altered recipe box

Actually the thing I altered was technically a 7gypies mini purse with an accordion album inside it. But I cut apart the album, making each page a separate recipe. Everything was done with cosmo cricket's early bird papers. Not all recipes are shown, just a sampling here.

some recent projects and pages

This is the advent calender that we ended up keeping. I used some elle's studio number tags to and glued a magnet to the back of each one. The numbers aren't on in order so the kids have had fun finding the right number each day and placing it on the fridge. This one was very basic and didn't take me long to do.

Here's a $1 frame I altered from Michaels, these make for quick handmade gifts!



A few more Tim Holtz style tags. The chipboard ornaments have been painted with crackle paint and then dyed with alcohol inks - lots of fun!




A fun page of Abby:

Putting up lights last Dec:

Last year's snow (still waiting for some this year):

My page that was in the Dec pagemaps newsletter:

TFL!

Tim Holtz tags

I love following along with Tim's 12 tags of Christmas each year. I usually pick one that I really like and try to get everything to make several of them. This year I was especially drawn to tag #3 (you can find Tim's tutorial here). It consisted of making your own plaid pattern on glossy cardstock with various colors of alcohol inks. After that was done, you stamped your desired images in black ink, added some snow "flurries" if desired with acrylic paint, put your design onto a distressed tag, then wrapped it in jute twine and attached a word token with a trinket pin. These were very fun to do once I got the hang of it. Each tag adorned a plate of cookies that I delivered to friends this year. Enjoy if you were one of the lucky ones!