Teacher Appreciation!

My twins are in the same classroom and we love their teacher. She is fabulous! I am room Mom and wanted to do something nice for her. So last week was teacher appreciation week and this is what I made for her. The center of the flowers is photos of all 18 students and on the back of their flower the kids signed their name and I wrote what their favorite thing about Mrs. Upah is. Oh, and of course, Hersey chocolates on the bottom that they kids signed too. She loved it!

Supplies: Pattern Paper - October Afternoon, Ribbon-May Arts, Flower Die-Nestie, Paint Bucket-???, Grilling Skewers, Modge Podge for Bucket.

May is the month of weddings!

This is a crazy month for us, 3 weddings! Wow! At 35 years old, we really don't have many weddings to attend. But, making wedding cards has been a really nice (challenging) change. I used Stampin' Up! Bride and Groom paper, Papertrey's Big Bold wishes stamp set, satin ribbon and flower from SU and finally black pearls from ??.

Happy Mother's Day to all Moms!

I had a wonderful Mother's day and I hope you did too. This is my mom, my sister and of course my twins. I love this photos, just the girls! (Very angry with myself that my camera was on a very poor pixle setting. Uggg!)

You make me Smile!

You really do make my smile. I made this card a month or so ago for my friend Kriss. I love how it turned out. I found inspiration from several card and the colors are Kriss's favorite colors. I used two PTI stamp sets- Dot Spot and Signature Greetings, the colors are from SU- Gable Green, Melon Mambo, Basic Black and finally some circle punches and corner rounder.

I had a fabulous day with my girls on their school field trip. I hope your day was just as wonderful! Take care of you.

I finally did it!

Oh my gosh! I have been talking about this for a while! I am so happy with the way it turned out. I put these vinyl images up on the girls wall and they love it. I used both Cricut and Stampin' Up vinyl, and George Basic and Walk in My Garden cartridge (Cricut). The comforter on my daughters bed was from Target and was my inspiration. It feels good to check something major off my "To do" list.

Watercolor fun!

I had a Stampin' Up! show last weekend and the hostess requested that I show her watercolor crayons. I had forgotten how fun they are! I just took two Copic classes and I really think it helped make me better with this too. I love these little cupcakes, they are perfect for watercoloring. The pattern paper is my new favorite-Sweet Pea! I love it!

Supplies all SU: Sweet pea paper, crazy for cupcakes stamp set, SAB border punch, taffeta white ribbon, Black Stazon, White craft ink, watercolor crayons and aqua painter, CS-Celery, Regal Rose, Choc. Chip, white.

Papertrey Anniversary Challenge

I just love these colors together. I am sure they have been done many times over but I was inspired by Jay Leno's stage. I hope when he goes back to Late Night he keeps that stage. I love it. Anyway off to stamping, I wanted to join the Papertrey's challenge because I love a challenge and I LOVE the prize even more! Cross my fingers! The challenge was emboss resist and it is one of my favorites. It is very subtle but I embossed the flowers in clear first and then went over the top of them with Creamy Caramel and then white. I hope you like it!

Supplies: Stamps Papertrey- In Bloom, Signature Greetings, CS & Ink Stampin Up- Not Quite Navy, Kraft, Choc. Chip, Creamy Caramel, White Color Box, Border Punch SU, Buttons & Twine Papertrey, Corner Rounder- Creative Memories, Clear Embossing Powder.