Screw It and Do It Challenge, Day two

Day 2:

 I covered the background with paper from Hobby Lobby. I added some washi I got in a swap. The teacup is from a card I bought at Dollar Tree. The bird is from a swap. The flowers are from a RAK.

Found art

Everyone's always talking about junk journals these days, I'm not a journaling person, and I'm not that interested in making them. I do collect things, though. Doesn't everyone?
A few years ago, I bought this journal at a garage sale for $1:

 I picked it up because it was cute, and I thought it would make a great gift.
I remember one night last year when I was tired of sorting and packing things, I gathered a pile of my found things, some washi and just started taping things into this. It was very soothing.
First page:

 This is a postcard with leafy washi, I added a ghost sticker to it.
Next spread:

 Left page: This is a postcard with some metallic striped washi around it. Right page: a drawing with green washi and a bird sticker.
Next spread

 Post card with gear washi. Bookmark with green washi, advertisement attached with double stick tape and some bug stickers.
Next spread:

 Bird bookmark with ruler washi, ruler bookmark with gear washi. Notecard with arrow washi, Cruella de Vil playing card on top with pink polka dot washi, I also traced over the flowers on the notecard with metallic gel pens.

 Picture of a sweater with leafy washi. All these pictures were on a bookmark but it was too long for the page, so I cut them up and attached them with this arrow washi, I also added the grumpy cat sticker.

 A couple drawings with green washi, I just noticed when I was taking the picture that there is a name in the bottom one. The clown was from my stash, as was the background paper and merry go round sticker, notecard with lines that I attached a frog rubon to with geometric washi.

 Minion tag with double sided tape, bug cutout with white washi, cardinal card with white washi, Despicable me sticker. Minion sticker, picture of a dog, polar bear and tiger cards with blue polka dot washi.

 Front of a card with a bulldozer sticker and black lace washi. Bus transfer slip and an event card I found in a book with steampunk washi and cardstock flower sticker.

 Green paper with a piece from a baby gift bag with green polka dot washi. Front of a card with metallic striped washi and spider sticker.

 Front of a notecard with ruler washi and a panda sticker. Two more notecards with pink striped washi and a caterpillar sticker.

 Two more notecards with steampunk washi and a magazine cutout. Another notecard with blue washi and a dog sticker.

 A thank you card, random card found in a book, piece of ephemera and a part of another bookmark with leafy washi. Front of a thank you card with black lace washi and business card.

 Front of a Christmas card with blue striped washi and another thank you card with pink polka dot washi. Business card with ruler washi and another business card with steampunk washi.

 Business card, random paper with fish sticker and a business card with gear washi and metallic striped washi. Thank you card, minion stickers, business cards with blue plaid washi.

 Front of a clock with gear washi, playing card with steampunk washi and an owl sticker. Front of a card with flower sticker and chef sticker.

 Piece of ephemera with polka dot washi, note from a RAOK with pink washi. Minion stickers and Hello Kitty foil from chocolates.

 Zootopia sticker, Frozen sticker, Winnie the Pooh sticker and minion sticker. Front of notecard with striped washi.

 Notecard with part of another notecard and pink striped washi, part of a recipe card with foam popsicle sticker and pink polka dot washi. Business card with gold striped washi, notecard with pink plaid paper tape, sheep card with blue/green washi.

 Coaster with button washi, part of an old pamphlet with black and green washi. Parts of the same pamphlet with green and black washi, inside of a picture with pink striped washi.

 Halloween postcard with black striped washi. Random paper pieces found in books with green polka dot washi and black washi and a hold slip from another library.

 Seed packet with pink polka dot washi, part of a recipe card with coffee washi and cupcake ribbon. Christmas tree bookmarks with flower paper tape and metallic striped washi.

 Part of a card with black striped washi and a journaling card with pink washi. Timree packaging with green polka dot washi, bookmark, part of recipe card with sprinkle washi, donut washi on top with cupcake washi on bottom.
At one point, I started putting samples of all my washi in the book.

 Elf bookmark with samples of washi. Paper found in returned book with more samples of washi.

 Date due slip with pink polka dot washi, date due receipt with blue washi and jack o lantern stickers. Note from a book with pink striped washi.

 Cell phone ad with samples of washi. Samples of washi.

 Stamped images. My grandmother's 1000th birthday announcement with pink and green polka dot washi.

 Thank you note with pink and purple washi. More washi tape samples with journaling card and bookmark.

 More washi samples with kids card. More washi tape samples with note from another library.

 More washi tape samples with packaging from tea and inspirational quote card. Promotional sticker and front of Christmas card with jewel sticker.

Quote ephemera with ticket.
This is the last page in the book. I didn't do this all at once, I might have done about 10 pages that night before I either got tired or ran out of stuff. I've been slowly adding to this throughout the past year, like I said, I find it very soothing. I also like adding to it every time I find something interesting. A lot of the items are found in books, some are things I've gotten.

Screw It and Do It Challenge, Day one

One of my facebook groups had a challenge where we created for 10 minutes each day starting July 7th. I bought a set of index cards to create on. I basically just took items off of my desk because it was faster than looking for items.
Day 1:

 I had just made a summer flip book and had a lot of strips of paper lying around. I also added a tiny bit of green washi to the top. The 'ticket' was also left over from the flip book. The flip flops are a sticker from Dollar Tree.

June Birthday card

Cat's Crafty Corner on youtube had a June challenge to make a masculine birthday card for her significant other.
Here's what I created

I'm not that great at making cards, and probably worse at making masculine cards. For this one, I used an old ledger page for the background. I distressed it with ink. I added some brown lined paper and a vintage photograph.

Sender's Choice loaded bag

On one of my facebook groups, I signed up for a sender's choice loaded bag swap. That meant I got to choose what my theme was. I went with flowers.

 It looks like I didn't take a picture of the front of the bag by itself. I put some flower patterned paper on the top and some diagonal striped paper on the bottom. I added some lace and jeweled flower 'washi' to the bottom. I added a flower cutout from my stash.
Here's the back:

 I loved this paper, and added a little decoration of some vines I drew on it.
Here's the goodies:

 I found some journaling cards, some tags, a spring game tablet and some stickers. I gave my partner a sample of every kind of flower washi I had. I also made her a little rosette paper clip.
More goodies:

Some paper straws, stickers, notepaper and a pen.
Here's what I received back:

 Here's the goodies:

 I'm loving that giant paper clip, the shaker sticker and the elephant paper clip.

 She sent me a lot of planner stickers, I don't do the whole planner thing, so I'll probably send those out as a RAK.
Here it is empty:

Birthday card

One of my supervisors' birthdays was this past Monday, so I made her an envelope flipbook card. I'm loving making these envelope flip books.

 This is the outside. I used a piece of blue cardstock as the background, and since you can't put the template on the paper straight to get it to fit on the paper, I had to cut out this piece because I specifically wanted it to say "Happy Birthday" on the outside.
Here's the inside:

I don't have close-ups. Basically I covered the inside with a paper that had presents all over it. I added her name in stickers to the top flap. The right flap has a circle I cut out of a journaling card, it says "start each day with a smile" I just brushed the edges with some purple ink. The bottom flap, I cut the piece out of a journaling card as well, it says "Blow out the candles", I edged it with brown ink. The left flap has another piece I cut out of a journaling card, it says "Part of cultivating a good life is determining one thing you can do today that will make it better than yesterday", I layered it on some pink paper. All the details on the flaps are stuck on with foam tape. The middle, I added some colored chevron paper with some banner stickers from Dollar Tree and some balloons I stamped in different colors, I also added some cupcake washi at the bottom. It's rather plain from what I normally, but since she doesn't craft, I didn't really know what to do with it. She was very touched by it.
I think it's funny that I love making cards for my co-workers, but my mother's birthday is on Monday, and I'm not really wanting to make a card for her. Mostly because I think she expects it. She thinks I have all this time on my hands and I should make her a card because I'm crafty.

Birthday cards

I signed up for a birthday card swap on one of my facebook groups. We were supposed to make 2 birthday cards and send them to our partner. I signed up for two partners, here's what I made:

 The top one has washi tape banner on the top with a project life card cut down to fit and washi tape cupcakes on the bottom (both washi's are from the Dollar Tree).
The second one has a background from a pad of paper I picked up at a garage sale. The 'happy birthday' banners are from a chipboard sticker sheet from Hobby Lobby, I just added some washi cupcakes to the bottom (the washi is from Hobby Lobby).

The top one is just scraps from my stash, the top and bottom pieces are washi I got in a swap. The 'celebrate' is also washi I got in a swap.
The bottom one is a project life card cut down layered on some cupcake paper I got from Hobby Lobby.
Here's what I got back:

The top two, my partner included numbers to add to customize the cards. I love how the bottom one opens.
Here's what I got from my second partner:

I love how she used die cuts.