Paper Wallet made Inspirational mini book....

Good Morning everyone!! Well, it is a bright and sunshiny morning after a few days of rain. So, I thought today would be a great day to post this cheery little inspiration wallet made into a mini book. If you have been visiting my blog you will have probably seen my tutorial on a paper wallet. Well, I got to thinking about this paper project and thought there had to be another way to use this vs. just placing cash and gift cards in it. So, one of my friends just had back surgery over at scrapbook.com and so I thought this would make a great little inspiration mini book to lift her spirits. So, this was my outcome. I chose to use some cheery orange with that lime/granny apple green which just shouts "Cheer me up"! Then I made some little tags with scripture as well as tags with positive and friend quotes on them. Each tag is two sided. I also decided to enclose a pic of me with a personal message on it as well as a mini card. I filled all the pockets with these and thought this would be a nice pick-me-up that she could pick up at anytime and hopefully bring a smile or good vibes her way. If you would like to check out my paper wallet tutorial just click on my title and it will take you right there. If you make one I would love to see it and if you would please link it back to my blog I would greatly appreciate it!! So, let your imagination run free, but mostly just have fun!!

Purse Gift Card Holder

Here is a cute little purse gift card holder that I made. I got the template from Helen's blog. Click here if you would like one too. I found this just at the right time, these little purses are quick and easy and awe soooo fun to make. Just look how cute they are too. I made this one with a matching mini thank you card to slip inside the purse with the gift card. It is for my son's speech teacher. So, blog on over to Helen's blog she has lots of cute things over there and you will love her work. Thanks for stopping by and now back to painting my mural!



Have a great day!

Alrighty, I have added my embellishments....

And this is the end result of my artist trading cards being complete now on the front. I still have the back to do before they are called complete. Just wanted to post the finished product. If you have not read my blog, all these atc's started with the image of my face. The how I did it is below, down a few posts. If you try this out send me a link I would love to see what others of done. Thanks for stopping by and if you left me some comments.... double thanks!

Do you want to make a unique personal Artist Trading Card?

Well, if you do you might want to read this. This is the picture I started out with. It is a recent picture of me and the base to all the ATC's that follow in this post. If you read further down I will tell you how I did them... Enjoy and if you do some link them back to me I would love to see them!





Here is the picture that I worked from after I did the following. I did this in Printshop 23 Deluxe. First I just brought in my picture that I wanted to work with. Turned it into a black and white image. Then I went into photo tools and adjusted the color. I turned my Gamma all the way to 100 which lightened it quite a bit. Then I also adjusted the brightness so it lightened it a bit more. Then I saved it and then I went into Effects and applied a special effect. I chose the cloud one which made it look like this. Then I printed off several of them just measuring under 3.5/2.5. Then I just took my black millenium pen and outlined the main parts of my face and then I just got creative and did my designs. I colored my designs with my Mark-it markers by bic. I also added some glittery chalks and still need to add a little more embellishments to them before I call them complete. I think I will try some more with a differnt face position or use one of my children's faces. I am going to have fun making some more of these! Below are all the ones I am working on right now......

Ok... although I still need to add some embellishments to these I was soo excited about how much fun I had making these that I had to show them off before they were completely finished. I will post them when they are completely done. These were a lot of fun to make and they are definately one of a kind, lol, all with my face! How fun is that? These would also be a great fun project for any child that has that creative side to them. So, if you come by and see these and want to trade an ATEO I have some of these for trade so just leave a message here or leave me your email I would love to trade.