Lemonade Stand Award

Kiara from the Stamping Cafe (one of my favourite bloggers), gave me this award today! Kiara has some of the most inspiring cards on her blog, so be sure to check it out. Also Kiara is such an encouragement to me all the time! Thank you Kiara for your thoughtfulness!






The Lemonade Stand Award is for being a blogger who shows great attitude and gratitude. To pick up the Lemonade Stand Award:
- Comment on this blog.
- Cut and paste the award logo and use it in your own blog.
- Nominate 5 to 10 blogs you feel show great attitude and gratitude.
- Link to your nominees within your blog post.
- Comment on their blogs to let them know they've received the award.
- Link back to the person who gave you the award to show your appreciation.

I would like to nominate the following bloggers for this award:

Tanya's Stamps 'n' Things
Jen at Stamp Your Heart Out
Becky at Inking Idaho
Sue from Passionate about Crafting
PricillaStyles
Sparkly Pink Star

These wonderful ladies are not only talented but also super encouraging - and I've gotten lots of inspiration from them lately!!

Mojo Monday # 84 - KIND WORDS...

This week I actually made a card ON Mojo Monday (not days later - are you impressed dear reader?...lol). It was a long and hectic day at work, and I came home late, had supper with my family(:)) and then took a few minutes to create something for someone on my heart. This card is for someone whose kind words have breathed life into me this past week when I was hurting...

Big Shot Purse

I saw one of these on Becky's site so I had to give it a try this weekend...

Happy Birthday Candace!

It was our neighbour, Candace's birthday today! It's awesome to have a neighbour who is also a friend!!

Another Post It Note Holder

You know my penchant for office supplies already, so it should come as no surprise that when I saw that Angie had a new type of post it note holder on her site today, I HAD to make it:)

Club Project

This was last night's club project...

Desk Set

I'm still not completely done, but here's the desk set I've been working on using Becky's tutorial (Becky's site is Inking Idaho - thanks Becky for such great inspiration!). It's going to be real handy to help me organize my craft desk a little more:)

It's Spring Finally...

The snow is pretty much gone finally and the birds are singing... not too much longer than there should be lilacs in bloom (ok, at least a month, but a girl can hope!)

Colour Inspiration #49 ...AND ...Weekend Sketch #76

I combined Kristina's Colour Inspiration with this weekend's sketch and this is the birthday card I came up with:)

This Week's Splitcoast Tutorial - Post-It notes....

So, by now, you know my love for school/office supplies:) ...and you've probably seen me make a post-it note holder or two as well! So you know I couldn't resist trying out this week's Splitcoast tutorial, right?

I made this one for my mother-in-law. Her birthday is on Monday, and purples are her favourite colours. Of course, we've got all her gifts ready, but I thought I'd throw this in with her card for fun too:) Unfortunately, she had a fall yesterday when she was out for a walk and is in quite a bit of pain right now. I'm praying her ankle will be better soon!

Colour Inspiration 48; Mojo Monday 81

I made a quick card after work tonight for this week's colour inspiration and mojo monday sketch. I loved the K&Co paper that I used, so this card is mostly about the paper:)

Birthday Card for a Friend

One of my oldest friends (well, not that she's old, although she is older than me, but more that we've been friends the longest, you know!) is having a birthday this week, so this is the card I made this morning:)

Whew, what a busy week it has been...today has been my first moment to craft, can you believe it?!!

Birthday Card for my MIL

I made this card this morning for my MIL. I was playing a bit with texture on the edges of the oval pieces and distressed and inked them. I'm not sure that I like how it turned out...I'll have to give it some time and come back and see, you know?!

And here's one for Amanda...

This is the Card File that I made for my daughter! See my last post for the details on how to make these. (Paper is from Basic Grey:))

Magazine Holder, no - Magazine File, no - CARD FILE

I love this idea! I originally saw it on Jen's blog. Jen bought a template from Papertrey that I had on my list to look at, but then I saw another version on Dannie's blog and she linked Rubber Room Stampin' with the instructions. Now, I didn't follow these instructions exactly. There were a few things that weren't totally clear to me (that's probably just a me thing! - and I send a BIG thanks out to Blythe for posting her instructions and all those pictures!!), but I went ahead and I played with it and I made this little magazine holder, but instead of magazines it's for cards! It fits a standard sized cards (5.5" x 4.1/2") perfectly. This one is for my hubby, so he has a better place to put all the cards I make him after he's done displaying them! I think I'm going to go make one for my daughter too - she has a lot of cards to store as well;) ...and then I was thinking I might make a few for my craft area to store cards I'm working on:)

Matching Gift Bag

I made a little matching gift bag to go with the birthday card I made here. It's nothing fancy - just some DP on a brown paper bag, an oval punch for a handle and some ribbon, but I thought I would post it as I've been asked how I make these. I vary the heights depending on the size of what I'm trying to wrap, but in the end, it's just a brown paper bag:)

Great Ideas from Shawna

Last night I went to Shawna's for a stamp night and these are the projects we made! Shawna has the butterfly bigz die and so we played with that a lot! I think the butterflies are absolutely adorable~! I also really liked the idea for a top note pocket card:)

Colour Inspiration #47 and Weekend Sketch Challenge #74

Kristina's colour inspiration this week was really tough for me - I'm just not a brown and orange and yellow kind of girl, you know?! But that is what makes it a challenge. So I combined this week's colour challenge with the weekend sketch challenge (#74) and made this birthday card for my daughter's friend:)

Top note, quilted, basket...

I took inspiration for this little top note basket from this post on Angie's blog. I had just received my free stuff from the workshop I hosted last month and so was able to use the free new DSP and one of my new square punches. Once I made the quilted sheets, I ran them through my Big Shot using the top note die. The actual basket part is taken my making a bagalope out of half of a mid-sized envelope (scored at 1 " on 3 sides). The ribbon at the top was some grosgrain that again was free this month:)

Colour Inspiration

Here's my card for Kwerner's colour inspiration... I made it for a very accomplished young woman whom I was priviledged enough to attend the a violin recital of this week. While others were working away in the concrete jungle on Wednesday afternoon, I was listening to this sparkling beauty play Mozart and Vivaldi delightfully!! So this card is my way of throwing flowers:)