What's Happening

So here we are already April...where does time go? Here is an update on some things we have been doing and some projects I have completed.
I made this cute Rag Purse fro my friend Kadee's Birthday. I LOVE the way it turned out. I have big plans to make more of these for friends for birthday's. You can check out how to make it here.

My assignment for card swap for March was Adult Birthday. We are doing something new this year in my card swap group where we each have an assignment so we go home with a stack of different themed card each month. You can check out all our card swap cards at The Rowdy Rooster
I saw these on a blog somewhere and decided it would be a quick fun journal to make. It sits on my desk and I like to keep track of all the projects I would love to do....if only there was more time in the day.


These were some fun Valentine cards I made with just 3 sheets of paper. I was playing around with the technique of wetting down paper with a squirt bottle and folding and twisting it... I saw a lot of this at the craft and hobby show.

For our February Card swap we had a baby shower for our fellow card swapper Amber who was having a boy. We each brought her a set of thank you cards she could use to send thank you's after her shower. These were mine...you can see more at The Rowdy Rooster.
I love this Baby gift Jar. It is my favorite gift to give right now. I usually fill it with cute ribbon burb cloths , an outfit, and or toys. Everyone loves a gift that includes cute storage right? :)
In March my kids preformed "Joseph and the amazing technicolor dreamcoat" with Arts off Broadway. They had a blast! The Uncle Jon was the Director and their cousins and Aunt were also in the production. It was a lot of work but they had a grea time. Emily played one of Joseph's brothers, Sarah was an adoring girl and one of the wives, and Adam was evil corn.

Nothing says spring like a little boy ( ok not so little but still little to me) hunting for easter eggs in his baseball uniform. Easter and Baseball it is certainly spring!



Ok so the girls think they are too big to hunt for easter eggs but I did convince (and it took a lot of convincing and eye rolling) them to pose for these cute pictures.



We have just returned from the land of cold and snow in Park City Utah. We spent spring break sledding, skiing, shopping , seeing new things, reading books, hanging out and just plain Family fun. I will post mor fun pics once I get them organized. Here is part of the clan heading to the sledding tow to take them back up the hill for another thrilling ride.

Jar Re-filled

I ran out of tags for my celebrate jar so i thought i would share a few new ones with you. The one pictured by itself is my favorite alothough it is hard to see how great the green rub on design looks. I can't tell you how much I love having these on hand.

stay tuned i have some great ideas i will be working on this week.

October Card swap

Here is my card for my October Card swap. I used my new cricut to cut the adorable catepillar.

April Card Swap

This month's card swap....Pop-up cards. So after a long search on the internet a trip to the scrapbook store and 2 trips to michaels here is my pop up card. I would have like to have added more emblishments but everytime i added something I did'nt like it, could be that I started it two days before card swap. So that is what I am hoping to do next month start earlier!!!

Supplies

We R memories white out collection paper-I love this paper!!
Yellow card stock
turquoise cardstock-bazzil
Star paper clip-from staples
solid color satin ribbons-michaels
various buttons
Birthday sticker-Deja View birthday sticker tablet
Transparency (on front) staples
Rhinestone-michaels dollar section
Turquoise and red stitching

Color Challenge

Well I just completed our first color challenge from our card swap group here is the room that was the inspiration...the room is from the Pottery Barn website. As you can see I got to use my new chipboard letters that I found at Big Lots for a buck.

Supplies:
Pattern paper Die cuts with a view--This is from their new spring glitter stack..it is sooo cute and the stack is on sale at joanns right now for $9.99
Bazzil red and blue cardstock
cloud 9 designs chipboard letters
Red flower-michaels
various ribbon scraps
3 dot stickers that say happy, smile, friend-unkown

One Card Swap

So the 4th Thursday of every month is one of my favorite nights. I get to go to card swap with a bunch of amazingly talented and funny women. Every time we have the best laughs and push our creativeness to the limits...which I love. So we swap 10 cards one month at someones home and the next is our easy month of 1 card and out to dinner. I always feel a lot of pressure on 1 card months to create something special, after all it's only 1 card and you have a month-not that I don't always wait until the last minute. Anyway here is my creation for March. I bought these packs of great Martha Stewart Boxes at Michaels on clearance (my favorite word) for on $1 for a pack of 6. I purchased the paper I used in Tennessee when visiting my Sister in law. I loved the color combination. Thanks card swap girls for a fun night as always.

My quick card creation inspired by Button's SMILE card to her Orthodontist. After seeing it I was itching to get to my craft table to create. Thanks for the inspiration!!!


Supplies: Funky Flowers paper by color bok, Green and Black Bazzill cardstock, Smile die cut oval by Tree House memories, Lg silver brad (painted black- the things we do for the right colors), 2 small green brads-unknown, Green satin ribbon, dare to rub-on-unkown, Inked black edges-stapin up black stamp pad.

A Cute Baby Gift

As many of you know we have a vinyl lettering business "A wishful Thought" ( check it out at the link under my fabulous finds) . Last week I went to a baby shower for my sister in law. They don't know what they are having yet so I customized our baby box and burp rags to match her nursery. I also made a cute card to match. I love the wrapping part of presents, you can make the uggliest things look beautiful when they are wrapped with cute stuff. Anyway I love to make these burp rags for new moms, I use only the Gerber birdseye from target they are the best and are not to thick. I believe if you have to wear a burp rag wear a cute one!