Well it is now Friday again so that must mean that I need to share my creations for my Guest Stamper challenge that my Stampin' Up team leader came up with a few months ago. She let us choose a stamp set which she then sent to us and in return we agreed to upload a project each Friday for a month. My name was drawn for November and I am now on week 3 of my month. My first two weeks projects have focused mainly on cards so this week I have moved to 3D items which I have always loved. So onto what made me choose this weeks projects. I have had a lovely little 6" wooden embroidery hoop wandering around my craft room for the past 6 months or more and when I say wandering I mean I have not only moved it from A to B , I have moved it from A to B and right through to XY and Z. I have wanted to make a little wreath with it for ages and make it into a nice frame for my craftroom just haven't got round to actually doing it. So.....as I said last week the guest stamper challenge has made me shift my backside and get things done, so my little wooden hoop was always going to figure in here somewhere. As I also said at the beginning of my Guest session , I wanted to showcase my chosen stamp set All Things Fabulous in a different set of colours each week. I was truly amazed at how very different this set looks depending on the colours you use and that is why I have used completely different combinations each week.

My colour choices this week are Garden Green, Misty Moonlight and Magenta Madness I had the 12 x 12 frame stuck down the side of my desk....and it has been there for a couple of years. It had held a scrapbook page for one of my Open House displays and as I love to repurpose things it was perfect, especially in these times when every penny counts. So I am going to urge all of you to have a little look at old projects you have, that maybe you are just bored with or they are with old retired stuff and see if you can repurpose them into something fresh and new without it costing you a bean.

When I was thinking of what to use for the sentiment on my wreath banner I looked through my stamps and realised I had the perfect one for the times we have just gone through and as this frame is going on my craftroom wall it will be a lovely reminder to me that FAMILY is everything. So thank you Stampin' Up for the stamp set "Lovely You" which contained the stamp "Love is what makes us Family"

The wreath and frame did take a long time to put together with all the die cutting of leaves and flowers but I decided to add another small project as well. I decided to make a little mini photo album. It uses the grey chipboard that comes in the back of some of our specialty DSP and I have a mountain of that as I save every single sheet lol I have titled my album Family just to complete my theme for this weeks Guest Stamper offering. This little album will be a gift for someone very special to me.

I hope you enjoy my projects this week