Flipbook tag

In my new group, they have a few that I can actually make things for. One of them was a flip book. The person I'm sending too likes vintage, so I went with a vintage theme. I had cut down a bunch of 12x12s from the Newsworthy paper pad (Hobby Lobby) for a granted wish of vintage paper, so I had a lot of scraps. I also have a lot of 3x5 notecards laying around, so I just covered them with the scraps.
Here it is all closed up:

 I used some white with gold polka dot washi as the binding. I tied some twine around it and put a binder clip on the top to close it.
First flip:

 Close-ups:

 I wrapped the cards with the same paper on the front as the back. This one had the New York building that I used as the front and this bus scene with not much on the bottom, so I added these roses.

 This page was pretty boring, so I added the burlap and a vintage photo framed on some blue paper.
Second flip:

 Close-ups:

 This one I framed this Bingo clip art on some pink paper, added the blue piece with a sticker on the bottom.

 I added a vellum pocket that I covered with more paper from the pack. I included some tags from another vintage flipbook. I added the boy scout pieces from a vintage card that was in some donations at my work.
Last flip:

 Close-ups:

 These sticky notes were in another swap, I thought they worked great for the group. They are one some plastic that I just attached with double stick tape.

 This bottom piece I added this photo strip.
It flips open:

 to reveal a pocket holding stickers with some washi on top.
Here are the goodies, minus that paper clip, it didn't work out in the end.

 The tags are from another swap as are the flower stickers, the vintage stickers are from a Peachy Cheap grab bag. I altered the binder clip with some book washi.\
The back:

 I didn't do any decorating.
I think it turned out massive cute. I've learned through the years I like smaller canvas'.
Here's what I received:

 First flip:

 Second flip:

She said it was her 2nd ever made.

Crazy 8 swap

I signed up for a swap called a Crazy 8 basically we send 8 different items, but 8 of each item.

 I chose 8 paper clips, 8 clothespins, 8 pieces of ribbon, 8 project life cards, 8 stickers, 8 tags, 8 buttons, 8 stacks of sticky notes.
Here it is spread out:

 I realized after putting it all back in the bags, I forgot to put out the buttons:

Here's what I got from my partner:

 embossed paper:

 stamped images:

 washi samples, ribbon, gemstones:

 Die cuts:

 Die cut sentiments:

Alphabet tags S, T, U

We're getting closer to the end of the alphabet. I actually finished all my tags awhile ago, it makes it a little easier knowing that I don't have to worry about them (as long as I don't lose them before I need to mail them).
Here's S, T, and U:

Star, Saturn, Squirrel and Shark, they're all stickers from my stash.
Triangle, Telephone and Turtle, the triangles are a scrap of paper, the other two are stickers.
Umbrella, Unicorn, Unique, I had a hard time with this one. I knew I had unicorns, I knew I had umbrellas somewhere, too, but I couldn't find them, this one is cut from a coloring pad. The unique is from a minion sticker collection.
Here's what my partner sent me:

 And they're double sided:

 Goodies:

How cute are those clovers?

Easter Pocket letter

I signed up to do an Easter pocket letter in one of my groups:

 I saw someone create a washi banner in a youtube video and thought I'd try it out for the somewhat bare top on this one. I picked three patterned washi, folded them over the twine and popped them up with foam tape, I added some sparkly chipboard sticker letters to the top. I wanted a large egg for the middle card, but didn't have any in my stash, so I found an oval die cut and traced it on some paper. The rest of the eggs are stickers, the bunny is a felt sticker that I added a better egg to.
The second row has some Easter stickers in the first pocket, I didn't have enough of the striped paper so I substituted some spotty paper on the middle card, I messed up on the bunny, though. There's a brown one under the wordy one, I was supposed to put the wordy one on foam tape so you could see the dimension. The last card has a word bubble and a teddy bear die cut that I added an egg sticker to to cover a heart he was holding.
The bottom has a bunny, egg, and chick die cut that I got in a swap. I made my own basket of eggs for the middle card. I just basically filled up the other two with stickers. I added an egg to the middle of the flower to cover the ugly center.
The goodies:

 jar die cut, sequin mix, bunny stickers, bunny paperclip I made, jeweled bunny stickers, Easter washi, more Easter stickers, egg eraser. I also added some paper scraps in with the bunny paper clip.

I backed it with this wordy paper, and added egg washi to the side.
Here's what my partner sent me:

 Isn't it cute?
The back:

I love all the die cuts she included, but there's no letter, so technically, it's not a pocket letter.

St Patrick's Day Loaded Bag

I had originally asked on one of my Facebook groups about doing a St. Patrick's Day/green loaded envelope. One of the hostesses saw my post and created an event. Here's what I made:

 I covered the background with some clover paper (Hobby Lobby), I covered the bottom pocket with some green paper, I was looking for something less busy for a background. I added a sparkly clover to the top (Dollar Tree). The 'Happy St. Patrick's Day' piece is actually the top of a pick (local gift store) that you'd put in with your flowers. I added some iridescent clovers (Dollar Tree garland) underneath it. I added the felt clover (Hobby Lobby) to the corner. I also added a clover paper clip (swap).
Back:

 I added this big tag (swap) because he just looked so cute and fit perfectly on the bag. I added a clover gem (Hobby Lobby) to cover up the hole that the ribbon was in. The bottom has some more St Patrick's Day paper (Hobby Lobby), I was going to add some 'gold coins' to it, but I couldn't find them at the time.
Here's how I packaged it up:

 I made a wand with some cardstock paper (my stash), a sparkly clover (Dollar Tree), and a 'Kiss me I'm Irish (local gift store) piece from another flower pick. I added a bunch of stickers, some tags, some green and gold trim, some mint chocolate (we had to add a green treat), a pen, and other things I didn't take a picture of. As I was loading it, I realized I didn't have a lot of green things.
All ready to go:

 I wrapped it up in some green tissue paper and added some washi, ribbon and flower soft to the package. I also added some more of those sparkly clovers, clover gems and iridescent clovers to the box. I believe when it gets to my partner, all this will be in a corner.
I wanted to cover up the outside of the box and found some green iridescent duct tape. I may have gone a little overboard:

But, who wouldn't be excited to get this in the mail?
Here's what I received from my partner:

 And everything in it:

I will say I'm a little bummed about it. I had originally posted on the facebook group looking for someone to swap a St. Patrick's Day/green loaded bag and one of the admins said she'd start an event for one, so I signed up for that instead. I guess I was looking for more green crafting things, less St. Patrick's day items, but I did sign up for it, so I'm happy that my partner put so much effort in it.

Altered Canvas

I signed up for an altered canvas swap in one of my groups. I had the hardest time doing it. I used to be more of a mixed media artist and am now mostly paper and have mostly paper stuff, so I couldn't really think of how to alter it.

I modpodged the background paper (Hobby Lobby) with some ribbon (my stash), the doily (my stash), the corner piece (from a Valentine's bag from TJ Maxx). I also added the middle of another doily (swap) and some gold letters (Hobby Lobby). I painted the vines and leaves on it and added the two heart stickers (my stash) to pull together the pink color. I like how it came out.
Here's what my partner sent me:

Every time I look at this, I see something new. I love all the different layers and the different elements all over it. I love that it's very 3D.

Happy Mail

There's always a few swaps that I do that I don't really post on here, so this post is about those swaps (where I don't make anything, but I still swap things), and random crafty things I get in the mail.

This first picture is what's called an Ugly Paper Swap. We had to send each other 8 pieces of 6x6 paper that we weren't going to use.

 I didn't include doubles in the picture. We were also encouraged to make a tag using at least two of the papers sent to us as the background:

And you can see, I used three of them. I layered the 'smile at the camera' on some pink paper and foam tape. I added the pink ribbon with camera ribbon on top of it.
This was a 'secret cupid' not exactly a swap, just if people wanted to send me something. It was through a facebook page, you listed 5 things you wanted and someone else could decide what they wanted to send you.

 I had listed coffee ephemera, handmade embellishments, vintage buttons, Valentine's ephemera, and hedgehog anything.
The card that came with these:

 Another secret cupid gift:

 What was in the bag:

 The stickers:

 The card that came with it:

In my Lollipop subscription box every month I get a stencil, I don't use stencils, so I swapped them out. One person sent me teddy bear die cuts:

 Another person sent me Valentine's Day cards:

 And another sent me random die cuts:

One of the groups, the owner of the group sent me a thank you gift for some things I do:

 This is my other 'ugly paper' swap:

 I haven't gotten around to making a tag with them.
I also signed up for a pink washi swap, we were to send 6 samples of pink washi, one had to be solid. Here's one partner:

 And here's the other: