Friday December 6th

It is soo early on Fiday morning.. Couldn't sleep so decided I may as well blog. I have a lot to share this month! 

                   Just quick, as I am afraid I posted these before. The Star die is from Ali Express. Later I found out I really used it upside down. The stars go on the bottom!!

                 This is a Marianne ribbon die. I know you saw these last year. The paper is Stamperia. Love this paper. I will probably use it again next year. The String of lights were featured last year too.
                       

            This years new one is the Spellbinder die 'Joy'. Just really  like the versatility of this, different colors, papers or glitter. Look at this deep red and gold letters!
                       

              Check the Green and gold on white. That is the die on the green paper on the left.

                       Glitter paper for the words on this one.

                                  

              Silver and gold on white. Now I am inspired to do more of these!

                                         Thanks for looking!
                                                 Mary

December!

 It is December already! I know we didn't really need an announcement, but this IS the "Most wonderful time of the year". Al put up our Christmas lights Friday. Looks nice! Would like to have the trees up, and decorated by this weekend. Maybe I will share some pictures when we are all done.  Today  I will start with some cards that were made a while ago and hopefully, celebrating this season with pretty cards and ideas all month long!
 I will start with a stamp from WPlus 9. Nice set, I wanted to do more with it ( like on colored paper), but used it many times as the inside greeting.

                                                    Merry Christmas everyday!
                                       Thanks for looking!
                                                  Mary

Still Saturday

Fixed the problem with a simple reboot. So this is the second book. Most of the matts are really dark. That means the backgrounds are dark for the pictures. Two things, pictures usually look good on a dark or plain matt, and you can always change the matts depending on your photo colors.

                                                           Thanks for Looking!
                                          Mary

Saturday evening!

Al is making tacos, so I might have time to share some projects. Projects, well, books, more like 'easy' journals. Hope you got the idea, these are really fun. I could have, and probably will make a bunch of them. So used this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKgP91ajBkA 
I forgot to mention they are called Multi  pocket albums. 

                                            

                The book is 4 pages, 8, total front & back. They feature 4 horizontal pockets & 4 vertical pockets. Each pocket contains a matted piece of card stock ready for journaling or your photos.    

                                                 

                                 Back of book. Used some foiled pages and  market fresh papers. And of course, plenty of scraps!
                                  Next one is Christmas themed journal . I am seriously thinking about using it for our Christmas pictures. You can squeeze in 2 pictures a page, so at least 20 pics! 
                                     Well well well.... My photo editing system says my system is locked??? and I can't save my edited photos. Stay tuned for tomorrow for the next fun journal!
                                       Thanks,
                                        Mary     

Black Friday!!

Okay, lets pretend I managed to post these two cards yesterday!! I have been working on other projects and I am sorry that Thanksgiving took that back seat this year. I personally have so much that I am thankful for. This is a day late and cute..

                                                              They were fun to make!

                                                       Thanks for looking!
                                                    Mary

Tuesday November 26th

Couple pretty cards to share. They feature Pinkfresh Studio 'No one compares to you' word stamps and the Lovely blossoms floral These are my colors, but the ideas are from https://channin.wordpress.com/page/4/  She uses the prettiest color combos, placement, and there is a video.

 

The alphabet used in the card LOVE is the Kelly Alpha by

Pinkfresh Studios too. You will see alot  of this in the future!

Thanks for looking today!

Mary

Wednesday Nov 20th

This morning I will share my 2nd little card stock book. The link to the instructions are on my last post. These are so easy to make. You could call it a junk journal if you decided to 'write' in it. I just like the 'themed' ideas and I usually take the lead from whatever paper I use. This one wasn't planned, who plans mustardy and aqua colors? Look how it turned out using the vintage birds!

                        Lots of room to 'journal' or for pictures.

 

                       Lots of pockets for ephemera or more pictures!

 

 

                              Love the vintage bird in vellum

 

                       Last two pages of the book. Sorry about the photo, but they got deleted and I quick photographed them right on my kitchen island. Shadows and all! Like the pockets in the page below. Three little horizontal pockets . I need to do something to the last page??

Thanks for looking!

Mary