Biggy Iggy Auction: Week 3

The Biggy Iggy Auction started May 3, 2009. Check it out: http://www.biggyiggyauction.com/.

Oh YAY! I forgot that this starts Week 3 of the Biggy Iggy Auction! Three sets of my cards are up for auction! The Birthday Set is up to $13.50; the Thinking of You Set is up to $14.50. The fabric IG cards haven't been bid on yet, but they've been viewed 21 times. Surely SOMEBODY will bid on them? I hope so.

My I♥MyIggy cards and the handmade scrapbook didn't make it in Weeks 4 or 5 either. Weeks 6, 7 and 8 only have a couple of things listed so far so they still need to finish posting stuff for those weeks. I hope my stuff hasn't been overlooked somehow?

The reason I remembered to check the auction was that Alice Espey sent out a nice reminder e-mail with everyone's names who have won items during the previous week and for all of the people who donated items for this week. That was really nice.

Now that I know that Alice is alive, she'd better send me an e-mail about Truman!

2009 Biggy Iggy Auction Blog Hits

My posts on the Biggy Iggy Auction have been getting alot of hits from Google searches. I just did a search for "Biggy Iggy Auction", and almost ALL of the entries that pop up on the first page are from my blog or my Flickr. There is one link to the 2007 auction being closed. I wonder how they can advertise it better considering the auction opens in just a few days???

Well... the good news is that people can see a preview of what I'm offering and maybe they'll want to bid on any of it.

Here are links to my other blog entries in case anyone is interested:

The 2009 Biggy Iggy Auction!
2009 Biggy Iggy Auction Items
Birthday Cards for the 2009 Biggy Iggy Auction

Birthday Cards for the 2009 Biggy Iggy Auction

EDIT: The 2009 Biggy Iggy Auction opened May 3, 2009: http://www.biggyiggyauction.com/



I’m having alot of fun making cards to donate for the Biggy Iggy Auction! I hope the organizer isn’t getting sick of me! Actually, I’ve only submitted 4 sets of cards, and that can be one for each week so I don’t think that’s too many. (Plus the handmade scrapbook).


Here is the set of birthday cards I submitted this morning. I used some of the individual elements I’d already made up. I had four birthday elements so I glued them all to kraft-colored cardstock to make them all “match.” Now that I’ve put them on kraft cardstock, I wonder if I should have put them on white instead? Oh well. Too late now.

Even though they’re very simple, I think they're pretty stylish. I hope somebody will bid on them.

Here’s the description:


Set of Four Handmade Birthday Cards

Who doesn’t need birthday cards?! This is a set of simple yet classy birthday cards featuring sweet embellishments such as embossing, vellum, eyelets or brads. One even includes a paper flower and rhinestone! Sentiments are “Celebrate,” “Make a Wish,” “Birthday Wishes,” and “Happy Birthday.” The insides are blank for your special message. All are mounted on 100% recycled kraft-colored cardstock and include cream square-flapped envelopes. Each card measures 4.25 x 5.5 inches. This set is one-of-a-kind (yes, one-of-a-kind! no more will be made like this!)!

Donated by *** for The LaserBeam (http://www.thelaserbeam.etsy.com/)


Opening bid: $10

More thank you mini cards

Mom told me she needs to send some thank you cards out. I told her I'd make her a batch of them, if she doesn't mind mini cards. Mini cards are the PERFECT way to use up all the scraps of cardstock that I've accumulated. Here are the cards I've made for her so far:

Most of this paper is from K&Company, the cardstock is Paper Accents, the ribbon is Offray, the "Many Thanks" stamp is Studio G and the rhinestones are Darice.

The picture is kind of dark because I got up WAY early, and was in the shop at 5:00 in the morning.

Owl Birthday Cards

Here are some more masculine-looking birthday cards that I made yesterday. The owl is a stamp from Sassafrasslass. I think these little guys are WAY cute!


Also, the cardstock is PaperAccents and the eyelet is K&Company.

2009 Birthday Cards

This morning, I made a nice little stash of birthday cards for 2009 birthdays. Everybody's getting the same card this year! The cards are cute. I just hope the ribbon isn't too girly-ish for a male card. Well... I may make another set without the ribbon, just because I'm not sure. Anyway, it's a tag card with a silver eyelet through the top. I pop dotted the "Make a Wish" off the card for extra dimension. Here they are:

The cardstock is PaperAccents and Folia Papers, the eyelet is K&Company, the ribbon is Offray.