Tags and Cards swap w/G45 papers

Finished card #4 and on to #5 and #6. I have a couple of tags done and will post those in a bit.

I haven't done a swap in eons but this one was workable as there are only six of us in the swap with a June 1 deadline. I made all mine different which makes doing these even more fun, at least for me.

Notebooks Three and Four

I used velvet papers on both of these covers. The little bird is Grunge Board Glimmer Misted and the one from yesterday was covered with paper I made from inks, krylons and vellum paper. The 'stained' glass is made by dropping and blending alcohol inks with others and then wrapping the glass in gold or copper foil papers.
Thanks for looking!

Sneak Peek (notebook no 2)

I got three more of the notebooks covered at a crop on Sat. I still have the inside stamping to do and a few embellishments to add. I will wrap these all the same and hand them out randomly when we do the gift exchange in Dec. so even if any of the gals are peeking here, they won't know which is theirs. I have one more partially covered and will finish that and then take a break from these.

Happy May Day

and in honor of May Day and to celebrate a pleasant tradition from my childhood, here are two of the three May baskets (cones) I made yesterday. The third is on my other blog (www.postingfromparadise.blogspot.com). Hope your May Day is the best.

Latest fun

These started off as journal blocks for a layout I did yesterday (posted on Posting from Paradise blog)but each, for different reasons, just did not work. So, I turned one into a Mother's Day card and the other's purpose is yet to be determined.
So, as my grandmother use to say, waste not, want not. I am sure I'll put the tag to good use somewhere.

Art Notebook One

I am working on a series of ten Art Notebooks using the small moleskin ones that you can get in two or three packs. These will be my gift to several artsy women who are all in a gift exchange group for next Christmas. Why am I doing this now, you may ask? Well, the last time I did one as a gift for a blog friend, the notebook covers, the inside work and the stamping took me a couple of day total and then another day for the project to dry as I had coated it with a sealer. If I don't start now, I'll never get all ten done the way I want them to be. These are such a pleasure to design and execute. Each will be different with a theme for each carried out on the inside with stampings and inks and lots of fun fold outs and places to take notes. Wish me luck.

This is the first of the notebooks. I have finished the front and back covers and a couple of the inside pages. I used silk paper for the notebook cover and don't think I'll have to put a sealer on this one. Hope the girls like them.

T ag: you are it!

I like to make tags out of left over papers from the KnK club. kits. These are two I made using the PDQ papers, some stamps and ribbons. I use these like cards or as an embellishment on a layout. The little girl stamp is one of my favorites and I got her at Owl and the Pussycat in Ft. Myers, Florida. Thanks for looking!

I have finally decided on what to use my 7 Gypsy book covers and papers that I was putting together at the knk Sock Hop Crop. After my grandfather died in 1954, my grandmother and two of her friends boarded the Queen Elizabeth ocean liner and toured Europe for several weeks. I have very few pictures from this adventure but what I do have is her travel journal. I am thinking I'll scan her entries, use what few pictures I have and supplement with vintage post cards of the places she visited. Her journal is tattered and falling apart. I may even add journal pages of my own of when I was in Europe some 30 years after her visit as our impressions are similar. I hope to get started on this this week. Will keep you posted on how it is going.