Birthday 'Stache

Good Morning Everyone!!!

Hope your week has been going fabulous...

I decided to mess around with my distress inks, I just love the seasonal ink pads from Tim Holtz. They are so bright and vibrant and so different then the rest of his inks. I didn't have any thing in mind when creating this and wound up making a birthday card. I had the perfect numbers to match the ink colors (Lemonade, Cut Grass, and Peacock).

Here is the "Birthday Stache" card!

 Just add a little money to the inside and you are sure to please anyone ;)

Have a wonderful day!
XOXO
Danni

Adventures Of A VIntage Girl

I originally created this book to do as a class but, I got really carried away and in the end it ended up being put up as a sample in the store. It would have been a really expensive and very LONG class.

I was so happy with the results of the book. I am pocket girl, and I love vintage things, this book is sooo me lol. I sewed all the pages together so they are actually pockets that you can put pictures or treasures of sorts in and we had the perfect stand to display it on at work from 7Gypsies (their photo display stand)
Here is a peek at what it looks like:

 Front Cover

 Some of the inside pages

 I love to use Tim Holtz stains on my wood pieces, they just add so much and you can get them in a bunch of different colors.

 Hope you enjoyed.

Thanks for joining me again and will see you next time!

xoxo
Danni

Inspired by Love

Well this is a better late then never kinda post...

So normally my husband and I are really good about exchanging Valentines. I normally make a Valentine for him and he usually buys me a treat...and for anyone who knows me, treats are the way to my heart. WELL this year the beautiful season of LOVE completely escaped us. Not only did we forget to get our boys Valentines for school but we did not do anything for each other. BUT....that didn't stop me from creating something, because, at the end of the day there is always next year!!!! Wahoo!!!

Here is what I did

On the first card I kept it light, playful, and fun I just love the way that this card came out. I used some of my favorite products (glimmer mist and distress stains) and techniques (distressing edges and making pennants).

After distressing the edges of the hearts I inked the edges of them to make them stand out just a bit from each other.

On this one I decided to do some fun watermark stamping to give the card a nice subtle background, then added some washi tapes and couple little embellishments and TADAA...

Check out the hearts a little more up close. I love doing this on plain cardstock to give it a fun custom background. 

Hope you have been inspired by Love!

xoxoxo

Danni

Life Is Good

I had my FIRST all day class...whew....that was exhausting!!!!! I also had my FIRST teacher gift....awe soooo sweet, it was from a little 7 year old girl who came to class with her mom. I gave her some of my extra supplies I brought and she made me a cute little picture.

Even though class was long and exhausting everyone left with finished little mini books and happy as clams.

 And here is a little glimpse into what we made today...

                                                
 Aren't these glassine bags from SRM just the cutest??? They have been embossed using the Lifestyle Crafts embossing folders and it adds just the perfect touch of character. We also used the Life Is Good stickers (hence the name of the book) through out the whole book and the sentiments are a great way to caption pictures whenever they get added in.

 We even used some Dylusions Ink Sprays AND to add a little shimmer we used Kiwi Perfect Pearls.

 The whole book features October Afternoon papers. Oh, I LOVE, pretty much every paper line they put out :)

 We made fun little pull out tabs for the big pockets.

 This page was a lot of fun, stamping and cutting out these fun hexagon shapes from the Sweet Stamp Shop. Plus, Sweet Stamps are a local San Diego company. What a way to support local businesses, huh???  :)

And... something else cool we did, but might be a little confusing to explain, but, the side pockets are actually the BIG glassine bags (the largest ones they sell) folded three inches from the bottom and then when we put all of our bags together the three inches that were folded became an extra page, which you see in the picture above, covered in paper. Hope that makes sense.

 Here is another little pull out page

 The back of course is decorated too :)

Here is what all the little tags look like. I used the Forest Moss distress ink pad and Bottle Adirondack ink pad. I think that the tags are one of my favorite pieces of the whole book. The colors are so rich and beautiful.

Well, that pretty much wraps up my day making a little mini pocket book. And don't forget to check out the links for more fun and cool products from some of my favorite companies. Some of which you may already know :)

Lots Of Love,
Danni