Paper bag card

Wow, sorry to be so long since I posted!!  I bet I left you all on the edges of your seats waiting to see the paper bag card I made for my Magnolia swap partner!  LOL!!!!  Ok maybe not, but here it is anyhow!

I used my copics to color the Magnolia image some cheesecloth I tea stained, and an old dictionary page to cut the flower out of with my TH die.  Papers are from my stash but I think were CTMH.

a close up of Tilda....
And this is the inside of the card:

I sent this card with some yummy goodies to my friend Becca out in CA.  I hope she liked it!

Thanks for stopping by.  Think I will make another post for today of the tag I made for the next month of this swap!

Altered box and paper bag card

Hello to all my crafty friends and family!  Thanks for coming by today!  Grab a glass of tea (I brewed some fresh just before lunch) and take a look at the box I altered for my oldest sister, Bev, for her birthday.  I gave it to her today and by the time she left she already had 2 places in mind to put it!   I started with a little wooden box I picked up at J's, and painted the parts I wan't going to cover with paper, using a aint from my stash.  Then I used this neat paper from Graphic45 to cover the outside.  I thought it was perfect for this project!  The old looking ads are actually off the other side of the paper!  I used modge podge to put all my papers down, attach the ads, and then gave the whole thng another coat of mode podge to kind of give it a protective layer.  Did the same thing on the inside of the box, using an October Afternoon paper.  The flower on top of the box is one I made myelf!  My good friend Kathy taught us how to make them at my crop in Sept.  (Thank-you Kathy!)

The paper bag card I made for her is the first one like that I have made.  For a swap I am in we are to make one for our partner, so I decided to make Bev one for my practice one!  I thought it turned out pretty good!  The images are Tilda's colored with copic markers on XPress-it cardstock.  I used a little bit of stickles on the one on front. The papers are all from a DCWV Christmas stack I had in my stash.  I used a CherryLynn die with my Vagabond to cut the snowflakes.  I love how detailed those dies are and how well they cut!  The rest of the stamps (sayings) are all from my stash.  Oh, and I used my CTMH Dutch Blue ink pad for edging my tags and papers.

I hope Bev liked them!!
Thanks for stopping by todayand have a 'Scrappy Day'!

Sisters are special

Hello everyone!
I just had to post this morning and show you all how special my sisters (Bev and Nan) and sister in law (Susie) are to me!  for the last few years they have invited me to go to 'quilt retreat' with them at Homestead Cabin Retreat up in Wisconsin.  And it is the most relaxing, wonderful few days!  I dont quilt while there, but I scrapbook and get a lot done!  This past year I didn't get to go because, well, it just didn't work out for me.  On the way up they found this pattern in a quilt shop (yes, on the way we stop at a quilt shop usually, but I do find lace and buttons there!!) and sine I wasn't with them and they were missing me, they got it and all 3 of them made it for me!  Here a couple of weeks ago they gave it to me, and now it hangs proudly on my scraproom wall!!  Don't you  just love it?

You can bet I was missing them as much as they were missing me, and this year I WILL BE WITH THEM!!!!!!  Thanks sisters!!  Love you all 3!!!

I have been MIA, but busy!

Hello everyone!  Sorry I never posted during the holiday season, but I kept really busy!  Here is a pic of what I cut out of Vinyl with my Cricut and put on the living room wall.  It is a little crooked, but so is my eyesite I think!

And then in the last couple of weeks before Christmas I got the wild and crazy idea to make 3 couch size quilts!  Yes, I know, really should of allowed myself a little more time for these!!  The Bears one I made first was for Josh and Jess.  I got to watch them on Skype open it on Christmas morning and I think they loved it!  Then I also made a Bears one for Kim, and a Packers one for Andy.  Now, Andy is tall so I wanted to make his a little longer but think I may of over compensated!!  Josh and Jess's is a little wider cause I wanted them to be able to snuggle under it together, and Kim's is the smallest.  Think this pic is probablyJosh's, but other than the size both Bears ones are the same.  Making these turned out to be a real challenge because by the time I got to work on Kim and Andy's, Joey was out of school for break and here for daycare.  So I had to swear him to secrecy on Andy's and told him the Bears one was for Josh.  Little did he know I had already mailed theirs to them, and the Bears one I was working on was for his mom!  But he kept my secret and everyone was surprised!!     Maybe next year I will make them for the kids, but if I do, I will start on them a lot sooner than 2 weeks before Christmas!

And no, I didn't send the cat out to CO with the quilt!!

Now I am working on an altered journal for a Magnolia Swap I am in on the Cricut Message Board.  My partner is Dalia and she has posted a couple of sneek peeks of my journal and it is going to be beautiful!!

That is all for now.  I will try to post back sooner this time!!
Have a great week everyone, and Happy craftin!!!!

More Magnolia Blog Candy

Kylie, of the Magnolia DT is offering up some yummy blog candy for her 1 yr. anniversary on the design team!  What  wonderful goodies she has too!!  And while on her blog, don't forget to check out what she posted for the advent calendar shutter for day 17...how beautiful!!

http://magnoliabykylie.blogspot.com/

Megan's giveaways!

Have you all checked out the awesome giveaways on Above Rubies Studio?  Megan has some wrapped gifts she is giving away one daily!!  See todays HERE!

Limited Edition Blog Candy!

Happy December First 2011 everyone!

I just posted a link in my sidebar where Debbie (from the Magnolia Design Team) is giving away some blog candy!  Isn't that just the cutest little Tilda with her Koala!!!  Check out her blog and enter for the giveaway!!  Good Luck!