Rainy Day Thank Yous

Wow, today is a fall day! Yesterday I used my car's air conditioning and today I used its heater! I was hoping for another nice day to sit outside at some park and read in the sun, but oh well! Instead I spent a few hours making baby shower thank yous!

Wedding Invitations

I made these a few months ago, and figured I can finally post them without having to edit info out since the wedding is over! These were for my sister's recent wedding. Her colors were (of course) purple, teal, and brown.

Valentine's Cards

A few weeks ago I noticed a few fun ideas while looking around one of my favorite stores, Impress Rubber Stamps. I bought some red and pink velvet ribbon, a greeting stamp, and made a mental note of a few paper punches to look for on a sale at Michael's. Since finishing the string of crochet hearts, I've had the past couple days to pull all my paper craft stuff out and create!

Some of my favorite products right now are alcohol based Copic markers, punches and these super fun grass cutting scissors from Martha Stewart.

I hope you enjoy them! I've even listed a few on my Etsy shop!

It's a Card Day!

I got some new stamps last week, and spent Friday evening and some of the day on Saturday making cards, finishing up the last season of Murder She Wrote (tear), and trying not to get dizzy. I made some Christmas cards, some baby cards, and some just for fun cards. Many of them are now listed on etsy! Below are some that I had fun making.

The following 2 cards are my absolute favorites!

A Batch of Cards

30 cards that is. A little over a week ago I got two orders for thank you cards. One was for 10 cards, the other for 20. It took me a little longer than normal to get through them because I've been sick for the past couple weeks, but at last they are done and in the mail! I took some pictures of the process. Basically, I cut the card paper, stamped the trees and cut them, cut yellow and blue layering paper, added the yellow twine, stamped and cut thanks, layered and cut the blue behind the greeting, and glued them all together!

Baby Shower Invitations

I started working on ideas for these invitations about a month ago. I made a few different "pockets" before I found colors and rubber stamp combinations I liked. I began with a peach/cream/brown combo, but it ended up looking too halloweenish too me. I've decided I really enjoy sewing on cards I make, and it sticks so much better than glue! Once I had the design figured out it took a few days to get them put together and printed. Yay for 32 finished invitations!

Mother's Day Gift #2

I made this little wooden scrapbook for my mom a few weeks ago, and have been wanting to put up the pictures, but knew if I did that it wouldn't be a surprise for her anymore! I took pictures from over the past 4 years of Tom and I and made them into this little books with lots of cute papers I've collected. 

Bridal Shower Invitations

I've spent some time over the past few weeks working on these invitations to a bridal shower for the fiancee of Tom's cousin! I think these are my favorite yet! I sewed the little sleeves together after lightly gluing on the layer of pearly paper and Amy Butler paper. The informational invitation part I did in Photoshop, and then stamped flowers and glued the pearl on. 

And a Few More...

I spent yesterday working on cards for a cousin-to-be's bridal shower, which I'll try to post soon, and these! Somehow, whenever I pull the camera out, a kitty shows up!

Cards for Kelly

I got an email from my sister asking for some cards for the business she works for to use. I made a total of 15, but here are some of the fresh ideas I came up with!

New Cards!

While I had my stamping things out from the invitations, I decided to make a few new note cards for myself, for my sister, and to sell on etsy! I just love the colors in the card with the trees. 

Shower Invitations

My cousin is getting married in June, so her sister and I are throwing a shower for her next month. I had a fun visit with Jamie last week to work out some shower plans and do a little prep shopping. I spent a few hours this weekend designing and putting together invitations. Here's what they look like! 

Project Wedding Album: Complete!

I picked up my last picture from Costco this morning, brought it home, and put the last page, which just happens to be the first page, together! It's a pretty simple page, but I wanted it to be more than just a picture and our wedding invitation. I found I had saved one of the postage stamps we mailed our invitations with, and created a tiny little mock envelope our of scraps to jazz up the page a bit. 

Completed, the album starts with our wedding pictures, goes through our wedding and reception, and ends with our honeymoon. If you want to flip through it, ask me the next time you're over! 

Another Step Closer!

When we got home from church today I decided to make another valiant effort at completing our scrapbook. I got some pictures sorted and put a couple more pages together. 

This is the layout I was most looking forward to, mostly because I love the pictures in black & white, and I think the paper is cute! I found this paper last year, covered with little vintage valentine drawings of hearts and polk-a-dots in colors I love! Somehow over the past year I've noticed that I lean towards a little bit of a vintage look, especially if it involves the color red! 

Now I only have one page left to make the book complete. I just have to swing by Costco to pick up my last picture! 

I made this little bee out of scraps I had from framing the pictures on these pages. 

Christmas Houses

I made my first set of Christmas house ornaments today, and I'm very pleased with what I ended up with! I started with chipboard house shapes, cut patterned paper and glued it on, then sanded the edges. I then used my crop-a-dile to punch holes and add rivets for the hanger, and decorated with velvet ribon, glittery stickles, and little acrylic disks. I found the "fancy ornament hangers" at Wal-Mart! Aileen's clear gel tacky glue seemed to work well for the paper, ribbon, and acrylic pieces.

Christmas Ornaments!

I've decided I'd like to use all home made ornaments on our Christmas tree this year, so here are the first ones I've finished! They're pretty easy to make. I just 9 strips of 1"x 6" paper, punched holes in both ends, and stucks brads through them. Then I fanned the papers apart from one another and tied on the ribbon with buttons. 

Christmas Card Experiments

I started making a few Christmas cards the other day to help me figure out what I want them to look like this year. I started with just the red/brown/orange combination, but decided it probably looks a little too harvest. Tom didn't think it looked like a Christmas card, so I experimented with some green paper and sparkle snow. These are just the first few I've come up with, so I'll post the final layout when I get it down.

A New Set of Stamps!

I got this set of stamps a little over a month ago, and this is the first chance I've had to try them out. I love the blossoms and lanterns I've seen at all the shops, and thought I'd give 'em a try. I also recently got a little tiny sewing machine just for cards, and it's great! I had been hesitant to buy one because the reviews I had seen said the threads just pulled right out because there wasn't a bobbin. I finally found one with a bobbin, and it's worth it!

SU ink - pumpkin pie, kiwi, purely pomegranite

I love fall colors!

I sewed some fall flannel strips to this card with my sewing machine. 

Recipe: Chocolate Chip and Pumpkin Pie from SU

Recipe: little pumpkin stamp and tree stamp - Roasie's Roadshow, spiral punch - SU

Recipe: ribbon - Target, gold glitter - Stickles, Chocolate Chip ink - SU

Recipe: Chocolate Chip and Pumpkin Pie ink - SU

More Cards from the Summer

Recipe: paper from Joann, Stampin' Up scallop punch and flower stamp

Recipe: JoAnn paper, pearl chalks, Versa Ink

Recipe: CTMH orange paper and inks, Tombow markers, Hero circle stamp

Recipe: JoAnn papers, Stampin' Up scallop punch, congrats stamp, and Kiwi ink

Recipe: Stampin' Up Papaya paper, Papaya ink, scallop punch, and rubber stamp