Footloose File Folio Mini Album

Hello there peeps :O)

Yes I know - I fell off the planet again and have been MIA for the last 5 weeks - I do have an excuse (don't I always LOL). After taking 5 weeks off work for my hopefully final surgery I hit the ground running trying to catch up with everything PLUS I had cruise gifts to make.

Yes - it was time to go to Hawaii for my 6th incentive trip with Close TO My Heart - and super excited I was too !!!

You KNOW I couldn't turn up empty handed for my friends, so here is the cute mini album I made using a

  True Fit folio as the base and the stinkin' adorable Footloose WOTG, coordinating stamp sets and the super cute exclusive set I - as a cruise earner - was given.

 I also added the Paradise bakers twine, wooden seashell shapes and a wooden badge button stamped with the super cute sand dollar, and used Sweet Leaf Stitched Grosgrain Ribbon for the closure.

 Here are the first 2 pockets ready for photos to be slipped down into them.

And here are the last 2 pockets - and you know that all 4 pockets are based on card ideas from

our amazing How-To books for cards Originals and Wishes.

Hope you love it as much as I do :O)

Love - Valentine card.

This is a card which we made when CTMH came to Detroit. Well it started off as that card but then I put my own 'Sara' twist to it and added a few more details LOL

I really like these 6x6 Die cut Kraft cards from CTMH. 

This card used the Elemental level 2 paper pack - and this is the Sorbet pattern.

The Swirl from the Love Life stamp set was stamped in Desert Sand ink and the word Love was stamped in Sorbet ink - as were the swirls on the Cricut die cut heart. 

I rubbed my Desert Sand ink pad over the Milepost star shape and added the Bling Button (love these) to the send of the star - then added the clear sparkles to the swirls.

Twill Ribbon finished off the flap of the card - I love the rustic feel to the ribbon - 

it really compliments the kraft cardstock :O)

Hope you like it :O)

Remarkable Wreath

I was so happy with the way this card turned out. I started with a colonial white cardstock card base into which I scored 4 rectangular 'panels'. I sponged desert sand ink onto this and the ridges became more obvious. I then cut 4 pieces of cardstock slightly smaller than the scored areas and again distressed with the desert sand ink and attached them within the scored areas.

The wreath branches were stamped in chocolate ink then I sponged Honey, Aut Terracotta and Olive ink onto the leaf image and stamped it on the top half of the wreath. I then repeated it to fill the wreath entirely.

Then I stamped the dots in the chocolate ink and went over the dots with the bronze glitz gel glue.

I stamped the bow in cranberry ink and went over it with the red glitz gel glue. When the bow was dry I used

a craft knife to cut it out. I used the knife and scissors to cut out the wreath.

The wreath was 'popped' up on 3D foam tape and then I used a drop of liquid glass to secure the bow.

The door knob is a shimmer brad onto which I rubbed some cocoa ink to distress it and that too has 3D foam tape under it to make it stand out from the card.

So I hope you like it as much as I do :O)

The Kindle and its cover is complete - you knew I couldn't leave it alone LOL

Yes I know - I couldn't leave the cover or the kindle alone and had to keep embellishing it LOL.

Would you expect anything else of me?????

So I added more stamping, more Glitz Gel Glue, the buttons I liquid glassed and stitched

with embroidery thread and I liquid glassed the postage stamp and the glass in the 

lamps of the Paris theme stamp.

THEN I stamped my Kindle to match - of course I did ROTFLOL :O)

So now they match and I think I am done - well for now anyway - who knows what I might add next !

The fun you can have with your stamps and inks and a Kindle cover :O)

Over Christmas I treated myself to a Kindle - I have finally joined the 21st Centuary. I am a paper

person myself - a tactile person - so all of this electronic gadgetry just doesn't

excite me. BUT as I am headed to Hawaii in just a few weeks the Kindle seemed 

like the perfect solution to hauling a box of books with me.

I found this classic but fun looking cover for it - just like a manilla envelope. 

I love it.

It even has the cool string closure to keep everything safe 

BUT.  .  .  .  .  

It is kinda boring looking in a cool retro way - I knew I could 'bling' it up

and make it look like mine.

So out came the Stazon inks and my favorite stamps and the first thing I did was to add my phone number to the inside flap. God forbid that I should loose the flipping thing - hopefully if I did

someone would be kind enough to return it.

And then the fun stuff - Swirls, postage & images of Paris,

words which I love and my Name.

Then I went nuts with the Bronze Glitz Gel glue.

I LOVE how it turned out - it is so obviously mine LOLOL

Hope you like it too - let me know if you do :O)