Tri-Shutter Album

I made this mini-album for my hubby for valentine's day (well, I finished it today, but he loves me just the same;) I liked the idea of Andrea's album that was similar to this at Christmas so I spent some time figuring it out. Andrea is selling partly constructed albums like this that you can embellish and make your own if that is of interest to you.

Birthday with Nesties

I was playing around with my nestabilities I received for Christmas and the new Vintage Labels by SU (which I received for free:) and I think it worked out fairly well:)

Another Marshmallow Treat

I posted one of these before, but this is the one I made on the weekend...

V to D

...valentine for my daughter:)

As you can see, I don't have any of the 'valentine' sets...so I create my own...instead of happy birthday day, it becomes...happy *heart* day:))

Happy Valentine's Day!

...a valentine to the man I love! :)

Friend Valentine #2

Here's the other card inspired by Andrea:)

Friend Valentine #1

I made a couple of valentines for friend on Sunday evening, and I took my inspiration from some things that Andrea posted last week while I was at conference:)

A Little Birthday Card

This is just a card I made for a little princess' birthday...

The dsp is from My Mind's Eye (Penny Lane).

My Cup of Tea

I got this cute tea stampset from Basic Grey just after Christmas - couldn't resist it. I tried to work with colours that I don't typically choose on this card...

Oh and the background embossing was done with one of SU plates:)

Chocolate Covered Marshmellow Treat

I saw the tutorial for this over at the Sunny Stamping Studio and had to try it out...

The dsp is from SU's collection last year - as I did with Christmas, I'm not buying new valentine dsp when I still have some last year, but boy it's hard, this year's collection is so cute!

Treat Can

I finally learned how to make one of these at club this week - it's made out of a fruit cup tin - only you don't pop it open, you open the other end with like a Starfrit opener, then you decorate, put treats in and reattach the bottom of the tin.

Sorry the picture is so dark - we've had a ton of snow and lots of very grey days, so not the best windowsill lighting;)

Ornament Fish?!

I went to stamp club last night and this is one of the projects we made - and while I'm not that fond of it, I thought I'd post it since it is a neat idea for those who ordered ornament punches at Christmas and are looking for other uses for them...

Another Matchbox Post-it Note Pad

See this post to the link to the instructions. I purchased the stampset I used on this purely for the fact that I could tick off 'never' as an option on some of my 'to do's';)

Note/Picture Holders

You've all probably seen various versions of these. This set I made out of some coloured bull clips I found at Michael's - I liked them because the area under where I've attached the scallop had a circular disk.

Altered File Folder

I made one of these previously, but this one was part of Caren's gifts for this year. I flipped the closure side on this one, but otherwise the directions are the same:)

Happy Birthday Caren!

Today is our friend, Caren's birthday! This was her birthday card for this year:)

Pillow-button box

I'm still not feeling it for the pillow box die - I have a very hard time keeping the ends closed in my projects (even with ribbon) - any suggestions you have out there would be appreciated:)

This is just a small gift for a crafting friend:)

New Posts are coming...

Sorry for the lag in posts - it's a combination of two things...(1) being insanely busy with work and (2) most of the things I've worked on over the last 10 days have been for a friend's birthday and she checks this blog. Well, tonight we're having her birthday party, so starting tomorrow I should be able to post a few things... :)

Inspired by Dawn

I totally took the inspiration for these friend cards from Dawn - who had a post on her blog this week explaining how to make a poofy flower - gotta love it:)

I didn't use scallop punches of vintage print though for the flowers, I used some flowers I had sitting around from Making Memories (Paperie Rouge) because these flowers were very papery and I didn't like using them on their own, so i thought they'd be perfect for this!

Damask

So over the holidays I got this Heidi Snapp damask stamp and I keep using it in different ways. This is a card I made after an especially hectic day at work this week. I was surprised how similar it was to one of Dawn's - only discovered her blog this week and her work keeps resonating with me:)