Red or White?

Wine that is!  I altered some wine corks to make charms.  I used chain, charms, beads, and pearls  and a few other metal findings.

I haven't decided yet if I'm going to wrap lace, ribbon, or trim around the cork itself or not. I kind of like it so the printed design on the cork can be seen .  And I'm not sure what I'm going to do with these yet.  I may look for a cork charm swap to join, or use them on the spine of an album or journal.  For now I'll just hang them in my stamp room for decoration!

 Thanks for looking!

Off to create some more!

Holly Jolly Challenge: Holiday Sweets

For my Holly Jolly Christmas Challenges card this week, I used an adorable image from our sponsor Bugaboo, called AKV Christmas Fairy - Lights.  I colored the image with Copics and then added some sweet treat themed charms (Oriental Trading Company) to the string of lights.  On each end of the string I added a Baker's Twine bow.  The wings of the fairy were colored with a clear glitter gel pen in a crisscross pattern and Stickles was added to the hat.  The simple sentiment is from SU.

Thanks for looking!


Off to create some more!

Holly Jolly: Ornaments

The next challenge at Holly Jolly Christmas Challenges is to make an ornament or put an ornament image on your card. 

 Here is my colorful creation!   I had fun using the bright and perky holiday papers from MME, The 12 Days of Christmas.  I stamped a solid ornament image (SU Holiday Blocks) in coordinating colors and popped them up with dimensionals over some windows cut out from the patterned paper.  The sentiment is also SU, from the set Season of Joy. 

Thanks for looking and be sure to stop by our challenge blog and check out what the rest of the design team created for your inspiration.


Off to create some more!

Paper Bag Matchbook Album

After making quite a few scrapbook pages for my DD, my DH asked if I was going to print and keep any of the photos for us to enjoy... well of course I am!  So I decided to make a mini album especially for my DH for Father's Day.  This is a Paper Bag Matchbook Album.  I watched this You Tube video for the tutorial.  Check out the video, it's easy and fun, I'm sure I'll be making more!

 

This  is the front of the album.  I kept the embellishments to a minimum as I know DH doesn't like a lot of frou frou.  The album base is black card stock.  I also used black paper bags which were purchased at Michael's.  The patterned paper is DCWV, the Black Currant Stack.  On the cover I also used some twill ribbon, buttons tied with Baker's Twine, a chipboard arrow from Maya Road, and an index journaling card from Lily Bee Design.

Here is another view of the album where you can see the matchbook effect and the back side, which I kept embellishment free.  I used six paper bags and covered the fronts and backs of each with patterned paper from DCWV.  The fronts of each bag have a different photo of our DGD and inside each bag are additional photos.  I punched a half oval at the top of each bag so the photos would be easier to remove.

Thanks for looking!

Off to create some more!

Holly Jolly: Lots of Layers

I had fun with our new challenge this week at Holly Jolly Christmas Challenges.  Lots of Layers is the challenge and I love using lots of layers!  I hope you'll join us this week!

I photographed this card on a dark cloudy day so the colors are washed out, especially the green of the seam binding and image.  Just imagine something a lot less grayish looking!  the stamps/ink are from SU as is the Crumb Cake card base and die cut image layer.  Oh, the button, linen thread and seam binding are as well.  The patterned papers are a mix of miscellaneous companies.

Thanks for looking!


Off to create some more!