Graphic 45 Old Curiosity Shoppe album

* Disclaimer*
I am not a fussy cutter hence why the butterflies have no heads and the pigs have no tails but it was such a lovely paper pack I bought from CreatewithKate at the GBCE I knew it needed a special project.
WARNING- Photo heavy post with video to follow
                                   
Tim Holtz Stamps (Hello Charles!) skeleton and Halloween stamp. Cut out bottles from the 12 x 12 pack and glossy accents them. Stamped some Waltzing mouse stamps onto the bottles but don't think it worked too well.

Derek had to nearly pick me up off the floor when I was finished adding glasses to Charles. Frames are cut out of the pack and extras added. 

Pockets on the side and bottom, photos can be added to photo mat 

Double tag embossed with a paper belt (the word escapes me right now..)

These...these bad boys are so fricking cute. I fussy cut some bottles from the pack and cut slits in them, backed on black card and then slid in little insides of the bottles

                               Needed some plain pages to fit larger photos, the left side folds out into a double page. On the right there is a small album inside the pocket made from one 12 x12 sheet

Again I needed more pages for larger photos so made the lady page to fold out into a another double page

Trinkets on the outside of the album

PIGGIESSSS! I felt so sad after cutting off the tails of the pigs but felt worst when I caged them!

I felt the last page needed some empty space so I might add a few

 bits after but right now I like it as it.
I don't think I understood the undertaking of this album and it KILLED me not to be able to finish it in one sitting. Anyone who knows me knows I craft fast so I was nearly shaking trying to get it done. If I made it a larger project and a page a day I would have added more techniques but as it was the album was just on bursting point!

Altered spoon

This months challenge on Cardznscrapz was to alter a spoon. I kept putting it off because in my head I had the idea "a spoonful of sugar" but no images to suit. The spoon is part of a mission where I stole it from work, badly...in front of a canteen of people and dropping it 3 times. Such a bad thief! 

Using metal markers I coloured it in and covered the spoon part in graphic 45 paper and the fella....well he was just an old stamp and never been used! Glossy accented the glass on the jars and wrapped wire all around the handle. A fragment with the G45 paper behind it on top of the spoon finished it off. It looks ridiculous but then again it's a spoon with paper on it so of course it's going to be!

New Beginnings

I used Creative Sketches Number 97 for this

Had no photos to scrap so I was rooting around in my photo box and came out with this one, I always loved it and since I did it when I first started scrapping I think it needed a revamp

This is how it looked when I first did it *cringe

And this is the one I did today trying to use as many techniques I am teaching for the class as possible!