Easter Card

A card I made using the Stampin' Up! Easter Blossom stamp set.

I added some vintage buttons as accents.


The decorative paper is by October Afternoon.

I shaded the sides of the image.

All complete.

Funny Money

Sawyer really wants to buy a monster truck he saw at Costco-I told him he has to wait till Christmas or do chores, make some money and save till he can buy it.

After a bit of time, came up to me and handed me this, and asked if I could take him to the store.


back...

Front...





Close up

Ten dollar bill !

"Money!"

He said "I made some money -can we go buy it now?"

Very cute- but I need to explain "making money" - I see.

A bag for baby Ryder

A friend's daughter, had a baby girl , so I decided to make her a "one of a kind" tote bag for the beach, or a playtime outing, etc...
Her baby shower invite was pink, black, and white - so that became my color "inspiration".
I didn't want a plain canvas tote bag but a hot pink one, which I found at Walmart in the craft section. (Package of three bags- I can make two more now!)

I wanted to make the baby a "rad" blanket that wouldnt look like anyone else's, and I found flannel zebra print fabric! Perfect.


I also wanted to add some "bling", so I bought this fleur de lis rhinestone embellishment.


When I couldnt find any black iron on letters, I bought black iron on patches instead...

....and I took them to my scrapbook store and used the Accucut 2" die cut letters to cut out her name.
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For a little added sophistication I bought this zebra print scarf.

I started by ironing her name at the top of the bag.

Then I ironed on the rhinestone embellishment.

I tied the zebra scarf to the handle...

and I attached the black key chain tag to the handle as well. (pic of big brother holding her)

Now what did I put inside?...

A couple of things for when she is older...

An OP terry cover up...

a flower hair band...
Some pink, Cammi flip flops ...

a hot, pink fish to play in the sand or water...

plus a nice, soft (pre-washed fabric) blanket.


All together now....

All done!

Hope she liked it!

Husband's Easter "Basket"

I'm back! I have been crazy busy --but I also took tons of pic's for my blog!

I'll start with my husband's Easter "basket"---he isn't into a bunch of candy, and I knew he wouldn't use a basket for anything after Easter, so when I spotted this Starbucks mug at the thrift store-I knew it'd work perfectly as a "basket".

I liked the "look" of this mug and it was wide enough to fit little things inside.

I had green, wood excelsior in my stash of craft supplies,

and I made a little nest in the mug.

I bought a coffee card and two Cd's for his gift.

I already had clear bags on hand , so I put the mug inside a bag

and made an Easter tag to tie on the outside.

Then I put the coffee card in the mug, plus a chocolate bunny and a little chick.

It worked out great.

Close up of tag-I inked the edges to shade it a bit.

Few more pics...

Oh-also put in a Cadbury egg.

April Fool's Day Fun - After School

I heard about this from my sister -edible crayons out of pretzels and chocolate, so while my kids were in school, I went to "town" so to speak. My accomplices to make the fake out crayons...- Food coloring, bread sticks (because my store didn't have the pretzel rods-weird) and Heat and Mold candy.

Took out my new Pampered Chef paring knife to slowly shave the bread sticks into a point.

Slowly is the word on this because I broke a ton! Like all these.

Starting to build a nice supply...

Look, 12 per "box" (or so I thought I could do) Hum-didn't happen.

I put the white candy into different mugs-then heated mug-one at a time in the microwave.

I had to stir right away ..

Then add the food coloring.

Then I had to dip in the bread sticks. Problem-the candy cools down SUPER fast and it would not stick very well to the bread sticks. If I reheated it, it burned the candy-I went through tons of sticks and heating and ARGH!!!!!!!! is all I can say.

Here's all the bread sticks with the frosting on the ends.. had some break on me too.

I printed out these "crayon" labels ( I found online) onto different colored construction paper.

Took my paper trimmer and cut them out..

then wrapped them around my "crayons". I used double stick tape to adhere.

Found this template online-I printed it out on yellow construction paper.

then cut it out, and folded it on the fold guidelines,

Then I took my hole punch and notched the back of the box-like the real boxes have.

I printed out the front cover of a real Crayola box-then glued it to the front on my homemade box. 5 fat "crayons" fit perfectly inside.

Here are two boxes ready to be eaten.

Little crayons so cute and fake.

Someones really happy and likes to eat crayons. (Well, the candy at the end of the stick anyways)

Enjoy! because I will never make these again. I will leave the melting, dipping and stirring to someone else next year. But that smile was worth it!