Heart Shaped Embellishments & A Waterfall Folio

 These are the hearts that I decorated for the heart shaped embellishment swap for the A & M paper crafters group on Facebook.  We were suppose to make 3 decorated hearts that were 2 1/2 to 3 inches with at least 5 embellishments on them.

I die cut several 3 inch hearts from 110# card stock and layered them up to make a sturdy heart.  Topped it with designer paper and added ribbon, stick pins (that I made ages ago when making some for another swap), and the word "sweet" (which is also layered up to make it stick up from the heart).

The 2 1/2 inch one I put together the same way, but instead of using stick pins I used a crystal spray from the wedding department at Hobby Lobby

The third one is another 3 inch heart, layered together just like the first two, but decorated with paper embellishments from my stash (don't know the brand), and a pompom that I wrapped with embroidery floss, some bling and a glittered word. 

This is a heart on a clothes pin made exactly like ones I had made earlier in the year (or last year?)

I packaged up some wooden hearts and puffy hearts with a rosettes decorated with a bottle cap from Hobby Lobby.

Die cut and layered hearts for her to decorate.  The package is topped with a heart shaker made with a die (don't know the company's name that made the die):

Some doilies from my stash topped with more die cut hearts:

Here are the background die cuts that I cut for her.  I hardly ever use these because they are so hard to weed, so unfortunately, I only cut 2 of the layered one and one each or the other two.

I didn't take a picture of the acrylic hearts that I bought at Hobby Lobby for her or of the pink fur pom- pom key ring that I bought at JoAnn's.  

This waterfall book, I made using the directions from a My Sisters Scrapper tutorial on You Tube.  It is the "Graphic 45 Waterfall Folio Tutorial."  

As always, I hope the recipient loves what I send!  

Christmas Mini-album

 This is a mini-album that I made with the possibility of using it for a swap at the A&M group on facebook.  The papers and most of the ephemera are from My Mind's Eye Comfort and Joy collection.

The front cover is approximately 8 inches X 7 1/2 inches.

It is decorated with the chip board pieces from the Comfort and Joy collection (along with one cut apart which is raised up on a piece of chipboard), burlap snowflakes from Hobby Lobby, a piece of paper doily and a banner of plain card stock.  

The spine is 3 1/2 inches by 8 inches and is decorated with a piece of the Comfort & Joy chipboard:

And the back with a piece of chip board from another collection:

The goal was to keep the covers, so that the book will still fit in a bookshelf and hopefully I have achieved that.

The front (and back) covers I left plain except for the Comfort & Joy buffalo check paper.  The pages are approximately 7 1/2 by 6 inches.  The front facing page is a 2 pocket page.

Close up of the embellishments:

A photo (or journaling) card is stuck in the largest pocket while the small pocket contains some gift tags from the Comfort and Joy collection:

The signatures are made as pocket pages

 

The next pages (and the back of the photo/journaling spot in the pocket page):

The flaps on the left page are magnetic:

Pocket pages with photo/journaling cards:

The next pages have a pockets and a flap (magnetic) on the right:

I couldn't think of a way to decorate these pages without making them too thick.

 Each of the pockets have a little photo/journaling folder:

 The folders open:

Next pages (with the pocket page card on the left):

I messed up these pages and then didn't have enough designer paper of the same pattern to fix it right (so the paper is a little small of the right page -- the left edge of the right page). 

The next pages are flaps that fold up on the top and have a pocket on the bottom (with a flap).  All are magnetic.  They are decorated with only a chip board button on each flap.

The top flaps oepen:

And with the pockets flaps open:

Another flap page (with tuck spots):

There are cut a parts from the collection in the pocket page:

Next pocket pages with cut a parts and a photo/journaling card:

The page on the left is wavy for some reason, I didn't notice it until after I already had it in the book.  The only thing I can figure is that the black cardstock wasn't as thick as it was suppose to be.  (It didn't get wet or have too much glue).  The right side has a water fall.

Showing the photo/journaling card in the right pocket page:

Pocket pages with cut a parts:

The last page is a repeat of the first page:

I haven't figured out how to get the pages to lay flat when it is open and the black cardstock that I used to make the pages with isn't the quality that I would like, although the package said that it was 110 lb.  

I forgot to ink around some of the pages.  I am not happy with the hodge podge look of the front cover.  All in all, I have a long way to go before I will be truly satisfied with a mini-album I made.  As far as the group swap goes, I don't know if there will be other newbies to mini-albums in the swap, so it may not be good enough to swap.  And one of the directions for the swap was to put at least 3 embellishments on a page and I obviously couldn't do that and still leave room for photos.  If I do get in the swap, I will send all the remaining pieces of this collection that I have to my swap partner -- maybe they will be better at decorating!  

Fall 3 inch Artist Trading Coins and a Fall Memory Dex Card

 For a swap at A & M Creative Exploring Paper Crafters on Facebook.  3 ATC coins.

Made with Hobby Lobby items. Why is the bottom piece showing up pink?  It's an orange shade.

It packaged with a dangle that I made:

Items used are also from Hobby Lobby.

It packaged with a clothes pin that I layered 2 Hobby Lobby flowers on:

And the last one that is made with chip board pieces that I think are from Craft Consortium:

And it packaged up:

The memory-dex card here is made with mainly stuff from Hobby Lobby.  I printed the message out on the computer and added the foiling to the words:

And it packaged up with some trim and a felt sunflower from Hobby Lobby: