Thanksgiving

I like to make something special for the Thanksgiving table when we host, and I saw this cute pumpkin tutorial on, I believe, Tip Me Tuesday on www.tipjunkie.com.  Their newsletter is so awesome! So many great ideas from so many talented and crafty people. So, just wanted to pass along how to make these cute little pumpkins...

 Cut 8 strips of cardstock, 2.5" x .5", 2x 1" circle and a small green stem

 Start by gluing one end to circle. I found gluing opposite ends helped get an even placement around the circle, and then added in the last 4 strips between them.

 Gently curve the strips with your fingers.

 Glue the open ends under the second circle, using a chopstick to push on last strip.

 Ta-Da!

I made one for each place setting at the table, but I'm sure you could resize and make it larger too.

Of course you can place these around for little fall/Halloween decorations as well!

 My sister made a beautiful Thanksgiving card!

My 11 year old niece also brought an amazing Thanksgiving card!

Two very talented ladies :)

Crafty Wreath Making

I decided to try my hand at wreath making since I had some silk flowers and wreaths I bought at Michaels at the end of the summer season. To coordinate the colors I bought some Krylon spray paint (with my 40%off coupon!) and some wire edged ribbon, gold ornaments and mauve picks on sale. I used my Imaginisce glue gun to glue it all together.

The spray painting was easy to do; I took the flowers apart and put them into a box with one side cut down and sprayed them outside, of course. They dried fairly quickly and I was able to make the wreath in no time.

Supplies

I'm linking up to Tip Me Tuesday!

Recent Card Making Endeavors :)

I'm a little behind on doing some postings... so thought I'd share a few cards on one post today!  I love that Scrapbookers' Paradise has Toonie Thursdays.  I can bring my 4 year old, who loves crafting, and she'll sit quietly and help me put a quick card together.  Often they will feature a new technique or product to use and what is more fun than getting to play with paper?!

In this card we stamped an image, then colored it in with the sponge pads and Distress Inks after stamping with a clear Versamark pad and a 'writing' stamp. Neat effect.

 This is a gift card holder stamp, which we cut apart and stamped on various papers before reattaching.  The lid opens to reveal the slot for the card!  We embossed the coffee cup area before attaching and pleated some cool paper tape.

 This is my own card I made for a cute Fall card idea.  I used a Hero Arts digi stamp I downloaded from Two Peas in a Bucket and colored with Prismacolor markers. It is a set that comes with a few versions of adorable owls!

 Inside view - I put a little guy in the corner of the inside of my card :)

I made this card for a friend's birthday. I embossed the red cardstock, attached my colored image and added a flower and ribbon.  Very easy, but turned out pretty cute!

Right now Two Peas in a Bucket has a free digi kit from Hero Arts with tulips, paper, buttons and other extras you can download.  It's worth checking back every once in a while to see what they have.

http://www.twopeasinabucket.com/shop/hero-arts/83753-free-digikit-ha-sketch-tulips/?filters=_hero+arts_%2Fhero-arts-digital%2Ffree%2Fdigital-kits

Birthday & Anniversary Cards - Heart 2 Heart Challenges

Without even thinking I often tend to use a combination of browns, greens and cream when I'm doing a vintage look on a card or scrapbook page.  When the Heart 2 Heart challenge blog asked what color combos do you use I was surprised to realize I had just used these colors again!

I recently had 2 cards to make for men, and I always turn to Distress Inks for that masculine touch.  The first was a birthday card that I used CTMH stamps on, stamped in Vintage Photo. I used green Distress Ink on the cardstock and then I brushed the edges with the Distress  paint.  I tore a piece of green mulberry paper around the edges and layered it with a recycled stamp, cut around the edges with 'postal' cut scissors and stuck on a couple accessories.

For my husband, for our 6th Anniversary I used the same color combos, cream, green & brown and layered patterned paper cut with a torn paper look and stamped in the center with a CTMH stamp.  I sponged distress ink on the paper and over the Spellbinders pocket watch die cut to accent the embossing and color coordinate it to the rest of the card.  The Heart 2 Heart blog also had another September challenge to use die cuts on your projects!

We ened up going to Cirque du Soleil Ovo show for our Anniversary night out and it was wonderful! It was my first time going to one of their shows and I was in awe at the work that must go into the production of this.  We don't get out too often together, so this was well worth it!!

Yummy muffin recipes!

Had to share these really good muffin recipes!  I love using my i-pad to search for recipes in the kitchen...

These are amazing! Taste like cake :) yummy



http://silksoymilk.com/recipes/chocolate-zucchini-muffins


I love the coconut and flax seeds in these.  I actually made them without the topping and they were really good!



http://bread.betterrecipes.com/banana-bran-n-nut-muffins-with-streusel-topping.html

Final Page Mothers' Day! and more....

I finally finished the last of the Mothers' Day 2010 scrapbook pics :) See previous post for the second page and a link to the first!  Well, I think with fall settling in I'm finally feeling like settling down to do a bit more scrapbooking.  Of course, then there's Christmas coming up, crafts & cards to make, those cute crocheted baby slippers I'm working on, oh yeah, the Snow White costume... Well, I will fit it in somewhere :)

My 2 beautiful girls! Love u

 For the following 2 pages I had used a computer program to add pictures to a page and then chose to print them 8x12.  It was a quick and easy birthday layout simply layering them on some primary colored cardstock and adding a few stamps/embellishments.

I figured I just had to use this beautiful paper (I think Websters), which had been in my stash for a while.  We have a local farm attraction nearby and since we spend a lot of time there I wanted to do a 2 page layout.  I used distress inks to make a background sponged on white cardstock and then some Inkadinkadoo bug/butterfly stamps to stamp over the sponged areas.  I highlighted with gel pens and popped them up with foam dots around the pages.

This paper was so cute on the back I actually scrapped the other side (see below).

 These printed pages were perfect for an amusement park layout!

Sketchy Thursday 9.1 Sketch Challenge - Sweetest Day!

I've almost gotten my craft room back to normal.  There is one cabinet still in the garage.... of course behind other boxes from our move, so I'm anxious to get it out and back into my space!  I feel like I finally have a bit of time to sit down with my scrapbooking and want to make use of it over the next few months before baby comes.

Sketchy Thursday had a beautiful sketch this week and I decided to take advantage of it to finish a layout for Mothers' Day 2010 (yes, I'm behind..) I actually used their sketch a while ago to do the first page of this layout (click here to see that).  I used the Pink Paislee Sweetness Collection, which is so beautiful, it's hard to cut up the paper! I used 2 photos in the space and cut part of one of the papers for my title "Sweetest Day". I didn't want the title to stand out too much, as I have a more distinct title on page 1 of the layout. I used Distress Ink around the edges of the papers and a glitter pen to make a subtle outline of the title. I love the CTMH Coffee Stain stamp and placed that in the upper left corner, stamped with Distress Ink, and I inked white paper flowers and placed a pearl in the center and placed them on the left side.