Altered Tin by Me

This is a altered Tin that I made for a altered tin swap that I am in. I am mailing it out today. I sorta hate to part with it because it is the first one that I have made. Hope that Holly likes it.

Altered Tin Swap

Here is the altered tin that i received yesterday from Honey. It is beautiful! I never really thought to make a Christmas tree ornament out of the Tin. I have been thinking about what I want the one I make to be. I need to get it mailed out before December 8th. Here are a couple photos of Honey's tin.

Recent Layouts

Below are photos taken at church during our wednesday night class.

Tobacco field in front of my house.

below are just pictures taken around the yard at home.

below are photos taken of my uncle and cousins' farm and them planting tobacco in front of our house this past summer.

below are photo taken when me and james went to a plant nursery open house on mothers day weekend. They had a fabulous garden that you could tour.

LFB pages for the PAO NC-Retreat

I'm going to a Paper crafting retreat on October in Sanford NC. It will be about 20 freinds from PAO. http://www.paperartistonline.com/

Here is a sample of my LFB pages that I am doing for a swap. The theme is October (anything goes). I didn't want to do Fall leaves or Halloween like I think everybody else will be doing. So I just created a LFB with fall/winter colored background. Hope everybody likes it.

New stamps

this is a image from the website that I bought these stamps from . I have all the stamps to create this same image. I am a little( okay a lot intimidated by this scene. I want to create the same shading at the floor and in this photo. I guess that I start with the floor shading then stamp the pot and flowers. then the rocking chair and last the pillows. Or maybe I stamp them all and color in the stamped images after all is stamped b/c the flowers would show through the chair arm.

Cheryl M. if you are reading this, please advise.

The website is http://www.artimpressions.com/Product.asp?Sku=M1958

more deck of cards

Theme was ocean
Q of hearts
week 3

TH Easter Tag

Here is my version of the Tim Holtz easter tag.

Love that Grundeboard!

Inchies Collection

This is how I decided to display the inchies that I made and received in a couple different swaps.

This is a 12 x 12 frame that will hang on the wall in my scrapping room for inspiration.

Trinity is coming home today

Trinity is coming home today. She has been a Duke Hospital since last Wednesday. She had her in line tubes put back in and did her first series of Chemo, which was three day. Monday she was going to have some of her stem cells replaced and then she should be coming home today. That should be all the chemo for April. Only three months of chemo series left to go.



Trinity, you are such a brave, strong girl. I could never be as brave and strong as you. I love you, Aunt Hope.


















Trinity showing her scrapbook to her class mates at LMES. She made this scrapbook with her Duke teacher while she was getting Radiation treatments.

Favorite Color ATC swap

Here is my favorite color atc for the PAO swap. My color was sorta a burnt orange, it's not really my favorite color but it is nice. You could do anything as long as it was in your favorite color. I did monochromatic torn strips of card stock with a glossy accent covered stamps flower on top.

here are the others that I received in the swap.

"It's Spring" letters ATC swap

I played in a ATC swap on the PAO group site. I had the letter "I" for insect. Each person had one letter in the words "It's Spring".

Here is the ATC that I made.

Deck of Cards ATC's March '09

I am playing in a challenge on the PAO site that uses a deck of cards to create themed ATC's each week. I will start having one thread per month with the cards that I created during that month.

Week 1-
2 hearts -theme is Childhood

Week 2-
Ace Spades- theme is using the colors Red, Purple and Black

Beautiful Picture

I did not take this beautiful photo, it was taken on March 5, 2009, by someone that works with me. This is a tree that is in front of the building that I work in.

Love this powerful quote! thanks Kesha

Live as though Christ died yesterday,
rose from the grave today,
and is coming back tomorrow.

Round Robin Winter ATC swap

I have been playing in a round robin Winter ATC swap on the PAO board. I played on three teams.


Team #8 --I created the background and then the focal image and the embellishments were done but two other people. Team players were Hope, Holly and Luanne.















Team #10 --I created the focal image for this ATC. The background and the embellishments were done by others. The team members are Lanita, Hope and LynnL.

Team #14-- I did the final embellishments for this ATC. the background and the focal image was created by other players. The team members are Julie F, Gwen and Hope.

recent swaps

these are inchies that I made for a recent swap for the PAO group.

these are a few of the Little Fat Book(LFB) pages that I have made for recent swaps.

This is for a Spring LFB swap hosted by Pam C.

This is for a quilt square LFB swap.

This is a Pet Swap that I played in. For this swap you had to include a photo of your pet on the LFB.