Beautiful Butterflies

I was visiting a blog that I watch regularly and noticed that he was making beautiful butterflies, when I looked closer I realized that the butterflies were more than art they were representing all of the children that died during the Holocaust. So being me- I wanted to help and I want to ask anyone else who reads my blog to help- I will be making butterflies and you can too. I am including the link to Dan's blog- http://dan99.blogspot.com/2008/11/butterfly-project-freebie.html on here you can read about The Butterfly Project, download butterfly patterns and see some completed butterflies. I hope that some of you out there will join me. Remember that they will be representing children, so of course children can participate as well. The only regulations are they can't be bigger that 8x10, and they cant have glitter on them. I look forward to hearing about your beautiful butterflies. Here is the link to the company that is collecting them, http://www.hmh.org/minisite/butterfly/index.html. You can visit for more info.

LOVED IT!!!!

I went to see Twilight today and it was soo much better than I expected- you know when you are reading and you visualize certain parts of a book, well the movie is so much better than what I visualized. I cant wait to see it again. Maybe the girls can go over Thanksgiving break!!!

Soooo Sad.......

Well here I am at home, lonely, on the computer, all by myself, depressed, blue, sad, and why do you ask???? Because my ROTTEN daughter left me at home so that she can go to the midnight premire of Twilight- with her friends- traded for 16 year old girls how awful is that. Now not only is she going to see the movie before me, she is going to rub it in my face. I cant wait till tomorrow afternoon, I am going to leave her at home and go and see it by myself, wearing my Twilight t-shirt. Yes I bought a movie t-shirt, I know how stupid is that for a 38 year old professional to buy a movie shirt-, but I just couldnt resist. The books are sooo good, and I am totally lost in all of it. I hope you guys have read the books too, and if not get out and buy them, the are fab!

Stories in Hand

Ok, I stumbled across this on-line class a couple of weeks ago. It is being offered by Jessica Sprague, and it deals with journaling and writing your memoirs. Now most of you who know me, know that I enjoy writing, but when I am scrapping i find myself always saying the same thing over and over again on each page. So I thought this class would help me to add more voice and expand my writing. Tonight was the first class and we had to create our book that will house all of our writings and journal prompts. It was fun creating the book, tomorrow we will begin with the writing part. If you are interested, I dont think its too late to sign up. I think there were 6,000 enrolled in the class. Click here for the link to register for the class. Here is my journal that I created tonight. I cant wait to fill it with wonderful stories.

I hope to see some of you in class with me tomorrow. Happy crafting! Dawn :)

Roadtrip and the world's best Scrapbook Store

I had to make a trip to Savannah today and while I was there I just had to visit Linda at my FAVORITE Scrapbook store. Linda has it all decorated for Christmas. It is so pretty with the white tree, and all of the newest Christmas papers and embellishments all around the front. Thanks Linda for believing in me and my craft. Dawn :)
If you are in or around the Savannah, GA area make sure that you stop and check out A Scrapbook Boutique, when you are there tell Linda hi for me.
Happy Crafting.

Root Canals Stink

And that is all I have to say about that....

I hope to never as long as I live have to have another root canal.

Dawn :(

Making Tags and Staying Busy

I made some tags to display and promote the AC Moore scrap night on the 16th, and here they are. Please let me know what you think of them. Peggy from AC Moore said that we would be making Autumn/Thanksgiving/Christmas/Winter tags at the event. I hope you enjoy!

These are the autumn tags. I used regular paper tags and embossed them with the Cuttlebug. The new autumn folders are awesome (thanks Melanie). After embossing I inked with distress ink- Vintage Photo and Spiced Marmalade. Gratitude and Fall is in the air, are stamped and raised with pop dots. Additional embellishments are buttons, brads, stickers and ribbon.

This tag was also embossed with a new Cuttlebug folder-Ornaments- It was also inked with distress ink- Fired Brick and Vintage Photo- The ornament stickers are coated with a film of Ranger's Glossy Accents to make them look like epoxy. Other embellishments include Stickles, 3-d stars, Gelly roll glitter pen and ribbon.

Brr! It's Cold Outside! These snow tags were embossed as well- (Can you tell I had a great time playing with Melanie's embossing folders). The Paisley tag is pretty simple, it has white buttons, a snowflake brad, sticker letters, and a raised paisley winter embellishment.

The snowman tag, was inked with Vibrance baby blue ink, the snowman was stamped with Versamark ink and then double embossed with clear embossing powder, after the clear powder was set, I re inked the outline with a Versamark pen and embossed the image again with Ranger cobalt blue embossing powder. I then attached him to the tag using pop dots. Other embellishments include, ribbon, ribbon slider jeweled brads, snowflake brad, ribbon, stamped image Brr! and stamped snowflake on a separate tag.

The Santa tag was created using a rounded tag cut with the Cricut. I then attached the sleigh, presents, Santa sticker and Santa label. Around the bottom of the sleigh I added Stickles glitter glue to look like snow. The entire tag was inked with Vibrance- Christmas Tree Green Ink.

The snowflake tag was a white core blue paper tag, that I embossed and then sanded to reveal the white core. Additional embellishments include silver sparkle ribbon, 2 snowflake brads, large snowflake glitter sticker, and a snow sticker that was placed on a round metal tag, that was attached with pop dots.

And last but not least- I told you I was staying busy :)- I made the tree tag and the gingerbread boy tag. These were probably the funniest to make because they are inked, distresses, wrinkled and worn. The images were stamped and then stamped again and attached with pop dots. They were also colored using Prisma colored pencils and Gamsol. After coloring I used Candy Cane Stickles to embellish the tree ornaments and the holly berries on the gingerbread boy. The tags themselves were inked with: Shabby Shutters and Vintage Photo for the Tree tag, and Walnut Stain and Vintage Photo for the Gingerbread boy- He looks much more worn because after inking the first time I wet the tag with a mini mister and re inked. Additional embellishments include, ribbon pieces, star stickers coated with Glossy Accents, chipboard and "real" buttons sewn on with thread, Gelly roll glitter pen for accent, Merry Christmas stickers outlined with Candy Cane Stickles, and red and brown ribbon for ties.

I hope you enjoy the tags. Thanks for stopping by and taking a look. Like I said please let me know what you think!

Happy Crafting and Love to all, Dawn

Sunday Night Scrap Event

Went to AC Moore yesterday and saw the crafts lady Peggy, She was so excited, said they were planning another Sunday night scrap event . She told me that several people have commented about the Scrap Pink Event and the tags that we made, and guess what she asked me to do it again!!! Yeah!!! So now I am making Thanksgiving and Christmas tags to display in the store for the event. So if you love to scrap please plan on joining us on Sunday November 16th from 6-10pm. The cost is $10, and an unwrapped toy that will be given to "Toys for Tots" for Christmas. I'll see you there.