Mingle and Rain cards

I received these beautiful card bases from my scrapping friend Lelia, and immediately thought of adding Tilda to the fronts. I like the Basic Grey papers on the cards, and I think the coloring of the Tildas worked well with the patterned papers.

Thanksgiving Favors

The last of my packages are going postal tomorrow am, and these little treat containers are packed in one of the boxes. I bought some pails filled with candy about a year ago. I threw out the candy, and kept them for just this kind of project. Now they have been painted, modpodged, bejeweled and decorated, just in time for Thanksgiving! All they need is some treats!

Busy Halloween Weekend

We took our granddaughter to the church for a Halloween Party. She was the cutest LadyBug present (of course, she was the only ladybug present). Here she is deciding if green is a good color for frosting.
I have been shackled with an air boot since my last foot doctor's appt. Eight more days and it's gone, but meantime I haven't been driving, and forget the stairs! Today I had to wash the inner boot. Since I can't stand or walk without it, my son ended up laundering it. I was stranded on the living room couch amid my computer, some Tilda images, my Copics and a couple boxes of Christmas cards I had bought two years ago on clearance.
The good news is that I have signed and addressed most of the cards I'll be sending out this year. The bad news is that they are not handmade by me. I couldn't attempt to make the cute cards I bought for pennies. They are pop-ups, beautiful ones, and four different designs. I hadn't sent out Christmas cards last year because the time got away from me, but here I am, November 1st, and they are waiting on stamps and a trip to the P.O.
Hopefully this is an omen of my newly-organized life. Keep your fingers crossed.

New Tilda Album up close and personal

Here's the album I made up close and personal.

I used all the paper scraps from my partner, so I have no clue what papers were used. I punched a few swirls and used a leftover diecut bird of paradise.

This is really a friendship album, with lots of pages for photos and journaling, plus tags to write more journaling or put some photos on them.

Oops, there are more trick-or-treaters at my door!

I Dare You Creations

I'm hosting a challenge on Scrapbook Place Yahoo Group. It's called I Dare You and it's a partner swap. All you have to do is send your partner about 10-13 pieces of paper. They'll send you some of theirs as well. Then you create from their leftovers, kind of like a phoenix, rising from the ashes of another's leftover papers.
Anyway, from my partner's stash, I was able to make two cards, two mini cards, a photo mat for scrapping, and a mini-album made from those fabulously free mini envelopes from the school I work at. I even had enough scraps to make tags for the insides of the envies.
Three of the six participants have uploaded photos onto the group album, and a couple are still waiting for their leftovers so they can start creating, but I think the challenge went well. If a participant sends one of their handmades to their partner, they get extra points. I'm going to package mine up now!

New Winter Tilda Mini Album

I found a large quantity of small envelopes, the kind that you put some cash in and donate or send in with your kid at school. I spiral bound the envies to make a mini album, and before I covered the pages, I took off the envie flaps so I could make tags and place them in the pockets. I used Memory Box papers, assorted ribbons and fibers and embellies too numerous and varied to name. I like the way it turned out, and Tilda on the cover is so cute!

Wendy's Christening

These two pages are part of the five new ones I completed this weekend. Again, the photos and some embellishments had been scrapped in one of those old timey grey paper oversized scrapbooks, but the sewer water got to the paper and I could only save parts of the layout. So I "re-scrapped" the event onto 12x12, my standard page size now. The little gown was something the church gifted us with on her Baptism day. The poem I saved and placed on the page described our experience to a tee: it is as if the baby were marrating, and says how she was sprinled with water but water and she didn't agree and she let everyone there know her feelings on the subject. What I most isremember most is forgetting her pacifier at home and the priest poured the water into her eyes and ears and she hollered until the place emptied!