Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Too much ribbon - Need your help!

Hello, In the spirit of organization, I've decided I have too much ribbon!  What's a girl to do but share it with her friends?  So, this is going to be an unpublicized give-a-way.  If 10 people respond to this post by Thursday of this week, 7/28, I'll select a winner to receive the ribbon.  Most are unused rolls of ribbon, not tiny little scraps.


Thanks!

Saturday, July 23, 2011

Tag Swap

 Most of my swaps are on the SOC boards - there are so ultra talented folks there.  We had a theme tag swap.  I am not much of a stamper in comparision to the folks on the board, but I decided to challenge myself.  In the long run, I'm pretty pleased with how the birthday tags turned out.  It was the first time I used my Spellbinders dies - the scalloped rectangle was created using the Spellbinders.  I stamped the balloons, cake and numbers on the rectangle with different colored inks.  I inked the edges of the scalloped rectangle with a light blue ink.  I used Stickles to add bling to the candles and to the cake.  I used fibers from my stash to add some additional color.  The little birthday hats or stars were the final touches to make the tags look more festive.  I hope my swap partners like it!




The Christmas Tags were created using my Cricut Expression and my Gypsy.  I used the Tags, Bags Boxes and More cartridge along with one of the Christmas cartridges.  The tree is the negative cut trimmed in Cricut markers and overlayed with Stickles. I wasn't sure if I liked outlining the tree with the green Stickles so I just added the red "balls" instead to the other tags.  Which one do you like better?




Altered Picture Frame Swap

Over at SOC, we had an altered picture frame swap and it was SO much fun!  
My partner was opened minded to anything. She likes the color green so I thought about flowers and a vintage theme.  This was my very first altered frame and I had so much fun that I taught my sister how to make one too so I hope you enjoy looking at our frames!


My sister lives in Kentucky but she was home for a visit.  We had such a great time together!  Her favorite color is blue.  I wanted to share my love of crafting with my sister and thought it would be fun for her to create a frame.  She's experienced some health problems recently so each piece had a purposeful meaning.
I think she did a great job!!



The frame from my swap partner arrived today!  It's beautiful!  It will go perfectly in my guest bedroom / craft room!  Thanks so much, Sharon!!