NEW YORK STATE OF MIND...DT

 Hello everyone,

 I'll start by saying thank you for the nice get well comments re my back, unfortunately it is not that much better, I thought it was but I think the pain relief told to believe that so I stopped taking so much pain relief, until this morning when  it bit me again so I'm struggling this Wednesday morning sitting in, should I say, Holly's chair writing my post, but I will get there..

This week at LITTLE RED WAGON it is our lovely Kate who is hostess with her theme of..

New York State of Mind - urban scenes or travel, skylines etc..

I was a little stumped for awhile and treated the theme loosely by making a travelling booklet..

I made theses ephemera pieces using pictures and stickers and layered them all up.

paper matted..

Holtzy papers..

cut them,,,shock horror, but had to be done..

Then folded brown card stock

hinged them together..

and added hessian to the spine for movement..

made and inked up tags

oh no, it got stuck together and I made a mess..

This time ephemera made with stickers and also hidden paper clips..

these a great fun in a book.

So here we go..

just pictures unless I find something to mention.

other wise we could be here all day..

coat button from garage sale  purchases, 5 of them for 10cents

vellum envelopes from Temu and lots of stamping..

fixed the mess I made..

made flip downs as well as flip ups..

so many tickets

and back to the beginning..

so do come and join us HERE

Thank you so much for stopping by..

I'll see you soon..

Luv CHRISSYxx

WINDOW ENVELOPES

 Hello everyone,

The sun is shinning today, the flood waters have gurled their way down the drain and into the soil, no longer a problem and I should be out tidying the yard, BUT..I hurt my back, do not know how, it is just lower back pain and difficult to walk sometimes, but it will move on like the rain, and I'll be fine.

Do you get mail in window envelopes ? we don't normally anymore but I did get my hands on one, so I recycled it...and I'm so sorry the photos are dark, I do edit but they still look so dark, anyway squint your eyes and it may look better..

So this is the envelope and I cut the front part off to make a flap.

Cut some busy patterned paper to slide inside..

and left the side slit open for now..

Then my Holtzy papers came out to play...

Cut up patch panels and popped them on..

the arrow showing the patterned paper inside..

nice and neat for me!! and time

to glue the side.

cut a notch too because a tag will go inside..

added loads of number stickers..

and made a tag, so when it goes inside the picture changes..

take it out and the patterned paper shows..

Here, the tag is inside..

it has a little eyelet and string to pull..

and a decorated the flap too with the same stickers as the tag..

and that's it, simple easy and fun..

Thank you so much for stopping by..

I'll see you soon..

luv CHRISSYxx

RECYCLING..DT

 Hello everyone,

We are onto challenge #855 for Little Red Wagon and our Brenda is hostess and here theme pick is...

Happy Earth Day - reuse/ recycle something..my favourite thing to do.

This my recycled ephemera

It already had the fold and and contained stickers ( of course it did )

I just covered it and inked it and added a closure and pocket..

plus I covered envelopes and other packaging while I was at it..

I absolutely love using music papers and I bought a big thick music book for 50 cents at the garage sale too, and it was 100 years old I discovered after cutting into it.

Made card panels, three of them different sizes..

added a decorated black envelope..

with a velcro closure..

I will call this a flip flop card as I have no other words..

my recycled packaging pocket on the the front..

Opened with a few tiny little tags inside

and music notes

Then start flipping the panels open..

it opens quite wide

and tags and some treasure inside the envelope

beautiful stickers and some music die cuts

kept going with stickers which turned this card into a feminine card

more tags with stickers and music note ribbon..

tags out..

die cut shapes and stickered them along with more 

music note ribbon..

and there she is with the recycled flaps open and a safety pin

threaded with beads and a chain dangling down..

So do come and join us HERE

Thank you so much for stopping by..

I'll see you again soon..

luv CHRISSYxx

Challenges to enter...

Crafty Calendar Challenge   ( Anything Goes )

Creative Creases Challenge  ( anything goes with a fancy fold )

Ally's Angels   ( Anything goes )

Crafters Cafe  ( Fancy fold / anything goes )

Creative Crafters  ( Anything goes )