# 1 Altered Book Round Robin

I am in a round robin with 6 other people so this is my book and I am sending Graphic 45 paper and images and paper to each person to make their own little diary for their spreads ... I will show all when I get the book back about August of this year ... when it comes back I will finish the leather closure, hope I put enough length to it ... I love working Altered Books ...

Starting the Christmas Season off

made some ornaments .... and a few cards so far ....

Christmas bags for online swap

I used the G45 paper from the "12 days of Christmas"  8x8" pad and Tim Holtz Vintage Lace and Poinsettia dies, then I blinged them up with Stickles and Wink-a -Stella brushes ... I did a 3rd but forgot to take a photo before mailing it off .....

Good day of a little art

had some time so I decided to make a few tags ........

these are for using with the Welcome to the Neighborhood stuff

this one is for a Thanks for letting me use your space

3 spreads done in my Junk Journal

At the retreat we drew names for people to work in our Junk Journals and these are the 3 people's work that drew my name .....

done by Susan Tidwell

done by Jeri Aaron

done by Jean Bennett

This one I did with things I was given during the retreat and the little watch was a make-n-take

Almost ready for my Summer Art Retreat

I go on an annual Summer Art Retreat with a great group of ladies from an online group I belong to ... this is our 8th year of meeting and having fun ...... This year we each have done our own Beach Junk Journal and during the retreat 3 people will work in our books and I will finish mine .... I will post what the Junk Journal turns out to be after the retreat and share other photo's as well later ...... hope you enjoy, it's been a long dry art spell for me ........

Also did these

they are for mingles in online groups I am in ....

These backgrounds are made with Washi tapes ... it's quick easy and I think gives a real bang for the buck ... click photo to enlarge

Finally got to do some art .....

ok I saw a card made like this on another blog Kreativ Scrapping (http://tinyurl.com/ceak968) and just had to try to make one ... click to photo enlarge 

"Olde Curiosity Shoppe" journal

This is what I have been working on for several weeks, not that it's that complicated to make just that life kept happening and wouldn't let me work as often as I wanted to .... I will use this as a photo/journal of some future event, therefore so many blank spots and mats/tags to add things to .... I enjoyed using the G45 metal butterflies by embossing them and using the Vintaj Patina system to color and age them ... of course Tim Holtz dies makes it easy to cut interesting things on the edges of pockets to add lots of visual interest ....  if you like the construction of this book you can easily make one just follow this link to my online classes for full instructions ... http://lindamanningfindley.blogspot.com/2015/06/i-have-had-request.html  .... hope you enjoy

Christmas in July - nothing like it

Came back from a super art retreat where we made this Christmas book ... had such a great time, laughed so much my side still hurt and I have been home 2 days .......

Click to enlarge .... hope you enjoy