Secret Santa Swap

Jennie organized a really fun Designer Secret Santa Swap this year to make a chipboard album, a card, an ornament and a tag in time for Christmas. I used a lot of Basic Grey papers on my album, tag and ornament and the card was featured in an earlier post .

Here's the same picture showing the back of the ornament. It's the fist time I've ever made one and I was a bit at a loss so kept it simple and decorated the Basic Grey ornament template with rhinestones on one side and cut out some some Christmas DP and rub ons for the other.

My Secret Santa was Novell and I got an absolutely stunning album and gifts from her! Check them out on her blog.

~Olgy

I'm Still Here

I don't know how I let the time get away from me. I was putting off posting until I got some new projects to share, but I had no time for stamping. Things haven't been going well at work - everybody's pay was cut by 10% so now I'm not sure whether we can proceed with buying our house. I spent a lot of time worrying, recalculating, renegotiating but now I just have to wait and see. In all honestly I don't even know if I still want to move given that all the improvements we were planning on would now have to be put on hold. At this point I just want to know one way or another.

On the bright side, after a few years or contemplation I finally bought a sewing machine. Last time I used one of these to do something other than a basic trim was when I was 9, so you can say I'm a bit rusty. I justified the purchase as an investment for making window treatments in the new house, but I'm also really excited about finally having a sewing machine handy for cards and scrapbooking. I plan on giving it a spin this weekend and posting something next time. Speaking of sewing, anyone have suggestions for good sewing websites and references?

In the mean time, here's a project I made a year ago but that I had a lot of fun doing - a chipbord album for my newphew's Cowboy themed birthday party for his 5th birthday. He just turned 6 this Saturday, so it feels appropriate.
The album is by Basic Grey that I got from my sweet DSS sis last year and the papers are from the Stampin'Up Outlaw collection.








~Olgy


Supplies (All supplies are Stampin'Up! unless otherwise noted) :

• Stamps: Wanted
  
• Paper: Outlaw, creamy caramel, really rust, chocolate chip, sage shadow, close to cocoa
  
• Ink: really rust, basic black, sage shadow, chocolate chip
  
• Accessories: brads, Hodgepodge hardware, twine, alphabet stickers by Basic Grey, jumbo eyelets, chipboard album by Basic Grey, ribbon
  
• Tools: punches, craft knife