Blog Candy from Holly

Hi. I have a friend that is offering great blog candy! She is giving away a new cricut cartridge or unmounted stamps... check it out here.
Also, while you are there, check out her coloring techniques... she is awesome!

Flower post

Just a quick share, I'm off to a scrapbooking thing today! Yeah... But here is card I made for you, piddling around with some scraps on my desk. For scraps, I think it turned out ok.
The cool ribbon, I got from the ribbon retreat. Loved it...
Hope you like! I'll show you what I do today later!!

Another Nap, Purses for his Sisters

Squirty conked out again today. Whoo hoo... I went to the crafty room and got the supplies to make these little purses! This apple one is my favorite! You can see a tutorial on how to make them HERE. I used her (Inking Idaho) idea and used my own stuff.

Mr. Squirty has two sisters and they are twins. So, their mom saw these little purses made from notebooks and thought that the girls would love them. So while she was in town one day, she picked up the little composition notebooks for me.

Here is all of them decorated. The girls favorite colors are pink and blue. That's why so many in that color combo. They get to pick their own out and then they get to give the others to their friends.

Hope you like!

Fall Challenge

Squirty was taking a nap!! I had a chance to run to the scrap room and make a card for the new challenge on LNS. The challenge was the colors Old Olive, Ruby Red and Really Rust. I Love that color combination! So, I knew what I wanted to do.
I got out the glossy cardstock, and embossed me some leaves in black. (I used black craft and clear embossing powder) Then, on a scrap paper, I embossed some more leaves and a pumpkin.
On the leaf embossed page, I took my sponges and sponged the three colors on. I did olive first, then rust then ruby, as ruby is a really dark color and will overwhelm everything. Then I sponged color on the extra leaves and the pumpkin.
I cut the leaves and pumpkin out and layered them on the embossed leaf piece. I layered that on ruby, then a strip of rust that I tore. I layered the whole thing on old olive and then stamped the Happy stamp up the side.
Two of the leaves, I punched a hole in the ends with a pin and stuck wire through them then wound the wire around a sucker stick. I tucked it under the pumpkins handle.
Hope you like!

Why I haven't posted lately!

Ok, its been a few days since I posted, and there is good reason. We took a small trip. We went to SLC for the weekend. Here is a pic of the boys at a rest stop in Malad. I so cannot get Hunter to act decent in a photo. So I said, everyone is just going to have to see you this way.... he didn't care, so thus, the Erkel photo.

Then, we came home and bright and early tismorning, I took Jade to the ortho... I thought they were just doing lower brackets around his back teeth and done, but nope.

Got the whole shoot n cabang today. He got orange and black bands. Ewww. But its Halloweener, so I am glad he's showing some spirit, my little 13 year old with a mustache.

Then, I went and picked up this squirty. His name is Landon, but I affectionately call him Squirty, which he answers me too! He just turned 3 and is starting to talk. I know its a little slow, but this guy has been through a lot. He is doing super now and I am having to keep up with him, when I used to just hold and rock him. I get him for today, tonight and tomorrow. He told me a little earlier, Kewrst. I tarvin. You're starvin, I asked. Yeah, tarvin.

So, no creative things flowin today... I'm feedin the tarvin 3 year old!

Advent Calendar

I saw this Advent Calendar on Splitcoast Stampers. I knew that I had to make it. So I took a day to go shopping for the ingredients...

I knew that I was going to make a few of these, so I needed to go as inexpensive as I could. I first found the canvas. She used a frame canvas. While it was nice, the flat canvas worked just as well, and was 3 for 12 bucks...after that 50% off!! Ok, canvas down. Next I went shopping for the little containers. She used metal ones. Every where I went, they were 1.99 a piece!! Couldn't do that. Checked the kits that had 18 or more in them...they were also over a dollar a piece. So, went to the dollar store... where else do you find things for cheap?

Decided on my decorated papers, and background papers.

Here, I cut the cardstocks for the base. You have a solid cardstock, that is 3 by 3. The colored cardstock on top that you layer, is 2 3/4th. Pretty simple. Then I used my circle and scallop circle punch to cut out the centers for my cups. These are two different sets...

See the little cups I found? Perfect for putting goodies in! Plus, they seal! There was 10 to a package for a buck!

I covered each cup in a ribbon. The original covered theirs in DP, but I liked the ribbon.

So here is what the final product will look like! It isn't glued down yet, I'm waiting for some of that red tape to arrive in the mail to finish them off. I wanted something strong to hold them all down and didn't think my mono would do it! The cups are secured to the squares with a large glue dot. Those hold everything!!

After seeing it, I think that I shall redo the numbers in black. Will make it pop a little more. The words and the numbers are all embossed...

Ok, so, if I went with original ingredients, here is the breakdown in price: Metal Cups: 47.76, canvas 21.99, solid paper, 1.00, decorated paper 4.00, which comes to 74.75 That is for one of these little puppies!

My cost: Plastic cups: 8.00, Canvas 12.00, solid paper, 2.00, decorated paper: 8.00 Which comes to 30 dollars!! And that is for all 3!!

So how do you think I did??

Make N Takes

Saturday, I went to a local craft store and they were having customer appreciation days... Well, while there, you got to make some make n takes. I did three of them, and this is what we did.
I really liked the top card, loved the colors. They didn't have a stamp or anything for the saying, they just wrote it in "blue" felt-tip. Not gonna happen on my card, so I left it blank. It was a new thing for me, to completely cover a blank card in DP. But, it turned out fine, and I didn't break down or anything! (smile)

This one I changed a little bit from theirs, the card was really large too, but I like the color combo here too...

this one was showing the cuttlebug, doing embossing and cutting. It was fun to do too. So that is what I made!

Here's a pic of my boys on Jade's B-day. Little brother humor before blowing out the candles! Too bad they are getting so big so fast! Hate it, but wouldn't have it any other way!

Have a great stampin day!!