Hooray For Saturday!!!

I am so Happy it is Saturday!!! After a long work week, it is so nice to be home and have some time to play with all my Scrapbooking Goodies!!!! I have been trying out some new Sizzix dies I purchased this week. I got the Rolodex File and the Medium Branch with Leaves. I like them both!! I recently purchased a vintage Rolodex File on Ebay. It will be fun Creating New Cards for It!!

 

       Vintage Rolodex  & The Sizzix Rolodex Die

                                                            The Leaves and Branch Die

A few of the Projects on my Work Table Right Now.......

An Owl Card..... Using my new Branch Die...

....A Tiny Little Card....

   I Used Packaging Material

  From the

                 Country Companions Line~~Lovers Lane          

This was a featured line in the

   YPP UStream Virtual Valentine Crop

    Sarah Allen Shared the Sweetest Cards!!

Go Check it Out....It is in the Archived Files

UStream Your Paper Pantry

I finally found a shop in the UK

on Ebay that would send it to the US!!!

And Finally a Card I am Working on

A Freebie From 

The Feathered Next..

I will Use these Beautiful Stickers

From K & Company to Finish The Front!!!

Hope you are All Having a Wonderful Weekend!!!

Think Spring!!

Hugs Patti

My crafty outlook: Celebration Candy

My crafty outlook: Celebration Candy

What an accomplishment...go check out this blog candy and celebrate with Hazel....
Patti

A Little Book for Faith......

I have been busy scrapping....I purchased a deal from Peachycheap.com....a few weeks ago...it was a cosmo cricket deal. I got tons of paper and some of the itty bitty books...I didn't care for the way they looked when following the directions for putting the actual book together, so I cut them apart and sewed the book together before binding it with ribbon and twill tape...I used a couple of tags from the dutch girl collection to finish the book, as well as most of the embellishments that went with the books...I also used some of my scraps and other papers to add to the book.

I hope you enjoy watching the video...my youtube name is kipperdsnacks...I would rather beTwoHeartsPath over there too....but I would have to start over...so I will just keep it the way it is...Have a Great Weekend....
Hugs Patti

Happy 2011!!!!

Wishing Everyone A Wonderful New Year!!!!

May you have

Happiness

Health

Love

And

Peace

Both in Your Heart

And In Your Life

Patti

The New Year is Fast Approaching!!!

I have been very busy with work, and the Holidays!!! We celebrated A Beautiful White Christmas at Home with our Family. It doesn't get much better than that!!

I have a quick share!!! A Cute little Owl Calendar that is FREE to Print for 2011!!! I couldn't resist making a desk version! The drawings are so cute, and you can choose the one you want for each month before printing out!! There are also two sizes of the Calendar to choose from!!! Here is a quick link to the website.....

http://www.myowlbarn.com/p/owl-lover-2011-calendar.html

2011 is only a couple days away, but there is still time to put this little Calendar together in an hour or so!!! I used my bind it all and covered recycled chip board for the covers, I also used an edge punch for the inside covers. The outside is plain.  Here is my finished little Calendar.....

I finished a Journal for my Husband last night. We are both going to journal our year this year. My husbands' is made from an inexpensive compostion notebook. The covers are scrapped inside and out, I added some ink to the paper edges to give it a slight grunged effect. It is pretty simple. The front cover has gaffer tape to the left near the spine, some strips cut from Recollections paper (flowers at the top, and the dice, also the State of Mind license plate, and the numeral strip. The license plate and the two small dice are on raised chipboard, as is the closure. The photo doesn't give it much depth. The closure was made with circles mounted on chipboard and attached with a brad. The butchers twine was inked and tied once around the brad on the back, it is just looped around the front cover to close. Simple to do and adds a little vintage feel to it. I blurred out the dedication on the inside cover for privacy...I left the back cover pretty plain...I for one like the black stripes and think they add to the masculine and vintage feel I was going for.

I will be designing my Journal in the next few days, I have collected lots of stuff to add to it, and have already made some of the signatures to sew into it!!! It will be more of a Junque Journal or Remains of the Day Journal.....right up my Pack Rat Alley!!!

Patti

A Place for Everything and Everything in Its' Place....

Well, that is the plan anyway!! I purchased these shelves to organize my scrapbook papers. There are two exactly like this photo. They came out of a Scrapbook Paper store.

I am hoping to get everything in view so that I know what I have to use. There is room for 120 different papers. Some I will organize by pattern by paper company, then probably colors or theme. I haven't gotten that far yet.
I have to first clean and sort to make room for the shelves. I have two workrooms, but cannot get in either one to actually work. They just house all my stuff.
Wish me luck and if I manage to accomplish this task, I will share before and after photos...

Halloween Tag!!

I created this Halloween Tag for the Simon Says Stamp Challenge Blog hop this week. It is the first blog hop I have participated in and it was so much fun!! If you haven't seen it, there is still time to check it out and participate, it is open until September 15th!!

I created my collage tag from my stash hoard...The orange tag is made from a double sided paper by Deja Views. The black and white graphic paper is by DCWV. Of course all the edges were distressed using Tim Holtz distress inks in Brushed Corduroy and Black Soot. Background of the cage is the backside of the Deja View paper, distressed with Tim Holtz Tea Dye. Edgar and the Crows are collaged along with the top floral paper and the body, mind & soul sentiment. The bird cage is of course the Tim Holtz Alterations die from Sizzix. Happy Halloween embellishment was stained with Adirondack butterscotch alcohol ink. The chain, lock and key charms are from the Explorer line by Traditions. They were attached through the eyelet and then glued down with glossy accents. Edgar's eyes are creepy green glass beads to give him his hypnotising glare. I added a small circle at the top in black used my crop-a -dile and inserted some sheer black ribbon for the tie...Hope you Enjoy!!