Tuesday Morning Haul

Making Memories - Great Escape Collection - Cork Alphabet Stickers

My Tuesday Morning bargains!

Lake Placid layout for Creative Retreat

Even though it is week 4 of Creative Retreat and my goal was to not spend any money until class was over, I bent the rules..slightly..but I am forgiving myself because I think it was a wise purchase. One product I use a lot of and always need are alaphabet letters. I get tired of using my Cricut and prefer the ease of precut letters. My latest love is cork and I noticed that scrapbook.com just got a new selection of cork stuff in, but that is another story. The Making Memory cork letters are my absolute favorite. I love the neutral look and texture. I recently bought my second package of them at a retail store for $3.99! Well imagine my surprise when I hit up Tuesday Morning and found an assortment of 4 letter packages, including my cork favs all for the same $3.99 price! I also scooped up an alphabet stamp set with 69 pieces, alpha brads, alpha stickers and these fun brown tone paper flowers. I know I will get good use out of this stuff.

Crafty Card & Prodcut Review

Today I was suppossed to be attending a Crafty Ladies Card Party, but due to yet another impending storm, the party was postponed. Essentially there are 15 ladies and everyone designs a card that can be assembled in 10 minutes, bringing all of the necessary supplies. You leave the party with 15 amazing and unique cards. This month's theme is "birthday". I have had these super cute Paper Trey Ink stamps that I have been itching to use and these seemed like the perfect audience.

At the last party, I learned about Ranger Glossy Accents. How did I now know about this product before? I am completely addicted. I love how it turns flat embellishments into 3D fabulousness. I also discovered you can use it as a regular adhesive. You don't need to use a lot, so my bottle has lasted a long time. In this card, I had a button stamp and I added the Glossy Accents to create the appearance of a real button. So cool! I highly recommend trying this out if you haven't had the chance.

Creative Retreat

This week I started a new Big Picture Class with May Flaum - Creative Retreat! I had an amazing experience during my first May class and have been looking forward to this one ever since she announced it. I love the energy, inspiration, and support of her classes and I'm way more productive when I am participating in a class. There were several assignments to kick off the week, but I found mysef drawn to making a tag.

One Little Word Album Pages

My One Little Word is Positive! I'm trying to have a more optimistic outlook. It is pretty awesome to be able to write down what you want to achieve/change and have this as a guide throughout this year long journey. I purchsed the Pink Paislee canvas covered binder album which is just absolutely gorgeous. It comes with 20 page protectors, includeing six 4 divided pockets with fold, six 2" x 3" divided pockets, two 8.5" x 11" single pocket and six 5" x 7" single pockets. Can't wait for next month's prompt.

Two Page Layout

Two page layouts intimidate me! I don't ever do them. Back in September during May's Use Your Stash class I learned some new approaches to make them a bit easier. I had started to put one together, but got distracted and never finished. Well today I decided it was time to face the challenge and just do it! There were some fun photos from our Toronto vacation this summer that fit nicely into the page design. A few of my favorite pieces from my stash: travel stickers (Canadian flag and coins), coin shaped brad and font/banner from my free Blackletter Cricut cart.

My Pink Stamper Blog Hop

My Pink Stamper and her design team are having a fun Blog Hop challenge. You visit each blog to find a mystery word and they all string together to come up with the design challenge. I decided to go with a thank you card since I am a bit behind in my holiday thank you notes.

Dot Paper: Paper Trey Ink

Butterfly & Thanks: Gypsy Wanderings cart

Bling: Cell phone charms from the Target $1 spot

Bakers Twine: Saved it from our bakery boxes at Christmas :)

Get Well Card

Outside: Inside:

A friend of mine has been going through some rough health issues this week and since laughter is the best medicine I came up with this somewhat immature and silly card. I am hoping this will make him laugh.