Paper Blessings

2009-02-11

Love Heart

Hello everyone! This quote really blessed me today and so I wanted to share it with you..."Where love reigns, God reigns." It reminded me of Mark 12:30 and I thought I would use this verse as the focal point of my Heart card. Thanks for coming over today and visiting!

2009-02-09

"Paper Blessings" Etsy Shoppe Review

I was so blessed and so surprised! I received an email from Little Window Shoppe saying my "Paper Blessings" Etsy Shoppe was listed in one of their "daily blog" reviews. The post heading is entitled "Paper Coolness" ... what? Oh how wonderful of them to do that! If you have a minute, I encourage you to visit Emily's Little Window Shoppe website where she reviews shoppes, crafts, projects etc., on her daily blog...there is so much to see...so much fun! Thanks Emily for the plug! Now there's another blessing I can count for the day, huh? Remember my "Count Your Blessings" Giveaway will be ending on February 15th. Don't forget to leave a comment on that post to have your name included in the drawing. Thanks all!

Felt Flip Album

Here's my version of the Felt Flip Album featured on page 37 (4th picture) of our new TAC Serendipity spring/summer 2009 Magalogue. How fun and easy it was to make! Sorry the pictures are not the best...the colors aren't as vibrant as in real life. Remember our NEW TAC Magalogues are now available. Email me if you want one sent to you or go here to order at your own convenience. Local stampers, I'll be mailing yours out today...you'll truly ENJOY it!

Here's a picture of the instructions from the Magalogue. Click on picture to enlarge the view:

Thanks for visiting. May you have a blessed and peacful day!

2009-02-04

Tutorial: Tea Bag Mini Album

Hello papercrafters! Here's something different I've been wanting to try...a teabag mini album. I was inspired by one I saw a few years ago in the Stampington, I believe, magazine. Anyhow it was quite simple to make:

-Take 4 herbal tea bags. Make a small slit on each bag and empty the tea inside. (Leaves a nice fragrance.) Set aside for now. -Cut 8 pieces of patterned paper, 2-1/4"x 2-1/8". These will be your album pages. -Machine stitch a border on each piece of paper.

-Stamp and embellish each piece of paper. -Adhere the 8 decorated pages on top of the 4 teabags (front and back, of course) using paper glue. -Sew or machine-stitch the 4 decorated tea bags together to form the album. -To form tabs, staple a piece of ribbon to the edge of each of the last 3 pages. TIP: I then embellished the ribbon tabs with the small flowers I found at the bottom of my patterned paper, you know, the "color-code" strip. Just punch them out with a 1/2" circle punch. See picture below to see what I'm referring to:

TIP: to cover the staples used to adhere the ribbon tab, I just adhered a paper flower or embellishment on top of the staple. See picture below. I don't know if I like the "stapled" look yet.

To complete my Tea Bag Mini Album, I will fill it up with my favorite pictures! That's all there is to it! Give it a try and link some pictures to this post. Oh yes, this tutorial is also on Inspirational Techniques and Tutorials Blogs...visit me there... Thanks for dropping by.

Embellishments for Da Girlz

Using up some "scraps". Making some "girlie" embellishments for scrapbooking:

2009-01-29

"Count Your Blessings" Giveaway!

It's "count your blessings" time again! I would like to thank YOU my visitors for stopping by my blog and for your continued words of encouragement. Thank you! To celebrate my 20,000 plus hits on my blog I am giving away this chipboard book I made especially for the occasion. Each page of the book is a different letter and it spells out the word "Love." The book is filled with all the embellishments you see. Plus there are some additional handmade embellishments I had fun designing that will also be included. The chipboard book is all ready for you to fill with your favorite photos and journaling. Leave a comment, share a life blessing and your name will be added to the giveaway drawing. I will draw a name the middle part of the month of February and mail the chipboard book & embellishments to the winner! I find that even during challenging times there is always something to be thankful for if I just take the time to think about and count my blessings. We have such an awesome heavenly Father that wants to meet every desire of our heart, how can we not stay thankful, huh? Lately I've be blessed reading these articles on Serving the Lord...especially the one on the power of prayer and the poem at the end of the article. Take a look...I'm sure it will bless you too. Chipboard Book with all embellishments:

Plus more handmade embellishments:

FYI, since this is the latter part of January, I will probably re-post this giveaway in February since the drawing will be that month. May God bless YOU with a most excellent day!!

2009-01-27

Coming Soon! "Serendipity" Magalogue

Mark your calendars! February 1, 2009. That's when our new Spring/Summer 2009 The Angel Company "Magalogue" will go "live" and we'll be able to place orders from it. I can only show you the front cover right now but I will show you some of the new stamp sets (and they are beautiful, too!) when I receive all the info. Just wanted to give you a "sneak peek"...you're gonna love it!!

2009-01-18

Stamp/Scrap Class

Hello Friends! Believing you're keeping nice and warm in this frigid weather... well, we're having frigid weather right now....brrrrrrrrrr...don't know if you are or not. I wanted to let you know I'll be posting a "Count Your Blessings - Giveaway" soon. I just noticed I've had 20,000+ visitors!! Yea! Thanks to all of you who bless me with your visits here. It's very encouraging and I want to give back by having a "giveaway". I'll post all the details later this week. In the mean time, I wanted to share the projects we finished in my class this past weekend. Remember if you're local, we meet the 2nd Saturday of the month. So join us...would love to stamp/scrap with you!! Here's what we did: "Forever Family" Scrapbook Page with Hidden Journalling: