Back to Normalcy

Like all good things my vacation came to an end. I didn't win the lotto so staying home was not an option....BOO! But I did get some projects accomplished that I'll post here once I get pics of them. This is one of the projects...



It's a countdown to the new Breaking Dawn moving from the Twilight Series. I made this for my coworker who L-O-V-E-S Twilight, she's the one who actually got me hooked on the books. (Actually there are now 150 days until it's out) Hopefully she'll like it! It was the easiest to make too, just some wood, paint and vinyl and it was done.

Hopefully today will be a nice transition back to work with not too many people yelling...yeah probably not but I can still dream right?! =)

Here Comes Peter Cottontail!

Happy Easter!

The eggs have all been found (except for 1 real one outside, I hope we find it before summer comes) and the kids are on their expected sugar high.

Here's my cards I made for the kids' teachers. The top bunny is made out of punches: 3 med oval punches, 1 1/4" circle, 1 1/2" circle. I sponged the edges with ink to make the bunny stand out more.



This one is out of punches too =)

Clouds from the cupcake punch, eggs from the large oval and the grass is cut from my Silhouette. I stamped background images on the eggs and used Heat & Stick powder to adhere the glitter.
Hope everyone has a fantabulous day!

Not a Single Stamp =(

HAPPY FRIDAY!!!

Yesterday I woke up and thought it was Friday, only to realize it was Thursday. The world played a cruel joke on me. Needless to say I was glad to wake up today and it was really Friday!

Since I played with my Silhouette last weekend, I decided to make a flower. Every week Silhouette comes out with a free shape of the week. The flower on this card is that image. For the life of me I couldn't find a stamp image that fit just where I wanted so I have a whole stack of quotes and quotations and I really like this one and it happened to fit perfectly with the image.

I in particular need to pay more attention to this quote. It's no secret I'm not a fan of living in Southern California, we were excessed down here and to say the least it's been a very hard adjustment. I need to remember that wherever I am I need to bloom....easier said than done.

Have a great weekend everyone!!!


Ingredients:
{Paper} SU! Pear Pizzazz, So Saffron, Sunny Garden DSP
{Extras} Ribbon, diamond brad, quotation book, antique brads

Spring Has Sprung

Spring may not officially be here and Southern California may have gotten snow this weekend but I surrounded myself making nothing but Springy colored cards to fight the winter chill. I hadn't used my Silhouette but once so I thought I'd take it out for another round of "What Can Jennifer Make Today". I honestly didn't even pay attention to what images came already downloaded but this awesome bannery one was on there =) Everywhere you turn you can almost definitely see some sort of banner/pennant on a card. It must be the new "in" thing to do.


The thing about the Silhouette that I love is that I can resize the image to whatever size I want. I can also add text to cut out of the selected shape. At first I was going to just stamp the word SPRING with an alphabet set but thought hey if the Silhouette can do it for me I'm all for it!



I attached the banner over just some DMC floss and set it on the card. I couldn't leave just well enough alone so I added the butterfly punch complete with Dazzling Diamonds =)



Hope you enjoy.....Happy Monday!





Ingredients:
{Paper} SU! Pear Pizzazz, Peach Parfait, Sunny Garden DSP
{Extras} DMC Floss, SU! Butterfly punch, Silhouette, Heat & Stick Powder, SU! Dazzling Diamonds

The Tooth Fairy Has Arrived

Once I saw this stamp, I HAD to have it, so I ordered it with my Starter Kit =)

My youngest has her first loose tooth! We've been putting The Boy's lost teeth in a plastic bag and putting it near his pillow when he looses a tooth. After getting this stamp, something definitely had to been done to make losing teeth cute. For The Boy I just cut two tags from my Cricut and put them together with Sticky Tape. For The Girl I busted out my Silhouette and cut an envelope out, embossed it and put it together with Sticky Tape. The Boy is no frills just plain and so that's what he got. The girl is the epitome of "girly" so I went all out with glitter and embossing. They both loved them! Now to make sure the Tooth Fairy doesn't go broke, I'm off to work, 3 days of training for public speaking =(


Ingredients:
{Paper} SU! Old Olive, Pink Pirouette, Whisper White
{Ink} Old Olive, Rose Red, Daffodil Delight
{Accessories} Cricut, Silhouette, 2" scallop punch, ribbon, brads, Dazzling Diamonds, Heat & Stick Powder

I'm A Winner

So let me start by saying I never win anything. Literally the last thing I won was in 4th grade and it was a pencil box during Columbus Day. We had to write to Queen Isabella and tell her why she should fund our trip to the "New World".

Fast forward MANY years later and I finally win something! This time something good....a Silhouette machine! I entered a comment here on blog I follow and 4 days later I got an email saying I won.....HOT DOG!

So now I get to play with it and see what fun I can get myself into. I think I'm going to need a room just for my machines now =)

C-ya!