Look what I made!
I have recently been working on redecorating my daughter’s room. She’s almost 10 now (OMG–it freaks me out to even type that) and her room has been the same since I wallpapered/painted it right before she was born. She was tired of it and wanted something cooler. I stripped off all the wallpaper and painted her walls blue (her choice), got her a new loft bed and new bedding (blue and lime green) with curtains to match, repainted all the doors, etc.
She needed a lamp and I had a pink one in there, which now didn’t match because the room is blue and green, so I just painted that sucker blue. I have no idea what happened to the shade, but it was pink and the thought of redoing it was too much for me so I got one at Walmart for $7 and thought it needed a little something so I opened up my “blue drawer” in my studio to see what I could find for a bit of oomph. I discovered some blue flowers from Queen & Co that I’ve had for FOREVER and some blue buttons from Little Red Cottage (an etsy store I love). I just took my mini glue dots and stuck them all onto my shade with those and here we have my finished project:
and a closer look:
Here’s a warning for anyone else thinking of using glue dots to add things to a lampshade: Don’t. Every damn one of these buttons and flowers has fallen off since then and after a few days of picking them up and sticking them back on I will be pulling out my Mighty Mendit or my super glue and reapplying them. But that’s okay because it’s super cute!
Filed under Projects | Comment (0)On the road again….
I’m headed to Louisville, Kentucky today to attend the Creating Keepsakes Convention. I’ll be working in the Pazzles booth with my friend Klo, the Pazzles guru, so it’s actually all work and no play for me but I can’t wait to see Klo again and spend some time with her. She lives in Nebraska and I live in Illinois, so we don’t get to hang out on a regular basis. ha ha
Before I go, I’ll show you a recent card I made for my step-granddaughter’s birthday.
I love those felt butterflies from Heidi Swapp. I want more in other colors!
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I had a custom order request a few weeks ago for a birthday card for a friend’s 1-year-old granddaughter. This is what I came up with:
That darling pink pom-pom trim I got at Creek Bank Creations and is my new favorite thing. Unfortunately I only bought that one piece but I intend to go back and buy it in every color the first chance I get! I love it!
I added another little butterfly to the inside. For some reason, my photo looks weird and the inside is a different color than the paper shown on the outside photo above. I assure you, I didn’t make this woman a card with this weird color paper inside. It’s really all the same color. I don’t know what happened.
You must know by now if you’ve been following my blog for any length of time that I of course added Stickles to the butterfly to make her sparkly….
Angel Baby.
Once again, I used a rub on for the little onesie and rubbed it onto white cardstock, cut it out, and used a foam square to pop it off of the card. The bow is a strip of tulle and it just might be my new favorite kind of “ribbon.” I’ve got to figure out where to get more of this stuff.
and here’s the inside:
Baby Boy card.
I’ve been busy with lots of custom card requests lately so you’ll be seeing a lot of cards here this week instead of the usual scrapbook layouts or amusing (traumatizing) stories that my friends Connie and Sandie like to read here.
Here’s a card for a new baby boy:
The baby buggy is actually a rub on from the Dollar Tree (I think) or maybe Target? Anyway, I rubbed it onto white cardstock, cut it out, and then used a foam square to pop it up off the card.
and here’s the inside:
Ballerina Card.
I got a custom order to create a birthday card for a little girl who is “girly girl” and loves to dance tap and ballet and sing. So I got busy and came up with this one. I cut the little ballerina out of cardstock on the Pazzles and made her little tutu from some fringed tulle trim I got from Frog Feathers shop on etsy. Love this stuff!
See the little musical note I attached to the ribbon knot? Just a little something extra for effect.
And here’s a closeup of the little lady…
Here’s the inside:
I hope she likes it!
Filed under Projects | Comment (0)Hallmark Card Studio Deluxe 2010.
So a few months back (probably at least 4, which is terrible), I signed up to receive some free software in exchange for actually USING the software and writing a review about it, giving my opinion on it. I received 5 different software titles, some of them photo editing (cause you know I like my photos), but only ONE of them would actually install and work for some reason. I could understand getting a bad disk and having 1 or maybe even 2 of them not work, but nearly all of them? Very strange. I tried them in 3 different computers in my house and I can’t explain it. They just wouldn’t install.
Anyway, the one that did work was Hallmark Card Studio Deluxe 2010, and I’ve been trying it out and finding some CUTE stuff in there. I make my own cards a lot and I sell them to other people, but sometimes I just don’t have the time or want to take the time to hand make the card and I like to have a program to print one off real quick while I’m working at the same time. I used to use American Greetings software and after probably 5-6 years I finally used up most of the card options in there, so it was nice to have a new one to try.
Here are some projects I made with Hallmark Card Studio Deluxe 2010.
I love how this certificate is from “the mother of neatness”. Cracks me up.
I’m sending these cards to all of the wonderful people and companies who donated to my auction for Anita (to deliver her scrapbook to Canada) last March. I thanked them all via e-mail, but I’ve really been wanting to send a personal note to each one. It really meant a lot to me, all the strangers who came forward to help my cause. It was wonderful.
I chose this one because I just liked the blues and greens and the simple image.
I also liked the sentiment inside
Since I worked on the Cards For Kids drive the other day, I got to looking for some kiddie cards in the program, and found this CUTE one.
But it’s really the inside sentiment that makes it so cute!
(forgive my crappy blurry photo please!)
I was helping my step-granddaughter do her bridal shower invitations and she wanted some return address labels so I found this clip art to make them for her.
How CUTE are these?
There is a TON of clip art in this program, so I plan to use lots of it to print out and cut out and then use the images to make some more cards for kids. Lots of the clip art images could also be printed, cut out, and used on our scrapbook pages, and I’m all for that because my scrapbooking budget is a big fat zero!
All in all, I like this Hallmark software a lot. I found it to be a bit sluggish, but I really think it’s because my computer has no space left on it AT ALL and it just has no room to work properly, so I’m looking forward to installing it on the new computer and seeing how much better it works. I didn’t have to pay for mine, but I think it would be well worth the cost because of the huge quantity of cards available that you won’t have to purchase. Even if you’re the kind of person who buys cards at the dollar store (me), you’d still save money to use this and print them out at home because it will take you YEARS to use up all the cards in here. ha ha
Filed under Projects | Comment (0)Lion birthday card.
I had a friend order a custom birthday card for a 10-year-old girl. Her details were that she liked the color blue and all animals. I couldn’t find any animal “stuff” in my supplies that would go with blue very well, so I just went with the animal theme. I had this lion diecut (who makes these? I can’t remember) and of course I had to Stickle him up a bit and make his mane sparkly and his muzzle and then he needed some pretty blue jewel eyes!
The checked ribbon is American Crafts and the animal printed ribbon is Karen Foster.
Here’s the inside: (pardon the terrible photo!)
Thinking of you card.
If you’ve been around a while, you may have heard me talk about Creek Bank Creations, my semi-local scrapbook store (45 minutes away). I really like the owner Julie and could “talk shop” with her all day long. She’s been going through a rough period lately and is at Mayo Clinic with her teenage son while he goes through surgery, so I made her this card and sent it to the place where they’re staying.
Of course you know I had to add my Stickles….
See the sparkles? I love me some sparkles….
In case you’re wondering, that’s my handwriting.
Fall bridal shower decorations.
I photographed my step-granddaughter’s wedding back in November (and her engagement photos before that), and also took photos of the bridal shower done at my step-daughter’s home. She incorporated the fall wedding theme into the shower also and I was thrilled to see that she decorated the tables with these:
(imagine it prettier BEFORE everyone left their cups sitting on it!)
Those are the engagement shots I took. Very cool! We had gone to a pumpkin patch a few days earlier that was at the end of its season and was giving away the rest of the pumpkins for FREE so my step-daughter used them in the decorating.
punkins stacked up in a lovely glass vase (I’d love to have one just like this–without the punkins of course)
punkins stacked in the corner…
My step-daughter made these centerpieces and they sat on the windowsills of the church windows during the wedding.
punkins stacked up outside on the deck…
this is in a vase now, but it’s actually one of the bridesmaid’s bouquets…
table centerpiece…
