Mini Heritage Album

Hope you all had a Happy Thanksgiving holiday--either with family/friends or all alone, just relaxing!

I spent quite a bit of time this past week working on four heritage mini albums that are gifts for my mom to give to her sisters. She purchased the great little Pemberley Bay Matchbook Kits, and I had the pleasure of putting them together for her. What an opportunity to recount my blessings of family as I created these! (All four were the same, so I made one and then "copied" the rest.) Now I'll be making one for myself too!

Since Amberley Grace goes with these kits, I used cardstock and ribbon from that collection. This was my first PB Matchbook Kit, so it was fun to be creative with something new. Mom wanted them fairly simple, so I think (hope!) I accomplished simple yet pretty.

Two Holidays--Two Projects

Just thought I'd share more of my craft show inventory. Both of these items sold at my first show of the season.

The "Give Thanks" is an insert in the tin. May be used for decoration or as a card. I used The Angel Company's yummy Amelia Papers, along with Amelia's coordinating cardstock and ribbon.

This fun Christmas Countdown uses retired TAC patterned paper, along with Scarlet cardstock. The number tags are stuck on with Velcro dots and there is a baggie on the back that holds the nother numbers.

Penelope Acrylic Album

Here are some pix of a mini album I made for craft show inventory. I used 6x6 acrylic covers and the Penelope Collection of patterned paper, cardstock and ribbons. I also used a few pieces from my Sydney Circle Album kit. (These are part of a TAC special right now! Yippee!) I bound the album with my Bind It All.

October and November Class Projects

Just thought I'd share the projects we did in my monthly stamping classes in Oct. and Nov. Several people had asked me what "faux embossing" is, so I'll post these.

October:

The first two are the faux embossing--done two diferent ways. The pink card involves using ink just a shade darker than the cardstock and white ink stamped just a little "off" of the first image.

The second one (green and brown) uses 2 flower punches glued together and layered on the card front to actually give a raised image.

These next two cards are others that we did to use various other techniques and do something seasonal. The "warm wishes" was insired/CASEd from TAC Angel Heather's blog.

November's Class

That was the popular mini album made from wine bags and bound with my Bind It All. Silly me totally forgot to take my camera to get pix of everyone else's creations. :-( I'm so bummed because these gals were soooo creative. They each had a bound album, pieces cut from TAC's Reece collection and cardstock, the rest of their Reece paper/tags, Reece ribbons, some hardware and pop dots. I had my example and photos of one made by TAC Angel Risa. The end results where outstanding and fun!

Anyway...here are photos of mine...

another mini album

I had a special order for another album like the one I made here. This customer wanted me to use the Winchester paper collection, though. I like the way it turned out and thought I'd share!

Blog Hopping

Over at Paper Wings, Angel Melisa has organized a list of Angels who have used the same stamp set in their posts. By following these links, you will be able to see a stamp set used lots of different ways, in lots of different styels. This month the two sets are Snowmen Nativity and Ornamental Snowflakes. Have fun hopping! Oh, and here's MINE using Ornamental Snowflakes!

Melisa : http://paperliciousdesigns.blogspot.com/2008/11/blog-challenge-blog-hop.html

Kellyrae : http://sassyrubberartists.com/kellyrae/2008/10/decorated-holiday-gift-bags/ http://sassyrubberartists.com/kellyrae/2008/10/world-card-making-daychristmas-card/

Tonya: http://tlstampindreams.typepad.com/tlstampindreams/2008/10/i-been-busy.html

Laurie : http://soapboxcreations.blogspot.com/2008/11/blg-challenge-2.html

LaurieU : http://laurieunger.blogspot.com/2008/10/card-sketach-98-tis-season.html

Sara : http://sarahsstudio.blogspot.com/2008/10/coaster-ornament.html

Carol : http://stampincarol.blogspot.com/2008/11/boy-another-christmas-card.html

Bridgett : http://hoosierstamper.blogspot.com/2008/11/contest-free-for-all-blog-hop-and-more.html

Nov. SOTM

I just love this stamp set--The Angel Company's November Stamp of the Month! It's only $9.75 with a $30 purchase. Click here to see examples using this set, then contact me to orderk yours.

Bag Book Class and Fondue

First, let me post a (bad!) photo of the bag book that we'll be doing for my November stamping class. Sorry, but I don't have photo editing software where I am now and wanted to get this posted since I've had lots of people ask me what it looks like. We did these at The Angel Company Seminar this summer (our national convention). I came home and finished it.

My Monday evening class if already full, BUT if you are interested in attending a make-up class contact me right away. I'll try to work you in--I've already heard from a few who would like to do a make-up.

Next, I want to show you a pic from my weekend. Three other friends and I had a girls' weekend in Oklahoma City--about 3 hours from here. Two of them are turning 40 this fall, so the other friend and I went to chaperone since we're older! LOL

We had an awesome time with no real plans. For dinner Sat. eve we happened upon a great "chick" restaurant called the Melting Pot. It was 4 course fondue! What fun!!! A real highlight of the weekend. (Unfortunately none of the other 3 are papercrafters, so none of that kind of shopping on this trip.) Anyway, here's a pic our waiter took during the entree course. I'm the washed out one on the far left. Yep, that's my natural gray. Yikes!