TWO in a ROW!

Well fall off your horse and call me a monkey. I BLOGGED TWO DAYS IN A ROW! go ellen...go ellen...it's your birthday...not really...

haha..okay..can you tell that i am a bit fried??? well, those of you who know me know that is how i normally am {sigh}

so....guess what???? i have another Papertrey Ink project!!! Note to self: beat down Joyce for enabling me!

Today's challenge is to create a tag with a frame on it. So this is my take......I ordered these spools on ebay over the holidays and i am finally using them! I layered some Creative Imaginations flowers from Creative Cafe and some buttons. Stamps are Papertrey Ink. Oh and the twine is the from the Twinery.

The scale of the tag looks a bit off in this photo, probably because of my perspective. Shooting up was the only way I didn't have any shadows.

Here is a close up...I braided some of the twine....

And then a close up of the frame and stamping. I stamped some of the buttons on a scrap piece of cardstock and then cut them out and layered them with zapdots.

Embossing Fabric

I think this month's Scrapbooks,etc has to be my favorite!I think I like this mag so much b/c of all the tips and techniques. You know me and my techniques ;)

I really enjoyed every layout and when I saw the tip on embossing on fabric I knew I had to try it with Webster's Fabric Fancies. If you have this issues you should definitely check out that article (layout is by Kandis Smith). I have tried to emboss on Webster's fabric trims before by adhering it to paper with spray adhesive and other various adhesives but it just didn't take. And if you know me, I emboss everything. Brian told me one day he is going to come home and the kids are going to be embossed, LOL!

So, what you need to do is use masking tape! DER! Hello, Ellen. All you need is some masking tape {sigh}. BrIlLiAnT! So when I saw there was a crop over at the Nook, I had to jump on this.

Here is the back with the masking tape after I embossed it with the Morrocan Folder (one of my all time faves). I practiced it on this one first, you know as a tester. So many times I just go for it and then ruin what I am working on. WELL, guess what. I LOVE the tester, LOL!

This is a rather simple layout but I wanted these photos on one page. WE have so much fun and I knew I wanted to use Garden Gala, too. This pp was one of my FAVES of WEbster's and I hoarded this last piece. I actually cut the center that is covered with the photos to use for the raised embellies....shhhhhhh!

Here is the back with the tape after it is embossed.



And then the front...

This is the one on my layout. I sprayed it with some Suede Glimmer mist so it looks a bit darker than normal:

OOOH! and didyou see the new colors at the Twinery??? :):):)