Halloween Peek-a-boo!

Hi! I made this little book for Halloween. I had actually thought of this one before the counting one. This one is smaller in size, just 3.5 x 3.5 inches. It's a lift-the-flap book.

I stamped and cut out the little guys from TGF's Spooktacular set. I cut 7 pages out, each 3.5 x 7 inches. Five pages for the stamps and two blank pages, one for the first page and the other for the last page. It's nice to have some blank pages to write a note or something if you're planning to give it to someone.

I scored all the pages in the middle and glued them together. I spread the glue around all the way to the edges. It gets a little messy. I used the glue pictured above mostly because I had seen it on Sunghee's blog. She makes great little mini books, albums and templates too. I think this glue works okay. Is there a better glue for this type of project?

I used PTI's Mat Stack 4 die. Trimmed off a bit on the bottom to make a straight edge and then scored it at about 3/8 inch from the bottom. Made one for each of the little guys to hide behind. The paper is from My Mind's Eye. It's double sided so I didn't have to worry about covering the other side and it's thick enough. I glued each one onto a page and taped the bottom of each die cut paper over the image.

For the cover I cut a piece of cardstock that was just longer than 7 inches and covered it with the paper above from Doodlebug.

I wrapped the cover around the book. Then scored it at the appropriate places. Now, I don't know what's better. To glue everything on the pages first, then wrap the cover around or put the cover on first then glue the pieces in after. Because when you glue everything in first, the bottom of the book gets fatter than the top and you kind of have to fidget with the cover to get it straight. I guess I'd have to experiment some more.

But the most important thing to do is not glue the cover onto the spine or onto the entire back page so that the book can open properly. I kind of experiment on where to glue the back cover and score it appropriately. For this book I think I messed up a little. I placed the score line a bit too far. Look at a real board book for reference. Then I trimmed off the excess cover.

Pages of the book with the images hidden and then revealed. I handwrote "peek-a-boo!" by each one. You could add any kind of wording on the opposite page too. I chose to keep it simple. Also, rounded the corners of the book.

So, now that makes 2 little board books in my collection. I have another one in mind, a TGF ABC book. That may take a while. Thanks for reading and have a great weekend!

Snowman gift card holder

Hi! I was planning to post this last night but I was just too tired to write or think of complete sentences. It's been a busy week with the boys on Fall break and still trying to finish up a bunch of crafts. I have been trying to make some crocheted crafts to put in my Etsy shop and finally I'm done with one. It's a crocheted snowman that can hold a gift card or anything actually that is small enough to fit in the pouch. The pattern is designed by ChiWei Ranck of One Dog Woof and can be found HERE . Here's the little snowman with his arms folded over in the front to look like he is hugging the card. I added this fun card that I stamped. You can definitely add in a gift card too behind this card. The gift card reaches under his nose. This is how the little opening of the pouch looks. I hope I can make more of these little guys. These would be so cute for teachers and I think it would be easy to put a little wire through the hat and then use it as

coffee cup shaped cards

Hi! I think after this post I may need a little nap! My right shoulder is actually feeling worn out from all the typing and photo editing I've been doing lately. And this cooler weather is making me drowsy. It's getting cold here already! I made a bunch of these coffee shaped cards using a die from Honey Bee Stamps . It's a cute coffee set but the die is extra long so it would probably help to have a longer platform to diecut. I just have the standard sized one so I would pass it through once in my Big Shot and then rotate the cardstock and die carefully to cut the other end. Manageable but the longer platform would be more convenient! I embossed the front of the card with some pretty snowflakes. I think this is a Sizzix embossing folder. And then stamped the coffee sleeve with some Lawn Fawn stamps. This is the inside. The gift card slot does not come with this coffee cup die set. I cut that opening with one of the dies from MFT's gift card dies.

Knuffle Bunny

Hi! The Greeting Farm had their Customer Challenge & Chit Chat Night "A Night at the Bookstore" and introduced a few challenges. I have to say chatting was too fast for me and I couldn't really keep up. It was still early here, and I had to pick up the kids from school and activities and make dinner and eat and so I guess the timing didn't really work out with our schedule. You can check out the challenge details on the SCS forum HERE . I made this card for Favorite Child's Book category. It is based on the Mo Willems book Knuffle Bunny . It's one of my kids' favorites and it's such a cute story. We actually love reading Mo Willems' books especially his Elephant and Piggie series. Those books are hilarious! This challenge also made me realize that I haven't read many books recently except kids' books. I used to love reading but just haven't given it much time lately. Anyway, here is my card. If you've read the story

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