Child Birthday Card

I think my mil can use this for a child card...i am thinking little like toddles preschool aged.

The paper is from a DCWV stack, and the stamps are fom the Studio G series you get at Michael's.

Kid Card

another card to add to my mother in laws pile.

I think this is a kid card...i love how simple it is.

the cadstock is all bazzill the PP is chatterbox, the sentiment is PTI and the

cupcake stamp is hero arts...i think.

Birthday Card again

I think this is a more "manly" card...so it will be added to the pile for my mother in law

I don't know what PP this is and the sentiment is from inkadoo I think.

Birthday Card

Here is another card to add to the stack for my mother in law.

I don't know the company for the PP, the sentiment is PTI, the white cardstock is cuttlebugged with the swiss dots.

More Cards

My mother in law has requested enough birthday cards to get her through the next 18 months while she serves a mission for our church alongside her husband. We are now a blended family as she has remarried and she is in need of 126 cards. She gave me a list of girls and boys broken down into adult, teenager, preteen, child, and toddler. So I am busy working on these. (she leaves on Feb 8th for Rome so they have to get done. My goal is to have them done in a week so i can take them with us when we go visit them.

So I will be sharing these cards I have been making over the next few days.

I am proudly using up my stash and hoping to not have to purchase to many things for this card order. I already know I will have to purchase more adhesive so that will be good, as I have used up a huge stash I have had for about a year now.

First card is a teenager card.....

Scenic Route PP, Bella stamp, stampin up ink and watercolor crayons for the coloring, PTI sentiments, Martha Stewart Punch for the border

Feeling so lucky!

Today I figured out that again my blog has been on the Card of the week.com list

How lucky, honored and surprised I feel.

Thanks for choosing my project...it is the mini book below that I made for a niece.

Here's the button I get to add to my blog now.




Jump over and visit...it is a great blog and has wonderful projects of other bloggers!

Christmas Thank yous

I needed to also get our Christmas thank yous done with the boys before school started and everything else would start to take priority. So these are really simple and fast. But I like them and they tie a little bit into the Christmas cards I sent out this year with the snowflakes and the colors.

The snowflake stamp is from PTI and the words are from another set...I don't know who made it..sorry!

Happy New Years!

Well it is the 3rd day of 2009 and so far I have crafted each day!! Go me!!

I think this will be short lived as we get back on schedule with our lives on Tuesday (the day the boys go back to school) So I am enjoying it as much as I can.

I wanted to show you a last minute gift I made for my brother in law. It is based off a frame I saw on another blog in the past few months. and I knew it would be a perfect Christmas decoration for us and for him. The picture is horrible of the frame but it is the only one i took at 1 am the day before we gave it away. (i still need to make ours) The box in the right hand corner says "he always read us the Christmas story on Christmas eve."

My Father in Law past away 3 years ago in May and he always read his children and his grandchildren the Christmas story from the Bible. It is a memory all of his children treasure. I am so happy I took this picture years ago and packed it away. I remember thinking that it is a horrible picture and I would never use it for anything but I added it to the collection of other pictures I thought I'd never scrapbook and now it is a family treasure. Another reason to never throw out a bad photo.

This was an unfinished shadow box that I painted brown. The colored papers are bazzill and the PP is making memories (i think). The words are stamped with inkadoo letters and i had wrote everything else.

Stephanie is Home

If you have been following the Nie Nie story the great news is she is home with her family. What a great thing to hear on the last day of 2008....

Read more here.

http://blog.cjanerun.com/2008/12/be-forgot.html

Happy New Year!

To Share

Well Christmas has come and gone and I find myself thinking about all those things I need to do for the rest of my non-Christmas life. You see I was thinking only about getting to all the Christmas things I needed to do prepare for that one big day of the year. Well we have opened presents, ate and ate more, played, watched all the new movies, had family sleepovers in front of the tv...and now with a few important phone calls I am thinking about what happens with the rest of our lives this year.

And then I remembered our little niece who is being baptized a member of our Church (we are LDS) this weekend and I haven't made her remembrance book yet....I do this for all our little nieces and nephews and her birthday is during the Christmas season so she is up next in our family line.

Here are some glimpses of her book. Since I have 2 boys it is a treat for me to play with girly colors. And sometimes I even find it a challenge, because I am naturally drawn to the blues and browns as it is.....so I'll stop talking and show you what I did last night.