Altered Tags for 2 friends

I love working with tags, though I don't do it enough! I really should do it more, because I've come up with some really cute designs.

I recently made 2 tags for 2 friends. One friend had just lost her dad and another had just lost her brother.

Here are the 2 tags I made. Same design layout, but different colors on the coloring of the flower and the ribbon stuff.

This tag is for our friend D. She isn't really into girly things so I went with some pretty neutral colors.
I started out by stamping the flower in SU! Tempting turquoise, I then used my prismacolored pencils and colored the flower yellow. I did some shading with orange.

I fussy cut the flower out and added it to the tag with some 3d foam pop dots.

I used 2 different ribbon and 2 different fuzzy ribbons. I love they all look together!

 I made some little flags and attached them with 3 staples. I've started to love using staples as a great embellishment.

This is what the back looks like...I added notes that I hand wrote to each of the Ladies. I attached them with a paper clip that I dyed with my Ranger alcohol inks.

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Here is the card that I made for my Ladybug G. She is quite a bit more girly than D., so I made her with some different and girly colors.

For this one I used teal and pink for the flower that I colored, as well as for the ribbon.

I used more teal and pink with a splash of yellow for the tag

again, added a note with a paper clip that I dyed.

Well, that's my 2 altered tags. I think they came out very lovely. :)
Come back soon to check out more of my projects.

Keep on Craftin'
~Melisa Marie

2 Missed Cards--Holy Crap! (pun intended!)

wow, I can not believe I forgot to post these 2 cards!!
Hubby and I celebrated our 8 year wedding anniversary this past March 18, 2014. WOOO HOOOO. We've been together 18 long years!! 

Every year I try and come up with a better card or item to make him, than the previous year, and he said this year, I came up with the BEST card ever, and he doesn't know how I'll ever top it!! CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT???? he said it's the BEST CARD EVER!!!!

Here's a sneak peek, click below to see the full card, I promise you don't wanna miss it, it's super!!

A couple handmade items for swaps (4 THINGS!)

We have a "handmade surprise" swap in one of my groups. We had to make 2 handmade surprise items for our partner. I've participated in all the swaps so far, and I have had so much fun. For this swap I decided to go with a magnet theme. :)
I made 2 different sets; a 4 piece set with my Stampin' Up! Four Frames stamp set, and then I made bottle cap mini pie magnets, set of 4. Of course, for each ones I made, I made more than 4, but I'm only giving 4 to my partner.

THIS POST IS PICTURE HEAVY!

I've included the pics of the additional items I made to include with my swap.

First, here's my swap items. :)

Together Always-Anniversary Tag for Hubby

On the 18th of this month, Hubby and I celebrated our 7th 'wedding' anniversary and I wanted to make him something nice, but not a traditional card. Though we've been together for almost 16 years, we didn't get married until 2006.
Initially, I didn't want to make a traditional card, but then I changed my mind and started working on a card. But then, I changed my mind again. LOL Kinda like how I changed my mind about my wedding dress 2 times!! So, I ended up doing a tag. This is actually a double sided tag, but I was kinda upset that I couldn't figure out a way to incorporate a place for me to write something. so, I had to write a separate letter and include it with the tag.

anyhow, here is the first side of the tag, click below to see the rest of the pics. :) Thanks for looking! (click any pic to make it bigger for detail)

Christmas Crafts Galore!!

WHEWW it has been a BUSY week and weekend!! in 2 days, I've created 22, yes, you read that right, 22 different themed cards! I had to get everything done for my secret santa swap! but this post isn't about those cards yet! I'll get to that later this week or this weekend.... I have my back surgery in the morning, and I'm SO very nervous, to the point to where I'm physically ill from my nerves. My klonopin is definitely NOT helping my nerves, nor is my valium. So, while I couldn't sleep I figured this was as good a time as any to do an update on a few of the "Christmas" crafts I completed mid last week. I had a few things I had to do for "swaps" in my craft group and i had SO much fun doing them!!!!

I'm not going to post all of the supplies I listed right now, I'll update the post later with that info. For now, just pics and a little info.
So there are 3 ATC's that I did, though I'm only really pleased with 2 of them. LOL Hey, we are always our own worst critic!

Interactive Red Hatter Paper Bag Album!

So, one album that received a lot of attention at last years craft fair was my red hat album. My mom said after it sold, many people were asking if I did custom albums or could make more. So, I decided to make another red hat album for this upcoming craft fair. I hope that it sells and that the red hatters in this area spread the word to their sisters that I can make custom albums.

I hope that you enjoy looking at my pics, and keep in mind, I do fulfill custom orders! :)