Birthday card

I am in a card exchange birthday club & it is so much fun! There are 42 of us, can you imagine getting all those beautiful handmade cards for your birthday?! Here is one I made for a January b-day.
The paper is from a Tim Holtz pad & I used Broken China distress stickle to bring out the bird.

Button Fairy

I wasn't on here much last year for some reason. I have started this new year off with some swaps. This one is called a button fairy. I had never heard of them but I guess they are kinda cute. This is mine. I will be sending them to their new homes tomorrow, I can't wait to see what I get back.

ATC holder

    I love ATC's (Artist Trading Cards) but I can never figure out what to do with the ones I really like. I wanted to show them off so I asked around to see what other people do & after the brainstorm I got an idea of what I wanted, now to find it...a few days later in my alley someone had thrown out a torn up baby gate, Perfect! So I got it (yes I am a trash digger lol) took a while but got the piece out of it that I wanted and voila!

    It is a little rough but it is exactly what I wanted. I am close to the end of a remodel of my scrap room so I will no doubt clean this up & decorate it so I can add all my favorite ATC's that I have recieved.

Altered mousetraps

These are mousetraps that I altered for a swap. They were a challenge but a lot of fun! I chose to do mine in a shabby chic style. I used Tim Holtz distress inks, crackle paint & distress stains. I added lace, pearls, buttons & Prima flowers. You can get the mousetraps for cheap, I got these at Big Lots I think it was $2 for 4. I am going to make the other 2 with magnets on the back & put paper in the trap part for lists & reminders.

Vintage family layout with the Imagine

This layout was made on the Imagine from the Lori's Garden Imagine Cartridge & used I Linda's instructions ( http://paperboutique.blogspot.com/2010/09/how-to-print-sentiment-anywhere-on-card.html )

for moving things around & I ended up with a great vintage page. I printed on a pale yellow piece of cardstock, then used a border punch & of course inked everything. I had this great vintage photo that was perfect for this look, I cut a few of the flowers on the design so they would overlap the picture, then just started adding my embellishments, prima flowers & stones & some lace.