January Swaps for Your Paper Pantry

  I got a bit ambitious for January, I joined a bunch of swaps.  All are completed and have arrived at the hostess destination except for the mini album that went to Australia.

   I joined the pocket for your thoughts,stick pin, mini album spring,mini album dessert recipe, tags,ATC.  I assure you I'm missing something on that list, but it was sure fun to participate.

  One of my favorites was the altered tag.  I cut the bird cage out with my Accucut Grand Marc machine from medium (recycled) chipboard which I covered in soft muted papers sprayed with home made glimmer mist.  I stamped the image and finished off the tag with a bird.  The theme was "winter", and I kept it simple, yet it came out so nicely.  I'm very proud of my work.

  Speaking of work, I stood on the scale this morning. Drum roll please.  As of this morning according to my personal scale, I've lost 30 pounds.  Yup, 30.  Now about 25/30 more pounds needs to leave before the wedding of Michael and Julie in June.

  We have a busy year upon us, and are very excited to have these many blessings given to us.

  Stamp happy be a blessing!