Finally New Layouts

I didn't think I was ever going to have time to scrap again! But after two long weeks of cleaning out and cleaning up my scrap room, I can think about scrapping and I have the room to do it!
These photos were originally scrapped not long after my daughter was born, but the old scrapbook took a hit of sewer water when the basement flooded. I and my family were able to save a lot of pics, including these. So now they've been updated, having had to throw away the actually pages they were on originally.
I tried to use the same embellishments, but there weren't many left that were usable. The paper is from the Paper Company, the sticker embellishments from Scrapabilities, and the cute journal box was from a swap.
As I was trying to take pics of the five pages I completed, I found that my memory card was missing from my camera. Long story short, I found it after about two hours of ransacking the trash bags, the vacuum cleaner bag, and crying my eyes out for a good twenty minutes. It was under my stamping pad I keep at my desk!

Winter Magnolia Mini Album

This was fun to make. The pages are actually Starbucks coffee cup sleeves. I covered them with Memory Box winter papers, adhered the bottom, and made assorted tags to put in each "pocket" of the pages. I placed Tilda and Edwin Skating on the cover, and colored them with Copics. All I had to do then was hole-punch each sleeve and attach to a ring.

My Contest Card

My lss is hosting a card contest that started on World Cardmaking Day and ends tomorrow. I had already made one card with the supplies we were given, and it was a pretty card, but I thought I could go one better. Since I had a small obsession LOL with tri-fold cards, I thought I should make my card entry a trifold.
The cardstock is Bazzill, the patterned paper from Memory Box Company. The stamped images are also memory box. The jewels, buttons and ribbon were all in the card kit we received for the contest. We were allowed two extra embellishments, besides cardstock, ink and embossing powder. I chose two snowflakes as my extras. The sentiment is not from the stamp set I received, but from a Christmas Stampin Up set.
I love this paper, and went to the store to buy another pack of it. It is so pretty with the subtle aqua blues. A very light-handed touch to Christmas/winter colors, don't you think?
There are thirty other very talented crafters in the contest. All our cards will be donated to Cards For Heroes.

Halloween is all about the candy, right?

Well, here's your chance to grab some candy. Just check out Dannie's blog here:

Dannie's creative outlet: Some Blog Candy#links#links

She's got great blog candy, and her work is awesome.

More Halloween Candy

Here's another way to wrap a treat for neighbors and freinds. I cut cardstock to fit a candy bar, making it slightly larger than the bar. I used my crimper to decorate the edge, and then sealed the long side as well as the crimped side. I placed the chocolate bar (actually it's a bag of peanut M&Ms) inside and to keep it from falling out, I used black cardstock as a "belt", then decorated it. To get the candy bar out, a trick-or-treater simply slides off the black belt and spills it out. Yummy, huh?

Trick or Treat part 1

I'm in the middle of a ruthless takeover of my craft room. Somewhere in the last month I seem to have lost my desk.
It takes me forever to find the embellishment I need, and
I have had to resort to closing the door when company comes.
So I am systematically going through parts of my room, cleaning
out and cleaning up. I have reorganized my stickers--they no longer need their own drawer, and some lucky person in one of my Yahoo groups is getting the fallout.
My ATCs are back in formation, having used baseball card holders in a binder. I have also said goodbye to the three foot stack of patterned papers I was hoarding. They have been partitioned out as well.
SO now that I have a small space on my desk, I was able to make two candy holders in celebration of Halloween. The first is a candy slider. The box is made, two holes are punched at the top, and a ribbon is looped through the front hole, around a candy bar, and up through the back hole and tied in a bow. All the hungry
trick-or-treater has to do is pull up on the ribbon and out pops a chocolate bar (Reese Peanut Butter cup, to be precise).
Here is the back of my candy holder.
I thought a chocolate quote would be apropos!

Got some new Ribbon Storage

Great for ribbons and fibers, two zippered compartments, and a handy handle---sweet!