Post Cards

 I am so excited to share this post with you!  I remember when traveling around with my parents when I was a kid, the first thing we would do is look for a postcard where we were staying and send it back home or to our relatives.  I used to have such a collection of postcards and would take them out and remember all the good times we had at a particular place.  I guess they still have them, but I haven't sent any in years!  I came across this cute VIDEO that Jennifer McGuire made and I had to make some.  

Jennifer had just brought home some school work and a project she had made with all A's, so I thought this one would be just the ticket for her.  I usually try and send her a card on the weekends we don't see her, so I will save the little mouse for the future.

These stamp sets are from the Colorado Craft Co.  I just fell in love with them!  

For the mouse, I did some blending!  Isn't he cute!! 

Her free download worked out great!  I am definitely going to make a bunch of these to have on hand.  They came together very quick and are a nice change of pace instead of a card!  I think these would be great to use as an invitation.

Joe and I picked up the finished ceramic pieces after they were fired.  I think they turned out pretty good!

Margaret made the angel, Jeannie made the Gnome for their Fairy garden, Rachel made the elephant, Jennifer made the cute dolphin and I made the candle holder that I wanted to hold  my different brushes for my craft room.  I think we will definitely try this again as we had so much fun!

Thanks for stopping by,

Nancy

Treasure Heart Gift Box

 I hope everyone is having a great week!  The weather here in PA has been so nice and the weekend looks like it is going to be nice as well!  I wanted to make something to put some goodies in for my daughter's along with the cards that I had made them for Mother's Day.  I decided to make this cute little box from a die called Treasured Heart Gift Box from Heartfelt Creations.  The little flaps open up on the top.

I made the butterfly one for my daughter Jeannie as she loves butterflies.  I used the larger flower from the Cherry Blossoms Collection from Heartfelt Creations using Pretty and Pink ink.

This next one I made for my daughter Margaret using the same flower but making it in Real Red.

I loved how they turned out.  I am definitely going to be making more of them.  Heartfelt Creations just released their new collection for this month - Butterflies!!  I can hardly wait till I get mine!  I can see lots of butterflies in my future!

Here is a picture of Rachel and Margaret at the ceramic place on Mother's Day.  Unfortunately, Sarah had to work.

Here is a picture of the crew.  We had such a good time.  We had to leave our items to be fired.  I can hardly wait to see how they turned out.  We had breakfast first and it was nice to be out and about.  It looks like masks might be a thing of the past.  Let's hope so!!

Thanks for stopping by,

Nancy

Mother's Day Cards

 I decided to use one of my favorite dies from Heartfelt Creations - the 5x7  Decorative Frames - to make some Mother's Day cards.  I simply love how these dies fit so great together to make a card.

It was hard to fit them all in one picture.  I decided to make them in different colors and use the Heartfelt Creations Cherry Blossom Collection for my flowers.  

This one I made in Old Olive.

The next one I made in Pretty and Pink.

This was my favorite one that I made in Highland Heather.

The last one I made in Melon Mambo.

For my inside, I used an oval scallop to write on.  It's hard to see but I put some glitter on the flowers.  The weather is very cold here with rain scheduled off and on for the next few days.  All the girls are meeting for breakfast tomorrow.  I would rather go out for breakfast than dinner so I'm a happy camper.  Since we all like to do ceramics we are then going to a local place to have some fun!  I hope everyone has a great weekend celebrating with family and friends!

Thanks for stopping by,

Nancy

Black Magic Birthday Card

 As I mentioned, I had several birthday cards to make.  It seems like they always come as a group.  This card was made for my daughter.  I saw this cool technique over at Gina K's facebook live and decided to try it.  I guess it has been around for awhile but I never saw it.  I didn't have any waxed pencils so I got a small pack on Amazon.  After I got my pencils, my next problem was finding a stamp I could use.  You have to use a rubber stamp where the image is completely covered with the rubber so when it is stamped with your white pigment ink the colors will show up nice and bright.  It took me awhile, but I finally found a stamp that I had purchased from our local stamp show from Local King Rubber called Springtime.  One guess - it is pansies!!

I really enjoyed making this card and I loved this technique!  I used my primacolor pencils and cut down the black CS to fit inside a piece of Smokey Grey CS which I cut out with my Stitched Scallop Rectangle dies from Pink Fresh. I decided on this CS because I colored my saucer grey.  I then mounted it on Gorgeous Grape CS.  It took me awhile to decide about the greeting.  I couldn't find anything I liked until I pulled out my peel offs and came across this birthday greeting.  I thought the different color inks matched perfectly with the card.

For my inside, I used the negative piece of the die!  I thought it worked out really neat!  My sentiment was from Gina K's Wreath Building Stamp set and the flower was from my peel offs.  I will definitely do this technique again!  I don't color very well, so this was right up my alley!

We had such a nice dinner with Rachel last night to celebrate her birthday.  Jeannie and Jennifer went down to Lancaster this weekend so we have a house guest - Daisy!  Have a great weekend!

Thanks for stopping by,

Nancy

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