Rise & Shine Journal

Shortly before my aunt passed away, I made her a special journal to record any last thoughts she might want to share with her family. I called this project the Rise & Shine Journal. It features cardstock and elements from Cosmo Cricket to transform an ordinary composition notebook into a special gift. It is featured on Glue Arts website as one of my design team projects. I fell in love with the wonderful colors in this collection. They were so bright and cheery! Check out some photos of the inside and outside covers...

Day 13 - Handmade Altered Ornament

This “Snowy Skies” Ornament was featured in the Dec. issue of Scrap Arts also in my 12 Tips to Make the Holidays Greener article. For this, I altered the plastic packaging from some brads I purchased. I filled the center with some snowy glitter, attached some snowflake brads from Eyeletoutlet.com to the background cardstock, and used Glue Art’s adhesive Ring to attach the embossed snowflakes to the top of the clear packaging. A frame of Mulberry Cardstock cut with Fiskars’ decorative edge scissors was added around the sides with some matching aqua wire and rhinestones to make this shaker ornament ready to hang!

So think a little greener this holiday season and give some consideration to altering or using some elements from some product packaging to create a fun gift or decor item.