TOO sTINKING CUTE

I wanted to share something I made recently - which was a custom request for a dear lady friend of mine. It's a paper bag album but this one is special because it holds an ENTIRE years worth of photos. 2 pages for each month - well here let me show you...

 

here is the cover page

 

and each month the pages reflect that month

 

with some cute little subway art details ( for girls I would add more flowers, of course)

 

Cute right?

 

And the best part of the whole book is the BIRTHDAY LAYOUT - in this case - it'll showcase Ryan's 1st birthday = how special is that...

The cool thing about these albums is that you could take JUST 2 photos a month for a year and by the end of that year you would have a full documentation of your child's growth and keepsakes of memento's throughout the year...how incredibly cool is that...

 

I have these listed in my Ebay store - come by and order one for your special little one and let me know who I can dedicate it to--- these make great presents for new parents or for the grandparents who can't  be there to see the child grow up first hand.

 

I am linking this up to the following challenges:

 

WHAT I WHIPPED UP WEDNESDAYS

OVERFLOWING W/ CREATIVITY

KEEP CALM & LINK UP

A CRAFT SOIREE

FREESTYLE FRIDAY

friendship Friday

 

 

have a crafty day!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Christmas Crafting

Wowzers who could believe that Christmas is a month away---so now the fun

Christmas CRAFTING begins...love me some Holiday Crafting for the pure JOY of it!

 

To start off I started to make some Christmas cards and some all occasion cards too-maybe I will group some together and give them as a gift. Cool gift right? Handmade is ALWAYS better!

 

 

Sweet and with a touch of vintage ---Love it! Simple vintage image accented with some hand dyed ribbon and just some glitter dots around the edges - not to much just enough!

 

Gosh it feels good to make something that offers quick and INSTANT gratification!

 

Best yet it qualifies for the following challenges:

 

the crafty pad - add glitter

stampin sisters in Christ - xmas card

crazy for challenges - put a bow on it

one stop craft challenges - vintage xmas

delightful sketches - red & green

bloggers challenge - Christmas

 

here's to your own Holiday crafting

 

xo

 

 

 

Happy Thanksgiving

Boy am I stuft! I woke up early to put the turkey in the oven and get the side dishes started
and set our table - of which I sewed up last night.

WHat do you think?

 

I used some burlap and made some ruffles for the edges of the table runner

 

I cut out some leaf shapes from felt and then used my sewing machine to add some accents stems and decoration to each leaf...

 

Because I wanted this to be versatile I didn't sew on the leaves just laid them on the runner.

 

 

Then I just added my other decorations to the top of the runner some handmade fabric pumpkins and some smaller stuft leaves...

 

It was a great addition to our table but I would have added some more length to the runner because the edges just ended at the end of the table so when you sit down to eat you have to lift up the table runner so that the plate doesn't wobble over the ruffle.

 

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving lunch and I hope you did too...

 

the kids table!!

 

Happy Thanksgiving

 

xo

tina

 

Project life

Oh my - time has flown by. Project life has taken a back seat but I am finally done crafting for bizness and now can enjoy what I love to do and that is to play with paper and scrapbook and paint and just create - FOR me...

 

I have been taking pictures with the intent to scrap them...so here I am sharing a few pages that pretty much share the past 2 months - September & October & the beginning of November - yowzers - what a jumbled mess...but I really wanted to stay on top of this so I will carry on...

 

here you go

 

October

 

 

 

 

I really want to work on adding some fun accents to my pics and to take better pics of these pages because they always look so dark - but of course in the interest of getting Project Life caught up - this is what you get sometimes...

 

 

Quick and easy and NO FUSS - is all life has time for.

 

Hope you are having better luck with your Project Life albums..

 

I am linking this up to the following party:

 

one-happy-mama

 

have a great day

xo

 

 

Bottle BRUSH bleaching

ok are you feeling the Tim Holtz rage yet? I know you must think I am a serious stalker or wanna be. But I just think he is such the genius...anyway I found this cool photo by

Tim Holtz

I know GASP} right? totally - the colors look so magical and dreamy...

anyway I wanted to make something similar and knew that you needed bleach and "HIS" inks & stains of which I had very few. Here is my short but sweet tutorial...

 

grab a bucket - some bleach - some trees and some spray inks (like tattered angels or studio calico spray inks)

 

 

 
 
Dip trees intl the bleach and let them soak for a little bit. Keep turning them  every once in awhile.
 
 

soak the trees for about 20-30 minutes. just keep checking on them and turning them.

- they begin to look dingy beige... the water looks really dirty when you are done. Try using some
gloves because I found out the  bleach burns a bit on the skin

 

once out - let them dry - aren't they lovely as WHITE TREES?

 

then grab a shoe box and your sprays and put the trees into the box one at a time and spray till you get the color of tree you desire. Then just group them up and sit back and admire them aren't they gorgeous??? I am itching to make a ton more!!!

 

 

purple-icious

 

robins egg blue

 

pretty in pink

 

ornery orange

 

and then the rainbow of loveliness....

 

 

Hope you try your hand at this...

 

Here's wishing you a wonderful weekend...

 

linking this up to the following parties:

 

EBTKS

freestyle Friday

Aloha Friday

sunday scoop

spotlight Saturday

made with love Monday

market yourself Monday

craft-o-maniac

masterpiece monday

 

 

 

 

 

 

& more

 

xo