A pocket full of ....... love

Yes, big things can be in a small pocket and mine is full of love. Five love canvas like tags are witing squeezed in this pocket. There is a lot of space at the back of every tag to write important and sweet love notes and prescious photos. What is better than this to spoil the one you love?
The base for the tags are just paper bags so some of them are also pockets that have to be filled with something intresting and a lot of love scented embellishments and s also the "Love" element that I made using some poly clay.







Enjoy these days and don't forget to spoil someone:-)

Christmas checklist

There is a lot of things to do before Christmas. I love to do everything: the baking, the decorating , the cooking,... but I hate to hurry. I decided to make a Christmas checklist and I think this one can be a nice idea for a christmas gift too. It's a self standing mini-checklist and this is perfect as you can position everywhere in the house and besides giving you a small help is also a nice Christmas decoration.

The first two pages have also this time a special ornament that my mom made: a croched snowflake.... The white one is enhanced with glitter, the gold one with some blinks.

The grungeboard reindeer has a glitter embossing, not very visible here :-(

Each page has a pocket on the back that can be filled with the best tips for wrapping, special recipes, ideas fr gifts,... I think they'll get pretty full just in a few years!

As many of you were intrested in the paper trees tutorial I just wanted to remind you to come to my blog tomorow when I'll post it and I hope you'll enjoy it and you'll immidiatly make yourself or to the one you love wonderful paper christmas trees!

Have a great day!

Letters for Santa

Kian writes approximatley 3-4 letters for Santa per day!!!! Last year I tried to explain him (like I already said) that you have to think about what you want and than send just one single letter but this year, when he showed he would keep the last year tradition I decided to give up and to enjoy his point of view. In fact there's even more: I made an altered box where I can store all his letters (past, present and future). My son also decided that he will not send his letters by mail but that he will leave it somewhere in the house and scream where he put it so the elfs can hear him and take them directly to Santa without intermediates....

I cut the front part of the box to make a letter-looking front ...

From the top....

A little teddy and a bell for an extra sweet look....

A pile of tiny envelopes...

A croched snowflakes that are just irresistable. My mom is a master of knitting and she will contribute to make my Christmas projects unique and enhanced with her prescious pieces of art. Thank you soooooo much mom for this goodies, gifts!!!!!!! I love them!

On each side of the box there is an envelope. Two of them are just fake but this one has a tag inside. I plan to write a note on it when he'll receive this box full of his letters to Santa as a grown up. I think that receving all your letters after many years can be a nice surprise. This is a long term gift and that makes it even more exciting, don't you think?

The countdown has begun..... I'll have a lot of christmas projects to share this year, ideas just invaded my mind:-)

Have a great countdown.....

Sharing

Sharing is one of the needs humans have. You can see it in children when they call mom or dad to share if something is happening, you can see it when something beatiful tauches our lifes and it can't be as beatiful as it is when shared. It's another strange feature of humans. I can see how sharing is something that is innate in Kian and he always wants to be sure that we are experiencing the same thing and afterwords he enjoys to describe it.
This LO is inspired by The Color room palette. A very feminine selection of colors but it goes ok with this cute pic showing Kian sharing his lollypop with daddy.

Some close ups....

The title is made using a glitter color. I first used the indigo paper to make a sort of a transfer of the word and that I covered it with glitter and made some stitching for an extra detail. I made the white bricks using the polyclay.

The frame is made with some tarsparent pink paper that I first push below the paper frame and sewed and than rolled over itself and sewed again to form a kind of a airy effect.

Have a nice day and thanks for stopping!!!!

Witch's hat

A new palette of The Color room and this time the colors are perfect for another halloween project, just with a small difference: yellow instead orange.
This is my take on this palette: a chipboard witch's hat.... I love the smashed chipboard for the upper part because that's what a true witch needs. I did some clear embossing on it and some white stamping before I rolled it and a lot of misting for an extra shiny look (not very visible :-( in the pics ).

Some wired shapes... The two stars are looking out of the top checking for some good spells :-)

But there's more: the hat has a surprise: a hidden treasure in it and it could be anything you want to put under it for halloween.... It's so nice to find and offer surprise, don't you think?

Clear embossed stars with blinks. I love how they seem to dance all over the hat surface...

Have a wonderful and creative weekend!

My sweetheart

Kian is crazy for lollies. He loves this little award for being a good boy and allthough he doesn't love girly things he makes an exception for the heart shaped lolly. The title was inevitable and it goes right for him and for me....
I used a very soft misting at the back with the graphite Glimmer mist. The heart is made out of the Tattered angels frames. The colors are suggested by The color room with the current palette.

A touch of the past: a letter seal....

Have a nice day and happy scrapping to everyone!

What is your favorite fictional character?

We have a great fave thing to scrap at the TAAFOMFT: favorite fictional character. Noooo doubts for me here: The polar expres crew: I simply adore this animation and I love the story, all the time immerged in magic but still just a pinch scary, just enough to drive children's (and I'm one of them :-)) immagination and feelings deep in this fantastic jouney!!! I think I've watched it thousands of times and that music and story still surprise me everytime I enjoy it! The pocket watch was the perfect background, always showing something to midnight....

And we are changing things up a bit around FAVE THINGS!!! We are now going to choose our winner by using Random.org so everyoneb that plays along have a chance to win and we will now be showing all the lo's/projects on a slideshow when we announce the winner! Isn't this great!
And don't forget that this time there is a 20$ gift certificate that is waiting for the winner!!!!
D E L I S C I O U S !!!!!!!!!!!!

Altered halloween boxes

I have to admit that this year I feel a huge inpiration for halloween stuff (you already noticed that, huh?). Yesterday I altered this three containers and they will join the other halloween decor.

I bought once some medication in this tiny bottle and I loved the shape of it so I've kept it and it finally got the right alternation....

One side...

And the other side....

The next one is an altered chipboard metal box. I've colored the front with distress crackle paint. Usually I play with purple, orange and brown for halloween but this year my creations have to contain even a bit of green because I think they get a lot more of dimension. In this case I used green ribbon. The Tattered angels corners are neccesary for a lielle bit of shabby chic look.

I actually recycled and I used part of the packaging of the Tattered angels Glimmer glass album to make the front tag. I used an orange wooden piece for the little pumpkin, I draw a face on it and glued some super tiny leaves and stalk.

The next one is a simple black chipboard box. The main idea of it is the tattered angels Frame which is used as a pumpkin - I looove it!!!

Now I have to find some pumpkins to carve... I enjoy making original ones and the whole family just can't see the time to make them!

Have a wonderful autumn!!!!