My Poor Neglected Blog!

I know that it has been a while since I've posted, but I will try to do better!  I'm still not sure how all those people who blog and FB and Instagram etc every day manage to have a life, but I'll try to find some sort of balance that includes my blog.

So what's been happening?  Well lots and not much. I had several classes in October, November and December that were fun, but took up a bunch of time!

Here are some of of the projects I created over the last few weeks of 2014:

Altered Projects

O Christmas Tree!

Christmas Tree from a wood tree 

by SaCrafters and the G45

Twas the Night Before Christmas 

paper collection.

I collected the miniatures over the

last few years at various locations.

When I make boxes or other altered items

I nearly always include a mini album.

This project was no exception. This 

was one small mini that fit in the bottom of

the tree. 

As you can see below, the mini opens up 

to multiple pages, including some that

you can put tiny pictures on!

 Santa's Sleigh

This is again a wood base from 

SaCrafters that I used the G45

Twas the Night Before Christmas

paper collection to decorate. 

The white ball trim is from

Melissa Francis and the gold

trim was purchsed at Handcock 

Fabric's. 

Layouts

This is a 2 page, 12"x12"Halloween Scene 

combining some Carta Bella paper with 

some Paper House 3-D stickers and some

Scan N Cut elements! As usual the class 

consisted of  a total of 6 pages.

I was into scenes, so here is my lead

Christmas page for our XMas layout 

class. I used the green rectangle spaces at 

the top to put a couple of family portrait 

style pictures. We made 6 pages plus a 

special project.

Mini Album

My mother-in-law lost her wedding album 

 during Hurricane Katrina. I was able to scan 

the pictures, but restoring the very damaged 

pictures took a long time. I was finally able 

to give her back a smaller version of her book, 

complete with pictures and part of the guest 

book, just recently. This is just the front cover.

Cards

For some reason, I seem to have forgotten to 

take a picture of the Christmas/Holiday cards, 

except for this one. It's 100% made from die cuts! 

This is a pop up card I designed for 

one of my friends to use as an 

invitation to a frozen style party.

 Tags

This I made for a tag swap with 

a lady in Australia. We had to use 

certain colors and items!

The Start of 2015!