BFF Birthday Presents

Happy Thursday, fantab followers! Sorry that we have not been keeping up with posting lately, Life has just been crazy busy for everyone. Hopefully, it will slow down soon and we can get back to crafting!

Yesterday was Laurie's birthday and, as promised, here are a couple of goodies that I made for her to celebrate.

This easel card is a Lori Whitlock file that I got in the online Silhouette store. The paper is about 100 years old from my stash (I think it was a very old Spring Stack?) and the flowers were actually a present to me from Laurie last year! The sentiment is a Bazzill chip topper, also from my stash. There are two brads (although you can't see one of them here) that hold the card in standing up position when it is opened.

This mini chipboard album is also by Lori Whitlock and is from the Silhouette online store. I was super excited to find out that Silhouette had their own chipboard to cut! It is just a little thicker that cereal box cardboard, so I doubled up on it for the covers. I used papers from my stash and a Tim Holtz clock on the front cover. Each page is actually a pocket page with a tag, so there are lots of surfaces for pics and embellies. I kept the embellies to a minimum, so Laurie can choose the theme of her album.

These were lots of fun to make and give to a great scrappy friend!

Yet Another Halloween Mini!

What a crazy couple of days it has been up here in the Northeast! Hopefully, Hurricane Sandy will be making her exit and all our friends are safe and dry!

Today, I have yet another Halloween mini to show you. (I told you that I love Halloween! LOL!) This one is for my mom and has pictures of the kids' costumes since the year my son was born to last year. The mini was cut from several Silhouette files. So fun and easy to put together!

Papers and embellies are a mix of Graphic 45 Happy Haunting and stuff from my stash.

Have a terrific Tuesday!

Another Halloween Mini

Happy Friday, good readers! Here's to a wonderful weekend ahead of us!

Today, I am sharing the awesome Halloween mini that I got in a swap from our friend Rhonda over at Scrap Happens. We each had to make two pages and send them in to Rhonda. In return, we each got back an amazing Halloween mini! The pictures really don't do it justice. We can't believe all the work that Rhonda must have put into each one! I have already filled mine with pictures from last Halloween and it is sitting in our living room for all to enjoy. Thanks again, Rhonda, for the fun swap!

Hope everyone has a wicked weekend!!

Halloween Mini Altered Board Book

It's that time of year again!! I LOVE Halloween!! I have ever since I was a little kid. So, when the gals over at Boston Scrap Fanatics decided to do a Halloween mini swap, I was totally in. We each got paired up with another person. I know the person that I got loves vintage things, so I HAD to get the Graphic 45 Happy Haunting 8x8 stack and chipboard embellies for this project, even though I have a TON of Halloween stuff already. Just ask Laurie. We kind of went on a Halloween binge a couple of years ago and split the haul. Hee hee.

I started out with a plain white board book, like this one, but mine has 14 pages including the covers. I did mix in some other papers from my stash with the G45 papers. I tried to put some kind of interactive element on each page. I drew a lot of inspiration from the Halloween mini that I got from our friend Rhonda over at Scrap Happens. I need to take pictures of the album that she sent me, too - it is awesome!

This whole album took me a couple of weeks to complete because I could only work on it here and there. I hope my swap buddy likes it as much as I like creating it!

Cats and Skunks and Possums and Raccoons! Oh My!

I got this chipboard album on clearance at ACM for $1.00! My mom has had a beautiful Siamese cat, named Simon, for about 10 years. I have NEVER seen him!!! He hides whenever someone comes over the house. The most I have ever seen of him is his glowing eyes under her bed when I shone a light there to try to see him. LOL! So, mom doesn't have many pictures of him, but I did find a couple. To fill in the rest of the book, I used pictures of the critters that she leaves food out for and that come around every night! Her other wild fur-babies!

Papers are mostly from the DCWV Pet Stack, plus 2 that I could not resist at JoAnns. Embellies are all from my stash. I jazzed up the edges of the papers with faux stitching using a Sharpie.

(That's him on the last page! I told you he was beautiful!)

Friendship Mini Album

I had this mini album kit from We R Memory Keepers forever and finally used it to make for my 12 year old daughter. For her birthday this year, she had a sleep over at our house. She wants to fill the album with pictures from that night. How fun and tweenish is it? Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!!

Halloween Mini Album

Happy Friday!! I just had to show off this awesome mini album that my friend, Carol from Boston Area Scrap Fanatics made for me! The details that she put into it are amazing! She told me that the rat on the cover came from a pair of Halloween earrings that she had. How cool is that? The bat on the cover is made from feathers. The last page has an accordian pull out to fit 6 pictures. I can't wait to fill this up with images of my little goblins!