Chocolate Slider Card

The "outside" of the card



The "inside" is revealed once the bar is pulled out


Hi everyone! It's been awhile since I've been able to post, let alone make, anything. My hubby decided that he wanted the computer room to be a guest room so we've been busy moving it out to it's new home (the front room). I decided that if we're moving it all, I might as well get a new work area out of it! LOL. So, we've been busy building like mad! It's coming along nicely and I can't wait until I can start working on my new desk area. :P

In the meantime, I've managed to sneak over to my friend Lynn's house to make this cute card that I've decorated to give to my secret pal... shhh ... she loves chocolate and we just got back from a two week spring break so this little guy will be waiting for her in her box. I'm sure she'll love it!

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Materials Used:

• Stampin' Up paper - Crumb cake
• Stampin' Up stamp pad - Early Espresso
• Stampin' Up stamp set - Eat Chocolate
• Brown Ribbon
• Piece of plastic grocery bag
• Chocolate bar
• Adhesive

St. Patty's Day Tin

Hi everyone! I made this cute little tin for my secret pal for St. Patrick's Day. I filled it with mint candies because they were green! I made the clovers using hearts that I cut with the Cricut that I chalked and scored then assembled. I think they came out so cute! Can't wait to show you what I have planned for next month! :) Let's just say the Easter Bunny is going to get SUPER creative with eggs! :)

Materials Used:

• Tin
• Green scrapbook paper
• Orange scrapbook paper
• Scrap paper
• White RicRac
• Green flowers
• Green holiday themed wire
• Hot glue
• Cricut machine
• Cricut Cartridge - George & Basic Shapes
• Brown chalk

Magic Card - Happy Birthday

Before the magic

Wow! It's all filled in with color!

What's that? A magic card? You've never heard of one? Well, they are just as awesome to make as they are to receive! (After completing mine I realized that I need to remake it because I made a piece to wide and it wasn't letting all the wording show, but I still wanted to share it with you guys.) This is for my daughter's friend who has a birthday coming up. You'll notice that the cupcake in the window is just black and white but when you pull up on the ribbon ... TA-DA!!! It's not only colored in but it has glitter and words that weren't there before!

Materials used:

• Stampin up card stock - Pear Pizazz
• White and pink card stock
• Ink
• Stamps
• Punches
• Adhesive
• Ribbon
• Markers
• Glitter

Flip Card - Baby Shower Invite Tester Card

The front before it's opened



The "flip" in action



The new panel exposed

Hi everyone! WOW DO I HAVE A MILLION NEW CARD IDEAS!!!! But, for now, I'm being considered by a client for her daughter's baby shower invitations (I had made all her wedding invitations as well). I designed this bear flip card in blue and green but those colors aren't cemented. I just liked how they looked so I went with it (plus, I had them left over from when I made my Christmas cards last year). It's blank at the moment and not 100% what I would like to do, but it's to give her an idea of what I have in mind. In my mind, the final product will have:
1. Where the blue paper is (the base) I want it to be embossed (think textured paper).
2. The bear will be embossed with a nice black finish.
3. The word "baby shower" will be embossed as well.

For right now, the materials I used are:

• Stampin' Up cardstock in Baja Breeze and Pear Pizazz.
• White cardstock
• Martha Stewart Glitter - blue sapphire
• Stamp - Bear and sentiment
• Prismacolor pencil - Light Cerulean Blue #PC904
• Blending stump
• Black ink
• adhesive

Mini Albums - Nutcracker Cookies 2010



All the albums completed. Each cookie got one in the
color of her costume.

 I really wish I could post all the pictures of the whole book, but there are a TON of them! I made these as gifts for my daughter's Nutcracker group who were Cookies. 

One of the mini pages with a tag. The cupcake in the corner
holds the tag in place.


 I decided to make the books sweet themed because in the story, the Cookies were from the Land of the Sweets. Enjoy!


One of the larger pages with a pocket to hold these cute
cookies in. On the back of each cookie is a topic for the
dancer to write about.




This is one of my favorite mini pages. I made all the
embelishments from scratch.




Waterfall pages. The "5" page has this cute matchbook
album attached to it. A mini book inside a book! Inside
are 4 pockets with 4 tags.



One of the many pull out photo mats. Behind the mat is a
spot for journaling. The mat is held down in the corner
by these cute candy buttons.

Award Ribbons

Hi all. This is my last post for the night because I HAVE to get to bed! LOL.

My daughter's class is going to be voting on their favorite science fair project so I thought I'd make these cute paper "ribbons" using the Tim Holtz paper rosetta template and the Cricut. I think they came out super cute! I hope the kids like them (I also made an extra set for myself for scrapbooking ... LOL).

Thank you Lynn, over at Purple Passion Designs, for letting me come over late tonight and using her template. Now that all this is done, I can finally finish those mini albums from the Nutcracker and get them posted for you all. Sweet dreams!

Candy bouquet for my secret pal

Hi everyone! This is the candy bouquet that I made for my secret pal using her favorite candy! I'm not sure if you can see it really well, but the cellophane has ladybugs on it and I painted the pot red and black to match them. Normally, I paint black dots but since it's a Valentine's Day gift, I changed them to hearts. That's her card from the last post perched up top there.