Journey.

I'm making a mini album for our New York trip. Here's a sneak peek!

The cover!

Smash.

I've recently found smash books. I love them. They are genius! I made one to hold a bunch of random stuff I haven't had the heart to throw away.

Like my Tim Holtz postcard and signature? What else would I do with it?

Cards from dear, dear friends with sentiments that make me tear up.

A lot of times when I want to craft I just want to try a technique out. I use tags a lot in my experiments

Another experiment.

Erin sent me some epic comics once.

Birthday cards from my mother. Treasured.

A lot of the pages I put in there because they're awesome looking. So awesome I've avoided using the papers in any other projects because they weren't "special" enough. Please tell me I'm not the only one that does this!

I also made a bunch of extra things that I can write stories/journaling for future additions.

I keep playing with this book when I go in there to work on something else specific. I get distracted so easily!

Mini.

I am creating a mini album for our New York trip this summer. I'm using grungeboard and I am having a ton of fun. Here are a few pages I altered:

embossed!

This is a piece of grungeboard I'll be adding to one of the pages:

I'll have finished pictures SOON, hopefully!

So.Thankful.

I made this card a long time ago for the Moxie Fab World texture challenge. I didn't submit it because the only thing texture-related was the tulle and it definitely isn't innovative. I like the card a lot though, and I wanted to share it! 

Cards.

I wanted to do something with all the cards Adam and I received at our wedding. Some of them had a great sentiment written inside, some cards I just really liked, and others I just wanted to keep to remind us of who came. 

Front

Back

 I took two chipboard pieces and adhered different sizes of scraps I had left over. Nothing fancy, just something to keep them all together nicely.

Crystals.

I thought I promised to keep update on the blog. Oops. Erin came to town last Thursday and we've been busy with Halloween stuff! And prior to that I was having fun with the Halloween decorations. Now that Halloween is over, I have a job. *major sad face*

Several weeks ago I finally got to a page for my wedding album that I have avoided for months. I had a specific idea of what I wanted to do but nothing was looking good. I'm still not done with the layout, but I had a lot of fun creating my own crystal flourish on the flanking page and I wanted to share.

I love the look of Say It In Crystals by Prima Marketing, but I'm not a fan of the price tag. I found a ton of crystals on sale at Hobby Lobby by The Paper Studio and I decided to make a custom flourish!

Party.

The Halloween party turned out awesome!! The decorations, beetlejuice drink and gross food was a big hit!

Food!

Eyeballs (white chocolate covered oreos with gummy life savers)

Fur of Werewolf (floral moss) and Snakes (rubber, from Wal Mart)

Earthworms (Jello)

Bottled Swamp Fog (white tulle)

Zombie Apocalypse (yellow Betty Crocker cake mix and Pillsbury cream cheese frosting w/ green dye) 

Baby Dragon Scales (chips)

Vampire Fangs (fake teeth) and Life Renewal Potion (fake blood)

Vampire Blood (Beetlejuice) with hand (water in latex glove, frozen)

Dead Man's Fat (my special 6-layer bean dip) and Moon Dust (sand)

Mummified Mammoth Centipedes (chocolate covered pretzels)

Human Flesh

Poison (Hi-Lighter in hot water)

Poison - Ethylene Glycol (homemade lava lamp - oil and water, drop in alka seltzer)

Ghost lights!

Erin and Jerrod

Playing Dominion

We had Jerrod bring over his TV and Xbox so they could play Call of Duty

Air Bear making nomnoms