Vintage Journal - IC425

At the start of very year I hold a New Years party / business building meeting for my Downline. We always start the year off by readjusting our yearly SU goals and looking forward to sale-a-Bration. This is my business journal for the upcoming year. For the next six months our business focus will be getting back to the basics and putting the pieces in place to create and give more ORDER and BALANCE to our business.

Keywords: IC425, STASH14Jan4, sbc14jan, CCREW0114SF, CreativeCrew, SUO, SUM
Stamps: Asian Artisry
Paper: SU DSP from Stash
Ink: Basic Black
Accessories: Glitter, primes, ribbons, flower punch, brads, buttons, big shot, apothecary framelits,

Silver Blooms - WT463

For our make and take this week we made a fun winter candy dish using the Faux Mercury Glass technique.

 I want to give credit where credit is due... There is a very good step by step tutorial for the faux mercury glass technique at www.craftstamper.com. It was featured in their Feb. 2014 magazine.

Keywords: WT463, MIX34, CCREW0114HF, CreativeCrew, SUO, SUM

stamps: Serene Silhouettes

Paper: None

Ink: Stazon Black

Accessories: Glass dish, looking glass spray paint, white vinegar, acrylic paints, stylus, paper towels

Techniques: faux mercury glass

Celebrating National Cake Day

Several Challenges this month were centered around National Cake Day. And I being a novice cake decorator, have been very intrigued lately with the whimsical tilted cakes and so that was in inspiration for these cards.

Keywords: CCREW1113HF, CreativeCrew, SUO, SUM, CC454, MMTPT278,

Stamps: Sweet Treats

Paper: Baja Breeze, Night of Navy, Daffodil Delight, White, DSP Scraps

Paper Size: A2

Ink: Baja Breeze

Accessories: Big Shot, Top Note, buttons, punch, markers

Gettin' Cows

About six months ago my cousin moved here to the beach and she gave me some old pictures of me and my family from years gone by. So I have been putting together a book of memories for us to share with the rest of our family for Christmas. This is one of those pages. The photo is of me and my dad "Gettin' Cows" off the mountain in the fall. One of my favorite childhood memories. Also you will see a lucky penny i found that day and a dried wild daisy that I picked and saved from the mountain that day. Yes, I am a die-hard collector with a passion for persevering memories and historic details.


Also I combined few challenges, so here are all the extras...

• For the Creative Crew Challenge I use my photos of my favorite childhood past time.
• For the Monthly scraplift, I cased eeddmm "Rehearsal"
• For the Inspirational 146 Challenge I used my favorite saying and the colors and textures from the Pier1 table scape "Fall Shimmer" 

Keywords: CCREW1113SF CreativeCrew SUO SUM SIC146 sbc13nov SPLT13nov

Stamps: Weathered Background

Paper: Early Expresso, More Mustard, Very Vanilla, Soft Sky, Retired DSP SCraps

Paper Size: 8x8

Ink: More Mustard

Accessories: Ribbon, dried flowers, crimper, lucky penny

Double Chocolate Fun

Our recipe today was Dori's Double Chocolate Cookies found on page 329 in the "Baking with Julia". Today we decided it would be fun to combine a little crafting and kitchen time together, so for this challenge I made my own Tag Boxes and Tags to go along with the cookies. These are fun little cookie boxes that I made to share with my Stamp Camp Ladies and a few friends from my church to celebrate Thanksgiving.

Love these cookies... simple and sweet goodness that works both as a drop cookie and a rolled freezer cookie. They make great gift or sack lunch cookies because the hold there shape very well and yet stay soft and chewy. We love to dunk them is milk!

Keywords: CCREW1113CF CreativeCrew SUO SUM

Stamps: Turkey Talk

Paper: Sweater Weather DSP, Chocolate chip, Crushed Curry,Green Garden, Very Vanilla, Tangerine Tango

Ink: Basic Black

Accessories: crimper, markers, jute twine, cookies,

Techniques: Tag Box, Gift Box, Tags