All Things Adorable

I have been busy all weekend being crafty,  I made 5 Easter cards today.  This one is for my husband's brother and his wife in North Carolina.  They have two adorable little boys with another baby on the way this fall.  I just love working with these vintage die cuts that I won recently from Pretty Little Studio.  Isn't this little duck the cutest thing?  Because he is so cute I decided to enter him over at this week's Wee Memories all things adorable challenge.  I just LOVE the stamps they are offering as a prize this week.....especially those mermaids!! Check out their awesome blog and all the wonderful projects....you will get as inspired as I do.

Easter Gift Bags

I did something new this time for my grandsons for Easter.  As I have mentioned before I live 1000 miles away from my sons and grandchildren.  I often send them packages of goodies in the mail.  In the past for Easter I have sent their goodies in baskets with their names on them, beach buckets and various other containers.  This year I thought I would just decorate a couple of plain kraft gift bags and save myself a little money on shipping costs .  I was really inspired by the gift bag challenge over at Moxie Fab World.  These are simple but nice and everyone loves to have something with their name on it!  Plus with the savings on shipping I was able to add a few more goodies.  These are currently on their way to Indiana now and will be there in time to be enjoyed for Easter.

Dave's Birthday and Card

 Here is another entry into the twine challenge this week at Wee Memories. We celebrated my husband's birthday this week.  I made him a card of course.  I wanted it to be somewhat funky and yet get the message across.  I free hand cut a heart out of an old dictionary and attached one of those cool Tim Holtz keys to it with some awesome twine and used a computer generated sentiment and a tiny little dimensional heart.  Then I doodled around the edges in Julie Bonner style.  He loved it.  He sees me making things for others all the time and I really feel that I need to make more little handmade and heartfelt expressions of love for him.  He saves EVERYTHING I have ever given him.  Don't you just love sentimental men? (sigh!) 

We celebrated by taking the day off work (right in the middle of the work week....) and doing some of our favorite things....out to a simple, healthy breakfast, walking the Volusia County Farmer's/Flea Market and then we went into Orlando and he took me to an awesome scrapbook store and let me shop! He even found me cool stuff and encouraged me to keep buying.  He's a definite keeper!  Then I took him to 2 guitar shops and we actually found a couple of cool guitars that he would not mind adding to his collection.  Now, just to find a way to afford them and that awesome entertainment center we found!  We stopped for an early dinner at one of our favorite healthy salad bar places to eat -- Sweet Tomatoes.

Here's Dave enjoying his awesome pasta after polishing off a big bowl of Irish Potato and Leek soup.  It was a wonderful day to celebrate a wonderful man....so glad you are my husband, honey.  Here's to many, many more birthday celebrations with you!

Easter Card and The Paper Variety Challenge

I tried something a little different for my grandson Cole's birthday card.  I created a little springtime Easter scene and a play on words for the sentiment.  I kinda like it....it's different.  The die cut is another from the awesome pack of vintage die cuts that I won recently from Pretty Little Studio.  My friend Kim made me the clouds which I embossed, the grass is from my friend Abby.  I received it in a recent border swap I took part in.  The flowers are from my stash....one of which I made from vintage dictionary paper.  I am entering this card in The Paper Variety's flower challenge this week (check it out HERE ).  This card is going postal to Cole tomorrow from Florida to Valparaiso, Indiana with love.

Altered Easter basket

I picked up this little basket at my local thrift store for a dime back during the winter.  Some child had drawn hearts with a marker on it.  Three coats of paint and some paper, ribbon, glue and recycled lace and I am proud to show off the Easter basket I made for my granddaughter Abby.  It will be on it's way tomorrow from Florida to Illinois filled with goodies from Grandma.  I tied that cute little pennant on with twine which I just can't get enough of lately.  I need to order it by the spools.  I am entering this creation over at the Wee Memories twine challenge this week where I was really inspired by all the gorgeous twine projects.  You can check them out HERE.  Maybe I will get lucky and this entry will win me a supply of twine....wish me luck! Also entered at the Max Fab World The Little Gifts Challenge where inspiration abounds!  Check it out HERE 

Daytona

Here's another layout with photos from our day at the races in Daytona in February.  I used the sketch from this week's Sketchy Thursday challenge which you can see HERE .  I will also be entering it over at the journalling challenge at Lasting Memories this week. In case it is too hard to read here is what the journalling says on this page :

The Gatorade Duels at Daytona International Speedway

We have lived here in Florida nearly 4 years and this

was the first racing event we attended.  We took Thursday

off work and enjoyed a warm and breezy day in the sun.

Jeff Gordon led quite a few laps being pushed around the 

track by rookie Trevor Bain who went on to win the

Daytona 500 on Sunday.  Jeff drove the AARP Chevy.

I asked Dave if he wanted a Jeff Gordon AARP tee shirt

and he said a definite NO!

February 17, 2011

Easter Cards

This has been a very crafty weekend for me and I am loving it.  I had a number of Easter projects I wanted to tackle and I am getting them accomplished one by one.  This card turned out really cute and is for my 3 year old granddaughter Abby.  I used this picture from The Paper Variety challenge this week as inspiration:

Then I also made this card for my grandson Jacob:

I recently won several packages of vintage Easter/spring die cuts from Pretty Little Studio so they will be showing up on several of my cards this year.  I just LOVE them!  I still have plenty to do and to share....so I better get back to work.......