Letters to Santa Mailbox

Hi there everyone! I just thought I'd pop in today to show you my latest project. I made this little mailbox for my craft store. I got the mailbox in the unfinished wood section of HL. It was on sale for $1.50! I thought it would look really cute sitting on someone's hearth or something.

I'm opening my own craft booth!

I was so excited I had to share this with you all! Someone is opening up an indoor "flea market" of sorts in my town. It is going to be for antiques and handmade crafts! It's called Trends & Treasures. I have rented out the smallest booth they have. It is tiny. But it'll get me started. I have always wanted to do this and I'm finally taking steps towards doing it. The hard part is getting together all of my creations and organizing everything so it can be priced and put in the booth.

So I just wanted to share with you the banner that I made to go in my booth. I wanted to use my blog title as the name of my booth, but I do so much more than just scrapbooking, so I was afraid that would confuse people.

I'll try to keep you posted on how my sales are going and such. But before I go, I wanted to give a shout out to Kerry's Paper Crafts for all the great tips on selling your handmade crafts. I just stumbled across her blog the other day and she has all kinds of great tips and tutorials on her blog for how to make all kinds of neat things. She also has photos and information about how she does her craft booth at the craft shows that she attends. So if you have time, go see all the wonderful things she has to share!

A Cool Yule! -- Lindsay Stamp Stuff

This week I decided to go cool! I am in the Christmas spirit! It's amazing how fast it comes around every year! This too-cool-for-school penguin is part of Lindsay's digital stamp release for this week! She's got freebies on her blog, so don't forget to stop by! The background paper is an old Lindsay freebie. You can snag it here. If you haven't noticed (because it doesn't show up well in my photo), the sentiment and digi stamp are both set on top of Lindsay's new faux embossed mats. The thing that I love about Lindsay's stamps is that they come in both jpeg and png format. So all I had to do was layer them on top of one another and print!

Also check out the other DT members for a Tutorial on Digi Stamping Candles!

I used this week's sketch from Mojo Monday.

Now for your Thursday freebie!

Thank You SVG

The Guys -- Marine Corps Scrapbook

It's 11:30pm my time and I've finally completed my last layout of the day. I am so tired my eyes are filling with sand as I type. Anyways, yet another fabulous sketch from Crafts by Rowena. Not much to say about this one. I love the paper. It was from a paper pack that someone gave me for christmas last year and I love every piece!

Devil Dogs -- Marine Corps Scrapbook

I'm on a roll! I am totally in the mood to scrap! These pictures are some of my favorite pics! I love the pic of Michael and Joe sitting together. They were barracks roommates and this was the first time I met Joe. They participated in a wheelbarrow race together. It was pretty comical! Once again I used a sketch from Crafts by Rowena.

Packing Up --- Marine Corps Scrapbook

Well I'm slowly but surely making progress on my husband's scrapbook. I am loving doing these "manly" pages. I usually don't get to do things that are rustic and earth tone like this. I had this barbed wire svg from a long time ago. I can't remember where I got it from, I apologize. If anyone knows where, please leave me a comment. I forgot all about it and I was looking for a border and then boom there it was! It was perfect for this page! The font in the title is called Bosshole (weird name..haha). The little marine man in the corner is a sticker. I've been compiling military stickers and scrapbook supplies for quite a while now in anticipation of doing this scrapbook. I'm so glad I did, b/c I would hate to have gotten started on all of this and find out I'm unprepared because all I have to work with are flowers...hahaha.


Once again I used a sketch from Crafts by Rowena. This is an old one from a few months back. I just altered the photo arrangement a bit.

The Crew --- Marine Corps Scrapbook

Here is another page for my husband's Marine Corps scrapbook. I've been trying to sneak around and do it when he's busy doing something else or not here. It's hard to be a sneaky scrapbooker. I'm used to leaving everything on the table and coming back to it whenever I want to finish it, but I can't do that now! Argh!


This page was done with sketch #43 from 52 sketches, 52 weeks. I usually participate every week with them, but I'm a little behind. I haven't done it in a few weeks. The letters that I used for the title were using a font called: "Too Much Paper". I love that font. I make faux chipboard letters by printing the letters out 4 times each (would've done 5 usually, but ran out of that color cardstock). Then I glued them one on top of another. I distressed them with Tim Holtz "brushed corduroy" inks.