Paper crafting... ocbrandy style!

Have you seen my Etsy store lately? Keepsake Quality Paper Creations by ocbrandy ...is full of goodies! A few mini scrapbook albums, and a whole lot of handmade greeting cards have found (hopefully temporary ;) homes there. I plan on trying out a few other paper crafts to list in there as well! So keep an eye out :) Here are a few samples...  Come on down and check them out! Thanks for stopping by :)

Happy first day of Fall! I know it's beginning to look a lot like fall here in the Rocky's....the aspens are starting to change into their fabulous fall colors. Today also marks the beginning of Pocket Full of Papers Fall Frolic Design Challenge! This week our members will be showing off some amazing fall creations!  For my first fall paper crafts, I decided to make some Halloween goodies. I used the 6x6 pad from My Minds Eye, called Mischievous. I LOVE how they found a way to add light blue to the rest of the Halloween mix of colors! My first project is a paper bag album I titled All Hallows Eve. I inked and painted lots of chipboard shapes to adorn each page :)         The second project I made were Halloween greeting cards. I made six in all...not bad from one tiny little six by six paper pad :)           You can see more pictures and place your bid HERE on ebay! Thanks for looking!

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...

Well, my oldest went back to school this week, and boy did this summer fly by!  I wanted to do a quick post on my latest ebay listing. I used a October Afternoon rub-on to title it, "A perfect kind of day." I love the red and aqua colors! The papers are from the Odds and Ends line by Cosmo Cricket. In this album I also had the opportunity to use some super pretty flowers I bought from fellow PFOP's member Tammy (scrapn4mygirlz on ebay). She has tons she has made up for etsy store! They are really sturdy and not as tall as the other rolled rose paper flowers I have seen or even made myself, making them... well, pretty much PERFECT :) Check out her Etsy store here!  The rolled flowers in the picture are Tammy's !! :) Thanks for stopping by! You can see more pictures of this album on EBAY ! :)

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! :)

Hi there! Just wanted to share a couple of my most recently created albums for ebay.   The first is a rustic looking paper bag album done with the Restoration collection by Crate Paper. I made most of the flowers in ths album from a few of my daughters old shirts :) By dyeing them with distress ink and glimmer mists, I turned white to just right! I'm also growing an obsession with old buttons...just love 'em :)       The second album is a tiny 4x4.5 chipboard album.   Since my albums are usually so chunky, I made this one with leftover pages from a couple of Maya Road binder albums. I used the last of the last of my 5 & Dime collection from October Afternoon. I LOVE October Afternoon....the patterns on their papers just always seem to be perfectly sized, shaped, and placed.  I made every flower in this album too.     I cut the tiny flowers from OA paper misted them to get them just a little bit wet, then made them rounded by pus...