Two New Bags

Here are the  two other bags I made.  They were a hit!  I put them in a silent auction this past weekend.  All but one were sold.  I'm happy for that.  I am going to make a breast cancer awareness bag this month for my sister to use in a golf tournement.  I'm working on it this weekend so I'll post later.  Should turn out cute!

Gift Bag Adventures

I have taken a side track into the world of gift bags.  From  exposure to multiple conversations, stamps from Lorelei, my own inner girlie girl, I just had this need to make gift bags.  Or bag gifts, as I liked to call them.  I just felt a void in our colorful and fun scrapbook world where bags were concerned.  People getting pretty things and missing out on our pretty things.  So off I went.  Although similar to some of Lorelei's, I didn't stamp and enlarge as she indicated I could.  I hand draw all of the bags and put my own twist on them, along with any other piece of this and that or bauble I can get a hold of!  lol  The two on here are the first and they do not have their handles yet, as I am still indecisive on how I want them.  Stay tuned......

Layout from my summer stay-cation

My baby sister and her two daughters came down to Florida for a week in August.  Her girls had never been here before nor had they seen the ocean.  This was their first day at the beach.

I used a layout template from the Close to my Heart Magic Program book.  This was entered into a challenge that required the blue & green colors shown so I used this Bo Bunny collection.  The embellies are Glimmer Chips and I applied several things actually!  lol  What worked the best was using chalk, like Cat's Eye and stickles.  They had a tendency to obsorb other products too quickly, even their own.  I used Glimmer Mist and wasn't real excited about the results, unless you pre-coated the pieces with something to make them less obsorbent.  Maybe I should have known that to start with?  I don't know...  I first tried the Tim Holtz new stains, as I was really excited to use but again, it actually mushed the detail of the chip.  I'm going to play around with these pieces some more and re-try the stain.  I think they could work with the chips being primed.