Washi Wednesday Christmas Trees

After watching James Luke Burke creative holiday class I created a quick little layout using his washi tape method to form trees

Annual Craft Fair

I am a vendor at an annual local high school craft fair to sell my photography. This is one of my other hobbies besides crafting. I love to get out of the house and tired from the office ‘cage’ so I go on a ‘hunt’ for birds of prey or beautiful landscapes my total stress reliever! 

Here is a picture of my booth. 

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Bee Pocket letter

Here is a cute pocket letter I created for a swap. I know it’s winter season but I wanted to do something bright and festive to cheer up those winter blues.

I used paper from a planner kit and the mo they theme was Bees and bee happy. 

Halloween Pocket Letter

 Made a quick pocket letter as an extra for a pocket letter swap. I forgot to take a pic of the finished product with glitter in the center

These are Vera Lane Studios digital stamps

Lawn Fawn mini cards

I made the cutest little cards using the Lawn Fawn apple stamp and glossy accents on top. This took me about one hour to cut the apples and I colored them with Prima markers. I ripped some sparkly washi tape on the edge. Cute little cards.

Holiday Cards using Simple Stories

I created 8 cards from Simple Stories for Christmas today. I was on a four hour conference call and I was so bored I said I will create the cards while watching the presentations. These came in a kit with fabulous instructions. 

Sakura Koi watercolor paints

Testing out new watercolor paints tonight while watching Chicago Med, Fire and PD.  Sakura Koi watercolors are very pigmented and blend well on paper. I tested it out on a 5x7 price of paper that has peek a boo doors from the Hero Arts press collection. 

Mini Booklet

I created a mini book with a cascading 3 1/4 size envelopes to hold my ATC trading coins for a swap I joined. This was so much fun to make.   It probably took me about 1 hour or so and made one dry run to see if I liked it.

You will need a paper trimmer, a score board, tons of patience, scissors, solid paper, color paper of your choice.  Some people have made this brown paper cardboard background so that you can create 3x3 individual colorful backgrounds.

I first cut the booklet binding11 inches across by 3 inches in length

Each floral piece below is 3X3 which makes cutting paper the same size for 4 pieces.

Each pocket is 7 inches by 3 3/4 size
Score at 1/2 inch and 3 1/4 inch and 1/2 inch on the bottom
fold the paper at 3 1/4 inches to create the pocket.
I choose to use one patterned piece of paper instead of making them all blue.  I liked this paper line from Scarlet Lime / Planner Society monthly kits.

Mini Scrapbook

It’s snowing here in Pennsylvania and I was watching Pixie Hill Studio on you tube and she made these really cute miniature scrapbook. I downloaded the printable and created one with very limited supplies. I used a cut piece of card board box for the covers and I only had white card stock and she made these with black card stock. I also didn’t have an ink dobber with me so I made it a bit messy antique looking. The theme is Fairies.  Enjoy!!

Here is a link to her blog. http://blog.pixiehill.com/?m=1

Christmas Pocket Letter Swap

I joined a pocket letter exchange group on Facebook and created two pocket letters for two kids with a Christmas Theme.  Here is what I created.

(Backup) Halloween inspired Zombie photo shoot

I went to Stone crop gardens with my camera club for a fall themed photo session and I had zombie miniatures and decided to bring them along. This place had amazing stone gardens and a ton of moss and beautiful flowers still in bloom. This was so much fun to take miniatures and then I edited them to black and white for the total zombie effeHere are some pictures of the zombies...

Happie Scrappie Planner Monthly Kit arrived!

I have a few monthly kits that I love and one is the Happie Scrappie kit. This is mostly used for my Kate Spade planner because it’s the perfect size and I write down so many to-do’s that I used this kit so much for! Here are some pictures of this months kit. 

Here is the link to their site:  https://happiescrappie.myshopify.com/

Card Swap

I joined a few groups in Facebook. Some are strictly planner related and some are artistic like James Luke Burke creative outlet and one group is a mix of fun ladies and altered projects. This month I joined a swap called 2-2-2 cards 2 fall cards 2 Thanksgiving day cards and 2 Halloween cards. Now I’m not really a card person I have always been a scrapbooker at heart and loved mixed media but mostly for scrapbooking but I try to create cards here and there so this is what I created for my swap. 

Daily Birding from my Front yard

Everyday I put my feeder out with wild bird seed in the middle and I break a suet in half and split it on both sides of the feeder. Lately I have had around 6 pm a Pileated Woodpecker stop by and eat the suet. This is a really huge woodpecker and swoops I’m so fast I tried to catch him in flight. Here are some of those shots...