More Valentine's day love!

Hello!  How are you today? I have a few more Valentine's day projects and fun to share with you!  These are a few cards that I made for {HEART} day!  One was for a very special person who has been a really big help to my family lately and the second one was for my sweet hubby!  He has my heart all 365 days of the year, but it is always nice to bring that to his attention!

Paper: Crumb Cake, Baja Breeze, Cranberry Cobbler, Pretty in Pink and Whisper White

Stamps: Seasons of Friendship

Ink: Chocolate Chip, Cranberry Cobbler

Extras: Heart Punch and Rhinestones

Paper: Real Red, Early Espresso and Whisper White

Stamps: Elements of Style and Love Bandit

Extras: 3 Heart Punch and Rhinestones

We had a decorate your own cupcake party on Valentine's day!  We made up a bunch of strawberry cupcakes and everyone got to decorate theirs the way they wanted!  We had icing, colored icings and sprinkles!  Yummmmm!  Here is hubby decorating his:

My son, daughter and daughter-to-be with their creations:

                                      
                                                  
                    My youngest daughter with her masterpiece:

My oldest son was in the middle of doing something computer-y and so he got cup-caked!! He is a really good sport!

We had a lot of fun!  I just love having all of my peeps back together again! :)  I hope that you have a wonderful day!  I will be back soonest with something else to share!

Share the love!

   Hello!  Hope that you had a very happy and love filled Valentine's day!  I was lucky enough to spend the day with some of my very favorite Valentine's. :)  I happen to think Valentine's Day is a wonderful invention!  I mean how can you go wrong celebrating a day by sharing chocolate and wrapping things up with all kinds of pink frilly layers! I had a blast making oodles of Valentine's using this super easy, fun envelope idea I eye spy-ed on Lyssa's blog here.  I stuffed these with chocolate and love!  Here are some of the Valentine's I made and shared:

I found these crimp best if you stamp the bottom half rather than adding paper, but they were just so pretty with paper that I just could not resist!  These bigger envelope's hold quite a bit of chocolate goodness too!  These are especially fun because you can use them for any holiday by just changing the colors!

I will be back soonest with more Valentine's goodies to share!  Hope that you are having a great day!

Whoooo's having a bird-day?!

Hi there!  Hubby's cousin's baby girl is celebrating her 1 year old birthday this weekend and since her invitation arrived sporting an adorable owl I thought I would stick to the theme and make an owl card!  I used some pink and some bling and of course the super cute owl from Stampin Up!s owl punch on her card.  What do you think:

This punch is so much fun and has so many possibilities!  Owls do come in pink, don't they?!

Here is the outside:

The card with it's matching owl envelope:

The owl-y inside:

Stamps: Curly Cues, Aviary (owl's belly made from cage bars) and Punch Bunch

Paper: Blushing Bride, Melon Mambo, Whisper White and Perfectly Pear

Ink: Melon Mambo and Old Olive

Other: Tulip EF, Owl Punch and Pop Dots

I hope that you are having a wonderful weekend!  I will be back soonest with more to share!  Big hug!

Thinking about you!

Hello!  Friday already...I think?!  I am so confused as to what day it is anymore!  I hardly know if I am coming or going!  We are spending about 30% of our time at home and the other 70% of our time about 4 hours away at my oldest son's house. So I have about 30% of my stamping supplies at his house and the other 70% at home!  In short, it makes creating anything at all a challenge 100% of the time!! LOL

Despite the madness I do have a card to share with you today!  It is a happy card that made me happy to make!  I love flowers!  I would have oodles of fresh flowers all over the place all the time if I could!  I used one of the fun new Sale-A-Bration sets to make it.  I would love to tell you the name, but since it is 4 hours away and my mind has become somewhat old and feeble that will have to wait!   Here is the card in all of it's nameless beauty:

Sorry about the stinky lighting.  I took it inside because it was windy outside!  *Note to self...take pictures outside from now on!*  I used Melon Mambo, Perfectly Pear and Whisper White paper and the matching  inks plus Chocolate Chip.  I added Rose Red ribbon and some of the cute Stampin Up! pearls.  The sentiment is from the Curly Cues stamp set.

Also thought I would share a few photo's from a recent outing that we took!  We loaded the whole family up and went to the National Smithsonian Air and Space museum.  It was really neat!   Here is everyone looking at one of the many planes:

Hubby in a Cesna:

The actual Enterprise Space Shuttle (too cool!!).  It was enormous!  Notice the astronaut suspended in the top left corner!  Loved that!  

Some of the many, many planes we saw:

It was really an interesting thing to see!  So much history in one place!  The kids rode in a flight simulator and we went to the tippy top of an Observation Tower to watch the planes land at the Dulles airport.  My favorite part of the whole day though was having all my kids in one place!  Family time is so important to me and this just made my warm and fuzzy button go nuts! LOL

Hope that you have a wonderful Friday!  I will be back soon with more to share!

 

Thinking about you hybrid card!

   Hey there!  Today's card is kind of a hybrid card!  I spent hours working on Christmas cards that I never got to send out this past Christmas due to extenuating circumstances.  So, when I needed a card to stick into a friend's package I grabbed one of these cards and changed the sentiment from a holiday one to a simple thinking of you!  Worked out just fine! :)  Here is my hybrid holiday/thinking of you card:

This is a design from a card I received and CASED from a swap at Convention this past year!  It was one of my all time favorite of all 400 of them!  Sadly, there was no name on it.  If this is your design please let me know because I would love to give you credit.  I had a wonderful time making these!

I hope that you are having a wonderful weekend!  They breeze by way to fast so be sure to take some time to really enjoy it!  I will be back soonest with more to share!

 

Flipping Part two!

   Hello...Friday!!  Ready for the weekend?  I have another gymnastics thank you gift to share with you today!  These cutie's are on a little bit bigger of a box.  This gift was for my daughter's primary coach so I wanted it to be a little bigger than the others.  Coaches and teachers and people that take time out of their lives to work with your children are truly special people.  I wanted her coaches to know that they have made an impact on her life by sharing their time with her. I feel like thank yous are really important.

  Here is the thank you we shared:

Side #1

                                                                          Side #2

                                                                         Side #3

Side view

The matching card.

The box is a 2-4-6-8 box cut almost in half.  The little gymnasts are all made from punches.  The punches used to make these cute flippers are: 

Punches: Small Tag, Small Flower from 3 punch pack, Word Window, 1" Circle (all Stampin Up!)

  I used the Scallop Border trim on the top of the box to pretty it all up!  I used the Stamp Set Tiny Tags to make the matching card.

If you haven't thanked your children's coaches or teacher's or mentor's lately, consider doing so!  It makes them happy and lets them know they are appreciated!

Have a wonderful day!  I will be back soonest with more craft-y stuff to share!

I flip for you!

  Hello!  How are you today?  I  have a cute project to share with you! I needed to make up some quick thank you gifts for my youngest daughter's gymnastic coaches so I searched SCS for anything gymnastics related and found the cutest little punch art flippers and tumblers!  You can see them here.  I made quickie little candy boxes by cutting 5 x 5 squares and scoring them at 1" and 3" and turning the square and doing it again so that I scored a tic tac toe board.  I stamped tiny little thank you's all over them and then cut the score lines and folded them into cute little boxes perfect for stuffing with chocolate!  Next I made these sweet little punch art tumblers and pop dotted them onto the front of the boxes.  Here they are:

Punches: Small Tag, Small Flower from 3 punch pack, Word Window, 1" Circle (all Stampin Up!)
Colors: Melon Mambo, Brocade Blue, So Saffron, Very Vanilla and Crumb Cake

I have another gymnastics related project to show you tomorrow!  See you then!  Have a great day!

Thinking of you and a happy birthday!

Hello!  Wednesday already?!  Where in the world does the time go?  Today my oldest son turned 21!  As I sat in the kitchen of his townhouse this morning  I watched him interact with his siblings and remembered just yesterday when it seems like he was still toddling around in diapers.  He has grown into such an amazing young man and  I am really proud of him. He is a super kid and wonderful person. : )

Today I have a birthday card and also a picture of my kiddos to share with you:

The card:

I used up a bunch of random scraps to make this. The stamp set is Sweet Celebrations from Stampin Up!  Square punch is from Stampin Up! too.  I crimped the cupcake papers and pop-dotted the icing above the papers and added Stickle sprinkles.  It is a happy 'happy birthday card' with it's bright colors and playful random placement of cakes and sprinkles! LOL    I made several of these for a swap (Hiya Nikki!).


The kiddo's:

These guys make my heart happy!  My oldest is in the front in blue.  My DIL-to be is on the left and then my youngest son and two daughters.  Really, really love these guys!

I hope that you have a wonderful night!  I will be back soonest with more to share! :)

Thank you!

   Hello!  Happy Tuesday!  My life has been a whirl wind of chaos this past year!  Seems it has been one crazy catastrophe after another.  I am hopeful that the near future will bring some quiet and peace!  I would even settle for down right boredom! :)  We are very lucky to have a wonderful group of supportive family and friends to help when things get stinky.  So today's post is kind of a blanket thank you!  Thank you to all of the special folks in my life that have kept me going throughout all of the madness! LOL  I love you all!

  Here is a thank you card I made for my MIL.  She has been kind enough to help out with all of our animals during our absences among many, many other things.  She is a really wonderful lady and I am happy to have her!  I tucked it into a basket full of goodies (tea, chocolate, a movie and some popcorn)  for her!

I used the 5 petal flower punch and crumpled up the flowers.  I peeled them apart and tied them together with some happy, fun buttons and twine so that the 'furry' side was facing out on both layers!  The leaves are from SU!s Sizzex die.  The border was made using the new Tulip Border folder and the colors are SU!s Pink Pirouette, Old Olive and Very Vanilla. 

Hope that you have a wonderful Tuesday!  I will be back soonest with more to share with you!   

New look!

   *Pheeeeeeeeew!!!  Blows off dust!!*  A new blog look for the new year! :)  I spent the better part of today giving my little ole' blog a face lift!  What do ya think?!  Just a quick post to let you know there will be some craft-y goodness on it's way very soon!  Have a wonderful night!

Please "BEAR" with me!

Hello there!

I am so sorry to have been gone for so long!  I have been dealing with some personal issues and it has required more of my time and energy than originally anticipated.  My Uncle passed away this month and my mom and I are with my Gma (who was his care giver) trying to get all of his affairs in order.

I hope to return home soon and once I do I plan to get my blog up and running strong again.  Please 'bear' with me until then!  I will be back...I promise!

Hope that you all have a safe and happy New Year celebration!

Big, warm bear hugs!

Will be taking a few days off...

We have had a death in the family so I will be taking a few days off.  Thanks for understanding.