I can finally spill the beans!

Helmar Adhesives, a manufacturer out of Australia, has just put together their first US design team and I’m so proud to share the list! Tracy Weinzapfel Burgos, Design Team Coordinator Jenna Franklin Amber Hillman Laura Achilles Carla Schauer Tish Treadaway Jennifer Beason Marci Knecht Beth Root Becky Teichmiller Yup, that’s my name on there!  I’m [...]

Shout Out Saturday

So is everyone enjoying their turkey sandwiches, turkey pot pie, turkey surprise, etc.?  Michael and I ended up going over to a friend of mine’s house and pretty much most of our little group was there so we had a wonderful time, but I have no leftovers, lol!  I skip the Black Friday sales every [...]

Boxer Blue Necklace

Some more handmade beads!  I got a pack of the 6×6 Boxer papers from Basic Grey a while back and have found several of the designs are beautifully suited to making beads.  The first one will be going into the November/December special double issue of Scrapbook News + Review magazine, but this one I just [...]

Basic Grey Bittersweet

Have you seen this yet?  It won’t ship until next month, but I happened to be the first person to correctly guess the name on Kelly Goree’s blog so I’ve won a collection pack!  Doesn’t it look like a box of chocolates (with some yummy insides!)?  Ugh – getting hungry just looking at it, lol, [...]

Happy Thanksgiving!

Wishing you all a day full of family, love, and great food!  My holiday plans are rather up in the air at the moment.  My son was supposed to be going with his dad down to his grandparents’ house for the holiday but so far his dad’s car won’t start.  I am supposed to be [...]

My current favorite necklace

I made this a while back and have no idea why I haven’t ever photographed it.  It was on of those pieces that comes from getting dressed to go out and not having anything that matched what I was wearing…so I whipped it up, threw it on and off I went!  Now I find myself [...]

Bluebell Bracelet

Another piece from the Wearables section of the October issue of Scrapbook News + Review.  Just a simple, fun little bracelet using Bo Bunny paper Mod Podged to small wood tiles.  Each tile got edged with Stickles then I used a Crop-A-Dile to get the holes for the jumprings.  I added some coordinating beads to [...]

Passion Earrings

Never waste even the smallest scraps of paper!  I don’t even remember what I used this paper from Marah Johnson on originally, but digging through my scraps basket I came across the fact that I had this motif still accessible multiple times.  Some of the background imaging is different, but the main scrolly images were [...]

Shout Out Saturday

Another week, come and gone, and it’s been a busy one!  I’m glad I spent some time and prepred a bunch of posts ahead of time or my bog would have been really quiet this past week, lol.  This week should be full as well and be sure to stop by next weekend for an [...]

Haunted Mini Birdhouse

Another birdhouse I actually finished last year but after the holiday and I just saved it for this year and then it went into the October issue of Scrapbook News + Review so I’m just now sharing it. The paper is from Zsiage and I decorated everything with a mix of Jolee’s stickers from EK [...]

Harvest Mini Birdhouse

It’s been a while since I’ve posted one of these!  And I actually made this one LAST fall and never posted it.  Then it went into the October issue of Scrapbook News and Review so you’re now seeing it about a year after I created it. Remember those leaves from the card I posted the [...]

Copper Swirl Acrylic Pendant

Have you noticed how good I’m doing on blogging lately?  Shhhh – I’m actually typing these all up in one day and scheduling them, lol.  You can tell because I’m not a morning person and you’ll see all the impressive looking 6:30 AM’s on them…not a chance I’m ever actually blogging at 6:30 AM.  I’m [...]

Happy Autumn Card

I bought these little silk autumn leaves last fall at JoAnn’s.  Love them!  The tree wasn’t originally meant to be this big but I just kept gluing and layering those leaves, lol, and couldn’t stop!  The rest of the card is simply cardstock and a stamped sentiment.  All the edging AND the stamping were done [...]

Home Sweet Home Altered Shutter

This was originally a finished seasonal piece I had purchased.  It had cutesy snowmen or something or other and I got tired of it almost immediately, lol, but LOVED the frame itself.  Already distressed and ready to go!  I simply added some My Mind’s Eye papers and cardstock to the centers of the frames.  I [...]

Thank You Card

This card was from the sketch section of the October issue of SNR.  I have to admit – I’m really not the greatest at “staging” my projects for photos.  But every so often, I come up with one I’m pleased with – this is one of them, lol!  Ok, back to the card.  The papers [...]

Shout Out Saturday

Well, it’s that time again!  I just keep getting further and further behind in checking out all of my blog feeds.  I WAS on a roll looking through them last night but got sidetracked by the need to try to figure out the mysterious ways of Google.  Can anyone tell me just how it decides [...]

Congrats Card

This was one of the cards I had in the October issue of SNR. It was for an article on using rubons in the cards section.  There are a TON of rubons on this!  Put it this way – none of those circles originally had any embellishment.  So all the flowery bits and center bits [...]

Trick or Treat Purse

This was in the October issue of SNR so I couldn’t share until now. I made it before I realized Michael would be with his dad for Halloween and I wouldn’t have to traipse around the neighborhood this year, lol!  It was meant to hold all the little odds and ends I would want to [...]

Can you tell it’s deadline time at SNR?

I know, my blog gets all quiet during that time, lol, because I’m usually in a creating frenzy and it’s all things I can’t share because I’m putting them in the magazine or as part of an article, etc.  I need to better organize my photos so I remember what I CAN share, lol, because [...]

Shout Out Saturday

Sorry about the vacation I’ve taken from my blog – it’s just ended up a busy week!  This is actually the post I started for LAST Saturday that I never got around to finishing so there are links from two weeks worth of my favorites.  Yup, I’m still loving all the Christmas project inspiration I’m [...]