Birthday Cards

Today I had the pleasure of scrappin with my girls! My goal was to work on a scrap book of all of the classes I have taught over the last 5 years (I've been teaching for 6 but this year's photos haven't come in yet.) I am making a few pages for each year. The first layout features the class picture on the left page and comments, memories, and quotes from the kids on the right side. The following layouts will feature pictures and things from the students in that class. Unfortunately, since the layouts features minors, I am not able to post pictures. But just know that they are really cute. :)

Well, I was well on my way when I was suddenly inspired by the projects my cousins were working on. One of my cousins was embossing a really cute butterfly stamp. My other cousin was distressing her project. The lightbulb popped on in my head! I wanted to emboss AND distress the stamp! First I stamped the butterfly stamp on plain white paper. Then I embossed the stamp with holographic embossing powder. Next I took my distressing tool and purple distress ink and I inked all around the image. I cut out the image with a Spellbinder. I made the base of the card and the background piece. I used a big ticket punch on the corners of the background piece. I popped up the image with foam squares and attached it to the base. I stamped the greeting on a scrap
piece of the base paper and cut the edges to make a sideways flag. I attached it to the base too. Then I got out my secret weapons.... STICKLES! I Stickled all around the edge of the image. I also glammed up the middles of the butterflies and all of the flower buds. Then I Stickled around the edges of the greeting. I added a few gems to bring it all together.

These cards were pretty simple to make and yet oh so fun!

I hope everyone has an inspired day full of crafting!

Gift Card Holders

A while ago, my mother-in-law showed me a gift card holder that she made. Since then I've been playing with different designs. I finally found one that I like!

Last year at the Great Lakes Mega Meet, I won a drawing. The gift was a die set that made envelopes and tags. I must admit that I wasn't really excited about it at the time because I didn't see an immediate use for it. But like a lot of things, I just tucked it away in my craft room. A few months ago, my friend Ange and I were trying to figure out how to make the gift card holders with the things we already had in our rooms (we were really trying hard to not go out and buy a bunch of stuff). I remembered the die set! After examining it and Ange asking, "Why haven't we played with this before?" we realized that we had the solution to our ponderings!

Yesterday I finally got the chance to use it. I created these 3 gift card holders in no time at all.

Fleuffy Scarf!

My mother-in-law recently taught me how to make these fun fluffy scarves! I call them fleuffy because it sounds more fun than fluffy. I'm addicted! I've already made 3 different ones. Each time I make one, I try a different count pattern. This scarf is what I call a 4 count. I made it while sitting on my cough watching "The Christmas Story" on Christmas day. I have enough to make a few more scarves, and I can't wait!

Christmas is on It's Way!

Feels like forever since my last post. I've been crafting like a maniac! My friends and I have decided to take things to the next level. Today we attempted to sell some of our items at the local Farmer's Market. Things went pretty well. I'll be posting some of my latest creations later tonight.