Thanksgiving Goodie Bag

I made this "treat" bag for a friend who is very special to my heart.  She has given me much encouragement and kindness so I wanted to repay some of her kindness with a small bag of goodies.  The "Happy Thanksgiving" stamp was offered by Cindy at her Scraptastic Monday Challenge this week.   I used it to label this bag made of craft card and DCWV Stack 7 papers.  I made the flowers (see this post) before.  This time I added brown ink to bring them into the fall coloring and added two leaves cut from Cuttlebug fall leaves dies.  The bag measures 4" wide by 5" tall by 1" deep.  I threaded twine through two side eyelets for the handles.  Thanks for Janis' encouragement to enter this at                                                    http://joyfulstamper.blogspot.com/

Thanks for stopping by.
Sue

Woven Layers Page Sketch - Variation One

Here's the page sketch:

I liked the layout, but thought it needed some intrigue.  Here's my first page using the basic elements of the sketch.

I used DCWV papers (LOL - my favorites for page layouts) from Summer Dreams.  Just two sheets of paper from this stack and some white card stock.  The base of the page is a sheet of blue printed paper that has a white bird in the lower corner.The other page of paper is border strips.  I used two different border strips to crisscross the background paper.  I used white card stock for the photo mat.  There is a sheet of tags included in this stack, I used a green tag for journaling.

The glittered letters are from an  alphabet set I had in my stash. I have corrected the Y so it is not crooked - sorry for the photo. I tried to pick out colors that were in the papers.  The large purple flower is a brad buddy from Paper Wishes.  The rest of the embellies are buttons from my stash.  I threaded DMC dazzling embroidery floss in the button trying to match the flowers on the border strip below the mat.  Here are more closeups.

Thanks for stopping by.  Let me know if you have any questions or comments.  I'll have variation two in a day or so.

Sue

Handmade Roses

 I love flowers.  Paper, real, silk, photographs - you name it I love it when it comes to flowers.  I spend hours going through my garden books just admiring how God made so much beauty in such a small package know as an individual flower. 
One of my most cherished possessions is a glass dome filled with roses made from soap.  My sister gave it to me for my birthday many years ago.  Here are some pictures:

They are so realistic and smell just like American Beauty roses.  Which is nice, but the dome allows me to keep them, because the scents from most flowers send me into migraine headaches.  So, I don't grow many flowers or herbs for that matter.  But I still love them!

I've been experimenting with new techniques lately. I found a video that showed how to make paper roses with just a scallop punch, water, card stock and a brad.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjsOonwEtJQ&feature=related  Thank you Lisa.  Here are my creations, not anywhere close to as beautiful as the soap or those in real life, but I'm pretty happy with them:

 The baby is with a 1" scalloped circle punch.

Thanks for stopping by and taking a peek.

Sue