Halloween Greetings Album

Hello friends!

Last week I pulled out my stash of Halloween supplies and started scraping!

It's always fun to pull out my supplies from years past to see the scraps and leftovers that I can add to the new!

The old rickety style house is a Tim Holtz die that I cut from chipboard and painted with Vintage Photo crackle paint. The white fence is also a Tim die.

If you have never tried paper bag albums I really recommend them. They are fun and easy to complete. I must confess that I don't purchase lunch bags and create the books myself. I found a seller online that sales them pre-folded, stitched and sprayed with Archival mist. Perfect and ready to go!

If you would like to purchase them, they can be found here on ebay.

I buy the 6x6 size, but she does sell others.

To add more details to my pages, I added glitter glue accents around edges and swirls. I use the Martha Stewart glitter glue set that can be found at Michaels.

I also used white and black gel pens to create faux stitch lines around pages to give them a more finished look. 



Wishing you a lovely day, Lindsey

Announcing The Sugar Kissed Cottage

We have exciting news to share with you all today!

We have opened a new etsy shop called The Sugar Kissed Cottage!  To accompany the new shop, we have also started another blog!

Right now our shop is full of vintage style digital stamps to use in your crafting!

If you've never heard of a digital stamp, it is a black and white image that is emailed to you, then once printed, use it in your everyday traditional crafting!

Isn't that cool?

As our shop grows we hope to add more items to fill your crafty needs!

I had heard of digital stamps in the past, but as soon as I would see the digital part I thought I wanted no part in it. I like traditional style crafting, but when I took the time to find out what it really meant and that it works with traditional crafting I was all in!

How great is it that you could have so many more designs to craft with for a lot less money, no shipping and you can print them at any size which is great for cardmakers and scrappers.

So come on over to our new blog, The Sugar Kissed Cottage, where you will soon see new designs, tutorials, crafty inspiration and more!

 

Wishing you much happiness, Lindsey



Altered Cigar Box

Hello friends!

This week I altered a cigar box.

These are fun because I create a more distressed and art deco style. 

For this one, I used Circa 1934 paper by Cosmo Cricket. This has been one of my favorite paper lines and I am excited that Moda will release it in fabric this Fall.

The 2 vintage ladies on top are from the Domestic Goddess paper line by Graphic 45.

I pulled out lots of Tim Holtz goodies to add to this box and one of my favorite items is the film roll ribbon. It's so cool! I was lucky enough to run across a pile of old metal clock hands at an antique store recently and added that to the bottom corner.

 A good way to use up leftover paper scraps is to cut them into 1" squares and piece them together. I love how it looked as the background on the cover and around the sides.

Wishing you a lovely Friday, Lindsey



Exciting News!

Hello friends!

I have exciting news!

I have a card published in the new Cricut Cards Magazine!!!

For those of you that don't know, Cricut is a die cutting machine that cuts thousands of designs for crafting.

This was my first time submitting a card I've made to a magazine.

 I have always dreamed about this and now I finally can see my name in a magazine like this!!

The paper I used for this card was the extremely popular Early Bird line by Cosmo Cricket. It has a retro kitchen theme that is so cute for all occasions.

I was so excited when I found the issue on the newsstand!

I have not received my issue from Cricut magazine yet, but

I couldn't resist buying it anyway when it was right there in front of me!

Even though I have known about it for awhile, it was so

thrilling to see it right in front of me!

Wishing you a lovely day, Lindsey



Little Red Riding Hood

Hello friends!

This week in my creative space I have been working on a Little Red Riding Hood mini album.

I got this cute paper and sticker line from Reminisce and thought it would be perfect for an album. Not much paper in the line but I knew I could find lots of coordinating patterns in my collection.

This was a super fun project!

 I made the album measure 5 1/2 x 8 1/2.

To make the chipboard book, I took sheets of chipboard and cut it down to size. Then, I used my Cinch book binder to punch the holes.

After I finished creating the pages and gluing them down,

 I cut the wire and bound the book.

I loved the giant stickers in this line. Makes for easy crafting!!

This album is available here in our etsy shop.

Wishing you well, Lindsey



Altered Canvas

Hello friends!

Today I wanted to show you this altered canvas.

At Michaels, they sell a set of four 6 inch canvases. They are the deep canvases measuring 1 1/2 inches wide.

I wanted this to be really sweet with a sugar kissed feel to it, which is our signature style of read and pink that we use during Christmas.

The paper I used was Cosmo Cricket's Odds and Ends line.

The cute blue and cream polka dot pattern

is actually fabric from a charm pack by Moda.

The cute stamped Button card is from a stamp set by Papertrey Ink.

The cute pink chipboard doily behind the button card is from Martha Stewart's new line of craft products at Joann Fabrics. I then added the little white keyhole from Melissa Frances and small paper roses that I picked up on the clearance isle at Michaels.

I painted the sides cream and wrapped pink seam binding around the canvas and tied a bow in the upper right corner to finish it off.

This sweet canvas is available here in our etsy shop.

Have a wonderful Friday, Lindsey



Craftiness

Hello friends!

Do you ever feel the need to do something crafty,

 but that is totally different from what you're use to?

I sure did! I love working with sweet vintage girly colors

 and I have a girly pink project in progress on my craft table right now,

 but I recently felt a need to try something different.

So when October Afternoon came out with a Space themed Boy line called,

 Rocket Age that was really cute, I thought, perfect!

I really enjoyed working with this paper

 and created a 2 page layout over the holiday weekend using it.

It was fun to do something out of my norm

and I encourage you to try getting out of your crafty comfort zone too!

It helped my creative juices to flow and I love how this layout turned out!

This layout is available here in our etsy shop.

Wishing you a day of fun and craftiness, Lindsey