Teams, Banners and Books

Our Etsy class instructor has graciously set up a private Etsy Team for all participants of our course as well as future courses.
This is great news! It will not only be awesome to stay in touch and  ask questions as we help each other grow but it is also a great way to expand our customer base and get our shop known. As mentioned before, we will all be getting together to have a cross promotion/hop very soon. I keep going back and playing with my banner and am still not happy with it. I ended up hiring a designer to help me with one as I also want business cards to match with the same logo, etc. I know I could have asked my son who works for a web design company but he is so busy with married life, work and raising my little grandson. The most important thing!
Hopefully by the end of the week I will have a new shop banner and can apply it to my blog also. The name and links will remain the same.

On another note (lol - no pun intended), I made another altered Note Book yesterday.
I used another G45 paper - this time 'Boardwalk'. It has a vintage beach look to it with a big button and black/white striped bow  much the same as old vintage bathing suits. Again. it's available in my shop.

Have a great week!

My Kind of Day!

After a wet, cold winter today we had clear skies and sunshine, then my adorable 7 month old grandson came to visit and tonight I did some scrapbooking. The only way to make it better would be to throw in some shopping. Seeing my grandson always makes me smile. I just saw him 2 weeks ago but they grow so much at that age. Today he was using my wheelchair to grab onto and pull himself up - well almost. It won't be long until he's scooting all over the place. He's so strong and very determined - both good traits but not so much at this age! He's such a treat and to think that the fun is just beginning!
I also finished another altered note book I had started earlier in the week. I wanted it to be a distressed vintage look. I used papers from Bo Bunny and Echo Park tearing and distressing them then having a newsprint paper peek out as if the next page. Prima flowers were  added as well as a clock cut from their packaging, a silver chain, Tim Holtz gears, bling, ribbon, a tag and everything inked to give it a vintage look.

I LOVE making these altered note books. They can be used for anything and are so much fun to make.
This one is available in my Etsy shop. Have a peek while I'm off to pick papers for the next one!
Have a great weekend!