Altered book from The Sampler October

I altered a book a little different than I normally do for this month's The Sampler kit. I like to think of this as more of a big greeting card. This was actually really quick and fun. My nephews would tell me about books the library would give away. Riley started reading over the summer and I've collected quite a few hard covered books to experiment with. This little baby I actually folded all the pages in half. Once that was done it looked a little like this from the side.

I inked it a bit to add some color. Then measured the book cover slightly larger than the folded pages and cut them with a knife. I didn't cut it all the way through and then folded them back onto itself. I didn't feel like painting so I made a cover out of left over fabric.

As you can see I decorated both sides. And the tag that is under "Happy Day" is actually a gift card. So this makes a nice little decorate "card" of sorts to leave for your coworker on his/her birthday. And how about adding a cupcake in front of it with a flag made from the same paper? Oh that would definitely get the office buzzing about your creativity!

SEI Granny's Kitchen cupcake magnet

I made another magnet for SEI's challenge. I decided since the line was called Granny's Kitchen I would make a cupcake. I used the Pazzles to cut the cupcake. Two layers of Diamond Glaze on top of the "cherry." The calendar was done digitally. I added Stickles and Distress Ink. The chipboard is Maya Road and for that I used Broken China Distress Ink and then added Interference Blue UTEE. The small clip is most likely Making Memories.

Scrap time

This weekend outside of making other Amy Butler bag patterns, I did some late night (is 3am considered late or early morning?) scrapping. Another LSS bites the dust after 6 months of ownership so I went to buy the newest inventory at 60% off. The owner bought the store from another woman who kept the name, kit club. . . blah blah blah. So she was left with inventory that was 6 years old. So I went in and bought the newest My Mind's Eye collections from the summer CHA release. Now that I need to clear up some clutter, I used up some scraps. Here's a few layouts that came about. I used Basic Grey and Tinkering Ink. It's really hard to see in the photograph of the first layout the Prima pearl accents with the patterned paper. I also used a water distressing technique on this layout. Really liked how it turned out.