Update

Hello Everyone!

Sorry I have been MIA yet again, has been hard to find time to do crafty projects and when I do, I forget to post them, even with my iphone app go figure.   I guess I may just have to schedule a time to craft and set up posts for each week which I am sure a lot of those busy crafters out there do.  Anyone have any other suggestions to stay on track with my blog posts.  

I have been making projects to get ready for craft fairs, not sure when I will do one with my mom, as she is a jewerly maker, however working on completed projects so that I have them  done.  I have also done a few cards at a local scrapbooking store.  

I will try to post more in the next upcoming months as there are a few techniques I have seen that I want to try.  

My goal is to get good enough with card making or scrapbooking (as I need to start my daughters scrapbook)  to submit a project with craft magazine, as it would be awesome to be able to get published.   Then work my way to be able to attempt to apply for a design team, as I think that would be a lot of fun!  However that wont be for a very long time as I dont feel I am good enough yet.

Oh I also moved this month so I have been working on getting a craft area organized as I do not have a dedicated room and I have a 3 year old who loves to ``HELP`` and get ink all over the projects I have been doing.  

I also had a huge score with a big sale with a local craft store and got ranger embossing powders for 2.50 I picked up the two that were left.

Well happy crafting!!!

Sparkly Fishy Card

Hello Fellow Crafters,

Sorry I have neglected you .. So much for my news years resolution about posting more, lol. I have been crafting every week or at least ever other week I just don't think to take a pic a blog about it.

Lately I have been obsessed with Glitter Ritz I just love it and my favorite thing about it is that once the glitter is on it doesn't come off, Yippeee!

Here is the card I finally finished.

Paper is old paper I have in my stash for a long time from when I was a creative memories consultant.

Update glitter ritz cards

Hello my fellow crafter,

I would like to apologize for neglecting yo all life for me has been interesting to say the least. I gave been doing some crafty stuff. U had been dying to take these glitter ritz classes at my local scrap booking store, so as a present to myself I signed up for them. I had a ton of fun doing them my favoritess were with the peel offs by creative crafts.

Here are the 3 cards we made they are much better in person. I will put up a better pic if then when I get one.

Cards -made for any occasion

Hello all,

Today I had a stressful day so I decided to go to my local scrapbooking store for a little therapy. They have these awesome card buffets every week so I decided to go in and make the two cards for this week.

Love them the butterfly one is my fave!

Happy birthday Dad! Bday card

Hello fellow crafters!


Today is my dad's birthday and I made him a really quick card my cuts are not straight as I was not able to find my cutter. Really hate not having my own crafting space.

Here is the card I made using the new stamp set I got which is the Penny Black Sweet wishes. Love this set!

First post in 2012 oops !

Sorry all for the neglect it's been a hard few months, however I will be posting more as I just recently got an iPhone so it will make it easier to post my projects. I will post later this week an update of my projects that I have been working on.

Thank you all and happy crafting!

Hershey Bar snowpeople

Hello my fellow crafters,


As you may know I have been making a lot of my christmas presents.  So I made these snowmen/women. lol. and I think they turned out so very cute!   I have seen a few different versions of these snowmen, I have seen them first on Kerry's Paper Crafts blog, and since then I have seen them else where.  I can't remember the blog that I had first seen them being made with gloves, which is the idea that I like since your giving a gift as well as chocolate.  So I went to the local dollar store and picked up some mittens, and chocolate bars from walmart, and printed out the pdf file with the snowman body and away we went.   These took me less than 5 minutes to do. So they are a fun and easy project for anyone on your list. 

Here is a picture on how they turned out ... there are two different snowmen, one using gloves that had fingers cut off and then they have another part that goes over top so I made it look like they were wearing a rounded toque.   The other was a pair of mittens, and I just tucked the second mitten in-behind it on the back.  

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Hot Cocoa Sliders

Hello Fellow Crafters,

Here are some more crafts that I have been up to recently.  Yes I know, I am posting again this week its a Miracle.  My goal and I guess New Years Resolution, is to post on my blog more actively and do more crafting projects, since my dream would be able to do what I love as my job, which is crafting.   So I figure I should start here by showcasing my work, and then we will be able to see my work as it improves, since there are still a lot of projects that I make that I am really not happy with, however I am still learning, with all my Youtube watching, and planning to attend more card making classes.  (Especually since there is a new AWESOME local craft store.)


Anyhow, I had first seen these hot cocoa sliders from Kerry's Paper Crafts, and if you have never checked out her site, you definitely should as she is very talented, and has LOTS of great ideas.  I find her a real inspiration, among many others in the crafting world that I follow.  Here is a link to the hot cocoa sliders she did this year .. they are beautiful. 

Here is a picture at my first attempted at hot cocoa sliders, I tweaked the measurements a bit to fit my hot cocoa since they were Starbucks Hot Cocoa and they were taller than the ones Kerry used.   I have since made other ones using regular hot cocoa, which will be for the kids in my family the Starbucks ones will be for the adults. 

Here is a picture of my first made sliders (not very happy with them, but I can only improve Right?!)

Supplies:

Cardstock -- Creative Memories - Jewel Cardstock
Designer Paper - BoBunny
Stamp Set - Inkadinkado

Very First Stamping Up Class - Christmas Cards

Hello My Fellow Crafters,   

I am very sorry that I have not posted in a while however life has been crazy busy, with moving, christmas shopping, and all the crafty presents that I have been making when my child is not home.  (Some were attempted when she was, however it always ends up giving me a few more gray hairs.lol.)  

On December 2nd 2011, I finally attended my very first Stampin' Up card class with my local demostrator, and I had a BLAST!    We made 4 cards , 2 cards with 2 different designs, and we got to make a bonus card which inspired me to create when I got home, as well as get the stamp set "snow much fun" lol.  

Here are the photos of my beautiful cards:

First card we made -- all Stampin' Up Product

Here's to show the dimension.

Bonus Card - Using Snow much fun stamp set

Second Card we made using Northern Flurry embossing folder, and bird builder punch, with the red glitter paper.

Inside of the second card .. LOVE the Glitter Paper, sooo beautiful.

Supplies :  (All Supplies are Stampin' Up) 

My day of craftiness with my friend.

Hello Fellow Crafters,

I finally got some time to have some crafty fun, on Monday and Tuesday, since my daughter is with her dad until Thursday, and there had been a bunch of techniques and stamps that I had been dying to try out, which were my new sweet pea stamps, which I LOVE LOVE LOVE.   If you want some awesome artsy stamps you should definately check them out.

Post-it Note Holder

Hello Everyone!

Lately I had been watching a lot of videos on making Post-it Note Holders,  however none of the measurements really worked for the pad that I had, so after trying a few different measurements I finally decided to it a bit different.  I made my post it note holder more like a book, since I couldnt get the scoring the right way. 

I cut 2 panels at 3 1/4 square, then I cut the designer paper at 3 1/2 x 7  (next time I will do it a tad bigger to make it easier to wrap it.     The peice of the same designer paper was cut 3 1/4 v 6 1/2 ish.   Sorry I sort of just looked at it and then checked to make sure it would fit well before sticking it down.  To get the width of the post it note holder I took the post it notes and stuck it on its side then marked it with a pen since it was going to be covered up anyways.  then put it down a hair.

Since there were some mistakes, as this is my first one ever I decided I will give it to a friend of mine who loves birds she has about 30 of them. 

Note: Paper I used was fairly thin - so may not work with thicker paper like Papertey ink. 

Here are the pictures:

Supplies:

Stamp set - Inkadinkado - True Friend
Paper :  Dollar Giant Paper 5 for a $1.25
Punch: EK Success - Scallop Boarder
Markers: BIC Mark-It Markers
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black and  Tattered Rose Distress Ink

Thanks For Stopping by.. have a good day!

Treat Cups ---

Hello Fellow Crafters,

Well lately I have had a little more time on my hands,  so I wanted to share some things with you.  One I saw a video today that has inspired me to make a treat cup to go with my nieces birthday presents.   I watched this video from Kerry's Paper Crafts.   If you have never checked out her blog you definately should she is super talented, and has lots of great ideas.   The template for the treat box is from Waltzingmouse Stamps who has a lot of great templates.    I will update with photos when I am done.

Hope you are inspired by something today. Bye for now.

Budget Friendly Markers - Alcohol Markers

Hello Fellow Crafters, 

Today I am sooo excited to share what I found out today.  I had seen them in the stores and wondered about them however watched my usual videos today and saw one in particular that got me thinking.   I saw the StampTV video today where she was using the BIC Mark it permanent markers, which are alcohol based markers.   They certainly don't replace the Copic or Prismacolor markers however they are a good alternative while you start to build your Copic collection, and who knows you may like them better.  

So after watching that video I wanted to try them so I went out to Walmart and found them in the stationary section and picked up 36 marker set for around $20.00, then got home and decided to try them with the printer cardstock I had which is 100 sheets for $7.00.   So far I really like them, since they blend nicely, and give you the streak-free colouring affect, which I LOVE,    So if your interested in how they work check out Gina K's video on stamp tv using the markers.  Part 1 HERE  Part 2 HERE

Papertrey Ink

Hello my fellow crafters,

Hope your all have been having a great summer!   I am really liking this sunny cooler days, I think as I am getting older fall is becoming one of my favorite seasons. Which I am sure I will be looking forward to more and more once my 2 year old daughter is in school. lol.

I am so very excited to say that I finally got my first Papertry Ink order at the end of last month.  Yes I know took me long enough to post about it, however since being a single working mom, my posting/creating time is very limited.    I did manage to get some time last night while my daughter was sound a sleep, to play with my new stamps and dies some more.   I can say now that I have now fallen in love with my Fruit Fusion stamp sets (apple, pear, berry, grapes, melon) and dies from papertrey ink. The only one I didn't get from the sets was the Cherries, however with the next time I order I think I may just get it.  These stamp sets are only $5.00 each, and they have lots of versatility.

Here are some pictures of what I did last night:  (just realized that I didn't play with my berry one stamp set)  I was mainly just practicing getting them lined up and took me a bit to get the hang of, however once I got it I loved how my apples turned out.  The apples were the only one that I cut out the others I just stamped. 

I also got paper trey ink paper sampler pack, since I was not too sure about it.  I had heard lots of good things about it so I figured why not.  So far the only paper I had a chance to experience was creative memories as I used to be a consultant yeears ago, so had lots of it left over for solid paper, and for pattern paper, I have bobunny, k&company.   I am developing a paper addition, however I have a very hard time using it.  They look so pretty I don't want to ruin it by cutting etc. lol. I can hardly wait till I do another order with Papertrey Ink.  I have a huge wish list of stuff I want from them. 

Happy Crafting All!

 

Fun in the Sun! (At least we can hope for it)

Hello All, 


Sorry I have not been posting lately .. I have made a project (which can be difficult I must say due to Lily my mini-me wanting to help)  Once during her nap, I managed to get a card done!  Which I must say I am very proud of.  First one that I am really happy with.  Guess my Youtube video watching has paid off. 

My card: 

AND of course when looking at the picture I took of my card I realized that my daughter did manage to get a hild of my card and make a mark on my lil swimming *sigh*  I need to find a good craft area where she cant touch my projects .. anyone have any ideas of kid proofing there craft spot if they dont have a room dedicated to it! 

Supplies used for this card: 
Paper is all from Creative Memory packs I had left over from when I was a consultant YEARS ago.
Stamp Set is Penny Black Beach day Stamp set.
Ribbon - Saddle Stitch Ribbon I got from Walmart. 

Hello Thursday!

Hello All,

So provocraft has realeased 5 new cartrudges and they are SUPER CUTE!!  The new cartridges are:
Sweet Shop, Recess, 9 months, Love you a Latte, Country Fair   Lots of really cute cuts... so on my gotta get list!   

Hope you all are having a craftistic time!

Digital Stamp Freebies

Hello Again, 

Well as some of you may know.. I love digital stamps, however as I am sort of limited to what I can afford I especually love digital stamp freebies and one of the designers I LOVE has two digital stamp freebies today.  The designer is Meljen's Designs and they give away free stamps quite frequently and they are SUPER CUTE!  Click HERE to be taken to freebee digi stamps. 

Hope you all Enjoy!

I WON! a Giveaway!

Hello All, 

I WON!  a blog giveaway, which is the first time I won anything.   It was THIS from http://www.readysetstamp.com/.  I started following her on YouTube as I LOVE to watch Julie's Videos and she has a lot of very creative ideas, as well as very pretty.     What I won was a 3 month free subsciption to the Circut Circle, which I am super excited about!    I found out I won a bit ago however kept forgetting to post it.  You should check out Julies blog for some great inspiration. =)

Sorry I haven't posted any projects in a bit, it has been a while since I have done any, spent the last free kidless time moving and organizing stuff as well as getting rid of some of Lily's old clothes... man for a 2 year old girl she has a TON of clothes.  I think I could dress her in one outfit each day for a month and not have to do any laundry. lol.

Happy Crafting Everyone!   

Jewerly - Rings

Hello Everyone! 

Lately I have been away from the paper crafts and into my jewerly crafts.  I have been makiing elastic rings with swavorski crystals, seed beads and glass beads.   Most of the supplies I have gotten from the dollar store except the crystals... I get those off ebay since they are cheaper.   I am going to start making window sun catchers once I get the supplies for that. 

Here are the rings I made so far.  My favorites are the pink one and blue,black and clear one. 

Here is a picture of just my favorites: 

Here are my favorites not on my fingers: 

Hope you all are having a craftistic day!  Let me know what you think of my rings.

Easter bags and bday card.

Hello Everyone!

Yesterday I had decided to make a birthday card for my nephew's birthday that is on the 15th.  He's going to be 6 years old.. (boy time flies) and he loves dogs, so I was trying to find a puppy svg file when I remembered on the sweethearts cricut cartridge has a puppy on it for puppy love.... so I thought that would be perfect.  

I cut the puppy out at 3 1/2 inches and the paper I used was paper that I had on hand from creative memories and the dollar store.    I used some glitter glue for the tounge.   When it was first made I loved it until my  daughter got her hands on my vintage photo distress ink and started banging it over the puppy which created the lines.. *sigh*   however I didnt want to make another one so I figured my nephew is not going to care either way. 

Here is the photo of the card.   I used an ek success punch I had for the bottom on the card and then pasted the chocolate cardstock behind it just to make it all coordinate. 

Then the next project that I started to make (since my daughter fell alseep)  were the easter bags that I decided to make for my 2 neices and nephew.. only got the 2 girls done.    So I had gotten these bags from the dollar store they are favor bags, and I just reinforced it with pink creative memories paper I had.   The eggs were from a scrapbook calendar that I cut out.  

I am planning on putting some easter treats in these bags.. I have some playdough eggs that I had gotten from the dollar store and I will probably put an kinder surprise egg in each and then whatever else easterish I can  find that will fit nicely.   

Hope you all like it!  Thanks!  Let me know if you have questions or what you think of my projects.