Baby Owen's Birthday Gift

Okay, my cousin Jenny's baby is turning 1, so he's not a baby anymore. He has too many toys, and plenty of hand-me-down clothes from big brother Ethan, so what get, what to get? A scrapbook page of course! Nothing fancy, I'm super swamped this week. Some super cute Karen Foster paper, the bear from Cricut Christmas Cart, and a crown that I trimmed up a bit to match the paper. Oh, some white ribbon and a little bling. I hope Jenny, oops, I mean Owen, likes it.

Well, my Valentines Day Card class was tons of fun. Here are pictures of my "students" working hard on those cards! You ladies are great!

And one of them gave me an award! Can you believe it? I'm so honored!
Thank you Patty. http://creativediva98.blogspot.com

I'm so glad that someone likes my work!




To accept this Stylish Blog Award, I must do the following:
1. Thank and link back to the person who awarded me this award 2. Share 8 things about yourself 3. Pay it forward to 4 bloggers (it was 8 but I'm lazy!) that you have recently discovered 4. Contact those bloggers and tell them about their awards.

Here goes

1. I hate raw onions!
2. Everyone thinks my favorite color is pink, but it's actually blue.
3. I love to bake, but I hate my kitchen. My ultimate goal is to build a new one some day.
4. My craft room is super disorganized!
5. I love Hawaii.
6. I am a crazy cat lady. But I am a married crazy cat lady.
7. I am addicted to the Jack and Stench podcast.
8. I hate to re-use a glass or cup. I know it's wasteful but I want a new one!

My awards go to:

1.http://cardsbyshelly.blogspot.com/
2.http://www.scraps4fun.com/
3.http://fantabulouscricut.blogspot.com/
4.http://underacherrytree.blogspot.com/

All you need is love

Hi all! (Yes I know all 7 of you but I appreciate you!!) This is the last card for my class. I can't believe it's only 2 days away! Should be loads of fun. I was inspired by a card I got a few years back. Gives me a chance to teach tearing technique and use the Sew Easy stitch piercing tool from We R Memory Keepers. This heart is from the Beyond Birthdays cart. The stamp is from Hampton Arts, and the floss is bubble gum from We R Memory Keepers.

My cute and punky Valentine's and a Class

Guess what! I am going to teach a class. I'm so excited. It's January 23 at Make and Take Crafts in Brea, California. Address: 1821 E. Greenbriar Lane. Their website is www.makeandtakecrafts.com. Anyone in the local area who would like to make these cards should RSVP by emailing them at makeandtakebrea@yahoo.com. And now for the really exciting part, the cards!






I may do one more,depending other factors. I will update with the cost of the class as soon as I know. Hope to see you there!

*UPDATE: Cost for this class is $10**

An almost Valentines Card (but not quite)

Getting to into the mood for Valentines Day, although I missed the mark! Most of the people I showed this to though it was a bridal shower card. I was experimenting with colors and I think black and red would have been a better fit. Anyway, the bustier is from the Cricut Tie the Knot cart, and I just had to use it. It's very va-va-voom! Of course the flower I made myself (see my tutorial two posts ago) The edges of the card are chalked with Colorbox chestnut roan, and the lace is a Martha Stewart punch. I love Martha Stewart punches because they are just so easy to use.

More Valentines to come, and maybe something special in my future. (I might just be a professional crafter! he-he)

Anyway, I though I would include something old. This is a project I did a while back, and I stuck it in a frame and never put a picture to it. (I haven't been to the snow in years, although I say I am gonna go every season!) Nothin' fancy, but I though it was cute at the time.

Cricut Christmas at the Office

As with everything else this year we had a very small budget to decorate my office. (I'm talking less than $20 here.) So I broke out the Cricut and the cheap paper. I even used some bent up file folders that we were throwing out (they were used multiple times and were in bad condition, but I cut them up to get to the good spots.) I used a bunch of cartridges for this one, which was easy because I have a Gypsy!





The penguins and polar bears are from Joys of the Season. The igloo is from Create a Critter. For the snow I drew a template using my coffee cup and freehand connected it. Then I cut it out and transferred it to a role of white craft paper. We had to hand cut it out from there. More that 50' of hand cut snow border!


The font is from Winter Woodlands. It's hard to see in this picture but I cut the green shadow letters also, and there are cutouts in each of the red letters that make it look fancy. I made the candy cane poles by wrapping the pole with white paper and then winding red ribbon around it.



And what is the North Pole without Santa? This is also from Joys of the Season. We made some modifications to the pieces and used yellow yarn for the reins.



This tree is also from Winter Woodlands. I had the ornament confetti from my Christmas cards, so I recruited a co-worker or two to help me hot glue each piece to the trees. I then punched little stars out of a sheet of Best Creations Gold Glitter Cardstock. There are 20 trees in all.




The banner flags are from Tie the Knot. I had them left over from another project, so I threw them in. One says NOEL (I know its hard to see in this picture, but it looks better in person) and the other is JOY.

Make your own 3D flowers

It's the holidays, and like most of you (I hope I'm not alone) I've spent all my money on presents. So I'm finding ways to reuse some of my scrap booking supplies for new ideas. I have a bunch of one layer flowers left over from other projects, and I found out that I can make them into 3D flowers.




With some Scotch Quick-Dry glue and a pair of scissors I turn these old flowers into pretty, rose look alike flowers.







First select the flowers you want to use, then put a good dot of glue in each one. The flowers I used I got from Prima a few years back. They have holes in the center so I kept a wet nap near by in case I got glue all over my fingers.



I found it best to wait a little while so the glue gets nice and tacky. Pinch the first flower together and hold it till it sticks.



Then snip the pointy end off the bud you just created. You don't have to do this step, but it makes your flowers a little flatter and easier to put together. Be careful not to snip too much or your flower may fall apart.




Wrap the next flower around the first and hold it together till it sticks. You can adjust your petals till you like them before the glue dries. If you go past 4 flowers I recommend using progressively bigger flowers.


When you get to the size flower you want use a green flower on the bottom to look like leaves.


You can probably also do this with paper punched flowers too, but I haven't tried those. Hope this helps you stretch your scrapping dollars!