An old friend

I have been busy in my craft room but figured that I would like to take pictures in the morning when there is better light, so instead I will share an old friend.  This is Autumn is hangs out in my craft room, but before that she was Memory Lane's scrapbook bear.  She took trips with customers and they made scrapbook pages of the places she went.  She is a little bit of history and I was thrilled when I was able to get her from my former boss.  So now she spends her days in my craft room hanging out where ever and just enjoying life.   

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The Crop-ical Getaway

Ladies Night Out using Rusty Pickle paper, title and journaling spot cut on Cricut 

"Artist" Sandylion paper colored with markers and water color pencil, also prima paper, journal spot from pinecone press  

"untitled" it needs one just haven't figured it out yet, paper is Rusty pickle and prima flowers, ribbon from Close to my heart

"The Vintage Room's first Craft show" Paper K&Company and Daisy D, Stamps Tim Holtz, Letters Heidi Swap, Lace purchased from Joann's 

Cousins paper from Bo Bunny Press

Patches' Page paper Mme, ribbon is vintage seam binding, Flower is Close to my Heart and Brad is from K&Company

"Cousins2" Paper is Colorbox, I don't like what I did with the title so I'm going to fix that

Sassy's page paper from Rusty Pickle paw is from Cricut's Four Legged Friend Cart.

Sorry for the shadows in this one "Smokey's Page" paper from Adornit 

Wet Nose Warm Heart aka Archer's page.  Page is from Colorbox 

"Things in life that matter most are the Little things" 

Here we go as I promised.  Although packing was a challenge for me I feel like I did a great job packing projects and supplies to make my first crop in ages a productive day.  The food was amazingly good and boy was there food!!! I'm telling you if you are in the and love to scrapbook sign up for one of Captured Moments' Crops you will not be disappointed.  The ladies were friendly and their daughter were sooooo helpful when bringing our stuff in.  Although I didn't really need the help, but I took it gladly.  Everyone seemed very friendly and it was a fun day had by all.  I completed 14 layouts and I'm including just a few I completed.  I had a lot of fun making myself use what I had on hand and on top of it actually use paper that I have had in my stash for-EVER!!  I even did journaling (which I have never been a big journaler, which I find interesting considering I dabble in writing and poetry).  I feel like I didn't go crazy on embellishing but these were kind of meant to be simple pages.  The pictures I chose to bring with me were one's that I knew I wanted to scrapbook and I don't want to take away from them because they are such special people/pets and memories.  So sometimes simple is okay in my book. Pin It Now!

Some Cards and getting ready for a Crop-ical getaway

So I have been rather busy the last week or so.  I was inspired to make a few cards which happens from time to time.  I don't really consider myself a "Cardmaker", but once in a great while the mood strikes me and I'm pretty surprised by what I come up with.  So I made 4 cherry cards because I need to make a card for Tabitha's birthday.  I had this cute Scalloped fabric in my ribbon box for awhile.  I got it on clearance at Joann's I believe its from Colorbox.  I used a piece of paper from the Farmer's Market stack from DCWV and some red and green cardstock.  The brown paper used on these cards are actually the opposite side of the Farmer's market paper.  It was a great use paper.  The stamps I used on most of the cards came from Close to my Heart (a special set only sold in there Cherry Oh Workshop Kit) and a cupcake stamp from Studio G and the "Happy Cupcake Day" stamp I purchased at my local stamp store awhile back.  Other supplies include brads and sticky bling.

Before the Cherry cards I made 11 "Wood you be Mine" cards.  I was inspired by my friend Tabitha who was inspired by the most recent Papercraft Magazine.  Tabitha's Card was a rectangle of brown paper embossed with the Tim Holtz Wood Grain Embossing Folder and then had baker's twine wrapped around it. I had 11 hearts I cut out on the cricut that I embossed using the same folder that I was going to make tags out of for my Christmas presents this year and I ran out of time so I just threw them in my box of Christmas stuff for future use.  After seeing Tabitha card and how cute it came out I just made these.  I hope she doesn't mind I scrap lifted her card.

The last thing I have been up to is packing for a crop.  I haven't done this in literally years.  I used to be a crop scrapbooker.  When the store was around the corner I would go once a week and at least once a month to a bigger crop.  After the store closed and I moved I was able to have my own scrapbook room which made me a home scrapbooker, but I wanted to get out and socialize and I had heard wonderful things about the crops that a store about a half an hour away had, so Tabitha twisted my arm and we went this month.  I was soooo nervous that I wouldn't get anything done and that I would forget something vital to my creative process.  So I packed about 5 days in advance and then unpacked the day before to make sure I packed everything lol.  I decided because most of my stuff was packed and I wanted to create I would make my name tag for the front pouch on my crop bag.  So the pictures posted are 1 of my crop bags ready to go and my name tag using Graphic 45's Steampunk line (I love that line by the way. Its not a normal color combo I like to use and honestly I would probably never buy it but I picked it up a Captured Moments and I don't regret it I have almost used the whole stack of 8x8 paper).

There is more to come about the crop but I'll wait for Captured Moments to post the big group picture before I do.  I have my layout all photographed and up loaded to share.  Stay tuned.... Pin It Now!

Fun with the Cricut

Well Today I had in my head I wanted to work on cutting a few things from my cricut (of course using my gyspy)  So I sat down and cut out some paper hearts to put in my craft room window for Valentine's Day and I made the 3-D Eiffel tower just because.  Yesterday I altered a few baby food jars for an up coming art gathering.  I just cut K&company paper into strips, cut a bunch of heart out using a sizzex die with my cuttle bug and embossed Happy Valentine's Day in black embossing power.  I think they are simple but very cute.

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A little Scrapbooking this weekend and some tags done

Full 2 page speard

Close up of first page

Close up of second page

Close up of title

May Tags Complete aside from tassels 

Well this past Sunday I had the girls over to craft (my bestie included) and we had a very productive day.  I completed this two page layout that I love.  I got some of my childhood pictures back awhile ago and I pulled these out and said to myself that I would scrapbook them before most of the rest.  I love the fun free color and lighting in the photos.  And the pictures of me playing with the balloon are just amazing and then of course my favorite is my Grandma Edith eating the cotton candy.  I wish I remember what the reason for the day was or a little bit of how it felt to be running around but I left it simple with just the title "Fun".  All the embellishments and papers are Sassafrass lass, the cardstock is all bazzill.  

Then I got my tags done for my Twelve tags of the year swap.  These are for May...So I now have January, February, March and May done.  I have an idea for April and its started but I have finished yet.  I also help my Best Friend Tabitha with her 12 cards for a swap at her Stampin up Stamp Camp and then another 24 for the teacher at her school (that I was going to scrap lift today but couldn't find the awesome stamp she used.  I left Micheal's so very disappointed today, with just 2 12x12 cricut mats and a couple pack of felt embellishments.  I HATE that Micheal's doesn't allow you to use a coupon on the cricut mats and don't understand why they don't when AC Moore does.  I keep trying to remember to go to AC Moore to get mats but its out of my way.  Then to top it all off I had to go get someone to open the case to get me the mats out...are you kidding me really are they in such high demand (and being shop lifted) that we must put them behind glass and a lock.  I understand the cartridges but the mats.  I should have walked out but I needed the mats, so I bit my tongue.

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March fairy tags

These tags didn't come as easily as my first two months.  But after a lot walking away and hard work I think they came out pretty cute.  I didn't go crazy with them just applied some ink with the blending to the tag and some other papers before diecuting them.  Paper pieced a rainbow, cut the little fairies out from a image sheet, colored their wings a different color that worked a little better with the tags as a whole with Smooch and embossed some shamrocks in white embossing powder.  

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Valentine's Day Altered Tag(s)

tags 1 and 2 side by side

Tag 1

Close up of the altered "Be mine"

Tag 2 close up

Back of tag 2

Back of tag 1

So I was inspired after completing my first tag for the Tag swap in the Vintage room, so I moved on to the next month already.  There are a lot of techniques used in this tag.  I started with a blank tag then I inked it (using the blending tool) using Tim Holtz distress inks (Spun Sugar, Victorian Velvet, worn Lipstick).  After letting it dry I took heart shaped paper doilies and put it half on and half off the paper then sprayed with Brick Tattered angel glimmer mist, then lifted the heart leaving the pattern on the tag.  After letting that dry I put a light coat of Distress crackle paint (clear) over the whole thing.  I let it dry before layering stamped images in Vintage Photo distress ink and stickers.  The metal "Be Mine" embellishment was originally pink with would have went fine with what I was doing but I wanted it to stand out so I used Tim Holtz idea from this years twelve tags of Christmas and painted it with white paint then covering it with embossing power (white) then heat embossing.   I think it really makes the tag more eye catching.  At the end I added Glitter glue and some ribbon and altered pompom trim ( spray with Brick and Cupid pink glimmer mist).  Now I'm moving on to March already.   Pin It Now!