Fathers Day Card

Here is my Father's Day Card that I made for my dad this year. I hate to admit to this, but I was very behind on making things lately because so far this summer has been very busy! I made it in the car on the way to my folks house. I even had to borrow a tape runner from my mother because I forgot one on the way out the door. Well I like it anyway!

I hope you had a great Father's Day! We had a lovely day outside on the lake, I even took a nap on a blanket in the grass.

Mother's Day Card

Here is the card I made for my mother for Mother's Day.

I found this paper and really thought it was nice and didn't need too much stamping. My mother's kitchen has the soffits painted a spice color and this reminded me of that.

I have this sentiment stamp from a new to me stamp set by Stampin Up that I keep using on lots of things and it says "to thine own self be kind". I think that is something that we ladies often forget when we are taking care of everyone else's needs around us.

I fussy-cut out another flower, stem and leaf from the rest of the paper and popped it up on top of the other ones. I also had to glitter-ize the edges to make them super sparkly.

close up shot.

Home is Where your Mom is.

Our elementary school is having their annual carnival and silent auction this week. Back when I was selling my Scrabble Tile Necklaces for the Haiti Relief Fundraiser one of the mom's in charge of the silent auction bought one and thought that they might be a nice addition for the auction.

She wanted three different necklaces for three separate auctions and then I told her that I also made cards and I could whip up a few matching sets.

The first one I geared towards Mothers Day.

I recently saw this stamp and for some reason I connected with it and decided I would make my cards with this one this year. I also made the floral background with some two step stamps by Stampin Up.

I matched up the (Martha Stewart)blue gingham in the necklace to the gingham on the left side of the card. It's really hard to tell in this picture but they do match! and the little glittery circles on the right side are actually a matching purple to the ink color in the flowers.

Crazy Eyes

These are the Easter Eggs that my mom colored with the kids this year.

I'm not quite sure where she found the crazy face kit, but the kids sure thought it was fun to make all of those silly faces!

When it came time to eat them, no body wanted to peel them apart....

Easter Egg Hunt

We went to our first "real" Easter Egg Hunt last weekend at a church near our house. We heard that it was s fun place to go, so we thought we would try it. They had music and a magician first and then the hunt. It was LOTS of fun!

She(we) found lots of eggs and are still eating candy:) as you can see all of the eggs in the grass around her.

I liked this pic because this is a genuine smile when she picked up an egg and not a posed look for the camera.

Valentines Cards

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These are the Valentine's that we made up for Sophia's class this year.

We matched the topper color with the same colored heart sticker inside.
She also helped to fold over the tops, staple them together and then helped to stamp the "you rock my world" stamp at the top.

Valentine's Heart Craft

Here is an easy & fun craft to do with kids. I found the directions on Martha Stewart's website.

Start with a sheet of waxed paper folded in half the long way and put crayon shavings in the middle of it. We found out after the next step that this was not enough shavings. It works better with thicker shavings and in multiple shades. But be careful not to make too many shavings or they will ooze out the sides.

Then I cut a paper bag in half and put one half under the wax paper and the other on top of it and then ironed on top to melt the crayons underneath of it. They melt pretty quickly so check it often.
This is how one of ours turned out. Then the kids traced hearts on the wax paper and cut them out.

We are going to take down the snowflakes that we made and hang up the new hearts in the window instead. My nephew wants to cover his whole bedroom door with them!

Close up pic.

Fast & Easy Holiday Cards

I found these layouts on Papertrey Ink's website. They just came out with some new holiday stamps and they have some easy layout ideas using them. I used what I had in house :) Here is the link:http://nicholeheady.typepad.com/capture_the_moment/2008/10/holiday-card-ma.html They also have a cheat sheet for making 25 cards really fast. What a great idea, who couldn't use that? You could also multiply it by however many cards you usually make each year. Well here are the two layouts I used, I only did six of each for my own purposes.

The first one I used my Marvey Uchida 3"Scalloped Circle Punch and my Creative Memories circle cutters. I found the cute snowman stamp at a "cleaning out my stash sale" for about a dollar. The designer paper is by Basic Grey and the red is Misc. I colored it with Prisma Colored pencils and added stickles for the sparkly snow effect.

The second card I used some Cosmo Cricket Holiday paper. The other paper is misc. from Joann's. The stamp is part of The Best Yet hostess set from Stampin Up. The holly was punched from a punch I bought last year and never used. I used my 2" Marvey Uchida Scallop punch and my Creative Memories punch for the circles. These cards were all done on Kraft card stock. TFL!!