Birthday wishes

So, I have to say I really like the way this one turned out.

Smurfed

More...

So, these two are cards a friend made a couple yrs? back and gave me "the kit" she made me to make some as well. It's about time. :)

Lavender Petals

I had this card stamped and paper punched and nothing else done to it-for a year or more now? So I added a sentiment, ribbon and punched across the bottom. I like it. :)

"Old" Club Cards

So...here are a few cards that we made at club nights in the past few months, that I brought home unfinished and never finished...until now.

Grow...

Up! ??? lol


A fun tree I made with some circle punches and stickers I found. Again, pretty fast and easy.

Oldies/Classics

Still think they're cute. And so fast and easy with DP paper.


And again, used for so many things in the past. Father's Day, baptisms, missionaries...(If you haven't made these before, they are so fast too! You just cut an 8 1/2x11 paper in half [the long ways}, fold down from the top. Cut about an inch down and in from the top fold and fold in like a collar. Add a tie and buttons and you're done! [Kids like to color the ties too.})

Simplicity

From the first card...

...I made for my sister, to the last.

I'll be posting the cards I made in between these two in the next week or so.)

First card made: (IN MONTHS!)

(I've had these "Weed" stamps, as I call them for probably a year now and have never gotten around to using them. Finally! But I didn't like it after I stamped it. So, I tore the bottom and inked it. Better....but? Then I added the velum over the top. Much better! Add a top to the card, a sentiment, and a few embellishments...and done!

Last card:

...to the last.
Another simple one. Obviously using designer paper, makes it all much faster and simpler. Turned out cute I think. :)

It's late...

...but I am excited to say that I actually stamped almost 20 different cards this past week!!!! I've been trying to get a bunch done to send to my older sister for her bday for weeks now, but having a root canal, sinus infection, and being a mom just keep getting in the way. lol

I have to say that I did not enjoy the stamping as much as I used to, but that's mainly due to the fact that I am just out of practice and was not liking the way everything was turning out. The last card I made was prob my favorite.

As I am writing this and hooking my camera up to the computer to download the pics though, it is telling me the battery is dead, so sorry...you'll have to wait to see them until it charges. Manana?

List of ideas to make for Christmas

Here's the list we came up with this year for ideas to make each other for Christmas. (We decided we were ALL, kids too, making our gifts this year. I think we will continue next. I love it, except my lack of time that is...)

(The starred ones are ones that one of us chose to do, whether for a brother/sister/cousin/parent/etc.)

Homemade play-dough (Love the kool-aid recipe I have for this.)
*Matching tu-tus for girl and doll
Hair accessories (pony tail ribbons, big flower clips, etc.)
Boxes to hold collections (rocks, etc)
*Leather projects (ex: keychains, etc. The boys had a leather stamping class in our homeschool co-op and made some things there and finished at home.)
*Name Frame
Cut out Wooden letters to spell names to hang on wall
*Pillows
Aprons
*Stamped family portraits
*TX flag painted pic frames or mirrors
Glass etching (done previous years)
*Wooden photo cubes stamped/decorated/modge-podged
Sock bunny (like sock monkeys)
Tin of homemade cards (did for two of my sis-n-laws bdays this month)
*Blanket
Pillow cases
Ornaments
*Shelf to display/hold pinewood derby cars
*Hiking staff
*Candy (A's idea for dad: fudge and pecan logs)
*Wooden nativity
*Wooden toys made on lathe and in shop
*Wooden jewelry box
*Wooden baseball bats turned on lathe and then soft baseballs made too (sewn)
Wooden high chair for doll (almost did this one...running out of time.)
*Wooden rattle for baby turned on lathe
*Doll blankets and pillows
Birdfeeder
*Bookmarks from the baby with her handprint for everyone :)
*Photobooks created online

I'm sure we will continue to add to this list this next year too. :) Can you see how busy we have been? Speaking of that, I still have lots to do and no so much time, so I better go! Doubt I will be on here much until next week. I'll have to post pics of the projects we do.

Merry Christmas everyone!

My 1st Name Frame

My older daughter wanted to make one of these for her younger sister for her Christmas present to her this year, so she picked out the paper with me and helped me make it. She's proud of it and so am I. It's more pink than I would have made it, but at least I got to throw some other colors in there too. Now all my kids want one. :) (The first letter n and the e, as well as the bird, are all covered or inked chipboard.)

She kept touching the ladybug. It was too cute! (Yes, she got to see it early. She'll get to unwrap it still later.) :)

Wooden nativities

Been making some of these wooden nativites. Tried painting them two totally different ways. I like them both. (The lighter one is also stamped in gold ink with the Baroque set.)


Close up of stamped swirls:

Yes...

...I am still here. No, I have not really been stamping, other than the occasional stamp night I make it to. And even then, I seem to be the last one there and the first to leave with unfinished projects in hand...that I come home with...with the best of intentions to finish, but...

However, I am working on a project with my daughter that is a Christmas gift. So I have to finish this one. I'll try and post pics this next week. (as well as a list of requested ideas or things we are doing/making as Christmas gifts this year.) I have to say that we are all having so much fun making them. (the kids and hubby and I) It's getting a bit stressful with much left to do and less and less time to do it, but I love hearing the kids talk about it and excited about what they are making. Means so much more this year...to everyone! :)

Merry Christmas!

Update

I actually went to stamp club night this past weekend! It's the first time I have been able to go since the beginning of the summer. I haven't stamped much lately at all either, so I haven't really had anything to show. Just isn't a season of stamping for me right now. I have done a few sewing projects and have some more I am going to start soon as well as some other crafts, but they aren't papercrafting. Hopefully I'll get to post some of them on here soon though, along with the few cards that I made at stamp club.

My kids are all making their gifts that they will give to one another for Christmas this year. My husband and I quite often make their gifts from us to them, but we wanted them to do the same this year...to appreciate the homemade gifts more, to put more thought into them, and to make them more meaningful. So, I have started a list of ideas and actually have quite a few, but I wanted to ask (if anyone still checks this blog haha) if any of you have any ideas too. Anything that you have done in the past? Your kids? Anyone else that you know of? A friend referred me to the design mom's blog and I checked it out and got a few more ideas there. (Tks!) But we're still thinking and plan to start on gifts the beginning of November. My goal is to have all of our Christmas gifts done by the end of November.

For this week though...I have to sew 5 jawa costumes for Halloween. :) hee hee And our baby will be R2D2, our prisoner. Excited! :)

I'll try and post some stuff later this week.

Happy Fall!