An Awesome Goodwill Find....

Hi Girls...

 

 I may have said this a time or two before, but I love the Goodwill store.

 

I visited one of my local Goodwill stores a few weeks ago and found three brand new, unused rolls of beautiful vinyl wallpaper for just $3.99 each that will be perfect to use in my craft projects. 



 

The floral pattern and soft pastel colors are gorgeous...

 

I may even use one of the rolls to reline some of my dresser drawers. 

 

So remember ladies, if you're a crafter and one of those Goodwill/thrift store shoppers like me, keep your eye's peeled for different things like this to incorporate into your craft projects.  You just never know what you may find.



I Can't Stop At Just One.....

Hi Girls...

I promised in my last post to share my latest project that I made using one of the new patterned scrapbook papers I had recently purchased.  If you recall from the post before that, I had shared with you a project I had done, making what some would call a "junk journal" of sorts.

It was just a small little book/journal I put together using chipboard for the front and back covers, scrapbook papers and other ephemera and embellishments.

Well, I couldn't stop with just that one, so I have made another one too.

And on this one, I added a Maya Road pre-cut chipboard  dress form to the cover of the journal.  I colored the dress form by spraying it with some Walnut Ink.

Here you can see the before and after of the dress form..

Just a few of the inside pages...

And I've had so much fun making these that I'll probably end up making several more.  Some to keep for myself and some to give away as Christmas gifts.

Well, that's all for today.  I'll be back again soon to share some of the crafting goodies I've been buying to keep myself busy over the long and cold winter months.

See you soon!!!

Gorgeous New Papers...

Hi Girls,

Well, I can't seem to stop my addiction to beautiful scrapbook papers and today, you'll see why.

When the beautiful papers also feed into your addiction to anything rosy, would you be able to say no to and pass up on buying these beautiful papers ?

These beautiful rosy patterned papers are from the new"Authentique" line of scrapbook papers called "Lovely".

I just about squealed in glee when I spotted these pretty papers amongst all of the Christmas papers in the store where I purchased them.

Here's a few close up shots to show the floral pattern in better detail...

This line also features some scripted style paper..

 

Another line of paper that I love is the My Minds Eye line and they also have some beautiful new papers that I found too.

I was already brave enough to cut into the first piece of the My Minds Eye paper and I'll show you what I've done with that in my next post. 

Stay tuned...

Random Stuff And I Need Your Help.....

Hi Girls,

Just popping in with a quick post to show you the finished cover of my first "Junk Journal" that I shared in one of my previous posts.

In my previous post, the cover still looked like this...

But over the weekend I fancied it up a bit and now it looks like this....

And Deb , this next photo is just for you.  Here's proof that I've started to use some of the ephemera you gifted me with during our recent Minnesota bloggers gathering.  I added one of the vintage postcards in my journal as it fit the color theme just perfectly.... :)

Thanks again Deb for all the ephemera goodies...

And now for all of my blog visitors, I need your help with something that's been driving me nuts for awhile now.

For all you scrapbookers and scrapbook paper lovers like me, can anyone tell me what the name of this paper pattern is and who the manufacturer is??? 

Front side...

Back side....

I cut off the bar code when I first bought it so it would fit in my plastic scrapbook paper storage containers so now I can't identify the paper company this came from.

I love the paper and had only purchased two pieces of it and I haven't been able to find it again in any of my local scrapbook paper stores and I can't search online for it without knowing who makes it.

If any of you know, please leave me a comment.

Thanks so much!!!

See you soon..

Saturday Crafting....

Hi Girls...

I have seriously been lacking in creativity these past few weeks, but I did get a quick burst of creativity today so I dug into some of my goodies and altered a vintage photo mat frame.

You could say that I shabbied it up a bit to make it a bit more girly.

Hopefully I didn't go too overboard on the embellishments, but I like how it turned out...

I've been trying really hard to use the good stuff in my projects instead of hoarding it like I sometimes tend to do. It sure is hard sometimes though.

And those tattered bits of floral paper I used... well that is actually wallpaper.  I found two huge rolls of it at the thrift store a few years ago for super cheap, like $3.00 a roll or something and I love it.  It has that vintage/shabby chic look that I love and its perfect for incorporating into my craft projects.

Well, I hope you are all having wonderful weekend so far.

See you again soon!!