invatations

Yesterday I was talking to my Daughter and some how we started on Jacobs birthday coming in January, anyway they are in California and I'm in Wisconsin, she said if she would have been thinking she would have asked me to make Jacob's invitations (because that is what I do) so I asked her when she would mail them out and I told her I have plenty of time. Just need to know what he likes! this is what I came up with.
Had to give him a snow theme since they don't see much snow where they are.
Made 18 of these little guys, I left the inside blank so they can write what they need inside.
Now off the California we go...

for Skylars walls

Good morning, these Disney critters are for Skylar to put on her walls, she is 19 months now and knows who Mickey and Minnie are. I used cereal boxes to stiffen them so they would hold up for a little while.

boxes for cards to give away

I made these boxes to give away to my church family, Just to find out the are a bit to big to fit into the mailboxes, on to plan B...next week I will try a baggie storage bag to fit 4 to 6 cards with envelopes in.
Not going to give up because a little set back.
these boxes will be put to another good use

my ah ha moment

Yesterday in church I was sitting next to a friend and a woman came up to her and said she might like to look in her mail box. So her husband went to get it for her and he came back with a lovely hand made little coin purse with her name on it. How cool was that random act of kindness! I don't know how we started talking about my cards and she asked me if I sold them and I told her I just give them away as gifts and to charities, she said I should sell them. That is really not for me, but while I was looking for some cards to give to Donna, I got my ah ha moment!  I will randomly give them to people at church! So I made this box this morning added I think 10 cards with envelopes and Donna will be my first. so I am hoping to give away 52 boxes this new year!

square corner fold

I have not seen a square corner fold on YouTube, I may have just not looked enough, so I tried  it on my own. I think it turned out pretty good with the double sided paper I used. I don't have Olaf, so my doodle charms snowman worked just fine.

Kris' Birthday card

For this card I went to youtube and typed in fancy fold card and this corner fold came up. I added cricut cuts that I wanted and there had to be a cat on it for my daughter. First time with this fold and I will be using it again

Kyle is turning 15

Hello again!  I asked my daughter what my grandson was into this year, it changes yearly. and Dr. Who was one of them, so I went  to pinterest and found a great pattern! put all of the  sizes on to my cricut design and cut them out.  I am happy with the results.

ink pad storage

I bought a lot of stampin up ink pads from a local seller and only had a container to keep them in .
So I went to youtube and looked up storage units for ink pads. I had to adjust the size for the larger ink pads but it works and didn't cost me a lot of money. I think under $7
Made out of foam board, glue and a lot of stick pins
believe me when it was leaning like the leaning tower of Pisa    I thought for sure I would have to trash it, but plenty of glue and a sturdy back and it was not going anywhere 

birthday cards

    I also bought       Woodland Whimsy Animals 

 I  really like these little animals

Clara's Christmas card

over summer a teacher friend asked people to sponsor her 2nd grade class by donating money for a monthly magazine. In her thank you card to me she said...PS you could write back to me.   Well I thought that was so cute I decide to send her cards through out the year.

Skylars Christmas card

cake top, corsage, shower card

this was made for a woman how will be adopting my great grandson. Daughter/granddaughter has a 18month already and cannot handle another baby on her own. So this little boy is going to a loving family and will be a blessing to them.

Mickey's Halloween

Disney® - Mickey & Friends SPOOK-TACULARI 

 I bought this from design space and love them, they are so cute!

halloween

free from design space

puzzle background.

My it has been a long time since I have posted anything, so I will be doing them in groups to save some time, awhile back there was this puzzle free in design space, when I find something I don't own I tend to make several.

just right!!!

so I went back to look over the invitation again and noticed yellow flowers my aha moment
flowers, basket, country!!!
blue, green and yellow are the colors on it so that is how I came up with this., now finding the font they used took a little looking but I found it and the card turned out perfect!I'm happy with it, my nephew is happy because he wanted it to be personalized.

not wedding enough

so as I was looking at the invitation I noticed a tractor as the background and the the reception was going to be in a barn (I am sure it has been fixed up) I wanted to put the bride and grooms name with the date in place of the barn doorb but it was too small, anyway this one is just not wedding enough for me, so it will be going to Miles for his 5th birthday...he will love this!

way to formal

good morning,  last week my nephew asked me to make a wedding card for him and of course I had to say yes (he does a lot for me) anyway I got started on this card before I saw the invitation, because I like to make cards that will match the celebration. (I found this card on Marys blog)
I was almost done with the card when he sent me a picture of the invitation and this card just would not do! In the mean time my husband get a call from my daughter who was at a friends wedding and told us to come to the wedding reception because the bride would like us there, so it went to her, talk about hot off the press, but it worked out fine.
 
card found at http://cardztv.blogspot.com/     under wedding cards

birds on a fence

I have wanted to  make this card for awhile, now today is a rainy day and I don't have my granddaughter here to get into everything, so I am crafting!

22 thank you cards

Good morning to all
 I have been running out of ideas for cards, so I offered to make a friend some cards for her 2nd grade class and she said yes that would be great! I would love for the kids to send out thank you cards for their sponsors (I was thinking birthday cards, but this will work!) so I decided they would be from kids, thank you cards would probably be boring for them. I left the cards blank and they can write what they want in the note.
I thought I simplified the cards by making the guitar and letters only 2 layers, but it still ended up a lot of busy work but in the end I really like them.(like 6 hours to complete)  

                                           going for Gabby's 2nd grade class

Mr and Mrs

this is for a friend of my daughters. While I was trying to figure out the papers for their wedding I decided to go on Diane's facebook page, and in just about every picture there was camo! So that is how it was made! first one will be from my daughter and 2nd from my husband and I

His card to go with note cards

I had to make his card camo!
I made the cross a blaze orange, because in the woods you don't want to lose sight on were you are, and who is with you.

fall pumkins with barnwood background

he also likes to fish

winter scenery

for the outdoors man he is