So it has been quite a while since I have posted on this blog. I had my gallbladder out in the summer, and lost the urge to scrapbook. October is a month of birthdays for me (including my birthday) So I have started getting back into my scrapbook stash by making cards.


In my search for happy birthday stamps or tags, or anything, I ended up on Etsy. Etsy is a website to buy and sell handmade items, vintage items, or craft supplies. I have heard of this site before, but never really spent any time looking into it. It is a great resource for scrapbook, and card supplies and embellishments!
Some of my favorite shops so far:
leprintemps
paperandinkling
PaperRoute
livingroomfloor
purple mushroom

Through all of my searching, I realized that I could make a shop too. I would make thank you cards. So today I went to work at making 4 sets of thank you cards. I present to you my new etsy shop

My listings are on the right side of the screen.
After all of this card making, and working with my pretty papers again, I can't wait to get back into scrapbooking.
Further posts on that to follow...
Thanks for looking!

Here is my next project I made with the Urban Prairie papers that I bought:


The rest of these layouts are a few of my layouts for the June LOAD (layout a day) contest at Scrapdango. Come join us at www.scrapdango.net! I don't know how I'm going to manage next week, as I am going for surgery, but for now I am actually keeping up. Yay me!

I have officially caught the Basic Grey bug. Before I started scrapbooking for myself, and before I went online to look at scrapbook blogs and websites I had no idea what Basic Grey was. I have been eyeing the Urban Prairie Collection for months! There was a little bit of it left at my LSS and I used some of the line to make my sisters grad present. Last night I was at Michaels and the paper pack was on sale, so I bought it!! Yay!

When I got home, I went right to making a card with it.
I can't wait to get home to scrapbook some more

My sister's highschool graduation was yesterday. The grad ceremony was actually alot shorter than I expected, which was nice, because mine dragged on for so long, the principal of this school just motored through everyone's names. It was still really hot inside though!!

I made these gifts, and this card for her, a photo box and a note tin. This was my first attempt at making an altered project, and it didn't really go as planned. The first box I tried to cover, I put paper all the way over the corners and everything, so there was none of the box exposed, but then it made really ugly wrinkles and bumps in the paper where the box opened and closed, so I had to start over. The second time around, I painted the box a coordinating color, and then measured out each piece for each surface of the box, that worked much better. Then after everything was attached I put modge podge over top. The tin worked a little better, Steve spray painted it first with acrylic model paint, and then I attached that paper with super tacky double sided tape. Then sprayed it all with a sealer. TFL!

I am loving Crate Paper right now. I received 3 of their collections in the mail that I ordered, about 2 weeks ago, and have since made 2 layouts, and 1 card, one out of each collection. The first layout I made was the "A Little About Me" layout I posted in my previous post, and then the second layout I was unable to post, because I was entering it into a contest. Now that the contest is over I can post it here. This one was with the MIA collection:






I had to post all of the detailed photos, because I just love how it turned out! To get the butterfly's wings to stand up like that I first folded them at the body, and then I curled each wing around a thick pen. The title was cut using my Slice (which is awesome by the way...review to come soon) I cut it in both cardstock colors, then cut in in half and lined it up. I drew the white border around it to make it more unified (it was hard to read without it). Underneath the photo is a hidden journaling tab. To do this, I cut a rectangle of cardstock, shorter than the photo, and attached a tab to it (folded over cardstock of the same color, that I cut) then I attached the photo just around the edges, and on the bottom, so that the journaling could slide right under. Because the tab on the top is folded over, it is a bit thicker than the cardstock sliding under, and so it stops nicely and lines up where it should when I put it back. Also, the shaped pattern paper, and cardstock I cut using a die cut cardstock sheet that I use as a template.

The card I made was with the Blue Hill Collection and I used sketch 81 from the Got Sketch blog.
The flower on top I cut with my Slice.

I have been getting behind on posting updates, but I have still been scrapbooking. Here are some of my favorites that I have made in the past month.

So I decided to start project 365. See the concept of it on Becky Higgins blog here. Basically you take a picture a day for 365 days, so that you can capture everyday things instead of just important events. I started taking pictures on April 19 and have been acquiring the supplies to put it together. I am still waiting for the page protectors to come in the mail. I am using a D-Ring Album by American Crafts, page protectors (6 4x6 photos per 12x12 page), and downloaded "week of" and journaling cards from Becky Higgins blog here (I just really liked the style, and didn't want to buy a bunch more stuff). Hopefully I can keep up with all the photos, and I should have a pretty interesting album by the end of it.