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   Giving Some Sugar to Your Loved Ones          This Cold and Flu Season?    Here's a Spoonful of Sugar to Help          The Medicine Go Down.   When sniffles and achy bones derail holiday cheer, creating a light heart can make the experience bearable.  This "Get Well" card uses many lovely items from  Altered Pages !!     (Here are the ingredients I "cooked" with): A Merry Christmas Vintage Image Burlap Wood Spoon Silk Ribbon Specimen Bottle Aleene's Tacky Glue Pigment Ink - Peanut Brittle Glitter For Sugar Like This Glass Glitter Clear Embossing Powder Cardstock with Printed Sentiments Brown paper bag scrap Resized image, printed on cardstock, adhered to burlap. (Notice I glued the burlap up over the Merry Christmas sentiment.)   *** Coated spoon in pigment ink and embossed with clear powder. (I heated and...

Thinking on Thanksgiving . . . I painted the spoon a shimmery gold, which almost shows in this photo!  The die cut is actually trimmed from the edges of a wedding invitation we received, and it's glued to the back with Tacky Glue. Clothespins make fabulous clamps! Here it is, with vintage trims attached  with lightbulb shaped pins through a hole punched in the handle:  You can see the glittery bits at the edge of the spoon, as well . . . wooden spoon Aleene's Tacky Glue Gold Paint lightbulb shaped safety pins praying angel --Angel Voices page glitter If you're looking for a fun something to make the baseball fan in your life (Christmas gift??), be sure to check out this baseball themed book kit --it includs full photo directions for making the basic book form, plus lots of baseball quotes from iconic players like Babe Ruth, Yogi Berra, Mickey Mantle, and many more. I personalized one for the recipient by adding a photo of my nephe...