Gettin a little post happy! ;)

I found a template and tutorial at http://danniesdesigns.typepad.com/ by Dannie Graves for a stationary box. I thought it really looked cute, so I went ahead and gave it a shot. Here are my results!:



This is the outside of the box with the lid ON!

And then with the lid OFF!

And then this is with the box open.

These are the tags and some of the cards that can be found inside the box:

Mojo 76 Contest REMIX!

Well, I entered this contest a couple of days ago, and haven't been all that thrilled with the card I made for it, So I decided to do another one, and this fit.

I am sorry for the pictures fuzziness... my camera used to be cutting edge, but has gone down hill since I bought it back in 2005!

Recipe

Stamps: SU

Inks: Color Box Petal Point Apricot, Black

Paper: Variety

Accessories: Circle Scallop 2" & 1 3/8", Cuttlebug Swissdots, Ribbon

MoJo76

I thought I would try a NEW adventure in my crafting. I came across a website that holds weekly contests called Mojo Mondays. I thought I would give it a try since they give away free stuff and I thought it might give me some good ideas for making my own cards. The website with the contest information can be found here: MOJO MONDAYS.

Here is the sketch I am supposed to use as inspiration for my card.

I am a newbe at this, so I don't the "receipe" for anyone to use in their own work. (not that that would happen!)

Here is my entry for the 76 contest:

I did use a SU stamp called "Priceless."

It's not a DOLL It's a BABY

Hunter and I were at the dollar store the other day, and of course there are a ton of bouncy balls bouncing around in the aisles. Hunter saw one and kept telling me "ball, ball, ball" until I reached down and got one for him. He played with it for a couple of minutes until we went through a new aisle that has the "babies" in it. As soon as he saw them he started to tell me "baby, baby, BABY!"

So we changed the bouncy ball for a baby.

Hunter kept kissing the little baby and would talk to it very nicely. It was very cute.

I figured we would just leave the baby at the check out since Chris isn't really into his son and "dolls" but when I tried to get rid of the little thing, Hunter got upset and kept asking for the baby and saying "peeze." Since he didn't throw a fit and asked nicely, I went ahead and bought the baby.

Last night, Chris and I were watching a movie and Hunter disappeared and we couldn't hear him playing anywhere close so Chris went to look for him. Chris found our little man laying in our spare bed under the sheet with his "baby" on the pillow next to him. He was working on putting his baby to bed!

We busted him so Hunter got up right after that, but once it was actually time for Hunter to go to bed, he took his little baby and put it into bed with him and even made sure to give the baby a corner of his blankie. He was sharing his blankie... He won't even let me share his blankie with me unless he is sitting on my lap and doesn't realize I am getting warm with the blank too!

I have been working on my crafting skills. Here are a few of my newest cards and creations. Let me know what you think:

This is the card that I made to use for Hunter's Thank You cards for his birthday. It took a LONG time to make them. It has a elephant, lion, and giraffe. I will NEVER make this card again. I only borrowed the stamp set used for the animals and it required a LOT of cutting out each part of the animals.

The next 2 are from an idea I got off the website: http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/su. It is a coaster notebook. I made the cover and put the rings in the top of the coaster to make it into a book. I also got this idea from the above website. It is a bunny gift. It holds a candy, like a chocolate mint patty. The back of the bunny is supposed to have some sort of tail, but I haven't figured out what I want to use just yet.

Request Fullfilled

A fellow Blogger asked me to post some of the cards I have made recently... So Here They Are! I also posted some cards before, in October 2008.

The blog Titles are

(1) Just Another Saturday, &

(2) Some More Creativity.

Most of the new ones were not original ideas since I went to some websites that have examples of what other people have done with the stamps I own... So it is a copied original since with doing this stuff, each person rubs off on their work, and I don't have some of the "company" paper & ink colors that many people use because they all match and they don't have to spend time getting the paper and stamp ink and and and and... to look good together! (I think that was a bit of a ramble!)

Hope you all enjoy my crazy hobby!

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This technique is called "black magic" - saw this technique on a demonstrators website and followed her lead, but the stamp used and the look was all my own!

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This was an original thought I had all by myself!