will be blurring the images. It took me four tries to get these right! Sometimes a digital project is harder for me…
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Prompt: September -Disappearing ink
Team: Sherlock
Project Name: labels for STS shop
Project Link: n/a
Brief Description: These required ink.
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Prompt: Big time #2
Team: Sherlock
Project Name: surprise for manders
Project Link: n/a
Brief Description: Will blur pics. Took much longer than 5 hours! Coz I’m crazy like that at times. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:
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Prompt: September - Subliminal
Team: Sherlock
Project Name: pouch for pouch swap
Project Link: n/a
Brief Description: This was made for the fill a pouch swap. It has a hidden layer of fusible fleece inside. Blurred bc my partner hasn’t received yet.
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Prompt: Zap #3
Team: Sherlock
Project Name: another manders surprise
Project Link: n/a
Brief Description: I whipped these up based on my fill-a-pouch partner’s Pinterest. Blurred bc my partner hasn’t received yet.
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Prompt: July – Cubism
Team: Nancy Drew
Project Name: HP Book Ornament 1
Project Link: HP book ornaments
Brief Description: The books are blocky and this is made of many, many pieces!
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Prompt: August – Dish Soap
Team: Nancy Drew
Project Name: HP Book Ornament 2
Project Link: HP book ornaments
Brief Description: The ornament is shaped like a bubble!
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Prompt: August – All-Purpose Cleaner
Team: Nancy Drew
Project Name: HP Book Ornament 3
Project Link: HP book ornaments
Brief Description: There are several different colors on the book covers, the ornament is round and the books are rectangles, and there are lots and lots of parts to this project!
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Prompt: Free Range 4
Team: Nancy Drew
Project Name: HP Book Ornament with Owl charm
Project Link: HP book ornaments
Brief Description: I thought it would be cute to have a charm dangle inside of the ornament along with the books, but the fishing line stretched, and it knocked into the books when you shook it around, so I stopped with that idea. But I still think it’s cute.
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Prompt: Free Range 5
Team: Nancy Drew
Project Name: Halloween Brooch
Project Link:
Brief Description: I needed to make something wearable for the BINGO Prompt, so here it is! Instead of putting a magnet on the back. I added a lapel pin and BINGO! I will be submitting my BINGO chart soon, I have to get back to work right now. Ha!
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Y’all are amazing! So many cool projects this season! I’m catching up on comments, so forgive the novel. :grin:

@QueenHobo - Adorable projects! I’m trying needle felting for the first time, and am very impressed by your detailing work! Also, I think your prompt interpretation for your felted sugar cookie (vacuum because it really sucked) is my favorite ever. :joy: The collab with storerboughtcreation on the monster and your pot is * chef’s kiss. * And that christmas potato is truly delightful. Radical acceptance. IT IS a potato. Way to go on that yarn organization, too. I’ve tried and tried for usable yarn storage and finally just went with bins in the closet, lol. Very sweet lovies! The mushroom buddy is too much cute!

@megwell - Beautiful paper crafting! The affirmations for abandoning is a fun idea! I LOVE the bold graphics on your address book and the check register book is beautiful! Isn’t bookbinding fun?! And all your ATCs and cards are so cool. I really vibe with your style! You’re making me want to get back into art journaling! Such cool solar prints! I’m intrigued by guessing all the items you might have used. :smiley: That fox hoop is straight up delightful! The plant marker milestones made me chuckle. I can barely keep a plant alive and love the thought of doing that!

@Bunny1kenobi - Your ATCs are all awesome! It’s so cool to see how much you’ve built on your drawing skills the past decade! I especially love the bright colors on your Lemon and Cheese one and the poison bottle! Your pocket letter items! Epic! All of your cards are so sweet, and you made some gorgeous jewelry as always, too! And your minis! Eek! I aspire to your level. Total heck yes to podcast fanart! And I really like your ugly storage! I’m all for using what we have, and am too feeling the struggle of usable organization. Also, that chaos coordinator xstitch is perfect. I think most of us could claim that title! Lol. Very cute address labels, too. Great variety, cute, and USEFUL! And a big WOW on those surprise items! Stunning!

@LindyBlues - Zucchini is one of my favorite foods, and what you made looks SO GOOD!

@bluebird - Beautiful ATCs all around! You get so much character into your figures! I especially love the cozy bears. Very cute sets of cards envelopes, too! Adorable and great variety! Very sweet pumpkin earrings, too. They’re so vibrant and really pop with the shiny silver findings.

@storerboughtcreation - All of your monsters make me smile every time I see them! So cute! Great needle felting, too! The kitty has a perfect expression, and so does your sloth on that watercolor pencil painting. How cool!

@ezrib - Absolutely delicious looking food! Corn ice cream and beet hummus - I’m picking up what you’re putting down! :joy: I ended up freezing a bunch of rhubarb this year and may need to try cookies! That option never even crossed my mind, lol. Also gorgeous bookcases and decorations! Such pretty flowers!

@roler - I’m so glad to see you! I love that Soliv ATC and that it is FOR YOU! I’m trying to make more projects for myself, too. And great scrapbooking! It really is a different vibe to have printed photos (and the beautiful pages to go along with them). It’s fun to get a little sneak peak into all your cool adventures too. :smiley:

@gozer - Your sewing is always so impeccable! Love that Hang On pattern and your creations, and of course, the cat pouches are perfect! I can’t believe all those tiny HP books in your ornaments. WOW! That ATC tryptic is particularly sweet and AMAZING Beautiful colors and details. Great paint work, too! Those magnets and coffins are particularly cool. And making one of them into a pin for a wearable is GENIUS!

@AudiobookLover - Adorable purmaid! Great work on the embroidered bats - I’m impressed, as someone whose embroidery machine sits untouched because I find changing threads so painful :rofl: . Love how your chalkboard art really pops, too!

@Smeddley - Those have to be the cutest goal sheets I’ve ever seen! It makes me want to come up with some, too!

@craftADDchick - I’m super digging the colors on that crochet coozie! Nice work on the zipper pouches, too! They really pop with those nice fall oranges!

@jillybeans - All of that food looks mouthwateringly delectable! As someone who has made scones half a dozen times this year, I’m particularly impressed with the uniformity you got, lol! AMAZING work on that tabard. Epic! The scrappy coasters are so cute and the lemon pompom garland - totally in love.

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BINGO completed
I got my Bingo!!! Thank you @LovelyMiss! I needed the motivation!

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Yaaaas!

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Way to go, gozer! Amazing crafting!

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@roler I love the pages you’re created here. It’s so fun to look back at physical photographs, and having little mementos like the receipt is such a lovely reminder of good memories. Japan looks like so much fun! I’d love to visit some day.

You have beautiful handwriting! I love all your pages, but I think my favourite is #12. I really like the placement of the book sticker, the cute character, and the way the photo of the rectangular plate is placed on the page.

@Bunny1kenobi I laughed so hard at the LARD of the flies ATCs when I first saw them. I love the creativity, humour, and of course, the art itself.

@LovelyMiss That apple crumble looks soooo good! I may just have found a way to use up the copious amounts of apples we picked, that no one seems to want to eat…

I love your felt foods. I bought some sheets of felt years and years ago to make play food for my kids… I did make some, but I keep meaning to use up the rest and never get around to it. Your post just reminded me to maybe try to do this again before year’s end… we shall see! I love the kawaii foods; they are so cute :heart:

Those cards :heart_eyes: Your recipients will be over the moon with their beauty and the goodies, too :heart:

That checkout person needs some more cute, fun, kid-like joy in their life, I think :blush: The unicorn is adorable.

@gozer I love the cat pouches. The blue stars fabric is my favourite. How did the craft show go?

I love the super cute magnets. The blue/gray bat is my favourite :heart: :bat:

@bluebird The pop culture mash-up ATCs are so neat, and I loved receiving the whale and friend :heart:. It makes me smile every time I look at it :blush: Congrats on your bingo!

@megwell, I love the idea of the age markers for your plant! And the masterboards are gorgeous, too!

@Bunny1kenobi the little dragons :heart_eyes: I love them!! I like the Halloween pun ones as well; they made me chuckle.

@gozer I love the miniature books inside the ornaments. I think it would be neat to use these as a “book log” and add miniature versions of books you’ve read throughout the year in them!

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I find I always get more zuchinni than I know what to do with, lol! And I’m not a big baker, so what most people make with zuchinni (e.g. zuchinni bread, etc) doens’t usually suit me. This is my compromise :blush:

I am doing that! I add it each time I finish one, but I am a super slow reader and I think my ornament will end up being “A Decade of Reading” for me before it’s full enough. :books:

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Thank you! I forgot to note that the 1 month background is from a masterboard by @photojenn, so full credit to her on that one.

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Prompt: Research Project
Team: Nancy Drew
Project Name: Walter
Project Link: Walter and his flamingo floaty
Brief Description: I started making Walter as another monster, but I ran out of the fuzzy green yarn. So I decided he needed swim trunks. Then I decided he needed some flippers and a pool floaty. Between working on the frog, searching for patterns to alter to make my floaty, and creating the flippers through trial and error, this took me about 22 hours to finish. I absolutely love him so much
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Prompt: Big Time
Team: Nancy Drew
Project Name: Black Cat 1
Project Link: Two black cats
Brief Description: I kept seeing an ad pop up on Facebook for a sweater with pumpkins and cats on it. It inspired me to make these black cats. I have more black furry yarn, so I will be making more
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Prompt: Big Time
Team: Nancy Drew
Project Name: Black Cat 2
Project Link: Two black cats
Brief Description: I altered the pattern a little for this second one. I think I’m happy with it, though I wish I’d made the eyes smaller when I felted them on.
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Prompt: Free Range
Team: Nancy Drew
Project Name: Owl Monster - Pink
Project Link:
Brief Description: Another monster
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Prompt: Free Range
Team: Nancy Drew
Project Name: Owl monster - Blue
Project Link:
Brief Description: Another monster
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Prompt: Free Range
Team: Nancy Drew
Project Name: custom monster
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Brief Description: Another monster, this one made for Bunny1kenobi’s granddaughter
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I have four bingos. I won’t be getting a blackout card this time around, but I am happy that I was able to craft so much this season. I feel like I haven’t been posting nearly as much as I normally do this last year or so.

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Another BINGO! Yay, @storerboughtcreation! Epic crafting!

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She loves this! She calls it her Monster Baby! So adorable!

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And @gozer I’m in love with those Halloween magnets! :heart_eyes:

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The entry period for the Raffle Shop will be open until Monday, October 2!

Spend the points you’ve earned this season to “buy” raffle entries! There are 24 prizes up for grabs, so make sure to play - there’s a high chance you’ll win something!

Entry form is at the bottom of the post, under the gallery of prizes.

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