Christmas Sleigh Mini

Hello Everyone!

It's been a long time since I've posted on my blog and I do miss it. I have to say, everyday life and preparing my oldest for college, senior pictures, driving, and so much more is a ton of work. heehee But, I'm enjoying every minute of it. I just have to make sure I takes notes because I have three more girls that will go through the same thing. Lol!

I really miss making mini albums. I've been to hooked on my mixed media projects that I haven't had the chance to stop and make a mini. With Christmas around the corner, I thought it would be fun to make a sleigh mini using my AccuCut 3D Sleigh Die. Though this box was designed to create a 3D Sleigh box, I knew I could make a mini out of it. I basically die cut out 6 sleighs with medium weight chipboard, adhered design paper to both the front and back. Then, I adhered another design paper on top of both sides only adding adhesive to the edges to create a pocket. I filled the pockets using my other dies and created some tags with the design paper. I just loved how it turned out. This will make great Christmas gifts for my family.

Come join my Mixed Media Tag Swap! CLOSED

Hi Everyone,

This summer has been so fun and busy at the same time, but of course I always make time for crafting. I've been busy with creating a ton of Mixed Media projects and thought it would be great to host a Mixed Media Tag Swap. I can't remember the last time I hosted a swap and this would just be perfect. There will be a total of 3 groups (6 members in each). To make it fair, I will group everyone based on the comments left on this post. For example, The first six will be group one and so forth. All you need to type is "I'm in" and be sure to leave either your email or facebook/YouTube info incase I need to get a hold of you. Listed below are the details of the swap so please be sure to read everything. If you have any questions, message me on my You Tube channel or Facebook and I will get back to you as soon as I can. Again, thank you so much for participating.

* #8 Shipping Tag (Or you can create your own if you have the Tim Holtz Sizzix Tag Die)
* Theme: Anything goes
* Color Palette: Any
* Create 6 (Please ship all 6 to make it easier for me to separate)
* Challenge(Optional) Incorporate Modeling Paste
* Please include your information on the back of your tag. (You Tube Channel, Blog, Facebook, etc)
* I would love for you to go all out on your tags. This will be great for everyone to see different techniques out there.

* PLEASE be fair to everyone participating. If you're unable to continue the swap, please notify me ASAP.

These need to be in my hands no later than September 4th. This will give you plenty of time to create all 6 tags. I will ship them out once I receive all the tags.
Place your tags in a plastic zipper type bag to prevent possible damage and to protect the tags. Include a SASE with the same amount of postage as it took to mail to me, plus and extra two stamps. If additional stamps aren't needed, I will send them back. PLEASE NO metered strips!!!
Thank you all for participating. Have a blast getting your hands all messy! :)

If you don't already have my address, email me once you're ready to mail out and I will email you my address.

Group 1 (Closed)
1. Bona-livelovescrap - RCVD
2. Yvonne-ScrapBliss - RCVD
3. Tonya Wilson-Mscraftyt - RCVD
4. Susi-sillyshysushi - RCVD
5. Linda- ScrapChica - RCVD
6. Dawn H. - RCVD

Group 2 (Closed)
1. Carole Ellis Moore
2. Lydia - RCVD
3. Nicole (Angel Swapper)- RCVD
4. Eileen Markarian - RCVD
5. Lisa James - RCVD
6. Valerie Sullivan - RCVD

Group 3 (Closed)
1. Andrea Anderson - RCVD
2. Brigitte Yeranossian
3. Paula- Nuthinbutdabug - RCVD
4. b_srtist@satx.rr.com Rebecca H. - RCVD
5. Beverly - RCVD
6. Michelle V. - RCVD

Group 4 (Closed)
1. berlykim37 - RCVD
2. 4Him - RCVD
3. Shannon Green - RCVD
4. Kelly - RCVD
5. Danielle - RCVD
6. LaLa - RCVD

Birthday Explosion Box

Hi Everyone!
My nephew Dominic is turning 4 this year and I wanted to make a fun project for him. I wanted a mini album,cake, box and something to hold his giftcard. This project was perfect and incorporated all the things I wanted to create. The papers I used is from the Basic Grey Shine On collection and the cake box is Sizzix ScoreBoards XL Cake Box die.

I made the outside of the box simple by adding a jumbo monogram letter from the coordinating die cut pack and tied some white seam biding around the lid.

I wanted Dominic to have a cake and also thought it would be fun place to add a giftcard inside. I added a few embellishments on the top pages and kept it really simple therefore my cousin can just add his photos on top. There's three layers of design paper in the explosion box which is perfect for my cousin to add photos of his first 3 years.

On top of the cake I layered a canvas die cut from the collection and created a rosette using the Tim Holtz Alterations Paper Rosettes Die. I tied some bakers twine in yellow and white and place a I Am Roses flower on top. I stamped Happy Birthday on the design paper and created a banner. I then die cut the number four from my new Tim Holtz Word Play Alphabet die with chipboard. I colored the chipboard using the Faber Castell Design Memory Crafts Color Gelatos in Pistachio and added some glitter on top.