New Whiff of Joy card

My bestest bud, Sandi, RAKd me a few stamped images from Whiff of Joy. I have got to get me a few of their stamps--I'm loving them all.
This is the "Molly Celebrating Sheep" stamp; the sentiment is from Stamping Bella. I colored the image with (of course) Copics, and used Liquid Glass (as usual) to make parts of it pop. The confetti is leftover from a pack of 3D birthday stamps I bought at Joann's.
I used a sewn card front I receieved from my good friend Linda, and an embossed card front from her, too. I cut the image and sentiment out with scallop scissors, and attached them to the front with dimensional dots. The ribbon was a rummage sale find, no idea whose it is.
The card is for a Yahoo group challenge to make and send someone a card to brighten their day. I don't know where y'all live but in Chicago it is definitely gloomy and gray. Temps are supposed to drop like a rock in the next few days and stay there-brrr!
Besides stamping images for a couple of PIFs and a few swaps, I'm about ready to start on my card kits for another swap. (Sleep is highly overrated)

A Surprise for Me

So I decorated and put all the photos in the BELLA word album (see previous post for pic) that I made last weekend. I made it for my mom so she could slip it in her purse and show her friends at bowling, etc.
I just put the final touches on the album and in walks my hubby, whose birthday was yesterday. He looks at the album and says that it's too big for a purse, but it would look just right on a desk, say his desk! Maybe there's hope for him (and me) yet! I mean, he doesn't often comment on the work I do, and I get very little support from him (especially when it comes to purchases). So this is a supreme compliment!

Wedding Card

The photo is a little fuzzy, but I like how it came together. I had a Black & WHite ATC from a previous swap, and kept the color combo white, black and silver. A diecut swirl and a rubon sentiment finished it off, and I just happened to have a square silver envie!

After making all the invitations to BElla's first birthday square, and then finding out it takes extra postage, I've decided to only make square cards when I can hand them to the recipient, not for mailing--ugh!

Next up is a card for a birthday couple--they're both turning 50 and the party is Saturday.

My Bella

Look at those teefers!! After over a year of waiting and they're finally here. Man, I hope she's not like her daddy. His baby teeth finally came in, and when it was time for them to fall out, they weren't moving for anything or anybody! He had to have about 8 teeth pulled to let the adult teeth in, and then they grew in crooked, so braces for four years!!
This is the newest phot of our darling granddaughter. And now I have a few pics with which to make her newest page in her second year album. I am so on top of scrapping her!!!

Boys Book plus Embellies Bag

Now remember, I tweaked the album and it looks much nicer! LOL Anyway, the winner of the album and embellies is...
Sharyn
Can you please email me with your address and I'll get the package off to you soonest. Thanks everyone for your guesses and your help in trying to improve my work.

Tweaked the WORD Album a Bit

I got some excellent advice about making these albums and so added the letters to make them pop more. So here's my second album, and I tweaked the first album to improve it. After all, it's going out in the mail to some lucky person, along with a baggie stuffed with embellies!
The one here is for my mom, and it will be filled with pics of her darling great granddaughter, Isabella, or Bella for short. I have a million extra photos that didn't get into her 12x12 albums, so I'm always on the lookout to use the extras up. This way my mom can put the album in her purse and whip it out as needed when bowling, shopping, playing cards or other social events.

If you check on the right, I've posted my New Year's Resolution to make 365 items by end of year. I really don't think I'll have a problem with that goal. Maybe I should have gone for more, or made certain stipulations, like 200 pages, 165 items. Oh well, whatever work I get done is for the good! Okay, back to the crafting table!

Need to get to Work

I really need to get off the computer and get some work done. You know, in the real world, like laundry, dishes, defrost dinner, shop, etc, It's just so cold out. This is the view from my front door, at least when the snow was pristine. Now it's kinda ugly and dirty and frozen like Titanic Ice caps.

Oh, yeah, and scrap!! I'm just having so much fun playing with my blog that I get lost in the techno toy stores.

Meanwhile, regarding my BOYS album, I'm closing the contest down at 6 pm CDST today and randomly choosing a comment to win. Being my first offering, I had forgotten to report how long the contest runs. I'll do better next time!