Monday, March 29, 2010

Sick!!

Well, my plan to post once a week has been foiled. The kids and I have been fighting a terrible cold for the past two weeks. I cannot seem to shake it. I think that it might be because I never get any sleep. That and the copious amounts of snot, the sneezing and the coughing that the children seem to love to do all over me probably does not help :o(

I would really like to cover some composition notebooks this week for one of my daughters and nieces for Easter, so I am crossing my fingers that I will feel well enough to do this. I have never covered a notebook before, but I am going to give it a shot.

Does anyone have any other fun ideas for the children for Easter?

Monday, March 15, 2010

A New Beginning

I have realized that I am a terrible blogger . I will be honest, I originally set up this blog so that I could enter to win a Cricut Expression through My Pink Stamper. I did not win :o( Anyways, since then I have posted a couple of things, but I haven't really kept up with it. I have decided to make a commitment to myself to post at least once a week which means that I have to allow myself time to do some paper crafting. I currently have one follower Canadian Nickel Scrap'n (thank you). I would like to double that by next week. That shouldn't be too hard should it? ha ha ha I will give it a try. For today, I will post three cards that I made at the Stampin' Up Club night that I went to last Wednesday and a couple of other cards that I made in the last week.










Here is another card that I made on my own yesterday. It is very simple, but I think that it turned out okay. I wish that I would have layered the brown on top of the green instead of the other way around.





I also made this card using the Cricut Paisley cartridge. I cardlifted the idea from Creations with Christina. I really needed some inspiration and I thought that this card she made was absolutely adorable. I added googly eyes to mine and put it on a white cardbase. I LOVE googly eyes. I would add them to everything if I could. ha ha






Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Windy Wednesday

It was really windy here today. It was far too windy to take my two little girls anywhere, so we were couped up in the house :o( Unfortunately, I did not have any time to make any cards etc. I have added a couple of cards that I made a few weeks ago.


This is a baby card. I believe the duck on this card is from the Doodlecharms Cricut cartridge. It is very plain and simple.




This card was for a baby boy whose name started with the letter Z. I embossed the brown cardstock using the Cuttlebug D'Vine Swirl embossing folder.





I made this card for my husbands parents. It was for their 40th wedding anniversary. They are farmers. I learnt afterwards that going around the edges of my cuts with chalk would add definition. I will definitely try that technique in the future.