More babies...

A friend of mine asked for some baby girl cards, so here are a couple of the cards that I came up with tonight...variations of previously made cards of mine...On a side note-I altered more notebooks last week and will show them to you when I can get the pics from my sister. (Batteries died on my camera)

Notebook Altering

Well, it's Friday today and I really could even count this post as a FTTT...

AND.............It's that time again! Time for my sisters and mom and I to go to TOFW (Time Out for Women)!!!! Yeah! Hooray! Whoop! Hallelujah!

This time I thought ahead! :) I found out what color the tickets were in (that is usually the color theme for the program, bags, etc.) and made up these cute notebooks/journals for us all to take notes in!

I'm psyched! Hope they like them as much as I do!







(The notebooks are 8.5x4 and I found them at Michael's Dollar Spot, although this week, they are 3 for $2!!! They come in all different colors and have lined paper inside. They came in these little cello bags, so after I altered them, I put them back in there for now.)

My fav is the first one pictured and the last one, although my hubby's is the 2nd and 5th. I also like how the 3rd is so different. I did quite a bit of dry embossing and heat embossing. I did the 4th one first and of course like it the least now. I have never used the little beads and I like them in the center of the flower on the 6th one pictured.

Which one is your fav?

Surprise!

Bet you didn't expect this for a post!

My son is a cub scout, so he is used to making a Pinewood Derby car each year to race. This year, our family decided to each make a car to race after the "official" race at this year's Pinewood Derby. I have always wanted to make one, so I was all for it! :)

I wasn't sure what to do with mine, except I decided that I wanted to stamp on mine. :) (Shocker!) Since I am also Primary pres (head of the children's organization at my church), I also thought it would be fun to do a car that represented something we learn in primary, so, I chose this "CTR" stamp(stands for "Choose the Right"-unless of course you heard the "new" phrase it can stand for at our last stake conference broadcast :) which I also thought was great!) from Sunbeam Stamps and embossed it onto the painted car and it worked great!

Yeah! And loads of fun!

FTTT

I'm excited to show you this week's FTTT Friday. I think it turned out cute!

I started with this:And ended up with:

THEN.............................................

I added some stuff to fill the inside with:THEN......................................................I added a couple more things too. :)

Simply Pink this time...

I needed a "girl" baby card and realized I didn't have any baby girl ones made up already, so I quickly copied my one I made this past weekend, with a few minor changes.

I like the wider ribbon better I think and I also think that this style bow would be better on the boy card, so I need to flip-flop the ribbons and bows I guess.

Still love the stamps and the ute sentiments that came with them too. :)

Simply Baby

I LOVE this new set I got from H&M stamps a few weeks ago and have been just waiting to find some time to use it and finally...I found the time!

This is the simplest card, but I love it! I thought about doing some background swirls and they would have been fine, but I decided I like it better simple. I seem to be liking the more simple look lately...a new phase. :) I even decided not to color it-like it this way. This new set reminds me some of those Willowtree figurines that I also love. Maybe it's because there are no facial features?

Love the colors, love the siplicity, love the wide satin ribbon, love love love the stamps!!! Love it all!

More...So soon!??? Yeah!

I loved finding some time to stamp this weekend!

This next card I actually started out with that last sketch (from the previous post) in mind. BUT...I liked my clouds too much to cover them up, so I changed it around.

I think it turned out fun-colorful too! Great for kids huh?
I liked it. :)

(The fence is done on velum and the clouds I made with my scallop punch. I punched out a scalloped circle from scrap paper and then sponged around it onto this paper.)

Monkey Business SC217

Got another sketch challenge in! Yeah!

Still not sure about the ribbon-but it seemed too much empty space without it...

TOFW

TOFW is a Women's Conference that my sisters, mom, and I go to every year together. It is uplifting and sooooooo much fun!

After last year's conf, I started making these cards and magnets to send to each of my sisters and mom to help us remember some of the speakers and the time together. The next one is already coming up an I have yet to send them out...another project that got put on the backburner during the holidays, but I am slowly getting there.I made a pic collage of us all there together, made a card (that I think I actually showed you months earlier-you can see how long ago I started them), and also another "postcard-type" pic with sentiment with magnets on the back. A singer/speaker there (Hilary Weeks) told a story about a family of quail and tied it into the way we react as mothers to our children. I want to always remember that story as a reminder to me, so I put a pic of quail on the card as well.

Anyway, here's hoping I get them out by the end of this week. :)

More variations:

Cased cards

I saw this card (to the bottom right) a couple weeks ago on Splictoast and again loved the elegant simplicity of it. So, I cased it.

I had a limited selection of ribbon that wide and sheer, so I went with these lighter colors and I have to say I like the contrast of her deeper, richer, red. In fact, I am contemplating that my cards need backgrounds, rather than the stark, bright white I have now...I still like the simplicity of them though.

Another Christmas Project Finished!

Here is another project that I started before Christmas and am just now finishing. It is an origami star box that I thought would be fun to use to give out treats in. I found the directions for it here.


I used a 12x12 sheet of DP cardstock, and stamped one side ahead of time...added a few stamps on top and...that's it folks! :)

Winter...Finally!

No, I am not WISHING for winter and it has NOT finally come...but I DID start this "wintery" card before Christmas and just got to finishing it last night.

I saw this card (that is posted to the left) on Splitcoast (in Dec?) and loved the beautiful simplicity of it, so I cased it and made my own version. She used a cuttlebug (if I remember correctly) to do the embossing. Unfortunately, I don't have one, so I did my dry embossing (the snowflakes) the old fashioned way once again-with a stylus and a stencil.
I DO love how it turned out though. I love the simplicity of it. I actually tried adding some of that frayed looking yarn down the spine of the card, but liked it better this way. I think it is much prettier in person, so if you want to come on over...LOL

Anyway...at least I can check it off of my "projects to finish" list. :)

More OSW

Last night, for our club car night, we made more OSW. Who wouldn't like that? Coming home with a bunch of cards? Sounds good to me!

I kinda made some changes to a few from the original designs last night... ;) Added stuff here and there-sometimes added too much. Grrrr...Didn't have a sentiment the right size for the next one, so I hand wrote it and don't love it. :(
WOOOOO! Stop with the paper piercing! (below) Too much Robyn! LOL
Do you ever keep adding things, and adding more, and more trying to get it right, and then it is just way too much and YECH! Should have left it alone to begin with? Well, this next one is an example of that-turned out really weird and yech!Last one...
NOt my favs, but simple, fast and easy. Need to put in some more time stamping to get some mojo back. IF it ever comes back.

Happy Weekend!

Fairy Grateful for FTTT Friday!

It's been awhile, but today I am back with a FTTT (From this to that) Friday!

For today, I combine my FTTT with Monday's TLC Challenge on Splitcoast (TLC208). You can find the challenge here as well as a link with the pattern for the box. These are sooooo easy! All you need is a sheet of cardstock and then decorate it up!

You start with this:(You don't need a 12x12 piece of paper, either. But I wanted a double sided one, and I only have those in 12x12.)

And end up with:

Going for the Gold? No, the Green!

My son got this cute little box as one of his Valentines, and I thought how simple and cute!
So I unfolded it and made my own pattern.
Then went to "work" making my own version and came up with this:
How easy can it get??!! The shamrock on top is a sticker (complete with rhinestones) that I got from Target last year and never found something to use it for. I just added a couple of circles underneath it, some more sparkle, printed a sentiment off (with my computer and printer) and wala! (I also used a removable glue dot to keep it closed.)

How fun would some gold covered chocolate coins look inside this?!