03.08.08

I was so excited to hear I was a 3rd place winner in the Club Heidi contest! It was such a blast creating my project with Heidi's awesome stuff.

I took an old flea market alarm clock apart and used the inside gears as part of the design. I created various inspirational clock faces that attach magnetically to the clock face. That way, the faces can be interchanged as I like.
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02.13.08

I love my camera bag. I love that it can fit all my lenses plus my camera inside. I love that I can fit stuff like batteries and my keys into it. But it's a standard black camera bag and it's ugly. U-G-L-Y.

Soooo, I performed a little camera bag makeover, and sewed a nice piece of ribbon onto the strap and tied another piece onto the handle. Real easy. Real quick.

And now my camera bag is just a little bit cuter:


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01.15.08

I love making mini albums with 'framed' front and back covers.

Here's an example from my gallery:



The front and back covers are Making Memories Vintage Hip Tin frames. In between, the pages are simply white cardstock folded accordian style. I used 2 sheets of 12x12 cardstock, cut, folded, and adhered to each other to get the amount of pages I needed. You end up with a great accordian album with hard covers.

You can also...
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01.05.08 I'm a slow scrapper. Slower than slow and I admit it! But the last two projects I worked on came together so quickly, that I had to ask myself why - what was different? Then it dawned on me. I just started using this little Christmas present : Could it really be that having all my tools organized and right at my fingertips can make a difference in how fast or slow I scrap? I thought back to my 'old' system before I got the caurosel. OK - it WAS organized - everything had its place - b...
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12.28.07

I placed all the names that posted for the "Hilarious" stamp in a pot, and DS #1 chose . . . . . . Siameseplease . . . .

I was all set to pm her, when I read her post more carefully - she said she didn't have any use for the stamp, but posted a sweet message anyway.

Soooooo . . . . he picked another one . . . . and the winner is . .

Charygirl!!!


Charygirl, I'll pm you for your address. Thanks all for playing - I wish I ha...
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