Husband Survival Cards

Our Women's church organization recently asked that I put together a group of cards that would be for a man to give to his wife. So we made an Anniversary, Valentine's, Sew Sorry, Birthday and Mother's Day card. Cute idea! So my friend and I stayed up late one night and cut out each piece and put them in baggies for the ladies to assemble. They did a great job. They gave them to their father in laws or brothers.

I recently got an Epson 1400 printer so I have been purchasing digital papers. This paper set is from Stampin Up. The advantage to printing is I never run out and I can scale the size down to fit the card. This card is pretty much all Stampin Up stuff.

This is the anniversary card. It is all PapertreyInk stamps and dies. The outside is from Flower Fusion #4 "I couldn't have done it without you!" Inside from Flower Fusion #5 it says, "It's the little things you do that mean so much!" The flowers on the outside are also die cut from the matching flower on #4.

This is the Birthday card. It was made with the Spellbinders Label One die. You could also use the Stampin Up Curly punch. PapertreyInk also has Vintage Labels that match the Labels One die which is what I used for the little brown "stitching" stamp. The sentiment is from Stampin Up Well Scripted set.

Here is the Valentine's card. The red heart paper is one of my digital papers from Lettering Delights. The words are from PapertreyInk.

This Sew Sorry card has a cute old fashion sewing machine from Heritage cartridge. The paper is digital Stampin Up. I just made the size of the print a lot smaller before I printed. The little love tag is from Stampin Up's Tiny Tags with the Stampin Up Tiny Tag's punch.

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Happy Mother's Day 2011

This is the card I made for my mother for Mother's Day. It uses SEI and shiny gold paper in the back ground and several Stamp'in up stamps. I colored the flowers with my Stamp'in up crayons and used a water brush to soften the look. The ribbon is from Micheal's.

Here is the inside. I used more SEI paper and gold paper. The white paper is punched with an EK punch on the edge just using one of the designs. The sentiment is a Stamp'in Up stamp.

Congrats Graduate

Our DIL recently graduated from University of Phoenix in Family Counseling. We are so very proud of her. It isn't easy to do with a busy two year old son to care for too. She was honored with a blue ribbon around her neck indicating a high achievement in academics. So the owl is just doing a little showing off!

I use the Owl punch from Stamp'in Up. the leaf is from What A Hoot Cartridge.

Here is the inside of the card.

Yummy Artisian Bread

I haven't ever posted a recipe before, but this one is too good and too easy not to share. A friend of the family gave us this Artisan Bread recipe. Here is a picture of my first loaf. Boy was I surprised that a 1/4 t yeast and no second rising time would produce this kind of lift. The crust is hard and chewy and the inside is moist with big holes, just like you pay the big buck for.

Here is the top. Yes, it tastes as good as it looks.
Please make a comment if you make it and tell me what you think.

Artisan Bread

3 C Flour

1 ½ tsp Salt

¼ tsp yeast

1 ½ C Water

Mix flour, salt and yeast together in a large mixing bowl. Add water, mix until all is moistened. Cover with plastic wrap and sit on counter for 12 to 18 hours (overnight). I always make this before I go to bed at night.

Preheat oven to 450 degree with Dutch oven and lid inside oven. Any heavy cast iron lidded 3 qt or larger casserole will work. Heavily flour counter top and place dough from bowl to counter on flour. Dough will be sticky as it has a high water content so coat your hands with flour too. Gently coat wet sticky dough with flour and form into round disk, tucking edges down, ending with smooth side up. Do NOT knead. Handle as little as possible, you don't want to disturb the bubbles to much.

Sprinkle dough with corn meal top and bottom. I usually put some cornmeal in the bottom of the Dutch Oven. Place dough, smooth side up in the Dutch oven, no need to grease pan. You can make cuts on top in the dough if you want at this point. (I didn't) Place the lid on the Dutch oven and close the oven. Bake 25 minutes. Open oven and take off lid and bake for 5 minutes. Bread should be golden brown. Let rest 30 minutes before slicing.

Happy Birthday SIL

It was our SIL's birthday in April and our daughter put together a fun birthday party at a local roller skating rink. I found this cute bull with skates in Birthday Bash and couldn't resist. The paper comes from My Minds Eye's Antique Dots collection.

Our son in law is very shy and so I thought this was fun to put "Party Animal" on the inside of the card!

Baby Blanket

I have three grandchildren coming in 2011. I have a tradition of crocheting each of my grandchildren baby blankets. This is the 8th one I have made for them and have made many others along the years... This one is for little Talmage. He was born mid April and his mom requested this gray yarn. It is so soft and nice. It is made from the Natural Caron Spa yarn.

Fun Thinking of you Cards

Here are two thinking of you cards I sent to my daughters.

This one has no Cricut... I know shock! I used my new PTI dies and the Amy Butler paper stack. I love the felt flower...

This one I used the My Minds Eye Antique Dots Stack along with my stash of antique bottons. No Cricut on this one either...

Grandson's Birthday Card

Here is my take on the birthday card "Wanted for stealing hearts"! This was cut from Paper Dolls cart and the WANTED sign was a free font I got off the Internet.

Here a little lasso!

Giddy Up!

Here is the inside.

Happy Anniversary!

End of April, first of May are my two daughters wedding anniversaries so I made them each one on these cards. I wish I could take credit for it, but alas it is a copy - with of course my take on the colors. Both my girls love to quilt so I thought this would be a fun card for them.

Here is the inside.

Easter Dress

I bet most of you think I just paper craft, but don't be shocked to see a sewing or crochet project shown every once in a while! I wanted to make an Easter Dress for my only grand daughter. There is this fabulous fabric store called Material Girls that I went to and found this cute pattern by Pink Fig. As we were measuring out the fabric I realize there was enough to make two dresses! I have an adopted grand daughter who lives next door. She is 18 months. So I make the 2T dress for her shown below first. It is so big she won't be able to wear it until next year! Oh well...

Back of dress

Hoot-errific

Here is another card sent to my daughters. We have fun sending each other cards. I have been wanting to make an Owl card.

This was an owl from Give A Hoot cart. The back ground is the SU background that I watermark stamped and then heat embossed it with clear powder.
It "raised the grain" on the tree trunk and gave it a great glossy shine.

Happy Birthday Andi!

It was my daughter-in-law's birthday the end of March and this is the card I made for her... She is such a gem, a true treasure in our lives, not to forget to mention as well a wonderful mother to our grandson and supportive wife to my son. We celebrate her good and joyous life, for all she has accomplished and still yet to do.

This card is on dark gray with white embossing from SU. You can't see it but around the boarder is more flourish stamping, but with a watermark. Inside is another butterfly with watermark stamping. The butterflies were cut from Wall Decor. I learned that if you cut them on low pressure and multicut they turned out beautifully.

Ticket to Love

I sent this card to my daughers a few weeks back. It was a way I could express my love to them. I used "Just the Ticket" from PaperTrey Inc. I also found a card that was similar to this for some inspiration.

Here is the inside. I used the SU set called Well Scripted for the sentiment.

The best part about sending cards is the telephone call I get that says,
" Mom I got your card today!"

Happy Birthday Grandson

Another birthday for a sweet grandson! He turned 4!

I used a zig zag punch out of a bunch of different colors. Made a frame and wove the strips together. I cut the robot out placed it on top. Fun and colorful for a 4 year old. I said in the card that the robot had as many hands as he was old! He had a smile on his face as he counted the hands!

Pin the Caboos on the Engine!

It was our grandson's birthday in January and his theme was trains. There were about 20 cousins and small friends who all played the game pin the caboos on the engine. I made the train from the Micky Mouse cart and put numbers on all the cabooses so each would know what number they had and could tell who was the winner. It was a lot of fun!

Sunday School Cards

I teach the 12 and 12 year old's in Sunday School. Each week after the lesson is over I give them a card that has all the points of interest we talked about, some scriptures and quotes. Here are some of the cards I have made for them.

This lesson was on the 3 kingdoms of Glory. The Sun is the Celestial Kingdom, the Moon is the Terrestrial and the Stars are the Telestial. 1 Corinthians 15:40-42

Here is an illustration of how the spirit leaves the body after death.

This lesson was on Adversity. It teaches that it is not always bad, often there is a silver lining that comes from our trials. Isn't that the reason we are here on earth?

This lesson was what we need to do to prepare to meet God.

Isn't is great that families can be together forever?

This lesson was on loving our brothers and sisters - inside it says "Best Friends". It was given around Christmas time so the tree cutting by a brother and sister was a great cut for this card. It was from A Child's Year cart.

This card represents the goal to be married in the temple for all eternity, not just until death. I used Stretch Your Imagination cart.

This lesson was about home.

A commandment, Honor thy Father and Thy Mother .

This was a book that explained all about the Plan of Salvation.

This was a lesson being Clean. There was a great story told about the snapping turtle that didn't like to be caught, but with a board with bent nails the turtles would catch their fins on the board and would not be able to get away. We talked about how Satan is like the board ready to catch us if we let him.

Family History - I used the new cuddlebug embossing frame and computer generated the words. The tree is from Heritage cart.

This lesson was on Adam and Eve... could you guess! It is the apple from preserves. I used my scallop SU punch to take a bite out of the apple!

This lesson was on Agency. I wanted to show black/white /gray so they would understand their ability to make their own choices. It was all generated in the Gypsy.

It's A Boy!

I recently went to a baby shower and made this cute little 5X3.5 card. New size for me but I really liked it.

Used Create A Critter Alligator cut at 1.5 inches. I hand cut my mound of dirt and put a few clumps of grass. Used a little brown chalk ink to make them all look a little "dirty"! I love those Peachy Keen faces on the sun.

February Birthdays

Both my husband and my oldest son's birthdays are on February 8th! It is fun to celebrate them together.

This first card is for may husband. If is from Nifty Fifties cart. There is a lot of bling with shiny and sparkle paper.

This is the inside.

This is my son's birthday card. He likes sports. I used the Boys Will Be Boys cart for the ball. I think when I took this picture I was still figuring out the corners. I think the final card just had black corners. I love how the cuttlebug worked its magic on the ball!

Here is the inside of the card.