Christmas Bags and Tags

My mother, Bead Bum, has been making jewelry for the University of Montana's UC Bookstore gift section for a few years and I offered to make her some cute bags and tags for her Christmas Collection.  Here is a slide show of the bags I made.  Some are large for bracelet earring combos and some are small for just earrings.  She places a card with the jewelry on it inside the bag along with some tissue.  She'll be adding ribbon for the tags.  I plan on making some for other holidays for her as well. 

I made the bags using my Cricuut Expression, Plantin Schoolbook, and Very Merry Tags.  I used K and Company dual sided Christmas paper and SEI paper Winter Song.

Check out my Sketches!

Over at If It's Groovy, Groovy Deb has been featuring my sketches every Friday.  These are not your everyday sketches, people.  These sketches push you to develop a way of scrapbooking that brings your life and your emotions on to the pages.  I hope to develop some 2-page layouts, cook book layouts, faithbook layouts and make sketches from them.  Until then check out the past two sketches I've done at If It's Groovy.  I challenge you to submit your take on my sketches to the blog for us to enjoy!  This weeks sketch and last weeks.
Natalie

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