Vintage Button Earrings

I love buttons. So when my mom has been going through my grandparents things I was happy to take the buttons off her hands. I'm sure you can still find similar buttons out there, but there's something special about them coming from my grandmothers. I really wanted to find a functional way to use some of them. So I put together these earings. The hardest part was figuring out the best way to stabalize them. A touch of strong glue kept the headpin in place and I was in business. I am quite fond of the result.

Happy Father's Day

When I saw Penny Black - Bubbly set I immediately thought of father's day and had to have it. I also bought critter party and I'm looking forward to playing more with both sets.

Happy Father's Day!!

Friendship

Love this Taylored Expressions stamp set.

Thank You Card

Cupcake cards... I can't help myself

I'm obsessed with cupcakes for birthday cards... And I gave in and bought the Maya Road Cupcake Stamps. I also used the Taylored Expressions- Fresh Flowers set for the table (another recent favorite stamp set.) And the sentiments were from studio g $1 stamps. I haven't decided which of the many girl birthdays the first card will go out to, the second is for our nephew. I'm working on making cupcakes masculine ;)

Sun & Sand

I love the pictures of kyle dipping his toes in the sand up in half moon bay. I really wanted to capture them in a layout. Here's what I came up with. I'm really happy with how it turned out.

Mother's Day 2009

Happy Birthday Sweetie!

Today is officially my husbands birthday. Here's the card I gave him, albeit not totally masculine but I like it anyway. He's been celebrating since the weekend milking it for all it's worth.

Me and MY cat

I love my kitty, but I have very few pictures of the two of us together.    (we have thousands of him alone being "cute")   So when I was messing around taking pictures and he, as he often does "helps" it was the perfect opportunity to take a picture with both of us in the frame.   It's been awhile since I've worked in 12x12, I've been doing a lot of 6x6 for a couple gift albums (pictures later).   Getting back to the larger size was actually really nice!     

Supplies:

Paper

• Fancy Pants - Red Journal
  
• Scrapbookwalls (chatterbox inc)  - rosey dot
  
• Basic grey (Blush Collection) Devotion
  
• Fiskars (Kimberly Poloson) - letters home / cream stamp

Embellishments

• Heidi Swapp - Runway Clear Extras
  
• Crystal Sticks Elements
  
• Prima crystal swirls
  

Alphabets

• Cloud 9 Foil Trimmed Chipboard
  
• Jenni Bowlin Studio - Black Tiny Dot
  
• JoAnn Fabric Acrylic Alpha
  
• Mini Letters
  

Bunny Love

I fell in love with this bunny stamp when I first used it for some Easter cards, but I loved it so much I didn't want to wait until next easter to use it. Soooo ... I had this thought of making love cards with it. I love them!!

Birthday Boy

Happy Birthday Scott!!!

Masculine Birthday Card

Happy Birthday Dad!! I love you

Cupcake Cards

There have been a lot of birthdays recently and I'm a bit behind on posting cards. So I've decided to post in themes. Here are a few cupcake related birthday cards. I do love the cupcake theme!! Although I'm finding it hard to make masculine.... hmmm ... So I'll have to keep working on that.

Back to Beading...Paris Bracelet

I've been watching a lot of beads baubles and jewels repeats lately and have really been wanting to dive back into my stash. I also recently bought a bunch of charms that I was drawn to. One of the sets was a paris motif (I know it's starting to become a bit of an obsession. ) So last night while catching up with the tivo this came together. I'm loving it. :) I can't wait to really wear it.

Welcome Home

Our friends have been out of the country for the last several months and we've been house sitting (it's actually going to be a little weird not getting their mail and watering their plants any more, but it would probably be a little awkward to just keep showing up) To help celebrate their return I made them a welcome home banner. I should have taken better pictures before we hung it up at their place, but this week has just turned out that way. I've been seeing a lot of banners lately on other peoples blogs and got inspired. So welcome home friends, you've been missed.

Thank You Card

I've started to collect rubber stamps, I'll fall in love and must have, and then never use. So I've been really trying to make an attempt to use them. So I needed to make a thank you card and pulled out these flower beauties. I do like the end result and might keep playing with them or make some more just like them to have around.

Crop Chocolate - OMG

Crop Chocolate Yummm is all I can say. Just ordered the Desktop Carousel by Making Memories  

Just under $20 and it should arrive at my door.   That was a deal I couldn't resist.   I've been looking at this thing for months and just couldn't quite justify it.    Today I gave in.    I want it now!!

Cute Bunny Stamp Screams Easter is Coming!

So for the first weekend in forever neither of us was sick and I didn't have a migraine, we had a whole Sunday with no plans! This led to Kyle spending the day working on his car and I was able to blissfully spend time in my scrapbook room with some new stamps, never used copic markers and my very own paper paradise. Heaven... alas weekends fly by way too quickly.

I'm not quite sure what I'm doing with these Easter cards, it's a little wierd that I'm in an Easter mood seeing as how we don't celebrate the holiday. I've actually been known to completely forget it as an adult (since the easter bunny with chocolate and peeps no longer stops by ;) ) So they might have a chance of actually winding up on etsy. But I'm loving the bunny!! So I just may have to make more. I know I make no sense.