Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Pocket Letter for Ashley

Hey Everyone! Ok so this post is about the pocket letter I made for Ashley to keep things fair with my 2 best friends... i usually do things alphabetical so Ashley first then Beth... I don't want to play favorites. Best frankly I dont have a favorite they both mean everything to me and can't and won't chose between then so the best system I have is to do things alphabetical order.

Ok so I got very excited about this pocket letter thing and seeming as Ashley, Beth and I do ATC swaps this is like the next best step!!!


 Here is the complete and over view of the pocket letter for Ashley.


 Here is the hello ATC i made for her


some washi tape for her


 the date not an atc just paper i liked the back and she can use it if she wants 
the flower is out the out side of the clear plastic sheets


not an atc just paper i liked the back and she can use it if she wants 
the flower is out the out side of the clear plastic sheets

 

Some die cuts for Ashley to use at will


this is where my letter is going to be folded up and placed behind the green piece
 the flower is out the out side of the clear plastic sheets


This is actually just a piece of cardboard that came from Origami Owl 
(sells necklaces and charms) this was part of the box Ashley likes Owls so i 
thought it would be fun to add this piece.


a simple atc to put stickers behind the flowers are actually on
 the atc this time to keep the theme going


 the bird sticker name badges i think i put 4 in here ashley i believe 
has some already and she loved them when i sent them.


 these are extra papers for ashley and the flowers are on
 the outside of the plastic sheet.


 here are the 3 extras for ashely and you can see how i
put the washi tape of flowers on the out side


this is an extra atc for ashley with the cute little fox from lawn fawns
 into the woods stamp set. made for a swap-bot swap forest animal.



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Friday, April 10, 2015

Anatomic Heart ATC

Heya guys! So today's post is something similar I have done before which I am excited to still do we all know how much I love the heart both anatomical and love heart alike! Well this swap from swap-bot was Anatomic ATC Series #2 Heart. I was excited I love drawing hearts especially anatomic ones I haven't done the rest of the series and will more than likely won't do the others but I did the Heart one. So, for my partner I made this ATC I home she likes it!



some lower pop dots
 added some black and red hole punched hearts for a
 fun effect I love added little things inside like this!


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Sunday, April 5, 2015

EASTER BOX

Hey everyone! So, yesterday our easter box came from the ever so amazing mother in law Donna. She rocks. She knows us so well and she is always spot on with gifts. I love that with everything that is going on in her life in florida with grand kids, mother, husband, adult children, friends, working a full time job she still takes the time to find things we love and mails them to us in michigan. It's amazing and so is she and i am very thankful for her, the family and her amazing son whom i spend my life with. Well here is what she has sent us.







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Saturday, April 4, 2015

Pocket Letter Pal Swap

hey everyone! So today's post is pocket letter pal swap... 
If you have not heard about these (i had not until this week)!

Well ok so Pocket Letter is something a lady Janette Lane came up with while she was doing Project Life (i never got into Project Life it's not for me. you guys know i usually create my own backgrounds with washi tape and/or markers. But I like the idea of Project Life I feel everyone should create thingsno matter how much time you have. Project Life is one you can do rather you have 10 mins or 10 hours which is nice)... ok so she was doing a Project Life and was writing her pen pals so she found some of the nine pocket baseball card sheets and started making something similar to the Project Life for her pen pal. She posted it on instragram and apparently it became an over night success. I can see why the ATC swaps are very popular these days so take that a step farther into a letter and fun things for your friends is no surprise it's a success and so ingenious too! Ok so things you add to them you can do stickers, tea bags, ephemera, washi tape, bakers twine and/or pictures. Don't forget your letter to your friend/pen pal. Then you fold into 3's and mail it in a standard size letter envelop. Your partner can save them in  3 ring binder and look back on it. 

OK SO HOW EXCITING IS THAT!
Which is so funny bc I have 2 binders one for Ashley and one for Beth and have their ATC's, letters, cards and postcards in. So, this posket letter is RIGHT up my alley fo'sure! It totally took my love of snail mail, my love of ATCs and my love for letter writing and just rolled it into one fun project!

I did mine in more of an ATC style (i know it's a shocker lol )


Ok so a lady posted a swap on swap-bot.com for this swap there is also a website for this 

http://www.pocketletterpals.com/ 

I have not used this site so I don't know anything about it I would assume it's similar to  swap-bot.com but not really sure. Also there are a bunch of youtube videos dedicated to this type of swap already I enjoyed a number of videos on the subject this week :)

Ok so here are some pictures for the swap-bot.com pocket Letter Pal Swap

So this is the full nine pockets



I did a hello one and the little compass spins too
This is the one with washi tape in it.
This one has my letter in it and have a small folder pocket ATC to hold it
 This one has things behind it
 Here are the stickers behind it
 this pocket has some stamp cut outs
 this pocket I made a quote atc in it :) With all the circles and dots i thought it 
would be cute to make it with a circle quote and found one about friend circles 
(The Quote: My friend circle has no sides to be broken, 
no ends to be ended, no angles to be measured)
 This one has some fun blanket paper for my partner
 here are the 3 colors
 This is the last one i make for my partner it is the Tolkien quote
 (The Quote: Not all those who wander are lost -J.R.R. Tolkien)
 and it has her where she live in the middle it's just pure luck she lives in Michigan too lol


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Monday, March 30, 2015

Rainy Day Gnome ATC

Hey everyone. Today's post is about a swap-bot swap "Rainy Day Gnome" I'm in a group called gnome sweet gnome and this week someone posted this swap. I was instantly excited and it took me a few days to actually make bc I have been SUPER sick with serve chest cold and coughing all weekend.



I used Lawn Fawn's gnome sweet gnome stamp set for the gnome, I used the Recollection's Fun border stamp set for the cloud and then I used Color Box's Cerulean Blue Pigment Ink with an Impressions Obsession's cover-a-card dot background stamp for the background. i used a heart hole punch to make the raid drops and cut them in half. I also used form tape to pop things up and pop them different levels for a fun effect! 

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Saturday, March 21, 2015

Crafting Art Studio Move

Hey guys! So, I have had all my fun crafting and art supplies in our separate bedroom which use to be our bedroom until we put our bed in the computer room... a whole room of my stuff! Well not anymore... now all my crafting and art supplies are heading to the computer room. I cleaned and vacuumed an area to put stuff then boxed half my stuff up and moved it into the computer room then vacuumed and moved the bed into the bedroom then began to unpack a few things then showered and went to eat and got my taxes did. What a day off!! I did it all alone on Monday so I wont have to do it today! Thank goodness I did bc it was a crazy week with extra hours and working as fast as we could bc we are 4 people doing 7 peoples job and one called off so was CRA-ZZZZZZYYYY! 







Only half my craft stuff lol still have to put this stuff away and then move some things around and move the rest of my stuff to the computer room. So sad no more room just for my stuff.... *SAD*


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Monday, March 16, 2015

Sea Creature ATC : Sea Turtle

Hey guys so I got a some time to craft! It's a shocker I know but i managed to get some time and signed on to swap-bot and found a fun swap to do.... Sea Creatures.... this one was Sea Turtle! It was funny i was doodling in my sketch book and had this picture on my desktop for like a year i want to get it tattooed if my mom still wants to get sea turtle tattooed together. So, I was sketching and then signed on to swap-bot and found this one i was like WHAT! how fun!




This is from my sketchbook


This is the ATC


Well guys! I hope you have enjoyed!

Also i have moved my crafting and art supplies to my computer room so I no longer have a full room to myself I moved the bed back to the bedroom and so hopefully i will get some crafting done instead of laying in bed to play wow and/or watch netflix. lol.


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