Sherbert Series Note Cards with Matching Envelopes

When you make cards, how about adding a homemade envelope to match???

The Bounty of Thanksgiving

How we love to come together as a family. Nothing makes a holiday more special than to set a gorgeous table!

My Angels

Gotta Love Kids and Halloween

MANY, MANY THANKS!!

Thank you ARCHIVERS, MALL of AMERICA, and all the VENDORS who put on a GREAT ScrapFest this year!! It was wonderful and all the workers were helpful. Can't wait until I get to attend another one!!

Wonderful Things Can Come in Small Packages

There are some things you just do not want to let get away from you. A note from a friend, a card from your Mom, and love notes from your sweetheart are a few of the treasures we collect. Other things we collect are quotes we just do not ever want to forget. We have poetry we love, but cannot recite. We have quotes we are afraid we will mess up. There is nothing easier than keeping a journal. You can use any kind of notebook, photo book, or binder. The smaller the better. That means you will keep it close. It might even fit into a purse.

This is a small, oblong photo book that I modified into a very small scrapbook. I made my pages this size and used all my favorite quotes as the centerpiece of each page. I doodled and added all sorts of embellishments.

This one has one of my favorite quotes"Remember friend as you pass by, as you are so once was I. As I am you soon must be, prepare for death and follow me."

Other ideas for journals include spiritual journey journals...travel journals...baby journals...College journals....pregnancy journals....the list is endless!! Make a journal today and enjoy it with your grandchildren in 30 years! Wish I had done this when I was 20!!

Autumn Centerpiece under $20

Supply List: (All my supplies came from Michaels Craft Store)

Green Wreath Form 8"

Autumn Leaves I package

Greening Pins

Minature Autumn Garland 4'

5 rolls of Autum colored Ribbon, 1/2" wide

Align the leaves around the middle of the edge and secure with the greening pins. Do not push the pins all the way in...they will go through your wreath form and scratch the table, besides we are going to use the pins to tie on the ribbons.Cut ribbon into 6" strips, making sure to make an angled cut on the ends. Start with one color and tie one to each of the greening pins. Keep adding until you have put every color ribbon on each pin.Twist the garland to allow it to lay on the edge of your first finished row, attach with greening pin the same way as the leaves. Keep twisting the garland into smaller circles until you have approx three rows. Again, tie your ribbons on to the tops of the greening pins. Add pins to cover any bear areas. Keep adding the ribbon until the wreath is full looking. Then you are DONE!! You can add a hanger to the back or use it as a candle wreath...or without anything in the middle.

Basic Grey LEMONADE with a little Daisy D's.

Simple cards for a busy lifestyle!

Home Decor

I added Glimmer Mist to create a sheen on all the little cards with the letters on them. Makes a nice gift at Christmas!

2 Corinthians 5 Scrapping your FAITH

Above is the close up of the journaling. I did not do anything fancy with the font, I just wrote it out in my own hand using 8 tags. You take your favorite passage and put it on 8 tags starting at the top. Embellish as desired and frame.

Tag Art "Virtues"

9 tags with the fruit of the Spirit/virtues. I used tons of chalks, dyes, alcohol inks, Pebbles creme chalks, embossing. The tags are placed on a 16"x 20" matting, and framed.

Here are a couple of tags up close:

Final Project in frame:

Something NEW

Have you ever wanted to practice techniques, but don't want to waste paper, ink, embossing powder, etc ? Supplies are expensive! TRY TAG ART!! Check out Tim Holtz's website for some great Tag Art:

http://timholtz.com/index.html


So, why not combine some of your experimenting with Tag Art?? I am going to practice embossing, and some inking, and see if I can turn it into a wall project. I have an old picture frame and nothing to go in it....check back for some "blow to blow" posts to keep up with my progress!!

Problem SOLVED?

So, you are shopping at your local scrapbook store and they have a great sale going on. You find two (2) Little Yellow Bicycle fold-out albums...both for boys. At 85 cents, you can't pass them by. They turn out great, but what about the girls???

If you are any good at making templates, you can take any foldable album sold on 12"x12" sheets and create a permanent template to use over and over. All you need do is place the punched out item on a sheet, draw around it and then cut it out. Make sure you mark fold and cut lines. When you cut it out, make sure to cut on the inside of your line, not on the line or before the line, but inside the lines.

So, what is the problem??? Before I was even aware of it, I had made 7 (yes 7) of these cute little albums!! Some for girls, some for boys, some for TEENS...and some for moms!! The possibilities are endless. All you need is the template, the right coordinating paper (double sided card stock), embellishments, and TIME. Here is 3 of the fronts I made this week:

Thanks and credit goes to Little Yellow Bicycle!

Another Attempt at a Daisy!!

This is the top of an "Exploding Box." The top of the daisy is made with "Stickles." Here is the box opened...

Trying to make a paper DAISY

I love these daisies you see that are kind of "floppy." While the flat ones are beautiful, these floppy ones just grab my attention. I wanted to try and make them for a layout. Seems the more I tried, the more dissatified I was with the end result. The closeup in the bottom photo shows more detail in the petal, but still not enough. I like the middle daisy the best, but it still needs some "defining." The journaling tells how it will all end. Only God can make the perfect daisy!

Color BLAST

Hard to believe, this is a self-taken photo of my daughter. In high school, she really got into photography and would experiment with taking photos. This was a good one. Even though it is in black and white, a big blast of color all around will bring your eye to the center. Almost monochromatic, the bold colors add drama. Over doing it on embellishments will draw the eye away from the photo.Try keeping the detail in one area. Notice how there are no embellishments except in the flowers...and they are embellished as much as you want with flowers, button centers with ribbon in the button holes. This one was a lot of fun!!

A DRAMATIC PHOTO

This photo turned out very well in black and white. Those big eyes seemed to pop off the page at you and the mood is distinctive...he was tired of grandmama trying to catch a good picture of him! I wore him down!! I wanted the "draw" to be toward his eyes, so I picked black and white papers and embellishments with just a touch of color.

Flower POWER

Detail of the flower I made for the "His Holy Name" project.

His Holy Name April and May Pages

Star Flowers

Start with a square piece of paper, not card stock, doublesided if you have any. The larger the square, the larger the flower will be. Fold, corner to corner. Keep folding until you have a "ice cream cone" shape.

You have some options for cutting the top of the flower. You can make it pointed, as shown, or you can round it up, like the ice cream on top of the cone. Try experimenting with pinking scissors and some of those shape scissors for a variety.

Cut slits between all of the pedals...about 1/4" to 1/2" inch long. Take care to not cut too deeply or you will cut out a pedal. The smaller the flower, the smaller the slit must be. Use inks, chalks, paints, Shimmer Mist, whatever you want to add variation to the flower. Repeat this for about 5 to 6 layers, getting progressively smaller with each layer.

Dot the center of each section and stack, finally using a brad in the center to hold them all together. You can then add Stickles in the center to make a center..or just keep the brad as the center. Black brads look great with yellow flowers. I like to mix my colors to create a new or unusual looking flower. Rough up all the petals and push them up to the center to create dimension.



Here is the end product:

It is GOOD to be BACK...and I HAVE NEWS....Many THANKS to Memory Makers Magazine!!!

I have missed you guys. I have tried to stay in touch with some of you during our move and re-settlement in our new residence. I hope you all are having a great spring. I am up for some new projects and hopefully we will do some exciting things in the next few months.

I was published for the first time in Memory Makers Magazine. Here is the cover for the May/June Issue available at newsstands, bookstores, and their website.

Here is the page I submitted for "Mother's Day" of my Great Grandmother, Martelia Clementine Trent Fox. I never knew her, but my mother did and had nothing but wonderful stories about her.

I Have Not Gone Fishing...............

I am moving

Once we get moved we can resume some of the projects we have started

See you in a few weeks!!!

His Holy Name Week 1

This is a 12"x 12" sheet of card stock folded in half and then cut in half to create two folded 6"x 6" cards. Folding the white to the inside for journaling. You can get two entries in one card (four for each 12"x 12" sheet) if you embellish the front and write on one flap of the inside. The next time you can embellish the back side and write on the other flap. By the end of the project (Dec 2009) you will be able to use the folded spine to create a way to bind them together. I am thinking of using a altered can (or tube of some sort) with ribbon around the inside (both ends cut out) and then inserting the pages into the ribbons.

Besides the technical part of this project, you have the real "meat" of this by studying God's word, making application, and then putting those ideas into a visible form which you can keep for always...use in a Bible Class, etc.

Scrapping the MUSIC "Hands"