Figuring it out...

Well I am back on the crafty bandwagon. I got three cards made last night that I actually like so that is a great improvement from what I have made in the last few weeks. I really think I just need to work through my crafty blocks and just keep going. I took a few days off than just sat with my stuff, cleaning it, organizing it, putting stuff away, rediscovering things I forgot I had or hadn't seen in a while. That seemed to work so I'll try that again and hopefully all this will be figured out.

I really like this card and it is so basic but I think it has a bit of class in it too. I am really thinking a lot about how simple my cards are now. I hope that is okay. I mean it is okay for me but I wonder if those who receive them really enjoy them too. Maybe I worry to much but I am really enjoying this white simple phase I am in. I am going to try to get myself to use more colors though and I think that will challenge me some more.

Another PTI card

This is made with the same stamp set as yesterday's card. Same ink colors and paper colors but a little different look.

I love the new inks I bought. They are the dewdrop inks, I am just having a hard time remembering not to ink up the stamps so much. I have always been loyal to one brand of ink and in the past two months I have branched out to try out two other brands. Both of these brands are very different but have great qualities. I just need to remember to think about the type of ink I am using before I stamp. It would save a lot of having to redo images and frustration on my part.

My cards seem to get more and more simple, but I really love the look of clean and simple.

Have a great Thursday!

So how's this?

I love this stamp set from PTI and have such a hard time using it. This card took two days....well not all day but both evenings. I think I stamped and stamped this image over and over tyring to find the right combo for me. I also started using some new inks which seem to have a learning curve with drying and it gives out a lot of ink when I get the ink on the stamp. So there was a lot of mistakes due to ink smudging. Even with all the smudges I am really liking this card. I am thinking it will make a great mother's day card too. (I am participating in a group which is sending mothers day cards to our soldiers overseas so they can mail them back to their moms and wives. my personal goal is 200 cards.....I have got to get stamping!)

I am really liking this card though and it includes one of my favorite colors---old olive. I love how the ink matches this random scrap paper I had. Now I have to figure out what the name and brand of the paper is so i can get more.

Have a great day!!

Inner Crafty-ness has Disappeared!!

So I have no crafty-ness left in me. I can't seem to find my inner crafty. I don't know where it went and I can't get it back.

I have so much to do and I keep trying to stamp and scrapbook but nothing is really looking all that great.

So as soon as I have something that is share-worthy I'll be posting it!!

No Time for Crafting

So this past week was busy and this week isn't looking any calmer. So here is a card I created in Deember as a part of the Birthday set I gave my mil. I love the colors.....lately I am back into my love with old olive, a color I haven't used in a while now. I used to go through packs of it. Right now I am doing 200 wedding thank yous with white and old olive as the colors. It is very elegant and has gotten me back into using old olive again.

Also debbie has nominated me for this blog award......

THANKS DEBBIE!! It's good to know that someone out there is reading besides my family!

Happy Valentines Day!!

Okay so these are what I made for my son's school....another teacher appreciation committee thing for Valentines Day. I loved them when i first say them on splitcoast!! They are shaped like those little sour cream containers and when you rip them open you get Hershey Kisses!!

I could not get a non-blurry picture this morning that was close up so you get the one that is far away with my hand in it and a close up blurry one! SO sorry, but I wanted to share them with you before I am off to help at school today and then I am doing a "red and white valentines dinner" for my Fmaily tonight along with our annual valentines treasure hunt.....so you get a blurry picture before I am too busy to post again!!

I hope you all have a great Valentines day!!

Valentines Blocks

Here are what I made for gifts for a few ladies in my church for Valentines. They were easy to do...painting, modge podge the paper on, cut out letters and paint hearts. And some embellishments and you have a cute tabletop decoration. (the happy is a small happy stamp covered with a page pebble, and the heart has fine martha stewart glitter on top of it. I don't think you can tell those two things from the picture at all! Oh and there is a see through pink flower off the side of the 'y' block) The blocks are 4X4.

Hope you have a great Valentines Day!!

OVER 1000

and i just noticed there have now been over 1000 views on this little blog of mine! It might just be the same 4 friends looking every time, but hey I feel the love!!

thanks everyone!!

Chocolate and Patterened Paper

A friend asked if I could help her make some of these candy bar pulls she saw on Splitcoast yesterday for a baby shower. I love splitcoast for many reasons one being that they have specfic instructions to make things like this and you don't have to figure it all out again on your own. So following thier instructions it took me less than 5 minutes to create each of these. Since it was so easy I had to make a few extra and am now thinking this would be super easy to do for teacher gifts and classroom gifts for my boys' valentines parties at school. And I love how the ribbon, when pulled brings up the candy bar!

So if you are looking for a way easy craft today here it is.....a 6X 7 inch piece of paper, score it on the 6 inch side at 2 3/4 and 5 1/2 tape two sides shut, punch holes on the open side of the paper insert ribbon thorugh the holes and push a candy bar into the opening (this will rig it so when the ribbon is pulled the candy bar will slide up) tie a bow and you are done!!

I used hershey's candy bars and they are the perfect size!!

Happy chocolate goodness to you all!!

Orange and Brown

Okay so lots of you know that I love brown paired with almost any color so here are two brithday cards in brown and orange. All the lettering is by Making Memories and the other papers are random companies ( and are out of my scrap bucket! I love using stuff out of my scrap bucket and have been trying really hard to use up stuff I own instead of buying more and more without using what I have.).

I hope to have some valentine stuff to show you next time!! Happy February!