Willow Traders Blog Hop

Here are a couple of new cards I made in honor of this weekend's Willow Traders Blog Hop. Thanks for encouraging me to create!

I got the idea for the second card from Kristina Werner's blog. She has fabulous cards and examples there - you should check it out!

Have a great weekend!

Happy 4th and Some New Hero Arts Cards

Happy Fourth of July!

Here's a new card that I made - it was inspired by something I saw in the latest issue of Card Creations by Paper Crafts - vol 7.

Also, I have been checking out Jennifer McGuire's blog a lot lately. She is teaching a class on Two Peas called Thinking Inking. I got these ideas from her and from her class.

New Idea for a Project

I was inspired by something I saw in a magazine recently. Unfortunately, I can't remember where I saw it. Anyway, I thought it was a cute idea to slip little notes with pictures and jokes into my son's lunch box.


I made up a few - they are very simple, but he gets a good laugh out of them each day.

This set is available in my etsy store - see link to right!

New Baby, New Year, New Project

Hi everyone!

It's time for a new year. It's been so long since I've posted, but with the earlier than expected birth of our baby Sarah, I've been so tired! She's a cutie, but she sure keeps us up at night. I'm encouraged by last night though - I only got up once and my husband only got up once. So, that's better than the 27 times I feel like we've been getting up per night!

I'm happy that I got one of Becky Higgin's Project 365 kits. I'm sure I'll post some of my photos here, but mostly I will putting them in my kit. It's an exciting idea for a project. I just hope that I can keep up!

In the mean time, here's one of my projects I've worked on lately. I really like the Cricut cartridge with the Disney images. Very cute, but very time consuming!

Here are Some Christmas Cards

Here are some Christmas cards that I have been making. Several of them are from Stampin Up's card kit for November. I love that they are making a card kit for each month. That's so cool!

Also, you can see a card I made from the new quickutz jolly set. Love that set. Alphabet and shapes are all great. I basically scraplifted that card from the quickutz site, but changed the paper.

New Folded Card

Here is a card that I made similar to the way Jennifer McGuire described it in her recent blog entry.

This picture is of the card closed.

Here is a picture of the card open.

It is hard to tell from the picture, but the scalloped circle on the outside fits right over the scalloped circle on the inside. I really like this design! Thanks Jennifer.

New Christmas Card

Here's another card inspired by Jennifer McGuire. I love these cute Christmas stamps from Hero Arts.

Both of these cards are about 3 inches in diameter and has a scalloped circle as an outside edge. It opens to a blank inside so you can write your own message. It might be used as more of a gift tag or a short message? Cute I think!

Today we went to the pumpkin patch so Andrew could pick out a pumpkin for himself and the baby. It was a bit too sunny for him, so he closed his eyes a bit, but still looks cute!