Terrific Trades Slide Show

Hello friends!  I wanted to share some of the wonderful trades I had privilege to swap last week at Rita's stamping weekend.  For newbies on what a "trade" or "swap" is: we each made 30 of one 3x4 cardfront and then we swapped with the other stampers so we each get 30 stamped trades back... later we can then use them as inspiration  or use them on our personal projects. I will post examples of what I did with my trades (mine is up above).  For now I made a Slideshow of all the trades for you to enjoy:

Tutorial: Re-using Plastic Clam Shell Boxes

Hello! Glad you're back. Check out my tutorial on re-using those plastic clam shell boxes, you know the ones TAC uses to package our rubber stamp sets. We all have them....don't throw them away....so many uses available. Here are a few:

Tutorial: Using #10 envelopes as decorative paper (or, "Vintage Fabric Meets the #10 Envelope")

What do these two pictures have in common...vintage fabric (that my wonderful friend Sandy gave me from her stash. Thanks so much Sandy!) and regular #10 bill envelopes? Well, believe it or not you can recycle and use the envelopes as decorative paper! What you say? Has she gone mad, using #10 envelopes as decorative paper? What is she talking about? Maybe sniffing that glue? haha! Well, let's take a look below and see what happens if you were to slice off the top of these envelopes. Here's what you would see inside...wonderful designs to use as decorative paper on your papercrafting projects!. Well at least that's how I was inspired! Here's a sample of the "Bookoo Blessings" card I designed using my recycled dp...I made a scallop circle and again at the bottom of the card I machine-stitched it as a border. I chose this envelope design because I thought it complemented the grey background design on the vintage fabric. I also used my scraps of "Genevieve" (my favorite TAC paper collection) on the left side of card:

I put together a tutorial SLIDE for you to show you the MANY things you can design OUT OF ONE ENVELOPE (and there was still paper left!). The best part is I didn't have to pay for the paper... I'm lovin' that! Hey, your turn to try it...post your results here so everyone can see. Thanks and happy everything!