This is another one of those last minute or I dont know what to get them gifts. It is a 5x7 acrylic photo frame that stands on its own. I just trimed the photo , mat it with whit cardstock and placed it on some Christmas paper. I also added a grungboard snowflake to the front after painting it blut with pearl paint dauber on top. I used red sharpie to write our Christmas wish on the front.

Last minute Holiday gifts

Usually every year I try to take the girls pictures to give for Christmas. This year Christmas just came up too fast. So I took one of the pictures that I had taken when doing Dusti's senior pictures to fill that need. So I bought some 2x2 square ceramic magnets at our local craft store. Then I covered those magnets with Claudine Hellmuth art gesso, purchased at Picture This to cover the exsisting design. While still wet I placed the photos already cut to size onto the magnet. Then when completely dry I heat embossed the whole top with clear emboss powder. Voila......instant gifts and a holiday photo.

Fish Face

This is Karli and her "fish" face. One night this summer we were at a resturaunt and they had a clown making balloon animals and painting faces. Karli chose the fish which turned out wonderful. Supplies include 12x12 paper Ink by Steph, "moonlight", leaves cut from card stock with sizzix die, fish cut with Spellbinders and Metals, and of course the awesome die cut made at Picture This.

Wonders of duct tape

These are some of the Duct tape bags that my girls and I are making for the holidays. Karli and I spent some time at our favorite scrapbook store with Barb and Paula tonite making these. I made the black and white and the brown and white , Karli made the blue and Tye dyed one, I think that one is my favorite.

TOXIC SLOBBER

This is a one of the pages that I got done today while hangn' with the girls at Picture This . This is our dog Pete, whom we lost almost a year ago, in the photo he has green icing dripping from his wiskers. Supplies were Coordinations paper, black with green core, Cuttlebug skull and crossbones cut and emboss and die cuts made right there at the store.

Free Spirit

Finally I got some time to get some scrapbooking done. I think I enjoyed hanging with the girls at the store the most.

This is a picture of my daughter Karli, that she took of herself in her treehouse. So when I saw this paper by Mcrice, llc. I knew they would go perfectly together. Also on this page is an overlay by colorbok, Flower Soft on the tall trees and a custome diecut, made right there at Picture This.

Vintage tag

This is a tag I made for an upcoming special event. I love any thing vintage or vintage looking so this was a fun project. Supplies were, Spellbinders labels, and pointsettia dies, Impressabilities, Coredingations, Core Color papers, text weight metalic red, and photo from Heartwarming Vintage Cuts.

This is a wedding card I made for my cousins wedding this last weekend. The picture doesn't show all of the features of the card, such ast the gems that started out clear and I colored them to match with my Copic markers. Also the flowers look pretty plain, but the centers are colored with Copics atyou Spica pen to give it that little bit of sparkle and color.
Supplies: Worldwin deep heritage black and light totaly tan cardstock with platinum metalic text weight, ribbon. Copic, Spellbinders and Creative Impressions.

Fall Centerpiece

Recently I was at my local craft store and came across a good sale on fall items. So I thought I would try my hand at making a centerpiece. The piece includes the craft pumpkin, a set of 3 catails, and two bunches of fall flowers, one in browns and one in yellows, and of course the cute little owl made of feathers. Aside from cutting the top off the pumpkin and arranging the florals, I used my awesome new Copic airbrush system to "brown up" the orange pumpkin.

Masculine Birthday

A birthday card made for a coworkers dad. Worldwin paper, Cuttlebug, Spellbinders, brads, Hero arts and SU stamps.

"Back to School" Spellbinders storage.

After I finished the last binder for my Spellbinders I thought there has to be more practical solution. So to keep them all in one binder I decided to take advantage of the back to school items that are out. I started with a zippered three ring binder, some cardboard, Darice magnetic sheets, black paint , and reinforcement labels.

Then I ended with this as a finished product! Right now I have three pages, magnetic front and back, and on just these pages there are 32 sets of spellbinders dies! Then the pocket that is on the inside , I have the rubber mats and a CD case that holds 12 more with the shapes on a square panel. All of this and there is still room for more!

Altered dress form

This is a dress form I found on a clearance shelf and thought ,hmmm I would like to alter that in some way. So I did. I forgot to take a picture of it until I had already painted the limbs and some of the body.

The finished product modeling my first attempt at an "altered" necklace. The limbs are painted with Distress crackle paint, the body with paint daubers and Glimmer Mist. At the waist is Grunge paper cut and embossed with the Cuttlebug, and adorned with black crystals.

The base is sprayed with Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist the I added the metal word pieces and glass pebbles, with a little Floral Soft climbing up the middle.

Not the best picture but the Cuttlebug was willing to help me out. This is the necklace by itself. I used T.H. link chain and Blue Moon pendant pieces.

Magnetic Binder

From this............ to this..........

And this! This is my first attempt at making a magnetic storage binder for my Spellbinders and Nestabilities. I used thick cardboard, gluing 2 pieces together for added thickness, scored in the places that would have to fold. Using the Big Bite, punched a hole in the front cover and added a TH hitch post, then, covered it with DCW scrapbook paper. As a "latch" I used a "hinge" from TH grungeboard swirls elements and bound it with brads to the fold. Finally I added two 9x12 magnetic sheet to the inside, this covers the post on the inside. I think it turned out pretty well, I will have to make a couple more to get the hang of it though.

The candy tin becomes an altered "trunk". I have a couple of these candy tins laying around that I couldn't throw away, because I can't throw it away if it can be altered! First I "primed it with Studio gesso, then covered it with Distress cranberry crackle paint. The "straps" and corners are pieces of Grunge paper, from Tim Holtz as well as the chain and items hanging from it, black key is from 7 Gypsies. The rest are bits and pieces. This project was a lot of fun, now I want to do a bigger one!

A great time was had by all at our girls nite at the scrapbook store!! These are the duct tape bags that Barb E. was so kind and patient to teach us how to make. Thanks Barbie!

These are "charms" actually keychains, that I made for all the girls that were in our "sleep over" at the Picture This. I began with bottle caps from Design Originals, again flattened in the Cuttlebug. I printed a sheet of "thumbnail" size photos and punched them out with a circle punch. Then glued the photo into the bottle cap with Glossy Accents, also covering the top to make a clear hard finish. When dry I punched a hole in the top with the Crop-a-dile, then adding the chain. Not pictured is one made for our very own "Cake Lady" Melissa ,who made and awesome scrapbook cake for our National Scrapbooking Day event.

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"It stinks," "that you're leaving"card. I made this card for Ted's boss who is leaving for another job tomorrow. This is stamped with a Judith outhouse stamp, then colored with watercolor pencils and Dove blender pen. The TP image is also by Judith stamped with Versamark, on dark outdoor olive , and deep terra-cotta paper with a bit of twine to finish it off.

I love magnets, so I wanted to alter something that I could use more of them. I altered a "pizza" pan, with Studio gesso as a primer, then used distress inks and paint daubers . Heat embossed the key hole, and added the metal key from K&Company. The magnets are bottle caps from Design Originals that I flattened with my Cuttlebug. I copied the photos and punched out the faces and place them in the center of the bottle caps with Glossy accents on the top. The photos are of my great grandparents wedding and the other is of my grandfather and me. Altered and vintage, I just love it all!

My homework is done! This is a photo of my newest niece, Kentlynn Cori Krista. This page was made with pink coordinations, whith vellum over the large photo. Flowers are coordinations whitewash and cut out with spellbinders dies, the button centers are the "homework" part of this layout. They are from Reminisce. The "toes" photo is cut out with spellbinders lables dies. Words cut out with the Cricut machine.

My attempt at a little altered art pin. I cut the butterfly ( Spellbinders) from grungeboard( Tim Holtz). Painted with aged mahogany Distress crackle paint, let dry. Then embossed with Cuttlebug textile emboss folder, sanded the raised image and inked it with aged mahogany Distress ink. Punched a hole just bottom of the center add a large game spinner (TH) with a brad. From the backside hang a swivel clasp (TH) , with a philosophy tag, off of the brad this one says altered. Secure a pin back to the backside, bend up the wings a little and its done. I may add some Glitz to it later. Love that Tim Holtz!

Sassy doing what she loves, going for a ride!

Dusti at some sort of a gathering where we had green frosting.

This is my uncle Mark on a freezing holiday at the

lake.Snowflake is made with su tag punches , lettering

done with the Cricut. I used blue alcohol inks and

stamped snowflakes with white stazon ink.

I got some of my layouts back that have been displayed in the store for a while. So now I can post them here. This is a pheasant that liked to hang around our house.

Grungboard braclets Dusti and I made using grungboard, cuttlebug embossing, ranger paint daubers and distress inks, held with Tim Holtz hitch posts. The green one has Coffee Shop Tattered Angels spray as well.