Construction Frame

I made this hinged frame for my brother Matt for his birthday. He just finished renovating our grammy's double block house and moved in recently. For his birthday "card" he requested something "wooden, hinged, with a construction theme." So this is what he got. The card turned into a frame. I hinged two wooden frames together, distressed them with inks and added 3D stickers and cut outs, then put scrapbook paper in each side where the pics will go.

Miles of Smiles,
--Melissa

BBTB Santa Suit Challenge

Here is my design for the BBTB Santa Suit Challenge. I didn't have a lot of time to come up with an idea or to pull it all together, as that was the week of Thanksgiving and we were busy packing and just getting ready for it in general. Overall, I think it turned out OK. Of course afterward, I thought of other ways to make it better, but oh well. Sometimes the Inspiration is just napping somewhere in the corner. lol Lots of sparkles on this one too. I love sparkles....

Miles of Smiles,
--Melissa

BBTB Challenge - Bag

This was the latest Bitten By The Bug Challenge. A bag with rubber stamping. I cut out the bag from a striped vellum, stamped the multi-color leaves background, punched out the flower borders and used RitzyDitzyGlitz on all the black paper. I stamped the large leaf and the words. I also punched the border on the tissue paper. See the other designs at BBTB!

Miles of Smiles,
--Melissa

BBTB Box Challenge

Here are the pics of the Bitten By The Bug box challenge. I went with a dog theme and put treats inside. I love this fire hydrant paper (SEI?). Check out the other designs at BBTB.

Miles of Smiles,
--Melissa

Abundance

So Thanksgiving is only a week away. Can you believe it? I started working on some cards for the occasion. I had the idea that I wanted them each to have the same word on them, "Abundance", but I wanted to make each card different. It just seemed like a good word to use. Although it can relate to the abundance of the harvest at this time of year, it can apply to so many other things in our life: abunance of love, happiness, blessings, good health, friendships, and so on. At this time of year I like to reflect on all the wonderful blessings in my life. What is abundant in your life? What are you thankful for? Drop me a line and let me know. Maybe you will get some blessings in return!
So here is the first one I came up with. It's kind of a water color effect. The background paper actually has fall vegetables on it. I stickled the pumpkins and the silk flowers, and stapled some fall ribbon to the edge. The edges of the "abundance" tag roll up, but you can't really tell here. The pumpkins are attached with foam dots.

Miles of Smiles,
--Melissa

YaY! It's my Birthday

My birthday was yesterday, the 13th of November. I had such a great day. I had many calls and received many cards in the mail. My hub took me out to dinner to Red Lobster (my choice) and he gave me a gorgeous strand of pearls. It is a long strand that I can wear a ton of different ways, so I am really excited about that (yeah, I'm such a girly girl). I even got flowers delivered to my office from some far-off friends, who are just so thoughtful. My younger brother's birthday is exactly 2 weeks after mine, and we usually celebrate both our birthdays at Thanksgiving, so that's when we will exchange gifties. That's always fun to look forward to. Thank you for all the warm wishes and sweet sentiments. It couldn't have been a better day!

Miles of Smiles,
--Melissa

Cards for Charity

I know you all probably think I've been slacking in my card making lately, but I really have been busy! I've been working on Thanksgiving cards, Christmas cards for family, Christmas cards to sell, and these sets of Christmas Cards for a charity auction. Told ya I was busy!! LOL

Miles of Smiles,

--Melissa

BBTB Challenge

Here is my latest design for Bitten By The Bug. The challenge was to use the ampersand sign. I made this wall hanging. It's probably not easy to see, but there is so much sparkle going on here. I also didn't show the beaded hanger. I used silk flowers, punches, stickers, chipboard, brads, fibers, and of course Stickles and RitzyDitzyGlitz. I attached the "&" with foam dots. I love the snowflakes paper.
Check out the other designs at Bitten By The Bug, they are all really great!

Miles of Smiles,
--Melissa

Look What I Got!

Wow, Look at all the cool stuff I got from winning the contest on Jen's blog! I LOVE it all! I finally got me some Bella's! Yeah! And all the Queen and Company stuff is too cute. Thanks so much Jen! Still hard to believe I won (I never win anything!)

Miles of Smiles,

Melissa