Chalkboard Christmas Gift tags / Ornaments

Sorry for so many posts at one time….but I am finally catching up on posting some of the projects I completed in December.  I made these lil chalkboard tags or you can even use them as ornaments for my co-workers this year.  I found my inspiration on Pinterest and they were super easy.  I bought some wood pieces and the spray chalk paint at Michaels.  I do recommend you looking for pieces that either don’t have a tag stuck on the back, it was very difficult to remove that tag.  I spray painted both sides.  Then I used a white paint marker to decorate the tag and put a personal msg on the back.  Once all that was dry I added some red ribbon I already had along with some snowflake stickers and bling.  Love them!!!

Bottle Cap Necklaces

I finally made these!!! I have been wanting to try to make these and I thought it was going to be so difficult but it really wasn’t.  I used already painted black bottle caps from Hobby Lobby, Tim Holtz jump rings, Mod Podge Dimensional Magic, Martha Stewart circle punch and my own clipart.  After the Dimensional Magic dried I punched a hole with my Crop a Dile and added the jump ring along with a chain I also bought at Hobby Lobby.  I really liked the finished product. 

Christmas Ornament Frame

This is the gift I made for our Stampin Up Christmas gift exchange.  I used the ornament punch, the current Christmas paper pack from SU and several holiday greeting stamps from SU, gumball green paper SU, gold embossing powder SU and gumball green ribbon satin stitched SU.  This was pretty simple to do…I took a plain canvas painted it with a light solid color, punched out ornaments from a gold paper, punched out ornaments from the SU paper pack then I put it all together.  I have a separate piece of paper for the bottom part which I embossed before adhering it to the canvas.  I then added ribbon and the bow.  Thanks for stopping by.

Birthday Cards

Made these birthday cards for our Dec and June (half birthday) birthdays.  A fun and easy way to use banners and the decorative punch from Stampin Up. 

Office Wall Art

I took an old cheap canvas that had a painting on it that I really didn’t care for and turned it into my own wall art.  I have a large empty wall space in my office and decided to deco some paper and add a key cut out of vinyl.  I really like it!  It was a real inexpensive way to decorate.  I added a few elements that I truly love in life, like the bird, hearts, yellow roses, being a Texan, Hope, balloons, and the key.  I can’t wait to hang it up on Monday!

ice cream date with my nieces...

Taking the girls for ice cream was a blast....I don't know who enjoyed it more,  us or the girls? 

Finally completed some vacation pages

Our trip last year:  I finally created some scrapbook pages from our trip last year to NC.  We really had a great time and so I was excited to get some of these pages done.  Of course, my favorite pics were from Graceland...since I totally love Elvis.  Here are just a couple of pages that I did....

Graduation Card

I made this graduation card for my cousin Tim....I couldn't post it before because I didn't want it to be seen until after the party.  I really had a fun time making this card and I think it was well received.  Of course, I used my Cricut and I made sure to make a money pocket right behind the ribbon award under "Best Wishes".   I will soon be on vacation so I hope to catch up on some challenges, projects and fun cards.

Party Invites

  I created these party invitations for a friend's daughter.  She wanted to have an end of school year pool party and I am glad that I was able to make these for her.  I used the Life's A Beach Cricut cart.  I especially love the bikini cut! It is soooo cute!

Mother's Day Card

  I created this teapot card for my mom for Mother's Day.  I used my Cricut Nursery Rhymes cart in the cricut craft room.  The best thing I love about this card is the flowers I made.  I have really enjoyed researching many several tutorials for flowers and so now I know I will never buy flowers again....I will just make them.  I apologize for the poor photo quality but I can't retake the pics cuz I already mailed the card.  You really can't see the lil yellow rosebud I have on the other side but I also made that and sparkled it a bit.  Thanks for stopping by.  Feel free to leave any questions or comments in the comment section.

CSI Casefile #20 - Bust A Cap

 I really surprised myself with this weeks casefile over at CSI.  The color scheme is one that I normally wouldn't have used but I really like the way my layout turned out. I decided to use a pic of my honey after his club's "Bust A Cap" weekend.  I used some pleated strips that I learned to do from a tutuorial a while back and then instead of using the accordian strip for a flower I used it as another layer.  I also pulled out some scrapbooking crinkled paper strip to add another layer.  But what I really love about this layout was being able to pull out my old roller stamp and rolling handle and creat my own background paper.  It has been soooo long since I used those products.  So here is the picture of my layout and a close up of the heat embossing I also used.  Thanks for stopping by. 

CSI Case#18

I instantly loved the colors in this Case over at CSI.  I knew I would have the perfect picture.  I also decided to take the opportunity in making my own flowers.  This is my take on the blue daze flower tutorial I found on the Swirlydoos forum.  Lisa the lady that has this tutorial is awesome at making flowers you can find her tutorial here. She truly inspires me to make my own.

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50th Birthday Card (male)

I made this card for our friend’s birthday.  It is a center step card and I was pretty surprised to find out that it really wasn’t too difficult to make. 

I didn't get it....

So I didn't get the project and sooo I spent time designing it and they said yes...but then changed their mind.  Oh well, I will try again.  And so now I have get all my stuff packed again and relocate it then get it all in order again and really get busy on my goals....I will be creating again very soon, until then I plan, plan and plan some more. 

Time to get back into the groove...

I have been very busy at work so I haven't done a whole lot of creating, but it is time to get back into it. I am starting with an invite someone asked me to do. I am presenting her with a sample tomorrow. I hope she gives me the project. Keep your fingers crossed....have a great weekend everyone.

CSI case 9 - My Definition of Nebula

I worked case 9 at CSI!  I truly loved doing this page.  One of the elements to incorporate was a dictionary entry and I quickly knew that I just had to do the definition of my neice's name Nebula but then I also made one up of my own.  My definition of Nebula is as follows

Nebula: pronoun [ ne-bu-la ]

My Niece – the youngest of my 3 nieces; Exuberant – she is sooo full of energy ; Beautiful – a precious little girl ; Unique – just as unique as her name; Loveable – her favorite thingto do is to give besitos (kisses); Adorable  - loving in every way

I was also able to use different "girly" elements on my page that I usually don't get to use since I have all boys and I am constantly working on "boy" pages.  So this was a great challenge and lots of fun. 

Elvis - Case 8 @ CSI

I finally finished Case 8 at CSI!  I actually knew what pics I wanted to use when I saw the challenge but once I put it together...I took it all apart and did it again.  AND....I am so happy with the finished one. I used lots of bling...starting with the bling alphabet and then I embellished the crown and the shoes that I cut out from blue suede paper with my Cricut.  I also used lots of stickles on the decorative star that I cut with my Cricut.  I used some of the extra blue suede paper to make a ruffled strip and added a star cut from transpercy and stickled it too. Then added a few sticker stars. I hope you enjoy it!

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Update!

Ok...so I have not been updating my blog like I should and I apologize for that.  I haven't been working on any craft projects lately.  Is it cuz I am lazy?  Nahhhh not really I just took a break and now I am ready to get back into the swing of things and get some creative goals accomplished.  I will tell you that I have been surfing the net and found lots of different and cool creative blogs and challenges.  Right now my fav is CSI http://csicolorstoriesinspiration.ning.com/!  I am currently working on their Case#8.  I hope I can pull it off.  I will post my page in the next couple of days.  Take care my friends and I promise to be better about keeping my blog updated.