Paper crafting... ocbrandy style!

Hello there :)  Just thought I would pop in and share a little of the fun I've been having with two of the new Echo Park Paper's This & That collections! This first one is for the boys, it's from the Charming collection. I used the stickers included in the kit to title it, Amzing BOY :) I cut the star on my cricut and peirced the holes to hand sew around it with natural twine.  At 5x7 inches, it's a tad bit bigger than my usual ones are, and has also got to be one of the thinist ones too! Flowers really bulk an album up, but without to many of them, it's easy to keep your pages nice and simple :)      It's up for auction right now on ebay- you can place your bid, or just take a look, right HERE :) Thanks for stopping by!

I'm a few days late, (seems like the story of my life :) but I wanted to show off this months 99 cent listings on ebay! The first of two chipboard albums, is made from a 6x6 pad from Trimcraft, called Desert. This is the first time I have used paper by them, and I really like it. Part of the pad has embossed glitter pages, the other is just nice matte pages. The print is scaled really nice for the 6x6 size too. I look forward to using more from them!   I used some letter stickers from my Crate Paper stash to name it "Family".  I love how the colors are a gentle ease into the many fall colors I'll soon be using!       The second album is also made from chipboard. I cut the pages by hand, from tracing the edges of a few Maya Road sheer acrylic albums, and a few other misc. chipboard pages I had around, to make them all roughly the same size :) It is no easy feet cutting the chipboard either...esp. the curves, but if you are going to sand the edges as much as I do...

At the beginning of every month, I will be listing items for the LOW LOW LOW price of just 99 cents starting bid! You can't pass up that chance :) I listed two albums today. Both happen to be 4.5 x 5.5 inches. Though that is pretty tiny...I think they are my most favorite sizes to make! They fit a wallet size photo that is cropped to fit just right.  The first album is made with the beautiful new line from Pink Paislee, called butterfly garden.  I cut the photo mats with my Cricut, so with this album I've also included templates for your pictures :)  I cut them a size smaller than each mat, with thin clear acrylic. So just center wherever you need to on your picture, trace around it, then cut it out...just inside your lines! Quite revolutionary :)      This little gem is loaded with handmade fabric flowers... even hand died flowers made from coffee filters! Check it out HERE on ebay to see more pictures!  The second album is another cutie. I made i...

I listed a couple albums on eBay tonight...and thought I'd share :o) The first is a paper bag album with a poem on the front by Oliver Wendell Holmes. "We don't quit playing because we grow old, we grow because we quit playing." I've always loved it :o) It's perfect for the man in life...young and old! There are lots of little places to jot down some memories. Second is another paper bag album fit for photos. I think i have had these papers forever..I don't even know where they came from ;o) I made many of the tiny roses in it, after watching a few tutorials on you-tube. The front took many tries and tons of rearranging..lol... I finally got my way with it! The last one listed tonight, is probably the last Halloween album I'll list on ebay this season. I used up the last of my Cosmo Cricket Haunted scraps from last year for it. I love love love this line :o) I am trying to get into the holiday spirit enough to start shopping for Christmas/wint...

I made an album yesterday- start to finish- in the time it took my youngest to take his nap! It is only 4x4 inches, but I am still pretty proud :o) Could I be getting a teeny bit more efficient??? I'm waiting on three new paper collections...seems like it's taking forever. What to do... what to do...LOL :O) One of my fellow PFOPers, was talking about trying to use up some papers from three years ago... so I gave myself a little dig through my older bits and pieces. I found my extremely old bag of Cosmo Crickets Jitterbug line! Though most of it was cut to finish a 5x5 mini album one day, I chose to use some chip and acrylic shapes I had cut on my cricut a couple months back. So here is what I created! It is so cute and so tiny. A couple of the mats will hold a cropped wallet size picture.. the rest need about half that. I stamped and cut out a few journal spots to put them on the acrylic pages. I'm going list this on eBay one of these days...but here...

Lemonade anyone? Hey, remember me? LOL I sooo need to catch up! We are all moved, well we have been for a couple weeks--or so ;) I needed to " squeeze " a post in last week, for Making Lemonade Design Teams 2 nd anniversary challenge, but I just never did. We did a " FRESH SQUEEZED" challenge, and came up with our most summery/refreshing/lemonade paper crafts. It was fun seeing all the variety of all our work , starting with a common theme, but completely done up in our own crafty ways! Here is a sneak peek of two of the three albums I made, but I can't for the life of me figure out where I've put the pictures of the third one! AH! Anyway, both of these feature a handmade glass of lemonade! I cut some left over thin acrylic from accent scrapbooking -- of course !-- made some glass shapes, put a couple basic grey rub- ons on, cut a piece of yellow vellum just a tiny bit smaller than the glass and then glued it on where the rub- ons where. Got to be cre...

I didn't get to this last night as planned, but alas I have album #2 completed from the Lillian line by Crate Paper! I will be listing this cutie tonight on ebay, so keep an eye out. I am going to try to list every couple days instead of only once a week and see what it brings. As I've said before, am not only a member of the phenomenal Making Lemonade Design Team on eBay but I am also a member of the Accent Scrapbooking Design Team . It's a small group and we are still working out the kinks, but I have loved working with the acrylic pieces they have to offer. So in between projects, I used up a few of my left overs to help me create this one of a kind flower chipboard album! The cover has the individually hand cut petals as my last flower album did. I used an acrylic circle for the center, and used cardstock stickers to name it, "the little things". i love the dimension you get with acrylic in between the background and the letters! Since I'm a big chicken a...