Coffee Colar Mini Album

Once again I am drawing on my work from the Gibbs 2 swap. The day 7 challenge was a coffee collar album. I found this Mocha Gourmet cookie mix an thought it would go well with the coffee themed album I chose to create. My partner knowing I didn't drink coffee made me a beautiful album and put different teas in it. Here is a link so you can check it out. http://www.cricut.com/messageboard/tm.aspx?m=5280360&mpage=849&key= Go to post 16975 for the coffee collar album, each of those folders of tea was in a pocket. Take a minute and check out all the other beautiful creations she made for me and also what the other crafters created. Everybody interpreted the challenge a bit different I choose to do a coffee themed little book. I thought the different collars were interesting and choose to leave the advertising art visible.

I included coffee trivia, history and recipes as well as a coffee sample that came in the mail...

I Gibbs 1 (I wasn't in that round) they were challenged to make a toilet paper roll album. What interesting thing can you think of to alter?

A Box for Their Items.....

Something that is traditional in the Gibbs swap, is a box to hold their items in. There is a lot of variety is the boxes that get sent, but, I wanted to make something Cammi would find helpful and since I know she makes a lot of cards I decided on a box for her cards. I found a commercially created card box at the thrift store, it was all light turquoise-y blues and since I knew Cammi already had some black and white storage in her scrap room I set out to transform this box into something that would fit into her decor.

I covered up all the blues with black and white paper that I bought at Tuesday Morning, it has a month theme. Then I created file folders she could use to file her cards I left them blank so that she could adapt them to her own system and I also included a birthday and special event perpetual calendar that she could keep track of important dates and names in.

I also used white lace and black ribbon to give it some finer details.

Altered Gift Card Tin

This has to be one of my favorites from the Gibbs 2 swap, my first altered tin, I like the way it turned out! I had alot of fun creating it. I will for sure be doing more in the future. Those are the first paper flowers I ever made too.

BOO!

This is my first attempt at a banner, it was also made for the Gibbs 2 swap on the Cricut message board. The swap consisted of a list of 25 ideas that you created something for each of the 25 plus you created a box for your partners items. The theme was set up to take you though out the year.

Cards

These are some of the cards I sent to Scrappin_RN as part of the Gibbs 2 swap. I like to add little details to the envelopes or to the inside of the card (or both) to make them a little more special.

I'm Learning Already!

Okay, I learned that the photos post in reverse to how you upload them!

This is a paperbag album I made for Gibbs 2, I used Mary Engelbriet paperbags.