School House Rock

I was in the mood to make another envelope album and had a mixed collection of school themed papers and left over chipboard elements from the Crate Paper School Spirit Collection so this is what I came up with.

I drew and paper pieced the shcool house cover.  I think it turned out cute with all the apple tags and ribbon.  As usual the album turned out very CHUNKY!!  I can't seem to help myself even though I really do try :)

For more albums click here.  I've posted it on ebay.

Thank you for looking.

A Little Early for Christmas?

I am getting caught up on the whole Holiday Season whirlwind.  I can't help it ... christmas advertising, commercials and decorating is starting to sprout up all around my town and I am getting that Holiday buzz LOL.

I went out and bought a TON OF embellies, paper, flowers and anything that I saw that was red and have started to make my Holiday items.

Here is my first!!

Christmas Noel Envelope Mini Album

If you want to see more pics click here - I have posted this album on ebay.   Thank you for looking.

Autumn Leaves

I love the colors of Autumn .... orange, brown, gold but alas we don't get the seasons here in Florida.  We did get a little change when I lived in Cali but not like real Autumn.  

I am starting to feel the holidays so I decided to make an Autumn mini album and I really enjoyed embellishing it with leaves and my favorite colors.   I did add lots of texture using felt, yarn, corrugated  cardstock, sewing and layers.

For more pictures of the album click here.  I posted it on ebay.  Thanks for looking.

MPTH Crate Paper Monthly Kit VIDEO!!

I am so excited, I made a video!!  Here are all the pages in the School Bus Shaped Chipboard Ablum.



Click here for another view  School Bus at my Etsy store

MPTH School Bus Album with Crate Paper

Geez, this took me alot longer than I had anticipated.  Usually I am a pretty fast scrapper but this album took me about a week, and still I have to put some finishing touches on it.  I need bigger zutter rings so gotta go shopping for that.  I should have known, I can't seem to make a flat album to save my life ...

So I designed this cute school bus cover, that alone took me 4 hours!!!  Once I have it totally finished the way I like it I will post the entire album on you tube.

I pretty much used up my entire kit on this album.  I still have a couple of rub-ons left and a few chipboard embellies.  I added some extra tags, a cute lunch bag,  ribbon and buttons of course.  The buttons look so cute hanging off the tags right?

I will post a link to you tube, once I have it up.  Thanks for looking.

Sticks, Buttons and My Paper Treehouse

Everyone that knows me .... knows that I love buttons!!  I almost always add buttons to my layouts or albums.  How did I become the button lady?  I inherited it from my mama.  My mom was a very talented lady, she could make anything out of yarn, paper or fabric.  My mom would make all our sweaters and dresses for my sisters and I. 

This is one of my prized possessions, I have it hanging in my scraproom to give me inspiration and to remind me of my mama.

My sister Rebecca made this for my Birthday.  My twin sisters are very talented, they turned out like Mom.

I had the white rose on a dress my mom made me in high school

The little elephant button use to be on one of daughter's sweaters that mom made for her

So when I received My Paper Treehouse kit I was challenged to use some popsicle  sticks that came in my kit.  Now this is why I love monthly kits ... I would never have thought of using sticks in my projects, but here I had some in my kit so I racked my brain and knew that I wanted to add buttons.

This is what I came up with.  Now this is just a seak peek because this album is taking longer than I originally thought so here is what I have done so far.

I made large tags that go into the pockets

I added my sticks which I painted and my fabric from my kit to decorate the tag "handle"

Of course I had to add some buttons

I took a break to show you what I have done so far, so I still have a couple hours till I have to run errands.  Back to work for me, I hope to have my album finished by tomorrow.  Keep checking back, and if you have any questions ... dont be shy.  Also check out my paper tree house online to buy the monthly kits.  This September kit is loaded with the Crate Paper School Spirit Collection.

A little altered

I have made a couple of these little altered canvases.  I like putting them on my studio wall as a little inspiration.  They also make great gifts!

This one is stamped with the words "You & Me"  and collaged with the Harmonie envolee printaniere collection.

My New Crate Paper Monthly Kit

Received my kit from MPTH.  All I can say is ... SOOOO CA-UTE!!!

I am playing with my kit today so I am very excited about that.  I love playing with new paper, yummy.  So I know that I am making another album, and the only hint that I am giving is that it is shaped like an image I see in the above pic.  Can you guess what it is?

PINK CHARITY AUCTION

Since October is the National Breast Cancer Awareness month I decided to donate my album for Susan G. Komen's Fight for the Cure.  Please take a look at what the "Pocket Full Of Papers" team members and I have posted for auction and give generously.

For more photos of this album and details please click here Life Is Good.  The album was made from My Paper Treehouse August Kit and the paper collection is from Echo Park.

Cards with Echo Park

Here are some cards I made using the "Life Is Good" collection from Echo Park.  I love this collection and I love getting my monthly kits from My Paper Tree House. 

My Paper Tree House with Echo Park AUGUST KIT

Whoo Hoo, finished my album!!  I decided to make an album for my little girl who is not so little anymore (boo hoo).  I used my MPTH kit from August which was filled with so much cuteness from Echo Park "Life Is Good" collection.

I started off by looking through my boxes of photos (yes, I did say unorganized BOXES) and picked out some really cute pics of my daughter Vanessa.  Well my photos are not dated or for that matter organized but I do remember how my angel pie was at that age.  I decided therefore to make an album for her with random photos and my memories of her personality.

One of these days I will organize my boxes of photos chronologically, but for right now I am too busy scrapbooking LOL.  Any who there are all sorts of ways you can scrapbook; such as chronologically, by theme such as vacation, or holiday.  Or in my case by feelings and little snippet's of memory.  That is how I did my Vanessa album.  Random photos with snippet's of memory when I took the photos and its mostly about Vanessa's character rather than events.

THINGS I LOVE ABOUT YOU




I covered the album cover with the fabric I received in my kit along
with some of the pattern paper



Vanessa has such a beautiful smile that you can't help
but smile back

I loved using the tiny alphabet that I received with my kit. 



The kit has a full sheet of journal blocks and titles. 
Makes it easy to use



I added a "floating matte" so that I could slip in a journal
tag behind my photo

The kit comes with a full sticker sheet with cutie patootie embellies
and borders to add to your pages 



I made this pink rose bud out of t-shirt material

If you want to see more pages of my album go on over to MY PAPER TREE HOUSE BLOG and see what I posted there.  Also why dont you become of FAN OF MY PAPER TREE HOUSE, then you can keep up with the latest and greatest of the monthly kits and what the gang  is doing, and also our guest designer for the month Michelle Lanning. 

Summer's Last Days

Well summer is ending, even here in Florida where the sun always shines.  We are taking our last Bonita beach weekend trip so I thought I would leave you with this layout.

Harmonie has its own textured cardstock

I used their peel off sticker and put glitter right on the page

Harmonie has great wood embellishments, I used their alphabet

I used glimmer mist on the background cardstock then I went over it with white paint (I love using paint). The collection is from Harmonie "Pacifique"  I also used FOR THE FIRST TIME, a page map from Becky Fleck!!  I saw the page map on Harmonie's blog so thought I would try it.

If we are lucky we will have another Dolphin encounter :O)  that would be so awesome, I would love to get more pictures of the dolphins!!

Halloween Gift Card

I made this money gift card using Harmonie's Halloween collection (Bal Masque) and the card  base is from Quick Quotes (Tag).  The "card" is a standard A2 and fits in the envelope perfectly.

I love the pumpkin wood piece that I painted and sprinkled with glitter

Love the peel off stickers!!