Happy Birthday!

I'm baaaack! Well, sort of anyway. I do have a few new things in the works, but this was just a quick birthday card for a little girl in Brett's class. Same basic design as one further down the page :)

Hello? Can you hear me now?

My craft desk has been pretty lonely the last few months... life just got in the way! I'm hoping to get back into things now that the best craft holidays are coming up, so stay tuned. In the mean time, I've been busy working and parenting and all of that fun stuff, but also working on being a room mom for Kate's 2 year old class. There are a fun few links on the side for those of you that are also room parents, or looking for ideas for your kids' classes too!

Recipe Book

This was a quick recipe book that I did as a gift using the Mimosa line from SEI's April Club Kit. I tried to find pictures of each of the recipes. For the recipes without pictures, I did various designs on the back. The plain white album is also from SEI.

 

 

 

 

Switch-flops stoage problem...

So, I don't know if you've heard of these great flip-flops called Switch Flops. They really are some of the coolest things ever. Basically, it's like having 10 pairs of flip flops for a little more than the price of 1! The bottoms (the basic flip flop) run at about $35 and then the tops velcro onto the flip-flops, and they run at about $10 each. So, I have all of these flip-flop tops and nowhere to store them, until now! Ta da! I'm pretty impressed with myself. Once I work out the kinks, I'm going to make one for my mom & sisters too.

cakes and cards

Here is a little glimpse at what I've been up to lately. This is definitely the season for parties - bridal showers, baby showers, and birthday parties! Our weekends seem all-consumed with all of these parties, but I don't mind. It's always fun to catch up with family and old friends :)



This paper cake is for my sister's bridal shower at Fearrington in a few weeks. I'm co-hosting the shower with several of our aunts. The food is absolutely delicious! I can't wait! Anyway, we decided that we didn't really need to do favors, but I still wanted to do a little something. Each of these "cake boxes" has 5 Hershey's Nuggets inside, wrapped in coordinating paper as well. It looks tedious, but was actually really easy to do. I did the whole thing in front of the TV for a few consecutive nights. I figured that I might as well put those 2 hours each night to good use! The pattern for the cake slices can be found here by scrolling down and clicking on the link for the PDF. Just print these on your favorite paper and follow the cutting and folding directions. The paper that I used is by Stemma - the lighter one is Teal & Black Daisies and the darker one is Teal & Black Midnight Garden. I love the colors together - plus the wedding colors are a (darker) teal and black. The stamp is from some random wedding stamp set at Michael's - sorry - I dont remember the name of the set. I used the scallop punch from Stampin' Up! The bow is from Michael's too - I don't have the patience to make bows, ever.



This is a diaper cake for my friend's shower this coming weekend. It's actually the first diaper cake I've ever made, and I think it turned out pretty well. I usually buy them from my VERY talented friend, Sarah. You can buy them too by clicking here! Anyway, I didn't get my act together early enough to ask Sarah to do it. Oh well. My friend has a dinosaur theme for her nursery, and I love blue and brown together, so that's what it is. I bought the wooden dinosaurs from Michael's and painted them myself to match the ribbon that I found. I actually did make this bow, which is why it's not nearly as nice on the bow on the other cake :)



This is another birthday card using the Party Hearty! set from Stampin' Up! It's for a little boy's 3rd birthday. He likes cars, just like Brett, so I had to find a way to incorporate some cars onto the card! The solid paper is all from Bazzill and the cars paper is Sandylion's Rush Hour. I copied this design!



Last one - this is a card for baby shower that I'm going to this weekend. The paper is all from SEI's "Doodley Doo Boy" line. The stamps are from Autumn Leaves - Mindy's Zoo. I copied the idea here!

As you can tell, I've been stumped for original ideas lately... thank God for the internet so that I can be inspired :)

Oh, speaking of the internet - I'll share one more wonderful thing that I found yesterday. I'm always trying to find coordinating envelopes to go with the 4x6 cards that I make. I stumbled upon this - a site to download the PDF envelope template to print on any paper that you wish! LOVE it!

Happy Birthday, Ms. Shelley!

One of Brett's teachers celebrated a birthday last week, and the parents thought it would be nice if the class went in together to get her a giftcard to Starbucks since she loves coffee. Whow wouldn't love coffee working with 2 year olds all day?! I designed this little card for the class to give her. The paper and ribbon is all from SEI's Spring line and the stamps are from Stampin' Up's Party Hearty. Brett was so excited to give Ms. Shelley the card this morning. He didn't even cry at drop off! Maybe we need to bring something for Ms. Shelley every day!

I {heart} organizing!

I know everyone out there thinks that I'm nuts, but I really love to organize things - it is much different than cleaning, trust me!



I finally put away all of the Christmas wrapping *stuff* - I went and bought storage containers for shirt boxes and Christmas bags and Birthday bags and Baby bags and Wedding bags and whatever other bags I had floating around in that closet! The pink, blue, and green bins are from Target (of course)!



Shoe organizers re-purposed for various craft supplies and ribbon.





My old shelf from my college apartment, along with some jars from the Teeter... I like things sorted by colors. I think it looks nice :)

Another baby card...

I think this is the last one for a little while... we're entering the season of the bridal shower :)

Baby card

Another simple baby card using "In the Stars" from Stampin' Up!

 

Christmas Thanks!

Just a quick view of my Thank You cards for all of our Christmas presents this year! The stamps are from the stampin' up set Seasons of Joy!

Squash Book

I did this cute little squash book of my friend and her family. The paper is from a pack of K & Co. If you want to make your own (it's REALLY easy) - check out www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/squash_book.





Have fun!