Baby Boy Cards

These are all made from leftover product when I was doing some mini books.  Cardstock is Bazzill Basics, Paper is Daisy’Ds, Scrapworks, Stickers are Pebbles Inc & Bazzill Basics, Stamps 7 Gypsies and Binderie tape is 7Gypsies.

 

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New Products uploaded!

4” Journal BlockZ – Round & Round

http://www.etsy.com/listing/67463787/journal-blockz-round-and-round-4

Jumbo 5” version

http://www.etsy.com/listing/67464090/journal-blockz-round-and-round-5

Newest family member, DotZ

http://www.etsy.com/listing/67464219/dotz-birthdays-thank-yous

More acrylic

http://www.etsy.com/listing/67464454/journal-blockz-stars

http://www.etsy.com/listing/67464674/journal-blockz-hearts

As you can tell, I’ve been a busy little designer!  Hope you enjoy, thanks! 

Ornaments

 In honor of the big snowstorm, here are some ornaments I made over the years for various people… Supplies are many & I don’t remember them all….

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Mini Album Share - Matthew

This is a 6x6 mini, the papers are all Li’l Davis & cardstock Bazzill Basics.  Comb binding, which I really love cause I can do it myself!

Threads is from Making Memories, letters from Paper Studio, Making Memories & Chatterbox.  I LOVE this gigantic rick-rack.  Hobby Lobby had spools of it on sale for just a couple bucks but there is like 13 yards of it in all different colors.  Inking around the edges.  Stampin’ Up ink I would imagine.

Bazzill Basics button, & brad, Paper Studio Flower, Phrase Café sticker & unknown rubon.

Pebbles Inc Sticker, Making Memories sticker, resin stars

Dymo label with his birth date, paper clip & binder clip with lots of ribbon & rick rack.

Sheer ribbon holding a painted chipboard tag, 7 Gypsies rubon, Bazzil Basics Chip topper

7 Gypsie Stamp, unknown rubon.

 

Thanks so much for looking!

MIA - sorta....

I haven't been sitting on my hands though.... I have been in the studio finally attacking the topsy-turvy, falling over pile of scraps that I meant to turn into cards.  Many of them I wanted to become thank you cards for everyone who had donated to my mom, however, I had those finished & still a huge pile of scraps, so I just kept trucking along and this is what I ended up with:

32 Thank you cards
1 Blank card
7 Love cards and.....
drum roll please.....

........

96 Happy Birthday cards.... for a sum total of..... 136 cards (wow, did I do the math right?!?!)

Needless to say, my card box is now overflowing, and the pile is gone.  So on to more projects!

From the Studio - Baby Girl Mini Album

I made this a few years ago (check out the date!) for a couple friends of mine who had just celebrated the birth of their first baby girl.

I bound it with my comb binder.  Letters are paper Studio, Junkitz, Making Memories & Li’l Davis.  Flower was probably from the dollar store, button is Paper Studio.  Ribbon is varied.  Paper is all DCWV and cardstock Bazzill Basics.

Binder clip from Office Depot, Market tag by Li’l Davis.  Not sure on the ink that I used.

Junkitz Oh My Wordz (I think!) and Paper Studio chip board.  And some paint.

More chipboard, Soft Sentiments tag, Not sure on the rub-on.

Heidi Swapp tape wrapped around chipboard flower, Junkitz Zipper pull, Paper Studio ribbon slide.

Phrase Café Sticker, Making Memories metal photo corner.

Doodlebug Jellishment & paper covered chipboard flower.

Don’t know on the rubon, rhinestones from Michaels, Paper Studio & Queen & Co. flowers.

 

Very fun, beautiful book to celebrate something so crazy special!  Thanks for looking!

Elle

Newly re-listed product

Apparently I’ve let some peas & carrots slide off the plate… I’ve re-activated a lot of older listings you can find them here…

http://www.etsy.com/shop/BenzillaScrapping

Use BenzillaFB to get 10% off the entire order!

Cards to Share

 Just a few miscellaneous cards that I’ve had sitting in the queue for a bit…

All cardstock is Bazzill Basics, all patterned papers are Die Cuts with a View

This is a sweet little card for a very special occasion.  Very simple, but elegant.  Added a flower and a Bazzill Chip Topper with a Dymo label for the sentiment.  Usually my cards are blank on the inside as I tend to write a letter along with them.

Here also is a very simple, but elegant card.  Added another dollar store flower (actually I used 2 so it would have a bit more fullness), inked the edges of the paper & Chip Topper & that’s it.

This one is very similar, used some Heidi Swapp Tape on it, and a different flower from the dollar store, but totally cute!  The Chip Topper is hard to read, it says “giggle”.  Perfect for those little shared secrets between BFFs.

Enjoy & Thanks!

New Product in Shop

I’ve had these done for a bit, but just getting them posted to the shop amidst all the other hustle & bustle.  Perfect for those school pages or last minute teacher gifts/cards!

http://www.etsy.com/listing/64636708/iconz-school?fref=fb_itemlist

Super Cute Door Hangers

These are some super-cute door hangers that I made for each of the obys.  The back is an old CD that I covered with the paper.  The ribbon is glued between the paper & disk & obviously is long enugh to slip over the knob.

Paper for Zack is My Mind’s Eye, letters are Chatterbox, Making Memories, Paper Studio and Lil’ Davis.  Stickers are 7 Gypsies.  Train is one of those little wooden pieces you can get out of the bin at Michaels or Hobby Lobby.   Add a picture and it is an adorable way to personalize a door in a very non-permanent (destructive) way.

 

Papers here are Junkitz, Letters are Making Memories, Paper Studio & Li’l Davis.  Sticker is Creative Memories & button is Dress-It-Up.

 

All told, I think it took about an hour a piece.  This is also a great idea for magnets and Christmas tree ornaments.

LO - My Travels

This single page layout is from our Gatlinburg trip, first family vacation, back in 2003.  I was very pregnant with 000 & 003 was quite the handful.  This was back when I was first starting to be OK with my own handwriting on my pages and it is funny to think all I used to do was on the PC now all I do is handwriting.  Interesting to see the early days of that sylistic change. Paper is doodlebug, rubons are Creative Imaginations, I don’t remember where I got the charm and the ribbon is Offray, I’m sure.

I still struggle trying to go deeper with my journaling, beyond “just the facts, ma’am”, as I enjoy reading that.  But perhaps that is just a part of what makes me me, but I would like to learn how to make it more meaningful.  To tell a story, to get a person “inside” it.

Enjoy!

 

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A few cards to share

Here are some really quick cards that I made up from scraps when I was done with layouts and other projects.  It seems like I always have a large pile of card bases waiting to be turned into something….

These 2 both are Bazzill Basics cardstock with Provo Craft paper (at Michael’s).  Rubons are Basic Grey (I think!)

This is still Bazzill Basics cardstock but the paper is Paper Studio (Hobby Lobby) and then a Junkitz Rubon.

Just very simple and quick.  I like having lots of cards around as I usually am sending out lots too.  Thanks for checking them out!

Altered Letter - R

This was a very fun project, I think start to finish, a day.  Most of that time is in drying.  If your kids are into such things, have them help you tear up the paper.  I’ve learned putting all the torn up pieces in a Ziploc is a good way to shake them & get them all mixed up without making too big a mess.  Also, if you have to set it aside during the middle, it helps make speedy cleanup.  After modging all the scraps in place, you’ll want to put another coat on it to seal before attaching your embellishments.  You can’t see, but I also covered the backside.  I’m just like that.  I would sit there & think about how the backside isn’t finished all day if I didn’t do it.  So I did it.  But it’s not a requirement.  Just have fun.  Your kids might even like the modge part.  I like it when it gets all thick & sticky on my fingers, but I’m just like that, kinda weird… ;)  This letter is approximately 24” tall, I got it at Joann’s.  Hobby Lobby doesn’t have the great big ones (at least not the one here) but do have smaller ones if you want something smaller.  Michael’s also sells them.  Not sure how big theirs are.  You could do wood, this one is papier mache.  Again, that is not the important part, the having fun part is…

Papers are Daisy’Ds, French Market I think is the name of the collection.  Flower from dollar store, Prima flowers too, Bazzill Basics Chip toppers, 7 Gypsies stickers, pictures, various buttons & ribbons. NJoy!

New product & facebook coupon

http://www.etsy.com/listing/62598540/tagz-bracket-months?fref=fb_itemlistOK, I've been using the Etsy app to link to the Facebook page when I post new product, but it goes to my account page, not my fan page.  So I posted from my fan page the link, but then forgot that I should have done it from here as this updates the fan page too.  I'm a little scatterbrained tonight!!  I've been really intrigued by page & photo a day/month/week/whatever you can do type projects so I have been making a whole slew of stuff for that.  I think I'm going to do some boy stuff next.  Anyway, here's the link & if you go to the Facebook page, you can get a coupon good at the Etsy store for 10%.  I can't believe they started doing that, it has been a big thing for me, I've wanted one for so long!!!

Anyway, here's the new stuff....
Bracket Tagz - Months

and you can get to the FB page on the right.

Thanks so much & have a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday!

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ATC Share

I’ve been busy this week getting new product created & ready to go up to the shop, also did some scrapping – made a cute little mini book for my dad, all 007 first year stuff.  Here’s an older project I’ve had done but not shared yet….

Finished size is 8.5x11, I used baseball card pockets for the interior pages.. It holds my growing collection of ATCs from swaps and such.  My Mind’s Eye paper, various stamps & chipboard letters, ribbon.  Prima flowers.  Bazzill Basics buttons.

TIA for looking!

Outside front cover

Inside front cover

Inside back cover

Outside back cover

Sketch Journal

I know it has been almost forever since I have shared anything.  Really trying hard to find a pace & rhythm that doesn’t stress everyone out, but I still get stuff done.  I guess that is a life-long process!

This is a little sketch journal that I altered back when I first started going though my separation, as a way to try and work through the issues I was feeling & facing.  It then just sort of morphed from there.  Not really going to share anything on the inside as that is a bit raw, but will show you the pretty outside.

Paper is Gen-X, rub-ons are Making Memories, Stamps are Stampin-up and ??, flower is from the Dollar Tree or someplace like that.  Cover is sealed with mod-podge.

  

 

Card Share

Hello all! Happy sunny Sunday (at least it is sunny here & it is beautiful – but COLD!)  Maybe these will help warm you up a bit!  All cardstock is Bazzill Designs, all patterned papers are Gin-X.  Loved her stuff, wish she would have stuck around.  Got to meet her once, very sweet, down-to-earth lady!

Just some punched scraps & a rectangle.  Perfect for adding a needed sentiment later.  And sanding, I love sanding!

Very cute, very simple.  Just some layered torrn paper, a flower & a brad.  Flower is Paper Studio, brad is Making Memories.

Just some left-over rectangles.  Flower is Jo-Anns, Brad is Making Memories.

Just good, ole paper here, lightly sanded.  Just add thought later.

Very simple, quick projects to do & what a way to use up left-over scraps from other projects.  I always do that.  And so I very seldomly have to buy a card.

Got some more product cooking for the shop, but took a break to do some scrapping and some organizing.