Fair Project!

I was asked to make a make n take project or a few fairs I demonstrated at! I wanted to come up with something easy and fast as well as something that most people could use. A good friend, Mary, suggested making an over the corner bookmark. It slips over the corner of the page in your book! Everyone really seemed to enjoy making this and it was relatively fast which was great for a fair setting. It was something even the kids could make and use.

I started with a 4X4 inch square of white. I cut the square into two triangles (I cut from corner to corner). Each triangle makes one bookmark (so you get two bookmarks out of the four inch square). I folded the triangle in half and wheeled the bubble pattern over it. I punched out the scalloped circles using my new punch and regal rose cardstock. I stamped the butterfly image from the Priceless stamp set using white craft ink. I was so excited to use my Priceless set! I got it free from Las Vegas Regionals and haven't used it since! I then punched and tied the open corner together with white organdy ribbon. At the fair I had white, blue and pink which worked out great for the kids.

Happy Camper

It is my nephews first birthday! Happy birthday Wesley! I got this little outfit for him at Gymboree and I thought it would be cute to make a coordinating card and gift wrap! Here is the outfit:


Here is the card I came up with:

Here is the gift all wrapped up:

I used the Happy Camper Stamp Set with Garden Green and Close to Cocoa Ink. For cardstock I used Garden Green and Creamy Caramel. For embellishments I used twine, the hodgepodge hardware kit and of course wrapping paper!

Katie

Year After Year

I had a workshop for the new catalog today! I don't usually have workshops for myself, but I thought I would to unveil the new catalog. After the party was over I left the leftover stuff and stamps out on the table to go check out Hobby Lobby! I figured I would clean up the stuff when I got back. I have another stamp camp on Monday and I am going to make the same projects, so I cut out extra so I would have enough. When I got home from Hobby Lobby and was cleaning up I noticed I didn't have all the extra pieces I had cut!! I thought this is weird! I had only one back left, no white squares and tons of extra groovy guava! Weird! So I asked my six year old "who touched my cardstock?!". Anyone with kids knows that ooopppssss busted look kids get on their face when they are just about to lie! I was a little bit irritated at first, I had all of this cardstock cut and ready to go! So then I finally had him show me what he had used it on...he had made these little cards for my husband and I. It was really pretty funny after that and I was happy he stayed with one color of stamp pad!

New Catalog

It feels like I am one of the absolute last people to finally receive their catalogs! I finally got mine though! At the same time I got my catalog I also got a swap I participated in back! When I received both of them I was really excited! So there may have been a few excited "YEAH"'s! Well I tore open the swap and left the packaging on the counter! Later on my six year old saw the tore open packaging and said "What is that?!" usually post office packages mean candy/presents for him! My three year old looked at him and said "I don't know but Mom is sure excited!". I thought it was really cute!
I am really excited about some of the new accessories in the new catalog! I love the new pretties kit!! I am really excited for scallop circle punch and that we now sell the designer label punch individually! I have a cropodile I absolutely love, so I am excited to be able to sell it now! I love some of the new background stamps and wheels! I love the Voila Accessories and the Boatloads of Love!
What does everyone else think?!

Wedding Anniversary

As everyone probably knows, my Grandparent's celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary. So we had a party for them! I made a paper cake and mini album for them. Here is the picture of how they turned out at the party!

Laundry Time!

Recently there have been so many cute cards with these little folded shirts I just had to try folding one myself! The cards are super simple as it was late by the time I got the actual shirts folded. I got the tutorial off of Cambria's blog! I LOVE her blog! She has such cute things on there! http://cambriaturnbow.blogspot.com/ This first one is made with black and pomegranate cardstock. The shirt is folded out of designer series paper from the palette o' prints. The little tie tac is a silver diamond brad from the vintage brad package.

The picture on this next one didn't turn out as well! The colors are saffron, celery and of course the blue designer paper from palette o' prints.

Preview Chipboard

This is my first try at using chipboard!! The chipboard flower is from the new Fall and Winter Preview package! I was a little scared of trying it out, but it ended up being so super easy! I just glue sticked the entire chipboard image, stuck it to the designer paper and trimmed! Voila! Super easy and super cute! I punched the whole in the middle of the flower with my crop-o-dile. Can I just tell you how CRAZY I am about the crop-o-dile? It punches through chipboard like butter! It is awesome! I used a silver brad for the center of the flower. For the papers on this card I used the new soft sky and pomegranate. Can you tell I am obsessed with the new in color papers?! I also used the yellow and pink designer papers from the palette o' prints. I embossed the background with my cuddlebug tiny bubbles embossing folder! I used the tag punches and the "joy" from small script! I embellished with my typical white organdy ribbon! Thanks for looking!