Peep ATC

 Happy Easter to all my "peeps" out there! 

This is a artist trading card. 

Used some different dies, ink, and stamps to

create it. 

Love that little basket. Was in a set of two that I ordered 

from cozyscrapbook. 

So busy yesterday. Cleaning up the house, and prepping

for dinner. Kids, and their spouses are coming over for dinner. 

Doing non traditional this year. They wanted lasagna. Since we

couldn't celebrate Easter last year it was very hard to tell them no. 

I love lasagna too! 

Stamping trails

Karen 

March Journal for Kathleen

 While going through my junk journal posts I see that I

didn't share the March journal that I made for the swap with Kathleen. 

Here is the cover. Lots of green, and gold. This one

is held closed with the help of gold elastic cord. 

Love the buttons I added to this. 

Inside cover, and first page. 

Side pocket with some gold leaf trim that I got at Hobby Lobby. 

Next page is mixed media. Used different shades of oxide ink. 

I added this store bought greeting card. Just rounded the corners. 

Pretty little Miss makes a great little tuck spot. 

This is a little book that attaches with a binder clip. 

Here it is open.

Luck of the Irish pocket.

Center of the journal. 

This is a sheet of Graphic 45 pattern paper. 

Gold doily, green yo-yo. Under that is several sheets

of parchment paper for additional journaling space. The

tab at the side allows the pages to be lifted. 

I used  two tabs for the paper. 

another little tuck spot. This is the inside of that greeting card I added. 

Belly band that holds a little notebook. 

And the last page. I added a little pocket with mini notebook, and writing paper. 

Kathleen loved this one. 

I'll be posting the rest of the years journals soon as I just sent her

box with the last four so I'll be able to post them after she sees them. 

We started in September last year and made one journal for each month. 

Stamping trails

Karen 

Decorated Glassine Bunny Bag

 I was recently in a bunny swap. Players were

to decorate a bag, and then fill it bunnies. Well

bunnies do multiply so my bag was pretty stuffed by 

the time I was finished. 

I decorated a glassine bag with a book page from Watership Down. 

I found it at the library sale, and got it for .50 cents. 

Added some silk flowers, glitter centers, and grass along the bottom. 

Used a die for the grass. 

The bag I got at Hollo's. They are selling them for .10 cents each. What a deal! 

Size of the bag 9 3/4 x 12, so it is a pretty large bag to fill. 

Made this 5 x7 envelope then decorated it with this cute little bunny. 

Also found at the library book sale. 

Pocket made with a book page. 

Made some bunny die cuts and embossed with a folder. 

Some of the other stuff I put in the bag I've already

have been posting on the blog. 

Not going to post every thing here, but my partner

has already received the bunny bag, and loved it. 

I have to say I enjoy swaps like this one. 

Stamping trails

Karen 

April ATC Wine Themed

 My artist trading cards for April. 

Got the stamp set from cozyscrapbook.

Base was inked with different colors of distress oxides. 

Did some fun stitching around the edges using purple thread. 

Edges are also inked with purple. 

Today is April 1st, and we got an April fools joke.....SNOW.

Now I'm going to have to leave my car parked again till after it rains

and washes the salt off the road. Good Grief! 

Oh well its not like I drive the car that much anyway. 

Stamping trails

Karen 

Journaling Cards made using Store Bought Greeting Cards

 Trying to clean up some things that were piling up on my desk. 

These are plain store bought greeting cards that were sent

to me. I decided they would make great journaling cards

with just a few crafty things added to them. 

Here are the cards again after I added to them. 

For the horse as for all the cards I removed the back of the card and

stitched around the edges. I added a little pocket made up of tag, and circle

of book page. The grass below I cut with a die. . 

The beach card has an umbrella, and bikini added to the clothes line. 

I added a tab to the side of this one. 

One thing about stamping on greeting cards you have to be aware of.

The surface is glossy, so you will need to use StazOn ink, or stamp on cardstock

then attach to the card as I did on this one. 

Had to laugh at this fun card with a sheep sitting in a chair knitting. 

Added a side tab and decorated it with fibers, and a flower. 

Also added fibers to the upper corner. 

I added some coffee themed washi tape along the bottom edge. 

A donut sticker to the tall coffee cup, and put a altered paperclip to the top. 

I made the greeting" if the shoe fits" on my cricut air 2 machine. 

Added a gold shoe button, and a tab on top. 

To the butterfly card I added some ephemera. Tab on top

has some cheese cloth with a butterfly. 

This is a cute little flower card. Added tab on top and

a greeting along the bottom. 

For this one I added some ribbon, stickers, and larger

printed ephemera card. 

This one also features a pocket using that larger piece. 

Here you can see that tag sliding out of the pocket. 

This is my favorite one. Used printed mermaid piece that came

from Hobby Lobby. The shell sticker came from the Dollar Tree. 

So colorful! 

And the last one. Added a butterfly, and greeting along the bottom. 

There is also a tab on top with teabag and flower. 

These were fun to make. Great way to reuse those greeting cards! 

Stamping trails

Karen 

More Book Page Clusters

 Back with just a few more clusters. 

Bases are book pages. 

Added bits, and pieces of lace, and ribbon. 

This one has a paper doll by Tim Holtz. 

Burlap ribbon, teabag, and fibers. 

More ephemera by Tim Holz, cheese cloth, and ribbon. 

Photo booth picture, lace, ribbon, and greeting. 

and the last one. Pattern paper, cardstock, teabag, and butterfly. 

Having fun making these. Of course it really makes a mess on my desk!

But that comes with all creativity. Right? 

Stamping trails

Karen 

Clusters from Scraps

 I've been working on some clusters last week. 

There is a a few scrap boxes that I keep by my desk, and when

they start to fill up I make some "pretties" to use in my junk journals. 

All of these started with a book page base. 

I've added some torn cardstock, pieces of doily, words, ephemera moth. 

For this one I used some scrap lace, ribbons, doily

word, and the photo is from a Tim Holtz set. 

This one has a larger ephemera heart. Under that

is some pattern paper, cheese cloth, and seam binding. 

Also used is a strip of burlap. 

And the last one has some lace, ribbon, postage stamps, burlap, word, and 

ephemera piece. That piece was on the outside envelope of a swap I received. 

I cut it off to use later. I'm finding junk "treasures" everywhere! 

Stamping trails

Karen