New life for a brief case~

 

Doing a little {just a little] cleaning out and found this WAY cool brief case that my father-in-law had given  to my husband ~he thought it would help keep my hubby organized not !!

 

Anyway hubby never used it and it is really cool.  So I decided to use it for my ephemera !!!  I'm sure glad I'm not speaking that word ~ always gives me trouble :):):)  Why can't we just say old stuff~

  Cool file folders in the top~perfect!!!!  Did you notice it has snap to keep the old stuff in the folders?

 Nice and roomy too!!!

Love using vintage in my studio to organize!!!!

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Have a great weekend and I'll see ya soon!!!!!

Re-purpose project and layout with JBS!!

Hi everyone, I'm setting up blog posts because I'll be taking a week off for the holidays.  This is some JBS work that I did that you can see more in detail HERE!!!  I used the new line Boy meets Girl.  So cute!!!!

I love to alter old stuff and make it useful again. So much of it has so much character, just like this vintage album page.

This is a clock face that was altered into {what I call } a wisdon board. Just little things I would like to talk to my grands about!!! :):) A reminder for me~

You can see this blog post HERE!!!

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Darkroom Door Creative Team~

Whoot!!!! The announcement has been made~can't wait to get to work!!!!!

Anna-Karin Evaldsson - South Africa
Belinda Spencer - Australia
Connie Mercer - USA
Godelieve Tijskens - Belgium
Hels Sheridan - UK
Liesbeth Fidder - Netherlands
Marjie Kemper - USA
Rachel Greig - Australia
Sephi Kemp - Australia
Susie Campbell - Australia
Suzanne Czosek - USA
Teresa Abajo - Australia
Melissa Phillips - USA

Check it out HERE!!!!

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Avocado Arts ~ guest designer!!!!

Hi everyone ~ I'm so excited to be working with Avocado Arts!!!! Their stamps are adorable and have the cutest graphics!!!The name of this set is Perfect Blend and it was perfect!!!!  The stamps preformed awesome, clear and easy.  That is a perfect stamp to me!!!



The stamps are so fun and the detail is fabulous!!!  They thought of everything!!!

On this layout I used Jenni Bowlin Studio { Magpie }, the coffee paper was a perfect blend:):)

This was a quick but cute project. The stamps were perfect to embellish a coffee sleeve with.  Not only do they give you the cup but a tumbler as well!!!

This is what the set look like~

Super cute!!!!! Be sure and check out the store~tons of super cute stamp sets!!!! They also have digital cut outs for the electronic cutters~check it out HERE!!!!

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Coffee Lover's Blog Hop

See ya soon~

Happy New Year crafty peeps~and not so crafty peeps!!!

 

Hoping for a GREAT 2013 for all of us!!!!  I hope that dreams come true this year ~what ever they may be.  Wishing you ALL the very best!!

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I'll be up on Avocado Art's blog on the 2nd ~hope you can stop by and say hi and check out the beautiful, fun stamps they have!!!!

 

Top Ten projects of 2012~

These are MY top ten, all time favorite projects or layouts!!!  Hope you enjoy them!

 

Darkroom Door~

Guest Blogger for A Bit of Pink Heaven

 

Blog Hop with Angela Holt Designs

Basically Bare~

The Play Date Cafe~

Craft Crossing Class~Authentique

Avocado Arts and JBS~

submission for JBS DT~

 

submission for JBS DT~

Vintage Street Market~

Skipping Stones Designs~

Yep, there is twelve:):):).  I couldn't decide, so I added the last two.  This is also a sampling of the work I did for some great peeps in 2012!!

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I have  some awesome, exciting {several}bits of news and I will share when I get the thumbs up!!!



Cards and a book to hold them~

 

This is a project I did in Florida {Collins Group Convention}:) I just got it finished in time to give it to my mom!!!  The class was taught by Joey Otlo with Bazzill Basics.  It is a  card holder book, has pockets in it to hold cards for each month. 

 

These are the cards that I made to put in the pockets, in the book.  The first one is a pop up card using the pop up die by Sizzix and the designer Karen Burniston.

 

This is how the inside looks with the pockets pages and the print out so you can add your occasion dates that you want to send cards on {or to}. These are Christmas cards but the idea can be tweaked with All Occasion or Birthday cards.

 

See ya soon!!!!