Altered Candy Tin

I've officially altered my first candy tin and I'm officially hooked! I had so much fun with this project!! At the request of a hostess, I will be teaching this project at a February FunShop. I'm so glad that she requested it...this little tin had been staring at me and I needed a little push to get started. :)



Supplies-
Candy Tin
Hemingway paper (Soar With It Collection)
More Abundance
My Life
Spring Dream
'Lagoon' Bazzill Cardstock
Burnt Umber Palette Pad ink
Crop-a-Dile
Yes! Glue
misc. eyelets and ribbon
ProvoCraft flower dies

Projects to share

Look at these cuties!! This is my nephew and niece and I just love this photo. I asked their mother how she and the photographer got them to stand so still and her reply was, 'We didn't, the photographer was just really good!!'

I'm still trying to decide how to finish this layout, but I just had to go ahead and post it for now. :)














A good friend of mine is celebrating her birthday tomorrow. This is the card that I made for her. It features one of TAC's newest sets- Butterbees and More. I stamped the bird on to a cream colored cardstock and used my Prismacolor watercolor pencils to color it. Then I cut it out and glued it in place.










This is one of TAC's new Matchbook kits. It's called Pemberley Bay. All the pieces in the kit are double-sided and printed on 100-lb. premium cardstock The kit includes the matchbook cover, 7 pages, and coordinating tags and tabs. I also discovered that it coordinates well with the Hemingway paper. My last image shows a tag from the Hemingway tags. If you like kits, you should really check out this one!











Supplies used for layout-
Genevieve paper

Supplies for card-
Hemingway paper
Butterbees and More
Spring Dream
Ordinary Greetings
Black StazOn
Burnt Umber Palette Ink

Supplies for Matchbook-
Pemberley Bay Matchbook Kit
Butterbees and More
More Abundance
Hemingway tag
Spring Dream
misc. ribbon and brads

Congrats, Nicole!

Nicole is one of my downlines and just got news that she won a TAC contest!! That means free stamps!! Woo-hoo! I just love her style and I think she takes great photographs, too. Have fun picking out your goodies, Nicole!

Card Box

I love the little boxes that you can make with 4" coasters. I took the same idea, but made it a little bigger. This box can hold cards and it's covered with some of TAC's new paper- Amberley Grace. This paper is so beautiful. I wanted to add embellishments to the box, but the paper takes care of it! I just added the word plate and the wording and that was it. I'm still trying to figure out how to put the bases on these boxes. It's kind of a pain and it's hard to make it look pretty. For those of you that have made these, I think you know what I mean. If you have tips for gluing your base on, please send them my way. :)


Supplies-
Amberley Grace
Simple Bet
word plate from Amberley Grace tags
Yes! glue
misc. brads and ribbon
mat board
Crop-a-dile

I completed another entry for a PW contest. The challenge was to get creative with office supplies. I embellished thumbtacks to make some cool push pins for my bulletin board. I used Yes! glue to glue a washer to the top of a thumbtack and then embellished the top of it. I spread mod podge across my stamped image just to seal it a little and give a shiny look. I'll let you know how the Yes! glue holds up. I'm going to let these dry over night and then put them to the test.











Supplies:
Blooming Builders
DCWV cardstock- yellow 2, red 2, blue 2, and green 2
black ink
thumbtacks
washers

Clamshell Creation

The Angel Company packages their rubber stamps in plastic 'clamshell' boxes. The boxes tend to pile up and Angie issued a challenge over at PW. Her challenge was to come up with creative uses/projects for clamshell boxes. I designed a piece of artwork that could be displayed inside of the smallest clamshell box, the GWP box (Gift With Purchase). The GWP boxes have have a little hanging tab, so I tied ribbon across the top of it and then the little box can be hung up to display.


To add dimension to my artwork, I layered my Starburst Floral images by placing pop dots between the layers. I also used pop dots to raise the butterfly wings. For a closer look, just click the images.

Check out more clamshell creations in the Paper Wings Gallery Contest section.

Supplies:
Starburst Florals
Spring Dream
Miss Moxie (Soar With It Collection)
L'Amore Palette ink
Noir Palette ink
red cardstock
misc. ribbon
small clamshell box
pop dots

Stamp Indexing

I have known about stamp indexing, but just never took the time to really check into it or try it. My stamps from the new TAC catty came yesterday (yeah!) and I decided that I'd try this indexing stuff. So I watched this tutorial created by a fellow Angel, Sara. I was successful at indexing my stamp sets and I think it's going to be so helpful. I think it's really going to help when it comes to stamping words and sentiments. I'm such a perfectionist and I want things to be straight and neat. If you haven't tried indexing your unmounted stamps, I strongly reccomend it!

The picture above is from Nancy Grant's blog. She was kind enough to let me borrow her picture and link you to her indexing tutorial. She has some great pictures and directions. Thanks Nancy!

I'm off to play with my new stamp sets and to prepare projects for my next workshop. Have a great day!

New Banner!!

Check out my new banner! What do you think?? I think it is amazing! The creator of this beautiful banner is Emily Montgomery. I came across her Etsy shop and blog and just fell in love with her work. She was great to work with and I'm so happy with the results. I also have an new Etsy shop banner on it's way. I'll be sure to show it to you once it's in place.

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It's all set up an ready to show...my new Etsy banner. Check it out here. Thanks, Emily!

Another Challenge

I decided to take on another challenge over at PW. This challenge was offered by Rita- her challenges are called Rita's TAC-niques. The challenge was to make a beaded window card. I had a lot of fun with this technique!! Here is a link to Rita's card. It's so cute!

Supplies-
Trendy Greetings
Cha Cha patterned paper
green Bazzill cardstock (from Cha Cha cardstock collection)
white cardstock
black ink
seed beads
beading thread and beading needle
1/4" Wonder Tape

Color Challenge

Jen offered a color combo challenge over at PW. Here's the card I came up with. I had a lot of fun with this challenge! You can click here to view what other people have created for the challenge.

Supplies:

Blooming Builders
Bazzill Cardstock- Juneberry, Admiral and Pickle
white cardstock for stamped image
navy brads

Amazing!!

The new TAC catalog is amazing!! I have my order all ready to go. Yipee!! I won a TAC contest about a month back and the prize is $75 in FREE stamps! That's one of the great reasons to be an Angel. Even if you aren't interested in having FUNshops or parties, you can be an Angel and get in on the awesome contests and also be a part of Paper Wings Forum (PW). Paper Wings is not run by The Angel Company- it was started by two TAC Angels that wanted a place for TAC demonstrators to come and share business tips, crafting techniques and form great friendships. So, if you're interested in getting your wings, please let me know!!

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I have to brag on my friend Nicole. She entered her first TAC contest and she won! Way to go Nicole!! Keep up the great work and have fun spending that stamp money! You can check our Nicole's winning entry here.

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I'm teaching a technique class on Jan. 17th and one of the techniques that we'll be doing is Spotlight Stamping. Here's a little sneak peak...