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!

Happy Friday!

January and February are full of birthdays around here. Here is an altered canvas that I made for a friend who is one of those birthdays. This is her pup, Juno and a sweet pup she is!

I started with painting the canvas with acrylic paints; added patterned paper from the DCWV Pets Stack, sanding the edges for texture; and then covered chipboard shapes with some other patterned paper from my stash and sanded those, too. The dog bone with the words around it was cut with the Cameo, using a file from the very talented Chirs Durnan at Visual Designs by Chris.

I wrapped it all up in a pretty organza ribbon and added some bling and a metal heart up in the corner. My friend did love it!

Hope everyone has a fab weekend!

Altered Frame

Good morning, crafty friends! It is a beautiful, crisp fall morning here in the Boston area. But you know what they say about the weather around here; if you don't like it, wait a minute. They say it is going to be 75-80 on Saturday! 

Today I am showing you a frame that I made a while ago for a scrappy acquaintance who's dad had just passed away. I had her in an altered item swap and was hoping that when she was ready, she could use it for a picture of her dad. I am bringing it back up now because I just recently saw this friend at an event and she thought to bring the frame - with her dad's picture in it - to show me. I was so touched that she liked it enough to use it to display a great picture of her dad and that she wanted to show it to me. Our hobby is so important for passing on memories, but it can even be important in the healing process of the difficult memories. It is one of the reasons that I love it. Knowing that my friend will smile looking at her picture of her dad in a frame that I made for her warms my heart.

Supplies: wood frame from Michaels, chipboard letters and rubons with bling from K&Company, Tim Holtz Distress Crackle Paint: Weathered Wood nd Picket Fence, patterned paper and flowers from stash.

Back To Basics

I used to be a chronological scrapper. I had to finish May 2003 pictures before I could start June 2003 pictures, finish June 2003 before I could start July 2003, etc. But recently, I have found myself grabbing my newer pictures, inspired by the picture itself or by something I saw in a magazine or online for which I knew I had just taken the *perfect* shot. I also realize that I remember a lot more about the pictures or the event if I scrap right away. But I also have a LOT of older pictures that I want to make sure to get in albums. So, last night, I decided to work on a layout that I had put into a page kit for a crop eons ago. I already had everything cut out and ready to go, I just needed some inspiration to complete it. The cool fall weather did the trick, I guess! These pictures are from Thanksgiving 2006. I can't believe how little everyone looks and that it was just 5 short years ago. So many things have happened and changed since then. But it was fun to scrap these and think back to that Thanksgiving. It makes me all warm and mushy. I think I will grab a nice glass of apple cider, some more old pictures and settle in for more mushy scrapping soon. After all, I still need to scrap Christmas 2006! ;)

Details:
Chipboard leaves: Maya Road inked with Tim Holtz Ranger Distress Inks
Fall embellishments: Studio G
Patterned papers, bling, cardstock, chipboard circle: stash

Rainy Days

Good morning! Another rainy day here in New England, but that is OK; my mums are going to look fabulous! So, the second part of the Labor Day challenge from the message board that I visit was to create something showing someone "resting after laboring". These pictures of my son sleeping on Daddy after a hard day of playing fit the bill! The boy can sleep anywhere, I swear, but snuggled on mom or dad was always (and still is ♥) his favorite place.

Details:
All paper, rubons, stickers, letters and chipboard embellies: Basic Grey Archaic line
Tim Holtz journaling ticket
Dad & Me sticker: K&Co

It has been brought to my attention that I have been favoring the males of the house, so I am going to have to come up with some girly posts for my daughter. We will see what I can cook up for tomorrow.

We have a couple of entries for our New Challenge. Please check the awesome entries out and leave the ladies some lovin' on their blogs! You have till this Saturday the 10th at midnight to get your entry in!)

Marvelous Monday .. oh wait, it's Tuesday!

And that's how the rest of the week will be for me! I will not know what day it is all week. Love the extra day off, but why are short weeks always so lllloonnggg?!?! Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday weekend. I got to visit with Laurie, Kelly and Susan on Friday night to see Kel's new place. She is going to have an awesome area to scrap in; I can't wait to see it done. Hopefully, she will be back to blogging here soon! My family was very busy with a beach day, a Renaissance Faire day and a cookout with the grandparents. All in all, a great photo op weekend! I did manage to get a little scrappy time in to create a couple of layouts. This one was for a "show someone laboring" challenge on a message board that I frequent.

The pictures are of my son and husband putting together a pitchback that he had gotten for his birthday. He was so excited to be able to help Daddy! ♥

Details (all in my stash - go me!):

Core'dinations : Cosmo Cricket paper

Making Memories rub on letters

Chipboard letters - Heidi Swapp

Baseball stickers - Current, USA

Chipboard arrow - Junkitz

Don't forget about our "something new" challenge: New Challenge

Go forth and make it a great day!