Halloween! Swaps! Owls!

Hello Friends!

Well, Halloween is almost upon us!!
I did not do as much Halloween crafting as I did last year,
but I did get a few fun ones to share:

I made this altered matchbox for a swap at Vintage Dragonfly:

 There is more texture and color variation to the matchbox
than you can see in this picture.
My partner prefers Fall colors and not too creepy,
so we were a perfect match! 

These little shadowboxes were samples for a swap in my Paper Soiree group:

I never did post this altered paper mache coffin box I made for last year's Paper Soiree:

Side view:

Stuffed with fun Halloween goodies of course!

We made these tags for our make and take:

I altered the images from Paper Whimsy to give them an edgy, eerier look.

Time for some Halloween owls:

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More Friday fun to be had at Fabulously Creative Friday!  

Lots of great ideas at Show and Tell Friday!  

Lovely blues at Anything Blue Friday!

Lots of links to lovely pinks at Pink Saturday!

Creative living, decorating, and craft ideas at Inspired Sunday!

Lovely tablescapes at Seasonal Sundays!

Cute and crafty stuff at Make it Monday!

Be inspired by Inspire Me Tuesday!

Vintage creativity at Vintage Inspiration Wednesday!

For links to lovely, shabby, chippy whites, stop by Blissful Whites Wednesday!

Beautiful greys at Grey Dey Thursdeys.

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Have a great weekend!

Swaps! Destash! Yellow!

Hello Friends!

I have a wee bit of catching up to do,

as I have received some lovely things from my swap partners this month.

This beautiful tag is from Marti,

made for a fabric and lace tag swap in the

Marie Antoinette MailArt Group:

 Isn't it lovely?
Thank you Marti!!

My swap partners from the monthly  A Swap for All Seasons swaps
continue to delight me!

This lovely card and tag for February's RED swap
is from Linda:

And her sweet red destash items:

 March's swap had a yellow/Spring theme.
My lovely card and tag from May:

And look at all the fun goodies from May's yellow destash:
Thank you so much, ladies, what fun!!

I will post my March creations once my partner,
who just happens to be Marti ;) receives them!


These next three ATCs I made for a swap hosted by
Kimberly of artJOYstuff.
The challenge was to use ONLY vintage materials.
Sooo these were made with vintage photographs,
vintage postcard and flowers cut from vintage greeting cards.
The backgrounds are made with vintage ledger paper (1850!),
vintage letters and music paper.
Buttons, vintage tatted lace, seals, millinery flowers
and random bits were used to embellish the cards.
I really had a lot of fun dipping into my stash to create these:

Since I have been working with yellow this month,
here are some sunshine-y yellow images for you:

 
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More Friday fun to be had at Fabulously Creative Friday!  

Lots of great ideas at Show and Tell Friday!  

Lovely blues at Anything Blue Friday!

Lots of links to lovely pinks at Pink Saturday!

Creative living, decorating, and craft ideas at Inspired Sunday!

Lovely tablescapes at Seasonal Sundays!

Cute and crafty stuff at Make it Monday!

Vintage creativity at Knick of Time Tuesday!

Be inspired by Inspire Me Tuesday!

For links to lovely, shabby, chippy whites, stop by Blissful Whites Wednesday!

Lovely, cottagey links at Feathered Nest Friday!

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Have a great weekend!

Surprise! Baby Shower! Valentines! Freebies!

Hello Friends!

Hope you all are thawing out out there in the East and Midwest!
We have been having some embarrassingly warm HOT weather here,
I feel like we've been stealing the sunshine!
But things are getting a bit more normal.
Which is to say, 70 degrees and sunny :)

I had the most wonderful surprise last week!

You may know that I am in a local craft group...

Our meeting last week was supposed to be our

yearly Valentine's party, 

which is always a fun one, with pink and red and hearts, etc.

So I made my item for the swap,

which was to be a Valentine's Day banner:

And a sweet treat,
pink Rice Krispies hearts with an arrow:

And just cuz it looked so cute,

Caprese Salad with heart shaped mozzarella cheese: 

 BUT, when I arrived.
instead of pinks and reds,
I was met with BLUE!!

SURPRISE!!!

My wonderful friends surprised me with a lovely

Grandma's Baby Shower!!

I hadn't suspected a thing,

although it was more than a month in the making!

Look at the wonderful decorations by Marti and Pam!

These adorable pinwheels:

 

This lovely banner which says "Welcome Grandson":

Look at these adorbs little boats:

Marti even enlisted the help of her husband and daughter

 in the making of the banner and boats :)

There was champagne...well, to be honest, there's always champagne ;)

and the food was marvelous!

Chicken pot pies:

Cupcakes:

 More cupcakes, pasta and cheese, ceviche, salad, fruit, cheeses and more!

I am sorry that I didn't take more pictures,

but I was quite overwhelmed!

Ooooh, and there were gifties!!

A Grandma's brag book, and all the most adorable papers and embellishments 

I could ever want!

And...

how adorable are these little baby shoes 

that they made for me:

Crafted with paper and embellishments,

aren't they the cutest!!

It was a wonderful evening, 

♥♥♥ thank you, lovely Ladies, so much! ♥♥♥

Baby is threatening to make an appearance any minute,

so my daughter is on bed rest.  

This is my first grandchild,

who has been eagerly awaited for several years.

Very exciting!!

Here's some freebies for your crafting pleasure :)

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More Friday fun to be had at Fabulously Creative Friday!  

Lots of great ideas at Show and Tell Friday.!  

Lots of links to lovely pinks at Pink Saturday!

Creative living, decorating, and craft ideas at Inspired Sunday!
Seasonal tablescapes at Seasonal Sundays! 

Cute and crafty stuff at Make it Monday!
Amazing things at Amaze Me Monday!

Vintage creativity at Knick of Time Tuesday!

For links to lovely, shabby, chippy whites, stop by Blissful Whites Wednesday!

Lovely, cottagey links at Feathered Nest Friday!

Sweet and Simple links at Sweet and Simple Friday!

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Altered Tin! Matchbox Ornament! Freebies!!

Hello Friends!

Hoping you all had a lovely Thanksgiving with your families!

Are you feeling the crunch from having one less week between
Thanksgiving and Christmas this year?
I sure am, and I tried to get an early start by
crafting, crafting, crafting!

For our November Paper Soiree meeting
we were to alter TAZO tea tins.
I really had fun with this:

 
I sprinkled the tree with mica flakes and topped with a little red birdie.
The Believe is a glittered wooden embellishment.
I covered the tin with music paper
and cut out images from my favorite Christmas paper from last year,
 "All is Bright",
which you can now find in a big pad at Michaels.
I attached a large glittered snowflake in the front and back,
and glued the images on the snowflake.
The back is embellished as well, I just forgot to take a pic of it.
And of course I added lace, tinsel, pearls and glitter!

The tin is a perfect size in which to store these beautiful
tags, which Marti showed us how to make
in her make-n-take:

A closer view:

 The ornaments are a Tim Holtz die which I already had,
so I came home and made bunches of them!

I also made up a bunch of matchbox ornaments
like this one:

I do have more to show you, I just want to wait a bit
until the recipients receive their gifties.

Here's some freebies for your Christmas crafting:

 

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More Friday fun to be had at Fabulously Creative Friday!  

Lots of great ideas at Show and Tell Friday.!  

Lots of links to lovely pinks at Pink Saturday!

Creative living, decorating, and craft  ideas at Inspired Sunday!

Cute and crafty stuff at Make it Monday!

Vintage creativity at Knick of Time Tuesday!

For links to lovely, shabby, chippy whites, stop by Blissful Whites Wednesday!

Lovely, cottagey links at Feathered Nest Friday!
Christmassy crafts at Christmas Categorically Crafting Show!
Creative Christmas crafts at Creating Christmas!
 

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  Have a great week!