For the Love of Birds!

First off, I feel so fortunate to be a designer for Scrapbuggy.com. I absolutely love it and I am so thankful for this great opportunity. I made this little bird book for my friend, using all new dies I received!!

I absolutely love this bird cage. I painted it with crackle paint called "tarnished brass". I love this effect!

This is the cut out from the birdcage...such a cool shape!

This bird nest is so cute! I loved nestling in the eggs and some twine!
Mojo and his bed head hair!

I used Chicken Noodle font for most of the book.

These paisleys are actually the bird tail cut outs!

I finally sent this little book to my friend Linda in Wisconsin!

Pretty in Pink

A little card for a friend. I used the damask qk die and flirt font.

Watermelon Thanks!

I forget how much I love my Moxie QK font! I stitched on each letter and popdotted them up. The watermelon is from the qk Enjoy gift set.

Scrapbook Garage Sale Motherload!

So today seemed pretty hectic and was not off to a good start. I was running errands with my husband and friend....nothing really fun just the man mall, working on home projects, and picking up equipment. UNTIL I spotted a sign saying "Garage Sale-Scrapbook Supplies, half off on Saturday." My husband instantly dropped me off while the garage sale was just closing up. It was fate. I went there and this guy had bought BOXES of overstock supplies from Fiskars. Everything was new and in the package and he had piles of each embellishments. EVERY SINGLE sticker sheet, chipboard packages, rubons, border stickers, flocked accents, felt button packages, etc was 30 CENTS EACH!!!! I started going crazy, they gave me a bag and I loaded up 97 different embellishment packages and it only cost me $29.10!!!!! Seriously made my day, probably my month!!! Just had to share. :)

Hootie

My husband and I saw "hootie" in our backyard! A big thanks to Shar for sending me this beautiful quickutz owl cut from her collection of owl dies! I love the oak leaves from the exclusive bear quickutz die. They are so cute! I had fun creating the little ribbon pleats using my tombo adhesive and a patient eye! I stitched the two photos together using my embroidering thread and border template. I used the quickutz notebook die for journaling. I used rainbow quickutz font and doodled on the letters for an example of the Scrapbuggy July Challenge which is to get creative with your quickutz fonts on your projects! Come and participate! Just create a project using your creativity with your quickutz fonts and post your project in the message boards under "challenges and contests" and you will be automatically entered in a drawing for the month of July! Here is the link http://scrapbuggy.com/messageboard/

Picnic

Just a quick card. I made it using moxie mini quickutz font and the ketchup and mustard from the Enjoy gift set.

Monster Party!

Yay! The Scrapbuggy Quickutz Exclusives are in!!! Here I made a little monster invitation with my monsters exclusives! I decorated this little guy with googly eyes and flowersoft moss to give the furry effect. I used moonlight quickutz font. Super fun to play with!

Scrapbook Retreat

These are the pink champagne cupcakes I made for the retreat for Sue's birthday (Tracey-if you are reading this...thanks for the recipe!)! I was able to finish my entire honeymoon album. I borrowed Sue's Relax quickutz set and Spicy Chicken font. Love! I also used my Archiver's exclusive coconut (cut from wood paper) and tropical leaves.

My impression of "Edward Scissor Hands" with dried coral reef! :)

3-d Flowers

I got a new 3-d flower die from sizzix and it was so fun to make and decorate them! I used the leaf border qk die for accents. This is a gift for my best friend for her new apartment.

Mystery Rocks

I was playing with my new grid mosaic paper today! I used Chemistry font and crumpled up the letters to chalk them up to give the effect of rocks.

Fun Finds

My new t-shirt from a local scrapbook store in MN.

This little guy I bought for 2 dollars at Marshalls. It's a mini vacuum! It picks up those little paper snippets when you don't want to break out the big vacuum!

"What Style, What Grace, What a Silly Face!" Thought of my friend Shar and her Grandaughter Gracie when I saw this. And of course I had to buy it because it has vintage pictures of kittens!

Now this is really cool! Apparently a little company makes these paper grided sheets and "how to" books along with it. This is to line up your mosaic pictures! Really cool...just cut your picture into 1 inch squares and the paper has faint lines so you can put them on perfectly straight..instead of eyeballing it. You can fill up the whole sheet with more than one photo..and you don't have to stick with all 1 inch squares..you can throw in some bigger size ones and surround it with little squared pictures. I will be creating a layout to show an example soon! The company is "Mosaic Moments" by Tami Potter at www.tamipotter.com Check it out! Here is the creator's "how to" video from her blog. http://tamipotter.typepad.com/how_do_i/

Giant Layout/Bulletin Board

Even though I am not a teacher, I still get to decorate bulletin boards! Talk about a large layout here! The school had their prom so I took pictures and made this using my polaroid qk diecut, damask border (halved), and Moxie Classic Font. I plan to hang this up at our health center where I work as a school nurse.

Bird Perches/Collar Buttons/Hitches

So I stopped by the local antique store to pick up more perches for my bird houses. I've been having a hard time finding the Tim Holtz hitches so I used my version. Apparently these were used as collar buttons. I found metal, shell, and wood ones! I guess that means more birdhouses! :) I also found old eyelets too!