T Stands for Trail Dogs

 ¹⁰ Create in me a clean heart, O God;

and renew a right spirit within me.
¹¹ Cast me not away from thy presence;
and take not thy holy spirit from me.
¹² Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation;
and uphold me with thy free spirit.
¹³ Then will I teach transgressors thy ways;
and sinners shall be converted unto thee. Psalms 51:10-13 KJV

Good evening!  How is everyone, this week, so far?  It is cooler, only 80s today here, so I got in a great walk today!  So nice.  I hope it stays this way for a while.  I have had some wonderful walks in the cool mornings.  Met some great doggies, too.  I usually ask the owners is I can take the dog's photo, and ask the name, and breed.  I see some of these same dogs every day, when I walk.

Love these!  Doodles meeting up on the trail! I got their photo but forgot to get the white one's name.  The other two, I have met before and they are Bruno & Schmoo, I think.

Next we have Norwich terriers: Mom & Daughter.  The darker one is daughter Mia.

The lighter one is mother, Rosie.

And this is my favorite.  She is so pretty: Birdie is a Sheepadoodle.

And we have Fall signs on the trail.  This is a permanent sign, but they added a temporary sign with pumpkin patch on it.

And for crafting today I am showing scrap pages of 2013 photos that I just found on my computer.  Also working on another 2013 spread.  I have entered them in the Art*Journal*Journey this month for Neet's Fur or Feathers theme.

I used SU! Four Feathers Stamp & die set.  The stamped image right on the layout is Fun Stampers Journey.  I stamped feather on a special cream paper and used hot gun to make the little Shrink Art charm.  All the papers are from stash! (of which I have a lot!) Oh, and the other multi color feathers are stickers from my stash!   This is the right page of the 2-page 12x12 spread.  The title is from a stash of  words on vellum. 

 On this page I used alpha stickers for the title, more feather stickers, and more (SU! Four Feather set) feathers stamped and dye cut. I also used more paper, and scraps from my extensive stash collection.

I always get to this point and realize TSFT is all about the beverage and I don't have a reference ready! LOL So I will share a card I made for the Dare To Get Dirty Challenges this year.  Hopefully, I haven't already shown you. 

This was made with an embossed panel, tea die cuts, & I recycled a teabag & tag.  So, pretend with me that we are having tea together on this TSFT.   Check out the other TSFT participants over at Altered Book Lover.  Bleubeard & Elizabeth are our hosts every Tuesday and we post a beverage reference and visit each other and have a great time.  Thank you for stopping by.  See you next time.  Thank you for all your kind comments.

T Stands For What Happened to May?

 "Let my mouth be filled with thy praise and with thy honor all the day." Ps. 71:8

What happened to May?

I have been busy this month, but not so much crafting.  I thought I would post the Junk Journal I made before May got exciting,  for JulieDearJulie May Challenge to make a kit.  We were challenged to make up a kit, like we would be taking it with us and crafting on the go.  We could have a binding kit, free items:  adhesives, scissors, paper cutter, paper punch, and an ink pad, two tools, & choose a Julie Digital, a paper pad, 14 items or packages of items, & 14 embellishments.  Then we had 14 element challenges.

So, here is my kit: 

The digital I chose, some printed on vellum, leger paper, cardstock & copy paper

My paper pad in my stash forever!  8x 11"

The book I took apart is one of my 14 items.  I used pages for some of my papers and the cover for my cover.

I removed some of the pages from the stitching so I could put them in my book, whole.

some other of my 14 items, 1.  fabric doilies, 2. package of stencils, 3. bling from $ tree, 4. paper doilies, 5. lace , 6. fabric, 7. TH ephemera, 8. $ tree stickers,  9. cross stickers, 10. trim bundle. 11. my book above

two tools: punch board with corner rounder and envelope maker & flower punch

my scissors,  hole punch, adhesives, paper cutter, & my choice of ink

binding kit, needles, thread, graph paper, paper clips (then we could use paper clips in our book for altered paperclips).

last three items of 14: stickers, blending tool, butterfly punch

14 embellishments: bulb pins, charm, paper clip, pockets, frame, antique stationary, die cut cross, die cut word, brads, flowers.  

Here is my finished Journal with the 14 elements included; tags, pockets, flips, border tucks, etc.  Although, I thought I didn't have enough items being restricted to just these items, in the end, I had a difficult time using everything.

I just did one signature for a total of 60 pages: 15 2 page spreads back and front.

Some favorite pages:

Fabric flip with paper stack under for journaling on left side & Right side is card on flip, when open you see the cross in a frame, and there is journaling space.  Photo of under is below a couple of photos.

pockets in center of signature :  Each side has fancy fold with 3 pockets for lots of places to keep tags, or little journaling booklets.

This is what is under the girl a few photos up.  I couldn't get it in the right place. 
When you open it, there is the journaling stack and the cross.

pages showing how I sponged all the pages with ink and did stenciling.  A Belly band on left, one of our challenge elements and one of out tags we were to make.

another page showing how I used the journal pages  Gives me journaling room.

digital printed on vellum opposite one of my journal pages from the book I used.  I covered 2017 and dates with stickers, and paper strips.

digital printed on vellum

showing pocket with tri page wallet

showing altered paperclip and page with lace edging.

I know it looks like I shared the whole book, but honestly, just a few pages.  😀  I have become addicted to making these Junk Journals, and am already looking forward to June's challenge.  We will find out the details tomorrow on Dearjuliejulie Junk Journal Everyday on You Tube.  Come join us! 

I think I will join Bleubeard & Elizabeth over at Altered Book Lover for T Stands For Tuesday, where we get together, share a drink in our post and share what we are doing.

Here is my ticket to the Tea party.  I may have shared this already; it is a card I made in January. 

  We have had an exciting month  here.  My husband, bless his heart, fell on his birthday, and broke his hip and had to have emergency hip replacement surgery.  Thankfully, that is all that was wrong, no heart attack or stroke.  And he has been recovering quite nicely.  He doesn't complain or whine, like I am sure I would! LOL 

Thanks for stopping by!  

T Stands for Tuesday & Teapots, too!

Rejoice in the
Lord alway:
and again I say,
Rejoice.
Phil 4:4


Hello T Gang!  I am back with another Teapot!  If you have visited before, you know that I want to document my teapots, before I downsize my collection. So, here is another one.

A former neighbor bought this for me at an auction about 30 years ago.  Isn't it just too cute?

I made a paper craft teapot for a centerpiece from a Pinterest pattern for our Virtual Tea Party!

Virtual Tea Party in 2012

 A group of us on SplitcoastStampers website had a virtual tea party.  We took photos and posted in our chat forum.  We also sent each other little gifts we made.  It was really fun.  I didn't think of taking a photo of my little teabag pouch someone crocheted for me.  I carry it in my purse with a couple of teabags.  Pretty nice gift.  Sorry,  I can't remember the recipe, but it was pumpkin bread with raspberry cream cheese, or something like that.  That was a recipe off of  Pinterest, also.  The Virtual Tea Party was really fun.

I hope you enjoyed my virtual tea party. 

Must show you some tea art, also!

I recycled and stamped  on a teabag again for two challenges on SplitcoastStampers over the week-end. One challenge  was to recycle something on your card, and the other was to use something on your card that you might put in your compost.  Some would put coffee grounds on the pile,  but since I am a tea drinker, it would be tea grounds.  I used a 3-D Sizzix embossing folder.  I stamped with, wait for it, Tea Dye Distress ink!  I also did some distressing with it on the embossing folder.  I used a fancy tag die from Spellbinders, and added some Dazzles. The tea names and tea cups images are from Mrs. O'Leary's Artful Illusions.  The sentiment is from SU! Tea Shoppe. 

Thanks for stopping by for T Stands for Tuesday!  Hop over to Altered Book Lover see Elizabeth and Bluebeard who are our hosts for T Stands for Tuesday!  Have a wonderful week!

Tuesday Post #2 & Tea for Two

Ps. 90:12 "So teach us to number our days,
that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom."

Happy T Stands for Tuesday! I am linking up with Altered Book Lover for our T Party.  I want to say thank you to the T gang  for the wonderful warm welcome last week!  I was overwhelmed with the wonderful response!  It will be so fun to get to know all of you.  As I said last week I will be documenting my tea pot and tea cup collection on Tuesdays.  It just seems like a good fit. I just hope you don't get tired looking at teapots!   Monday I met two of my close friends at Panera, for tea.   I made up pretty Valentine sacks and cards for them.  Guess what was in the sacks?  I gave them each a musical teapot. They both play "Tea for Two".  They loved them!  Here are photos of each teapot I gave away.

I wanted to show both sides, because each side was different.

And my Panera drink:

And a card for you.

Tea bag art

Thank you for stopping by!  I am definitely look forward to going to your T Party this week!

Enjoy the rest of your week!