Flip book for a friend

A friend of mine has been having some rough days, so I made her a flip book to cheer her up:

 I chose some bright colored pieces from my Hello Baby 12x12 paper pack I got at Hobby Lobby. I attached the pages together with some cupcake washi. These animals on the front are from a folder that I got from BAM. I have no idea where I got the letters. It says "Sending you happy thoughts"

 When you flip this open:

 

Close-up of the left page:

 This background piece was sent to me in a swap. I added pink sequins and tiny bling to it so it wasn't so flat.
Close-up of right page:

The letters are sparkly. The remember is a sticker. I got the quote in a swap. I cut the hot air balloons out of another paper and affixed them with foam tape. There is gold foiled heart washi on the bottom and an arrow sticker.

When you flip this one to the right:

 close-ups of middle page:

 I made a waterfall of project life cards, using gold foiled diamond washi tape to hold them down.

 I added some pink glitter tape to cover up what I didn't like on the back with a cute sticker from a Finding Dory sticker book and some flat back pearls.

 This was from a cut apart someone sent me, it says "She our lives with sunshine and our hearts with love" I covered up the she with a sticker that said "you" and added some sun stickers to the corners.

 I should have flipped the dog sticker around, I also added stickers saying "You are loved"

 I also should have stamped the fish the other way.

 And I should have put something on the back of the top card. I wrote "don't forget" on the top of the bottom card.
Close-up of right page:

I had another project life card that said "Take a deep breath" and had a cup of coffee on it, but it was my last one, so I just spelled the quote out with alpha stickers, and put a coffee cup and a box of donuts underneath it. I also added the words "tomorrow will be kinder", that's from a song. I also added some monster washi to the bottom because "monsters make me smile :) "
The back just had a note attached to it.
I hope she liked it, I had a lot of fun making it for her. I also hope it helped brighten her day.

Handmade Embellishments

I signed up for a swap on one of my facebook groups where we had to make 5 handmade animal embellishments. I had two partners so I made 10.
Here's what I made:

 A few paperclips, some banners, some tiny rosettes and a leaf.
Here's what I received from one of my partners:

 I love those tags and the rosettes are great.
Here's what I got from my other partner:

These are so fun and cute!

Pocket Letter

I made a pocket letter for Karlene, one of the channels I watch on YouTube. She said she liked rainbows, pink, unicorns, butterflies, Pokemon. I tried to incorporate a lot of that into the pocket letter.

 This one is a lot flatter than I usually do. I took some cloud paper and watercolored a rainbow onto it. I added this butterfly paper tape to the side. Mostly everything is stickerse from my stash. I added the 'be awesome' words from a journaling card. The butterfly in the second row is actually layered with a piece in the plastic sleeve and a piece on top of it.
The keychain on the side, I just thought she'd like
Here's the goodies:

I wrote my letter on the back of the 'you rock' journaling card. I tried to add stickers from what I had used on the front. I also tucked in some Hello Kitty stickers because she said she liked those, as well as Lisa Frank stickers, some washi samples and cute panda stickers.

Halloween Flipbook

For some reason I really wanted to make a Halloween flip book. I think part of it was because I found a pack of 6 (maybe) felt jack-o-lanterns at Target for $1. So, I did a private trade with someone on one of my FB groups. I'm still waiting to receive mine, but here's what I sent her.

 The backgrounds are from a 6x6 paper pad I picked up at Hobby Lobby. I used the silver foil spiderweb washi from Target for $1. The "boo" foam sticker was from a swap. The gem tape at the bottom was from Target for $1.
When you flip this to the left:

 Close-up of left side:

 I had a hard time with this page and still feel like it's missing something. The "boo" foam sticker was from a swap. The 'smiley' faces were from Walmart on clearance. The October 31 chipboard sticker was from a kit I got at a garage sale. The pumpkin sticker is from the Dollar Tree. The "Happy Halloween" is from an all seasons 12x12 paper pack I got at Hobby Lobby.
Close-up of right page:

 I had this cute Tim Holtz ephemera that had this quote on it, so I just tried to illustrate it. It says "Halloween Greetings Screeching owls and flying bats Fighting spirit in black cats, Will make a spooky Hallowe'en With lurking witches and ghosts unseen" The background paper has flying bats. The owl is from the same Tim Holtz Halloween ephemera pack, it's layered on a skull cupcake liner that I got in a swap. The cat is a sticker from Hobby Lobby. I stamped a ghost in the background. I have no idea where I got that stamp.
When you flip this page to the right:

 Close-up of middle page:

 The background has bugs all over it. This napkin I got in a swap, so I just glued it to some cardstock and made a pocket with it. I probably shouldn't have put the Frankenstein sticker on it, but the page was kinda blah, and it needed some color.
Close-up of page on right:

 I probably shouldn't have used this paper as background, it's really busy and I also had a hard time with it. I ended up just making a spooky scene. The postage stamp sticker is from Walmart, the bats are from Hobby Lobby and the gravestones are from Walmart. The haunted house is from a clip art book, I just colored it with a gold gel pen.
When you flip this page to the right:

 Close-up of third page:

 This one is my favorite page. The large monster is actually a wall sticker from Dollar Tree, I just added a gemstone mustache to him. The green monster was in my stash. The blue and purple monsters are from Walmart. The mummy is from a sticker book from Micheal's. I tried to pick monsters that looked like they were dressed up.
Close-up of right page:

 This one just kinda came together. The strip at the bottom is from the all occasions paper pad from Hobby Lobby. The cat and pink post-it notes are from Target. The Witch piece is from the Tim Holtz ephemera pack. And the "W" sticker is from my stash.
The back:

 This background is actually from that all occasions paper pack from Hobby Lobby. I don't know if you can really tell from the picture, but I fussy cut some of the sweets and attached them with foam tape so they stood out. The label is from the Tim Holtz ephemera pack.
I love wrapping up my stuff when sending it out:

This one I wrapped up in a Halloween towel I got in a swap (I don't decorate for Halloween, so I wasn't ever going to use it.), I used some orange lace to make a bow and tucked in this purple skeleton guy. I'm not really sure what he's supposed to be, but he was cute.

I've already bought a 6x6 Christmas paper pad, so I'll probably be doing more flipbooks.

Esther Luka's Fall Swap

Here's what I sent to my partner, Chrissy for the swap. You had to send a pocket letter or a flip book. I was looking at other people's swap videos, and I feel like I'm the only one who created a flip book. I've been having so much fun doing flip books lately, that I kind of miss pocket letters, mostly the goodies because I tend to decorate my flip books more than put goodies in them. 

We decided to do a fall rather than a Halloween theme.

 I chose to use some burlap looking duct tape for the binding, but it still wouldn't stick in some places, I don't know why. I used a lot of fall paper from that big all seasons 12x12 paper pad I picked up at Hobby Lobby, I also used a couple pages from a Halloween paper pad that weren't solely Halloween.
The background here is just brown, I put a strip of paper that says fall on the bottom. I actually waited to finish this page last because of how bulky that sunflower is. It's glued on with hot glue and I should have put it further up, but you know how it is when you have the hot glue and it's getting cooler, it just goes where it falls.
When you open it up:

 a few close-ups:

 This is the left page, this strip was from my stash, but there's a very similar paper in the 6x6 Halloween paper pad I picked up from Hobby Lobby, it's a pocket. The ribbon was in my stash, I believe it's from JoAnn's, it's kind of a twill ribbon. I fussy cut an extra acorn and turkey out from the background paper and layered them so they popped out. I also layered a plastic apple button on top of an apple in the background. I did put some goodies in the pocket on the side.

 I had a hard time with this page, mostly cause I forgot it was there. I was so intent on doing the inside pages, that when I flipped it closed and noticed I had to finish this page, I found it very hard to get inspired. I just ended up finding some Project Life cards that were fallish. I attached them with a washi I thought was kinda fallish as well.
When you flip up the top card:

Looking at it now, it looks pretty plain and I probably should have put something on it.
 When you flip up this card:

 And when you flip up this card:

 I used a brown ink pad to distress it a little bit.
When you flip this page to the right:

 Close-ups:

 I added this paper to create a pocket. The background paper was pretty but a little too busy for me. This paper was from a notebook in my stash, I just trimmed the bottom and a bit off the sides because it was a tiny bit too big. The caramel apples are actually out of the fall page above, I fussy cut them out and added the ends of toothpicks and attached them with foam dots.

 I really love the background on this page. It was a 12x12 page I bought singly cause I love the pattern. I also had a hard time with this page. The boy and his mother are from a book. The turkey, corn and pie are felt stickers. I'm a little low on alpha stickers, so I just wrote "time to eat" with purple sharpie and outlined it with a gold pen. I also added "Yummy" in gold alphas.
When you flip the middle page down:

 close-ups:

This paper just had words about fall on it. I added the journaling spot, it's actually a pocket page from Hobby Lobby. The alphas are from a sticker book from Walmart. Someone sent me the flowers, I believe they're from Micheal's. The ladybugs were in my stash. The pumpkins are from Darice sticker books except the one in the middle, that's from Hobby Lobby.

I did very little to this page. I just added the brown block at the bottom and added some vintage stickers from my stash.
Here are the handmade cards:

 We really only had to send one, but I made the Thanksgiving one, and thought it was kinda sad, so I made the other one, now I really like the Thanksgiving one.
Anyways, I'm not that great at cards. I just need to get one of those magazines that shows you how to layer paper to make really neat cards. If you look closely, you can see the layered paper on the Thanksgiving card is crooked, I'm not that great at straight lines either. I just layered some paper, a turkey sticker and spelled out "happy thanksgiving" in alphas. I always mess up the spacing when I spell things out.
The other one is a weird size, I had this pink polka dot paper on my desk so I folded it in half, added a couple of pink washi banners, a strip of washi tape from the Dollar Tree and a word sticker from Hobby Lobby.
This picture has my 5 samples of washi, 5 handmade embellishments, and 1 or 2 extras:

 I'm working on making embellishments, I thought these were cute. I don't have a lot of fallish washi, I thought these were the most fall I had in my stash. The sparkly orange at the top is from Target, all the ones on the card other than the brown one are from Dollar Tree. I'm not sure where the brown one is from.
I also included a caramel apple candle and some pumpkin ribbon.
Here are my paper sheets:

 I have a couple 6x6 paper pads, so I just gave her one of every sheet in both pads, they're kinda vintage looking. the 2nd and bottom rows are from the same pad, there's a vintage birdcage theme going on there. The top row is kinda like vintage/distressed notebook/ledger paper.
Here is my mug and stickers:

I also included this cute fox print I picked up from Target and some leaf doilies from TJ Maxx. The mug is red and filled with candy. I already had it wrapped up before I took the picture.

I really like what I sent to Chrissy, and I can't wait until Esther's next swap.
If you'd like to see what Chrissy sent to me, click here.

Esther Luka's Fall swap

I signed up to participate in Esther Luka's fall swap. I had seen some videos of her swaps and really wanted to participate in one. After a little hiccup, I received my package last week. We had to include a flipbook or pocket letter, a handmade card, 5 samples of washi at least 18 inches long, 5 handmade embellishments, 5 6x6 sheets of paper, 1 sheet of stickers, 1 mug or glass, and 1 or 2 extra goodies. 

Here's what Chrissy sent me.

 The tinkerbell pouch was filled with project life cards and washi tape.

Here's the mug, inside was this cute owl ornament
more goodies

 6x6 paper, 8x8 (maybe? I didn't measure) paper, stickers

 More project life cards, a couple handmade cards and a couple hedgehog napkins.
The project life have a vintage travel theme. I love her handmade cards, like I said in my last post, I kinda suck at cards. I don't know what I'm going to do with the hedgehog napkins, but they are so cute!

 tags, altered paper clips, flower, die cut
I really like these tags. The purple one is kinda hard to see but it's embossed with Chinese lanterns.

 This is how her pocket letter was wrapped

 And here's the pocket letter. She said it was her first one. I love it. It's more thanksgiving and harvest than fall, but I love it.

 The goodies: ribbon, stickers, tags, journaling spots, paperclips, and buttons.

And here's all the goodies laid out.

If you'd like to see what I sent Chrissy, click here.