Paper crafting... ocbrandy style!

Well I think it took me every bit of this last week to get this baby done. Like I have said, it's been a long week. And although the other album is not quite done it is very similar to this one. I can't figure out why it would be so hard for me to make a couple albums with this paper. Sure, I bought a limited amount of sheets, but I seldom waste any. The only thing that I can figure is that one would be for my mom! Whenever I make something specifically for someone, I feel lots of pressure. When I make something for ebay or etsy , I really feel NO pressure. I just figure someone will love it...and hope they want it ALOT ! :O) This is Karen Foster paper, yep the flimsy stuff. LOL ! It was just too cute to pass up. Plus it says my moms name written all over it! I lay out my papers, make my chipboard pages, I pull out ALL coordinating ribbons, some fibers, and embellishments I have. Then I start tracing my chipboard pages on the papers. I like being able to poke around with ev...

Wow, It's been days! So much for pictures of that album progress eh? Well i have had sick babies, if you could really even call it that! The girls got the weirdest RED cheeks, then brock out in a rash. Turned out it is wgat they call slap cheek, or fifth's disease. Never heard of it before, but by the time your cheeks get red and you have a rash, your not contagious anymore! So no meds to take or anything, just rest fluids and baby the rash a bit. They say you're suppose to be sick at some point before you get the rash, but I never saw any signs of them being sick?! Well, that's my first excuse...

Well another day races past...wish I had a time machine! Between kids growing up too fast and house chores, I sure find it hard to fit much "me" time in. Then fit crafting in there too? We are talking mass amounts of coffee, and wee hours! I love them both dearly. This seems to be a very wishy washy time of the month for me. My creative drive must be run by the moon or something! You know, sometimes you can only imagine... sometimes you just want to be a base maker drone...sometimes all you can do is the beautifying. Sometimes it is really hard to get an album to flow right out! I have come across some super-cute spring papers and my head is just spinning thinking of the ways of using them! Number one, I'm thinking I might make my Mom an album with them for Mothers day... then of course theres ebay. I have to make two albums without burning myself out in the process! So I've littered the kitchen table once again with the papers, chipboard, primas, ribbons, and any ...

Well, I'm all settled in with a new group of ebay peers. I've joined the Making Lemonade Design Team! They sure are a group of great women :) The first challenge I've been around for was to make a "green" project. I chose to use my cricut and make this *fancy* little birdhouse album like this kit another seller had on ebay. I bid up to $41! {This would make the coolest Mothers Day gift!} I bid a second or two too slow and lost, but I couldn't be happier for that! I figured out that a cricut cartridge called "stretch your imagination" had the dang thing right there on it! So I spent $35 and got the cartridge instead! Hey I'm a paper artist, I should be able to come up with the kit part myself, right!? Now, back to my "Green" project. After much tinkering with the new deep cut blade and housing, I finally got my chipboard birdhouses cut out--which I might add were cut from Reeses puffs cereal box and a box from the individual packs of Qu...