Sneak peek

In 2009 I did a project called the mystery project.  My Best friend Tabitha created it as a creative challenge to our art group The Vintage room. We were given a cigar box and 33 items that had to be included in altering the cigar box.  Well Tabitha was at it again.  She put together a series of items and one large item to alter.  You will have to wait and see when it is done.  At the moment I completed the 1 step to the project and now I have to write a piece to go with the project (I haven't sat down yet to do this).  Other then that I have been busy completing projects whether atcs, tags, or cards.  I've been so creative that I haven't had time to post.  So in the next couple days I'm hope to get caught up with you as to what I'm doing creatively.  I have to say things are starting to go my way.  I'm pretty excited by the things that are happening in my everyday life.  I'm nervous that creating will be push off to the side for awhile but that's not for a couple of months luckily.  I promise I will always make room for creating in some way.  Its just that I will not have AS much time as I used to. 

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So I fibbed a little

So I fibbed a little I said I was going to post more yesterday and ended up in the craft room, so it just didn't happen.  These are for an altered charm swap.  I'm sure they look familiar, they are my altered poker chips.  I added jump rings and lobster claps so they can be quick attached to a pin that we will receive with the swap. A requirement that the host asked for was that we make some sort of label so that the receiver knows were our charms came from. so I made atc sized labels with a Tim Holtz atc background stamp and added my blog name to them. 

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J,K,L Atcs for my Alphabet swap

Here are my J,K,and L atcs for my Vintage Room Alphabet swap.  I love my K card.  I had a hard time coming up with these but I think they came together pretty well.  The Challenge for this month was bling.  As you can see I used gems and stickles.  

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Valentine's party get together

Well this past Saturday I had a get together at my house with The Queens of the Vintage Room.  I made them mini whimsy jars which included these little handmade rosettes and no these were not made using Tim Holtz die. I don't have that one yet and haven't figured out how to use the long dies with my cuttle bug yet.  I made them using a scallop punch.  You can find the directions on my friend Maura's blog Two Crafting Sister's.  They were really easy and came out super cute.  I also made the ladies Eiffel Tower place cards from the Cricut!! I just haven't taken pictures yet.  This will be one of many blog post I will make this evening cause I've been bad and haven't been posting, but I have been doing crafting so I guess its not a bad thing to be back logged on the blog entries.   

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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!