It's the beginning of "Wrap it up November"

Welcome to the beginning of a few ideas on "wrapping it up" with things from the shop.   I want to give you ideas.   I love the little touches for the holidays.   I have been making these little pillow boxes in different colors and embellished with loads of little details.   Think of what you can put inside.

Gift cards
earrings
money
jewelry
small soaps
candies
necklaces
A key


Stop the justabitofpaper@etsy.com and pick some up of these or make some for yourself and embellish away.

Oct 25th and what are you doing today?

Yep I love the 25th of each month.   I participate in the PTI aka Papertrey Ink Blog hop and love it.   This months challenge was a fun one with pick and choose your favorite color combo and make a Christmas card using those colors.   They were all non traditional.   I end up making two cards but my favorite one is here. 











Now being a knitter how could I NOT do these colors.   Oh and check back here in the next few days to see the gorgeous hat that is coming off my needles today.   Not the the colors above.   Anyway here is my take on the color challenge using many PTI products.  The sentiment, the pattern paper, and the mittens are all PTI.

 Thanks for stopping by.

Is it that time of year yet????

Well this is the first it has felt like fall so a little card to celebrate.   This is using the kit from http://www.scrapbookdoodle.com/2012kithallow.html  and the paper is super yummy.   I was a little put off by doing Halloween with no little spooky kidos of my own to take pics of the last few years so a few cards and few altered items, a couple of layouts and one banner.    Love the back side of many of these papers.   A great kit so hop over and check it out.

Playing along with card challenges

You know I have all of these fun supplies and it just is time to get some Christmas cards made so I am playing along with some great little card challenges.   This one is for the http://mojomonday.blogspot.com/   Of course as always there is a spot of twine which can be found here.  http://www.etsy.com/shop/talkingtwineandtrim?ref=si_shop    So here is my card.

It's Monday, Monday a PTI MIM.

This morning before even seeing the video I was sure I was going to make a pink card in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness month.  I thought I would make a birthday card but then I do have this great stamps and I couldn't resists.   The challenge this week was to glitter up a tab for the project.   Easy peasey with some Scor tape.   The paper is from my stash.   The stamps and die cuts are from PTI except for the frame die cut.   And as always the twine and seam binding are from http://www.etsy.com/shop/talkingtwineandtrim?ref=si_shop  .  Enjoy!

It's the 25th

It's the 25th so the day that my blog always get some love and some color.   I love the PTI blog challenge and I played along and made 3 projects so I will be posting these throughout the week.   First the challenge was to "wrap it up".   A perfect challenge to use items from talkingtwineandtrim@etsy.com and Papertrey ink.   So here is the inspiration:

Here is my project.   I used a little treat bag from Talking Twine and Trim and cute a window in the front using the PTI seed die cut.   Then used a sheet of acetate inside the bag for the window.   Next I die cut the little felt flowers again with PTI die cuts and felt.   Next all flowers need a center so a touch of bling.   The surprise sentiment is PTI Movers and Shapers sentiments.   The bag is closed with a bit of washi tape.   Inside the bag is a seed packet of bush beans a great little gift for one of my gardening friends and ready for a birthday.   

MIM Sunflowers Mirror image

Well it looks like I will have at least 3 post this week on my blog.   That could be a record number so please if anyone looks here don't laugh.

This card uses some hand scrunched seam binding from the shop that I love, this is dusty olive.   I did this for Make it Monday challenge (MIM).   This is the first that I have played with the Sunflower stamp and I need to work on centering the center but I  LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the stamp.   The technique was to mirror image a sentiment.   It worked but it isn't as clean looking as I like but I tried it and glad I did.

Back tomorrow with a bag.