Summer Embellishment Box

This is more of a fill up than creative post. I was so excited to finally be able to participate in an embellishment box swap. I could never find the boxes at my Dollar Tree and a few months ago I visited a Dollar Tree in another town and found some.
As the title says, it was a summer themed one.

 I put some yellow lace on the sides and covered the top with a piece of book paper. I used these skeleton leaves I got in a Lollipop Box a few years ago. I never knew what to do with them, I think they look pretty good. The sunglasses are from a project life card I found in my stash.

 This picture just shows this project life card in the top, I glued it on after the photo.
The goodies:

 I put in paperclips, die cut butterflies, some jewelry bits and bling, die cut flower and bows and butterflies, some decorative brads, a set of alphabet charms, red white and blue sequins plus these other stars I found, and some bows.

More bling and charms and beads, a paper clay flowerpot underneath it is some resin gems, and some flower buttons. I also included paper in the package.
I like getting these, I don't think I have a lot of things to put in them. I'd have more fun if it was just an embellishment box, not theme.

Bunnies and Butterflies

The tag challenge this time around is bunnies and butterflies. I have a couple tags and a random thing.
My first tag:

I had to make something Easter themed for a tag, so I went with this so I could put it in this challenge. I really like the marbled paper, it's from a paper pad I picked up recently at Hobby Lobby. The stickers are all Hobby Lobby as well.
My second tag I really like:

 I used some book paper as the base and used some scraps of that marbled paper. I added the butterfly die cut and layered the bunny on top (I saw someone else doing that, and I loved the effect). I found the stickers on my desk.
And the random thing:

I just needed to create something. I used a scrap as a background with the middle of the book page. I added some flamingo washi from an envelope and some trim to the side. I layered a bunch of flowers at the top with a resin flower for the center. Again with the bunny/butterfly mixture, this time the bunny is a fuzzy sticker. I added a butterfly punch to the top corner and a flower die cut to the bottom. I also added some trim to the bottom.
I don't know what I'll do with this, it might be the cover decoration for my next mail journal.

Bunny Gnome

Today was a rather productive day, not only did I get a bunch of tags put together, I also made a couple things. First up is a flip book.

This turned out much simpler than I normally do, but I really like it. It's only got 3 pages, I modeled it off of one I received in the past. 

The cover:

 I started with a piece of blue cardstock. I added some plaid paper, a green doily and a llama face die cut and then for a little more a sticker.
First page:

 I put some marbled paper on the back, it ended up being much shorter than I planned (I'm not that good at measuring sometimes), so I made a pocket with book paper. I added some Easter washi to the sides of the page and a cute flower sticker on the pocket. On the right side is a project life card that flips out, I added an embellishment someone sent me.
Right page:

 When you flip it open, there are some memo sheets held on with a cute bow paperclip and some sticky notes on the back of the project life card.
Second page:

 I just put some paper on the left side with another embellishment I was sent and some flamingo washi that was on a package. On the right side I just put some label stickers.
Back page:

 I put some memo sheets. One is attached, the rest I just tied up with the flip book.

I really like this, like I said much simpler than I usually do, but I really like how it turned out.
I also altered some mini composition books:

I was sent the books in a swap, and I thought it'd be fun to alter them more for my Easter bags. The left side, I added the floral paper, with a strip of marbled paper and a wooden button. The middle one I have the marbled paper, a strip of plaid paper and a layered butterfly. I added a few butterfly stickers on the right edge. I added some purple trim to the spine. The one on the right had the floral background, so I added the book paper and the "L". I also added some lace to the spine.
These were really fun to do. I was planning on doing some alterations inside, but I just left them plain.

Happy Easter

I did an embellishment tag in one of my groups. I couldn't tell if I was supposed to make them, or just send some store bought ones, so I ended up altered some coin envelopes.

 I covered most of them in book pages and just added stuff until I liked how they looked.

I also signed up for an Easter card and planned to send a store bought one, and then realized I didn't have one, so I made one:

 I covered a card base in this cool marbled paper. I made the cupcakes dimensional. They were in the same paper pad as the marbled paper. The bunny and chick I only doubled the tops of the cupcakes, the middle one I doubled the whole thing. I put foam tape in between the layers. The "Happy Easter" is a clear sticker I put on white paper and cut out and then I decided it needed some eggs, so I added some puffy stickers.
I also had to make something Easter, so I went with a tag:

I used the same marbled paper as the background. I added some grass washi to the bottom with a bunny sticker on top. I was going to put a more dimensional sticker on top of his Easter basket, but it was much too big, so I added some bunny butts instead. I was also going to use it for a tag challenge theme of bunnies and butterflies, but it's too simple, so I added some butterfly stickers.

Shabby Chic Altered Pouch

I signed up for a Shabby Chic Altered Pouch. I'm still not sure what shabby chic really is, but I've been on a layering of laces kick, so that's what I did. I started with a clear plastic pouch I received in a Peachy Cheap blind bag. As I do with all my layered lace pieces, I just started layering and put together what went together:

 I really wanted that dangly one to be at the bottom and I wanted it to look vintage, even though most of the trim is not. The off-white one closest to the bottom is vintage, it's ripped from a vintage piece of clothing. The rosette on the top is something I got in the swap.
The back:

  I originally was going to do something different from the back, but I like the whole layered lace look so much, I ended up just wrapping most of the laces/trims around to the back. I had to substitute a few as they weren't that long and the bottom one I only wanted on the front.
Again, we were supposed to have a mix of handmade and store-bought.

I made the wand, the large lace flower in the middle and the green/pink rosette. The tulle flowers and the paperclips were given to me, and I thought they fit well. I added some vintage trim, a vintage pin, some vintage buttons, some stickers, some washi samples, a roll of lace trim, some embossing folders and some cute yarn bows someone sent me.