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Latest jewelry stuff

2011-10-21T14:52:00.000-05:00

In Louisiana EVERYTHING this time of the year is about the Saints and LSU. I confess...I'm not crazy about football. BUT.. I like making stuff.

16 Birthday Wishes

2011-08-27T18:12:00.000-05:00

I made this card for my daughter's friend, along with a banner and a yard sign.Her Sweet 16 theme is dots, pink, black & white. I used scraps from the banner. I think the pattern paper is Paper Studio.The 16 is 7Gypsies stamps and the Wishes for you is a Studio G stamp from M's. This is the yard sign made from a poster board, circles punched from the scraps leftover from the banner, and I cut

ATC - Flowers

2011-08-14T18:56:00.000-05:00

Flowers Last month 'flowers' was pulled out of the bucket at our stamp group.I used a Stampabilities background stamp with black ink,Studio G for the letters, inked the edges with green,randomly traced the leaves with a startdust pen <3 ,punched a label and cut it in half, punched the bottom edgeand added paper flowers. They didn't come out like I wanted them to, I was wanting something with

SMASH Book !!!!

2011-07-17T13:39:00.001-05:00

I'm so excited!!!I FINALLY got all the SMASH stuff I ordered. Well..all but 2 more books.I have the retro and another pink on backorder. My daughter saw the pink one and loved it.I was in shock. Watch...when the retro one comes in, she's gonna want that one.... I thought it was going to take forever! I had to order from 3 different companies to get it all.But it's here..and that's what matters :

Paper Flowers

2011-07-16T23:17:00.000-05:00

I was looking on YouTube and came across some beautiful paper flowers...so I had to give it a shot. These are so easy! Punch hearts Crumple hearts & flatten them outTake a brad and start with smaller hearts and work your way up in sizeclose bradshape as desired I used pigment ink on the pink and yellow flowers. I'm sure glimmer mist would look awesome or maybe just inking the tipsor

TP Minis

2011-07-11T23:53:00.000-05:00

Huh? Toilet paper rolls?Oh yeah!I had never heard of it before, but wow! There are tons of minis out there just waiting to inspire you.We made toilet paper roll minis for our stamp group project. A fellow member gave us a tip: after flattening them with a bone folder..iron them! Cover with paper..Punch 1 hole or two holes..Bind them together with ribbon, book rings, whatever you prefer..Make

Fleur de lis coasters

2010-10-07T08:33:00.000-05:00

A friend showed me how to make these. I just LOVE them! I love things that have more than one use. I get bored with decor easily, always wanting to change things around. So, I can use them for more than just coasters. Like put them on a mini stand, or hang them on the wall with ribbon, twine, or nothing at all. This project was right up my ally! I used tumbled marble tiles. I am still

Sports theme banner

2010-09-09T17:24:00.002-05:00

A dear friend of mine has the most precious baby. He is such a sweet chunk of love. I offered to make a banner for his room. She is going with vintage sports as the decor. Now this is my first 'boy' banner. I looked at it for the longest time wondering what to do or add other than balls. I wasn't thrilled. Almost everything I make that needs that 'something', usually involves something sparkly.

Time Flies ATC

2010-09-08T12:33:00.000-05:00

'Anything goes' was the theme for August. I didn't get to go to the swap, so I played catch up. These were super easy. I got the stamps from Michael's, just inked heavy on the left and lighter everywhere else in silver and gold, added some sparkle in blue (which you can't see) and done. I got twelve done in less than an hour. September's theme was 'pets'. I think I'm gonna skip that one.

I lost Happy

2010-07-23T08:08:00.003-05:00

Last night I pulled the banners out of the box and realized that Happy was lost on this one. This was my 3rd banner and all hand cut (pre-cricut). Just thinking about it hurts my hands. Ouch. But it really SPARKLES! My son's birthday fell on Mardi Gras that year. He had King Cake and pizza and I decorated with Mardi Gras stuff (super easy) and we decorated plain Mardi Gras masks for an activity.

Girly Birthday Banner

2010-07-23T01:17:00.002-05:00

My daughter couldn't make up her mind on a color scheme for her 13th birthday party, so she picked quite a few papers from the same line. I made white cupcakes (118) with pink K's and 13's. And we made the pom- pom things ( like Martha, except hers were gorgeous naturally) to hang on the wall and ceiling. Let's not forget the absurd amount of crepe paper for streamers. It was everywhere. I made

my latest obsession

2010-06-28T00:04:00.002-05:00

My latest obsession has been making these necklace charms for my girls which turned out to be addictive...like mint chocolate chip ice cream (for me anyways) This is only some. Many more to come. I think I'll be stuck on this for months! I've even sold a few pieces which really made me excited to know that even though it may be few, some people like them other than myself and of course my

Baby Banner

2010-06-27T23:36:00.001-05:00

My daughter's teacher was having a baby and wanted to give her teacher something special.Naturally, she wanted me to make a banner. So she brought home something that went with the decor of the baby's room to give me an idea of where to go with it. After much going, this is where I went.. (I'm not a photographer, so the pics aren't great ; ) You can't see the detail in the pictures but there

Birthday card

2010-06-27T23:08:00.006-05:00

This is a b-day card I made for a friend a few months back. Paper is MME (Laundry Line) and sentiment was printed and punched.

Father's Day card

2010-06-23T19:40:00.001-05:00

It seems when I make something, I usually like the outcome better when I don't plan and just let myself go. The prettiest stuff I have made has been the fastest. I think it's weird. But hey..whatever works, right?This is the card I made for my Daddy. Patterned paper is MME, stamp is 7 gypsies. I stamped it in dove gray Stazon and embossed it. Last years was so pretty and naturally, I didn't take

April, May, June, and July ATC's

2010-06-23T19:13:00.001-05:00

Can u believe that I was a month ahead? Wow! Though I was 2 months late. April's theme was Spring. May was patriotic. Something masculine for June. And Christmas in July. These are the ones I made. I'll try to post the others that were made by the ladies in the group for June. Dang it! I knew I was forgetting something! I forgot March..Geez

Eggs

2010-04-21T10:05:00.000-05:00

Behind again! And so that was the case with the eggs. It happened again this year. The eggs didn't get dyed til after midnight Easter morning. The kids were up.Well, Corey wasn't, but didn't mind getting up to see who had the ugliest egg and try to make one of his own. So it wasn't like I had to drag them out of bed or anything. 1/6 isn't bad. lol. I did get a chance to get crafty with my own

ATC Feb/Valentine

2010-03-04T13:27:00.001-06:00

Yes, I know Valentine's Day is in February.Yes, I know it's March now.I looked at this for days and days before I could get some idea of what to do next.I finally gave up trying to plan and just started to play. I'm not happy witht he hearts. My kids helped me so..on they went!The background stamps are Stampabilities. I'm not sure about the others. Ink is StazOn, pink cardstock and some glimmer

Fleur de Lis ATC

2010-02-22T10:02:00.001-06:00

Geez, it's been way too long since I've posted! I haven't been very creative lately. But I did manage to make a few things since November. Ok....so, remember how I went to that stamp group meet up/ ATC swap? And I enjoyed myself so much that I was definitely going back? Ummm..yeah..I haven't made it to another swap since. I'm really really really hoping to go next month. But I did manage to make

Musical

2009-11-01T07:40:00.000-06:00

A $3 frame and some paper and a lil ribbon and ........ta daaaaaa!

Come in and Sit a Spell

2009-10-23T10:21:00.002-05:00

I wanted something just a lil festive to get in the spirit of Halloween. The letters were cut using the Blackletter cart.

Collage frame

2009-10-23T10:06:00.001-05:00

I got this frame from Wal Mart awhile back for $10. It sat there for..oh I don't know how long, but it was long. The hardest part was getting my kids to sit still long enough to take a good picture. I love the paper I used (paper studio). I bought so much of this stuff, it's sick. This took 30 minutes max to do because I kept cutting the paper wrong. But it's good enough for now and it's finally

First ATC Swap

2009-10-17T18:33:00.002-05:00

I love drooling over these small pieces of art that can inspire anything from a scrapbook page to home decor. I have been wanting to get started on making some of my own for about a year now. I introduced my kids to the idea of them, but they rather make them out of flash cards, being that they are just a tad bit bigger. Soon I'll put some of their little works of art on here. So a friend of

My kind of ribbon candy

2009-10-12T17:42:00.000-05:00

I found out the hard way that I need to see my stuff in order to use it. I bought all kinds of boxes to store stuff in. It worked for some things, but not for everything. I like to see what I have. Organizing craft supplies gets tough when you don't have a craft room and are working in shared spaces in your home. I still have a long way to go. This isn't all of the ribbon..just the 238. I put

238 rolls of ribbon

2009-10-09T17:15:00.000-05:00

I am a ribbon junkie. It's almost embarrassing. Will I ever use it all? No. But that doesn't stop me from hoarding and buying. I do use it, just not that much. I took the ribbon off of the spools they were on and put them on clothes pins (the round ones) and some on dowels and some are just rolled tightly.

The EEK that got tweaked

2009-10-01T17:52:00.007-05:00

Ha ha! I crack myself up with my funnies! EEk - tweak- get it?!? So...I added tule (sp?), some rhinestone stickers and a strip of ribbon to the eek. I can't decide whether it's an almost sexy eek or if it's a ballerina eek. Oh well..I got irritated with it so that's how I left it. My poor BOO...nothing was done to it.I told the kiddos they couldn't have any candy corn until they said how

BOO

2009-09-29T20:03:00.005-05:00

Just something I was playing around with when I got bored. Plain black and orange cardstock, flash cards, b&w polka dot (mm...I think), w&b paisley (paper studio), black diamond stickles, and the letters are cut with the Blackletter cart on the cricut. Oh! and a lil ink.Still not sure how to finish them off yet. The orange side definitely needs something.