12 Days - Day 1

I took the online scrapping class from Big Picture Classes called the 12 days of Christmas and this is my first page. We were given photo prompts and now starting today ideas for putting together pages with our pictures. I am excited to say I put this one together today and now I'm waiting for Day 2! I normally don't scrap Christmas so this is really fun for me. Especially because I had to buy a bunch of Xmas stuff for my stash. This was also the photo from our holiday card so it did double duty. Hope you had a happy holiday.

Coloring Embossing

This weeks Papertrey MIM challenge was really fun, something I have never done before and never would have thought of. You were to use your copic markers to color and embossed image. I just got this new Hero Arts zig zag set and thought it was perfect. I also used the snowman from the Holiday Friendship Jar Filler set from PTI. I used three different blues but one color is hard to see.

Tag Your It

I usually don't make tags but Tim Holtz 12 tags has inspired me to make one. I also needed a tag for this gift bag. It's kinda sparkles and grunge at the same time. I stamped an angle at the top but it's hard to see in the photo. I used all of his tags for inspiration. Can't wait to see the next one tomorrow.

MIM Challenge

Today I made a card for the MIM challenge to use ribbon pleating. I love this technique and decided to sew it on. I also like to use the tiny attacher to pleat ribbon but I decided to sew to go along with the rest of the card. My picture isn't very bright but I think it turned out ok in person.

Birthday Cards

Every year for Christmas I give my husbands grandma at least 12 handmade birthday cards. So I usually try and make some throughout the year but this year it must have slipped my mind so I am working on birthday cards. This is card #2 and it is a sketch from Card Patterns. I saw a banner done with circles somewhere and thought that would be cute.

MIM Reverse Applique

This was a fun challenge for Papertrey Ink. The idea was to use a die and then back it with patterned paper. I don't have a lot of PTI dies but thought this basket would be perfect. Plus I needed a birthday card and I'm still making fall cards even though it snowed here last night.

MIM Challenge

This week's Papertrey challenge was to use multiple stamps to make a background. I used three sets: Fall Friendship Filler, Everyday Button Bits, and Grunge Me. This was a really hard challenge for me, but I guess sometimes that's the point. I decided to go with tree backgrounds and tried a number of different stamps for the leaves and ended up using an eyeball stamp from the Friendship Filler set. My images seemed really big to me and it really made me wish I had some PTI flower stamps. Maybe with my next order! :)