Paper crafting... ocbrandy style!

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...

Whoa! I just about made a BIG mistake....well it probably would have been more embarrassing than anything :) How fast can you find it???  LOL! First I made the cover...then the rest of the album....then took pictures....then edited them...then uploaded them to SSB....then put the code onto my eBay page....THEN, while choosing a gallery picture, I saw it! I was so bummed :( I mean that's a good one. Not a misspelled word, not something a little crooked, or even those little glitches in the sewing.... So, here is what it should look like of course :)        I had a lot of fun making this one. There's nothing better than having it just go together so smoothly...lol :) Have a peek on EBAY ! Thanks for looking! :)

Boy have I been dragging today! Crashing hard from staying up way to late last night and then woke up way to early today! I am pleased to say I finished up some albums that have been taking me forever to finish up! Four of them to be exact :) This was the second album made with this Karen Foster paper. Since Mother's Day I've needed to get this thing done! Yeah today is the day :) Orinially it was intended for my mother, but I just couldn't pull it together! This next album was made with some paper that was adorable I loved it! I am so glad It's all gone, not one scrap left! I think I did pretty good, starting out with only nine sheets of the My minds Eye "bloom" paper... and be able to make two albums? (the flower/coffee filters album in my last post was the second) I love making the paper bag albums and leaving that extra pocket jobby in the pages, rather than waste that little space just calling for some journalling tags! Yes, that is Spongebob Squarepa...

Well I finally listed a new album tonight. Feels like I've been working on it forever...I suppose that's because I have been! I am using the new my minds eye, bloom and grow collections. So far I've made two albums from each variety of papers. Two flower albums, a chipboard and a bag album. I'll be listing them as I finish up their final touches. I hope they all do well, with bids that is! And boy, does that bring me right in to my next subject... I just had a second album of this week end with no bids. I'm pretty frustrated too! They were both so unique, I just don't get it. I have listed them on etsy, hoping their owners will find them soon! :) well, go check out the latest anyway!------> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&item=310142114860