Crayola boxes......

I made these two crayola box school albums at the Red Victorian retreat in Galveston this past weekend.

The box is made from card stock and covered with Graphic 45 patterned paper called An ABC Primer.  

There are six individual boxes inside that hold an accordion album, grades 1st through 6th with
enough spots for school photos, journaling, and other important grade level information.

I think it would be great to also use one spot for a handwriting sample. 

This was such a fun project and went rather quickly.  What do you think of my school albums?

Christmas luminary

This luminary is from Craft Project Central from about a year ago. It uses brushed silver card stock, white vellum, the petal cone Bigz die and Snowflake Soiree stamp set from SU. 

The snowflakes are stamped randomly on vellum using Stazon ink and then embossed with pewter embossing powder.  I used the silver glitter paper to cut the snowflakes and scalloped edges of the lantern.  I attached ribbon on the top for hanging. 

The back opens and closes with a small paper hinge that tucks under several snowflakes.  It uses a small tea lite.
The luminary is about seven inches high.

A great rainy day project.

Baby Album

I made this baby album for my friend, she is going to be a grandma for the first time.  I used the Graphic 45 paper line called Little Darlings, very vintage and beautiful.  The pattern is one by Laura Denisen and was such a fun project.

The pages have the look of a bunting which houses the baby tag.  The tags are large enough to hold 4x6 photos on one side and journaling on the other.  This album has several interactive pages.  I especially like the hands that open for peek a boo.  I hope you enjoy looking at this cute album.

Card challenge...

 Elizabeth, my up line with SU is sponsoring a card challenge using the colors, Island Indigo, Early Espresso, and Old Olive.  The colors are a challenge but I think the end result turned out rather nice. 

I used Island Indigo as my card base.  The Early Espresso was embossed using the new Lacy Brocade embossing folder. It is a bold design and really stands out.   Whisper White borders the Old Olive layer.  I used white embossing powder on the image from the Serene Silhouettes stamp set and tied it with an Old Olive ribbon. 

What do y'all think of my card?  

Scraptabulous Crop...

It's been a while since my last post, life sort of does that now and then.  On top of a busy several weeks, we have all been a little under the weather.  It is that time  for the achy, sneezing, running nose, sore throats and all over not feeling well time of year.  With two young boys living in our home,  we started a little earlier than usual.

We had our October Scraptabulous Crop last Saturday.  There were fourteen of us so all types of paper crafts were going on.  We did a double scrapbook layout with everyone using the same design but with different papers.  It was amazing to see how different they all turned out just by changing up the patterns and colors.  Ashley showed us how to do a waterfall for a 12"x12" layout.  Lilana did a really cute page for Halloween using this technique .  Cece also used it on one of her pages for her daughters wedding album, looked very elegant and holds a ton of photos.

We served sandwiches and chips for lunch and Casey made special Halloween cupcakes with the best frosting.  They were very festive with the orange frosting.  The cupcake was good also!  Kim made angel food cake with a big bowl of strawberries and whipped cream.  Everything tasted so good!  We had our usual baked potatoes for dinner but added a new topping of broccoli and cheese.  So tasty but we all had a good laugh over the smell of the broccoli.  It seemed to linger in the room for a very long time.

Claudia went home a happy camper after winning the door prize drawing of a gift certificate from Hobby Lobby.  I'm sure she was up bright and early Monday morning to spend her prize replenishing her stash.  Maxine and Cyndi were busy making custom order embellishments.  They have quite an inventory and are so super talented.  You must take a look around  their website.  You will be amazed with all the designs they have and at a very affordable price.  Check out www.bumblebeescraps.com
when you have some free time to spare.  You will be there awhile!  Ashley also set up a table with her new line of Scentsy products.   The Frankie warmer for Halloween is really cute.  We had a sniffing good time smelling all the new fall scents a long with some of our old favorites. 

  Hope everyone enjoyed the cool front that came in Saturday evening, it was so refreshing to have lower temps for a few days.   The humidity is back now but it was wonderful while it lasted.

Until next time, stay safe!

 I found this cute bat treat box tutorial on Papers Crafters Library.  It is made with a small oval paper mache box using Graphic 45 Halloween paper, Happy Haunting.  It was designed by Jim The Gentleman Crafter.  If you haven't visited his blog yet, take some time to do so.  He is on the design team for Graphic 45 and does some unusual and unique projects.  

This was such an easy project and is completely finished on the inside.  It took me maybe twenty minutes to make and is the cutest little box.  I filled it with candy eyeballs as a little surprise for my grandson James.  He loves all things Halloween and the creepier the better.  Enjoy!

 Halloween cards from the card class last evening.  We had dinner at Rudy's on the Katy Freeway and after catching up (it's been several months since we were all together) swapped our cards.  There were seven of  us in attendance.  All the cards were so cute. 

Our next swap will be anything Fall.  This should be a fun swap with all the neat stamp sets out there.    Enjoy the cards......