Roots

This is my grandma, circa1926. Her mother made her this ethnic dress, as well as one for her sister and cousin, to wear at the weekly dances Gram went to with them. Unbelievably, this dress has been in the family to this day. Her daughters have worn it, her granddaughters have worn it, and now her great granddaughter has worn it. There are still one more great granddaughter and now a great-great granddaughter who will someday wear it.

This is why I scrapbook.

The next time you see this photo it will be in a layout, along with all the photos of the girls in my family in the same dress. Yes, I finally managed to get my hands on those photos and get them scanned!

One More Day until PCS Releases New Stamp Set

Enchanted Lily will be out tomorrow--Yippee!!

New Easter Tilda Card

I know, Easter isn't until April, but my good friend sent me some of the cutest Tilda images and I had to color it. Well, coloring it led to matting it, and matting it led to making a card front and making a card front led to the embellishments. Isn't that blue flower gorgeous?! And I'm so happy I bought the pack of daisies, I have used them on so many projects recently. I also managed to dig up the blue photo corners, and the embossed card front was from a PIF I snagged earlier in the year.

Here's how well I'm using my stash---the blue patterned paper behind the matted image was actually a card backing from a package of some kind of embellishment, I forget what now! I just snipped off the mfg name and voila! another card bites the dust.

Tomorrow I'm going to seriously dig up my photos of my Australia trip so I can finish my layout of my summer trip eith the Youth Group. I have to bag up my papers and embellies and maybe I can travel light this Saturday if all I plan for are these specific pages. We'll see!

More Cards and PCS Contest

Here's a nice Spring birthday card for you! I love the sentiment font, very whimsical.
Speaking of whimsical, have you seen my new blinkie??? on the right, a little lower, there you go! Pink Cat Studios is coming out with a new release---oh, I so much want to be on the design team so I can get all the new releases before anyone else and play with them to my heart's content.
But I'll just have to rely on luck, as PCS is going to give one lucky winner the whole set of "Enchanted Lily". I got to play with one image when PCS offered an earlier contest, and can't wait for these to come out. If you want her for free you can click on the blinkie and it will take you to the blog. Have fun!!

I made this card using an old ATC I made with a SU stamp. The ATC swap was for Black and white theme, and I had to add some silver for bling, don't you know. The patterned paper and flower and pearl are really a much lighter blue, but I couldn't get the right color back onto my photo, even with photo editing software. Hmm...bad lighting maybe?

New Cards

Got to play some more in my craft room after work today. I used PresentaBella (?) and attacked my scrap drawer. That's how I'm approaching my handmade cards at the moment. I find a few scraps of patterned paper that go well together, color the stamped images to match the papers and put together some cards. I made four tonight but didn't put a dent in my drawer.

Here's a nice tag card that I pieced together with scraps. I love the Hedgehog and know it's from a well-known brand of stamps, but I got the image in a swap and can't for the life of me remember the set or the designer name!! I'm fighting a losing battle with my memory.

Homemade Folder

I made this folder to use when I send stamped images to crafting friends. Instead of throwing them into an envelope, I can place them inside this handy dandy folder, which measures roughly 5x6.

I used a 12x12 piece of patterned paper and folded it so that it opens as a two-pocket folder. The inside offers a pocket on each side and is completely covered by the patterned paper (no bare spaces). I attached a ribbon around the middle to tie it closed, and embellished it with a slide frame surrounding the stamped sentiment, and a few flowers and skittles.

New Cards

I'm just having a whale of a time sorting through my stash of leftovewr papers and ribbons and embellishments. While I really need to organize photos for Heidi's next crop, I can't stop coloring Tildas!!! I love the cupcake Tilda so much, I decided to color in an extra one and cut out her cupcake in hand as well as her other hand holding the mixing spoon and piece them together for a 3D effect. Since there wasn't enough cupcakes on the card front, I colored and cut out more to embellish one side of the card.

I'm also in love with my owls, thank you very much Tiffaney and friends who sent me images. I stamped part of the tree from PCS's Limitless Limbs and decorated the branches with skittles and pearls, then attached the owl with dimensional dots. The card still looked plain, even when I added a few sequin flowers, so I colored and added the word WHOO and it was complete.

I've added a goal to this year's resolution: to work my way through a dismayingly tall stack of leftover pieces of patterned paper. I just can't seem to throw away anything!! My leftovers take up a whole file drawer, and I just throw the pieces in there. There is no rhyme, reason or organization to the pile. Maybe if I took the time to sort by color, I could find and then create more easily and swiftly, but I just don't feel like it. Wait until I really need a small piece of remembered paper and can't find it, then I'll bemoan my laziness!!!