Star Card

Here is a card that I have been working on here and there when I have time to pop into my craft room. I had some of the awesome star paper left over after another card so I thought I would try to make uni-sex birthday card. Then I added ribbon and rhinestones... Can it still be for a boy?? maybe..

I like it anyway and had fun getting back into crafty mode. I just picked up a whole bunch more stamps at a craft/garage sale last week & hopefully I can play with them soon! My daughter has already tried a few of them out for me.

I also took a picture of the paper I used for the card stock, it is by Creative Memories. It looks like Kraft paper, but has journal lines on it and now it will be easier for me to write a message on the inside :)

Teaser

here is a quick teaser of the wedding invitation I am working on for my cousin. This is just the outside. more to come....

Spring

It is supposed to be in the 70's this week in Minneapolis. I can't wait. I found this photo from a month or so ago when we took my husband's aunt to the Como Conservatory and it just said spring to me!

Easter

I could not find our Easter decorations this year. Not a big surprise at our house, but I know that I had a bag of them somewhere... We decided since we already had some art up that my daughter made at Pre-school that we would just add to it. We wanted to make some fun Peep art. I found on the peep website how to make colored "grass" by taking coconut, putting it into a plastic baggie with a couple of drops of food coloring and shake it up until mixed. My daughter went a little crazy with the colors, but I let her pick them.

We made three littler "nests" for the chicks and one big "nest" for the whole "family"(everything around here is a family with my five year old). For the little nests we used some big tea light candle holders. For the bigger nest we used an antique plate, pink grass and the family members each lay their own colored eggs and in a row, I guess.

Well it was fun and looked festive! It was almost too cute to eat...

Jury Duty

Ok, so It's been forever since I last posted! Last week I was on jury duty on a federal case, but I am done now- yea! It was educational, I will have to say that.

I am super busy at work with the interest rates so low, so I will not be posting as often as usual. But I am making wedding invitations for my cousin and hopefully I can post what I am working on because I think they look really good :)

Mini Sushi Cakes

One of my friends make these awesome Sushi cakes for Goldy's birthday when she was in town, She started with brownies and fondant and went crazy from there! They looked so real and tasted yummy too. Danielle even made chopsticks, wasabi, ginger strips and the fake grass stuff that comes with sushi. I brought them to Bennihana's to surprise her.

Blog Candy & Challenge

Jen Tapler over at: http://jentapler.blogspot.com/2009/03/blogoversary-challenge-big-blog-candy.html is having a HUGE blogoversary challenge & give away. She is raising awareness and money for Alzheimer's Disease. My grandmother is in the early stages of it, so this one is close to my heart. She is giving away TONS of awesome stamps & stuff worth over $250, it's super easy to enter this one! She wants us all to make a any occasion card and send it to her and later she will have some auctions & stuff to raise money.

Here is my card(the photos are not so great). I love this new paper by We R Memory Keepers. The flowers are Primas.

Chairs are Done

I finally finished the chairs that I was redoing for my friend Goldy. She picked them last night to bring back to Nashville with her. I was pretty happy with how they turned out.

Don't mind all of the junk in the basement, I don't have the greatest place to do them anymore :)

They used to look like this: http://scraplikecrazy.blogspot.com/2009/02/upholstery-project.html

You so Deserve it

I finally had a little time to head to the craft room and work on a card looooong past due. My good friend Goldy Locks(see below) works harder than anyone I know. She moved to Nashville a few years ago and has wanted to buy a property there instead of rent. In January she closed on it and has been remodeling it. I am so proud of her, no one deserves a cool place to call her own more than she does! She totally rocks!(like for real)

I started with black card stock(6x6 square) and then cut two off white pieces and roughed up the edges with my exacto knife. I cut the polka dot paper and the awesome red star paper and then inked the edges and sides with my Versafine Sepia ink. I stamped the image of the chick and masked off her arm to stamp the guitar by Inkadinkado in her hand. I kinda think it works :} I paper pieced the darker brown shirt and then colored the rest with some colored pencils. Her hair has pink in the front because the last time I saw my bud that's how her hair looked. I took some silver scraps and ran them through my crimper at an angle to look like corrugated metal and cut them out to be like photo corners. The star was cut on my cricut and then scored to give it dimension. I popped up the center image of the chick, the star and the "cloud" sentiment. I also inked the edges of the stamped image so it wasn't so bright white.

I wrote on the inside with a silver pen and it looks really cool! I hope she digs it as much as I do...

Thanks for looking. and commenting...

It's the little Things

So I found out it shouldn't take five hours to dry a load of clothes!! And your kitchen shouldn't vibrate from below when the dryer is on. So we finally had to buy a "new" dryer, I say it like that because it was at a discount place. But I have a new dryer & I can just feel that spring is in the air! I feel like washing & drying everything I can :}

PS. I do have a card to post for later. It's been kinda crazy around here & I haven't have as much creative time as I would like. Maybe this weekend after the laundry's done....

The Factory by Goldy Locks

Yea!!! My friend Goldy Locks was on TV today in Nashville to promo her awesome wrist bands you can check it out here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSnBpQvyWIs&feature=channel_page

And here is the link to her wrist bands: http://store.thefactorybygoldylocks.com/ she made me one of my daughter when she was little. I love it! She is so talented you should check her out :)

Light Rail

We went on the Hiawatha Light Rail the other day for some Saturday afternoon fun. My brother and his kiddos joined us. We usually get on at the Mall of America and ride it to the Mpls/St Paul Airport and then ride the Tram and escalators for a while. Here is a picture of my daughter, niece and nephew having tons of fun :)

Loose Tooth

My 5 year old just lost her second baby tooth last week. I've already been told that it seems early to be losing teeth. All kids do their things at different times, it's all good... Her new teeth started growing in before she lost the old ones so for a little while she had the shark teeth thing going on. Here are some photos of her posing after she pulled it out herself. The tooth is in the bag so we don't lose it because she wanted to wait until grandma and grandpa get back from their winter vacation so they could be there when the Tooth Fairy comes. How thoughtful...

These pics really crack me up, what's with the "posing" that kids do? LOL! Gotta love 'em for who God made them to be :}

One Sheet Wonder

OK, So I went to my cousin's house last week to help her make some cards for a fundraiser for her daughter's school/church. I decided to do a one sheet wonder that I found over on Splitcoast Stampers website. The one I found used an 8.5"x11" sheet of paper, so I cut mine down from 12x12. Now keep in mind it was my first time doing it this way, I had to make a lot of cards in a hurry, I needed to do all occasions and I wanted to keep it cost effective(cheap).

The photos are really bad because it was 9:00 at night and I still had an hour drive ahead of me and my 5 year old with me. I took the photos as fast as I could an cruised out the door glad to be done. We finished 25 cards, so hopefully it will help them raise some money. My cousin is on bed rest for the next couple months and can only sit one way in a certain chair, but she taped everything together after I cut and laid it out.

We did one set of 6 Thank Yous in one style and 6 in another, the rest are from the one sheet of Basic Grey Designer paper. You can click on any of them to see them bigger. I like some of them better than others...So here there are...

You Rock!

Here is a quick birthday card I made for our nephew who turned 14 over the weekend. He loves that Rock Band game for the Play Station. Hopefully he liked this card! I stamped right on the paper for a blended look.

Stamps are a clear set by Inkadinkado and paper is some funky stuff by Bo Bunny(I think). The stars were cut with my Cricut and the ink I used was Sepia by Versafine.

Sketch Challenge

Laura over at 2 Sketches 4 You has a great layout challenge and I thought I would play along this week. Here is their link: http://2sketches4you.blogspot.com/2009/03/lauras-sketch-21.html and I believe there is a prize!

Here is my card :} I LOVE this new paper! This is one I could use over and over again. It is by We R Memory Keepers. The stamp is a clear one by Studio G.