Post it Note Holders

I thought that the girl's need a pick me up after the long weekend. You always have so much to do when after a long weekend just getting caught up.


So I made these post it note holders out of 4x4 coasters. These are super quick and easy to do. I cut 2 pieces of paper 4 x 4 and glued to the coaster and cut around the corners. Took apart my binder clip and sanded and painted pink the part that the silver clip goes into. After it was dry I cut a strip of the paper and glued to clip. Tied ribbon around it and it's done.


Recipe: Paper: fresh Paint Metallic pink paper, Ribbon: American Crafts - Face Painting. Misc: coaster, glue, binder clip, acrylic paint and sanding block, X-acto Knife

Izzy...

is scare of a Chi pet. Dale was taking this one back to work and she didn't want anything to do with it. She really wanted it away from her Blue Bunny, but was to scared to grab her bunny.

The layout for this page is a Quick page from Digital Freebies by Jan Hosford from her Spring Morning kit. Her blog can be found here.

June Cd Calendar

I used one of my favorite stamps for this one. This is one of the first stamps I bought and it gets used quite a bit. Once again I am using black paper as the base and Publisher for the calendar.



I stamped in Versa Mark ink onto the fresh Paint paper, used silver embossing powder and heat set it and repeated the process on a transparency sheet and on the fresh Paint paper. I selected one image for the background, and trimmed around it. My stamp doesn't measure the 4" square that I've been using as the background paper so I am adding to it by using cut outs of the same paper.

From the other image, I selected a couple of flowers to cut out. I tried to get ones that had the embossing all around them because I wanted to add Diamond Glaze to make my own accent. Since this is a light weight paper it curled the edges a little. I then cut around a couple of the embosses images on the transparency. I now have a few images to use on cards and/or tags.

Using black ink I stamped June and embossed with clear embossing powder. I rounded the corners and attached behind the embossed page. For the strip behind the calendar I rounded both ends and cut in half and attached it behind. It looks like it goes all the way across the page but it does not.

Recipe: Stamps: Hibiscus Portrait - Hero Arts, June - Hero Arts Clear Designs Paper: fresh Paint, Black Ink: black, Versa Mark Embossing Powder: silver, clear Calender: Publisher Misc: transparency sheet, pop up dots, Diamond Glaze, corner punch

Biggest Swap Ever

Karin is organizing the Biggest Swap Ever and is trying to reach 100. You can read about it here.

Thank You ...

Jeannie phoned me this weekend to let me know that she was placing flowers on Mom's grave and was it alright. She then went on to say that she does it every year for her Mom and she picks out the carnations and the kids help her when they are in town. So I made this card as a Thank You.

The card base and stamps are from The Stampin' Place. The card base is from the set Country Meadows. Next is the Cricut paper from Tags, Bags, Boxes and More. Then a scrap of green, and dark red. I stamped on the tan using cranberry ink and a dark green brushable pen for the stems. I masked the carnation and the mum and then stamped the background flower. The tan and red have a brad in each corner. I then stamped two more flowers and cut them out in a 1" circle. The green is a 1 1/4" and the dark red is a 1 1/2" circle. The flower circles are attached using pop up dots.

I used the Cricut to cut the 1 1/4" circle and the Fiskars Circle Templat to cut the 1" and 1 1/2" circles.

The actual stamps I used from the Natural Elements 3 set is Dried Flower G-631, G-632, G633, Dried Plant J-178 and Natural Elements 2 set is Dried Flower F-640 and F-639.

Edited to Add:

I forgot to take a post the inside of the card, so here it is. I like to add a folded piece of paper to the inside of my cards. I used the Dried plant F-639 for this.

Recipe: Paper: Pre-made base from The Stampin' Place, Cricut - Tags, Bags, Boxes and More, scraps of green and tan, Ink: Cranberry, Pen: Dark Green Brushables, Stamps: Natural Elements 2 and Natural Elements 3, Cricut: George and the Basic Shapes Other: Brads, Pop up dots, hole punch, Fiskars circle template

The Rummage Challenge...

Here is my entry for The Rummage Challenge posted at I Love Pretty Paper.

I have sitting on my desk a canning jar of Izzy Treats and a canning jar of Izzy bags, so I decided to spiffy them up with this challenge. The brown paper was stamped on with paint, then cut to fit the canning jar. The two things I pulled out was the lime green and the neon green paper - they were stuck together.

And here is Izzy

Izzy Border http://www.mediafire.com/?cjdjmhjkx9y

Izzy Border 2

Recipe: Paper: All but the white/cream is scraps Paint: Folk Art 408 Green: Stamp: Foam 54326 from Michaels Ribbon: American Crafts - Face Painting Cricut Cartridges: George and Celebrations, All Mixed up.

Paper Crafts magazine

has a new Simple Sentiment to download.

Mother's Day

Doug brought home flowers for me the Friday night before Mother's day as he had to work that day. He is such a good guy.



The papers are from samples from Faith Sister's.



Recipe: Digital Kits: Bianca Design Primavera and Green Mother Earth Samplers

Spring . . .

is finally here. Our tree is showing some buds. This picture was taken on May 11th and by May 15th the tree was in full bloom.


This little guy was hopping around our swing Sunday morning.


Recipe: The digital layouts are using quick templates. The top one I'm sorry to day I don't where I got it from. The bottom one is from Retrodivia. It is an older one, but it looks good with this picture.

"Shout Out to SheetLoad"

The May issues is out along with a tutorial on "Curled Flowers", check it out.

Recipe Cards....

Creating Keepsakes has a link to down loadable recipe cards and I also liked the article on Computer Tricks - using a digital mini template to create an album. I will have to try this one.