Play Time

It's Sunday morning playtime.. This is what I have been doing while having my morning coffee...My craft table sit's by the window. The sunshine's in and I get this invigorating feeling. It seems that when this happens I do my best work. This card was made with Stampin Up cardstock whisper white and daffodil delight. The patterned paper is from Hobby Lobby free stock. I had the image in my stash for a long time but I am pretty sure it is K & Company. Ribbon was purchased at Michael's.

Peek at my craftroom

Don't you just love hidden storage. These books hold all my bling, ribbon and misc. items.

Hubby picked up the canning jars at a garage sale. They are perfect for my charms, button's and flowers

He also made this spool cabinet which houses a large portion of my 12x12 paper.  It sit's on his grandmother sewing cabinet and to the right is an old dresser  that is designated to item's to be scrap

booked. I have designed a drawer to each member of the family.

Circle letter

Have you ever heard of a circle letter? I first learned about it at A Joyful Chaos. In the Amish community a family for a group of friends would all write a letter's chronicling the events that have occurred since the last letter and holding conversations with each other. The letters would all be added to one envelope. When it arrives at your home you would read the letters and catch up on everyone's lives, take your letter out and keep it, write a new one to add to the envelope and send it onto the next stop. I have joined such a group. Although we are not Amish we all have followed A Joyful Chaos and decided to create our own journey with a wonderful network of women that I feel are becoming a new second family to me. It was hard keeping everyone strait at first so I created this journal. I have a tab for each women and when the letters arrive I write the important tidbits that defines whom they are and sparks my memory when the next letter arrives. I find myself scanning this book occasionally just to keep that happy feeling that is always felt when thinking fond memories of times spent with a friend. If you ever get a chance to join in a circle letter I would highly recommend it.

Sunday afternoon

Lazy Sunday afternoon... I just love lounging on my bed reading a good book. The sun is shining in the window, warming my back as I find myself completely engulfed in the story...How do you like to spend your lazy Sunday afternoons?

Scrapbeach Fall/Halloween tag swap

Hello everyone, Here are the latest tags from the Scrapbeach  Fall/Halloween tag swap. 

The witch  tag images are from Crafty Secrets, The pumpkins from Inkadinkadoo  and the last one is a combination of Crafty Secrets and the pumpkin head man is from Hampton Art's collection in combination with Graphic 45. 

The images are great but the packages looked so plain. It  was not a requirement of the swap to make a kit but I found myself gathering supplies. I was on a roll.

I included two jounaling tags, one die cut, a piece of doublesided paper, brad, glimmer star, and fiber. No tag would be complete w/o the fiber.

In the end I had a few rejects. They did not stamp clearly. I believe everything can be saved so I colored, distressed and glimmer-misted.

Sorry again about the sideways image. I took it the other way but it keeps transferring in sideways. Someday I will figure it out...lol...

Tag Swap

I joined Stephanie's tag swap. Basically I stamped 20 tags. 10 each of two images. In return I would receive back 20 different tags. What a great way for someone like me. Just starting out and have not built up my stash yet. Although trust me I keep adding to it. lol....

Here is image #1... Isn't the owl just adorable. Owl's seem to be growing on me. I think may start to collect them. Sorry the image is sideways. I have yet to figure out how to turn the image around. If anyone out there know's how, feel free to give me some guidance. Until I figure it out you may have to turn your computer on the side to view the image...lol

Image #2. It's a stamped image of myself. I was quite the party girl in my day... All right you found me out. It's not me. But boy I sure would have loved to live during that era. She looks like she is ready for a wild night out. 

Here they are all packaged up. It was not a requirement to make a mini kit. I just decided it looked too plain in the bag and I had to dress it up. 

I can't wait for the next swap. I received my 20 tags this weekend. They are amazing. I will approach a few of the artists and ask if I can post their tags on my blog so you can see the images I received in return. Until than, take the time to stop by Stephanie's blog and check her out. Not only does she host this swap but her work is amazing.