Personalized Frame

My "5 and a half" year old daughter (you can't forget the 'half') gets invited to a lot of birthday parties.  I love making these personalized frames as gifts.  They're easy, economical and so personal.  This was a gift she gave last year.  I did the letters with my Big Shot and the Serif Essentials alphabet in two colors - Pretty in Pink and Basic Black.  I offset the letters just a bit to give it depth and break up the light colors of pink on white.  The letters and background paper are all under the frame glass and the butterflies are on the outside of the glass.  I think it came out pretty cute!
Enjoy!


Cardstock: Pretty in Pink, Basic Black, Whisper White 
Accessories: Big Shot, Serif Essentials Alphabet Dies, Beautiful Wings Embosslit
Other: Frame

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Happy New Year!!

Happy New Year!
I've been neglecting my blog. I've been thinking about it everyday and just not sitting down to post anything. I've been doing projects and even taking pictures of them. I even blog surf daily, but for some reason, I just couldn't bring myself to post. I don't know why...
Can I use the holidays with a new baby as an excuse??
WELL, it's a new year which hopefully means a fresh start. SO, I'm going to just sit down and post a project I did recently. Here we go...
I'm in a Yahoo group of SU Friends and we do an annual Christmas gift swap. I got many great gifts and here's what I did - Felt Coffee Cozies.


I got my template from Starbucks. I just opened up their cardboard version and traced it onto felt. I used my Big Shot for the flowers and hand sewed the buttons on. I hope the ladies liked these!

Have a great 2012! I will definitely be back!

Accessories: Big Shot, Flower Folds Die, Big Designer Buttons - Candy Cane (Holiday Mini 2010)
Other: Felt, Thread

Fall Pumpkin

Here's a fun and easy decoration for fall. I used 12 - 1" X 6" strips of retired DSP to make this little guy. As much as I love this pumpkin, I REALLY love the leaves. They are SO easy and look SO cool. Punch the cardstock using an oval punch, score in half lengthwise and run folded through a crimper. The texture this technique gives is awesome! Give it a try!

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Paper: DSP Patterns Pack - In Colors (retired), Always Artichoke
Accessories: Crimper, Crop-a-dile, Grosgrain ribbon, brads
Punches: Oval Punch

I'm Back!! It's a Boy!!

Hi again! I'm back to blogging now after taking a few months off to have a baby. My new little man was born in May and I've been busy not only with him, but getting my daughter ready for kindergarten this year, too. Now that we're getting into routines again, I thought I'd get back to posting the many projects that I've been working on. I'd hoped to start posting again in August, which turned into September and then suddenly October. Phew! Time does fly by!

It's hard to see, but one of the last projects I finished before my little guy arrived (2-1/2 weeks early) was the shirt my daughter has on in the picture. Stores don't really sell 'Big Sister' shirts in size 8, so I made one for her. I used scrap material and cut all the letters out with my Big Shot and the Serif Essentials Alphabet dies. I ironed the letters onto the shirt and 'voila', there was a shirt for her to wear and show how proud she was when she came to visit us in the hospital. I wish I'd taken a picture right after it was finished when it was clean and ironed, but I didn't get a chance before I had to quickly pack her a bag to go to grandma's so I could go to the hospital. These days, the shirt is well loved (i.e. well-worn) and doesn't look as good as it once did.

Thanks for visiting again!

Easter Carrot

This carrot was done in my recent Big Shot class using the Petal Cone die. It is a combination of many different ones that I've seen around. I especially like the crimped paper on top.
I'm definitely using the Petal Cone die more than I thought I would. Now that I see how versatile it is, I am loving it!

Hopefully in this picture you can see the texture that was added to the 'carrot' part using a texture plate.

I hope you all had a great Easter!
~Enjoy!

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Paper: Pumpkin Pie CS, Very Vanilla CS, Old Olive CS
Stamps: For You Flower
Inks: Pumpkin Pie
Accessories: Big Shot, Petal Cone Die, Backgrounds 1 Texturz Plates, Basic Rhinestones, Very Vanilla Seam Binding, Gold Brads, Crimper, Paper-Piercing Tool, Mat Pack
Punches: Fancy Flower Punch, 1 1/4" Circle Punch, 1 3/8" Circle Punch

Counting Sheep

OK - these little guys are TOO cute! As soon as I saw these, I just had to try them... So, we made them at this month's stamp club and I just love them! Many thanks to this posting for the idea and instructions!


I made a small herd to give away to my daughter's preschool teachers for Easter gifts.

~Enjoy!

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Paper: Whisper White, Going Gray (retired), assorted colors of scraps
Accessories: Big Shot, Two Tags Die, Perfect Polka Dots Embossing Folder, Basic Pearls
Punches: Scallop Circle, Large Oval, Boho Blossoms, Two-Step Owl (for nose), Word Window, 3 Flower Punch (retired)
Extra: Googlie Eyes