Welcome Carlie

We've added another creative power to the blog!  My baby sister, Carlie! She's got some yummy ideas to share along with some tutorials. I can't wait to see what she posts! Welcome Carlie!

We love you SNOW much!

I created this card to say "thank you" for all the wonderful meals and gifts that were brought to us after we had our baby. I used a pink and red theme and delivered or mailed them around the Valentine's holiday. Hence the "love you" in the inside.

I used a Cuttlebug embossing folder for the front "thank you" embossing and the snow friends cart for the little guy on top.  I was excited to get this cart, but I'll tell you, making more than about 2 of these snowmen takes the fun out of card making. This cart is better made for my mom's one-of-a-kind cards, than my taste for mass production.

Here was the inside I just designed on the computer and printed out.

You are DINO-MITE!

Here are the Valentines I made for my son's kindergarten class! I'm SOOOO not into Batman and Dora, so these were a must-do for the LOVE holiday. Knowing they were just going to get chucked, I kept them simple. We taped a candy to the back of each one and my son signed his name on the fronts. They probably took the same amount of time to make as going to the store to buy.  I used an insert shape from Fabulous Finds for the heart and the dinosaurs are all from Paper Dolls Dress Up.

Birthday Cards

January and February are busy birthday months. Here are some cards I made for my two sons.
I have to sneak our Son-in-Laws birthday card in first. His birthday was last April, but my daughter just sent me the pictures. He is majoring in computer science and always has his head in the computer, so this was just a fun way to encourage him to enjoy life, but I know he enjoys life with his head in the computer too. The little hamick was a great place to tuck some cash!

This is my January son's birthday card. He opened it up and said he didn't like it... Well, you can't please them all. I think the 30 candles were too much for him. Reality is setting in...
This is my oldest son's birthday card. He and my husband are born on the same day, Feb 8th 30 year and 12 hours apart! He loves to have fun so I thought this would be fun for him.

Newest additon

If you've been wondering where I've been, he's here!  Our little guy arrived the end of December weighing a mere 8 pounds 10 ounces. He truly is a bundle of joy and we're so blessed to have him in our family.

It's taken some time to get back into life, especially since he came so close to Christmas.  But slowly I've been organizing. I've unburried my sewing machine and Cricut from beneath all my projects.  We're not sleeping through the night yet, but I'm anxious to be creative again!

Gift set

I have the sweetest neighbor.  She's so good to always have a gift for each of my children for the holidays. I've been wanting to do a little gift set of homemade cards for her for sometime now.  While I was preparing for my son's Kindergarten Christmas party, on a whim I decided to make some gift cards for his two teachers. While I was at it, I made some for my neighbor too.  They are pretty simple (I've been doing a lot of "simple" being 9 months pregnant.), but I think they turned out nicely.

Christmas: Cuttlebug embossing folders. Joys of the Season cart for the gift.

Birthday: I did two of these. So you will see two different fronts, but the inside was the same for both.

 

  

 

Baby: Cuttlebug embossing folders. New Arrivals for the buggie. I did one each of blue and pink for these.

 

 

Fancy Nancy

Back in November I threw my daughter a Fancy Nancy birthday party.

The Thank You card we made for each little girl who attended was made by my sweet 4 year old.  She painted the cards, then I cut out the crown from the Celebration's cart, glued, glittered and delivered! I thought they all turned out so cute and each was personalized by her!

 

 

Christmas Thank You

I made a whole slew of these as "thank yous" for some very talented people at church. They helped with the Christmas party, so my card went along with the Holiday season. The front (top) was cut with the card feature on Joys of the Season cart. The embossing is a Cuttlebug folder, The inside, (below) has the quote pasted on top of the cutout from the front.

Christmas Class Party

All 24 kindergarteners received one of these festive holiday treat bags at my son's Christmas class party..  The tree was cut 4" I believe from Stretch Your Imagination.

Since I knew they would just get devoured, then thrown out, I didn't put a lot of detail into them.  I did do a bit more with a two-toned sillouette look for the teacher.

The party was fun and the kids loved their bags!

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Let it Snow!

I made this card for a friend to give to his wife. He gave her an Expressions and so I wanted to show off what fun things it can do. I had fun playing dressups with these cute little snowpeople!

Winter Wonderland

I used one of those darling snowmen from Winter Wonderland and that cute squirrel. I also used the snowflake MS punch for the corners and the snowflake embossing folder for the back ground.

Here is a card I made for my sister and husband for Christmas.

Christmas Card Give Aways

This year for Christmas I made a bunch of cards and gave them away as gifts. Here is a group of them for you to enjoy!

This red card was heat embossed with clear embossing powder to give a shiny gloss to the flourishes.

A card made from StoryBook cart and Stampin Up paper. It was Cuttlebugged with Swiss Dots folder too.

This is a simple Sympathy Card using an embossing folder and Cuttlebugged.

This is a stamped image that I used water color crayons from Stampin Up and then took my blending pen and colored in the fruit.

This is a shape from Accent Essentials that was then Cuttlebuged with the circles folder and touched up with some brown chalk.

This is a copy of a Donna Mundinger creation.

This is a shape card from StoryBook. I had to give the dots some bling and a colorful bow to make the card pop!

Just a simple cards using than embossing folder.

Here is the inside of the card.

Granddaughter's Birthday Card

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Advent Calendar

My eye caught some fun Advent Calendars last year and I've been itching all year to do this.  I was happy with the way it turned out. I am alwasy looking for teaching ideas with my kids and this was wonderful way to create great family time and add some of the true Christmas spirit into the season.

I cut the bag out in SCAL.  Here's the link to the file. The nice thing about this bag is that there is no glue involved.  When the Christmas season is over, I can just unfold the bags and they will store flat! With as much work as I put into them, this was a big plus for me.

All the numbers come from the Celebrations cart. I actually Mod Podged each one to sturdy them a bit and give them a nice finish. The paper is from a holiday paper pack from Hobby Lobby.

In each bag is a little red piece of paper.   Every other day, there is also a little green piece of paper.  The red papers tells the activity for the day. The green ones tell which part of the Christmas story we will learn about that day.  Some of the green papers coincide with the red ones.  I was particular about which activities landed on certain days since I don't always have a hubby in the evenings.  A lot of the activities we do when my oldest boy gets home from school. 

I swipped some of my ideas from other websites online.  Then others came from our own family traditions, or things I have been wanting to do. 

The kids have loved doing this advent calendar!  Even my husband gets excited about what each activity is going to be.  I am so glad I made it!

Advent Calendar

Carlie's Birthday Card from Me

Well, since I gave my first card I made for Carlie's birthday to Jeffery, I needed to come up with one from me. Still has the bling. She is so royal, this card is fitting for her.

Gobble Gobble

It is Lauren's birthday the Monday before Thanksgiving. I wanted to make her a card and this one came to mind. It was pretty sick humor, the poor turkey, but Lauren and her husband, Eric got a good laugh.

Carlie's Birthday Card

Well, my little princes, Carlie had a birthday in November too. I began to make her a "Princess" card and saw this cute frog. Once I added it I then realized I couldn't give her this card as it was perfect for Jeffery to give to her. I called him up and told him I had a card for him he could give to Carlie for her birthday. He was thrilled! Jeffery is not one for shopping! For Carlie it is all about bling. She was not disapointed.

Emily's Birthday Card

The funny story about this card is that for once I made and mailed Emily her birthday card so she actually recieved it BEFORE her birthday. She called with excitement and much anticipation only for me to tell her she couldn't open it until her birthday. Carefully she placed it in a safe place. When it came to open the card was gone and worse, no where to be found. She went thought the trash and cleaned the house, no card. Just the other day nearly a month after her birthday she called me with jubilation the card was found... up in the top of a closet with the wooden puzzles! What do they say... good things happen to those who wait!