Live, Laugh, Love

Good morning!  I'm really excited to show you my little project today.  I made this about a month ago and just managed to grab some photos of it.  A while back, the Silhouette Blog had this free shape of the week, which just happened to match some bedding we bought for my daughter and I had to make one of these frames for her room.  Here's a look at the whole frame -

The frame is an 8x10 with a 5x7 matte inside.  I used the free shape from Silhouette, which is the vine background, and used the negative image of it, so the vines are cut from the white card stock and then I slipped a sheet of yellow card stock behind the white.  The flowers are a 5-petal punch from EK Success and then I added a black rhinestone in the center of each flower.

Here's a detail shot of the sentiment -

I changed up the sentiment from the shape they used on the blog - I didn't have the sentiment they used, and didn't want to buy it, so I just made my own using the Silhouette Studio software that came with my Silhouette and used fonts I have on my computer.  If you are curious, the words are Bambi Bold and the heart flower is DB Cherish.  I edited the phrase so the letters overlapped somewhat and then welded the image into one cut file so I wouldn't need to glue on each letter individually.  There is a tutorial on that technique here.

I really like the way this one turned out and I have to remember to make more of these types of projects.

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Have a wonderful day.

spring is here!

Hello! The weather has been so nice and with that we've been playing outside a bunch this week - no time to stamp! I feel the need to create though, but these times are precious and there will be a time in the not too distant future when I'll look back and just wish my children would hang out with me. We were outside trying to fly a kite and I just loved the look of wonder on my 2-year-old's face. Wow! Love those moments.

Today I'm posting a name frame I did probably a year ago. I know, everyone has done a name frame, right? It's ok. I just needed to post something, and this was it today.

Tomorrow is supposed to be cold and possibly snowy, so back outside I go today and try to get some pruning done, or maybe just sit in the warmth and read a book. It's just too nice to stay inside. I'll leave that for tomorrow...

Enjoy your day - see you back soon!

~Karen

Getting Organized...

I had my MOPS post Christmas white elephant gift exchange last night and had a blast. These ladies give the funniest gifts and I'm going to keep a lookout for something big and hideous for next year. My gift I brought just didn't cut it next to the sauna suit, the enormous sofa picture, the camoflauge santa hat, or the uh.. beautiful purple porcelain unicorn head (with gold glitter to boot!) The show stopper was a pair of wooden shoes, straight from Holland. What? I wish I had brought my camera! The gift I managed to open was three little booklets "for dummies". How appropriate... One was for taking digital pictures, the other was for 10 minute tone-ups and the last was organizing.


So on this note, I give you my attempt at organizing my cards. I found this CD holder at Target about a year ago and thought it would be perfect to bring all my swaps to my Stampin' Up! workshops. Now I'm thinking I'd like to use it just to keep some cards on hand, you know, Karen's Hallmark or something. The files are pretty straight forward - I used the Key Tag punch from Stampin' Up! and made the labels and used American Crafts "Rue" rub-on for the titles. I think I need to make one more for baby cards because there seems to be quite the boom lately. When I store my cards, I put them in clear envelopes and that way they don't get dusty, the embellishments don't fall off, and I can see what I have at a glance. I'm hoping now I can just grab a card and mail it when I need it, but for now I'm just trying to keep up with all the January birthdays!