Valentine's Cards for a group home

So a friend here in my community wanted to do something nice for others with her children. They decided to donated cards & treats to a local elderly group home knowing a lot of them have been ignored or forgotten by their family members. This breaks my heart. She asked us friends if we'd like to help donate, she needed about 155 cards/treats, so I said yes. I used a card making kit I bought on clearance at Michaels about 3 or so years ago and never opened. Until today. I only used the die cut pieces from the one kit (only 2 pages worth of die cuts), my glue runner gun, pop dots, 1 sheet of 8.5x11" vellum paper, 3 sheets of card stock cut in half, a Stampin' Up roller stamp (flourish) and a lilac colored ink.  I popped out all the dies, inked the edges, started grouping them together and originally created 4 cards. Once I figured out what color I wanted to use for the card base, I rearranged the dies to better fit each card and ended up adding a 5th card. I just glued everything into place and voila!

Here is the card makers kit I used the due cuts from. 

Button Farm Subscription-February Purchase

My last post was on the contents of my BFC shipment. Well, I finally took some time to work on it. I like how the shipment comes with detailed instructions, very helpful for someone like me who still needs to work on layering more.  Seriously, I rarely do more than a single layer.  Initially, I followed the instructions really well, mainly for the measurements and paper choices but as time went on, I wanted to make it my own. I wanted to add a little bit of "me" to the book.  As each page progressed, I decided not to add the cut outs and die cuts when directed. I felt like adding all of those additional elements at the end, that way I can play with my options and add more, less or swap the items out for other pieces. Here, is the final project.

Front cover

Inside front cover and page 1

Pages 2 and 3

Pages 4 and 5

Pages 6 and 7

Pages 8 and 9

Pages 10 and 11

Pages 12 and 13

Pages 14 and 15

Page 16 and inside back cover

Nothing was done to the back cover exterior knowing that it would most likely get scratched up.  I hope you like my version of The Button Farm Club's February Mini Album. (A quick note, I used Beacon 3 in 1 Advanced Craft Glue and my 3M ATG glue gun for the adhesive.)

Thanks for looking, I will be back with another project next month.

Button Farm Club membership

So, at this year's Anaheim, CA Scrapbook Expo I ran into the Button Farm Club. I had abstained from signing on since it wasn't my usual cup of tea. However, this year, I wanted to step out of my box so I joined. Here is my first shipment.

I am really looking forward to building this mini album!

Have you been to an Expo lately? What did you buy? Join any clubs? Did you tell/ask your significant other?

Live Love Laugh

I saw these layered signs hanging on the rack in Hobby Lobby the last few times I've gone shopping. Each time, I've passed on buying them, this time I bit the bullet and bought them. I knew I wanted to do a black and white coloring on them and knew I had the perfect paper pad to use!

Using sheets from DCWV's "the Bella Armoire stack" I traced, cut, adhered (Scotch Quick Dry Adhesive), sanded and inked up each sign. I used StazOn black ink and Black Soot Distress Ink by Ranger to blacken the exterior and interior of all the letters as well as inking ip the edges of the paper for a cleaner finish. Afterwards, I took Tea Dye Distress Ink and inked up the edges for a more vintage effect. I don't know about you, but I truly love the way these came out! I even got thumbs up from the hubby and my older 2 kids. Not bad.