Baby Shower for Vianna Rae...

Hello Crafty Friends!

I had to share the Baby shower card and water bottle labels I made for the shower.  Vianna Rae will soon be making her appearance and we can't wait!!  My Bestie is soooo lucky.  She has two wonderful and beautiful DIL's!!  (I should say her boys are lucky too, hehe.)

I found this cute little girl dress template on Paper Crafts and created
my own designer paper using ladybugs2love stamp set
from The {Stamps} of Life

I actually learned how to make polk a dot paper on Photoshop!  There are some great
tutorials on YouTube.  

Had to share my Besties delicious artwork!   

Here's momma Tania and her beautiful diaper cake.
I'm not sure who made it, but it's adorable and I had
to share!

Congrats to Curt and Tania!!
We can't wait to meet little Vianna Rae!!  

Wine glass gift ideas for teachers....

Hello Crafty Friends!!

Just wanted to pop in and say "HI!!!" and share a crafty project that my daughter made for her fellow teachers last day of school gifts.  (From now on she will be painting on glass for all of my projects, she has great writing.)  LOL!  My contributions were the wine charms (a little Swarovski bling).  I really miss beading and really should get back into it!  I have TONS of beads.

Here ya go...

Besties bday card...

Hello Crafty Friends!

Wanted to share the card I made for my besties birthday last month.

Using The Stamps of Life stamps.

My son has been teaching me Photoshop and creating logos and watermarks for when I release my newly renovated blog.  Not exactly what I want but getting close.  :)  Need a few more hours in the day to get it done.  :)

In the mean time...

Busy, Busy, Busy...

Hello Crafty Friends!!!

"Where have I been?!", you ask, well.....

It has been crazy busy and I am waaaaay behind in postings.  So, so sorry.  I will probably be doing this a lot lately in the coming months.  Lot's going on around our house.  I  will fill you in on that later.  Very exciting stuff.  :)

To start this summer, our son, our youngest child, graduated and turned 18 within a week of each other. Actually today is his birthday!  Woo Hoo!  He is excited to be 18.  Happy Birthday Brady!!!

We have been so busy that a lot of projects have been put on the back burner and graduation cards were made in a jiffy.  Thankfully there is good old Pinterest full of ideas that helped me out since I literally could not get the creative juices going to create anything!!

Anyway, here is a quick card I made for Chelsea's friend at college.  Loved this idea (found on Pinterest)  I could have and should have made it better proportioned, but then, you know, busy busy busy brain.  LOL!

Here it is:

Until next time...

Mother's Day Box Card...

Hello Crafty Friends!

I just couldn't wait to share the lovely Floral Box Card I made from the SVGCuts.com Box Card SVG kit. Hurry over and get it while it is still free with purchase.

We are having a Mother's Day BBQ at my sisters on Sunday and this will go to one of the BEST moms in the world...MINE!!!!  :)  (No worries...she won't see this in social media.)  LOL!

Got a few more projects I'm working on...I hope I get them all done before Friday.  Busy weekend.  :)

Crafty tip...

Hello Crafty Friends!

Just wanted to share with you a little crafty tip that I use from an old trick during my early typing days.  You know, when we had to type with carbon???  Maybe not you young ones, but you ladies know what I'm talking about, right?!  HAHA!!!

I also used a cutting tool (or razor blade), but now I just use this buffing file method.

Oops!  

To the rescue!!

Lightly rub in circular motion until mark dissappears.

And Voila!  Sometimes the ink gets in a little to
deep and results could vary.  This was a very heavy cardstock 100# I think.

You're welcome!  hehe!

Bridesmaid invites and flip flop boxes...

Hello Crafty Friends!

You just never know how wonderful people will come into your life.  Ally found me on fb!!!  She saw the boxes I had made for a bridal shower gift I did quite awhile ago, and asked if I could make some for her. (You can find the post and credits here.)  So, I made these cutie flip flop boxes for  the lovely Bride-to-Be for her to present to her friends and ask them to be her maid of honor, bridesmaids and Jr. bridesmaids.  I hope you enjoy as much as we did.

Some of the girls got shot glasses with little bottles of their favorite booze and others (under 21) got perfume.  I loved this idea and was so glad I could help her out.  I love how her and her friends roll!

Congratulations Allison!!  Remember to keep me posted!!  :)