Altered Jar

As a last minute gift to my FIL I took a jar and filled it with candy. I didnt want it to be so plain so I added some Green Bay Packer colors, I love how this came out!!

Altered clipboard

Pamela was the birthday girl in the birthday club this month.  She said she liked Christmas decorations and she has a little girl so I thought that this project would be something they both would enjoy.

Supplies
Pattern paper- Recollections Jolly and Bright
small clipboard

12 Days of Christmas swap Day 12: Free Day

Cindy and I had the same idea for this day,lol, we both got 12x12 paper stacks for each other.

12 Days of Christmas swap Day 11: Christmas Past, Present and future

For day 11 I choose Christmas past, I altered an embroidery hoop and added a vintage looking Santa Claus picture to it.

Cindy made me an altered box for keeping Christmas memories in from year to year. I love this idea!!!!

12 Days of Christmas swap Day 10: Make Me Smile

When I think of making me smile I think of family so I made Cindy an altered frame that she can put a picture of her family in.

Cindy made me a canvas that has crayons on the bottom that were melted to make them look like grass and flower stems, I might have to steal this idea.

for some reason when I took the pic for this it was upside down

12 Days of Christmas swap Day 9: Stocking Stuffers

For day 9 I bought a stocking and stuffed it full of craft goodies.

 Cindy also got me a stocking filled with goodies.

12 Days of Christmas swap Day 8: Sweetnes of the Season

For day 8 I decorated a jar and filled it with Cindys favorite candy,Kit Kats. I cant seem to find my picture of it,sorry


Cindy gave me an altered bottle filled with peanut M&Ms. I had to fight my son over theses lol.

12 Days of Christmas swap Day 7: Colors of the Season

For day 5 I made a Christmas tree. I used 3 different sized pots and painted them green, then I made swirls with Stickles. I was going to leave it at that but then I decided it needed more bling so I added some little crystals. I had a hard time with the star because nothing wanted to stay on top of it. I finally found a star at Walmart in the Christmas section that worked perfectly.

Cindy bought me the TH Seasonal Distress pad Set!!!!!! I wanted this so bad!!!!!

12 Days of Christmas swap Day 6: Bling, Borders, Baubles and Buttons

For Day 6 I bought Cindy some bling and buttons

and Cindy got me some pretty bling

12 Days of Christmas swap Day 5: Decorate the Tree

For day 5 I got Cindy some ornaments to decorate her tree with.

Cindy made me these beautiful altered dominoes. I saw some of these on her Facebook page and was so hoping I would get some!!

12 Days of Christmas swap Day 4: Memories

For Day 4 I made Cindy a winter themed mini album. She said that she dosent scrapbook so I thought this would be a nice way to pull her in to the scrappin world,lol.

Cindy made me a pretty altered frame with a holiday saying in it, I really like this!!!

A gift for my niece

My niece asked me to make a notebook that was pink and had her name on it. She is only 7 so I made one that is really simple.

Supplies
Composition notebook
Pattern paper - Echo Park
 Letters- Authentique
 Bling- Star Dust pen

12 Days of Christmas swap Day 3: Home Sweet Home

For Day 3 I made Cindy a holiday frame, I liked this so much I almost kept it for myself,lol.

Cindy made me a pretty cookie sheet memo board with some snowflake magnets. I have made these before but I never thought of doing the edges with alcohol ink, I am going to have to try this next time.

12 Days of Christmas swap Day 2: Time to Organize

For Day 2 I altered a box and made some organza flowers. Thank you Crystal for getting me into making these flowers they were fun to make!

From Cindy I got two Iris photo containers, these have so many uses besides using them for photos!

12 Days of Christmas swap Day 1: Distress

For Day 1 of the swap I made my partner Cindy a lazy Susan type pic holder. I painted it and inked the edges. Then I glued on some of my vintage looking buttons and added a string of pearls. I hope she liked it!

 Cindy sent me TH Distress Stain, I love this stuff!!

My Christmas cards are done,yay!!!

It took me forever to figure out what to do for Christmas cards this year. At one point I was even thinking of just buying some because I was so stressed about what to make. I finally got a great idea on Split Coast Stampers and I am very happy with how these came out.

Supplies
Stamp Set- Stampin Up
Cardstock- Riding Hood Red SU
Pattern Paper- DCWV
Bakers Twine
Ink- Soft Suede SU

The card I made for my SIL baby shower

 
                Supplies
                 Base- SU cardstock
                 Pattern Paper- Echo Park 
                 Stamp- Paper Trey Ink
                 Image- Boys Will Be Boys Cricut Cart