Cards

I have been working on some cards and such for our Scrapbook Club Card Kiosk and this is the latest one I have done.  It is very hard to come up with cards for men so I am pretty happy with this one. It is fun and retro.

Message Center

I love to look at blogs and am a big fan of Laura Denison of Following The Paper Trail.
She recently showed a message center made from a Tim Holtz Printers Tray.  I fell in love with it so had to make one.  Mine has a magnetic board where hers had a dry erase board but you get the idea!  Just wanted to get this posted, will have more info coming.

Well I guess time flies when you are having fun and I never finished this post but have been working on some new poject to post.  Anyway as you probably figured out by now this is how the project looked when I started.  I used mostly Tim Hotz products, which you all know I love. 

Anyway with some hot glue, tissue tape, and craft resist paper it turned out pretty good.

Cigar Box Fun!!

A few weeks ago some of my pals came over for a day of crafting where we decided to make a Cigar Box Project.  I have finally had time to post mine with all that Christmas stuff done.  I went with the sewing theme and am soooo happy with the results.  Here it is in my guest room with the antique sewing machine.  Too cute---

I used some Lost & Found paper from My Minds Eye to cover the outside of the box.

I liked some of the design that was on the box so kept it on the edges. 



On the side that opens, I glued a bobbin on and decorated it with charms hanging from a Tim Holtz  Clasp and added a TH Hanger Clip.  For the top I had a small amount of the TH Measuring Tape Ribbon left from another project so made a bow and placed a knob in the center.

I just had so much fun with the inside, on the door I used a piece of paper from the TH Craft Resist Paper Stack, covered it with Picket Fence Distress Stain and then edged with Vintage Photo Distress Ink. Inside the box I used a sewing themed paper from October Afternoon and then started putting in the cute little stuff.

Some spools with lace, thread, pins and needles, some chipboard items from my stash and dress forms cut from the TH Sewing Room Die.  One dress form is covered with Honey Pop paper and the other is dressed with things from my stash including a bag from the Happy Cow Cheese.  All and all a collection of things we save for just these occasions.  ENJOY!!

Turkeys

I checked in, as I do everyday, to see what Tim Holtz was up to on his blog today and found he has been busy with Turkeys!!!   He showed this fun project using his Rosette Dies and they were so cute I had to make one - since I will be having 12 guests for Thanksgivng I had to make 12 of course!  To see how they are made just go to Tim's blog and check it out.

Winter Wonder

Hi there everyone, you probably though I was no longer on planet Earth but I have been busy and no time for posts. 

Today I decided that it was time for some crafting and decided to work on my Christmas Cards.  I am making 24 and am about in the middle of the whole thing.

I have only one completely finished so decided I could share it with you as I am happy
with the outcome.

I saw Tim Holtz do this one on his 12 tags of Christmas 2010 and it is just about my favorite one of all.  I can't believe it is nearly time for the 2011 edition. He made a tag of course and I have made this tag a few times but now I decided to turn it into a card.

Since recycling is such a hot topic these days I decided to go green.  I dug around in my craft closet and found all my packaging from dies and embossing folders.  I cut them up in the appropriate size and then ran them through the TH Snowflake Embossing Folder.  I used white paper for the card, snowman, snowflakes & drifts as it was given to me at one of our club meetings from a printer who brings us his scraps.  The black paper used for the hat is also from them. (using up scrap paper is a good thing).  I used the Winter Wonder Die with the Movers & Shapers "Joy" Die all from Tim Holtz of course.

I just love this little snowman, he looks happy, he is dressed up with a piece of ribbon from my stash, a carrot nose and tiny black brad for eyes since I am fresh out of coal!
The top hat is decorated with some small holly leaves cut with my Wishblade and Red Stickles for berries.

Hope the details are not too hard to see, it is hard to get a good pic with the packaging on the front.

Only 23 left to go!!!  ENJOY-

Things With Wings

I had signed up for a Steampunk Tag Swap over at All Things Tim and busy making  my tags when I saw that they were also having a challenge over at Simon Says Stamp and Show for "Things With Wings".  Well guess what?  My tag has wings so guess it is good for both. Now all I have to do is figure out how to post it correctly!!!!

Altered Pocket Watch

Last week was our monthy meeting of the WOW (wild old women) group and we took a trip to Payson, AZ.  Our friend and hostess, Susie Swick, took us to "Paper and Metal Scrappers"  where the lovey Brenda gave us a class with the Tim Holtz Pocket Watch.  Such fun we had, all  the watches looked different and original.   We got to choose any theme we liked and I chose to use the Wicked Witch of the West from the Magic of Oz collection from Graphic 45. 

I had so much fun and enjoyed making this one that I just had to make another one.  I love all things Steampunk so made this one today.  Would love some comments.  ENJOY!