Congrats Card

Hi all. I made this card for one of my husband's passengers who is retiring today. He only told me about it last night, so it had to be super fast and easy since I had to rush the kid out to ballet! LOL.

Materials Used:

• Cardstock - blue
• Sentiment Stamp - "Congrats"
• Ink - Stayzon Black
• Paper petal flowers
• Brads
• Fiskar's Embossing tool
• Fiskar's Embossing templates

Birthday Cards - Presents

The cards with coordinating envelopes

The cards with their respective match books.

Hi everyone. Well, it's certainly been a most busy craft day at my house! And, we even managed to squeeze in a movie! LOL. Here are the birthday cards I made to go with the match book money holders. I can't wait to give these to my nieces. Have a great night everyone. I'm off to go make some tea and relax. :D

Materials Used:

• Cardstock - White, Black, Purple, Blue
• Paper - Parchment, Pink, Purple, Yellow, Pink Snakeskin, Light Blue, Light Yellow
• Martha Stewart Ink Set - Aquamarine Crystal and Gold
• Creative Memories Corner punch
• Cricut Machine
• Cricut Cartridge - Wild Cards
• Crop a Dile
• Brads
• Glue

Match book money holders

The front of the match books (the glossy accent was still drying)

Just under the flap

Each of the tabs was made with a pocket to tuck the money into.

Hi everyone! I modified these two match books to make them into money holders for my nieces' 8th birthday (twins!).

Materials Used:

• Card stock - Pink, purple, white, pink with stripes, blue
• Paper - Pink, purple, purple with polka dots, pink with hearts, pink grid, purple grid, yellow with stars
• 1" hole punch
• Glue
• Glossy Accents
• Cricut
• Cricut cartridge - Base Camp
• Light Blue glitter

Paperbag Mini Album

Hi everyone. Here's my first ever mini album made from paper bags! To say that I'm hooked is an understatement! These were so easy to make and I could not believe how cute they came out! This one was made as a birthday gift for my daughter's teacher's birthday. Her first born had recently turned one so I guess you could say it was two gifts in one. I'm going to attach as many pictures as I can on this on because it really came out too cute! Behind each full page is a tag. Enjoy!

The spine and unfinished front cover

The front cover, finished

Inside the front cover, pocket w/ 2 tags

One of the pages ready for a picture

The tag that was directly behind it, you can see the flower
peeking out of the edge of the previous picture.

Another page with a corner pocket to hold a photo mat.

The three buttons are a smaller page, some of these held
interesting pictures (like this one), some held journaling
pages and others held small tags.

This small page held journaling.

This is my favorite of the whole album! Waterfall pages
that spell out B-A-B-Y (you can see a smaller page on the left
of the picture holding a tag).

The last full page in the album. Little corner pocket holding
a picture mat. Note the button ...

Note the button at the top ... this was peeking out of the edge
of the last page. This is one of the larger tags to be found in
 the album.

Back cover. Journaling and another pocket to hold more little
tags.

I hope you liked looking at it as much as I liked making it. :) Have a great day!

Christmas Matchbook

Front of matchbook

Matchbook opened up with a tag pulled out

Hi everyone.  A friend of mine sent me a tutorial on how to make these cute matchbooks and I've been thinking about using one in my next mini album, so I wanted to try one out before I actually committed to it. My daughter asked if she could have it so I made it all Christmas-y, used my Crop a dile to add some eyelets at the top and used some yarn to make a handle. I will be making two more today that I'm going to turn into birthday cards/money holders for my nieces so there will be more pictures to come. :)

Materials Used:

• Card stock - Red
• Card stock - Green
• Card stock - White
• Paper - Red, Green (to make the pouches)
• Two sheets of coordinating scrapbook paper

Am I crazy?

Hi everyone. Just taking a moment to myself to read through comments and reply back. I'm so sorry it took so long on some. I do read them, but sometimes I miss questions because I never get alone time. (In fact, I can hear my goober yelling at the dog to get off her hair. Sigh. Another short post!).

I started a Facebook fan page. I hope you will all go take one look, fall madly in love and buy it all! LOL, okay, okay, at the very least "Like" it and let me know that I'm not going crazy to try and do this and that I'm not alone out here.

Well, that's all the time I seem to have because the dog has found me and now I have to play with her.

Have a great holiday to you all and for those us who are cooking ... many blessings on a moist turkey! :)
Ta!

Glass Ornament with Quilled Snowflake

The Ornament

Closeup of the Ornament

Hi all! This is an ornament I made to enter into the Michael's Holiday Craft Contest. We had to use all three of the mystery items which were an ornament, beads, and ribbon. I came up with this concept while I was falling asleep the other night. I basically quilled all the elements of the snowflake outside of the ornament then assembled it piece by piece inside the ornament (like a ship in a bottle). It was a lot of fun to make and my fingers are crossed that it wins something, however, it's up against some stiff competition!

Materials Used:

• Glass ornament
• Seed beads in various shades of blue, silver and clear.
• Acrylic discs decorative accents
• Alcohol inks in various shades of blue
• Quilling tools
• Bright white quilling paper
• White glue
• Overhead transparency
• Ribbon with "lacey" edging (to mimic a snowflake)

Veteran's Day Card

Hi all! Veteran's Day is this Thursday and I made these cards for my sister to thank her! She and her husband are both Majors in the Army and I'm so proud of them both. They have both done 2 tours in Afghanistan and 1 in Iraq. Anyway, enough bragging. :) I was inspired by the modge podge Thank You card I had made back in January. Same concept, tear the paper into small bits, chalk all the edges of each piece and modge podge them onto another sheet, cut and use. Here's my list of materials:

Materials Used:

• White paper
• Blue paper (I used two different ones)
• Red paper
• White Card Stock
• Chalking Inks (I used a black very lightly)
• Modge Podge
• Adhesive

Haunted House Cake



Front of Cake



Right Side of Cake



Left Side of Cake

Back Side of Cake

Well, here it is. It's finally done. The cake that I made for my daughter's class to enter in their cake walk. It came out  so cool!

Just some Stats:

• 6 lbs. of powdered sugar to make all the windows, door, shutters, ghosts, fence and roof points.
• 5 lbs. of buttercream icing.
• 4 cans of spray food coloring to get that nice purple color.
• 9 hours to pipe out all the windows, door, shutters, ghosts, fence and roof points.
• 7.5 hours to assemble.
• The only real layer of cake (otherwise it would feed 110!) is the second story.
• 3 hours to paint on the features for the door, windows, shutters and ghosts.
• The roofing is gingerbread.