It's a girl!

Card for one of the girls at hub's physical therapy.

Stanley Alphabet from Kerri Bradford Studios. 

Birthday Vibes

Card for my niece. I think she'll like it. Happy birthday, Ali. 

Heidi Swapp 10 Day Tag Challenge, Day 1

Finally, here is my day 1 challenge tag for the challenge. I had set that one aside as I was waiting for product, but after checking the entire lesson, I decided I didn't need that one thing and finished my tag with what I have. Was able to sub that one thing and it turned out great anyway. I love it. 

Distress oxide ink colors used; Crushed Olive, Kitsch Flamingo, Heidi Swapp DIY color, Pinkity

Gotta have mini tags on a jumbo tag, right? Cute. 

Super cute little faux clipboard! I only wish I had used a little darker ink so the numbers showed up better, but that's ok. I think it's still adorable. 

Vintage travel tags

In Day 8 of the tag challenge, I made a few tags in vintage style for my project and fell in love with them. At the moment, I'm still waiting for supplies that I need to finish the first and last lessons of the 10 Day Tag Challenge, so I decided to make a few more of the vintage travel tags while I (impatiently) wait. 

First, I did a search for vintage airline tags and saved several pages of designs. Next, I went through the images and chose a few that I felt I could most closely replicate with the stamps I have in my stash. I die cut some tags that were closest to the images, then I got to work finding the stamp sets, choosing ink colors and getting the supplies together. 

Once I completed my tags, I 'roughed them up a bit' to give them a well-worn look. I really like how they turned out! How do you think I did?! I hope I have inspired you to try something similar! 

these with the black background are the images I copied. 

Heidi Swapp 10 Day Tag Challenge, Day 9

Hello and welcome to day 9 of Heidi's 10 day challenge class. If you haven't signed up and are regretting it, you can still purchase the class on her website and play along at your leisure! Once you buy the class, it's yours for as many times as you want to play. :) For example, I have yet to complete day 1 of the challenge as I am waiting for an order with items I want to use for that lesson. Hopefully, they'll be here very soon. I'm getting anxious! 

So on now to Day 9, tag challenge. Our challenge today was to create a tag using scraps and leftovers. With 8 days behind us, we have lots of those. I had fun deciding which pieces to use and then what to make from those pieces and finally designing my tag using them. I found myself unable to stop, as you can see by my busy tag -eek- but I do like the final result. 

I won't even attempt to count how many stamp sets I used LOL but suffice to say, the only one that is not a Heidi Swapp stamp is the Eiffel Tower, which is from the Tim Holtz, Stamper's Anonymous Mini Classics stamp set. 

I used some of Heidi's interactive die sets as well as stamps for lots of journaling opportunities. This tag is what Heidi calls "openable" so you can close the tag. At first glance, you're probably wondering where the heck I would have any place for it....

...but the clipboard as well as the tag below, are interactive and have plenty of space for adding personal messages.