Bird Ornaments

This was another gift that I made for Christmas. I made a set of three of these based on a set that Jennifer Gallacher had made and shared on Two Peas. I made them for my Grandma, who has recently moved into a nursing home. I thought they might give her some joy to see them hanging in her room. This is a picture of one of the set I made. I used the same paper for all of them, just used different color buttons for the wings. I found the pattern for the bird on a website, can't remember where now. Thanks for looking.

Supplies: Basic Gray (pattern paper, buttons), Provo Craft (Swiss Dots embossing folder), Karen Foster (Scrapper's Floss) ribbon, ink.

Christmas Gift Tag Tins

This was another project I made this year. They were gifts for Natalie's daycare teachers. The idea came from a Papertrey Ink project that Nichole had posted on her blog. This tag tin is towards the bottom of her post. I went with shapes cut from my Cricut instead of stamping though. I thought they turned out pretty cute, hopefully Natalie's teachers will find a use for them.


Supplies: Bo Bunny (dot cardstock), Marvy Uchida (punch), Cricut with Christmas Cheer cartridge.

Christmas Gifts

It's been AGES since I posted! I have been busy with some crafts, just haven't had time to post anything with all of the Christmas shopping, baking and planning going on!

This project is what I did for my coworkers. I actually did the cups and cocoa cones for the local people and just the cocoa cones with the snowman tag for the out of town people. I found the idea from Lauren Meader's blog project. I love the snowman set that she used, but I had to improvise since I decided on this project too late to order the set from Papertrey Ink. Instead I found this snowman stamp by Savvy Stamps at Archivers and it was even half price! I used some Stickles to make a little snowfall around the snowman. I absolutely love this ribbon, it is the Bazzill Basics ribbon. After making 8 cups/cones and 7 additional cones, I still have a ton of it left!

Supplies: Bo Bunny (green dot cardstock), Savvy Stamps (snowman stamp), Bazzill Basics (ribbon), Stickles, EK Success (punches), Target (insulated cups)

Halloween Treat

This was a little treat I made for Natalie for her place setting on Halloween night. I made the ghost suckers for treat for her classmates so put a few of them in this little bucket from Target and added a simple "Boo" tag. It turned out pretty cute and Natalie loved it!

Halloween Cards

Finally found the time to post here again! Too many things going on the past few weeks that I haven't had the time to get to my desk to make any projects. I had to get these cards done though for my nieces as the days until Halloween are numbered! Now if I can get the little project done that I have in mind for my daughter and get that posted, I might be doing good.

These cards were made with the Cuttlebug embossing folder Boo to You. Then I cut out a few of the circles with my circle punch and attached them to the black cardstock with foam tape squares. I used a paper piercing kit from my friend Michelle to make the piereced border on the top and bottom of the black strip. Then I used a Hero Arts stamp for the sentiment. Pretty simple but I was excited to finally try paper piercing and thought it turned out cute! I included a rather poor close-up to show the piercing.

Thanks for looking!

Sketch card plus one.

I decided to try my hand at creating a card from a sketch. I love visiting Heather's blog and liked her sketch for the week so I gave it a shot. It's not quite the same, but I think it's close enough. Plus, after I finished, I made one more card with my leftovers. What a quick way to make two cards!!!

Supplies: Making Memories (paper), Lasting Impressions (rub-ons), Stampin' Up (scallop border punch, clip), Offray (ribbon)

My first post!

After more than two years blogging about my daughter, I have finally started a blog for my other addiction - papercrafting!! Here is a little card I made with my new Marvy scalloped circle punch. It is basically a CASE of a cute card that Jennifer McGuire showed on her blog. I used last year's Delicious Autumn TAC set for the cat and sentiment. I colored the cat with my Bic Mark-it markers. Pretty simple but I thought it turned out ok. It is my goal to try to update my blog at least every other day so we will see how that goes. Thanks for visiting!