day 19

today was stamp day, Pam and I exchanged stamps here is the set I got for her

the tall set is by inkadinkado love the words (you know i brought myself one of each) the smaller set is by my minds eye its from the lost and found collection I really love this one that bird house is great I also stamped some imges from my collection of boaring stamps lol

love this fish bowl it has so many possabilities

and this bottle you can do so many things with it

these butterflies are from the martha stewart collection and you can work wonders with these with some markers and stickels, well thats it for today until our next gift opening

Sugar cookies

Well I finally got my girls together at one time in the same room and we baked sugar cookies and had a great time with it to they were a real big hit at our family gift exchange party and some of them were really cute to

they really put a lot into those cookies (in between texts and phone calls lol)

they reallly used their imagenation but after a while I think they hit a brick wall and the cookies were looking wellllll kind of slack

so after a while we just put sugar on them, they were made from scratch and they taste really good to I wonder if we should make this a tradition.

Noodles and Ashley's day

Today is the day Ashley and Noodles open their gifts and I was so exciated this is the first time I made anything for Noodles but I knew she was gonna like it

Loveing the transformers (like I do) I decided to make her a blanket, I started to make a pillow but I just couldnt get all the pictures in like I wanted so I made the blanket,

I tied all the ends together with the back side which is a light blue to match the front it was so much fun I hope she gets many years of warmth from it.

Altered book day

Today is Altered book day, Pam talked about it a said it was OK to alter any book instead of the large composition book like we did last year

and here it is and it turned out lovely if I must say so myself

this book is a good size I just covered with paper and let the creativity flow, and flow it did as you can see I love flowers I would put them on anything if I could, lol

the flowers really make the book the I was talking to Pam while I was working on the book and asked her for her name initials the PAT you see in the frame is just Pam's initials OK until our next gift opening signing off.   

day 12

today is the day ofr the note cards here are the cards I made for Pam

they started out as little note cards from Michaels dollar ben

added a few things here and there and you got a note card thats the michaels card on the right. not to much to post today so thats it until our next opening,

Today is to from tags

Back again, and now I will show my to from tags I made for Pam

The Santa tag I got from a book it was a card that I thought would look good in tag form, the tree was cut with my silhouette and decorated with stickles

this is my fav I love it, I saw this door in my silhouette library and wanted to cut it out to see how it look and when I placed it on a tag it looked great I just went from there

this one was a tag in a book some of the things were changed I think the thing that really caught my eye was the ribbon

here is a joy card I wanted to use some of my Tim Holtz stickers so I pulled off a few of them and just went where the tag took me, the orniment is a stamp and I took my Martha Stewart fern punch and punched a lot of different color green fern and placed them down on a branch I cut from a quickutz die and it turned out great. well thats my tags see you all next time.

Wild card day

Sorry about the late post but it was my birthday and all so this post is kinda late, wild card day is when ever its one of our birthday the other gets to make or buy whatever they want for the others birthday, and on my birthday I made pam a box, but not just any box, it started out like this,

just a regular old box I got from Michaels, it had a shinny finish so I had to strip the box completly down to get all that shinny paper off then I added a layer of gesso and a couple layers of paint

didnt like the way the paint looked so out came the paper and I started covering everything and i loved it once it was covered out came the bling and the flowers and everything just fell into place. (dont you just love it)

Now I just could'nt send Pam just a empty box I had to put something in it so I made her a few little note books to stick in her pocket book so when she needs to jot something down she can have it on hand and I love the idea because it used up a lot of scraps I had laying around, (you know I might make a few more for christmas gifts for the family)

the inside of some is like a junk journal just bits and pieces of patterned paper some stamps, rub-ons and other things I had laying around, some of the other books have just some large index cards cut in half and bound with my chinch (gotta love that chinch) ok thats it for this post next we open to from tags so I'll be right back.