50th Anniversary Pocket Card & Some Vacation Memories

Hi friends! As promised, I'm back from our respite in the south. Thankfully, the Penturner's Gathering came when it did for we really needed some time away to recoup. We headed down to Virginia last week, then took in the Mid-Atlantic Penturner's Gathering on the weekend. This years was fantastic and The Penmaker and I even won some great door prizes. That alone was worth the trip. From there we went across North Carolina to Gatlinburg, TN. While we usually rent a cabin or condo, for something different (and due to the suddenness of the trip) we stayed at an inn we have enjoyed in the past (lots of good memories on this journey). I had a wonderful time at Your Scrapbook Superstore in Pigeon Forge and for a treat, we saw Captain America: Civil War in the new theatre (reclining seats).

Now back to business... a 50th anniversary card made with papers from the Kaisercraft Provincial collection.

I use a bunch of dies on this card... from Spellbinders - Classic Circles, Scalloped Circles, 

Alterations - Mini Hearts, Vintage Market Alphabet,  Ornate Frame #2.

I bought the gold paper at Hobby Lobby and the small scalloped circle was cut from a gold metallic burlap tag my DIL gave me for Mother's Day.

The flowers and leaves are by Petaloo, 

the lace trim came from Pat Catans,

and the gold metal butterfly is from Lindy's Stamp Gang.

Thanks for stopping by!

Some Fall Inspiration

Some people are born to inspire. Audrey Pettit is one of those with that ability. Our styles are quite different, but she can create a fabulous card, and it screams "okay, Linda, make one like me!" Numerous times, she was been my starting point, my muse, my inspirer. My fall wall hanging is my take on this one Audrey created for Sizzix (my favorite die company ever). 

We were in Tennessee, when I read her post and saw her project. My mind wandered back to those Alteration's pumpkin and banner dies I saw at Your Scrapbook Superstore that morning.

Thankfully, when I got there the next day they had one Pumpkin Jack left, and I eagerly grabbed it up along with the Tattered Banners. Now I couldn't wait to get back to Ohio and create my own.

I started with a piece of Canvas Corp Flute (fancy for cardboard) and added a mat of BoBunny DoubleDot Gingerbread Vintage paper. At this point I went ahead and added two wide eyelets in the top corners to tie in my seam binding ribbon and bows. The next mat layer of Tim Coffey's K & Company fall paper is popped up with foam 3-D adhesive.

I cut my Pumpkin Jack from the orange and green papers in the Core'dinations Kraft-Core Nostalgic collection. I embossed it with my Cuttlebug Birds and Swirls folder, then sponged on Archival Coffee ink on the raised areas.

It looked a little plain not having eyes, nose and mouth like Audrey's, so I cut out a design using Alterations Mini Acorn die. Under it a put a scrap of that same DoubleDot, first heat setting it with two coats of Utee (ultra thick embossing enamel.) Then on went the banner... it's DoubleDot Chiffon Journal, stamped and sponged with Gathered Twigs Distress Ink.

I added two I Am Roses leaves sponged with Gathered Twigs D I and a Petaloo flower to the base of the pumpkin stem.

Then I glued on a bit of Spanish moss at the bottom, more Petaloo flowers, and two metal leaves that I shaped with my needle nosed pliers.

I think that covers it all.

Thank you, Audrey, for inspiring me. I loved your little smiling guys so much, I just had to have my own... and now I have two new dies to play with, too!

Thanks for stopping by... I so appreciate it!

Linda

Scrappin In The Smokies Back Flip Mini Album

 I've been taking my

time with this back flip mini album by Laura Denison, so I decided to post the first signature that I have finished. Who knows when I'll get the entire thing completed. This one has been a lot of work, but oh so fun! Plus, I'm remembering every detail of that vacation in the process.

I'm using the Engraver

collection by Prima on this... both 12" x 12" and 6" x 6" papers. These fabulous die cuts are from my favorite scrap shop, Your Scrapbook Super Store in Sevierville, TN (the bear is flocked paper). The flowers are Prima Serenity, the canvas leaves are also by Prima, and the foliage was cut with a Spellbinder's Foliage die and a Martha Stewart Oak Leaf punch. The metal corners are Idea-ology.

Inside front cover... another

YSSS die cut and Petaloo teastained flowers and leaves.

The back flip mini has

six signatures in three styles. This first one starts out with a page with a flap...

that flips back to

expose a pocket with a photo mat. Now this page flips down...

and I have another

pocket at the top with a photo mat and a photo mat at the bottom ( I have to say this is the worst possible photo of me, but other than that I love it of us and had to include it). Fold this all back and....

I have this...

then that top section opens into a tri-fold...

The middle part is a pocket

holding a double sided photo mat... the bottom pocket is for odds and ends I wanted to save plus a journaling tag...

it folds back and I have 

another place for addresses and journaling.

All of those pages now

flip to the left and I have a pocket and a photo mat. LOVE that Petaloo flower from Petaloo's Botanicas. 

Can't wait until their new 

spring colors of that collection are released.

The pocket contains a

double sided photo mat.

It's hard to see, but the

bow on the burlap string is fastened with a tiny safety pin by Spare Parts from Hobby Lobby.

Backside of the last page.

I used my Scallop Corner Chomper to make the tab, and the trees were cut with Alterations Mini Pine Tree die.

You can see here the five

additional signatures that need to be decorated.

Would love to know what

you think of my back flip mini so far.

I'm linking up at:

Make It Monday - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by!

Linda

A Christmas Mini Album

If you saw my post

yesterday, you know what to expect today... the Christmas mini I took along on our Smokey Mountain vacation. I received the basic album as a gift from my sister...

and discovered that I could take it apart and peel off the pages one by one... which I did. Now I can create layouts on each and insert them back into the book.

I have to keep it pretty

plain or it will be so thick I won't be able to turn the pages. As it is now, I don't believe I'll use half of these... so I'll be able to make another book using a chipboard cover.

Here I am in my loft space

in our SM cabin working on some pages of our grandchildren...

The view from this

window was amazing. Sometimes it was hard to concentrate on what I was making, but what a magnificent spot to work.

Those green bags on

the table were from Your Scrapbook Superstore. I went shopping there three times this trip. The Penmaker would drop me off and take his Kendle Fire down to the cafe in the Books A Million and wait. He said he got to be just one of the old boys hanging out in there. LOL  My sweetheart is so patient with me, God bless him!

Tracy... note the

bottle of white Flower Soft I bought after seeing what you did with yours.

These are the four

pages I did while at the cabin... I just need to get some tiny alphas to put their names on the tags. I can't seem to find red ones anywhere.

I'll show you more

pages at a later time... projects are piling up that need photographed... yikes! ... and I'm on day six of this sinus headache and dizziness. Must be a record for me... haha!

Thanks for stopping by!

Linda

There Are Times We Need To Be Flexible

Hi friends!

There are times in our life that don't go quite as we had planned. That's not a bad thing... it just means we have to be flexible. Take our Florida vacation, for instance. We had our reservations made, the routes mapped out and some of our clothes packed when we realized the weather in Orlando was changing... temperature declining with a promise of rain. The day before we were to leave, we made a mad scramble to cancel and reschedule. We ended up in a beautiful log cabin in the Smokey Mountains, nestled among the pine trees on a west facing slope. 

I have to admit

that the temperature may not have been as warm had we gone on farther south, but this cabin would have been hard to beat. Besides that, I was able to visit my favorite shop in Pigeon Forge...

 The Penmaker and

I have both been sick with sinus headaches since we've gotten back home, and I haven't been able to do much as far as crafting goes. I did have a great spot to work at in the cabin loft, and got a few pages done in my Christmas album. I'll show you those tomorrow.

It's good to be back,

and I'm looking forward to visiting you all.

Thanks for stopping by!

Linda