Paper crafting... ocbrandy style!

 I'm happy to announce that I have joined a new eBay design team called, The Paper Hen House! (I'm sure you have heard of them :) Just type in TPHH on ebay, and you'll be blown away! Never have I seen as much variety and creativity, all in one place...they really are a lovely bunch of ladies!! If had me bookmarked with PFOP before, it's time to update :) Where has this week gone to? I listed some albums, a week flew by, now I'll blog about them too :) I love how the cover of this first album came out! Papers for this paper bag album are from the Random collection, by Crate Paper.   Once in a while...I'll have no clue what to do for a cover, then it dawns on me, make it quilted! well it looks like a quilt, but i just weaved strips of paper together :) It's the perfect way to use up some scraps too! I also made the fabric flowers, and the chipboard "moments" where cut on my cricut. I must need a new blade..I had to sand the edges of these to make t...

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 ! :)