Last week was Teacher Appreciation Week and Tuesday was Teacher Appreciation “Day”. For those of you who don’t know I am a para educator. I work with 9-12 grade and mostly behavior students. I made some cookies for the teachers whose rooms I work in and created this fun tag to attach to […]
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This vintage card with a sewing theme demonstrates a few adhesive techniques for adding gold gilded accents. I love to incorporate old ephemera into card designs, like a sheet from my Grandmamma‘s notebook of a smocking design and an old photo. Remember to color photocopy these pieces rather than using the […]
“Life’s a Stitch!” by Marie Browning
Did you know May is National Strawberry Month? Around here it would be June as our strawberries aren’t ready until Father’s Day. I LOVE strawberries and love this image that is in FredSheSaid’s precolored “Emma in the Strawberry Patch”. Precolored images make creating cards much quicker. And with my super […]
National Strawberry Month
A BIG Thank You to Jillibean Soup for blogging with us this week, all of the designer did a fabulous job. Here’s a glance back at a few the great creations. Just look at these adorable frogs by Debbie, I just love the colors… And Marie’s wonderful album…who wouldn’t enjoy […]
Jillibean Soup Love

I loved the natural kraft look of jillibean soup’s ‘talk soup on kraft’ collection. Along with matching embellishments it was a breeze to create an album with TOMBOW adhesives and fill with matching pages. The sturdy wooden album cover is from Walnut Hollow and will protect treasured photos as children delight […]
“Jellibean Soup Album” By Marie Browning

Did you know April is National Frog Month? I found these adorable pre-colored digital frog images on Scrappin’ Doodles. They are so bright and cheerful and went perfectly with the new papers and goodies I received in my kit from Jillibean Soup. This week Tombow is partnering with Jillibean Soup […]
Jillibean Soup and Frogs

www.elizabethallan-blog.blogspot.com Supplies: Tombow Dual Brush Pens: 090, 133, 158, 452, 443, 723, 725, 755, 800, 912, 991, N15, Tombow Foam Tabs, Tombow Mono Aqua Liquid Glue, Tombow Permanent Adhesive […]
“For you…MOM” by Elizabeth Allan of Penny Black

www.elizabethallan-blog.blogspot.com Supplies: Tombow Dual Brush Pens: 055, 133, 173, 228, 685, 703, 755, Tombow Foam Tabs, Tombow Power Tabs, Tombow Mono Adhesive Removable, Tombow Dot Adhesive Stamp Runner Rubber Stamps: Penny Black – 4154K Lace-Edged, 30-067 To You, 30-048 Illuminations, Penny Black Mix & Match Cardstock: Olive Grove 04-001, Periwinkle 11-003, […]
“Thinking of You” by Elizabeth Allan of Penny Black

www.elizabethallan-blog.blogspot.com Supplies: Tombow Dual Brush Pens: 026, 055, 685, 725, 835, 985, N15, Tombow Glue Pen, Tombow Foam Tabs, Tombow Power Adhesive Tabs, Tombow Dot Adhesive Stamp Runner, Rubber Stamps: Penny Black – 4183K Sparkle, 40-049 Majestic Composition, Penny Black Mix & Match Cardstock: Fuchsia Fantasies 13-003. Other Materials: Watercolor […]
Flower Magnet by Elizabeth Allan of Penny Black

www.elizabethallan-blog.blogspot.com Supplies: Tombow Dual Brush Pens: 055, 452, 535, 703, 743, 856, 899, 912, 947, 985, Tombow Foam Tabs, Tombow Mono Aqua Liquid Glue, Tombow Permanent Adhesive Stamp Runner, Rubber Stamps/Cardstocks: Penny Black – 30-069 Hello Friend, Penny Black. My Other Materials: Watercolor Paper, Black Pigment Ink, Clear Embossing Powder, […]
“Hello Friend” by Elizabeth Allan
“Catch a Bug” is the newly released image from Designed2Delight. I used some new papers I’ve had for a few weeks that hadn’t been cut into. I colored the image and then added Tombow’s Mono Aqua Liquid Glue over the top to give it a glass look. I used Tombow’s […]
“Catch a Bug?”
Here is a fun paper bag album I made with the plan to put pictures of my youngest son and all his goofy faces and costumes he used to make when he was little. I am thinking since the paper and so bold and bright I will print all my pictures black […]