Sonya Nimri

These gold notes were a quick job that I almost didn't take.   I only had a 24 hour turn around so I had to figure out quickly how to make notes that looked like metal.  I used my Cricut and the Hannah Montana cartridge to cut chipboard into musical note shapes then layered several layers of cardboard using spray mount to glue them together.  After that I dipped them in resin and let them dry over night. In the morning I painted them with Montana Gold spray paint.  I've never used Montana spray paints before but the thickness and density of the gold color was quite impressive.  In the end they looked like metal although it might have been easier to make them out of clay.  I think these would make great Christmas tree ornaments and that is probably what the ones in the photo will become now that they are back in my posession!

My latest craft job has been as spokesperson for the quickly growing craft powerhouse Provo Craft  as one of their spokespersons.  This job has entailed demonstrating their machines the  Cricut Create  ,  Yudu , and the Yourstory on the Shopping Channel in Canada.  It's been a pretty fast-paced job and after being out of the game for a while after the pregnancy and birth of the wee one I have to say it's been really nice to work again.  Being on the shopping channels is just like being on the morning news in most ways.  Living on the west coast really puts me at a terrible disadvantage in the morning when I have to travel east and get up at 6 a.m.  I feel destroyed for the first half an hour after waking up but with a little coffee and the buzz of getting ready for a live show, I always wake up pretty quick.  The main difference between the news and the shopping channels is the shameless self-promotion of products ( a given) and looking...