And I'm the WINNER!!! Dreamy Nights Challenge #11 @ Altered Pages

This is my entry for the Dreamy Nights Challenge #11 at alteredpages.com.  It is an homage to the MOON.  The base is a blank black board book purchased from alteredpages.com and enhanced with Tarot cards, stamped images, washi tape, an image cut from a calendar, a round metal-framed stamped tag, die cut clouds, stickers, and jewels.  The writing is in my hand using a Signo Uniball White pen.  Since my camera is not working, I scanned all of the images into my computer which is why some of them are a bit fuzzy--my scanner does not like dimensionals.

left:  the back cover;  right:  the front cover

left:  Page One;  right:  Page Two

left:  Page Three;  right:  Page Four

left:  Page Five;  right:  Page Six

left:  Page Seven;  right:  Page Eight

left:  Page Nine;  right:  Page Ten

left:  Page Eleven;  right:  Page Twelve

Monday's card July 15th: hello Summer!

Newest Memory Box cards!!!

Christmas in July
Card for Monday group July 1
This one and the variations below posted on the Outside the Box blog on July 1

Manor House Happy Halloween Card
posted on Outside the Box blog July 5

Card for class on Monday, July 8

AND I"M THE WINNER of This CHALLENGE!!! Challenge #10 Baby Dolls: Baby Dolls Keepsake Box

Here is my entry for the month of June for the Baby Dolls Challenge at http://alteredpageschallenges.blogspot.com/.

This is a Baby Dolls Keepsake Box.  I started with a plain papier mache box with a lid.  The photo is a scan of the top of the box.  Inside, nestled in gold tissue paper, I have stashed pictures of the three of us sisters with our baby dolls on many different Christmas mornings.  I've also tucked in some of my dolls' clothes.

Materials Used:

• Altered Pages Collage Sheet of Baby Dolls
• a magazine picture of doll heads in a cupboard that I cut into two pieces
• black on white and white on black dot papers
• brown card stock
• photocopy of the three of us with our dolls (left to right:  Gail, Barbie, Anne)
• cream grosgrain ribbon is secured around the edge of the cover and tied in a bow at the front center
• The base of the box is covered with brown card stock and then wrapped around the center with a brown stripe fabric tape. The bottom edge of the box is trimmed with vintage cream lace.

This was a great project and provides a way to organize some of my family memories.

New Card @ http://davebrethauer.typepad.com/outsidethebox/

Monday's card for Outside the Box blog:   Wild Sunflower Hello

Dance, dance, dance the night away...

Jitterbug with Paul, my favorite and best dance partner ever, at the American Legion hall, Augusta.  What fun!!!

This week's cards on Outside the Box blog

Today's cards feature the Memory Box die 98631 Delicate Branch Frame. 

I used an adhesive-backed paper to cut out the die image on the left, and then I thought I could use the rest of what was left inside the frame to make the second coordinating card shown on the right.  

One cut=two cards!

Materials used

• Memory Box dies:  98631 Delicate Branch Frame; 98160 Perched Reed Bird (with his legs snipped off); 98312 Fancy Blossoms; and 98313 Tender Leaves
• PoppyStamps dies:  874 Large Curious Cat; 879 Labrador
• Brown adhesive-backed paper for the frame, its inside piece, and the cat
• Memory Box Distressed Dots in licorice for the dog, bluebird for the bird which is pop-dotted above the negative branch, and key lime for the leaves
• Memory Box Dot paper in currant for the flowers
• adhesive-backed white pearls in three sizes for the flower centers
• kraft notecards and envelopes (I wrote Meow on one and Woof on the other next to where the address will go when I'm ready to send them off.)