Valentine Cards

Been working on a few Valentine's to give to my students.  I cut these out with my cricut using some of the SVG files from Scrapbook Chick.  I really like their designs and they usually always have some kind of sale going so the files are reasonable. 
The first card is actually a punch art card that I cased from another SU demo.  It was really easy to make.  We all of these snow days, I should be getting a lot more done than I have been!

Valentine Wreath

I have been wanting to make a wreath to put on my door at school.  I found a tutorial somewhere on line and came up with this.  The wreath is not complete because I ran out of cupcake liners.  I bought a floral ring at the Dollar Tree and covered it in ribbon.  Then I glued cupcake liners all over the front.  I still need to do the side when I am able to get out and get more liners.  I cut out felt flowers with the Big Shot and put them together with a large brad and hot glued it to the front.  I then attached ribbon to the back.  Hopefully I will be able to finish it up this week.

Sympathy Cards

I had a few people that I wanted to send a sympathy card to so I had to look for inspiration before I came up with something. Mary from CARDZ TV is one of my favorite places for inspiration. I would like to meet her sometime because she lives close to Lexington. I would love to see what here scrapbooking room looks like! I have finally moved into my new scrapbooking room although it is not completely finished. It still has to have electricity run to it and I need to figure out what kind of window coverings I would like to put up. I will post a few pictures later.

The cards I made today are 6.5 by 5 and I used Stampin Up's Thoughts and Prayers set. I really like this set and need to make up a few sets of cards using it.

Happy New Year

We celebrated the new year with making different activities throughout the evening. David was at work but the kids and I and Abby started our evening by eating Dominoes Pizza and of course we had to have dessert too so I made a graham cracker pudding cake (YUM, YUM). Anyway we made a New Years Banner, noise makers, and at midnight we went outside (it had quit raining by this time) and let off boppers. It seemed like a good idea at the time to stay up for the new year, however, this morning I am a little draggy! Hopefully good memories will be made in the year 2011!

Valentine Mini Album

I wanted to go ahead and think up some different Valentine Day ideas while I'm still off from school and this is the first thing that I was able to come up with. I created a paper bag album using the Stampin Up DSP Love Impressions. I love these little albums! They are so easy and so CUTE!! In the pockets of the bags I made some inserts so that they can be journaled on. I used the stamp set Valentine Defined on the first page. I also used some stickers that I found at Michaels to embellish it. I used jumbo eyelets to hold the album together and decorated them with different ribbons. I plan on making a few more of these and selling them or making kits for people who would like to make one on their own. Let me know what you think!

BUSY! BUSY!

Even though I haven't posted for a few days, I have been busy. I have been cleaning my house after Christmas was all put up. I am patiently waiting for to move into my new craft room and for Shelby to move into her new room but it seems that I am always waiting on a MAN! Oh well, it will eventually get down. I have been working on a few Christmas layouts and a mini album for Valentine's Day. First I'll show you my Christmas layouts.The first layout is totally Stampin Up. i used the Holiday Designer Series Paper and the Ornament punch to make the Christmas tree . I also learned how to make the paper pendants and added a couple of those as well. The next one is totally not Stampin up but I do like it. I made it out of a paper pack that I bought at Michaels. I am also experimenting to figure out which layout we are going to make in our January scrapbooking club at school. I'll probably be making a few more.

Simply Adorned

These are some gifts that I will be giving to my nieces this year for Christmas. I tried to put their personalities inside of the charms. I hope they like them. This is the first project that I have tried with the simply adorned charms.