Snag = Delay

Hey everyone! TGIF! Hope you all have some wonderful plans for the weekend! Maybe you will do something special or just hang out and relax at home; either way I hope you enjoy every little moment!

Well, I ran into a little bit of a snag with regards to my new digital stamps. Seems I didn't read some of the fine print clearly and I missed the deadline to have my stamps released on March 9th. No worries, they will be released the following Tuesday, March 16th. So the sneak peeks will be coming next Friday, something to look forward to.

Today I'd like to share an Easter project. I don't really know what you would call this little creation. It's just cute and something you can hang somewhere in the house during springtime and Easter.

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Isn't the little bunny rabbit too cute?!?! I saw him at the craft store last Easter and thought I could do something creative with him! The fun little cone style container was cut with my Silhouette. I added a white satin ribbon for a handle and attached it to the cone with some adorable brads from Doodlebug Designs. The bunny is attached with a pretty double ribbon bow. I used the same white satin ribbon along with some thin pink gingham. Then I topped my bow with a felt flower from Jolee's. Done. Cute! Fun!

Well that's a wrap. It's a short and sweet post today. Again, hope you have a super weekend! Thanks for stopping by! I hope you know it's greatly appreciated to have visitors and really exciting to see I have comments when I check in! :)

Supplies:

Bunny Cone
Card Stock:  Bazzill Basics
Die Cut Machine:  Silhouette
White Ribbon:  Ampelco
Pink Gingham Ribbon:  Paper Mart
Brads:  Doodlebug Designs
Bunny:  Craft Store
Felt Flower:  Jolee's

Happy Friday!

It's another fabulous Friday! And I'm excited to share a logo with you! It's my new digital stamps logo! If you didn't see my last post, I announced that I have been working on a new project to draw/design digital stamps to be sold at Two Peas in a Bucket! I'm so excited about this opportunity and have been working hard to create some super fun digital stamps for you.

So what do you think? Colorful, whimsical and fun? That's what I want my stamps to be...embellishments you want to add to your scrapbook pages and handmade greeting cards that create smiles. So, I'm hoping to debut my first stamps at Two Peas in a Bucket on Tuesday, March 9th. I'll let you know as the time draws nearer if I've run into any snags.

My stamps will be sold in both a color version and black and white for just .99 cents! That will give you the option of simply printing it out to use on your project or you can color it yourself digitally or after it's been printed.

Now for a little Easter craft share. This is a button tree I made in an Easter theme. I've seen a lot of these over the past couple years. Usually I find these trees around Christmas. I had a lot of pastel buttons and thought they would make a perfect springtime tree.

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I embellished my little tree further with some decorative stick pins from Fancy Pants. After I made this one, I made a Valentine one without the 'trunk' and I'm not sure, but I think I like it without. What do you think?

That's a wrap for today's post. I'm so happy that you've been able to visit and I hope to hear some input on the logo. Also, are there any stamps you would like to see made? Something you can't find? Maybe your idea will be my next stamp?

Supplies

Easter Button Tree

Styrofoam Cone:  A.C. Moore

Buttons:  Oriental Trading Company

Straight Pins:  A.C. Moore

Decroative Stick Pins:  Fancy Pants

Ribbon:  Ampelco

Opaque Pearl Stand:  Paper Mart - Buy

Happy Valentine's Day!

I know, Valentine's Day isn't until Sunday, but I'm going to wish you all a lovely Valentine's Day today! And share some love themed projects for the occasion.

My first share is some Valentine treats I sent my son to school with today. These were made for his teacher and a few staff members at school. Wish I could give all of you who stop by a Hershey's chocolate kiss!

For these treat packages, I used a very cool digital kit called 'Funny Valentine' by Erica Hernandez of Two Peas in a Bucket. The two images used for this project is only a sampling! You should see this kit, it contains lots of love themed images perfect for any time you want to say, "I love you!"

This next project is a hybrid page of my darling son on his birthday last year. He was still infatuated with WALL-E so we got him a cake with this adorable little WALL-E toy on top.

This page was created using another fabulous digital kit called 'Love One Another' by Jen Martakis also from Two Peas in a Bucket. I'm love digital kits these days because they are helping me to cut down on the amount of products I buy. My office is a lot less cluttered and I only print out what I use. It's awesome! I always thought digital crafting would take me away from the physical and dimensional projects that I love so much, but that has not been the case!

Here's another hybrid project I made from the Love One Another kit.  These actually are some additional patterned papers that match the kit.

One more project for you today, a wedding card.

CARDS magazine just had a call for wedding cards so I made this one. I couldn't resist the adorable wedding dress and dress form die cuts from Silhouette. I added glitter to the wedding dress and outlined some of my die cuts with Copic markers. Let's hope CARDS wants to publish it!

So this is my Valentine's Day post. I hope you've enjoyed my love themed projects and can come back Monday for some more crafty projects. I'll have some spring and Easter crafts to share along with a brand new 2 Sketches 4 You card!

Supplies

I've Got a Crush on You
Card Stock:  Red-Bazzill Basics, White-Stampin' Up
Digital Images:  Funny Valentine by Erica Hernandez of Two Peas in a Bucket
Border Punch:  Fiskars
Chocolate Kisses:  Hershey's

Love WALL-E
Card Stock:  Bazzill Basics
Patterned Paper:  Love One Another by Jen Martakis of Two Peas in a Bucket
Die Cut Letters:  Silhouette
Chipboard Letters:  American Crafts
Baker's Twine:  Martha Stewart
Mini Heart Punch:  Ek Success
Stamp Ink:  Colorbox
Sewing Thread:  Coats

Love
Card Stock:  Neenah Paper, Stampin' Up
Patterned Paper:  Love One Another-Add On Papers by Jen Martakis of Two Peas in a Bucket
Ribbon:  May Arts - Buy
Sewing Thread:  Coats
Button:  Karen Foster

Congratulations
Card Stock:  Pink-Bazzill Basics, White-Neenah Paper, Gray-Doodlebug Designs
Patterned Paper:  Melissa Frances
Die Cuts:  Silhouette
Markers:  Copic
Corner Punch:  Ek Success
Ribbon:  Ampelco
Glitter:  Martha Stewart Crafts

There's no Business like Snow Business!

There sure is a lot of snow going around so I'll start today's blog post with some snowy themed scrapbook pages I created.

Here's my son waiting for dad to take the picture so he can push the sled! This design is based on a page from the amazingly talented Susan Weinroth. I was thrilled that these patterned papers and the card stock I used for my die cut snowflakes all came from my stash! Thrilled because that bucket is about to take over my office! Seriously, I should take a picture!

This next page was from the same day. Too much fun sledding and making a snowman!

I love that my son used those spiked seed pod things from our sweet gum tree for the eyes, nose and mouth! An all natural snowman complete with stick arms! All that remains of our snowy friend is one snowball on the lawn. :( But that's what pictures and pages are for, right? To keep memories and Mr. Snowman alive!

During these cold winter days, I've been able to do a lot of crafting. Not only keeping up on my scrapbooking, but making lots of cards as well. The new fun line I've been playing with is Letterbox from American Crafts. I just love the color palette of these papers and embellishments.

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Once again I've relied on my Silhouette to make my card crafting creative! I cut the fancy green rectangle and the blue oval with it. Even though the letter stickers go perfectly with these Letterbox papers, they are not part of the line. They are actually from a very old SEI line called Paisley & Petals! Remember that?

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This is the last craft project I'll show you today. Isn't this little bird darling? He's part of the Letterbox line. And you guessed it, another Silhouette die cut! Have I said how much I love my Silhouette? Yes, about two dozen times! ;)

Before I close today's post, I want to give a shout out to my friend Laura Davis and her amazing food blog called Delicious. Last night for dinner we had her clam chowder and it was sensational! Perfect for these bitter cold days!

I'm not a bad cook, but I'm not really that great a cook either. I tend to use a lot more convenience foods that are quick and easy. Lately, however, I've really wanted to spend a little more time and make things from scratch. Laura is helping to show me (us) that it isn't that difficult or time consuming. Thanks a million Laura! By the way, I stole Laura's photo because lighting was terrible at dinner last night.

What a long post! Thanks for dropping in today. Hope you've enjoyed my crafty shares. Now go visit Delicious and drool over the amazing recipes and photos!

Supplies

Mr. Adventure

Card Stock:  Bazzill Basics

Patterned Paper:  Basic Grey, K & Company & October Afternnon

Die Cut Machine:  Silhouette

Border Punch:  Fiskars

Circle Punch:  Ek Success

Emossing Folder:  Cuttlebug

Chipboard Letters:  American Crafts & Basic Grey

Craft String:  Michael's

Snowman

Card Stock:  Bazzill Basics

Patterned Paper:  October Afternoon

Die Cut Machine:  Silhouette

Chipboard Letters:  American Crafts

Chipboard Snowflakes:  Maya Road

Dimensional Stickers:  Jolee's

Rhinestones:  TCP Studios

Craft String:  Michael's

Love You!

Card Stock:  Bazzill Basics

Patterned Paper:  American Crafts

Dimensional Stickers:  American Crafts

Letter Stickers:  SEI

Markers:  Copic

Gems:  Queen & Company

Friend

Card Stock:  Bazzill Basics

Patterned Paper:  American Crafts

Dimensional Sticker:  American Crafts

Heart Punch:  Ek Success

Letter Stickers:  SEI

Stamp Ink:  Colorbox

Embossing Folder:  Cuttlebug

Craft String:  Michael's

Crazy for Snowmen

Over the past couple of years I've seen some rather cute Styrofoam snowmen posted on Two Peas in a bucket and I finally got around to trying one out. It was so much fun and I love the way those Styrofoam balls look like snow that I had to make a few more. Here's the snow gang.