A Coffee Sleeve Mini

Hello everyone I recently was in another swap on Mini Album Scraps (MAS)....the challenge was to make a Garden theme coffee sleeve or coin pocket mini I decided to do the coffee sleeves. Well it took me forever to get a coffee sleeve cause no one had any except for the Starbucks......I had to buy something though.....smile  but that's ok...... because what I did was make a coffee sleeve template on my Gypsy!(have I ever told you how much I love my Gypsy! I love my Gypsy....) This way I could make them any size I wanted to and of course I just had to made them a little bigger than the one from Starbucks! (how else was I going to fit all the stuff that I wanted put on the pages of the mini....the ones from Starbucks were just too tiny).......Well I started with the cover and this is not a actually sleeve but it's cut in the shape of a coffee sleeve....the hummingbird  you see below is colored with my copics and then I added glossy accents over that but  wait right before the glossy accents completely dried I added fine glitter...the flowers throughout the mini are either altered or made and if you look at the post before this one you can see how to make those...I had a ball making this mini even though it's my first coffee sleeve mini.....I hope my partner likes it as  much as I did having fun creating it and as always happy crafting Suzy-Q

Another Swap!

Hello everybody I hope that everyone had a great 4th of July.... I entered another swap this time it's for stickpins........theme was fireworks I immediately thought of red, white and blue... and that is when the fun started here are some of the materials I used. Glossy accents, Stick pins from Joann's floral section and beads that I have picked up along the way from different places.....wanted  to display the stickpins using a tag so I used this program wordle.net to make a word cloud and it so much fun, you just find a group of words to input into the box hit the create tab and there you have it a word cloud. What's a tag without a flower and I found the prefect ribbon at Hobby Lobby to make a few it also helped to anchor the stickpins! TFL and as always Happy Crafting!

Flowers! Flowers! and more Flowers!

I joined a swap over on minialbumscraps.ning.com to swap handmade flowers. I really enjoyed making these flowers....a lot of the supplies came from Hobby Lobby and Tuesday Morning.  Cloth flowers a my favorite ones to make and  most of these are made out of ribbon and trim that I found in the fabric section...and they are so easy to make. I really wanted to step up my game and make them a little more dimensional than I did the last time so this time I added liquid pearls, stickles, and buttons that I got from various places some are even from swaps..love swapping with fellow crafters. If you have any questions please leave a message and 

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As always Happy Crafting! 

TFL Suzy-Q

My first Card Swap

I have recently completed a card swap and it was very challenging but I was happy on how the cards  turned out I used a stamp that I had found at Michael's and the cardstock came from HL and Michaels the sentiment I typed and printed on the computer. I also used a die cut from spellbinders that I really like...TFL