Catching up - picture heavy

Hi Friends!  I did not hit any of the Black Friday, Saturday or Sunday sales, nor the Cyber Monday sales!  I know that is hard to believe, but I am making my gifts this year so I spent as many hours in my craft room as possible this weekend.  I got a few things finished but have not posted anything so here we go...

 
First up are a tag and bag that I made for a gift.  I have a Bunco group that I play with every month and for December, we are to bring a gift for exchange - cannot be over $10.  We play one of those games where you don't know what you are going to end up with.  This is the tag and bag for that gift. For the gift, I made a matchbook paper bag album using a tutorial on YouTube from Kathy Orta at http://www.paperphenomenon.com.  She makes these amazing paper bag albums!  I am not completely happy with this album and may make another, but for now, this is it.

 
So this is the album and then a closeup of the bow and stick pin on the top.

  First page and the photo mat from inside.  That photo mat looks blurry in the pic, but it is not in real life :)  I wish I had thought to mask those snowflakes on the stamp so that they were not black.  Trying to figure out how to fix that...

   A couple of other pages

 And closeup of the belly band :)

Isn't that a fun album?  I am definitely going to do another one of those.  I chose to do just a winter theme for my Bunco group, but I am thinking to do an Christmas one too.  The paper is all from K and Company, I Christmas pack I got last year, except for the solid card stock which was in the my stash.  I cut the snowflakes from my Cricut - can't think of the cart right  now, a Doodle one I think - helps lots huh?  The stamps and the cover sentiment are from SU, very old set, and the other sentiments are from My Craft Spot Winter wonderland.  

I will be entering this into the following challenges:

Whimsical Designs - add texture - it is hard to tell but the snowflake paper on the outside is textured 

Charisma Cards Challenge - snowflakes

Paper Sundaes - Winter Wonderland

Hooked on Craft Challenge # 13 - Winter Wonderland

Craft Your Passion - Winter or Holiday

The Crazy Challenge - Snowflakes or stars

Cricut Cards Challenge - Cricut cut starting with S - snowflake from Doodletype cart

Then we have this cute little card.  This is a House Mouse image that I received in a blog hop prize.  I absolutely adore House Mouse, but have not been able to buy any of their stamps.  I think this is from one of the decoupage sheets, but not sure.  Anyway, I love it!  I added some snowflake brads and then tiny buttons on top of that and some fuzzy yarn round the middle - I thought that was cute with the yarn in the picture.  The sentiment stamp is from My Craft Spot - it is called Winter Wonderland and I Love it!

I used Sketch 143 from Card Patterns for this card and I will be entering this into the following challenges:
Lily Pad - Simon says use buttons
Frosted Designs - use metal - my snowflake brads are metal
Deep Ocean  Challenges #13 - C as in .... Cute and cuddly mice :)
House Mouse and Friend Challenges - Fuzzy and warm 
Kaboodle Doodles - Bundle up for Winter


Okay, I think that will do it for me.  Hope I didn't bore you too much :)  Hugs!

God Bless,
Becky