A mailbox

Here is the newest craft posting.  My daughter needed to to create a mailbox for her valentine cards (crazy 4 challenges) to be delived to at school for her valentine party ( pennys challenges). I have entered many challenges with this projects. Here is an overview of what we have done.

We used a shoebox and cut the cover in half. hotglued paperbags to cover it the outside and made only half of the cover openable. cut heart shapes (die cut) and a flag out of k & co paper (color throwdown) and attached the flag with a brad ( practacle scrappers) to make it moveable. As you can see the handle is made of hemp with beads that spell A-N-G-E-L. The key is a toy my daughter had that I added a braided keychain with beads (that I had thought about tossing at one point.) It is removeable from the mailbox. I cut a slit in the box to slide it in and out. The bottom half of the box has ribbon around it with flower stickers, Angels name, and hearts glued on. The top of the mail box has hearts Angel cut out of paper and stickers.. I think it came out better then how I envisioned it lol.

Mom's Birthday

I'm late with this card. My mom's birthday is January 1st. We thought she was going to make it out to visit, but that isn't going to happen so I decided to send a card. Better late then never. Today I took a trip to Joanns and bought all kinds of scrap booking goodies! (I got a gift card from my neighbor for christmas!) Paper is K&Company. 360 12x12 pages for $19.99! Has some really cute designs too! It's hard to see but the clear thing in the corner says sweet. I'm really not sure what it is exactly, but it's a CTMH product. The cupcake is one of Penny's Creations digital stamps. This one really is my favorite! I have entered a few challenges with this card. Winter Wonderland, Secret Crafter, Scrap and Stamp, Crazy 4 challenges, CPS.

army accordian album

This album came out pretty cool I think! I made this to send to Rodney's mother for Christmas. Just thought I'd surprise her and send it. It has photos for the last year. From dec 2008 to Dec 2009. There are photos and captions on both sides of the album. I have entered this in the following challenges: Penny's Challenges, Creative Inspirations CB, Strap and Stamp, and Practical Scrappers. (it's not christmasy, but is a christmas gift-hope it counts...)

Accordian photo albums

These two albums are exactly the same, just different color ribbon. I made these for some of my neighbors. The theme I was going with these are to look like "packages" Hence the brown paper bag, and the star shaped stamp paper. They are military spouses I am giving them to. I used cereal boxes, paperbags, ribbon, and colored cardstock. Very simple project. I actually made 3 tonight, but I'm saving the last for another post, as I'm going to add photos to it for my husbands mother. I entered these in the following challenges: Penny Challenges, Creative Inspirations challenge blog, Stamp, scrap, & Doodle Saturdays!

reindeer crossing

This card I used die cuts, stamps, ribbon, and liquid glass. I think it's cute, but something seems off. Maybe I should have used different color ribbon? Unsure what it is. This has been entered in Crazy 4 challenges, Practical Scrappers, Secret Crafter, and Simon Says.

gingerbread

Really simple card. I thought the little christmas cookies saying was cute. Use liquid glass to make cookies and gingerbread stand out more. Entered this card in Practical Scrappers.

SNOW

Snow is deffinitly not something here in North Carolina, nor is it something I even care to see again, but making cards about it is fun! This card is entered in a few challenges. Simon Says, secret crafter, and crazy 4 challenges.

snowman and wintertree

This card I used CTMH stamps, ink, and liquid glass. I think this is the first card that I didn't "glue" something on. At first I thought it to be kind of "naked" but I don't think its so bad now. Entering this card in Tuesday Taggers. It's not a decorated christmas tree, but a tree in christmas weather. Hope that counts!

Jewelry

This weekend I expanded my crafting past paper. I took a 3 hour class a few weeks ago to learn to make jewelry. So I bought some stuff from wal-mart this week and went to work. Both of these happen to be gifts for my neighbors. I'm entering this in the challenge over at Creative Inspirations challenge blog. Sorry the picture didn't turn out so well. Very cool in person tho!

mini photo album

Here is a unique and simple photo album I made. I am entering it in two challengesCreative Inspiration wants to see some sparkle and Winter Wonderland does not want to see christmas stamps or paper!

More Homework!

This child of mine, sure brings me home alot of homework from Pre-k! So this time it's about a thanksgiving project. They wanted us to make messages (they had a list of pictures and meanings they sent home) on the back of paperbags to represent animal skins. I took it a step beyond and used sticks and acorns. We didn't have feathers so we drew them. I am entering this project in for Secret Crafters. The challenge is 4 seasons. You don't have to do all of them if you don't want.

I'm the USA WINNER!

I was choosen as the USA winner for a blog candy giveaway at the Thepaperaffair.blogspot.com/. I won some stamped images and a Martha Stewart edge punch. I'm excited because 1. I haven't been able to get on for a few weeks now that I've been training for sprint. Weekends seem to be the time I can get any craft goodies done. I went on a retreat this past weekend. I did make some craft goodies, but they don't fit in any available challenges so I haven't posted them yet. and 2. I'm excited because I don't own any Martha stewart punches! So this ROCKS! I'm sending Many Thanks!

trees

I was really hoping to get some card in this weekend, but it just didn't happen. This is the only card I have got done. I actually made it at a craft thing I went to Last Thursday and touched it up at home with glitter. Theres a bit of glitter on the ribbon that I didn't want to wipe off yet, because the glue on the trees were still wet. I'll clean it up later, when it's safe! My new job really doesn't leave me for as much time to craft anymore... Hopefully next weekend I'll produce something to show! Anyways this is a Pennys Challenge. She wants to see a winter theme with glitter or ribbon.

Anouther Homework Project

This project we had to go for a walk collecting leaves. We had to press them for a few days, then glue them on to paper making the shape of an animal. Angel really wanted to make an elephant, but we didn't the right leaves to do that. So Butterfly it is! Honestly she really wasn't into this project as much as the last. At least the last project she got to cut up pictures and use a gluestick on them. So this is what she will be turning in for her homework tomorrow. I was able to find two challenges this would fit in. Stamp, Scrap, and doodle Saturdays wants to see anything but a card. Tuesday Taggers wants to see Bursts of Color!

trim the tree

Today I was able to squeeze in another x-mas card to add to the list of people I would like to send cards to. I don't know how I feel about this card. I used a mix of stamps and stickers to create it card. It's just not what I imagined. I had something completely different in mind, but when I started working in one of the challenges I had to change my idea. So this is what I ended up with. So without further ado my challenges I used were Practical Scrappers they want you to use two patterned pieces of paper. For this challenge I did not have the right patterned paper so I made my own with a small x-mas stamp set that I received for purchasing ctmh products at a gathering I held. I can't remember the name of it tho. CPS gave me the sketch. I used x-mas string light stickers that are suppose to represent the wavy lines in the background. Scrap and Stamp and Winter Wonderland both had open themes this week.

2009 Fall Festival

Hello Everone! I've found now that I started my new work from home job 3pm till 12am, that I just have no time to do any scrapping during the week anymore! GASP! Goodthing they make weekends lol! So this afternoon I was scrolling through looking for challenges and I found 8! Omg I couldn't beleive it! Four of them are all Halloween themed which directed me to create this page for my ARMY book that I shared last post. The previous weekend Angel and I went to my husbands brigades Fall festival. Angel dressed as Tinkerbell. We had hotdogs and candy, we had photos taken of us, and pumpkin painting. It was a BYOP bring your own pumpkin. The middle pumpkin in the bottom right corner is the pumpkin my daughter painted. After it dried we put these plastic face pieces on it to make a cat! I thought it was cool that all three pumpkins happen to have a face! The pictures above were taken by the lady dressed as Snow White! I thought Snow White and Tinkerbell should be in a photo together so I took it with her camera! So for Challenges.... Creative Inspiration challenge wants to see some numbers, PC, Polka, Creative Inspirations, and Tuesday Tagger are all Halloween Themed. C4C is Geometric, Color Throw Down wants to see the colors Pomegrante, celery, and teal. Finally Unscripted gave me the sketch! Whew! I almost feel guilty using one page for all 8, but at the same time I'm like YAY THIS ROCKS!

MAINETROOPGREETERS.COM

MAINETROOPGREETERS.COM is a site that I got a hint on facebook to check out. Mainetroopgreeters are people that dedicate their time to greet out troops coming and going from the Bangor Maine Airport. One of the things they do for the families of soldiers is photograph and post pictures of the troops online. I was really excited because I found 3 photos my husband was in! (He didn't even know he was photographed!) They have been doing this since 2004. So if anyone has had a solider deploy and knows the exact deployment date they should check out this site. You never know there could be photos of that special someone online! How cool is that?

Challenges I am entering this in are: Unscripted Sketches

#27 sketch challenge. I added the pictures on the side, but the rest of the sketch goes along. Creative Inspirations is about family! Scrap and Stamp wants to know what we are thankful for. I am thankful that their are people willing to support and greet troops no matter the weather condition or time of day or night! I am thankful these people have a site to post photos for the family and friends to view! People like that make all the differences!

This here is something I just wanted to share. Since this is my first deployment, I'm going to scrap what I can about mine and my husbands experiences. I bought this scrapbook from K&COMPANY. It was really expensive and now I'm kicking myself in the rear for doing so because it's now added to the rest of the items I still haven't paid off on my charge card! *sigh* but as I read somewhere on one of Penny's sites: I scrapbook so therefor I'm broke! But I thought it was really cool looking so I wanted to share!

Penny's Pay it Foreward Gift

I decided to try something different for this project. I'll be honest I couldn't for the life of me think of what I could make Penny since she has made just about most things you could make papercraft wise lol... So I picked up some onsale coasters. Two different sets. I mix matched them. I used these stars that I found in my stash that are made to rub on hard surfaces. After doing so I put one coat of Modge Podge and three coats of Acrylic Sealer. I didn't test them out so I pray it works lol...

I think these coasters are really cool because they have a wooden base to hold them upright when not in use.

It's hard to see in this photo but it says Thanks for being my friend on the inside cover. This box I made was a pizza box, but I had to make some adjustments to make it deeper. Somehow it came out perfect sized! The cover and sides are stamped with the Stamping Up set I won few months ago.

Now for Challenges! I used Polka Doodles sketch. Scrap and Stamp wants to know what your thankful for? Our Creative Corner has a color challenge. The cute little mouse you see on the box is a digi challenge over at Tuesday Taggers

Requested

This journal was requested by one of my neighbors. Since she helped me out in a time of need I jumped on that request. I asked her to give me something to start as a base and she said Butterflys. She also stated NO PINK! So this is what I came up with. I made so many oppses with this damn thing! I had to run to Pennys house this afternoon for a scrappers emergency lol... I punched holes on the wrong side of the front. As you can see I needed something to "fill the blanks"! The rest is pretty much the same as the last. For challenges I used Scrap and Stamps Summery challenge with at least one stamp. I stamped her name on the inside with CTMH alphabet stamp set. I used Stamp somethings bling challenge. There are shiny butterfly jewels on the front. Next would be Simon says stamps sketch. similar to another I was going to use but chose this one instead. At last Secret Crafters challenge was to dig deep! Believe it or not the butterfly stickers and the daisys I've had eight years!
P.S. I gave it to her after I posted this and she LOVED it! She was so excited she took pictures on her phone and sent them to her mom and posted them online lol! YAYYYYY!

gift for my mother

The last journal I made was intended for my mom, but I changed my mind and made this one for her instead. I used a cardboard box and a paper bag to cover it. I have lots of paper- but not the colors I need or not enough to pages to complete a project. Besides I really like the bag look! Afain I used the dogs rabies tag rings to hold it together. This time I tied ribbon on the rings. I had a couple leftover embellishments from a different project. The rake and bag of leaves. I added them last minute. They weren't in my original intentions. I used liguid glass on the heart in the middle of the tree and the words love you on the leaf in the bottom left corner.

This project is compatable with a few challenges.

Pennys Challenges week 11 is Autum themed with a tree.

Secret Crafter week 53 is Autum colors

Our Creative Corner is the sketch I used

Paper craft planet/Simon Says challenge is to make anything but a card and give it as a gift!