...and the rest!

Hello! How are you today? Doing wonderful, I hope! I have had a really nice day today! I started the day off by watching my son's soccer game (which they won! WooHoo!)!! Then we stopped by a gigantic craft fair and browsed! Now we are home and I am getting ready to settle into my craft space for some much needed catching up! I have three swaps to finish and oodles of cards to make! Seems like my Craft To Do list is never quite caught up! Anyone else like that?! :)

I thought I would come spend a few minutes with you lovely folks though and share the rest of the cards I made for my Grandma! :) Hope you like them! Here they are:












Have a wonderful weekend! I will be back soonest! :)

Cards for my Grandma!

Hello! It is such a beautiful Fall day here! There is a slight chill in the air and a little breeze! LOVE it!

While I was up visiting my Grandma several weeks ago I took her grocery shopping. While we were there she spent about 25 minutes on the card aisle. She was looking for cards for her friend's birthdays. She was very particular about the ones she chose and commented several times about how much cards cost 'these days!' She wound up picking out 3 and putting back 2 because like the rest of us she is paying a little extra attention to money. She told me on the drive home that she has cut back on the number of cards she sends because of the cost. So, I did what any card making good grand-daughter would have done...I came home and made her several cards to send out to her friends on their special occasions! I included envelopes and stamps and most importantly a box of double stuffed oreo cookies! She loves them, but won't buy them for herself. I put them all in the mail yesterday and cannot wait to hear her reaction! :) Here are a couple of the cards I sent:












Have a wonderful day! I will be back soonest to show you the rest! :)

Wings of Love!

Hello! How are you today? I am super sleepy, but wanted to share the cards I worked on today with you! I made these for one of my very favorite people in the whole wide world...my Grandma! She will be 93 this coming May! She is amazing! She is still as spunky and sharp as ever! She is going through a tough time right now and I wanted her to know I was thinking about her. She loves birds so I made these for her. I found a kit on clearance a couple of weeks ago and knew when I bought them they would wind up with her! They are all super sparkly! Making them was like playing with sand art, but they use glitter in lieu of sand! Each section of the bird had a sticker that I pulled off and then glittered! I love glitter so these were really fun to make! There is glitter all over my craft area now though, but secretly (or not so secretly!), I really like it! LOL Here they are:







Hope she likes them! Ok, I am heading to bed! Have a great night everyone! I will be back soonest! :)

Yummy Card Candy!

Hello! How is everyone today? Doing well, I hope! Today was a beautiful Fall day here! There was a slight chill in the air all day and now that the sun has gone down it is down right cool here! Love that! I just came in from my daily walk and it felt so nice to walk in the cool! The leaves are just starting to change color and it feels like pumpkin pie and apple crisp outside! LOL If that makes any sense! Also, got to wear my favorite big, baggy sweater! That always makes me feel cozy! :)

I wanted to share some photos with you today of a swap that I am participating in. I am only 1/3 or the way through but thought I would share! The swap theme is card candy. The way it works is that you sign up for a category and make several pieces of card candy to decorate either cards or scrapbook pages! The one I started with is Farm/Zoo animals and this is what I came up with:


















These are each at least three layers! I stamped each image three times and cut and layered them for fun added dimension!

Ok, I have oodles of crafty goodness to get to tonight, but I wanted to stop by and say hello! Hope that you have a wonderful day! I will be back soonest! :)

Card Kits are so much fun! :)

Hello! Hello! Hello! How is everyone today? Doing wonderfully, I hope! I am! My oldest son came home last night and surprised us and things just feel right in my world with all my kiddos home together under one roof! He keeps making noises about missing my cooking and being happy to be here! I just love it when he visits! :) He moved out about 7 months ago and I miss him terribly. Anyways, it is super to have him home even if it is for a short visit!

Ok, I have a few cards to share with you today from a fun swap that I am participating in! It is a 6 month swap and works like this: Each month a different hostess sends out a card kit to everyone in her group. We all make 6 cards upon receiving these and then each send the finished cards out to each group member! I love the challenge it presents to make cards with these kits. Here are the two cards I made from the August and September kits:







Just love that Christmas Story leg lamp! :) The birds from the other cards turned into such a 'happy' looking card! I am really enjoying this swap! I apologize for the stinky photos, but it was pouring down rain when I took these and had to settle for indoor light.

I am off to make dinner and dessert! Hope that your Monday is a great one! :) Be back soonest!

Bags, tags and match-y match-y cards!

Hello! This is my second post of the day so be sure to scroll down! How are you?! Doing wonderful, I hope!

I just finished up a really fun swap called Matching Bags, Tags and Cards! I signed up for 3 spots! 5 bags, 5 cards and 5 tags times 3 spots equals a ton of bags, tags and cards! I did Christmas, Thinking of You and Birthday! Here they are:












Have a wonderful day! Be back soonest! :)

Boo to you!

Hello! sorry to be MIA yet again! I had such high hopes for the month of September, but it has been a rough month! My mom has been visiting from Alaska and that has been wonderful, but on our visit up north to see her mom we wound up having to call an ambulance for my Uncle. He spent 9 days in the ICU with a collapsed lung and pneumonia. He is home now and my mom has gone back home to Alaska, but it has been a nutty, stressful three weeks. I am very hopeful that things calm down some now though!

I have lots to share with you guys! Can you believe it is already the end of September?! Where in the world does the time go?! Halloween is right around the corner and then Thanksgiving and then before we know it we will be singing jingles and ringing in the new year!! I just finished up a Halloween swap and wanted to share it with you guys! I signed up for a spot in the recipe card section and the ABAC (Anything but a Card!) section! These are what I came up with! I love Halloween so these were a ton of fun to make! One is Hershey bar holder and the other a recipe for Witches Brew, a yummy punch! Hope you like them! :)





Have a wonderful day! I will be back soonest! :)

Wish you were here album!

Good morning! How are you today? I may have mentioned that my mom is here visiting from Alaska! It has been 3 years since she has been down for a visit! We are having a blast! Her hubby stayed behind to keep things at home running smoothly so my kids and I decided to make him a "Wish You Were Here" album to both journal mom's trip and to keep him included in the fun! We took his picture and mounted it and turned it into a flat traveler! This way he gets to be in pictures and go places with us! I am making a 6 x 6 album to hold all of the pictures and will send it back with my mom for him! I wanted to share the first three pages we made with you! This is the cover, the first page and the last page with a pocket to hold his picture! Hope he likes it!


Grampaw is spelled that way intentionally! That is the way he has spelled it since he adopted my kids! :) Sentimental! :)


This was a shot of my kids waiting for my mom at the airport! I took three of her coming down the hallway, but they were all too blurry to use!


We sprinkled each of the snowflakes with Dazzling Diamonds, but it is hard to see in the photo! Preeeeetty!


Ok, we are off to our home schooling meeting now! Have a great day! I will be back soonest!

Sweet 16

Hello! How are you?! Hope everyone is doing well and that you had a great weekend! We had an amazing weekend! We went down to Georgia for Dragon Con! It was an absolute blast! There were tons of people running around in costumes and celebrities to rub elbows with! Lots of fun foods and guest speakers and fun things to see and do! It was really awesome! We are already making plans to go back next year! I will try to post some pictures from the weekend later! :)

Right now I thought I would share the invitation I made for my daughter's sweet 16 party with you! I wanted something cute and fun! I let her pick the colors and she went with Stampin Ups! new In Colors. I wasn't crazy about them at first, but they have really started to grow on me! I used the Z fold technique or stair step technique for this card! The base is 4 1/4" x 11" and is scored at 3 1/2", 5 1/2", 7 1/2" and 8 1/2". It folds up tiny and then expands! They were a big hit! Here it is:







I still have to unpack from the weekend, but I will be back soonest! :) Have a great day!

A tisket, a tasket...a fun little basket! : )

Good morning! :) It is a beautiful almost Fall day here! There is a slight crisp n the air this morning! I love that!

I have a fun little basket to share with you today! These are perfect for a last minute throw together gift! Score it, stamp it and fold it all up and then fill it full of chocolate and you are all set! You can make these from any size square. 8x8 is a cute size for a child or maybe a table decoration or party favor! This one is made from a 12x12 and will hold LOTS of chocolate (winky wink!!)! Score a tic tac toe pattern evenly on your square (for a 12x12 score at 4" in and then 8" flip and repeat). Then score each corner square diagonally from the outer corner into the center stopping at the center square. This will allow you to fold each outer corner in at the center! That is the basic design! Stamp, matte and embellish as you wish! These also make great teacher or coach gifts! They can be filled with tissues, cough drops, chap stick, word search puzzles etc also for a get well gift! :) The possibilities are endless! I know these directions are clear as mud so if you would like me to try to explain them further feel free to e mail and I will do my best!

Here is a side view and top view of my basket:






I have oodles to do today, so I am off! Hope that you have a wonderful day! I will be back soonest!

September Flowers!

Hello there!! How are you today?! Doing wonderfully, I hope! I am sooooo excited today because my mom is here visiting me from Alaska!! Woo Hoo!!! It has been almost three years since she has been here! We have had a wonderful day together today! :)

I have some September flowers to share with you all today! I have seen so many of these cute, cute flower pot cards floating around, but have put off making them because I thought they would be super time consuming! Boy was I ever wrong! Not only are they fun (and quick!)to make, but they are really adorable! I made this one for my most recent and wonderful Not So Secret Sister Colleen! Hiya Colleen!! *waves like mad!*

If you haven't made one of these cuties I recommend that you do!! :) Here is the link to a great tutorial!

I am off to take my kiddos to gymnastics! Have a super day!

Be back soonest!

Hello! :) How are you?! *Blows dust off!* It has been way too long since I have stopped by here! I have been feeling so guilty about my poor lonely blog! I love it here so much and it always makes me feel so happy to post, but I have just been so busy lately! Thought I would stop by and see if I remembered how to work things around here!

I have worked on lots of fun projects lately! Unfortunately, most of them are Secret Sister Swaps and I cannot actually share them yet! I have been working on a lot of 6 X 6 scrapbook pages and absolutely LOVE that size! They are so much fun to work with! I have been playing with my new Cricut quite a lot lately too! I am in love with that thing! It is so much fun! You can do so much with it!

Thought I would share a scrapbook page that I put together for a wonderful lady! She was recently inducted into the Red Hat Society and a couple friends and I made her scrapbook pages to document her induction! I went with a red/black and white color combo because it just screams class to me! I used the Stampin Up! set One of a Kind and left plenty or room for a photo and some journaling! This page was a lot of fun to make! :)

I will be back soonest to share some othwr things that I have been working on! Have a wonderful day!

Super Hero!

This cute little guy is Super "O"!! He is the letter "O" in a LOTW swap for the word Superhero! I had so much fun making this one! He took forever though! Isn't that always the way! I am so bad about thinking I can just whip out a project and then it taking forever! Everyone that I assembled though made me grin bigger and bigger! I used a little person punch for the little guy and then dressed each one, drew on a little happy face and added the cape (because we all know that is where a super hero's power really comes from!). This was a really fun swap! :)

CCC #9 Alter Me!

Hello and good morning! How are you today?! Doing wonderful, I hope! I have been busy, busy, busy!!

I wanted to stop by and share my project for our latest Crafty Critter Challenge. The challenge was thrown out there by Colleen (Hiya Colleen!!)! She proposed a good one! The particulars were:


Challenge rules:
--create/alter any item (maybe a favorite thing to make?) - card, box, picture frame, etc.
--use YOUR favorites - colors, embellishments, stamps - you get the idea
--must be posted to your blog no earlier than August 1st and no later than August 5th with the label CCC9

So, after much debate and narrowing down of favorite projects I went with this:



This is what my project was before I did my alter and this is what it grew up to be:



I made a dry erase board using flowers as the theme! I mixed several different types and colors of those little guys! I stamped my image on SU! Whisper White and then sponged the edges with SU! Marigold Morning and More Mustard. I faux stitched the edges of my white and green (SU Certainly Celery) and mounted those on DSP. I added some flowers with bright, happy brads and a sparkly gem in the center of the stamped flower! I attached the pen with a ribbon and fun flower! There you have it...all atered! These work great as dry erase boards and are fun because you can change the insert at any time!

Thanks for a great challenge, Colleen! I had a blast with this one! :)

I have been in high production mode lately and have lots more to share! I will be back soonest!

Until then...have a super day!