The Rest of the Stuff

Here it is, the project I've been working on for such a very long time; my very first quilt. My sister-in-law is about to have a baby girl, and it is for her. They live on the lake, so I thought this would be perfect for the boat trips. I was so worried that it was not going to turn out good, since it was my first one, but by the time I got to the last little fishy, I had the technique down. Here's a close up of one little fishy. Not to toot my own horn, but, I think I did a pretty good job!

I made her a couple cards for the shower, (one for each gift). this one incorporates some of the fabric from the border of the quilt.

I got inspiration for this one from mt very good friend, Lynn. You can see her talent at http://lwdesigns.blogspot.com/ . She's the one who introduced me to stamping and Stampin Up! I hope to one day become as creative and talented as she is.

For the baby shower, I also made a little 6X6 scrapbook that has a page per month for the first year of my sweet little niece's life. While I was doing it, I worked with a colleague who had never scrapped before, on one for her grand-daughter. I think I may have shown her how simple it really is, and inspired her to do it again. I hope so. For me, it is therapy after a trying day in 6th grade!

This was the January page, and darn it, I forgot to take a picture after I colored it.

February

I forgot to take a picture of the cute little Easter page (shoot!). The next few can be any month the mother-to-be chooses.









Obviously, October, November and December follow.

This is one of the party favors I made for the shower. Each guest took one of them, and a gift from the basket of prizes. I also made enough of these so that I could give one to each of my esteemed colleagues at school, as an end of the year token of appreciation. Teaching special education can be challenging, and I'm lucky to work with a gorup of people who make life at school easy (or at least tolerable)!


Well, thats all for now, so toodle-ooo!

More stuff!

I'm back! I have a little bit of time, so I thought I'd share a few more things I've been working on.

The first is a sympathy card for the family of a dear staff member who recently passed. Grandma, as as she was called, worked for our school for more years than many of us
can remember. She will always be in our hearts.

This was an anniversary card for my brother and sister-in-law.

This is a set of cards that will be one of the gifts for my sister-in-law's baby shower. I totally CASE'd this from Amy Celona

This is another set of cards for the shower that I also CASE'd, but can't remeber who I got it

from. Whoever you are, Thanks!

These coasters will also be shower gifts.

This card was just for the fun of it! Actually, I was dying to use this cool new circle cutter tool I got from the Great lakes MegaMeet. You can see the tool here: http://www.heartfeltcreations.us/results.php?keywords=circle+cutter
It works like a compass, only instead of a pencil, it's a cutting blade.

Finally, this card is for a colleague that I know won't see my blog. I'll still have more to share before the shower on Sunday (and a couple that will have to wait until after (so the new mom doesn't see them).

It's about time....

It's not that I haven't done anything creative, it's just that I've been so busy creating I haven't had time to post. Since we have this beautiful 3 day weekend ahead of us, I figure I have an extra day, so today I'll share some of the stuff I"ve been working on before May is over and I miss my monthly post. It looks like it's going to be a beautiful weekend, so I don't plan on spending much time indoors! I actually have a lot to share, but I'm going to save the other part for another day. I need to get outside...

This is a card I made for my brother-in-law.

My husband is starting his own business, so I made this little steno pad for him to keep track of his daily activities.

This is for the son of a colleague, and the rst of the cards I made are for door prizes at my sister-in-law's upcoming baby shower. I have plenty more of those to share, but as I said, I want to go outside so they'll have to wait.

Until next time.....

a few things to share

I think I've decided a once a month post is all I'll be able to manage. I was really hoping that I'd be able to make it once a week, but apparently not. My thought was, that if I had this looming over me every weekend, it would force me to create more often. Well, it didn't work. So It looks like I'll be saving up what I've done, to share in one occasional post. So here it is: Jerry and I celebrated our anniversary, so of course I have those cards to share. He made me a garage version card! How sweet was that? I also made him one of course. I was inspired by someone from splitcoast, but I don't remember who. I didn't have the stamp that inspired me, so I used clip art from google images, which worked out fine.

Next was a 40th birthday party for a co-worker of Jerry's. I made him this card: (inside it says "You're screwed.")

I've been seeing so many cute cards made with the Good Egg set, that I really wanted to make some cards using that cute little chick and egg image. I knew my sister-in-law's sister had the set, so I asked to borrow it. This is what I made from that:

Finally, I went to my friend Lynn's house for some much needed scrapbooking and was able to complete a Christmas scrapbook page and an Easter one. Unfortuntely, I neglected to take Easter pictures this year (drat), so I guess I have next year's page already done! I'll post it next year when I add the pictures! But anyway, here is the Christmas page, and since I was already inspired and ready to go, I also completed my New Year's Eve page as well when I got home.

That's all for now. I've been working on some door prizes for my sister-in-law's baby shower, so I'll have that to share next time ;)

Thoughts and Prayers gets some ink

It seems like as soon as I think life is going to slow down a little, I actually start getting bogged down even more. I guess I should quit thinking and start doing more stamping! Either that or start lowering my standards at work so I can have more time to myself.

Over the past few weeks a couple of my friends have lost family members, so I had to make some sympathy cards. I love the Thoughts And Prayers set and took the opportunity to put some ink on it. Hopefully I will be using it for more than sympathy cards. This first one, I couldn't decide if I liked better with or without ribbon, so I did one of each. I figured this way I have a spare, since often it seems that you need three within a short span of time. Hopefully I won't need it! I totally CASED it from mfleig on SCS. She used the Parisian Breeze Designer paper, and since I didn't have that, I dug through my non-SU paper and found some that is nearly identical, imagine that!

I liked this one better, but wished I would have used brown ribbon instead of the organdy. But, since my resolution was to use what I have, this is what came out of the box. I used some SU designer papers from Bali breeze and Brocade Backgrounds, working in another resolution; to stop hoarding the paper......

Well, I'd best get busy on the pile of work that's waiting for me. I have a plan for some Easter cards, so hopefully on next post I'll have gotten to that.

Spring break is coming up and I've decided I WILL get busy in my stamping room, no matter what else is on my plate!

Busy

I've been so busy lately, that I have not had time to post. I'll share few things I've done over the past couple weeks, but I only have little time for chatter.

This is a prediction card. I have a cousin-in-law who is pregnant, and she did not share the sex of the baby. I think it's a boy, so this is the card I made for her shower.

I've been dying to use these papers and these stamps, so I did. they are for no particular reason, but I'm sure I'll find someone who will appreciate receiving them.

I want spring! This was one of those days when I just had to have something springy going on.

A card for a colleague....

A gift for another colleague....

A couple of my colleagues gave me a wonderful gift; the Urban Oasis DP, matching ribbon and matching brads. What thoughtful people they are! So, I had to bust into the paper right away to make them a thank you. I just couldn't resist, so I totally CASE'd this from melissa-aggie on scs. Thanks Melissa! I absolutely love the Splitcoast Stampers website. I could spend (and often do) hours there.

I was in such a hurry I didn't even fix this picture before I posted it. Sorry about the tile taking up so much of the photo. This was last fall. A few friends went to the Mission Point Peninsula and did the tour of the wineries. The plan was to do the whole Lelanau (did I spell that right?)Peninsula, but we didn't get past Mission Point. It was a blast!

Go to go do my chores.... ugh!