A LO and some finished 365

Happy Sunday everyone...woke up this morning to snow. Ugh! Last night it was pouring rain and in the 30's. It was in the 70's two weeks ago, what happened here? Anyway, worked on this LO last night and today...this is a 9x9 size, which is fun to work with. It was supposed to be something simple but turned out much different than I had planned. I love, love my 9x9 Making Memories for Archivers Noteworthy papers. It came in a 20 pack and I've used almost all of it already.

Used the Slice to make the letters and then I inked them with my Hero Arts woodgrain stamp. The ribbon was knotted for interest and the tags were made with an ol' fashioned Sizzix die. The vellum was put through the Cuttlebug and the large butterfly was heat embossed on vellum with Halographic Powder and then cut out. I'm pretty happy with how this turned out...thinking about changing the tag string to a different color. ETA: I'm gonna change that string to a natural jute color...the black just doesn't work.

ETA 2(LOL): Just a few minutes ago, I cut off the black string and used some tulle instead...looks 100% better. Agree? Just took this quick pic above...its dark down here in the basement at 10:00 PM! Pic isn't great but you get the idea...

Supplies Used:

Patterned Papers, Ribbon: Making Memories

Vellum & Gems: Michaels

Die Cuts: Slice and Sizzix

Punch: Martha Stewart & EK Success

Stamps: Hero Arts

Embossing Plate: Cuttlebug

Ink: Stampin Up and Versamark

Embossing Powder & Stickles: Ranger

Took some quick pics of my 365 album...sorry some of these have glare on the pics. I'm not gonna mess around with editing these...you get the idea.

You may notice that some of my pics are sideways...like 3 of them. For some reason I didn't even realize this until I was putting them in the album. I'll have to reprint those and I'm going to retake the pic of my students. Its so underexposed...doesn't look right. I feel like I'm constantly making excuses in this post, right?

Really enjoying using one b/w photo every week to add a little something different. The kit also comes with 50 or so trifold cards...gonna use those for extra pics and to add journaling of the funny things my kids say, which is ALL the time.

One thing I'm also doing is keeping a small box with necessary supplies to work on this in my family room next to the album...that way I can easily work on the journaling daily and keep up with the album. Have a great week everyone.