Rachel's Birthday Card

 Well, here I am making Rachel's 21st birthday card - now this is hard to believe!!  It seems like yesterday we were rushing to the hospital to see her being born!  No matter how old she is she loves her sweets, so I decided to make her card with the Sugarspun Collection from Heartfelt Creations.  I have used this set on numerous occasions and love how it all comes together.

I made a 6" x 6" base card and layered it with some of the collection's DSP.  Then I used their Petite Pockets Accents and Eyelets Oval dies and embossed the smaller oval with my Swiss Dots folder.  I used some of the other stamps and dies in the collection and colored them in with Zig markers.  I sprinkled some glitter on the sweets and added some prills for decoration on the cupcake.  I even die cut the cute little tag from the collection as well.

I used some more DSP from the collection for my inside layer.  I love how everything matches.  I was really happy how it turned out!  We woke up this AM with a dusting of snow!!  This weather is crazy!  It is suppose to warm up next week thank goodness!  Have a great weekend!

Thanks for stopping by,

Nancy

Recipes Boxes

 I have been making a concentrated effort lately to try and finish up any projects that have been laying around.  Several years ago - and I mean years - I saw a cute - VIDEO - where they decorated a cardboard recipe box they had purchased from Michael's $1 bin.    I thought that was such a great idea as the boxes themselves were really very plain.  So I decided to make some for Rachel and Sarah.  Both the girls have been cooking more and asking for some of my recipes.

I used some DSP I had laying around and one of my decorative punches to add some trim and glued on some ribbon as well.

 I used my Cricut to cut out the word recipes and also to personalize them with the girls names.

Then I started to write up some recipes I had in my stash.  That's where the delay came.  I had to make two copies for each recipe of course and the progress slowed to a crawl and took a back burner.  I finally decided to just give them to the girls and just periodically write up some more recipes. 

They really liked them and are now putting their requests in for other recipes. Every holiday or occasion that goes by I get a new request for something that was made.  This recipe box has also created conversations about where I got the recipe from and who gave it to me and if and how they were related.  When my Mom passed away in 2004, I inherited boxes of pictures of the family.  I knew who most of the people were but some I didn't.  This started me thinking that I didn't want that to happen to my kids and grandkids so I started sorting them all out and decided to put together a scrapbook of the family.  It was definitely a labor of love and took many months but I'm am so pleased with the final result.  This is actually what started me crafting, and I went from that into making cards and craft projects.  So now when the kids/grandkids want to know where a certain recipe came from, I now show them a picture of the person so they can place a name with a face.  

Thanks for stopping by,

Nancy

Easter Card and Goodies

We hope everyone had a wonderful Easter!  The weather was so nice here yesterday especially for the Easter Egg Hunt!  Daisy participated in the hunt and helped find lots of eggs with Jennifer.  Easter came so fast this year we were busy crafting and cooking up to the very end!  I really liked how Jennifer's card turned out.  I ended up making it a 6"x 6" using different dies along the way and punches for the bunnies!  Jennifer liked their puffy tails!

The dies were from Heartfelt Creations and Spellbinders.  For the inside sentiment, I used an old $1 stamp from Michael's and a cute carrot ped stamp from Stamps by Judith.  

On Friday Jennifer came up to visit us and we made these cute little bunny houses that I saw on Pinterest.  They are made out of graham crackers.  I tried to use some icing to put them together but it didn't work out so well, so we went with the glue gun!  She used the icing for the roofs and decorated them with some Easter M&M's.  She made one for Rachel and Sarah as well and put the little bunnies inside!  They turned out so cute!

I put the girls Easter goodies in bags this year and decorated them with some chipboard tags I had purchased from the craft show the other year.

I glued the little bunnies on and used glass glitter to decorate them. 

 

Today was an exciting day for Rachel.  She got her first car.  It is a 2013 Hundai Elantra.  Hard to believe!   Time is going by so fast!

Thanks for stopping by,

Nancy