I finished something!

So nice to finally have something I can share with you! I have a lot of projects that I am working on but they are all in the “ing” department and now one has moved to the “ed” department!

Here it is!

 

I used this tutorial for using freezer paper as a stencil and went from there. I was in a rush and I used my heat embossing gun to dry the paint quickly and it worked awesome, I had this baby done in no time at all!!!!

Inside the bag is a little paper covered composition notebook and crayons. I had intended to include a little mini chalk board, chalk and eraser. Had them all done and then decided to have DH drill holes in it to add some ribbon…… should have left well enough alone! The drill split through the back, didn’t help that the bit wasn’t working well and so he pushed harder gurrrrrr. Oh well live and lean, but I had a lot of time in painting that thing today! My daughter was glad to inherit it even if it isn’t the cutest.

Here’s a peek at something I hope to finish Monday. Tomorrow we  are headed to a birthday party (that’s where the bag comes in) and then to the zoo with extended family. It will be a nice fun day and HOT!

Now that I see the one on the left on here it is pretty just the way it is, but I hope to make it even prettier with spray paint. This is a first for me but I’ve been watching all of you out there!

I got sick after all.....

I had a post all written up but who knows where it went out there in cyber space? Well I got sick after all....Spent the Monday going to the Dr. for my little one to see about getting him to grow, he's 4 and only in the 50 percentile for a 2 1/2 year old! Then that night I got sick and didn't get better until Wed morning.

I did do a cut out of freezer paper to do an iron-on transfer for my sister, but since she finished it at home I don't have a picture of it =( Ihope to do a shirt for my daughter soon!

I started working on a hair bow (one I've never done!) today and will post pics tomorrow when I finish it up. I have quite a few projects that just need to be finished so hopefully I can do that, but I do need to do something fun with my little guy too, he comes first and he misses having the big kids home.

So hopefully you will see something fun from me soon!!!

Hope everyone out there in blog land is well, sounds like we weren't the only house hit with the sick bug!

So much to craft so many sick….

I have sick people for most of the beginning of the week YUCK!!! I am almost done sterilizing the house in the aftermath. And now the kids are back in school so i hope to spend many great hours crafty in the weeks to come.

I’m just glad i didn’t get what everyone else had, but I really wanted to have something fun to post. I guess good things come to those who wait so just be patient and I hope to have something up soon!!!

Goodies

I got my goodies in the mail from Holly over at Charmed Life and I hope to play with them soon..... but today I have 1 sick child and 1 very MESSY house. Our Staycation was AWESOME but when you stay at home for a vacation and have 7 extra people over one night go wave running the next day and then leave to sleep at their house as soon as you get home from the lake you have 1 BIG mess. But it's okay cuz we had so much fun.

I hope to create something new soon, school starts on Thursday but I have plans of shopping with 1 kid instead of 3!!! Maybe after the shopping I'll get to PLAY in my craft room.

2 Sketches 4 You

Here’s my take on the sketch this week, it’s very simple but I really like how it turned out.

 

I won I won!!!

I can't believe I won a giveaway!!! YEAH go check out all the goodies I'll be getting here!

This really made my night!!! because it's been one of "THOSE" nights!

I was trying to hurry and shower after our swim with the family because DH's sister and family would be arriving to spend the night. So I started filling the sink to soak my swimsuit (can you see where this is leading?) well....I got in the shower enjoyed the warm water since the pool was cool tonight and when I got out I heard water running...glanced at the sink...which was still ON!!!! and water was spilling down the front the counter was cover in water and oozing down into the bathtub next to it. We have a really big counter and the whole thing was covered in water!!!

Then as I was cleaning it up I bumped a frame and as I was catching it it bumped a statue and crashed into the tub! SERIOUSLY I thought? So I got that all cleaned up and then as I was simply closing the bathroom drawer the clock fell off the wall and broke, even the hands and the gears just came off. Needless to say I left the bathroom and don't ever plan on returning to it!!!!

So.....now I'm sooo excited to have something to look forward to!!!

Raspberry Suite Challenge #14

I never seem to get time to do these before they are over and this time I did it the same day it was posted, WAHOOOOOOO!!!!!

This was hard for me, I usually don’t like to mix pinks with reds or purple with reds but this is just a beautiful combination. And I even scrapped something without kids!!!! I NEVER do that. I’ve also never done a page with so much white space, I have to keep reminding myself that it is DONE and to stop messing with it.

The little mirrors at the bottom were actually blue but I just used a makeup sponge and some purple ink and they turned purple so perfectly you wouldn’t know they didn’t come that way.

I hope I find time to do more of these in the future.

CPS sketch 128

This card sketch was a little outside the box and I LOVED it!!! I turned the sketch on it’s side.

I’m still not in love with my handwriting but I don’t hate it as much as I used to, I guess I just need more practice!!!

 

Gift for Baby

Don’t babies just smell the best?!!! My friend just had her baby and I had to make something for her, she has 3 boys and just got a little girl so I knew she wouldn’t have many girly decorations. I wanted to do vinyl but I changed plans and am soooo pleased with how it turned out! I went to the D.I. yesterday and they had the perfect piece of wood that I used to turn into a wall decorations for her. here it is. 

And of course she needed hair bows!!! So I snatched some that I already had made and the supplies for more as we left the house. It was a quick morning so these are not the best photos, the kids were literally waiting in the car to go to Grandma’s house as I took these pictures. 

I also found 3 different shelves to repurpose while I was at the D.I. but those will have to wait until next week as we are having guests this weekend. I hope to have them done soon so stay tuned!

Cute dress from Dad’s shirt

Please don’t judge me by these photos they are AWFUL!!! But when it’s all your model will give you that’s what you do, at least she smiled. These were taken awhile ago and I never posted them because of the horrible photos but oh well here goes.

This was my first sewing project in YEARS and it was so much fun! I saw this on someone’s blog and had to try it! Take an old dress shirt and turn it into a cute sun dress. How genius is that? There is one in Tim’s closet that I am eyeing for another dress someday, let’s hope our little sprout isn’t too big to make it into a dress by the time he’s willing to give it up!

My next project is turning a pair of hubby’s slacks into a something……. We’ll see how that turns out. i hope to work on it today, but honestly it’s not looking good :(

Oh Beautiful Wall

I am sooo happy with my new SCAL software (for use with a cricut) upgrade!!! I most likely could have made this with the old version but it was much EASIER with the new one, so if you haven’t checked it out you should!!!   

I absolutely LOVE how it turned out! I figured if I don’t get a new house yet I can at least have a new wall in the bedroom!!

A little crafting

I finally got to craft a little awhile back, it’s just taken me forever to post the pictures!!! I got the idea from Kristina Werner, if you have never seen one of her videos you are truly missing out!!! I love them! She does a video every Friday and Monday.

One thing I did different from her was I cut out 4 pieces of pattern paper to the same size and then I cut the angles all at once, therefore making 4 cards just alternating the papers. If you want really good instructions on how to make this card watch Kristina’s video here, it’s really easy to make and very fun. I love how when I cut them all at once it made 4 cards and took hardly anymore extra time!

   

Thanks for stopping by!!!

I'll come back someday ;)

For all those who read this, all 2 of you maybe if I'm lucky :)

I hope to be creative sometime in the future but who knows when it will really happen. I've been missing in action all month for reasons that have now led to just feeling crappy so I hope to get back with it soon but I can't make any promises ;)

Before and After pics

My scrap area is not the most glamorous room in our house, it's in the unfinished basement with plastic covered insulated walls! But......it's my space to use how I want to i TRY not to complain. I decided I needed to reorganize and for me that involves ripping almost everything out and starting over. so here are some pics that actually are kinda embarrassing but hey I love some good before and after pics so I thought you might like them too!

And here are the afters..... it's still not "cute" but it's better for sure!!!

a few cards....

Okay so May is almost over and I've hardly posted a thing! Shame on me!

I've been working on cleaning up my room (pics to come)

and scrapping our Disneyland trip (from last year hehe)

I think I've put off doing the trip for fear it wouldn't turn out perfect, pretty lame reason to not do it!!! I guess I should do our wedding pics next!

Here are 2 cards I made for birthdays this month.

I absolutely love my new American Crafts stamp set! 

"a little birdie told" sentiment can go with anything.

This picture is so pathetic! but the power was out and we were taking a walk to the mailbox to mail it so it was a dark pic or nothing!!!