Party Questions

My friend Sherry has some great small talk questions to help us to get to know each other better. Visit her site to see her great art and see her answers. It's a blogiversary party.
Questions:
What type of job do you have? House Mommy. Hope to get back into personal training and lifestyles and weight management programs in the future. I love nutrition and physical therapy. Where do you live? Bowdoinham Maine. About 2hours north of the N.H. border. The coast is beautiful. Where do you do your crafts/art work? I have a corner of the house in the daylight basement. My get-a-way cave!! What is your favorite daytime beverage? Flavored coffee. I drink it all day. What is your favorite dessert? Chocolate and peanut butter. Do you watch soap opera's and if you do what's your favorite? No. Right now I love "America's Got Talent "and I'm a "Lost" finatic. What's the last movie you saw in a movie theatre? Wow, good question. I don't know if I remember. Must have been the last Star Wars trilogy when we how Darth Vador came to be. No, wait the first Pirates of the Carribean. Yeah!!! Love that movie.

Clay/Goldleaf Minibook

I finally finished this book that I have been wanted to make for about a year. It took me a couple weeks of stealing tiny bits of time for myself but...here it is. The goldleaf is actually baked right into the clay after pressing this design into it.

There are two 5x3 1/2 inch sheets of metallic blue clay to make the front and back. Leather cord are thread through drilled holes for loops. The front loops have buttons slipped through the cord. Here you can see the back loop fits over the button on the front panel when the book is closed.

This accordian book has three small tags. The idea came from the book "Creative Stamping in Polymer Clay" by B. Mcguire. I started off making faux seals then really had to have this book to learn more techniques using clay.

Finding tiny bits of time to myself

I haven't posted in a couple weeks but I have been surfing my favorite blogs. I'm working on another really fun clay minibook. It's taking a while to finish along with a little bit of scrapbooking in between. Please leave a quick comment if you come along to my tiny corner of the world.

Tags

I loved these soooo much when I found them on Jessica's blog, I had to make them right away. Her blog is always fun to check out!

This one has a shrinky dink as a charm.

These are charming tags made out of, you'll never guess..... paper coin rolls. They are inked or partially covered with paper (the paper covering makes it sturdy). They open with the help of a brad for journaling or personalizing for gift giving.

These are so fun to make and a great way to use up those buttons I have been collecting.

Circle Book

I'm working on Christmas 2006 with my scrapbooking. I decided to make a circle book that I can stand up for display at Christmas time or adhere to a scrapbook page. It then becomes a great way to put many more pictures and journaling on one page. It has 5 pullout tags. Pattie Donham has a "how to" video on how to make these circle books on the Lifetime channel. The paper and larger stickers are the Creative Memories Gazebo paper pack

Mask Tags

My local scrapbook store has great "yard sales". I picked this pack of K&Co. paper and embellishments.

So then, I had been craving some time with my new Heidi Swapp mask. I made three with the colors to match my new paper pack loot.

Making the mask is alot of fun. I used inks and Tattered Angels glitter spray. Then finished with the rub-ons, stickers, 3d flower stickers and edging for the aged look. This mask technique is described also in Tim Holtz using a misting technique with perfect pearls. Check it out it's really cool!!!

Clay MiniBook

This was a fun book to make. I used a baking clay for this minibook vs the air dry clay. After this stamped image baked, I used a little gold foil (I had a hard getting it to stick with tacky glue), metallic paint, inks, and a little glass paint for a shimmer.

I then attached an accordian of paper, drilled holes for the leather cord and attached the buttons I altered with alcohol inks.

This is the back of the book, gold ink was stamped prior to baking. Next time I want to press gold leaf (instead of the foil) into the clay with the stamp then bake it.

I like this very simple minibook. I use my minibooks mostly for quotes. These are dried leaves sandwiched between vellum paper, sewn and finished off with copper brads. This was a gift for my hubby.

Minibook with Quotes

This is another fun "glass" project I did when I made the "glass" tags. I painted, stamped and placed a flattened, dried flower on top of a round piece of chipboard. (Actually a coaster). Then finished it with the liquid epoxy. While it was still sticky, I pressed the center of the daisy flowers in. The center is gold microbeads and a mini shell.

With ribbon, 6 pages are connected together attached to the chipboard backing. I was able to include 17 quotes with a few Bible verses. Have fun if you decide to make one.